Re: 2008 R2 DHCP / MAC Address Filtering / mass import of MAC ID's
Cool, thanks for the feedback. It makes more sense to do it at the switch anyway. We can do this with our Dell Powerconnect 6248 switches. On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Steve Kradel skra...@zetetic.net wrote: Can this be scripted through netsh ... add reservedip? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc787375(WS.10).aspx At any rate, you should do MAC-based filtering at the router or managed switch, if your intent is to keep unauthorized devices from pestering the network, set up a guest network, etc.. --Steve On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Devin Meade devin.me...@gmail.com wrote: No requirement, just curious cuz I see this option. I have this disabled for now. On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Don Ely don@gmail.com wrote: requirement OR need On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Don Ely don@gmail.com wrote: I'll bite... What's the requirement for need for doing this? On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Devin Meade devin.me...@gmail.com wrote: So I am finally replacing our 2003 DHCP servers with 2008 R2. I see the option to allow only those MAC ID's that we know about. We have a small network, and I am reviewing the current leases. Our IT dept knows about each device (whoo hoo) that is currently leased. I would *like* to enable this option and import each MAC address into each DHCP server. Is there an import option? I can right click a current lease and add to the deny or allow filter, but I would like an import of some sort. For servers prior to 2008R2 there is a separate download MacFilterCallout.dll and SetupDHCPMacFilter.rtf. This installs to %SystemRoot%\system32 and has some import functions, but I don't see it in my 2008R2 server. I know you can spoof a MAC ID, we do have a company policy to use our WiFi outside of our network, but this reduces our attack surface (salesmen and who-knows-what's on their laptops etc...) Anyone using MAC ID filtering on 2008 R2 DHCP? If so, how do you handle mulitple servers and mass import of the mac addresses? Thanks all, Devin Meade ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
2008 R2 DHCP / MAC Address Filtering / mass import of MAC ID's
So I am finally replacing our 2003 DHCP servers with 2008 R2. I see the option to allow only those MAC ID's that we know about. We have a small network, and I am reviewing the current leases. Our IT dept knows about each device (whoo hoo) that is currently leased. I would *like* to enable this option and import each MAC address into each DHCP server. Is there an import option? I can right click a current lease and add to the deny or allow filter, but I would like an import of some sort. For servers prior to 2008R2 there is a separate download MacFilterCallout.dll and SetupDHCPMacFilter.rtf. This installs to %SystemRoot%\system32 and has some import functions, but I don't see it in my 2008R2 server. I know you can spoof a MAC ID, we do have a company policy to use our WiFi outside of our network, but this reduces our attack surface (salesmen and who-knows-what's on their laptops etc...) Anyone using MAC ID filtering on 2008 R2 DHCP? If so, how do you handle mulitple servers and mass import of the mac addresses? Thanks all, Devin Meade ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: 2008 R2 DHCP / MAC Address Filtering / mass import of MAC ID's
No requirement, just curious cuz I see this option. I have this disabled for now. On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Don Ely don@gmail.com wrote: requirement OR need On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Don Ely don@gmail.com wrote: I'll bite... What's the requirement for need for doing this? On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Devin Meade devin.me...@gmail.comwrote: So I am finally replacing our 2003 DHCP servers with 2008 R2. I see the option to allow only those MAC ID's that we know about. We have a small network, and I am reviewing the current leases. Our IT dept knows about each device (whoo hoo) that is currently leased. I would *like* to enable this option and import each MAC address into each DHCP server. Is there an import option? I can right click a current lease and add to the deny or allow filter, but I would like an import of some sort. For servers prior to 2008R2 there is a separate download MacFilterCallout.dll and SetupDHCPMacFilter.rtf. This installs to %SystemRoot%\system32 and has some import functions, but I don't see it in my 2008R2 server. I know you can spoof a MAC ID, we do have a company policy to use our WiFi outside of our network, but this reduces our attack surface (salesmen and who-knows-what's on their laptops etc...) Anyone using MAC ID filtering on 2008 R2 DHCP? If so, how do you handle mulitple servers and mass import of the mac addresses? Thanks all, Devin Meade ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Dell.com down
Hmm ... I can't get to www.dell.com on multiple computers with different ISP's. Seems it not available in the Oklahoma City area. Anyone else see this? Maybe they run blackberries :-/. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Dell.com down
Okay, let see my choices: (1) fight this or (2) go play football with my son and team. Hmmm .. pick this up tomorrow! On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Greg Olson gol...@markettools.com wrote: It's dead Jim -Original Message- From: Charlie Kaiser [mailto:charl...@golden-eagle.org] Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 3:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell.com down Same here. Support.dell.com not available... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Devin Meade [mailto:devin.me...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 3:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Dell.com down Hmm ... I can't get to www.dell.com on multiple computers with different ISP's. Seems it not available in the Oklahoma City area. Anyone else see this? Maybe they run blackberries :-/. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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
Sherry, welcome back! Maybe we will run into each other the next time you are in OKC. We are off of N63rd Street and the Broadway Extension. Later, Devin Meade On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Sherry Abercrombie sabercrom...@nhdallas.com wrote: 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 take….oh 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.com cbeav...@nhoklahoma.com | www.nhcomputerlearning.com http://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.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Training (was RE: Error message in logs)
John, I can't follow this list like I used to...maybe this was suggested. A few years back I performed a DR test. I took a backup of one of our domain controllers restored it to a old PC on a single desktop switch. The dt switch never touched the real LAN. Then I deployed a workstation in the test domain. Then restored our exchange server and then upgraded it. I was a live copy of our win2000 active directory and a backup of the email server. That was an acid test. I pushed REALLY HARD to get the time to do this and got it. This was really before VM's. This should be much easier if you can get enough of a machine to run the various servers simultaneously, as VM's. Man, I need to do this again... --Devin On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:17 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote: Let me ask you this... how would you set it up so that you don't run the risk of messing up your real domain? I'm guessing set up a small LAN and keep it disconnected? From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 12:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Training (was RE: Error message in logs) Training ain't all about money. You can learn most everything you need to know about GPOs from a small lab which could be set up on a couple of old PCs, coupled with some online docs. I know you also said you were low on spare time, but when things are quiet I usually tinker with some test stuff, which is how I'm trying to learn my XenApp 6.5 skills at the moment. On 1 August 2011 17:08, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Agreed. Not ENTIRELY the community, at least. I admit, I am frustrated and overloaded here. That being said, is it REALLY too much to ask that we NOT continue flogging a particular dead horse? I know I need more training. I have no money for said training, and it's extremely frustrating when people insist on posting that's elementary. You should just go get more training. That sort of reply is NOT helpful. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 12:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Training (was RE: Error message in logs) John, are you starting to notice a pattern here? You have a problem. Someone helps you, probably not as well as you'd like, or in the manner you like, and offers some unsolicited comment about the way you ask for help, or your reputation for accepting help, etc. You rant. Someone explains things. You calm down. This has been a pretty common cycle, and the frequency with which it repeats should be telling that the fault is not on the community. On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:54 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Thank you, Andrew, for your reasoned words. I am extremely frustrated and overloaded with work right now, and when people insist on saying pay for your own training when I *specifically* requested that we cease flogging that particular deceased equine, I lash out. I would like to apologize to the list in general. However, my point remains: I have no money, whatsoever, for training. I am doing good to pay my bills as it is. Thank you for understanding. Should conditions change such that I can afford to pay my bills, eat AND keep a roof over my head as well as pay for training, I will do so. Please let's not continue with sometimes you just have to pay for your own training for the time being. Please. This has been a VERY hectic Monday and it's not even half over yet. Sorry for any hard feelings. I have tried to take to heart the need to try to find the answers on my own. Obviously some folks didn't notice that I had not had much luck searching, but I did try. Thank you. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 11:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Training (was RE: Error message in logs) Biting the hands that feed you is always bad policy. If you insist on taking that approach, you might consider doing so off-line so you don't destroy what little sympathy appears to remain for you on this list. Unless, of course, your real goal is just to annoy and create confusion, in which case, carry on. ASB http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:11 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Apparently you didn't read my initial post. I DID Google. I found a page that applied to Windows 2000, but supposedly said it applied to 2003 as well. Guess what. It didn't. I posted on here and CONTINUED to search. I finally found another page that refers to a different KB article that explains that it's likely a corrupt local GPO. So, yes, I did do due diligence. sarcasm Sorry if I didn't do enough for you or do it fast enough! /sarcasm -Original Message- From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:bem...@pittcountync.gov] Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011
