RE: Sharepoint for Help Desk Use
Ok.. I see that point. And it is 100% correct. SharePoint takes an entirely different set of skills to administer and develop. It isn't something you can just throw on a server and have a successful implementation. BF -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sharepoint for Help Desk Use I think the point is that SharePoint itself doesn't do ticketing. If someone built a custom application on top of SharePoint to do ticketing, then that's a bit different. It's like asking Does anyone use .NET to do ticketing, and the answer is pretty much no - .NET doesn't do ticketing. That's not to say you can't build an application using .NET that does. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Thursday, 24 May 2012 8:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sharepoint for Help Desk Use I am using a SharePoint based ticketing system. Works pretty well. I am curious why you think a SharePoint helpdesk system would not be a good tool? -Original Message- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 5:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sharepoint for Help Desk Use I could see sharepoint being a nice tool for the IT ops/helpdesk folks to store information, procedures etc etc. As a helpdesk ticketing system not so much.. Z Edward Ziots CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 6:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Sharepoint for Help Desk Use On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 5:41 PM, justino garcia jgarciaitl...@gmail.com wrote: Are IT OPS / Help Desk shops using Sharepoint, for things like knowledge base, soultion base, or even ticket system? No. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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 for Help Desk Use
I am using a SharePoint based ticketing system. Works pretty well. I am curious why you think a SharePoint helpdesk system would not be a good tool? -Original Message- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 5:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sharepoint for Help Desk Use I could see sharepoint being a nice tool for the IT ops/helpdesk folks to store information, procedures etc etc. As a helpdesk ticketing system not so much.. Z Edward Ziots CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 6:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Sharepoint for Help Desk Use On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 5:41 PM, justino garcia jgarciaitl...@gmail.com wrote: Are IT OPS / Help Desk shops using Sharepoint, for things like knowledge base, soultion base, or even ticket system? No. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: MS license Open vs. FPP
+8675309 From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 10:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: MS license Open vs. FPP You make your life more difficult when Microsoft decides to SAM you. Software Asset Management, SAM, reviews can be sprung on you at almost any time because you are in the Open License program. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: IE trusted sites
The IE Trusted Sites GPO is a PITA. Once you set it, it locks all users from adding. I understand the security reasoning for this, but there should be a way to select if you want to lock the users from adding sites as well. Initially we used it to add some sites to everyone. However, a few users needed to be able to add trusted sites to get certain work related sites to function correctly. It would be nice to be able to add sites without greying out the ability for users to add sites as well. BF From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 5:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: IE trusted sites Do many of you guys manage them via GPO in your org? I've been doing it only a short while (months) and it seems like more headache than it's worth...and now I can't fully remember WHY... 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.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: Eaton UPSs?
Have had a 9170+ for about 5 years. It has provided good service. I have it serviced every 6 months and all the batteries have been replaced at least twice over this period. It did suffer a battery controller failure a couple years ago, which lead to shutting itself off without by-passing, so it killed power to three racks of servers. IIRC, there was a firmware upgrade to resolve this in the future. Overall, I have been happy with the product and the service techs have been very knowledgeable. YYMV BF -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Eaton UPSs? Just curious, but has anybody have any strong opinions, for or against, Eaton UPSs? Thanks for the quick poll. --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: MS DPM Opinions
I have been using DPM for about two years now. No complaints. I do not use removable media, so I cannot comment on those posts. (I use a secondary DPM server at another geographic site to assure offsite backup of the primary DPM server) If you have specific questions, you know a couple ways to contact me :) BF From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 1:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: MS DPM Opinions Heh, any of you guys have any opinions good or bad about DPM? Any gotchas I should know about, etc? I'm ordering a server today to be the backup repository for the VMs and physical machines that DPM will be backing up. Thanks, 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: Deploy MSI via SMS
PDQ Deploy works for some things that are difficult via GPO or when you want to just hit a few machines that are in different OUs or maybe just a single machine. The price is right to try it. BF From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 3:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Deploy MSI via SMS Should be easy right? When I run the MSI directly, is asks for two questions: Accept the agreement, and user name/organization. How can I package it so running the MSI accepts defaults? Do I need to use something like ORCA (an MSI tool), or are there switches I'm too dumb to figure out they infer use defaults? 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.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: MDM - Tablet/BYOD
In my setup, we have a secure mail gateway. If the user removes the AirWatch App, they no longer get email from our server. They cannot bypass this as the secure gateway requires the app. Once we are fully deployed, there will be no other way to get Active Sync as this port will not be open externally and will be blocked / redirected to the secure gateway internally. BF From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 12:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MDM - Tablet/BYOD Bob, how does Airwatch (or any other MDM if anyone reading has any experience) stop people from simply bypassing it and connecting their device directly to your ActiveSync without bothering with the MDP app? Thanks, Paul From: Bob Fronk [b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: 06 April 2012 3:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MDM - Tablet/BYOD Using Airwatch for IOS devices. No BYOD though. Airwatch supports several OSs. So far, it has been able to do everything we need, save one - Add a proxy to Safari. The settings are there, it just does not work. Hopefully they will fix the bug and this will work soon. BF From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk]mailto:[mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 8:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: MDM - Tablet/BYOD Are any of you using a third party MDM such as MaaS/MobileIron/AirWatch with either your company owned or BYOD tablets and phones? I'm about to look at tablets, most likely iPads, with an eye on possible BYOD for mobiles. These days if someone walks through the door with a personal device it's an Apple with the odd Android or Windows Mobile/Windows Phone device. I can't easily trial every MDM out there, and right now I don't even know exactly what policies we'd want to enforce, but I know that ActiveSync can be variable with device support and devices can basically lie/ignore settings in some situations. Thanks, Paul 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.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: MDM - Tablet/BYOD
Yes. (Both are VM) From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 2:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MDM - Tablet/BYOD Thanks Bob, so the secure mail gateway is what, some sort of AirWatch VM or something that the app talks to? From: Bob Fronk [b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: 09 April 2012 6:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MDM - Tablet/BYOD In my setup, we have a secure mail gateway. If the user removes the AirWatch App, they no longer get email from our server. They cannot bypass this as the secure gateway requires the app. Once we are fully deployed, there will be no other way to get Active Sync as this port will not be open externally and will be blocked / redirected to the secure gateway internally. BF From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk]mailto:[mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 12:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MDM - Tablet/BYOD Bob, how does Airwatch (or any other MDM if anyone reading has any experience) stop people from simply bypassing it and connecting their device directly to your ActiveSync without bothering with the MDP app? Thanks, Paul From: Bob Fronk [b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: 06 April 2012 3:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MDM - Tablet/BYOD Using Airwatch for IOS devices. No BYOD though. Airwatch supports several OSs. So far, it has been able to do everything we need, save one - Add a proxy to Safari. The settings are there, it just does not work. Hopefully they will fix the bug and this will work soon. BF From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk]mailto:[mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 8:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: MDM - Tablet/BYOD Are any of you using a third party MDM such as MaaS/MobileIron/AirWatch with either your company owned or BYOD tablets and phones? I'm about to look at tablets, most likely iPads, with an eye on possible BYOD for mobiles. These days if someone walks through the door with a personal device it's an Apple with the odd Android or Windows Mobile/Windows Phone device. I can't easily trial every MDM out there, and right now I don't even know exactly what policies we'd want to enforce, but I know that ActiveSync can be variable with device support and devices can basically lie/ignore settings in some situations. Thanks, Paul 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.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.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
RE: MDM - Tablet/BYOD
The SEG takes the place of your OWA, etc. From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 3:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MDM - Tablet/BYOD Perfect, I think that makes sense now as an architecture. I'm still a little unsure how you'd stop them from using ActiveSync directly assuming that you need to leave ActiveSync enabled, and you have your Exchange facing the Internet for OWA and RPC over HTTPS but I'm assuming there are a few ways such as blocking access to the ActiveSync Virtual Directories other than to the Airwatch IP. I'll have a word with Airwatch I think - their SaaS solution looks very cheap but I expect there are some costs that aren't listed. From: Bob Fronk [b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: 09 April 2012 7:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MDM - Tablet/BYOD Yes. (Both are VM) From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk]mailto:[mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 2:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MDM - Tablet/BYOD Thanks Bob, so the secure mail gateway is what, some sort of AirWatch VM or something that the app talks to? From: Bob Fronk [b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: 09 April 2012 6:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MDM - Tablet/BYOD In my setup, we have a secure mail gateway. If the user removes the AirWatch App, they no longer get email from our server. They cannot bypass this as the secure gateway requires the app. Once we are fully deployed, there will be no other way to get Active Sync as this port will not be open externally and will be blocked / redirected to the secure gateway internally. BF From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk]mailto:[mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 12:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MDM - Tablet/BYOD Bob, how does Airwatch (or any other MDM if anyone reading has any experience) stop people from simply bypassing it and connecting their device directly to your ActiveSync without bothering with the MDP app? Thanks, Paul From: Bob Fronk [b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: 06 April 2012 3:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MDM - Tablet/BYOD Using Airwatch for IOS devices. No BYOD though. Airwatch supports several OSs. So far, it has been able to do everything we need, save one - Add a proxy to Safari. The settings are there, it just does not work. Hopefully they will fix the bug and this will work soon. BF From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk]mailto:[mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 8:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: MDM - Tablet/BYOD Are any of you using a third party MDM such as MaaS/MobileIron/AirWatch with either your company owned or BYOD tablets and phones? I'm about to look at tablets, most likely iPads, with an eye on possible BYOD for mobiles. These days if someone walks through the door with a personal device it's an Apple with the odd Android or Windows Mobile/Windows Phone device. I can't easily trial every MDM out there, and right now I don't even know exactly what policies we'd want to enforce, but I know that ActiveSync can be variable with device support and devices can basically lie/ignore settings in some situations. Thanks, Paul 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.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
RE: MDM - Tablet/BYOD
Using Airwatch for IOS devices. No BYOD though. Airwatch supports several OSs. So far, it has been able to do everything we need, save one - Add a proxy to Safari. The settings are there, it just does not work. Hopefully they will fix the bug and this will work soon. BF From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 8:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: MDM - Tablet/BYOD Are any of you using a third party MDM such as MaaS/MobileIron/AirWatch with either your company owned or BYOD tablets and phones? I'm about to look at tablets, most likely iPads, with an eye on possible BYOD for mobiles. These days if someone walks through the door with a personal device it's an Apple with the odd Android or Windows Mobile/Windows Phone device. I can't easily trial every MDM out there, and right now I don't even know exactly what policies we'd want to enforce, but I know that ActiveSync can be variable with device support and devices can basically lie/ignore settings in some situations. Thanks, Paul 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.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: Sophisticated Phising attempt?
I just went through renewal and had contact from several consultants and Microsoft people (who are actually contractors). Several claimed to have been trying to contact me, when I had no messages from them. In the past, I simply reviewed the information that our vendor sent me, increased or decreased license counts, added needed CALS or servers, and was done. This time it took several conference calls with 5-6 people, some with MS, some consultants, plus my vendor (Dell). Numerous emails to repeat information already given to someone else, two people wanting to provide services and wanting access to our system to run inventory tools. It was a terrible experience and hope they get their act together. BF From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 8:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Sophisticated Phising attempt? I received an email purportedly to be from Microsoft about a Software Asset Management (SAM) license review (headers looked like it came from MS, but I'm not an expert). They indicated that they were trying to contact me this week (it was sent on Tuesday, and the only prior contact was a misdirected phone call into one of our director's voicemail[1]). It includes 2 PDFs, one appears to be a report with our name on it, VLPS Report, and it appears to have some correct information as to the customerID. There's a deployment summary spreadsheet and a USA FAQ 2012.pdf. Included in the email are some instructions, a suggestion to use the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit to help complete the tasks. It includes an email address for msft...@microsoft.commailto:msft...@microsoft.com or to contact another person at Microsoft. The person's display name for contacting me is foreign and has (Accenture) in parentheses. It comes from a microsoft.comhttp://microsoft.com email address, however a reply back to that address generated an access denied NDR, but a reply to the other individual did not. I haven't received an email (I also forwareded the email to the other address) in response, and I would have expected a faster turnaround. The email address did contain a phone number, however that phone number, according to 800 notes, has been used in several scams in the past, trying to trick people into giving bank account information to receive a government grant. A physical address is given, but it is the address to the Microsoft campus in Redmond. So, I cautiously viewed the documents on my iPhone. One document, our apparent licensing report appears entirely legitimate. I have had a weak password on the eopen site for a while, just hadn't bothered changing it. Second PDF (USA FAQ 2012[2]) is not viewable on my iPhone, it just displays whitespace, as does the excel file. I'm going to take them to a sandboxed computer to view them later. They also want information returned by April 16th. My other concern is some limited googling has suggested that this might be legitimate, that Microsoft has engaged in third parties to do this, and that there are variations of this process, but those could be cleverly built forums with shills indicating the process is legit, so I turn to this list for advice. In the body of the email there aren't any instructions on where to send the information. If the sender can only send email, having another address to receive this information seems to be necessary. [1] The voicemail was extremely static laden and had several gaps in it. [2] That's a poorly named FAQ and about the only poorly phrased or worded item in the email. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: Saw at the Microsoft Store: Samsumg Windows tablet
I just bought one to play with. It is very usable, but a little larger than the iPad. Battery life is OK but I have not really but it to the test. Certainly not rugged. BF From: Van Noy, Glen [mailto:g...@utdallas.edu] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 8:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Saw at the Microsoft Store: Samsumg Windows tablet I got one and love it. Running Windows 8 on it and does everything I could ask for. The only downside is that it is a little pricey, $1350 range. glen From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org]mailto:[mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 7:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Saw at the Microsoft Store: Samsumg Windows tablet Anyone using the Samsung Windows tablet? I saw one at a Microsoft store this week. It looked pretty nice and it could work well in a corporate environment. Thoughts? Tom Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.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: Recomendations for Cellular Repeaters?
I have considered a few of the items from this vendor. We have one of the mobile repeaters in place and the user says it works well. YMMV http://www.solidsignal.com/c/products.asp?tc=cell-phone-accessoriesmc=07d=cell-phone-accessories BF From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 1:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Recomendations for Cellular Repeaters? Specifically for VZ CDMA but if it handled any other freqs/carriers that would be great also. Not worried much about data, just voice calls. We had a facility burn down last week and the location we are moving our manufacturing has abysmal cell coverage. It's about a 90k sq/ft warehouse. Would prefer actually repeaters and not devices that uses your broadband connection. 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.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: SBS swing - don't feel my pain
Interesting. I tried to swing my home server a month or so ago and it failed. I was time limited, so I didn't try to figure it out. Maybe this could be part of my problem. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 1:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SBS swing - don't feel my pain Thought you guys might like to know this one: After a few days of my SBS2K3 -- SBS2K11 upgrade swing testing bombing out, we (OK, sbsmigration.com ) figured out the fix and I thought you guys might benefit from my pain. Seriously, I have probably 30 hours in the last week/weekend invested in troubleshooting this one issue, but 28 of them Is because I was determined to figure it out myself before opening a ticket with sbsmigratin.com. Hey, I wasn't in a time crunch and I was sure I could figure it out. Short version: An 2003 Domain controller (effectively a 2nd DC from an SBS domain) is the source for an SBS2011 server - the 2011 server migration setup performs a scripted DCPROMO, Exchange 2010 install, and SharePoint install (and a few other things). During the SBS2011 build, it needs to know name, IP, domain admin account, etc so it can do all this. In my test environment the server would complete the DCPROMO and Exchange install, but toward the VERY end of a 90 minute install it would basically GPF (not bluescreen, just an error popup sating SBS2011 install could not complete. Now - SBS servers are a little special as they set up the OU structure slightly different out of the box than a standard server, but your free to rearrange as you see fit. Except... Doing troubleshooting, it turns out all my pain was caused by my OU structure having this (FYI My Business is an SBS-created OU): My Business Exchange Resources Distribution Groups Instead of this My Business Distribution Groups Seriously, that's it. The error log created by SBS2011 install complains about a SharePoint Service not being able to register with VSS, but with the ONLY change being moving that OU up one level it allowed the installation to finish. I had suspected it was something I had changed from the default and even had a fresh SBS2003 server I was building so I could find the deltas between my production SBS and a virgin one, but it would have taken me probably a few more days to arrive at the OU difference. What did I learn? Well actually quite a bit about Windows, but the biggest takeaway is when truly stuck, call in an expert!! I am SO GLAD I spent the money on an SBS swing kit! 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.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: SQL Server 2012 Editions
The change is going to cost me $100K over the next 3 years... BF From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 4:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SQL Server 2012 Editions It's a mess. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]mailto:[mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 3:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SQL Server 2012 Editions http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/future-editions/sql2012-editions.aspx SQL 2012 is coming out soon, and SQL licensing is going to change as well. Now is the time to get into a SQL Software Assurance program today. Seriously. Licensing will move from per processor to per core AND the Server + CAL model is going away for new purchases (at the Enterprise level). Server + CAL will still be around for Standard Edition, however. Details found here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/9/5/59527629-ABD3-4C12-8117-DFABB86E2CFA/SQL2012_Licensing_Datasheet_USA_Dec2011.pdf 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.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: Barracuda Firewall NG
I use a couple of their Spam/Virus firewalls for email. Very happy with it. BF From: Alan Davies [mailto:adav...@cls-services.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 4:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Barracuda Firewall NG We use their WAFs. Very solid product, very enthusiastic user group from the industry events I've been to where lots of people use them. To be fair, this list would be a poor barometer. NGFs and WAFs are still considered quite niche for some reason, even though I wouldn't dream of publishing web services without one these days .. a From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com]mailto:[mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: 31 January 2012 08:48 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Barracuda Firewall NG The outstanding silence speaks volumes. -- Espi On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.commailto:jk.har...@gmail.com wrote: Watch out for the thing shutting down your Internet when it has passed X bytes. We are fighting that a $dayjob% at the moment. Jon On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Carol Fee c...@massbar.orgmailto:c...@massbar.org wrote: Anyone using, and if so, which model, and how do you like it ? TIA Carol Fee Network Administrator Massachusetts Bar Association 20 West St. Boston, Ma 02110 617-338-0623tel:617-338-0623 c...@massbar.orgmailto:c...@massbar.org [cid:image001.jpg@01CCDFF4.0F01C410] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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 WARNING: The information in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the named addressee, you must not use, copy or disclose this email (including any attachments) or the information in it save to the named addressee nor take any action in reliance on it. If you receive this email or any attachments in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete the same and any copies. CLS Services Ltd × Registered in England No 4132704 × Registered Office: Exchange Tower × One Harbour Exchange Square × London E14 9GE ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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 ntsysadmininline: image001.jpg
RE: Corporate IM
If you are an MS shop - Lync? From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 4:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Corporate IM Hi Folks, Recommendations for an secure/enterprise IM product? The main use would be between my org and a few partners for IT communication. Internally we have an in-house product. Suggestions appreciated. Someone recommended https://www.hipchat.com/ - looks pretty good. Tom Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.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: List response time is abysmal
Agreed. Part of the draw of this list was the ability to get quick assistance and information. BF From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 11:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: List response time is abysmal I would recommend initiating a poll to gauge just how much angst there is around this. You might be surprised at how many people care about the performance... ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Donald Bittenbender donald.bittenben...@gfi.commailto:donald.bittenben...@gfi.com wrote: I will take your comments to GFI and see if there's anything that can be done to improve this situation. Thanks for everyone's feedback. Donald Bittenbender Software Developer GFI Software - www.gfi.comhttp://www.gfi.com/ Tel.: +1 866 389 5597 ext 6065tel:%2B1%20866%20389%205597%20ext%206065 Mob.: +1 727 748 2708tel:%2B1%20727%20748%202708 From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.commailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 9:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: List response time is abysmal While I recognize that the hosting of the list is a free option to us users, one hopse that GFI does recognise some benefit out of hosting this community. That being said, this community is likely to die off if we can't expect reasonable mail turnaround. Reverting to a prior version seems like a good idea, if it is at all possible. Or finding another product. On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Donald Bittenbender donald.bittenben...@gfi.commailto:donald.bittenben...@gfi.com wrote: When we performed our most recent upgrade we noticed that Lyris now has an SMTP Send Limit and it will not send more than xx messages over xx amount of time. This gets worse the faster people post to the list with xx hours. Unfortunately there isn't anything we can do about it at the moment, but coded into Lyris itself. Donald Bittenbender Software Developer GFI Software - www.gfi.comhttp://www.gfi.com Tel.: +1 866 389 5597 ext 6065tel:%2B1%20866%20389%205597%20ext%206065 Mob.: +1 727 748 2708tel:%2B1%20727%20748%202708 -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.commailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 11:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: List response time is abysmal I know others have mentioned it, but it's really noticeable... I'm talking *hours* between when I send in an email and when I see it back in my inbox. More RAM, faster disks, fatter pipe? I won't say it's unusable, but it's getting less comfortable. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.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: Hyper-V Design Questions
If I recall correctly, the MS Licensing does not allow you to have any services but HyperV on the host. From: Walker, Michael [mailto:mwal...@mail.cvhp.org] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 2:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hyper-V Design Questions Hi All, I have very limited experience with Hyper-V and am about to do my first install. Below is a descirption of my requirements and a proposed configuration. My two questions are at the very bottom of the email in Red. Any feedback or assistance is greatly appreciated!!! Michael Walker Senior Network Engineer Citrus Valley Health Partners 140 W. College Street, Covina, CA 91723 Phone/Fax/Pager: (888) 299-6882 mwal...@mail.cvhp.orgmailto:mwal...@mail.cvhp.org Hardware Software: Dell PowerEdge T710 Dual Intel XEON X5650, 2.66Ghz, 12M Cache, Turbo HT (6 Cores per proc) 48GB RAM (12x4GB), 1333MHz Dual Ranked LV RDIMMs PERC H700 RAID Controller, 1 GB NV Cache (10) 300 GB 10K RPM SAS Drives 6GBps Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Microsoft SQL 2008 Standard Acronis Backup Recovery Virtual Edition Physical Virtual Servers: Physical Host Minimum Requirements: 1 CPU, 4 GB RAM Virtual Machine 1 - AD, File Print Server Minimum Requirements: 1 CPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB HD Space Virtual Machine 2 - SQL Server - MS SQL 2008 R2 Standard Minimum Requirements: 2 CPU, 24 GB RAM, 1200 GB HD Space Virtual Machine 3 - App Server - MS Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Minimum Requirements: 1 CPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB HD Space Virtual Machine 4 - Remote Desktop Server - MS Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Minimum Requirements: 1 CPU, 8 GB RAM, 80 GB HD Space Usage: There will be 15 users using RDP to access their EMR Application called MD Office. Each TS Session requires between 50 200 MB. Of the 15 Users there may be 5 using MS Office. Storage Configuration: 10 x 300GB Drives 2 x 300GB (RAID1) - 1 300 GB Virtual Drive System Partition - 300 GB Host OS - 60 GB 3 VMs - 240 GB 2 x 300GB (RAID1) - 1 300 GB Virtual Drive VM 1 Partition - 60 GB File Data Partitioin - 200 GB SQL Logs Partition - 40 GB 5 x 300GB (RAID5) - 1 1200 GB Virtual Drive SQL Data Partition - 1200 GB 1 x 300GB (Hot Spare) QUESTIONS: With the above minimum requirements in mind - 1. Would you keep VM1 for AD, File Print or would you eliminate it and run AD, File and Print on the Physical Host allowing me to use my 4th license for an additional Remote Desktop Server. 2. Do you agree with the Storage Configuration Design or would you change it? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: Hyper-V Design Questions
We are talking about LICENSING... Not what you can do, but what you are supposed to do. Big difference. BF From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 6:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hyper-V Design Questions Wrong! Sorry I have a Hyper-V host in my test lab with WSUS on it. I know of more than one person on the list that has a DC running on their Hyper-V host (not a config I personally would want but that is neither here nor there). I have done what the OP is wanting without VM 4 but my VM 4 was System Center Essential, and I did have a DC as a VM on the same host. I would suggest you make some changes to your setup though. You did not mention a number of NIC's on the box or how much RAM or for that matter the number of sockets/processors. I personally am in favor of dedicating one NIC per VM and one for the Host. I would suggest you might want to have more than one NIC on the Remote Desktop VM though but I have never done one of those. RAID 1 System drive maybe 120GM and nothing else on that RAID 1. Keep the system the system put your VM's on another drive. RAID 1 or RAID 5 (depends on how much traffic) for all the VM's. I would stay away from huge drives as I have noticed at $dayjob$ we seem to be getting more than I would expect of the big SAS or SCSI drives failing. Other wise I kind of like your lay out. I have never been a fan of putting File and Print on a DC. Jon On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Justin Thomas jat...@gmail.commailto:jat...@gmail.com wrote: If you are thinking MS Hyper-V server, it won't run anything else. The quote is for Windows Server 2008 R2 where you certainly can run other services On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.commailto:b...@btrfronk.com wrote: If I recall correctly, the MS Licensing does not allow you to have any services but HyperV on the host. From: Walker, Michael [mailto:mwal...@mail.cvhp.orgmailto:mwal...@mail.cvhp.org] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 2:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hyper-V Design Questions Hi All, I have very limited experience with Hyper-V and am about to do my first install. Below is a descirption of my requirements and a proposed configuration. My two questions are at the very bottom of the email in Red. Any feedback or assistance is greatly appreciated!!! Michael Walker Senior Network Engineer Citrus Valley Health Partners 140 W. College Street, Covina, CA 91723 Phone/Fax/Pager: (888) 299-6882tel:%2%29%20299-6882 mwal...@mail.cvhp.orgmailto:mwal...@mail.cvhp.org Hardware Software: Dell PowerEdge T710 Dual Intel XEON X5650, 2.66Ghz, 12M Cache, Turbo HT (6 Cores per proc) 48GB RAM (12x4GB), 1333MHz Dual Ranked LV RDIMMs PERC H700 RAID Controller, 1 GB NV Cache (10) 300 GB 10K RPM SAS Drives 6GBps Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Microsoft SQL 2008 Standard Acronis Backup Recovery Virtual Edition Physical Virtual Servers: Physical Host Minimum Requirements: 1 CPU, 4 GB RAM Virtual Machine 1 - AD, File Print Server Minimum Requirements: 1 CPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB HD Space Virtual Machine 2 - SQL Server - MS SQL 2008 R2 Standard Minimum Requirements: 2 CPU, 24 GB RAM, 1200 GB HD Space Virtual Machine 3 - App Server - MS Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Minimum Requirements: 1 CPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB HD Space Virtual Machine 4 - Remote Desktop Server - MS Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Minimum Requirements: 1 CPU, 8 GB RAM, 80 GB HD Space Usage: There will be 15 users using RDP to access their EMR Application called MD Office. Each TS Session requires between 50 200 MB. Of the 15 Users there may be 5 using MS Office. Storage Configuration: 10 x 300GB Drives 2 x 300GB (RAID1) - 1 300 GB Virtual Drive System Partition - 300 GB Host OS - 60 GB 3 VMs - 240 GB 2 x 300GB (RAID1) - 1 300 GB Virtual Drive VM 1 Partition - 60 GB File Data Partitioin - 200 GB SQL Logs Partition - 40 GB 5 x 300GB (RAID5) - 1 1200 GB Virtual Drive SQL Data Partition - 1200 GB 1 x 300GB (Hot Spare) QUESTIONS: With the above minimum requirements in mind - 1. Would you keep VM1 for AD, File Print or would you eliminate it and run AD, File and Print on the Physical Host allowing me to use my 4th license for an additional Remote Desktop Server. 2. Do you agree with the Storage Configuration Design or would you change it? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana
RE: DPM 2012 Beta
Same domain, but about 1200 miles away. 45mpbs MPLS circuit connects the sites. Actually, my primary DPM is at the remote site and my secondary is here at the main data center. You add your second DPM server and then create a group(s) selecting protected servers from the main DPM server that you wish to protect. DPM does not allow connecting a single client to two DPM servers, but this give you basically the same protection. BF From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 1:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DPM 2012 Beta Thanks Bob, I'll install another instance on a new server and give it a go. Is your second site in the same domain, or how do you have it setup? On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.commailto:b...@btrfronk.com wrote: You can protect a primary DPM server with a second DPM server. You can choose the protected servers/clients from DPM1 that will be protected by DPM2. I currently have this exact setup in production. BF From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.commailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 3:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DPM 2012 Beta Just a quick question for anyone using DPM. I'd like to be able to replicate snapshots to a different site. I've got my main backup server with attached disk onsite and then want to send a copy across to another building over the WAN. Is this easy (possible) to setup with DPM? I'm testing the 2012 beta, and it seems to be quite a decent product. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: DPM 2012 Beta
You can protect a primary DPM server with a second DPM server. You can choose the protected servers/clients from DPM1 that will be protected by DPM2. I currently have this exact setup in production. BF From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 3:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DPM 2012 Beta Just a quick question for anyone using DPM. I'd like to be able to replicate snapshots to a different site. I've got my main backup server with attached disk onsite and then want to send a copy across to another building over the WAN. Is this easy (possible) to setup with DPM? I'm testing the 2012 beta, and it seems to be quite a decent product. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: Size of this NT admin list
LOL.. I always wondered who David James is From: Mike Hoffman [mailto:m...@drumbrae.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 11:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Size of this NT admin list Does that include the guy who's face appears on the LinkedIn pane in Outlook? I thought it was at least 32! Mike From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]mailto:[mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: 18 January 2012 16:34 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Size of this NT admin list 28 On 18 January 2012 16:30, David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org wrote: Anyone know how many people are subscribed to this list? David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229tel:503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764tel: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 -- 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 INFORMATION/DISCLAIMER * This document should be read only by those persons to whom it is addressed. If you have received this message it was obviously addressed to you and therefore you can read it, even it we didn't mean to send it to you. However, if the contents of this email make no sense whatsoever then you probably were not the intended recipient, or, alternatively, you are a mindless cretin; either way, you should immediately kill yourself and destroy your computer (not necessarily in that order). Once you have taken this action, please contact us.. no, sorry, you can't use your computer, because you just destroyed it, and possibly also committed suicide afterwards, but I am starting to digress.. The originator of this email is not liable for the transmission of the information contained in this communication. Or are they? Either way it's a pretty dull legal query and frankly one I'm not going to dwell on. But should you have nothing better to do, please feel free to ruminate on it, and please pass on any concrete conclusions should you find them. However, if you pass them on via email, be sure to include a disclaimer regarding liability for transmission. In the event that the originator did not send this email to you, then please return it to us and attach a scanned-in picture of your mother's brother's wife wearing nothing but a kangaroo suit, and we will immediately refund you exactly half of what you paid for the can of Whiskas you bought when you went to Pets At Home yesterday. We take no responsibility for non-receipt of this email because we are running Exchange 5.5 and everyone knows how glitchy that can be. In the event that you do get this message then please note that we take no responsibility for that either. Nor will we accept any liability, tacit or implied, for any damage you may or may not incur as a result of receiving, or not, as the case may be, from time to time, notwithstanding all liabilities implied or otherwise, ummm, hell, where was I...umm, no matter what happens, it is NOT, and NEVER WILL BE, OUR FAULT! The comments and opinions expressed herein are my own and NOT those of my employer, who, if he knew I was sending emails and surfing the seamier side of the Internet, would cut off my manhood and feed it to me for afternoon tea. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: Size of this NT admin list