Re: Seriously (was RE: Vipre console hangs server on reboot)
HEY SAM: Blows raspberry sheepish grin On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote: Seriously I’d rather go back to the bashing. At least that had topics of management, budgeting, morals, professionalism, etc. (Although I saw LITTLE of the latter out of many of you). ** ** Sam ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Tape backup policies
We have a data retention policy driven by lawyers. Our offsite backups are tape via Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape. These tapes are explicitly NOT to be used for long term retention, ie our tapes are rotated in about a year. Our policy drives what is kept long term and short term. Where they are kept doesn't matter but we have a separate fileshare with Permanent Archives and Interim Archives. The perm archives are kept indefinitely (pretty much construction drawings only). Our Interems are kept for various timeframes based on type - with a max of 5 years ... then they get deleted. FYI We are considering some online backup systems for offsite DR but we need more work to pay for it. hth, Devin On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:12 AM, David Mazzaccaro david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com wrote: Hello everyone. For those who are still backing up to tape… What do you guys have for tape backup policies? I’m curious as to how far back you are keeping tapes – 1 year? 5 years? I’ve typically seen a 10 tape rotation w/ a monthly tape put in offsitestorage. Is this still common practice? . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Tape backup policies
David, This is why we moved to online archives only. It requires more disk space and periodic review, but disk space is cheap and so is my time! We had DDS1 tapes written in Palindrome Network Archivist, some from the late 80's or so, we had DDS2, DDS3, DDS4, DLTIV, DLT S320 and now DLTS4. We even had some archive CD's that could not be read, lucky we had offsite copies of the CD's which were readable. I guess I can't store them on my dashboard :-). On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:32 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Why not do a one-time restore of really old backups to your newer backup medium? That way you can always use your current SW for a restore from any time frame. Dave -Original Message- From: Mike Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 9:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Tape backup policies On 6/3/2011 9:53 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote: Here is something I don't recall being discussed... LTO1 may be read by an LTO3 drive. Our LTO3 tapes supposedly can be read by our new LTO5 drive... What I'm getting at is, keeping forever may require moth-balling machines so they can be read if necessary Or drives .. I have a stand-alone SDLT320 and stand-alone SDLT600 tape drive, attached to a server other than my current backup server, specifically for the reason of reading old tapes. It becomes more aggravating when I need an old ArcServe tape, instead of more current Networker. That's why I have a separate machine that is a Networker storage ndoe, that also has ArcServe installed on it. So I can start whichever backup program I need, to do restores. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
OT - Happy Skynet Day
List peeps, Today is SkyNet Day and it becomes self aware: From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_%28Terminator%29 Skynet now will be implemented on April 19, 2011 and will begin its attack against humanity on April 21. Watch all your machines closely and I hope you are all patched up! HA! Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Backups/deduplication
We use BE2010 R2 with dedupe on an 18TB array, without major problems. We only keep 3 mos of data though. BE is NOT in the league of Exagrid / Quantum / HP etc. I have had jobs hang in the queue - but not that often. BE is pretty much entry level and works okay. We looked at Exagrid extensively and may eventually go to that but for the price BE is works for us. It costs much less too. Our original plan was to deploy BE with Dedupe and if it wasn't adequate we can re-use the drive array elsewhere (Dell MD1200) and we may do that in a year or so. hth, DL Meade On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Kramer, Jack jack.kra...@ur.msu.edu wrote: Please god don't use Backup Exec if you have an environment that you want to be at all reliable. Mysterious problems with backups hanging forever in queue once you hit 9TB or so on your dedup folder, plus size limits and the limit of one dedup folder per media server which, as it turns out, can never be moved to another media server ever. (Though apparently DoubleTake replication has worked to move mine off of an ailing backup server.) Also, RAM hungry – but so is any dedup software. We're now working on a switch to Commvault. Biggest downside there seems to be cost but it's looking like one of those get what you pay for kind of things. I was also very impressed with the Exagrid appliances too – from what I remember you just dump a full uncompressed backup to their landing area and they take care of all the compression/dedup for you. The College of Human Medicine has several of them. Once again, major limitation there is cost. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: Paul Hutchings paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 09:49:35 -0500 To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Backups/deduplication Have a look at Commvault or Backup Exec, possibly NetBackup too. They will all do dedupe to disk within software – you might find it offers a lot more flexibility at a lower cost than a hardware appliance, plus lower growth costs. We use Commvault, ask away but in two words, it’s good. Paul *From:* Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org tmil...@hnncsb.org] *Sent:* 01 March 2011 14:45 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Backups/deduplication Arcserve. I can change though since we are no longer under subscription renewal. Paul Hutchings paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk 3/1/2011 9:35 AM What backup software are you using? *From:* Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org tmil...@hnncsb.org] *Sent:* 01 March 2011 14:32 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Backups/deduplication Disclaimer: I know, I know, it's been on the list before. I checked the archives and didn't see what I really need from you folks. I'm in the market for a deduplication device. My LTO changer died recently, so this is a good time to change. I've been looking at the following: - Barracuda Backup 890, optional cloud storage can be purchased - EMC DD610 - Exagrid EX 3000/4000 - Overland SnapSAN - HP Storageworks Comments on the above? I want to do the usual: point my backup software to it, let it run. I will eventually need a second unit so I can replicate to a second location, so replication software/technology is needed. We have typical data here: files, e-mail (not Exchange, so file-system only), databases, XenServer VM images, etc. Currently running about 2 - 3 T per full backup. We retain data for one year before overwrite. Any favorites, any to avoid? 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.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- *MIRA Ltd* Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 VAT Registration GB 100 1464 84 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is prohibited. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that
Re: AutoCAD Remote License Issues
We had exactly the same problem that was solved via login script: SETX FLEXLM_TIMEOUT 100 Worked for us - is your timeout high enough? hth, Devin On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote: Any tips for enabling VPN users to consistently obtain an AutoCAD license from the server when connecting via VPN? My user is unable to obtain a license when out of the office but is fine when in the office. She can ping the ADLM server when she's connected via VPN and we've enabled the FLEXLM_TIMEOUT setting but it consistently times out with the infamous 1.5.-18 error. Roger Wright ___ A friend of mine sold his house this week. He got a pretty good price for it, but his landlord was really mad. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Monday morning not-so-funny
Hello all, Our electric provider, OGE, calls us at 10 AM saying We are replacing your meter now and we will cut your power off in about 1 min. Our facilities mgr says Uh no you don't, you didn't' schedule it. They say they must do it. So we say we need at least 15 min and shame on you for not scheduling it. So we have just about everything powered down, when they call back. They accidentally had the wrong address, it's really the building up the street under renovation ... and we are so sorry. So we now start powering up our systems. I just had to share this ... you can't make this up! Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Dedupe - Do you trust it?