First rule of the other list: You do not talk about the other list. BF From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 3:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Size of this NT admin list We - I MEAN THEY - are all on a separate list. -- Espi On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Lee Douglas lee.doug...@gmail.commailto:lee.doug...@gmail.com wrote: Speaking of subscribers, where are all the trolls? Haven't seen one in ages? On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Manuel Santos nel...@gmail.commailto:nel...@gmail.com wrote: 42, indeed! 2012/1/18 Heaton, Joseph@DFG jhea...@dfg.ca.govmailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov Only the important ones :) Joe Heaton ITB - Windows Server Support From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 8:31 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues Subject: Size of this NT admin list Anyone know how many people are subscribed to this list? David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229tel:503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764tel: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.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Comparing Windows Servers
Belarc? BF From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 10:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Comparing Windows Servers My search terms must not be configured right cuz I just can't find what I need. I am at a customer site where I am trying to help them resolve issues with their 2008 R2 (XenApp 6) servers. It appears every server was manually built by different people so it appears every server has been installed and configured differently. I am trying to find a utility I can use to do a comparison of the servers. Like what is different in software installs, Windows updates hotfixes, file/registry permissions, etc. The servers are supposed to be identical and I am in the process of talking to them about automating their XenApp server builds. They all run Server 2008 R2 SP1, XenApp 6, medical software and standard utilities (Flash/Reader, etc) required by the software. But they are just different in unexplainable ways. Would be nice to run something that will use one server as the basis for comparing the others against. Thanks Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.comhttp://www.carlwebster.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.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Server room cooling units
We can count on our Leibert(s) having problems shortly after any preventive maintenance. It is a running joke with the service company. BF From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 5:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Server room cooling units We used Liebert at Sunbelt, but had regular outages with it, make sure that the company you buy from understand the concept of preventive maintenance Warm regards, Stu From: richardmccl...@aspca.orgmailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org]mailto:[mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 11:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Server room cooling units Greetings! Currently, I have two HVAC bids regarding the expansion of our server room. (It will seem strange to have that room below 80 degrees, and I am not kidding with that number!). We have two proposals and with two different units, both 15 tons. One is by Stulz, and one is by Liebert. Anyone care to offer their opinions/experiences/etc on the advantages one has over the other? Thank you... -- Richard D. McClary Jr Infrastructure Architect, Information Technology Group ASPCA(r) 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: Cell Phone Policies
We have nearly 700 cellular devices (Feature phones, Smart Phones, Data cards, Tablets) Our policy is: We don't support or allow employee owned devices. From: Chris Blair [mailto:chris_bl...@identisys.com] Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 4:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Cell Phone Policies We are instituting a corporate cell phone plan. While most people will be moved over to the corp plan, there will always be others, with smart phones that want access to email. These users will need to agree that if they leave, their phones can be wiped. This wiping process could affect personal data, and the ability to make a phone call. Anyone willing to share their cell phone policies (edited of course)? I am hoping someone has some similar written up that we can start from. Thanks, Chris ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: Cell Phone Policies
None that I hear, but I am sure some don't like it. It is a large enough task to track what device we own and provide. I have no desire to add user owned devices, who got hired, who left, who owns what, etc. We are migrating from Blackberry to iPhones, so ~150 of them will be happier in the coming months. (This change is due in part to RIMs failure to produce a decent device and also in part to employee demand) A good number of our employees receive only a regular ruggedized phone for company use. The work environment is not conducive to fragile smart phones. Additionally, we are rolling out AirWatch to control and restrict the IOS device we are deploying. BF From: Ben M. Schorr [mailto:b...@rolandschorr.com] Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 11:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Cell Phone Policies Do you get much push-back on that from employees? Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer __ Roland Schorr Tower www.rolandschorr.comhttp://www.rolandschorr.com/ From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com]mailto:[mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 7:19 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Cell Phone Policies We have nearly 700 cellular devices (Feature phones, Smart Phones, Data cards, Tablets) Our policy is: We don't support or allow employee owned devices. From: Chris Blair [mailto:chris_bl...@identisys.com]mailto:[mailto:chris_bl...@identisys.com] Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 4:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Cell Phone Policies We are instituting a corporate cell phone plan. While most people will be moved over to the corp plan, there will always be others, with smart phones that want access to email. These users will need to agree that if they leave, their phones can be wiped. This wiping process could affect personal data, and the ability to make a phone call. Anyone willing to share their cell phone policies (edited of course)? I am hoping someone has some similar written up that we can start from. Thanks, Chris ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: web filtering
I have used iPrism for several years. Very happy with it. The mobile client is excellent. BF From: pdw1...@hotmail.com [mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 11:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: web filtering I've finally gotten a budget to put in place a web filtering platform. I've looked at three so far: Websense, iPrism and Barracuda. Of those, I like Websense but it was too costly and no one liked Barracuda. iPrism is looking good so far but I'd like to demo a few more. I'm not opposed to a cloud-based service either. If you are using a web-filtering product, can you tell me what it is and whether you feel it is worth the price you pay? I've been reading some reviews on different products, but a review is secondary to what actual users experience. 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.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: Hyper-V VM's and unnecessary heart failure
I had a similar issue with two HyperV VMs a few weeks ago, but it was due to the SCSI driver. Same solution as yours. The difference was a reboot of the VM host following MS updates. Prior to this, there had never been an issue. BF From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 2:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hyper-V VM's and unnecessary heart failure Remotely working on a %nightjob% client tonight, both a VM and corresponding host unexpectedly drop my LogMeIn connection. I see from LogMeIn that other systems in that room are online, so I know it wasn't the circuit that dropped. Oh joy, I get to drive in (thankfully a short 20 min drive). I get onsite and the host server is halted at the POST screen for the eSATA RAID controller, and the eSATA RAID controller reports a degraded disk on one of the two volumes. Power everything off, pull the drives, disconnect/reconnect the cables, etc. Power it back up and everything shows good. So the host comes up (YAY ½ way there! Well...) and I log in and watch for the VM to start...it gets to 50% then stops, and after 15 minutes (and you know how long 15 minutes is when you're waiting for a *VERY* critical server to come up don'tcha?) the VM goes back to stopped. As I do full volume backups nightly to the eSATA I'm not too worried yet, but even recovering to that this client would lose a day of work (Internet backups start at 7pm, servers went offline at 5:13pm). A cursory look at the event logs shows nothing exciting, so I change the VM autostart from 60 seconds after host OS to 500 seconds and then reboot the host. No change. Joy. Thinking maybe it's an issue on the host I pull a two week old DISK2VHD file that was handier than the backups, I create a new VM on the host and use this VHD. That VM fires up just fine, but it makes me wonder if I can just create a new VM and point to the existing disk files for this critical server. I file that away for plan B. I hit the event logs again, I went through both system and app logs for the timeframe including 30 mins on either side of the start failures (and you know I tried to start that VM more than just those two times...). Somehow I stumbled upon one of Windows 2008's 1 zillion new logs, under Windows logs\Applicaitons and Services logs\Microsoft\Windows\Hyper-V Worker and I found my golden nugget: Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-Worker-Admin Source:Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-Worker Date: 10/28/2011 7:02:45 PM Event ID: 12140 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: User: NETWORK SERVICE Computer: Host4.thehosed.one.local Description: 'thehosed.one': Failed to open attachment '\\192.168.116.249\Inst-server\Windows 2008 R2\SW_DVD5_Windows_Svr_DC_EE_SE_Web_2008R2_64-bit_English_X15-59754.ISO'. Error: 'The specified network name is no longer available.' (0x80070040). (Virtual machine 97527135-A765-4700-AF66-C6FE2143391D) Event Xml: Google-Fu then returned a thread to me where someone else was having the same issue because about a VM not starting and it turned out to be a CD-ROM driver issue. Was the VM was failing to start because I had the CD-ROM mapped to a network location that was no longer valid? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Go into VM settings, remove the CD-ROM from the config and boot the VM. Presto! Took me just over four hours to find the necessary 2-second config change... I charge 1.5x my normal hourly rate to break my routine and drive onsite, somehow I think just one hour is fairhere - sometimes the lesson and the relief that there was zero data loss for the client is reward enough! 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.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: Wireless / Wired bridging
Many laptops (I know Dell does) have software that will disable wireless when wired is detected. You might look in that direction. In the past, I always removed that Dell software, but am now starting to use it. Although I don't have security concerns with it, now that we are moving to Windows 7 and no longer can disable the wireless devices in the docked profile, these laptops are using two IPs and we are already tight on them. I am looking at the software solution to assist with that. BF -Original Message- From: Juned Shaikh [mailto:jsha...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 9:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Wireless / Wired bridging Hi, Security folks are hounding on this and any help will be highly appreciated. Setup Cisco wireless network - Highly secure configuration. No issues there. When a laptop are docked, the Win7 workstations gets IPs from both the network ; Wired and wireless. - Route print command clear suggests, wired network is getting preference; technically all works fine. User when undocks it - system automatically switches over to wireless network - no issues. - Route print command suggests the traffic going through wireless network === But security team is flipping over the issue that the system is simultaneously connected to both the networks. In counter argument, we suggested following 3 Microsft KB articles http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315088 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299540 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894564 Which suggests how microsoft decides when system sees two connections, but that's not sufficient. In Security language, controlling the network path through route metrics is not sufficient. As per them there is no control in place to avoid split tunneling. === Question is : What is the technical solution to this problem? Hardware Profiles is one, but it is phased out and doesn't make sense in todays more mobile workforce. Is the security concern right? If not, what should be the technical explanation? What is the current method of 100% ensuring the traffic route ? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Wireless switch and access points
I have deployed some Cisco AP541N access points. They can be grouped and managed by updating only one AP and the others get the settings. This was a less expensive route for me. Maybe it isn't as robust as having a central management system, but it does what I need. BF -Original Message- From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 9:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless switch and access points Am after more the integration that comes with them all being managed from one place rather than lots of little units. Olly ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Wireless / Wired bridging
The Dell software has various names depending on the computer model and age. Quickset was one name. ControlPoint is the more recent one. -Original Message- From: Juned Shaikh [mailto:jsha...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 11:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wireless / Wired bridging To Add to my initial questions: - We have Wireless Cisco NAC implemented - Wireless is based on EAPTLS with cert based authenticated brokered by RADIUS Dell software solution which can automatically turn off the NIC. What was that software? Thanks in advance, ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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 - Blackberry Outage
That is Blackberry rule #1 - When in doubt, pull it out. Might apply to other situations as well. BF From: justino garcia [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 10:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - Blackberry Outage Did anyone catch the 10 am confference call. According the CEO, for any current delays, pull the battery. Is every back to normal? On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Ben Serebin b...@reefsolutions.commailto:b...@reefsolutions.com wrote: Hello All, Snip from RIM website below. Summary: failure of testing redundant systems and not having enough redundant capacity. Have numerous clients with BBs on BES across US, and have random users affected. I just alerted all my clients to the problems. I'm a big believer in the BB functionality, but I only see one way the BB platform will go, and it's sadly not up. I wish the BB hardware natively supported direct ActiveSync functionality. -Ben Tuesday 11th October - 21:30 (GMT+1) The messaging and browsing delays that some of you are still experiencing were caused by a core switch failure within RIM's infrastructure. Although the system is designed to failover to a back-up switch, the failover did not function as previously tested. As a result, a large backlog of data was generated and we are now working to clear that backlog and restore normal service as quickly as possible. We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused to many of you and we will continue to keep you informed. http://www.rim.com/newsroom/service-update.shtml -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.commailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 11:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - Blackberry Outage RIM has an outage banner on their home page. Users report sporadic email, at best. SMS works. Our BES says it's had contact with the handhelds and RIM's servers, but Pending Data Packets is steadily increasing and Forwarded Messages is barely moving. (We're on Verizon, homed in North-East US.) According to the CNN article, RIM's core switch died, and the failover didn't. They fixed the switch issues, but now their system is overloaded due to the backlog. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- Justin IT-TECH ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: What would YOU do?
True. Often they will offer a discount for you to keep it. (At least this has happened to me on a number of occasions. I did take them up on it once) BF From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 12:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What would YOU do? Never had an issue returning anything to Dell, for what it's worth. -Sam From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]mailto:[mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 12:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: What would YOU do? Background: A %nightjob% client (17 employees) of mine has a Dell PowerEdge 840 with 4 SATA drives, two volumes of RAID1 (2x250GB for C: and D: , 2x500GB for E:) OS is SBS 2003 and they use SQL in addition to Exchange (when I spec'd this in 2007, SQL wasn't involved). I have split up Exchange / SQL Log/DB files as best I can. This has been working OK but they app that uses SQL is kind of a pig and it and Exchange create a lot of disk contention. I got the bright idea to have them buy $600 of 15K RPM SAS drives and an external enclosure and is bundled with a SAS RAID5 card (PCIe 4x - this is important for later...). I figured I'd create a RAID5 volume and point SQL over to this new drive array and performance should be much improved, my theory being is the system will be as fast or faster pre-SQL (my thinking was I might be able to move some other things off the SATA drives and onto the faster controller/disks). The mistake: Parts are onsite, and tonight I go to install the RAID card andhey, this system has ONE PCIe 8x slot and ONCE PCIe 1x slot, plus some standard PCI slots. Populating the PCIe 8x slot is a SAS 5/iR controller hooked to the four SATA drives. In other words, the shiny new toy I had them purchase won't work because I had assumed the existing RAID controller was built-in. It hadn't occurred to me as a remote possibility that there would be insufficient slots, I hadn't added a thing to this server since they'd bought it. What would you guys do? Send the hardware back and plead mea culpa? Is there any way to put the existing SATA array on a different card (say, a PCIe 1x SATA RAID card) without having to rebuild the volumes? I've looked for SAS RAID5 PCIe 1x (yes, it would be slower than 4x but still better than the stiff internal) but no luck. Maybe I'm over thinking this after a 17hr day (between %dayjob% and %nightjob%), but I welcome your guys' input. 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.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: Cisco Anyconnect requesting admin elevation on Windows 7
Had to ditch Anyconnect as well. Lots of Windows 7 issues. Would work for one user, but not another with same notebook and software. We do think it was permission related but no fix was ever found. The newest versions of the standard Cisco VPN client work well for us. (As Candee mentioned below) BF From: Candee [mailto:can...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 3:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Cisco Anyconnect requesting admin elevation on Windows 7 I never ran into this specific issue, but I had other complaints. I finally ditched it. I use the regular Cisco client now - version 5.0 On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:23 AM, David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org wrote: Have any of you guys run into this and if so, how did you make it to a standard user can run Anyconnect? My Google-Fu is poor today... David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229tel:503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764tel: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.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: Upgrading Windows in-place - your experiences?
Assuming there is some need to move the VM to 2008 that is motivating this, I would just stand up a new server. You would want to use 2008R2 and you can't do a 32bit - 64bit upgrade anyway. I have a few VMs that were migrated P2V that are running 2003 and will probably continue to run 2003 for some time due to installed application support issues. BF From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 3:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Upgrading Windows in-place - your experiences? I haven't upgraded a Windows Server install for years now as typically with physical boxes the box gets replaced after a three year period so the OS is rebuilt/refreshed. Virtualisation has changed that somewhat as we now have VM's with a potentially infinite physical life, and as a result I have quite a few that are still running Windows 2003. I may rebuild them all with 2008 R2 which also solves the fact that right now they're 32bit, but what are peoples experiences of upgrading Windows in-place? As I said I've not had to do so for years now so I'm out of touch with how good/bad of an experience it is these days? The one potentially nice thing is that other than any third-party apps, the VM's are about as clean as you can get, no HP PSP or suchlike to have to deal with. I should add we're talking small role-specific VM's here, nothing crazy like Exchange. Thanks, Paul 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.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: Upgrading Windows in-place - your experiences?
Well that depends on how much p... Oh never mind, wrong list for that. BF From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 4:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Upgrading Windows in-place - your experiences? And hairballsforgot to mention the hairballs. People don't (usually) have those. On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:32 PM, David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org wrote: Like people From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.commailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 1:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Upgrading Windows in-place - your experiences? Then they get old and poop in unexpected places. On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:07 PM, David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org wrote: It's like getting a new kitten. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.commailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 1:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Upgrading Windows in-place - your experiences? Since it practically takes a button push to deploy a fresh OS, I always stick with that. Eg, Templates in Virtualization, or Syspreped images, etc. That and the warm, fuzzy feeling you get with a new OS install. It's like getting a new kitten. From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk]mailto:[mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 2:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Upgrading Windows in-place - your experiences? I haven't upgraded a Windows Server install for years now as typically with physical boxes the box gets replaced after a three year period so the OS is rebuilt/refreshed. Virtualisation has changed that somewhat as we now have VM's with a potentially infinite physical life, and as a result I have quite a few that are still running Windows 2003. I may rebuild them all with 2008 R2 which also solves the fact that right now they're 32bit, but what are peoples experiences of upgrading Windows in-place? As I said I've not had to do so for years now so I'm out of touch with how good/bad of an experience it is these days? The one potentially nice thing is that other than any third-party apps, the VM's are about as clean as you can get, no HP PSP or suchlike to have to deal with. I should add we're talking small role-specific VM's here, nothing crazy like Exchange. Thanks, Paul 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.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to
RE: Eaton Powerware UPS
I have a couple as well. I can't recall the kW at this time, but they are about 5 feet tall and 3 feet wide. Eaton has excellent service as well. I have had one battery issue that was resolved quickly and they decided to just replace ALL the batteries, just in case. All under warranty. BF From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 1:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Eaton Powerware UPS I've used those in a few places that I've been in. Solid products. No complaints. We had an 80kW Unit, if I remember correctly. ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... 2011/9/1 Paul Hutchings paul.hutchi...@mira.co.ukmailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk I need to get a new UPS for one of our computer rooms. Nothing too fancy, just something that will give a reasonable runtime, and I'd quite like something that has some form of ethernet monitoring/management built in. Eaton Powerware are looking pretty good right now in terms of features vs. price vs. reputation. I know UPS's are pretty dull things but does anyone have any experience of Eaton, especially the management/monitoring capabilities? 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.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: Sherry's Back
Great News! Welcome back From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:sabercrom...@nhdallas.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 1:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Sherry's Back Hello everyone, I'm finally back. After being laid off in April 2010, I was unemployed for about 4 months, finally landing a job answering Help Desk and eventually as a Network Operator at Radio Shack corporate headquarters. Not exactly doing any technical server admin type stuff..this week I started a new job as the Facilities/IT Manager at New Horizons Computer Training Center - Dallas. I'll be over the facilities in Dallas, Fort Worth, Tulsa and Oklahoma City. Will be managing a small team, doing server admin stuff and other technical stuff, and access to any training I want to takeoh yes, I'm really excited about this job. So here I am back on the lists and very glad to be back. Sherry Abercrombie | Facilities/IT Manager Dallas | Fort Worth | Oklahoma City | Tulsa 972.490.5151 x2250 sabercrom...@nhdallas.commailto:cbeav...@nhoklahoma.com | www.nhcomputerlearning.comhttp://www.nhtexas.com/ This information may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, photocopying or distribution of these contents is unauthorized and prohibited. If you have received this in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: DropBox for Teams
I think I am just going go with it this week as well. BF From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 10:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DropBox for Teams I'm about to purchase it this week, so I'll let you know. :) ASB http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.commailto:b...@btrfronk.com wrote: I am considering upgrading to DropBox for Teams basically for my own use, but I want about 800-1000GB so Teams is the offered solution. Anyone here using DropBox for Teams? Does it work well for you? BF ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: DropBox for Teams
No I haven't. My main goal is to have a large storage space for just my own files. Not too interested in sharing or allowing others in at this point. I have a large amount of files, software, etc., that I sync between several computers with a 3rd party application so I always have access to all the files. My hope is that DropBox would work a bit better for this. More than once my Sync software has not updated correctly or has completely erased some or all of the files at one or more locations. I also want access to them from any computer rather than just the couple that I locate the files on. BF From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 12:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DropBox for Teams Have you considered the Box.net solution? Pricing is pretty much the same, and Box.net offers a bit more auditing and granular security controls... ASB http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.commailto:b...@btrfronk.com wrote: I think I am just going go with it this week as well. BF From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.commailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 10:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DropBox for Teams I'm about to purchase it this week, so I'll let you know. :) ASB http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.commailto:b...@btrfronk.com wrote: I am considering upgrading to DropBox for Teams basically for my own use, but I want about 800-1000GB so Teams is the offered solution. Anyone here using DropBox for Teams? Does it work well for you? BF ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: RDX Removable Disk Drive
I recently deployed a Dell RD1000 (quite possibly the same with a different label) for a small client I still support. So far I can't say anything too bad about it. Setup took only a few minutes. I could not use the included software because it did not natively support Exchange without additional licensing, but Windows Backup has worked fine and the device simply appears as a drive. One of their employees changes the drive every day and puts it in a Pelican case to take offsite for the night. The one thing I did do, was buy two devices and some extra drives. They store the spares off site. I was afraid that 5 years from now, (when they are still using it because they only refresh when something breaks), the main one gets stolen or damaged and I can't find a replacement to restore quickly. This way they have one to plug in and pull a restore from another machine. BF From: Bob Hartung [mailto:bhart...@wiscoind.com] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 3:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RDX Removable Disk Drive I've got a Dell PowerVault 110T LTO2 tape drive that has failed and was out of warranty so I have to replace the whole thing. As a possible alternative, I've been looking at the Quantum RDX Removable Disk Drive. The price of an PowerVault 110T LTO3 tape drive and the cost of the RDX with 22 cartridges aren't that far apart. Does anyone have any experience with these units? I'd appreciate any feedback. Thanks. -- Bob Hartung Wisco Industries, Inc. 736 Janesville St. Oregon, WI 53575 Tel: (608) 835-3106 x215 Fax: (608) 835-7399 e-mail: bhartung(at)wiscoind.com Website: www.wiscoind.comhttp://www.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.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Maintenance Fees
Not knowing the rates in the client's area, I would say $125-$200 per hour as an hourly rate for onsite work. Less if I can do it remotely from home. Occasionally I would do a set fee for a project, such as X amount for replacing defective switch, installing new server, etc.I once did a monthly contract rate of $500 for a client, but got abused. If you should go that route be sure to include an up to X hours per month limit. I don't do much on the side work anymore so I might be a little high or low, again depending on area. Right now the couple of clients I support outside of %dayjob% are freebies, so anything would be better than that!! BF From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 3:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Maintenance Fees Guys, What are common ranges a small shop can expect to pay a consulting firm to maintain a network with roughly the following: 1. 30 users 2. Exchange 2010 3. 6 total windows servers from file to sql etc 4. 6 Redhat machines in various roles 5. a few procurves 6. A bsd vpn/firewall 7. Some other misc network equipment like printers/card scanners etc... I know it depends on the specifics but I need just what range some folks might expect that to be in. I am stepping out of that duty and the owner (lots of history here) is asking me for some info. Thanks for any insight! jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: RDX Removable Disk Drive
I have not used tape in years, but if IIRC LTO2 is 200GB? I used the 640GB drives for this small client, which allows for quintupling the data being backed up. With the limited information, I don’t see why you couldn’t to the route of the RDX. From: Bob Hartung [mailto:bhart...@wiscoind.com] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 4:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RDX Removable Disk Drive I'm currently using Arcserve and an LTO2 tape drive to backup a remote site. We do use a GFS rotation of 22 tapes. Having worked with RD1000 (which is probably a relabeld Quantum drive), would you see any issues with using the RD1000 (or this kind of technology) as a replacement for the LTO2 tape drive? I checked and Arcserve supports the Quantum RDX. -- Bob Hartung Wisco Industries, Inc. 736 Janesville St. Oregon, WI 53575 Tel: (608) 835-3106 x215 Fax: (608) 835-7399 e-mail: bhartung(at)wiscoind.com Website: www.wiscoind.comhttp://www.wiscoind.com From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com]mailto:[mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com]mailto:[mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:12:02 -0500 Subject: RE: RDX Removable Disk Drive I recently deployed a Dell RD1000 (quite possibly the same with a different label) for a small client I still support. So far I can’t say anything too bad about it. Setup took only a few minutes. I could not use the included software because it did not natively support Exchange without additional licensing, but Windows Backup has worked fine and the device simply appears as a drive. One of their employees changes the drive every day and puts it in a Pelican case to take offsite for the night. The one thing I did do, was buy two devices and some extra drives. They store the spares off site. I was afraid that 5 years from now, (when they are still using it because they only refresh when something breaks), the main one gets stolen or damaged and I can’t find a replacement to restore quickly. This way they have one to plug in and pull a restore from another machine. BF From: Bob Hartung [mailto:bhart...@wiscoind.commailto:bhart...@wiscoind.com] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 3:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RDX Removable Disk Drive I've got a Dell PowerVault 110T LTO2 tape drive that has failed and was out of warranty so I have to replace the whole thing. As a possible alternative, I've been looking at the Quantum RDX Removable Disk Drive. The price of an PowerVault 110T LTO3 tape drive and the cost of the RDX with 22 cartridges aren't that far apart. Does anyone have any experience with these units? I'd appreciate any feedback. Thanks. -- Bob Hartung Wisco Industries, Inc. 736 Janesville St. Oregon, WI 53575 Tel: (608) 835-3106 x215 Fax: (608) 835-7399 e-mail: bhartung(at)wiscoind.com Website: www.wiscoind.comhttp://www.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.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: RDX Removable Disk Drive
Currently at %dayjob% I am backing up about 9 TB... so I had abandoned removable media (Tape and Disk) a few years ago. I use DPM which backs up to a 16TB SAN and a secondary DPM server and second SAN at a different location to back up the primary DPM server. The two sites have a 45mbps WAN to move the data. BF From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 4:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RDX Removable Disk Drive I've been using RDX for years. Disk to disk to RDX backups. On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Bob Hartung bhart...@wiscoind.commailto:bhart...@wiscoind.com wrote: I've got a Dell PowerVault 110T LTO2 tape drive that has failed and was out of warranty so I have to replace the whole thing. As a possible alternative, I've been looking at the Quantum RDX Removable Disk Drive. The price of an PowerVault 110T LTO3 tape drive and the cost of the RDX with 22 cartridges aren't that far apart. Does anyone have any experience with these units? I'd appreciate any feedback. Thanks. -- Bob Hartung Wisco Industries, Inc. 736 Janesville St. Oregon, WI 53575 Tel: (608) 835-3106 x215tel:%28608%29%20835-3106%20x215 Fax: (608) 835-7399tel:%28608%29%20835-7399 e-mail: bhartung(at)wiscoind.comhttp://wiscoind.com Website: www.wiscoind.comhttp://www.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: Maintenance Fees
That is why I had to end most of my side jobs. The money was nice, but did not offset the hassle. I also felt badly when they would experience an outage and had to wait all day for me to finish my day job before I could help. BF From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 4:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Maintenance Fees Been there.. done that.. until they start calling you during your normal business hours. I would get calls for trivial stuff... like why there is no sound from the PC, cant save to a floppy, etc... The extra money was nice, the headache that came with it was not. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com]mailto:[mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 1:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Maintenance Fees Curious as to some hourly rates that are expected. I've had a couple small businesses come to me lately that would like me to support their shops... This would be side jobs/off hours. Sam From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]mailto:[mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 3:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Maintenance Fees Think in terms of x per networking device, y per server and z per desktop -- per month Maybe $25-50 per networking / $40-75 per server / $10-50 per desktop -- for about 10-20 hours of work per month For that kind of environment, I would estimate $400-$600/mo for a moderately stable environment. At least in the metro NYC area. ASB http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.commailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: Guys, What are common ranges a small shop can expect to pay a consulting firm to maintain a network with roughly the following: 1. 30 users 2. Exchange 2010 3. 6 total windows servers from file to sql etc 4. 6 Redhat machines in various roles 5. a few procurves 6. A bsd vpn/firewall 7. Some other misc network equipment like printers/card scanners etc... I know it depends on the specifics but I need just what range some folks might expect that to be in. I am stepping out of that duty and the owner (lots of history here) is asking me for some info. Thanks for any insight! jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: I need a Landline! You read that right.
Yep... looks like I might have to order one too. BF From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 11:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: I need a Landline! You read that right. Ben, OBiTalk looks like the golden ticket to what I need. Thanks! Sam On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Ben Serebin b...@reefsolutions.commailto:b...@reefsolutions.com wrote: Hello All, I know this is old, but wanted to share in case it helps someone (I spent a few months determining my options and testing different solutions). I recently dropped Vonage after about 9 yrs for my home setup and switched to a significantly cheaper and more flexible solution. Vonage is too expensive (~$37/month) I didn't need all their crazy features since it needed to be wife friendly (non-tech) support a standard 2 line Panasonic cordless phone. And more importantly their pricing over the last few years included double digit pricing increases for taxes surcharges. I also have a Google Voice I wanted to incorporate. 2 options... - Get a OBiTalk (hardware) which allows you to dial out/in via an analog or IP phone via a SIP provider or Google Voice (supports 2 SIP or phone line options or combination). Yes, your grandmother's analog phone (needs touch tone, sorry no pulse) could be dialing out for FREE via Google Voice. http://www.obihai.com/ The folks behind OBiTalk use to work for Cisco, there hardware is rock solid stable. Very user friendly for non-VoIP people. - Use a SIP provider (I like voip.mshttp://voip.ms) since it's very cheap and has EVERY feature you could dream of. Spoofed calling (my SPA has 6 caller ID profiles), Asterisk support, phone trees, e911 or no e911 to save the money. If you're really smart thrifty, you get e911 on 1 line and none on line 2 and do call routing when someone dials 911. You can get almost unlimited national for $4.95 INCLUDING ALL TAXES SURCHARGES. And it's 6 sec billing. E911 is $1.50 extra a month. You can port #'s over (adds $2 a month), etc. I love these guys. I have extra DIDs for $0.99 a month. It's mind blowing. FYI: I have an OBi110 (it's so popular - people scalp them) a Cisco SPA509G IP phone. Enjoy, -Ben From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.commailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 3:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: I need a Landline! You read that right. So... Thought I'd build a nice new home office in the basement. After layers of new insulation, soundproofing, and drywall, my cell phone no longer works down there! Oops :-\ Considering how much I telecommute, I need to get some sort of landline installed. VOIP/SIP/Digital through Comcast, I'm considering it all. But, I'm not too well versed on the options avail. I still support an old PBX at our office, and built a SIP fax service/server, but my telco experience is pretty limited outside of that. I'd like to avoid Comcast (Personal reasons and I often cancel it and go through our Municipal WiFi). Any suggestions you guys have off the top of your head? A good service that sticks out that you would like to plug? Something that incorporated with Google Voice would be a plus... (Not sure anything does). I do use the new Sprint/Google Voice offering, so I can mask the new number with my Sprint number, and I can easily have my Sprint number ring the new number too. Thanks. Open to ideas. -Sam ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.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: Sys Admin Day
This is my first day back in the office since 7/22. Nothing happy about it! BF From: Matthew B Ames [mailto:matthew.a...@qinetiq.com] Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 11:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Sys Admin Day Happy Sys Admin day hope you all get some cakes, or something nice! http://www.sysadminday.com/ -- Matthew Ames Senior Software Engineer, IT Services MoD Boscombe Down Tel: 01980 662791, Mobile: 07799 828279 Fax: 01980 664012 Email: matthew.a...@qinetiq.commailto:matthew.a...@qinetiq.com (work) matt...@ames.orgmailto:matt...@ames.org (home) QinetiQ - The Global Defence and Security Experts. Delivering customer focused solutions. Many hands make a tall horse. 11 was a race horse, 22 was 12. race, 22112. To err is human - to moo, bovine. Macmillan Cancer Support Charity bike ride - donate nowhttp://www.justgiving.com/mba-mac-2011 This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. QinetiQ may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security. QinetiQ Limited (Registered in England Wales: Company Number: 3796233) Registered office: Cody Technology Park, Ively Road, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 0LX http://www.qinetiq.com. http://www.qinetiq.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.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: PC Mall created a customer account without my knowledge
I am amazed at how many calls they make to me. It is rarely the same person, so they either have a huge turnover or employ a large number of account representatives. Not long ago, my voicemail message included, ... and if you are calling from PC Mall or any other sales person I did not personally contact, you can hang up now. A bunch of people got a kick out of that, but I decided to change it after a few weeks. BF From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PC Mall created a customer account without my knowledge They also make end runs around my voice mail. Whenever we have a new receptionist I have to train her that if someone from PC Mall, or any computer type companies call, I'm the only one who gets the voice mail. I've had directors coming to me saying they have voicemail messages from PC Mall. I did make the mistake of buying something from them once, when we were part of a larger trade group which had a good relationship with a specific rep. I have multiple regrets about that purchase now. On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:35 AM, N Parr npar...@mortonind.commailto:npar...@mortonind.com wrote: They are on my Caller ID cheat Sheet (along with may others) I have taped next to my phone so I know not to answer. From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.commailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 10:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PC Mall created a customer account without my knowledge +1 I have voice messages weekly from them. - Sean On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.commailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com wrote: They've been knocking on our door for awhile. They seem to be a pretty big company. We haven't used them yet, but they do call pretty aggressively. -Paul From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.commailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 10:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: PC Mall created a customer account without my knowledge Has anyone dealt w/ this company? I just got an email from PC Mall saying Welcome to PC Mall - here is your username and password to begin saving money... WTF? I never signed up w/ them, never even talked to them... Is this normal practice for resellers to just auto-create customer accounts? And to then send a plain-text email containing log on credentials??? I replied back demanding to have the account deleted and confirmation of my request. /Rant off . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.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: PC Mall created a customer account without my knowledge