We migrated our main file server by backing it up, then restored it to a new machine using Backup Exec 2010 R2 with DeDuplication months ago. This allowed us to (1) perform a litmus test on our backup system and (2) have an back-out plan if it fails. Our email is on a database (Exchange), so are our payroll and billing systems (MS SQL 2005). That said, we duplicate our de-duped backups for offiste storage using tape ... in non-deduped / rehydrated format. DL Meade On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager has used the 'incrementals forever' model for many years, and in environments from mainframes on down - just not with dedupe, though that may now be a feature. The more I play with other solutions, the more I miss TSM. On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 04:44, Paul Hutchings paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk wrote: Thanks Andrew, I am already trialling the d2d and dedupe with Commvault (our current product). Don’t misunderstand me, I’m not suggesting I’m dealing with flat-earther’s and they aren’t suggesting “don’t’ do it”, I just found it a bit of an odd stance how they seemed inherantly distrusting of dedupe “because it’s a database” whilst no-one questions the numbers in a financial system that is held in a database, or if they do, the assumption is the input or the formulae are wrong, nobody ever questions if the database has stuffed up and randomized a value etc. I’ll happily admit myself that I’d still want to take traditional full’s every so often rather than rely on a single full and then “incremental forever”, and I’d still be looking to spool the deduped backups to non-deduped tape. Paul From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: 16 February 2011 12:07 To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: Paul Hutchings Subject: Re: Dedupe - Do you trust it? The basic concepts of data deduplication is used in a lot of places, not the least of which are compression algorithms, data encryption, WAN optimization, etc. I think that the technology is mature, and that there's a lot of impetus to do it right, in general. Unless they're going to suggest that they don't trust ANY data in non-native format, they'll have to concede that they accept all sorts of data abstraction for other reasons on a regular basis. This one saves both time and disk space. You should speak to your favorite vendor in this space and get a pilot, so you can see/smell/feel it in action for yourself. ASB (Find me online via About.Me) Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:30 AM, Paul Hutchings paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk wrote: Just having a discussion with my boss and a colleague about backup strategy. They’re a little mistrusting of dedupe on the basis “It’s a database it can go wrong”, to which my retort was largely a combination of having to have faith in an established vendor, combined with “If a database gives you a value you assume it’s correct, you don’t think “what if the database has corrupted the value” because you have faith in the checks and balances that ensure the data is atomic”. So, what are you views on dedupe when it comes to backups? MIRA Ltd ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin MIRA Ltd Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 VAT Registration GB 100 1464 84 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is prohibited. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
Re: Dedupe Thoughts?
We have an almost identical setup as Jack's except we have a Dell MD1200 on RAID6 giving us 18TB of storage. The client side dedupe is very nice, our fulls run almost with no network activity. We get dedupe on ESXi (no client side dedupe though). We do D2D2T and it really helps... especially when we can't get to the office due to a blizzard! Devin On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Kramer, Jack jack.kra...@ur.msu.edu wrote: This is what we do here - I have BE2010r2 with dedup and have my backup controller attached to a 10TB array built on a Dell MD1000. It's pretty quick and does a great job of dedup - I've eliminated incrementals from my schedule and only run fulls now and let dedup handle the overlap. Beware the RAM requirements - BE2010r2's min recommended is 8GB with an additional 1GB/tb of backed up data for the deduplication option IIRC. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 On 2/4/11 2:27 PM, Paul Hutchings paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk wrote: How come you're looking at NAS rather than just shovelling a few 2tb drives in your backup server? I'm looking into doing something very similar myself (we use Commvault/Simpana) and the rule of thumb on disk space, assuming you're not paying per Tb stored, is disk is cheap, and with dedupe rates what they are for average data, you'd be mad not to shovel in as much as you can afford and leave tape as the very last resort. -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: 04 February 2011 18:08 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Dedupe Thoughts? I'm looking at some options for a poor man's deduplication system for backups. A Data Domain or Exagrid solution would be preferred but not feasible at this time. We're currently backing up a little over 4 TB to LTO3 tape and have outgrown our backup window, library capacity, and RTO. I'm thinking of using BE 2010's Deduplication option for the engine and something like the Synology DS1511+ with 5 - 2GB drives for 8 TB of storage (w/RAID5 or just a hot spare). Then I could offload to tape for off-site storage or script replication to another unit at a branch office. Any best practices thoughts for sizing the storage for the deduped data? Does it just depend on the ratio achieved and the storage and the number of backup sets retained? One nice thing about the Synology system is it can be easily expanded to up to 15 disks. A Data Domain or Exagrid solution would be preferred but not feasible at this time. Roger Wright ___ The internet is a great way to get on the net. - Bob Dole ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- MIRA Ltd Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 VAT Registration GB 100 1464 84 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is prohibited. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Was Simple routing now is NEEDED - Sonicwall Pro firmware
Phil, I can probably get these off of some old tape from around 2002 or 2003, but it could take a while. Le me know if you need this and I can start the process. Devin On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Andrew Laya andrew.l...@gmail.com wrote: I have a couple of old firmware files for PRIO200/240 models. Sent off list. Andrew. On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Steve Ens stevey...@gmail.com wrote: Hi phil, it is the original pro. No other model on it. On Monday, January 24, 2011, Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com wrote: I've got a firmware archive for some of those old boxes, do you know exactly which model this is? Steve Ens wrote: Corrupted firmware on eight year old Sonicwall...need to test NAT... it is EOL so Sonicwall won't help me. If anyone has an old one kicking around, let me know. -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Was Simple routing now is NEEDED - Sonicwall Pro firmware
Phil, I just logged into our old snwl account and they have all the old firmware available for the sonicwall pro. I can download the prior 11 versions from 6.0.11 through 6.5.04. The VPN client is available as well. I am sending the latest firmware directly. Devin On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Devin Meade devin.me...@gmail.com wrote: Phil, I can probably get these off of some old tape from around 2002 or 2003, but it could take a while. Le me know if you need this and I can start the process. Devin On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Andrew Laya andrew.l...@gmail.comwrote: I have a couple of old firmware files for PRIO200/240 models. Sent off list. Andrew. On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Steve Ens stevey...@gmail.com wrote: Hi phil, it is the original pro. No other model on it. On Monday, January 24, 2011, Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com wrote: I've got a firmware archive for some of those old boxes, do you know exactly which model this is? Steve Ens wrote: Corrupted firmware on eight year old Sonicwall...need to test NAT... it is EOL so Sonicwall won't help me. If anyone has an old one kicking around, let me know. -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Home RAID enclosure recommendations?