CDW is my #1. Same rep for last 6-7 years. I couldn't ask for better service. Pricing is rarely an issue and if I find something less expensive elsewhere, they have always matched or beat the price. If CDW does not have something I need in stock, I will look at Insight. I used them previously as my #1 until, like your story, the reps became revolving doors. Recently I have bought a few things from Newegg and have been pretty happy with the results. I try to do 90% of my business with CDW. It helps to have that history and the larger spend usually equates to larger discount percentage. BF From: Ralph Smith [mailto:m...@gatewayindustries.org] Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 2:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PC Mall created a customer account without my knowledge I worked with pc mall for about four years during which time I had the same account rep. She was very good about working with me, conferencing in people they had on site from different vendors, such as Dell and HP when I had a project, question or issue. I never had problems with delivery, or returns, and the prices were almost always the best I could find. Then they switched reps on me ...several times. Now I don't use them anymore. I know a lot of shops use CDW, but does anyone use or have opinions on some other places like Zones, Insight or PC Connection? I don't have any one go-to place at the moment. I used to like PC Connection many years ago, but then it seemed like they could never give me the same pricing I could get from PC Mall or Dell, and they also switched me to an rep I didn't like. From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com]mailto:[mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PC Mall created a customer account without my knowledge LOL From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]mailto:[mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PC Mall created a customer account without my knowledge What was that account #. From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com]mailto:[mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PC Mall created a customer account without my knowledge Unbelievable... So now I am wasting 30 minutes going back and forth with this guy explaining that I never signed up, never asked to be signed up, never used them (and never will). I said: You setup a corporate purchasing account without authorization, then sent the login credentials via a plain text email... and you don't see anything wrong w/ that? What is to stop a 3rd party from obtaining that information, logging in as me and buying product under my account??? His reply was that he wanted to make it as easy as possible for me to buy from them, and that I can log in and change my password as often as I'd like.. Are you kidding me?!?! From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]mailto:[mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PC Mall created a customer account without my knowledge They are scum, imho. For over 5 years they tried to collect from a former employer on a product I returned to PC Mall while I was there. We repeatedly sent them proof of delivery of the return. I told the account rep that if they called again we would never do business with them again. I was nice, but dead serious...get your bean counters to stop calling my bean counters. It didn't stop. Last I heard it continued well beyond me leaving the company. From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com]mailto:[mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: PC Mall created a customer account without my knowledge Has anyone dealt w/ this company? I just got an email from PC Mall saying Welcome to PC Mall - here is your username and password to begin saving money... WTF? I never signed up w/ them, never even talked to them... Is this normal practice for resellers to just auto-create customer accounts? And to then send a plain-text email containing log on credentials??? I replied back demanding to have the account deleted and confirmation of my request. /Rant off . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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
Windows 7 - Multiple NIC binding order
Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit with two 1GB NICs. (NIC 1 is internal. NIC 2 is USB dongle) Each NIC is connected to a different subnet, LAN 1 = Domain LAN. LAN 2 = Local Test network. LAN1 is the domain LAN and has a 45mbps Internet connection. LAN2 is a test network and is connected has a 20mbps Internet connection. LAN1 is 192.168.x.x. LAN2 is 10.10.x.x. Both are DHCP. Both are 1Gbit networks. I have set the binding order for network services to use NIC1(LAN 1) first. The wireless (not connected) second. NIC2 (LAN 2) third. Windows has designated LAN 1 as Domain Network and LAN 2 as Work network. However, at each log on, the OS is using NIC2 for external traffic (Such as WEB, Outlook connection, etc.). I can still connect to the domain LAN, however it is not primary. I have to unplug the network cable for the OS to switch to LAN1. If I plug the cable back in, the OS will switch back to NIC2 at various intervals. I use the test network for some VMs I run on my PC for testing purposes. I need external access for these VMs, but I do not want them on the domain network. This was working fine for me until my old 100mbps USB NIC experienced a drop and break it incident. The new USB NIC is 1Gbit, so I am guessing that Windows sees this as a better or faster network and somehow makes it priority over the Domain network. Beyond setting the binding order (which I have done), does anyone know another way to force Windows to use think LAN1 is the best priority network? BF ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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 7 - Multiple NIC binding order
More testing shows that Windows seems to use Ping times to decide which network is faster. The slower network has better ping times by a couple of milliseconds, however, it is less than half the bandwidth, and not the network that has first priority in the network bindings From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 9:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 7 - Multiple NIC binding order Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit with two 1GB NICs. (NIC 1 is internal. NIC 2 is USB dongle) Each NIC is connected to a different subnet, LAN 1 = Domain LAN. LAN 2 = Local Test network. LAN1 is the domain LAN and has a 45mbps Internet connection. LAN2 is a test network and is connected has a 20mbps Internet connection. LAN1 is 192.168.x.x. LAN2 is 10.10.x.x. Both are DHCP. Both are 1Gbit networks. I have set the binding order for network services to use NIC1(LAN 1) first. The wireless (not connected) second. NIC2 (LAN 2) third. Windows has designated LAN 1 as Domain Network and LAN 2 as Work network. However, at each log on, the OS is using NIC2 for external traffic (Such as WEB, Outlook connection, etc.). I can still connect to the domain LAN, however it is not primary. I have to unplug the network cable for the OS to switch to LAN1. If I plug the cable back in, the OS will switch back to NIC2 at various intervals. I use the test network for some VMs I run on my PC for testing purposes. I need external access for these VMs, but I do not want them on the domain network. This was working fine for me until my old 100mbps USB NIC experienced a drop and break it incident. The new USB NIC is 1Gbit, so I am guessing that Windows sees this as a better or faster network and somehow makes it priority over the Domain network. Beyond setting the binding order (which I have done), does anyone know another way to force Windows to use think LAN1 is the best priority network? BF ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Windows 7 - Multiple NIC binding order
True, but it wasn't doing that. It was using the lower bandwidth connection. For some reason the Interface metric was greyed out for the lower bandwidth NIC. I uninstalled it and re-installed it and can now set a higher metric on the USB NIC. This has resolved the issue. From: Guyer, Don [mailto:don.gu...@fiserv.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 10:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 - Multiple NIC binding order Quick Google uncovers that if you have a gateway setup on multiple NICs, by default in Win7 it will use the NIC with the higher bandwidth. Don Guyer Windows Systems Engineer RIM Operations Engineering Distributed - A Team, Tier 2 Enterprise Technology Group Fiserv don.gu...@fiserv.commailto:don.gu...@fiserv.com Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 Fax: 610-233-0404 www.fiserv.comhttp://www.fiserv.com/ From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 9:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 - Multiple NIC binding order More testing shows that Windows seems to use Ping times to decide which network is faster. The slower network has better ping times by a couple of milliseconds, however, it is less than half the bandwidth, and not the network that has first priority in the network bindings From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 9:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 7 - Multiple NIC binding order Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit with two 1GB NICs. (NIC 1 is internal. NIC 2 is USB dongle) Each NIC is connected to a different subnet, LAN 1 = Domain LAN. LAN 2 = Local Test network. LAN1 is the domain LAN and has a 45mbps Internet connection. LAN2 is a test network and is connected has a 20mbps Internet connection. LAN1 is 192.168.x.x. LAN2 is 10.10.x.x. Both are DHCP. Both are 1Gbit networks. I have set the binding order for network services to use NIC1(LAN 1) first. The wireless (not connected) second. NIC2 (LAN 2) third. Windows has designated LAN 1 as Domain Network and LAN 2 as Work network. However, at each log on, the OS is using NIC2 for external traffic (Such as WEB, Outlook connection, etc.). I can still connect to the domain LAN, however it is not primary. I have to unplug the network cable for the OS to switch to LAN1. If I plug the cable back in, the OS will switch back to NIC2 at various intervals. I use the test network for some VMs I run on my PC for testing purposes. I need external access for these VMs, but I do not want them on the domain network. This was working fine for me until my old 100mbps USB NIC experienced a drop and break it incident. The new USB NIC is 1Gbit, so I am guessing that Windows sees this as a better or faster network and somehow makes it priority over the Domain network. Beyond setting the binding order (which I have done), does anyone know another way to force Windows to use think LAN1 is the best priority network? BF ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: W2008 DHCP server not issuing available addresses
Yes. We know they are not assigned. No answer to pings, no client found on those IP in a scan using Solar Winds network tools. BF From: Haritwal, Dhiraj [mailto:dhiraj.harit...@ap.sony.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 9:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: W2008 DHCP server not issuing available addresses Do you mean, in lease you are seeing some gaps which seems those IP's are not assigned? Dhiraj From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 7:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: W2008 DHCP server not issuing available addresses Windows 2008 DHCP server. Scope 192.168.2.0/24 Excluding 192.168.2.1-192.168.2.129 Yesterday we ran out of IP addresses and some clients could not connect. Using an IP scanning tool, we know that some of the IP addresses are available (unused), however, the DHCP server will not assign them. I have reconciled and restarted the DHCP server service, but statistics show all the IPs in use, however, in the address leases section, you can see that there are gaps where an IP address is available. I dropped the lease time to 2 hours since we have a lot of in and out users. However, none of this seems to release the addresses we know are not in use. So far I have not found any relevant information in my Google searches. While I continue to look for an answer online, I thought someone here might have an idea. BF ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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 This email is confidential and intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above and may contain information that is privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by return email or telephone and destroy the original message. - This mail is sent via Sony Asia Pacific Mail Gateway. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: HP DV8000 laptop
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=hp+dv8000+service+manual First hit is PDF you need. Decide for yourself. BF -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 10:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: HP DV8000 laptop Anyone here have any experience with this specific laptop? The fan seems to be grinding and from what I can see in the manual, it appears to be both the CPU fan as well as the system cooling fan. Wondering if anyone has had to replace this and if so, how difficult it is? I really dislike having to work on the guts of laptops as my fingers are not small and delicate enough to work on suck closely packed stuff. :-( ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2
Jim, A few things I do. (Running many HyperV hosts, each with two VMs. - A couple have more, but they are all very low resource) I like to have a dedicated NIC per each VM. You set this in the Virtual Network Manager. I do not share them with the OS. Remote management of the Host is done via a separate NIC. I like to have dedicated disk for each VM to keep the IO limited to that VM. I use servers that allow me to create a RAID1 with dedicated volume and place each VM on its own volume. All my hosts have at least 48GB Ram, and I share this fairly equally between OS and VMs. Some of the Hosts have more CPU available, but I try to judge the number of CPUs per VM based off the hardware available. Most of mine are at least dual CPU, dual core. Some have more due to the host having greater CPU numbers and cores. Is this the kind of information you are asking? BF -Original Message- From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:jmajorow...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 11:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2 I'm starting my trip into the world of hyper-visors, and because of my company status as a Microsoft partner and costs involve I chose Microsoft Hyper-V Server R2 as my hyper-visor platform of choice. I've got to say the documentation on the software leaves a bit it be desired. I realize I'm getting what I paid for it here, but I can't actually find squat about how to actually configure the base hardware beyond the basic install. I've downloaded, read and used Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Getting Started Guide, Hyper-V Server 2008 Setup and Configuration Tool Guide and made great use of John Howard's Hyper-V Remote Management Configuration Utility and the blogs surrounding it, but I can't find squat about how to work with hardware after the software is installed. Do I really have to use DISKPART to setup and configure additional drive volumes? How would I address iSCSI and/or SAS volumes? I thought when I first set this up I'd be able to use a Remote Management GUI, which I admit, I am really kinda used to, but unfortunately I get the RPC server is unavailable message. Is this because I'm using the server in Workgroup mode? I'd rather not use Hyper-V on top of Windows 2008 R2 if I don't have too. I don't think that layer is necessary anymore, but I can't seem to find documentation that is helping me do what I want here. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2
Not looking for scale in all cases. Many of these servers I am looking for reliability, performance and failure tolerance. BF. -Original Message- From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 2:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2 You're not going to get much scale if you're dedicating NICs and spindles to ever single VM regardless of whether they need that kind of resource allocation... Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 12:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2 Jim, A few things I do. (Running many HyperV hosts, each with two VMs. - A couple have more, but they are all very low resource) I like to have a dedicated NIC per each VM. You set this in the Virtual Network Manager. I do not share them with the OS. Remote management of the Host is done via a separate NIC. I like to have dedicated disk for each VM to keep the IO limited to that VM. I use servers that allow me to create a RAID1 with dedicated volume and place each VM on its own volume. All my hosts have at least 48GB Ram, and I share this fairly equally between OS and VMs. Some of the Hosts have more CPU available, but I try to judge the number of CPUs per VM based off the hardware available. Most of mine are at least dual CPU, dual core. Some have more due to the host having greater CPU numbers and cores. Is this the kind of information you are asking? BF -Original Message- From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:jmajorow...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 11:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2 I'm starting my trip into the world of hyper-visors, and because of my company status as a Microsoft partner and costs involve I chose Microsoft Hyper-V Server R2 as my hyper-visor platform of choice. I've got to say the documentation on the software leaves a bit it be desired. I realize I'm getting what I paid for it here, but I can't actually find squat about how to actually configure the base hardware beyond the basic install. I've downloaded, read and used Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Getting Started Guide, Hyper-V Server 2008 Setup and Configuration Tool Guide and made great use of John Howard's Hyper-V Remote Management Configuration Utility and the blogs surrounding it, but I can't find squat about how to work with hardware after the software is installed. Do I really have to use DISKPART to setup and configure additional drive volumes? How would I address iSCSI and/or SAS volumes? I thought when I first set this up I'd be able to use a Remote Management GUI, which I admit, I am really kinda used to, but unfortunately I get the RPC server is unavailable message. Is this because I'm using the server in Workgroup mode? I'd rather not use Hyper-V on top of Windows 2008 R2 if I don't have too. I don't think that layer is necessary anymore, but I can't seem to find documentation that is helping me do what I want here. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2
No VMWare here, just HyperV. Not on SAN. (but hoping to migrate some to SAN in the future) BF -Original Message- From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 3:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2 vMotion and VMware licensing of equipment and operations? Or are these vm's not on a SAN? On Monday, May 9, 2011, Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.com wrote: Not looking for scale in all cases. Many of these servers I am looking for reliability, performance and failure tolerance. BF. -Original Message- From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 2:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2 You're not going to get much scale if you're dedicating NICs and spindles to ever single VM regardless of whether they need that kind of resource allocation... Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 12:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2 Jim, A few things I do. (Running many HyperV hosts, each with two VMs. - A couple have more, but they are all very low resource) I like to have a dedicated NIC per each VM. You set this in the Virtual Network Manager. I do not share them with the OS. Remote management of the Host is done via a separate NIC. I like to have dedicated disk for each VM to keep the IO limited to that VM. I use servers that allow me to create a RAID1 with dedicated volume and place each VM on its own volume. All my hosts have at least 48GB Ram, and I share this fairly equally between OS and VMs. Some of the Hosts have more CPU available, but I try to judge the number of CPUs per VM based off the hardware available. Most of mine are at least dual CPU, dual core. Some have more due to the host having greater CPU numbers and cores. Is this the kind of information you are asking? BF -Original Message- From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:jmajorow...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 11:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2 I'm starting my trip into the world of hyper-visors, and because of my company status as a Microsoft partner and costs involve I chose Microsoft Hyper-V Server R2 as my hyper-visor platform of choice. I've got to say the documentation on the software leaves a bit it be desired. I realize I'm getting what I paid for it here, but I can't actually find squat about how to actually configure the base hardware beyond the basic install. I've downloaded, read and used Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Getting Started Guide, Hyper-V Server 2008 Setup and Configuration Tool Guide and made great use of John Howard's Hyper-V Remote Management Configuration Utility and the blogs surrounding it, but I can't find squat about how to work with hardware after the software is installed. Do I really have to use DISKPART to setup and configure additional drive volumes? How would I address iSCSI and/or SAS volumes? I thought when I first set this up I'd be able to use a Remote Management GUI, which I admit, I am really kinda used to, but unfortunately I get the RPC server is unavailable message. Is this because I'm using the server in Workgroup mode? I'd rather not use Hyper-V on top of Windows 2008 R2 if I don't have too. I don't think that layer is necessary anymore, but I can't seem to find documentation that is helping me do what I want here. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally
RE: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2
No... not yet. Three interviews scheduled over the next few days BF From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 3:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2 No, I get you, I just am thinking out loud (and was on my iPhone, so typing was difficult) You can likely scale, with a SAN, more virtual machines on fewer hosts use vMotion for your fault tolerence and redundancy and still be in the same ballpark for costs as all of the iron and operating costs for said iron. Haven't you hired someone, yet? :-) On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.commailto:b...@btrfronk.com wrote: No VMWare here, just HyperV. Not on SAN. (but hoping to migrate some to SAN in the future) BF -Original Message- From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.commailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 3:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2 vMotion and VMware licensing of equipment and operations? Or are these vm's not on a SAN? On Monday, May 9, 2011, Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.commailto:b...@btrfronk.com wrote: Not looking for scale in all cases. Many of these servers I am looking for reliability, performance and failure tolerance. BF. -Original Message- From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 2:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2 You're not going to get much scale if you're dedicating NICs and spindles to ever single VM regardless of whether they need that kind of resource allocation... Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132tel:312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.commailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 12:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2 Jim, A few things I do. (Running many HyperV hosts, each with two VMs. - A couple have more, but they are all very low resource) I like to have a dedicated NIC per each VM. You set this in the Virtual Network Manager. I do not share them with the OS. Remote management of the Host is done via a separate NIC. I like to have dedicated disk for each VM to keep the IO limited to that VM. I use servers that allow me to create a RAID1 with dedicated volume and place each VM on its own volume. All my hosts have at least 48GB Ram, and I share this fairly equally between OS and VMs. Some of the Hosts have more CPU available, but I try to judge the number of CPUs per VM based off the hardware available. Most of mine are at least dual CPU, dual core. Some have more due to the host having greater CPU numbers and cores. Is this the kind of information you are asking? BF -Original Message- From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:jmajorow...@gmail.commailto:jmajorow...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 11:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2 I'm starting my trip into the world of hyper-visors, and because of my company status as a Microsoft partner and costs involve I chose Microsoft Hyper-V Server R2 as my hyper-visor platform of choice. I've got to say the documentation on the software leaves a bit it be desired. I realize I'm getting what I paid for it here, but I can't actually find squat about how to actually configure the base hardware beyond the basic install. I've downloaded, read and used Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Getting Started Guide, Hyper-V Server 2008 Setup and Configuration Tool Guide and made great use of John Howard's Hyper-V Remote Management Configuration Utility and the blogs surrounding it, but I can't find squat about how to work with hardware after the software is installed. Do I really have to use DISKPART to setup and configure additional drive volumes? How would I address iSCSI and/or SAS volumes? I thought when I first set this up I'd be able to use a Remote Management GUI, which I admit, I am really kinda used to, but unfortunately I get the RPC server is unavailable message. Is this because I'm using the server in Workgroup mode? I'd rather not use Hyper-V on top of Windows 2008 R2 if I don't have too. I don't think that layer is necessary anymore, but I can't seem to find documentation that is helping me do what I want here. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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