I was planning on looking into this after Christmas but here are a few things I have run into. 1. The WD Y drives (the TLR limited, RAID specific ones ... both RE2 and RE3 version) performed much slower than Hitachi Ultrastar A7K2000, by far. This was on WS2003 32bit, WS2008R2 and ESXi 4 using Adaptec 3405 Sata RAID controllers. The adaptec 3405 / Hitachi Ultrastar combo has proven itself for us with ~100 users. 2. For another need (5 users, small business that is) I was going to look into the Terrastation but find many comments of slowness and I don't like the OS being on the HDD's. But they have a really cool neat-o feature that if you buy two of these you can set up live replication. I was considering this for my Mom and Pop's business - so it's a little more heavy duty than plain home use. But the price is not much higher than the adaptec controller above and HDD's. IIRC they had another feature that you could attach a USB drive for backup. 3. Because of #2, I was looking at the Netgear products. Netgear had some sort of replication, I forget what it is, but I don't know if it's as whiz-bang neat-o as the Buffalo implementation. 4. All my home machines have RAID of some sort using *GASP* Promise raid controllers and old hard drives that I just had laying around! But alas I have outgrown the capacity and want to upgrade to something else. 5. I may just get the cheapo USB/eSata RAID 1 array (Fantom G-Force MegaDisk) and be done with it! Again, I was going to look at this in about a week, but there ya go. hth and Merry Christmas all, Devin On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle jra...@eaglemds.com wrote: Anyone else using WD desktop drives in RAID and messed with TLER (or regretted not messing with it)? Or, for that matter, regretted messing with it? (I'm sure it was implied, but I figured it worthwhile to ask the pseudo-obvious.) Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.com -Original Message- From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 12:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: Home RAID enclosure recommendations? Wow, I can get 4 1TB drives for $64.99? ;) I've been hearing lately about Time Limited Error Recovery (TLER) feature in WD drives, which is disabled by default in their desktop drives. It should be enabled to allow the RAID controller to handle recovery, else the RAID controller will timeout the drive and drop it from the set. I've had a pair of WD10EADS green drives in RAID 1 for about a year with no trouble, but I'm wondering if I should try to tweak the TLER before there is trouble. WD provides no means of tweaking it, but the community has provided a utility, WDTLER, that can tweak it on some drives but not others. Anyone else using WD desktop drives in RAID and messed with TLER (or regretted not messing with it)? Carl -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 11:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Home RAID enclosure recommendations? 3TB Raid on the cheap: 1x SansDigital 4-Bay enclosure (eSATA or USB) in raid 5 - $169.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1681659 4x Western Digital Green 1TB drives - $64.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136490 --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Jim Slattery [mailto:slattery_...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:56:55 -0800 I recently started taking a lot of photos and videos, and I'm realizing that my current storage solution at home isn't going to cut it very soon. Does anyone have a recommendation for a good price/performance RAID enclosure (or populated solution) for home use? I'd like to have 3-4TB available if possible. Thanks, and Happy Holidays! Jim ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin Any medical information contained in this electronic message is CONFIDENTIAL and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to view, copy, disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This electronic message may contain information that is confidential and/or legally privileged. It is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and/or entity named as recipients in the message. If you are not an intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete this material from your computer. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this message, and do not disclose its contents or take any action in reliance on
Re: Old user data
We just revamped this process. The user prep's an exit folder. The user's supervisor makes a pass through it to cull any contract docs etc out. The the IS dept head does the same. Then we burn a CD or DVD fur the user. Before this is done, we make a separate image of their workstation, user folder and export the mailbox to PST. We attempt to capture and undisturbed copy of this data. This is burned to CD/DVD. This goes to HR and they follow their own data retention policies. IS maintains no long term archives of this data type. We keep their old workstation for no more than a week or two. It may have CAD templates and Lord-Knows-What-Else. We change the user's password and their dept head is supposed to login as the user and poke around to see if they need anything. This is a subset of a Data Retention Policy, I'm sure I forgot something... Devin On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Definitely. Or give them a DVD. We don't allow them access to the former user's location for file storage, as that creates too many plausible deniability [1] scenarios. *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * Signature powered by WiseStamp http://www.wisestamp.com/email-install [1] Mix and match posting [2] [2] Inside joke [3] Even bigger inside joke On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: Contact supervisor and offer to copy data to new location of their choice, often as a subdir to them. -sc *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Wednesday, August 18, 2010 11:43 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Old user data How do you guys manage deleting data from employees that have left the company, what’s your process? *David Lum** **// *SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 *// *(Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Old user data
If you were asking me ... we do have a Workstation and User Retirement checklist. It has a number of conditions as in if the employee is terminated and how long the computer will remain in service. It has Active Directory checklist, mailbox checklist (ie if the email addy will be redirected), we run Trend Micro and LANDesk so the that has to be accounted for etc. The last step is a secure disk wipe (DBAN etc). We may (or may not) divide up these tasks and you must initial any steps you do. Devin On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:18 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: It that part of an exit checklist? We have a lot of churn here, namely contractors but a fair amount of employees over a year… *David Lum** **// *SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 *// *(Cell) 503.267.9764 *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, August 18, 2010 8:48 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Old user data Definitely. Or give them a DVD. We don't allow them access to the former user's location for file storage, as that creates too many plausible deniability [1] scenarios. *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * Signature powered by WiseStamp http://www.wisestamp.com/email-install [1] Mix and match posting [2] [2] Inside joke [3] Even bigger inside joke On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: Contact supervisor and offer to copy data to new location of their choice, often as a subdir to them. -sc *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Wednesday, August 18, 2010 11:43 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Old user data How do you guys manage deleting data from employees that have left the company, what’s your process? *David Lum** **// *SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 *// *(Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Old user data
Yes it is the IP of the company and our AUP says so. All employees sign an AUP and it goes to their HR file. We have had employees leave and ask for their user folder. The management team goes through it with the AUP in mind. We have had instances when the Exit Team denied the entire folder. If they want a copy of their mailbox, well that's easy . . . UMMM NO. Everything is reviewed against the AUP. The AUP was made by laywersand it's iron-clad. What I have seen leave the firm is pretty benign (scans of PE certificates, kiddo pictures, etc). Our dept heads had this argument before. My contention is why the heck is IT deciding what data leaves or stays? Before our we got Religion about data retention and company Intellectual Property, when someone left the firm, they would send them to IS to get any files they wanted (I don't have the time, you do it). Whatever! I/we in IT pretty much had to get their dept head involved anyway due to the nature of the personal folder. I argued that this is a management and HR issue. They needed to come up with a policy. One that's aligned to our industry's needs and regulations. I.T. should advise on how to achieve that . . . no more. So at the end of the day, what they get to take with time is their kids pictures, professional certifications (if any) and possibly files from professional associations they are personally members of (ASHRAE is one of them). Some of this is so esoteric that we cant tell what it is, therefore the policy change to bring their dept head into it. We do use a checklist. On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: Isn’t the property created on the companies computers by the employees during said work, the property of the company? Why does an employee that leaves entitled to any information whatsoever? Again HR policy will dictate what is truly personal, and what is business related, but could be a nice avenue for information disclosure… if you aren’t careful. Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org email%3aezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 *From:* Devin Meade [mailto:devin.me...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, August 18, 2010 12:03 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Old user data We just revamped this process. The user prep's an exit folder. The user's supervisor makes a pass through it to cull any contract docs etc out. The the IS dept head does the same. Then we burn a CD or DVD fur the user. Before this is done, we make a separate image of their workstation, user folder and export the mailbox to PST. We attempt to capture and undisturbed copy of this data. This is burned to CD/DVD. This goes to HR and they follow their own data retention policies. IS maintains no long term archives of this data type. We keep their old workstation for no more than a week or two. It may have CAD templates and Lord-Knows-What-Else. We change the user's password and their dept head is supposed to login as the user and poke around to see if they need anything. This is a subset of a Data Retention Policy, I'm sure I forgot something... Devin On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Definitely. Or give them a DVD. We don't allow them access to the former user's location for file storage, as that creates too many plausible deniability [1] scenarios. *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * Signature powered by WiseStamp http://www.wisestamp.com/email-install [1] Mix and match posting [2] [2] Inside joke [3] Even bigger inside joke On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: Contact supervisor and offer to copy data to new location of their choice, often as a subdir to them. -sc *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Wednesday, August 18, 2010 11:43 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Old user data How do you guys manage deleting data from employees that have left the company, what’s your process? *David Lum** **// *SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 *// *(Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: ssh publishing on ISA
ISA 2004 - firewall policy - use the New server publishing wizard: Enter the internal server IP address. Make a custom protocol with TCP / outbound / port 22. Select External I dont think you want the Web server publishing wizard as it requires a listener. Same goes for the other new rule types. After the wizard is done, you should get a policy like this: Name: Whatever you want Action: Allow Protocols: whatever you named it From / Listener: External To: Internal IP address You can add a schedule if you want. IIRC the wizard got it 90% right, I always had to go change one of the parameters to make it work, go figure! I did this quite often with Famatech RAdmin, but we don't use this anymore Hope this helps, Devin On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 3:57 PM, S Powell powe...@gmail.com wrote: yes it is the first rule. Google.com Learn it. Live it. Love it. On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:47, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: Did you move that rule to the top? John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families - Original Message - From: S Powell powe...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Mon Aug 09 15:39:55 2010 Subject: ssh publishing on ISA Hello World! I'd be grateful to anyone out there who could give me a hand with this, I've got SSH running on a mac (xserve) and I cannot quite figure out how to publish it via our ISA. i've tried a non-web server rule allowing port 22 in and out. and yet this seems to not work. traffic seems to drop and is blocked by the default (enterprise deny all traffic) rule. TIA Google.com Learn it. Live it. Love it. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ 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. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: online backup systems
Forget about elephant drive (pun intended). I never could get the backup to work on a vista and Two XP boxes for home. No response from them either. I let it expire Devin On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Tobie Fysh tobie.f...@freebridge.org.ukwrote: JungleDisk is pretty good in my (non-paid work) experience. Tobie *From:* Laurence Childs [mailto:laurence.chi...@btinternet.com] *Sent:* 19 July 2010 16:13 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* online backup systems Hi All I have a requirement from a UK 2 man band for an online backup system I have looked in to Carbonite but they don't have a reseller / referral program for their business offering. Anybody able to recommend a good, reliable system that is based in the UK? Regards Laurence ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- This message has been scanned by MimeCast on behalf of Freebridge Community Housing and found to be free of viruses and not SPAM. If you have any concerns about the message contents please contact the ICT ServiceDesk. -- [image: Freebridge Community Housing Logo] http://www.freebridge.org.uk [image: twitter.com/Freebridge] http://twitter.com/Freebridge [image: Freebridge on Facebook]http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kings-Lynn-United-Kingdom/Freebridge-Community-Housing/192690183387?v=box_3 This e-mail (including any attachments), is confidential and intended only for the use of the addressee(s). It may contain information covered by legal, professional or other privilege. If you are not an addressee, please inform the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Do not copy, use or disclose this e-mail. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error free. The sender does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard copy version. Freebridge Community Housing Ltd is a Charitable Industrial and Provident Society - Reg No IP29744R Registered with the Housing Corporation - No L4463. VAT Registration Number 860762121 Freebridge Community Housing, Juniper House, Austin Street, Kings Lynn, Norfolk PE30 1DZ -- This email message has been scanned for viruses by Mimecast. Mimecast delivers a complete managed email solution from a single web based platform. For more information please visit http://www.mimecast.com -- ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~110071916575804202.gif110071916575803802.gif110071916575804002.gif
Re: Do you all like fewer or more servers?