RE: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2
My issue is geography. Not all my VM hosts are in one place, but are spread across many sites, making deployment on a SAN a bit difficult. I could scale at our main center, which we will at some point in the future, but many of the remote servers are file/print servers, DCs or specialized for a specific function at remote sites. Many of our remote sites support a relatively small number of users, so there is a limit to the hardware I can throw at these sites, and a SAN is just too expensive in some of these cases. BF From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 3:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2 No, I get you, I just am thinking out loud (and was on my iPhone, so typing was difficult) You can likely scale, with a SAN, more virtual machines on fewer hosts use vMotion for your fault tolerence and redundancy and still be in the same ballpark for costs as all of the iron and operating costs for said iron. Haven't you hired someone, yet? :-) On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.commailto:b...@btrfronk.com wrote: No VMWare here, just HyperV. Not on SAN. (but hoping to migrate some to SAN in the future) BF -Original Message- From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.commailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 3:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2 vMotion and VMware licensing of equipment and operations? Or are these vm's not on a SAN? On Monday, May 9, 2011, Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.commailto:b...@btrfronk.com wrote: Not looking for scale in all cases. Many of these servers I am looking for reliability, performance and failure tolerance. BF. -Original Message- From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 2:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2 You're not going to get much scale if you're dedicating NICs and spindles to ever single VM regardless of whether they need that kind of resource allocation... Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132tel:312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.commailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 12:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2 Jim, A few things I do. (Running many HyperV hosts, each with two VMs. - A couple have more, but they are all very low resource) I like to have a dedicated NIC per each VM. You set this in the Virtual Network Manager. I do not share them with the OS. Remote management of the Host is done via a separate NIC. I like to have dedicated disk for each VM to keep the IO limited to that VM. I use servers that allow me to create a RAID1 with dedicated volume and place each VM on its own volume. All my hosts have at least 48GB Ram, and I share this fairly equally between OS and VMs. Some of the Hosts have more CPU available, but I try to judge the number of CPUs per VM based off the hardware available. Most of mine are at least dual CPU, dual core. Some have more due to the host having greater CPU numbers and cores. Is this the kind of information you are asking? BF -Original Message- From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:jmajorow...@gmail.commailto:jmajorow...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 11:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2 I'm starting my trip into the world of hyper-visors, and because of my company status as a Microsoft partner and costs involve I chose Microsoft Hyper-V Server R2 as my hyper-visor platform of choice. I've got to say the documentation on the software leaves a bit it be desired. I realize I'm getting what I paid for it here, but I can't actually find squat about how to actually configure the base hardware beyond the basic install. I've downloaded, read and used Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Getting Started Guide, Hyper-V Server 2008 Setup and Configuration Tool Guide and made great use of John Howard's Hyper-V Remote Management Configuration Utility and the blogs surrounding it, but I can't find squat about how to work with hardware after the software is installed. Do I really have to use DISKPART to setup and configure additional drive volumes? How would I address iSCSI and/or SAS volumes? I thought when I first set this up I'd be able to use a Remote Management GUI, which I admit, I am really kinda used to, but unfortunately I get the RPC server is unavailable message. Is this because I'm using the server in Workgroup mode? I'd rather not use Hyper-V on top of Windows 2008 R2 if I don't have too. I don't think that layer is necessary anymore, but I can't seem to find documentation that is helping me do what I want here
RE: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2
Correct. BF From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 4:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2 Gotcha. But in those remote sites, your options for redundancy are limited in any event, no? On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.commailto:b...@btrfronk.com wrote: My issue is geography. Not all my VM hosts are in one place, but are spread across many sites, making deployment on a SAN a bit difficult. I could scale at our main center, which we will at some point in the future, but many of the remote servers are file/print servers, DCs or specialized for a specific function at remote sites. Many of our remote sites support a relatively small number of users, so there is a limit to the hardware I can throw at these sites, and a SAN is just too expensive in some of these cases. BF From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.commailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 3:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2 No, I get you, I just am thinking out loud (and was on my iPhone, so typing was difficult) You can likely scale, with a SAN, more virtual machines on fewer hosts use vMotion for your fault tolerence and redundancy and still be in the same ballpark for costs as all of the iron and operating costs for said iron. Haven't you hired someone, yet? :-) On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.commailto:b...@btrfronk.com wrote: No VMWare here, just HyperV. Not on SAN. (but hoping to migrate some to SAN in the future) BF -Original Message- From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.commailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 3:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2 vMotion and VMware licensing of equipment and operations? Or are these vm's not on a SAN? On Monday, May 9, 2011, Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.commailto:b...@btrfronk.com wrote: Not looking for scale in all cases. Many of these servers I am looking for reliability, performance and failure tolerance. BF. -Original Message- From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 2:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2 You're not going to get much scale if you're dedicating NICs and spindles to ever single VM regardless of whether they need that kind of resource allocation... Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132tel:312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.commailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 12:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2 Jim, A few things I do. (Running many HyperV hosts, each with two VMs. - A couple have more, but they are all very low resource) I like to have a dedicated NIC per each VM. You set this in the Virtual Network Manager. I do not share them with the OS. Remote management of the Host is done via a separate NIC. I like to have dedicated disk for each VM to keep the IO limited to that VM. I use servers that allow me to create a RAID1 with dedicated volume and place each VM on its own volume. All my hosts have at least 48GB Ram, and I share this fairly equally between OS and VMs. Some of the Hosts have more CPU available, but I try to judge the number of CPUs per VM based off the hardware available. Most of mine are at least dual CPU, dual core. Some have more due to the host having greater CPU numbers and cores. Is this the kind of information you are asking? BF -Original Message- From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:jmajorow...@gmail.commailto:jmajorow...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 11:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2 I'm starting my trip into the world of hyper-visors, and because of my company status as a Microsoft partner and costs involve I chose Microsoft Hyper-V Server R2 as my hyper-visor platform of choice. I've got to say the documentation on the software leaves a bit it be desired. I realize I'm getting what I paid for it here, but I can't actually find squat about how to actually configure the base hardware beyond the basic install. I've downloaded, read and used Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Getting Started Guide, Hyper-V Server 2008 Setup and Configuration Tool Guide and made great use of John Howard's Hyper-V Remote Management Configuration Utility and the blogs surrounding it, but I can't find squat about how to work with hardware after the software is installed. Do I really have to use DISKPART to setup and configure additional drive volumes? How would I address iSCSI and/or SAS volumes? I thought when I first set this up I'd be able to use a Remote
RE: ATT iphone problems
ATT has multiple outages that are causing voice and data issues in many areas. (See below - These are just a few of many I have received.) BF -Original Message- TT#: TT19701036 Loc: Atlanta, GA Desc:Degradation of UMTS service due to the outage of multiple sites. Start:Apr 28 2011 10:50 AM EST End: Unknown TT#: TT19703974 Loc: New York, NY Desc:Degradation of UMTS service due to the outage of multiple sites. Start:Apr 28 2011 12:20 PM EST End: Unknown TT#: TT19715600 Loc: Washington, DC Desc:Degradation of GPRS/UMTS service Start:Apr 28 2011 05:31 PM EST End: Unknown TT#: TT19715643 Loc: Milwaukee, WI Desc:Degradation of UMTS Voice service. 9 UMTS sites out of service on Milwaukee RNC 03. Start:Apr 28 2011 04:50 PM CST End: Unknown TT: TT19617360 Loc: Southeast Region (Memphis, TN) Desc: Severe storms have passed through the market at this time. Storm related impact stop time is will be 14:00 NWT 04/28. Access Providers and Power companies continue working to resolve the widespread outages caused by the storms. SMART currently reports 39 GSM, 22 UMTS sites, and 39 LMUs out of service. Local Operations teams have dispatched 27 portable generators to priority sites. Telco issues are also being investigated and tickets are being open with the Access Providers. Start: Apr 26 2011 07:00 PM CST UPDATE: Technicians are working towards resolution as quickly as possible. TT#: TT19623942 Loc: Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana Desc:Degradation of Voice and GPRS service due to the outage of multiple sites. Start:Apr 26 2011 11:00 PM CST End: Unknown -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 11:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ATT iphone problems Well, considering all the bad weather we've had the past couple days in Georgia, it wouldn't seem unreasonable that ATT might have had some tower damage as well. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: adding second dc to site
Did you make it a GC as well? BF -Original Message- From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:jt...@teachtci.com] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 7:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: adding second dc to site Yes I allowed sufficient time after running repadmin /syncall. I also verified the existing domain controllers had all the new 2008 attributes. The new machine is also showing up in the correct site. Jimmy Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com wrote: Possibly stupid questions but did you allow time for replication to occur before adding the 08 machine? Is the new machine showing up as in the correct site? Jon On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Jimmy Tran jt...@teachtci.com wrote: The Win2K8 R2 machine was a member of the domain prior to promotion. I ran adprep /forestprep and adprep /domainprep /gpprep on a DC that is located in a different site which holds all 5 FSMO rols. Jimmy -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 3:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: adding second dc to site How exactly did you add the new server? Was the Win2k8 R2 machine a member of the domain when you promoted it? Did you do the necessary ADPrep on the Win2k3 DC beforehand? On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 15:26, Jimmy Tran jt...@teachtci.com wrote: Hi All I just added a second DC (server 2008r2) to my existing windows server 2003 network. When I look at security log on the new DC, I don't see any activity from any other users or computers beside the DC itself (auditing enabled). I took down my primary DC in my site and the secondary DC did not authenticate anyone/anything. What could be wrong? If there are two DC's in one site, how can I get the authentication to work on both DCs? Any help is appreciated Thanks, Jimmy ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: * My New Book Is Out: CYBERHEIST
Convert the PDF to .mobi with Caliber first. Then transfer to your Kindle with the u...@free.kindle.com address. BF -Original Message- From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:al...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 10:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: * My New Book Is Out: CYBERHEIST I have had little luck being able to read PDF material, at least on my smaller Kindle (perhaps the DX is better). Maybe there is a secret, but I haven't found it. It apparently converts each page to a graphic. -Original Message- From: Gary Cordell [mailto:ga...@ers.tcoe.org] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 4:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: * My New Book Is Out: CYBERHEIST I have a Kindle, and it works very nicely for reading books. The screen is spooky though--looks like print on a page, not a computer screen. I understand that you can ( I haven't tried it yet, so take it as hearsay for now) email a pdf to a special Kindle address and the gnomes will translate it into Kindle format and return it to your Kindle. And that Kindle should read aloud any kindle format book to you. I will have to try this out this weekend... In my copious spare time of which I have none... Gary -Original Message- From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 1:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: *SPAM*RE: * My New Book Is Out: CYBERHEIST Tack on a smiley there :) -Original Message- From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 3:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: *SPAM*RE: * My New Book Is Out: CYBERHEIST And a free audio book would be even better -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 3:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: *SPAM*Re: * My New Book Is Out: CYBERHEIST Agreed! An audiobook would be great! Roger Wright ___ I'm out of bed and dressed... what more do you want? On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 3:16 PM, N Parr npar...@mortonind.com wrote: You going to read it to us Stu? I don't have time to read, listen to everything in the car on way to work and back. Eddard what are you thinking, you don't give Dire Wolves to children! -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 12:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: * My New Book Is Out: CYBERHEIST Thank you Stu. This is a great service. On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 09:21, Stu Sjouwerman s...@sunbelt-software.com wrote: * My New Book Is Out: CYBERHEIST Hi All, I'm very excited to announce my new book: CYBERHEIST. (Keep on reading for the special NTSYSADMIN subscriber offer at the end of this item): Why I wrote it? To increase executive level awareness that the bad guys have moved from simple identity theft to full fledged robbery of corporate bank accounts (non-profits are targets too), using phishing and social engineering. Most business owners, C-level executives and people in HR functions simply do not know this yet, but cyberheists are happening right now as we speak. Organized cyber crime has developed into a very well funded, sophisticated and technically skilled operation, and their results are very damaging. Unfortunately, management still has a false sense of security. With the rapid proliferation of social media and mobile computing, -people- are the new perimeter! The threat is there, and getting worse. Just have a look at this Google map overlaid with cases, and that is only the tip of the iceberg, there are hundreds more unreported cyberheist cases: http://www.knowbe4.com/resources/cyberheist-map/ So, do you need some ammo to get more budget for your IT security? You need state-of the art endpoint protection, and I strongly recommend VIPRE for that, combined with end-user security awareness training. Please either forward this link to management and tell them to buy a copy. Or better yet, if you really want to make sure they get the message, get a copy yourself and give it to them. It's enlightening, and written for both IT and non-IT people. Everything is explained in normal terms to make sure we don't put anyone to sleep. Please do me a favor and tell all your friends? Thanks so much in advance! Oh, and check out the reviews written by your peers. (Thanks for your kind words, you know who you are!) Here is the paperback Version http://www.amazon.com/Cyberheist-financial-American-businesses-meltdo w n/ dp/098348/ This is the Kindle Version: http://www.amazon.com/Cyberheist-financial-American-businesses-ebook/ dp/B004XDE20O/ BUT...I have saved the best for last! Subscribers of NTSYSADMIN are eligible for a free copy of the e-book in PDF format. This is not just one chapter as a teaser. This is the whole darn book! Yes, you have to register, and you will receive
RE: Backup internet access?
Our Internet connection is a Sprint provided DS3. (Sprint is my MPLS carrier as well) As a backup at our DR site, I have another idle DS3. At our main site I needed something both as backup and for guest access and test network, so I have a EIA circuit from Windstream (Ethernet over copper) It is symmetrical 20mbps. It is about $1000 a month. They have lower bandwidth/costs available as well. A T1 will probably cost you at least half that and only give 1.5 mbps. The local cable company does not have service in our area, nor do they have a symmetrical package available. You might check and see what your local phone carrier can offer. At worst, you could get a DSL connection as backup. BF From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 9:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Backup internet access? I'm looking for suggestions on how/what to get for secondary internet access. We currently have a single point of failure (cable internet) and I would like to maybe get a T1 line installed as a backup in case the cable goes down. Or - would it be better to have the T1 as the primary internet access and cable as a backup? We've had cable for ~10 years here and it's been VERY reliable and fast. 170 users in 9 locations across 6 states all come back to our main site to go out through the cable modem. The solution doesn't have to be auto-failover. We can manually move a cable or plug in a router/firewall to switch providers. Wondering what others are doing... Thx! . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: ASA power supply
My CDW rep will almost always beat any price I can find someplace else. Dell as well. . Of course, we spend hundreds of thousands with each of them every year. I agree with Link, pick a vendor or two and get a good relationship going. If they are a little high on something, let them know it. If they can't budge, get them to help out on something the next time, but buy it anyway. Many times you can at least get free overnight shipping thrown in. If the vendor thinks you are apt to just run off and get the lowest cost item from another vendor, they are not going to spend much time trying to work up a quote and help you out. Also, buy TWO power supplies for your ASA and keep the other nearby. A mission critical piece of equipment like that should either have all the parts available, a second like item on a shelf ready for service, or a 4 hour service agreement. BF From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 10:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ASA power supply Here's a rubric for all your future buying decisions. Take cost of a good quality/known vendor that you have a relationship with. Subtract the lowest price you can find buy typically googling around. If that result is less than the cost of downtime, great, buy from the preferred vendor. If that amount is greater than the cost of downtime, buy from the preferred vendor. In other words, I'm of the mind that having a good relationship with a quality vendor is worth more than trying to squeeze pennies and deal with unknowns. I have good relationship with my Dell and CDW reps. I typically review those options first, give alternatives a cursory glance, and then proceed with Dell and CDW. There are times I've been able to indicate to my rep I can get a better deal elsewhere, and I can wring a concession out of them. You can't do that unless you build a relationship. In the long run, the business runs more efficiently, which equals more $$$. On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:38 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.commailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: The power supply in our ASA died overnight. Management doesn't believe in SmartNet, so I'm having to replace the power supply myself. Having verified that the power supply is, in fact dead, I'm looking for a replacement. The ONLY big reseller I have been able to verify that sells these is CDW. I'd like to have some options. I did use Froogle, but most of the folks there are noname or ebay vendors... That's not necessarily something Id want to buy off ebay. :-) Wondering if any of you have a preferred vendor for something like this? I'll continue searching the web while waiting for a response. 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.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: Verizon outage in North Georgia
I received an update alert from Verizon that 4G had returned to service about 11am. BF -Original Message- From: Ryan Finnesey [mailto:ryan.finne...@harrierinvestments.com] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 1:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Verizon outage in North Georgia I just got off the phone with their Enterprise support group and the 4G network is still down with no ETA of repair. This outage has been over 24 hour now. -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 11:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Verizon outage in North Georgia Reports from last night was that Verizon's 4G network was down. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 11:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Verizon outage in North Georgia Just FYI... anyone in North Georgia using Verizon wireless, they have a MAJOR outage in the Dalton area. Not sure how far south / east / west that extends, but I know I had no service until I got into Gilmer county (Ellijay) this morning and I just spoke to the tech support and she confirmed they have a lot of cells out in my immediate area. Even worse, they have no ETA on fixing them. That being said, this is the first major outage I've had from them in about 10 years of having Verizon service and it's due to severe weather, not their screwup. :-) ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Cisco rant?