We have about the same environment. We keep most services separate for the reason you state. We decided to not not virutalilze large file servers. That definition keeps changing though. Anything else is a candidate for a VM. I really like having one (maybe two) services per server, it has helped up-time greatly. It also depends on our vendors' requirements (Deltek and NewForma). They won't support their respective servers on a VM so they get a floor model (rack that is). NewForma will change it next year (Whoopee!). We plan on Exchange 2010 on ESXI (unless we go to a hosted solution). But it will be a dedicated box if I have my say. We try to define any server based on what it would cost us in downtime if were to fail. Also we define what a slowdown would cost. We did have Exchange on an inadequate box - I will never do that again. That drives the decision to go to a dedicated high end box or a VM on (for us) slower hardware. If we had to go back to dedicated boxes for each of our VM's I need more shelving! We are up to 10 prod VM's and at least 5 test VM's. All our workstation start as a VMware workstation too. hth, Devin We do VM the service machines though except for domain controllers. We will add on of those though. On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Holstrom, Don dholst...@nbm.org wrote: I only have a hundred users. Been doing this for about 12 years. I always thought it was better to have more or less one major server per service. That way, if one of our services came down or needed work, I wouldn’t be taking down the entire system. I have a buddy with fewer users than me and he has 20+ servers. Some in the air (virtual), some on the ground. I have seven servers running. Both of us host our web services at an outside firm. Both of us use Exchange. An outside firm says we should go with only a couple of servers. That sure would make things easier, but… ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT)
Same story here. We have a check scanning setup which must be on XP. No Vista or Win 7. On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:33 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote: I just got off the phone with the help desk at our bank. We have a new Vista computer and the software we use to view our check images no longer works because we’re using Vista and Vista is not a supported O/S. Apparently it only works on XP, 2000 or 98. L Not to mention, they couldn’t tell me how to get an updated version of the software! I’ve got a call into the sales rep to explain that they really need to get with it, because XP isn’t being sold any more, and 98 and 2000 are not even **supported** by Microsoft any longer! Sheesh! This is the second issue I’ve had with a so-called “help desk” this week. I’m not feeling very charitable right now! [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
Re: Password policy enforcement after a change
Hmm we did that ~ 2 yrs ago. We used to assign passwords but *finally* sold it to upper mgt to do it via Active Dir and the built in complexity policy (2003 native mode). It went pretty well, nobody lost access, they had to change their passwords at next logon. We announced it well before hand (many times). Still had much wailing and gnashing of teeth but it's been worth it! We even went through the expiry of passwords and peeps were able to change them (mostly no hand holding). We added the accountinfo.dll or whatever it is called to see when passwords were set on the DC's for each acct. On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, list, After years of lobbying on my part, I have finally gotten top management at %WORK% to approve a company password policy, complete with enforcement via Active Directory/Group Policy. (And there was much rejoicing!) I know we have people who have never changed their password since they were hired in 2001. When we suddenly go from No password expiration to X days, at their next logon, they'll be prompted to change their password. However, until they logoff/logon, the system won't prompt them. My question is: Will they have trouble accessing resources until they change their password? I've never tried to use a Windows domain with an 8-year-expired password before. Win 2000 AD server, Win XP Pro SP3 clients. (Yes I know Win2K has five weeks until EOL. I'm working on it. Budget priorities, bad economy, yadda yadda.) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Password policy enforcement after a change
Okay ... we had no problems maybe because we had assigned pw's which the users could not change. We only had one VPN user - that never used it :-\ Now we have about 20 VPN users. We also executed the Group Policy and went thru AD and checked force pw change at around 10PM and announced it many times. We had under 100 users at the time so that didn't take too long. IIRC there were about 5 or 10 users who needed hand holding to change the pw. On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Ben, They will have all sorts of problems accessing resources if you changed that right now. :) The remote people would be especially pleased with you. Depending on what services they were trying to access, they *might* be told to change their passwords, but many of the resources would just do weird things to them. Like Jonathan mentioned, I'd send out a nice memo indicating that passwords will need to change before XXX date, and then set the new policy to go into effect the day after that. -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, list, After years of lobbying on my part, I have finally gotten top management at %WORK% to approve a company password policy, complete with enforcement via Active Directory/Group Policy. (And there was much rejoicing!) I know we have people who have never changed their password since they were hired in 2001. When we suddenly go from No password expiration to X days, at their next logon, they'll be prompted to change their password. However, until they logoff/logon, the system won't prompt them. My question is: Will they have trouble accessing resources until they change their password? I've never tried to use a Windows domain with an 8-year-expired password before. Win 2000 AD server, Win XP Pro SP3 clients. (Yes I know Win2K has five weeks until EOL. I'm working on it. Budget priorities, bad economy, yadda yadda.) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: basic wiring question
+ 1,000 BTDT Now no voice guys are allowed near our data cables. EVER! GRRR! We do all cabling now with a Fluke Cable IQ. On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com wrote: +1 My coworkers gave me a good ribbing when I spent $1k on a Fluke Networks cable qualifier (not a certifier, a qualifier) instead of $50 for some random $50 Home Depot piece of s$*#. Until they had to use it, that is. On 5/24/2010 4:26 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle wrote: However, your cabling vendor screwed up and they need to fix and recertify every single drop they’ve done for you like that. IMNSHO, any serious structured cabling contractor will use a CAT5/5e/6/7 etc cable certifier that does WAY more than a simple continuity test. While a $50 or $100 Siemens continuity checker is great for a quick and dirty inspection, nothing compares to certification. -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: sig pad for Word
Running behind on my ntsysadmin reading, but we use sign it from www.cic.com to sign PDF contract docs. They might have something for ms word. hth, Devin On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:46 PM, James Kerr cluster...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone recommened a inexpensive USB signature pad for signing word documents? James ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
CMAK preventing display of last user name in GUI
We have some common use laptops and we are using the CMAK to deploy VPN to them. They are Vista SP2. I want to to prevent the User name field from pre-populating in the GUI. It remembers the last user name. I do have a group policy for the regular login screen, just not the CMAK/VPN window. I want to prevent peeps from entering their name and checking remember this password on the common use laptops. Maybe I should try to remove the save password check box. -Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Internet Policies
Up until last month we blocked all the social networking sites. Now our firm is marketing on them. We are adjusting our policies for this. It will be on a user-by-user basis though. Devin On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:38 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote: What restrictions, if any, do your organizations place on things like IM or social networking sites? I sent out a warning to the office personnel this morning regarding the new “IM Virus” and got an email back from the CEO basically stating “shouldn’t that be a violation of company policy anyway?” and I had to tell him, I knew of no policies regarding that; and that in fact, my former supervisor was fully aware of at least one person (who’s child is overseas in the military) who used IM on a semi-regular basis. For this reason, I’m working on coming up with a company policy. I’ve looked at the sample template from SANS as well as another one that someone sent me off-list. I’m planning on incorporating the best of everything I get, so if anyone has any suggested language regarding IM or social networking, please let me have it. J [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image002.jpgimage001.jpg
Re: Internet Policies
Also we don't block anything. We have an AUP and a disclaimer at logon.. We do log all activity and that's explained up front. We hire professionals and they are supposed to act that way. This is an HR issue so IS just reports lists of visited websites upon request. On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Devin Meade devin.me...@gmail.com wrote: Up until last month we blocked all the social networking sites. Now our firm is marketing on them. We are adjusting our policies for this. It will be on a user-by-user basis though. Devin On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:38 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: What restrictions, if any, do your organizations place on things like IM or social networking sites? I sent out a warning to the office personnel this morning regarding the new “IM Virus” and got an email back from the CEO basically stating “shouldn’t that be a violation of company policy anyway?” and I had to tell him, I knew of no policies regarding that; and that in fact, my former supervisor was fully aware of at least one person (who’s child is overseas in the military) who used IM on a semi-regular basis. For this reason, I’m working on coming up with a company policy. I’ve looked at the sample template from SANS as well as another one that someone sent me off-list. I’m planning on incorporating the best of everything I get, so if anyone has any suggested language regarding IM or social networking, please let me have it. J [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
Re: Internet Policies
I used a fake DNS entry for twitter.com and the others that I found in the ISA log. I made a new forward lookup zone for each one in our Active Dir integrated DNS system. I know it wont block sub-domains but it made the point. It has since been removed. I can use Trend micro officescan if we want to actively block though. Devin On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:22 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote: I was aware of that, but I was wondering what Devin’s company used. JPersonally, I’d go for either DNS (if there was a blackhole or something easily implemented like that) or web filtering appliance. [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, May 04, 2010 2:20 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Internet Policies They can be blocked via DNS, via Firewalls, via Web Filtering technologies. -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:11 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: How did you block them? Do you have an appliance or did you put in some sort of DNS entries? [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] *From:* Devin Meade [mailto:devin.me...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, May 04, 2010 1:21 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Internet Policies Up until last month we blocked all the social networking sites. Now our firm is marketing on them. We are adjusting our policies for this. It will be on a user-by-user basis though. Devin On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:38 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: What restrictions, if any, do your organizations place on things like IM or social networking sites? I sent out a warning to the office personnel this morning regarding the new “IM Virus” and got an email back from the CEO basically stating “shouldn’t that be a violation of company policy anyway?” and I had to tell him, I knew of no policies regarding that; and that in fact, my former supervisor was fully aware of at least one person (who’s child is overseas in the military) who used IM on a semi-regular basis. For this reason, I’m working on coming up with a company policy. I’ve looked at the sample template from SANS as well as another one that someone sent me off-list. I’m planning on incorporating the best of everything I get, so if anyone has any suggested language regarding IM or social networking, please let me have it. J [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image002.jpgimage001.jpg
Re: Dell MD1000
We just deployed a file server with a MD1220. It's on a PowerEdge R610 with a Perc H800 - no problems since Saturday! Devin On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone have one (or more) of the Dell MD1000s? Any comments, good or ill? I'm thinking about creating a new file server and this is a relatively inexpensive option from a big vendor. Thanks, RS ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Officially Unemployed
Sherry, I truly wish I knew of an opening in DFW. I would recommend you in a heartbeat. Like others have said, unwind for a week or so and jump back in the pool. This happened to me and I got a much better position about 2 mos later. That was ... let me count... 13 yrs ago... Keep a stiff upper lip / you can do it / GO SHERRY! Devin On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.comwrote: Well, I was informed this morning that because of consolidation of some positions and the new Cisco network equipment that was being brought in, my position was being eliminated. So, as of 9ish this morning I'm officially unemployed. Severance package will end on October 1 this year. So anyone know of any jobs her in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, let me know ;) -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: UPSes
I would agree on the cable issue. I have a box with APC Cables don't touch upon pain of death written on it. That said our Symettra LX is a tank. Ours has a management card and it works with APC Network Shutdown software which is free on our windows servers. The Symettra sends a shutdown signal to the servers from the management card. We have had stellar support and apc has replaced bad batteries with no hassle. Devin On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Angus Scott-Fleming angu...@geoapps.comwrote: [correcting the gag-me-with-a-shovel apostrophized subject] On 16 Apr 2010 at 10:37, Andrew S. Baker wrote: APC used to be wy ahead of the pack, but I don't find that to be ture anymore. Their quality has gone down a little, and the quality of the other players in this space have gone up quite a bit. I'm fine with Tripplite, APC and CyberPower UPS products in the 500VA to 3000VA range. The consensus in the current threads on UPS is APC is the Cadillac but that you pay Cadillac prices for them. One thing that really torques me about APC is their insistence on using custom, non-standard interfaces like the $30+-to-replace RJ-50-to-USB cables they currently use, and the $35+-to-replace non-standard RS-232 cables they used to use -- why not use a standard USB A-to-B cable like TrippLite? G! Most modern PCs no longer have RS-232 ports, so refurb units with RS-232 cables are off the table for my clients. Once you add the cost of purchasing and configuring a USB-to-RS-232 adapter, you've lost a good chunk of the cost savings and there's no guarantee the UPS software will work with it. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-895-3270 Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: UPSes
The Symettra sends a shutdown signal should really say The Symettra sends status to the windows servers and they are set to react to this status. Hmm must read my own posts before sending... Devin On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Devin Meade devin.me...@gmail.com wrote: I would agree on the cable issue. I have a box with APC Cables don't touch upon pain of death written on it. That said our Symettra LX is a tank. Ours has a management card and it works with APC Network Shutdown software which is free on our windows servers. The Symettra sends a shutdown signal to the servers from the management card. We have had stellar support and apc has replaced bad batteries with no hassle. Devin On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Angus Scott-Fleming angu...@geoapps.com wrote: [correcting the gag-me-with-a-shovel apostrophized subject] On 16 Apr 2010 at 10:37, Andrew S. Baker wrote: APC used to be wy ahead of the pack, but I don't find that to be ture anymore. Their quality has gone down a little, and the quality of the other players in this space have gone up quite a bit. I'm fine with Tripplite, APC and CyberPower UPS products in the 500VA to 3000VA range. The consensus in the current threads on UPS is APC is the Cadillac but that you pay Cadillac prices for them. One thing that really torques me about APC is their insistence on using custom, non-standard interfaces like the $30+-to-replace RJ-50-to-USB cables they currently use, and the $35+-to-replace non-standard RS-232 cables they used to use -- why not use a standard USB A-to-B cable like TrippLite? G! Most modern PCs no longer have RS-232 ports, so refurb units with RS-232 cables are off the table for my clients. Once you add the cost of purchasing and configuring a USB-to-RS-232 adapter, you've lost a good chunk of the cost savings and there's no guarantee the UPS software will work with it. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-895-3270 Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
New boss hot on Dell Switches