Yep... Sometimes I wish I hadn't been a Cisco fanboi for our phone system. Far too complicated to do the simplest tasks. BF From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 11:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Cisco rant? Welcome to my world.I'm not that fond of Cisco, especially outside of Switches and Routers. Right now, we're jumping through hoops on a supported Unity server. If I could, I'd be switching voice platforms in a second... ASB (Professional Biohttp://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:42 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.orgmailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote: Greetings! I am attempting to start my first case with Cisco (after paying a whole lot for SmartNet subscriptions over the years). Sent email to TAC. They say they can't help me until I provide some additional information (reasonable). I have my SmartNet contract number as well as serial numbers and IOS versions all ready. What is troubling is, they also demand of me my Cisco.com ID. Any idea of where to find this? Hopefully, they will accept none or not known! Thanks! -- Richard D. McClary ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: Backup internet access?
USComm. They are a local Oklahoma City provider. BF -Original Message- From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 3:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup internet access? Who's the wireless provider? -Original Message- From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 3:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup internet access? I have a remote site (6 people) that has no access to wired Internet or telephone. We are using a wireless provider for Internet and for landline phone. It has some latency issues and the VPN drops occasionally, but overall, it would probably be a decent backup solution for you. At my main site, the wireless provider wanted too much money for very little bandwidth, so they priced themselves out of contention. -Original Message- From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 2:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup internet access? LOL I didn't even think about wireless. Thanks! I got the following pricing (monthly): Single T1 1.5M $450 2 Ts bonded 3M $830 -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 2:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Backup internet access? I'd seriously consider a wireless link - and I don't mean 802.11, either. On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 06:41, David Mazzaccaro david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com wrote: I’m looking for suggestions on how/what to get for secondary internet access. We currently have a single point of failure (cable internet) and I would like to maybe get a T1 line installed as a backup in case the cable goes down. Or – would it be better to have the T1 as the primary internet access and cable as a backup? We’ve had cable for ~10 years here and it’s been VERY reliable and fast. 170 users in 9 locations across 6 states all come back to our main site to go out through the cable modem. The solution doesn’t have to be auto-failover. We can manually move a cable or plug in a router/firewall to switch providers. Wondering what others are doing… Thx! . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: dust
+1 for Crystal Litter PetCo has 30 pound bags for $28. $4.99 shipping with $50 order. As someone with many cats as well, this is by far the cheapest I have found the crystal (silica) litter. Very little dust and excellent odor control. BF From: Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 4:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: dust Crystal-based cat litter might be better. This from someone with a LOT of cats. Doesn't really address your short term problem tho Typed frustratingly slowly on my BlackBerry(r) wireless device From: richardmccl...@aspca.org Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:05:09 -0500 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: OT: dust Greetings! At home, my PC is in the same room with two kitty litter boxes. (Well, it's a crappy machine anyway, right?) The monitor is a flatscreen with a matte finish. The kitty litter tends to put out a LOT of dust. (Even at the office, though, dust on similar monitors becomes an issue.) It is now like trying to see through a couple of layers of wax paper. What have folks found that does a decent job of getting these sceens clean again? Thanks! -- richard ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: Backup internet access?
Or tires failing to maintain traction and a pole failing to yield. BF -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 4:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Backup internet access? Too often a BIF (Backhoe Induced Failure, or similar) will affect the whole wired infrastructure for an area - cable and telco. Wireless avoids a lot of that risk. On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:34, David Mazzaccaro david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com wrote: LOL I didn't even think about wireless. Thanks! I got the following pricing (monthly): Single T1 1.5M $450 2 Ts bonded 3M $830 -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 2:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Backup internet access? I'd seriously consider a wireless link - and I don't mean 802.11, either. On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 06:41, David Mazzaccaro david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com wrote: I’m looking for suggeestions on how/what to get for secondary internet access. We currently have a single point of failure (cable internet) and I would like to maybe get a T1 line installed as a backup in case the cable goes down. Or – would it be better to have the T1 as the primary internet access and cable as a backup? We’ve had cable for ~10 years here and it’s been VERY reliable and fast. 170 users in 9 locations across 6 states all come back to our main site to go out through the cable modem. The solution doesn’t have to be auto-failover. We can manually move a cable or plug in a router/firewall to switch providers. Wondering what others are doing… Thx! . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: software deployment
+1 for PDQDeploy I used it for some software that would not cooperate via GPO. BF -Original Message- From: Mark Boersma [mailto:ma...@triangle-inc.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 11:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: software deployment PDQ Deploy Free and easy. http://www.adminarsenal.com/download/pdq-deploy-free-download/ Mark - Two rules for success in life: 1. Never tell people everything you know. -Original Message- From: Doug [mailto:dhow...@hisconsultants.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 9:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: software deployment I'm looking for a tool or method to deploy software to about 20 computers. This isn't big enough for a KBOX (although that would be nice). This is a non-AD environment, all win7 x64 boxes. 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 security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Spamhaus Lookup
Relying on RBL alone is not a sufficient way to combat SPAM. I use multiple RBLs, RWLs, Vipre and Barracuda. -Original Message- From: Level 5 Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 1:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Spamhaus Lookup Tried to put this on exchange list, but keeps saying no attachments .. thought I would try it here: Exchange 2010 SP1 . We dropped anti-spam and put spamhaus and spamcop on and enabled. We are still seeing a lot of junk coming through, I went in to test spamhaus and no matter what I do the mail passes. I sent a test email to their system and it didn't reject it. When I do a ping or nslookup on zen.spamhaus.org I get nothing in DNS. I tried a couple of external DNS servers with the same results. Im on Spamhaus' site and don't see anything about them being down... a couple of other providers seem to be working ok (I can at least ping/nslookup) the server. Maybe Im doing something incorrect: I added the filter, did zen.spamhaus.org, said for any response code (I didn't bother setting the different codes for now) ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Window 7 printing issue -FYI
Yea We have run into this several times. Thanks for the link, will roll it out to a few servers. BF From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 11:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Window 7 printing issue -FYI I have had intermittent printing problems with Windows 7 clients, on my Win2k3 (SBS) print server. They really blew up in the last few weeks, almost every person in my office running Windows 7 has had a problem at one point or another in that time. The following hotfix appears to match my symptoms, and I've deployed it to my most troublesome client computers. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2388142/en-us ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: Window 7 printing issue -FYI
Yeah.. I read that after I replied. BF From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 1:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Window 7 printing issue -FYI It's a client side patch. Sorry if I wasn't clear on that. On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.commailto:b...@btrfronk.com wrote: Yea We have run into this several times. Thanks for the link, will roll it out to a few servers. BF From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.commailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 11:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Window 7 printing issue -FYI I have had intermittent printing problems with Windows 7 clients, on my Win2k3 (SBS) print server. They really blew up in the last few weeks, almost every person in my office running Windows 7 has had a problem at one point or another in that time. The following hotfix appears to match my symptoms, and I've deployed it to my most troublesome client computers. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2388142/en-us ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: Window 7 printing issue -FYI
I would think this is rolled into SP1? (I have not looked to see) BF From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 1:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Window 7 printing issue -FYI It's a client side patch. Sorry if I wasn't clear on that. On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.commailto:b...@btrfronk.com wrote: Yea We have run into this several times. Thanks for the link, will roll it out to a few servers. BF From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.commailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 11:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Window 7 printing issue -FYI I have had intermittent printing problems with Windows 7 clients, on my Win2k3 (SBS) print server. They really blew up in the last few weeks, almost every person in my office running Windows 7 has had a problem at one point or another in that time. The following hotfix appears to match my symptoms, and I've deployed it to my most troublesome client computers. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2388142/en-us ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: no list traffic today ???
There was recently a lyris issue that caused me not to get mail from the list. I had to contact Alex to get it fixed. BF From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 9:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: no list traffic today ??? Tried first to login via the web on sunbelt-software.com but the link doesn't seem to be there. I have not received any list traffic since before 7pm East Coast yesterday ( 4/19/2011 )... So yes, this is a test ... I'll try to be thick skinned for the responses if the listserv cranks back up. Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: PoE switch for small branch office
If you can't go Cisco, I would look at the Linksys/Cisco. I just purchased a 24 port Linksys/Cisco POE 1GB managed switch for only a couple hundred. BF From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 9:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: PoE switch for small branch office Looking for a power over Ethernet switch for a small branch office. 15 users that have IP phones that I'd like to power from the switch instead of each phone having its own power supply Any recommendations? . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: Outlook 2007 credentials
Any recent Exchange updates? I recall a similar situation with SBS2008 after an Exchange roll up. I think the same thing can happen on Exchange 2007 after Roll Up 9. IIRC, the fix is to re-apply the roll up. BF From: Level 5 Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 9:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Outlook 2007 credentials Over the past couple of weeks, I have been getting user complaints at a few different sites that Outlook will always ask for credentials. These are internal desktops. The clients are all different and its not system wide its just a workstation here and there. Cant seem to find a fix for it ... nothing really pops up error wise just asks for credentials you put them in and your fine. If you close/open outlook it asks again (like rpc/https). Access to the network seems fine , rebooting, played around with disabling vipre a/v ... don't really see a reason why. Tried setting up an admin account, logged in setup outlook and it does it too so appears machine related not profile... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: Outlook 2007 credentials
When I encountered it, the pop-ups were not on all computers. Mine was in an SBS environment. From: Level 5 Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 9:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook 2007 credentials Thanks, I didn't even consider the server since its only happening at 1-2 computers at each location. I was thinking it was a workstation update, we are on whitelisted patches so was guessing some of these people did their own office updates. I will take a look at that. From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 9:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook 2007 credentials Any recent Exchange updates? I recall a similar situation with SBS2008 after an Exchange roll up. I think the same thing can happen on Exchange 2007 after Roll Up 9. IIRC, the fix is to re-apply the roll up. BF From: Level 5 Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 9:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Outlook 2007 credentials Over the past couple of weeks, I have been getting user complaints at a few different sites that Outlook will always ask for credentials. These are internal desktops. The clients are all different and its not system wide its just a workstation here and there. Cant seem to find a fix for it ... nothing really pops up error wise just asks for credentials you put them in and your fine. If you close/open outlook it asks again (like rpc/https). Access to the network seems fine , rebooting, played around with disabling vipre a/v ... don't really see a reason why. Tried setting up an admin account, logged in setup outlook and it does it too so appears machine related not profile... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: 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
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! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise
RE: Did I get dropped again
DNS issue with Lyris. Alex and Donald fixed it. BF From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 6:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Did I get dropped again Look at the forest, not the trees. -- ME2 On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.commailto:mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:08, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.commailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: Kosh [We] have always been here. /Kosh The avalanche has started - it's too late for the pebbles to vote. Listen to the music, not the song. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.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: Test
Hardware failure per ASB BF -Original Message- From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 7:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Test -sc broke it. On Monday, April 11, 2011, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: Speaking of which, what's up with A_M? I haven't see anything since Friday, and that makes me a sad panda. -- ME2 On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.com wrote: Did I get unsubbed? No emails for two days! BF ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: DPM issue - change agent protection from one DPM to another
The primary and secondary replicas were removed days ago. There are no visible references to the server I am trying to protect. I have also rebooted both DPM servers in an attempt to somehow refresh the information so the DPM server would not think it is still protecting something it isn't. Is there someplace hidden that DPM holds records that need to be cleared? BF From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 10:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DPM issue - change agent protection from one DPM to another You've still got replicas from the initial protection group on DPM1. You have to remove them. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 10:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DPM issue - change agent protection from one DPM to another oScenario - Two DPM2010 servers at different geographic locations - DPM0 and DPM1. DPM0 was protecting a volume on Server1. DPM1 was protecting replica of Server1 from DPM0. Server 1 is now at the location of DPM1. Uninstalled client from Server1 and installed client from DPM1. Removed protection of Server1 from DPM0 and deleted the inactive replica. Now I cannot configure DPM1 to protect Server1 due to errors. ID148 and ID 31162 ID 148 - You have chosen to protect replicas on another DPM server (Primary DPM server) ID 31162 - One or more of the selected data sources are already configured for protection on the primary DPM server I have uninstalled and reinstalled the agent a couple of times. My guess is that somehow DPM0 is still telling DPM1 that it is protecting Server1, but it is not. To the best of my knowledge, the DPM servers are fully up-to-date with DPM QFEs. Hoping someone here can help. While searching, I found a few similar issues, but no apparent fixes. I really don't want to spend my day on the phone with PSS. Also going to hop over to MyItforum to see what I can find. Thanks, BF ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: DPM issue - change agent protection from one DPM to another
I had used that exact procedure, however, I repeated it just now. Same results and errors. BF From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 11:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DPM issue - change agent protection from one DPM to another Here ya go: http://www.buchatech.com/2011/02/move-a-protected-server-from-one-dpm-to-another-dpm/ Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 11:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DPM issue - change agent protection from one DPM to another Back to basics: did you run SetDPMServer on the server you are protecting after you installed the new agent? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 10:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DPM issue - change agent protection from one DPM to another The primary and secondary replicas were removed days ago. There are no visible references to the server I am trying to protect. I have also rebooted both DPM servers in an attempt to somehow refresh the information so the DPM server would not think it is still protecting something it isn't. Is there someplace hidden that DPM holds records that need to be cleared? BF From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 10:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DPM issue - change agent protection from one DPM to another You've still got replicas from the initial protection group on DPM1. You have to remove them. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 10:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DPM issue - change agent protection from one DPM to another oScenario - Two DPM2010 servers at different geographic locations - DPM0 and DPM1. DPM0 was protecting a volume on Server1. DPM1 was protecting replica of Server1 from DPM0. Server 1 is now at the location of DPM1. Uninstalled client from Server1 and installed client from DPM1. Removed protection of Server1 from DPM0 and deleted the inactive replica. Now I cannot configure DPM1 to protect Server1 due to errors. ID148 and ID 31162 ID 148 - You have chosen to protect replicas on another DPM server (Primary DPM server) ID 31162 - One or more of the selected data sources are already configured for protection on the primary DPM server I have uninstalled and reinstalled the agent a couple of times. My guess is that somehow DPM0 is still telling DPM1 that it is protecting Server1, but it is not. To the best of my knowledge, the DPM servers are fully up-to-date with DPM QFEs. Hoping someone here can help. While searching, I found a few similar issues, but no apparent fixes. I really don't want to spend my day on the phone with PSS. Also going to hop over to MyItforum to see what I can find. Thanks, BF ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful
RE: Test
Would you settle for my Credit Card number? Seems it became public the other day anyway. I did a lot of shopping in Pennsylvania while I was at 36,000 feet and nowhere near PA. By sending my test email, I am now receiving emails from the list. I guess Lyris didn’t like me for some reason. BF From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 4:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Test Test failed - please reenter your 25 character key and try again! John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families From: Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Mon Apr 11 16:23:01 2011 Subject: Test Did I get unsubbed? No emails for two days! BF ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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 CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and other Federal and Florida laws. Improper or unauthorized use or disclosure of this information could result in civil and/or criminal penalties. Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. 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.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: 17 Patches coming out from Microsoft this month.
What list do you watch... Patchmanagment.org? BF From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 11:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: 17 Patches coming out from Microsoft this month. +1 I do exactly this on all Windows networks I manage (as small as 9 systems, to over 500 systems). MS pushes Tuesday, on Wednesday evening the first round of folks get them (and I always include my workstation as first, as I can lose my particular machine on any network and still work since I mainly RDP from my machine to do work). The reason I do Wednesday evening is it gives me 24 hours to monitor the patch management list and other sources for potential immediate stop issues - this has saved me on more than one occasion. As others have stated, the number they release has very little effect - 1 or 20 my process takes roughly the same amount of time with the exception of the addition reading on what each patch does, caveats, etc. David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Mobile 503.267.9764 From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 5:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: 17 Patches coming out from Microsoft this month. And I have to agree - from the smallest to the largest. Most test the monthly patches as a batch on a sample of workstations and servers and then deploy the batch. If the batch fails, then more detailed testing happens. Some refuse to test at all - that tends to be the smallest of them. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 9:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: 17 Patches coming out from Microsoft this month. My customers over 3 or 4 years - there's been dozens and dozens of them across verticals so I figure they're a decent representative commercial customer sample. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 7:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: 17 Patches coming out from Microsoft this month. But you are talking about your customers. I dunno if anyone here is claiming proportional or exponential increases. But there ideally should be some sort of increase in overhead. That level of increase should directly effect the diligence of the IT staff. Things have change a LOT in the past 10-20 years. There is a marked increase in blind-trust as well as a decrease in procedure in many organizations. -- ME2 On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com wrote: Not saying that, but, folks go on about testing overhead increasing, and it's rare that I see customers doing the kind of testing I would expect to correlate to proportional or exponential time burn increases. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132tel:312.731.3132 From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.commailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 5:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: 17 Patches coming out from Microsoft this month. I would submit that just because they don't, doesn't mean they shouldn't. It really depends on your environment and obligations. -- ME2 On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com wrote: Do you really do proper QA and testing at the level that this would increase your time burn significantly? I've worked in a lot of places and I've seen very very few do this scale of testing. Agreed on the risk management effort but I'd be surprised if it really took *that* much longer that it would have a significant impact on your schedule for other IT projects. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132tel:312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.orgmailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 6:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: 17 Patches coming out from Microsoft this month. Actually from an operational standpoint it does make a difference, because with 17 patches the QA and testing is going to take a bit longer than with just two patches. And due to the number of items that these set of patches fixes ( 64 bugs) there is a lot of potential for disruption of operations if things don't go smoothly. Actually when you look at it from a risk prospective, the type of patches released and the attack surface you have within your companies/organization also ties into how quickly you need to role these out, or if you have to role them out at all, and what priority/timeline they are addressed at. That is why a risk assessment of what is affected by the flaws fixed with
RE: Uninstalling SCVMM
I have moved and removed it. Saw no impact. BF From: Jay Dale [mailto:jd...@unetek.com] Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 1:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Uninstalling SCVMM Just from the Hyper-V Manager. Most of them won't be administering them anyways, we will as contract IT people. I haven't read anything that says it would hurt to uninstall it, but since it integrates so much I was afraid to remove it. Jay Dale Senior Systems Administrator P:281-574-2414 From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 11:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Uninstalling SCVMM Knowing that this can be done from the Hyper-V host, but how are your clients expecting to manage the VM's? Jon On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Jay Dale jd...@unetek.commailto:jd...@unetek.com wrote: Hey all, We've been doing a lot of P2V'ing for customers and we've been using SCVMM to do a lot of them. Are there any disadvantages/possible problems in uninstalling SCVMM after everything has been moved over to Hyper-V? A lot of the clients don't want to spend the extra money on the product. Thanks, Jay Jay Dale Senior Systems Administrator Unetek, Inc. Phone: 281.574.2414tel:281.574.2414 Email:jd...@unetek.commailto:jd...@unetek.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and/or privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this e-mail and attachments, if any, or the information contained herein, is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.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: Social networking fun
I use iPrism and I am pretty sure you can report on, and categorize, such sites in a fashion that would allow access during hours X through Y, etc. You can also make user defined site categories and put sites in those categories for reports or filtering. BF From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 8:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Social networking fun Does anyone know of any way to effectively police the use of social networking in an environment? We have just been told that for some reason all employees are to be allowed unrestricted access to social networking sites, but obviously the management want to know whether users are taking a lend, and spending all day on FarmVille or Bejewelled or looking at pictures of their mates instead of updating our customer base as to events and launches. There are a few Web 2.0 appliances that I have heard of that claim to be able to perform in-depth filtering of social networking and microblogging sites, but I was just wondering what other people who have had this issue may have deployed to get around this. We already have WebSense here, but it's not clever enough to differentiate between business and leisure usage of certain sites, at least certainly not the version we currently use. 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: Social networking fun
I agree as well. Our policy is that a manager can request reporting on an individual's internet usage, but the manager is responsible for deciding what abuse is. We do block some sites (pornographic, high bandwidth, etc), but for the most part, employees are free to use the web. It is not up to IT to decide what is Too much. I maintain the no technical solution to a management problem stance when it comes to Internet usage or abuse. If a manager asks to block an employee's Internet access, then that manager has failed to address the problem. Additionally, these days, with all the Internet capable cell phones, it is almost impossible to restrict an employee from the Internet during work hours. If the employee wants to waste time, they are going to find a way to do it. BF From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 10:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Social networking fun Short answer: Not going to happen. This is a managerial issue. At best, you can report all users time against such sites, and for those who are failing to get their mission objectives completed in a timely fashion, correlation of their web usage patterns should provide some hints as to why. ASB (Professional Biohttp://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) Technology Services that Maximize Business Results... On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:45 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.commailto:kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: WebSense can do the hours bit too, but what I am looking for is to actually restrict or report on their particular access for single sites, e.g. using Facebook for work, or using Facebook for mucking about. Not sure you can sub-categorize sites. On 1 April 2011 14:40, Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.commailto:b...@btrfronk.com wrote: I use iPrism and I am pretty sure you can report on, and categorize, such sites in a fashion that would allow access during hours X through Y, etc. You can also make user defined site categories and put sites in those categories for reports or filtering. BF From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.commailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 8:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Social networking fun Does anyone know of any way to effectively police the use of social networking in an environment? We have just been told that for some reason all employees are to be allowed unrestricted access to social networking sites, but obviously the management want to know whether users are taking a lend, and spending all day on FarmVille or Bejewelled or looking at pictures of their mates instead of updating our customer base as to events and launches. There are a few Web 2.0 appliances that I have heard of that claim to be able to perform in-depth filtering of social networking and microblogging sites, but I was just wondering what other people who have had this issue may have deployed to get around this. We already have WebSense here, but it's not clever enough to differentiate between business and leisure usage of certain sites, at least certainly not the version we currently use. 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.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: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs
I replaced the drives in my both Dell M6500 notebooks with two 512GB SSD drives. The performance difference was VERY noticeable. I didn't have any benchmarks, but the difference was worth it for me. (Yes, they were about $1200 each) BF From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2011 2:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs Why? I'd put as much stuff onto the SSD as you can - the performance difference between an SSD and a mechanical drive is simply unbelievable. Cheers Ken From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 25 March 2011 9:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs And, I would make it only for the OS, moving the user profile(s) and any applications to a standard drive. On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Steve Burkett steve.burk...@stemcor.commailto:steve.burk...@stemcor.com wrote: Whatever ya do, make sure you get the latest model available of the drive if you can, as they're coming on leaps and bounds with the read and write performances of these things with each new controller. For instance the original OCZ Vertex drives could do 230MB/s read 135MB/s writes, the Vertex 2 model for the same price can do 285MB/s read 275MB/s writes, and the Vertex 3 drive that's just been released with the latest Sandforce controller can now do up to 500MB/s read and 500MB/s writes. From: Ames Matthew B (REST) [mailto:mba...@qinetiq.commailto:mba...@qinetiq.com] Sent: 25 March 2011 10:27 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs I have ordered an SSD (I was greedy and went for the 128GB - thing future proofing!) for my slightly aging machine. My plan was to install the OS + Apps onto. I would then retain my current 750GB disk for data, temp, profiles, pagefiles, etc. This I should get fast boot/app load but not kill the SSD. As I run a few VMs I figured the vmdk files could reside on the SSD, and the pagefiles for them to be pointed to a mechanical disk. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: Hyper-V NIC utilization
I have been using Dell R610 servers to move many of our physical servers to HyperV. The R610 has 4 NIC Ports and 6 SATA drives. I am creating 3 RAID1 volumes, one for OS and one for each VM. I am assigning each VM its own NIC. I would suggest doing the same if there are bandwidth intensive applications on the VM. I do have one R610 with 6 VM servers and have combined NICs on some of them, but they are low bandwidth. (Vipre, Time Clock, etc). I have not seen any performance impact from combining the NICs. However, if you have them, why not use them? BF From: Jay Dale [mailto:jd...@unetek.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 11:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hyper-V NIC utilization Currently they are on a 22MB/2MB connection from Entouch, they have a BES and are migrating to Exch 2010 from 2003 - heavy BB and email usage, not as much remote usage, only a couple of minor-staffed remote offices with site to site VPN connections - they are a community residential association. Jay Dale Senior Systems Administrator c:832.373.7883 From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 10:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hyper-V NIC utilization How much bandwidth do you need? -ASB: http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Sent from my Motorola Droid On Mar 11, 2011 10:15 AM, Jay Dale jd...@unetek.commailto:jd...@unetek.com wrote: Hey all, I am setting up a new Hyper-V server for a company where I am P2V'ing 3 of their physical servers. Currently I want to just set up one virtual network, and if they add servers down the road I will add another. The physical host machine comes with 4 NIC's. My questions are these: 1. Should I utilize all 4 NIC's on one virtual network, or use only 1 or 2 of them and leave the rest disconnected? 2. I'm attaching the host to their domain, should I have all the NIC's utilize static IP's or just one static with one IP and let the rest have DHCP addresses? 3. When I attempt to configure 2 NIC's with static IP's, I get the multiple gateways message - is that a bad thing or disregard it? Thanks for any advice you can pass on! Jay Jay Dale Senior Systems Administrator Unetek, Inc. Mobile: 832.373.7883 Email:jd...@unetek.commailto:email%3ajd...@unetek.commailto:jd...@unetek.commailto:jd...@unetek.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and/or privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this e-mail and attachments, if any, or the information contained herein, is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.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: ost to pst
I just used this to recover a PST recovered from a failed drive. It isn't free. I think it was $99. It was worth it in the end because of the time and information it saved. http://www.officerecovery.com/ BF -Original Message- From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 11:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ost to pst But this is an orphaned OST. The user no longer exists in the organization so I don't know any way to open that OST in Outlook. Michael B. Smith wrote: Sign into Outlook. File - Export - Export to PST Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 11:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: ost to pst Hi guys, I'm assisting a client with email discovery. One of the users is no longer with the company and their account has been removed form AD and Exchange. Fortunately or unfortunately, I found a 800 meg OST file under that users profile on an old machine. Anything free or really inexpensive that you know of that would convert it to PST? It is a exchange/outlook 2003 OST. Thanks in advance. Bill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: IP KVM
I never had an older version, so I do not know what the difference is. I believe they are rebranded Avocent. BF From: gswe...@acts360.com [mailto:gswe...@acts360.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 12:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IP KVM Bob, What was the big difference between the first version and the -2 and would you say 600 to 1000.00 difference in price is worth it? Looks like they are just rebranded Advocent's. Greg Sweers CEO ACTS360.comhttp://www.acts360.com/ P.O. Box 1193 Brandon, FL 33509 813-657-0849 Office 813-758-6850 Cell 813-341-1270 Fax From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 8:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IP KVM I have the -2 Dell's you mentioned. They work well and have http as well as the Dell application. They also have extenders that allow you to turn a single port into 8 ports.If I had to change for some reason and couldn't get the Dell, I would look at that Avocent. I have used those before as well and liked them. BF From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 8:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IP KVM I just had a customer roll-out Raritan's IP KVM to about 200 servers. They hate it. So do I. I had pretty good luck with Avocent's a few years ago. I would hope that they didn't screw up the product line. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: gswe...@acts360.com [mailto:gswe...@acts360.com] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 7:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: IP KVM We have about 16 physical boxes that we need to have BIOS level access to. Some of them will be rotating workstations and servers that are setup, built and deployed to other locations. We are looking at a cost effective yet functional switch that will allow at least 2 remote Ip connections. PS/2, USB connections support is required. I would prefer not having to purchase expensive software to fully enable the device. Anyone have any recommendations.. Dell, Advocent, Raritan have been brought up by our techs, but none of them have any significant experience with any of them. I have used the Dell 2161 which worked, but it wasn't the most streamlined interface. I heard the -2 versions are much better. Thanks again! Greg Sweers CEO ACTS360.comhttp://www.acts360.com/ P.O. Box 1193 Brandon, FL 33509 813-657-0849 Office 813-758-6850 Cell 813-341-1270 Fax ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: IP KVM
If you turn off mouse acceleration on the server, the IP KVMs play better with them. I don't notice the lag issues after that, however, when working at the console, it does make the mouse a little slow. But I rarely work at the console. My ultimate goal each day is to get out of my chair as few times as possible. BF From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 9:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IP KVM We have Raritan here too. It's not perfect, but does the job. On the mouse I've found that you need to remove the Enhance pointer position option and you may need to adjust the speed slightly. The other gripe is that when switching from one system to another you need to re-sync the video and mouse each time. I haven't noticed anything really slow about it though. -Paul From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 7:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IP KVM The #1 problem is that the mouse in the KVM window trails the real mouse. Too many false clicks. It's appallingly slow. Which I guess is tied to the #1 problem. In a multiple monitors configuration, if you've moved the KVM window to any other monitor, every time the KVM window refreshes, it places the window back on monitor #1. The 3 point font in the KVM window when it first opens is ridiculous. The customer was also misinformed about the licensing restrictions for what they bought. I've suggested they involve legal about that, because they have the misinformation on record from the sales-weasel. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 8:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IP KVM I've heard good things about Accent. I have a Raritan and I like it.what don't you like about it? Jonathan - Thumb typed from my HTC Droid Incredible (and yes, it really is) on the Verizon network. On Feb 28, 2011 8:02 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.commailto:mich...@smithcons.com wrote: I just had a customer roll-out Raritan's IP KVM to about 200 servers. They hate it. So do I. I had pretty good luck with Avocent's a few years ago. I would hope that they didn't screw up the product line. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: gswe...@acts360.commailto:gswe...@acts360.com [mailto:gswe...@acts360.commailto:gswe...@acts360.com] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 7:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: IP KVM We have about 16 physical boxes that we need to have BIOS level access to. Some of them will be rotating workstations and servers that are setup, built and deployed to other locations. We are looking at a cost effective yet functional switch that will allow at least 2 remote Ip connections. PS/2, USB connections support is required. I would prefer not having to purchase expensive software to fully enable the device. Anyone have any recommendations.. Dell, Advocent, Raritan have been brought up by our techs, but none of them have any significant experience with any of them. I have used the Dell 2161 which worked, but it wasn't the most streamlined interface. I heard the -2 versions are much better. Thanks again! Greg Sweers CEO ACTS360.comhttp://www.acts360.com/ P.O. Box 1193 Brandon, FL 33509 813-657-0849 Office 813-758-6850 Cell 813-341-1270 Fax ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to
RE: Please be assisting in selection
I like the cinnamon flavored round ones. Make sure to get them from a reputable vendor because you don't want to get refurbished ones. The refurbs don't hold up as well as OEM. BF From: Amit Hanji [mailto:amit.ha...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 3:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Please be assisting in selection I am having to be selecting the most proper toothpicks for my office. I am not having too very much experience in these areas and would apprciate your kind recomend of type. I've looking at some Google searches and on Amazon they are having both round and square deliniations of toothpick desings. Please make a recomendation for which one is most best. I need to be ording some as most quickly as possible. Thanks to all. UR Friend, Amit ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: IP KVM
I have the -2 Dell's you mentioned. They work well and have http as well as the Dell application. They also have extenders that allow you to turn a single port into 8 ports.If I had to change for some reason and couldn't get the Dell, I would look at that Avocent. I have used those before as well and liked them. BF From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 8:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IP KVM I just had a customer roll-out Raritan's IP KVM to about 200 servers. They hate it. So do I. I had pretty good luck with Avocent's a few years ago. I would hope that they didn't screw up the product line. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: gswe...@acts360.com [mailto:gswe...@acts360.com] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 7:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: IP KVM We have about 16 physical boxes that we need to have BIOS level access to. Some of them will be rotating workstations and servers that are setup, built and deployed to other locations. We are looking at a cost effective yet functional switch that will allow at least 2 remote Ip connections. PS/2, USB connections support is required. I would prefer not having to purchase expensive software to fully enable the device. Anyone have any recommendations.. Dell, Advocent, Raritan have been brought up by our techs, but none of them have any significant experience with any of them. I have used the Dell 2161 which worked, but it wasn't the most streamlined interface. I heard the -2 versions are much better. Thanks again! Greg Sweers CEO ACTS360.comhttp://www.acts360.com/ P.O. Box 1193 Brandon, FL 33509 813-657-0849 Office 813-758-6850 Cell 813-341-1270 Fax ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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