I have been wanting to replace our aging Dell Switches with HP Procurve for ages. Enter a new boss. So the new boss now wants to replace the Dell switches with Dell switches. He says they are half the cost - that's true. He wants to do it right freaking now with absolutely no research. So I get 3 min to research it and this email took two. I get 60 more seconds to do a detailed comparison. Crap that sentence just took 15 seconds. So I am looking at tech specs and warranty. THe first thing is the lifetime warranty from HP Procurve. I dont really value that so much but it is there. The networking equip lifetime for us seems to be around 8 years and Dell's go to five - HP's are lifetime. In five years, equiv replacement equip will be dirt cheap and we will be looking to move to the next technology anyway. We need around 200 gigabit ports - stackable etc. We are looking at the Procurve 3500 series and Dell Powerconnect 6248 series - all 48 ports. I have read pretty much glowing reports of in-the-field support regarding HP. We have had a few issues with our Dell PowerConnect but Dell worked with us with no problem. One of our 3448 switches was replaced via priority overnight with little hassle. Anyone have any compelling reason to spend almost 2X on ProCurve over Dell PowerConnect? Thanks! Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: question on cat-6 and 480V together
I spent about 6 mos in the ceiling of our office moving bundles of cat5/6 cables off of florescent ballasts and making sure they were 12-18 inches away from power circuits. Also verified that no parallel runs for data and power were left. My cable guy said long parallel runs (say ~10ft or more) are bad due to harmonics introduced via alternating current. He also said power and data, if they cross over, should do so at 90 degree angles. After doing this we saw a good deal of improvement in the network. We did use a Fluke Cable IQ to qualify the runs. I would serisously fiber - maybe a switch with fiber uplinks. Check the local code first, not all municipalities have up to date codes in force. Our firm deals with at least three different NEC's (maybe more). hth, Devin On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: It's actually the opposite. If at all possible, try to cross electrical cables, and signal cables (including UTP) at right angles. The magnetic lines of flux induce more signal noise on parallel conductors than it does perpendicular conductors. Now, a CAT 5/6 cable running on top of fluorescent fixtures... all bets are probably off. The wiring and ballasts inside those could be oriented all over the map. -sc -Original Message- From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 8:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: question on cat-6 and 480V together I thought the actually problem with electrical currents and network cable was (Pun intended) crossing the streams. What I mean to say is that as long as you run the cables parallel to each other throughout the line the affect is very minimal with regards to depreciated signal strength but if you were to wrap one are the other or cross them the electric current would act as a magnetic and suck the signal out of the cable This is very tricky stuff you are wanting to try but I think that you could pull it off but test it first. You may have to run your cable the full 18 inches apart from electrical... -Original Message- From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 8:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: question on cat-6 and 480V together I know it's amazing it might just work fine. :) Lucky I do have an excellent cable guy that is also researching this. We will have shielded, outdoor rated cat6E with some sort of lightning protection. This will be extended thru May/June and this is Colorado. I will looking into separation even by a few inches. -Original Message- From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 6:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: question on cat-6 and 480V together Not best practice, but how many of our cable installations actually are installed according to best practice? I've had to get on cabling cntractors for laying cable directly on top of a 277v fluorescent fixture... *sigh* (I got a new cabling contractor!) I've never tried what you're being asked to do, but here are my thoughts... As for your specific situation, it may work just fine. Ideally you'd want to have them separated by at least several inches, if possible. I'd probably specify shielded Cat6, outdoor rated cable to be on the safe side. Also, there may be a specific cable type for suspended cable runs. Finally, I'd consider lightning protection on both ends once inside the building, in order to protect your equipment. Jonathan L. Raper, MCSE Sent from my Windows Mobile (r) enabled Smartphone. Please excuse brevity any misspellings. From: Eldridge, Dave d...@parkviewmc.com Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 7:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: OT: question on cat-6 and 480V together I am being told that one of our MRI machines is temporarily moving to a trailer out on the street and they want to pull overhead a cat-6 and 3phase 480V together. Way out of my league. Anyone see any noise issues with these tied together? Anything else I'm missing? thanks This e-mail contains the thoughts and opinions of the sender and does not represent official Parkview Medical Center policy. This communication is intended only for the recipient(s) named above, may be confidential and/or legally privileged: and, must be treated as such in accordance with state and federal laws. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use of this communication, or any of its contents, is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please return to sender and delete the message from your computer system. Any medical information contained in
Re: recover initialized drive
Does the drive have mission critical data on it? Trying to recover the drive with lowcost/free solutions just may be destructive. That's your call though. Decide how important it is ... if it warrants it you might just send it off to Ontrack. We did this many moons ago and they got all the data. hth, Devin On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: You could also try gpart (guess partitions), which is a Linux/Unix tool. It's included on many live CDs, such as SystemRescueCD (http://www.sysresccd.org/). -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Adaptec RAID 3405 Any used this raid card?
Sorry, running behind on reading this list. We have a few of these but only on Server 2003 32 bit. They are are better than consumer grade... I consider their feature set entry level business. They run VERY VERY HOT, get an exhaust fan. hth Devin On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 3:04 PM, jgarciaitl...@gmail.com jgarciaitl...@gmail.com wrote: Adaptec RAID 3405 Does this work windows x64 2003 or 2008, it I see only 2003 2008 and xp x64 I don't see x64 version for a server os. I see this 17 Mar 2010 Adaptec RAID Driver v5.2.0.17335 for Windows, Microsoft Certified AACRAID Driver v5.2.0.17335 for Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, and XP x64, Microsoft Certified ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: SunGard
Back in the early 90's when I worked at a fortune 500 firm (Kerr-McGee), we used a Sunguard site in Philly, PA do perform DR tests every 6 mos. Pack-up a ton of 3480/3490 tapes and off our staff went. This was for a IBM 3090-400J (??) mainframe I was a lowly grunt at that time in the data center. Those weekends always made for some shall we say colorful / spirited long-distance phone calls. Heh, fun times! On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 8:56 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote: Anyone heard of SunGard? Got cold-called by them regarding their “availability” / data / business-continuity services and before I talk much to them, I want to make sure they’re 1) legitimate and 2) not overpriced. J [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
Blackberry issues today?
I have been on hold with BES support for over 30 min now. That's never happened before (to me). I don't see any newsgroup banter that BB is having issues. Anyone having issues today? Our BES is working, but I am holding for a minor problem with accepting appointments on the hand-held. Thanks... Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Blackberry issues today?
Thanks Don, Dave, Kathleen and David. I just got through - 45 min was the sweet spot. On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Orland, Kathleen korl...@rogers.comwrote: All OK here (Toronto, Canada). - Original Message - *From:* Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.com *To:* NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Sent:* Monday, March 29, 2010 3:55 PM *Subject:* RE: Blackberry issues today? Good here (Verizon, near Philadelphia). Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com *From:* David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] *Sent:* Monday, March 29, 2010 3:50 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Blackberry issues today? Zero problems that I am aware of. (Sprint/New England). -- *From:* Devin Meade [mailto:devin.me...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, March 29, 2010 3:42 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Blackberry issues today? I have been on hold with BES support for over 30 min now. That's never happened before (to me). I don't see any newsgroup banter that BB is having issues. Anyone having issues today? Our BES is working, but I am holding for a minor problem with accepting appointments on the hand-held. Thanks... Devin . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Server 2008 R2 event log limits thoughts
So we have a brand new 2008 R2 server. This will be a file server. Our current 2003 SP2 file server has file auditing on, but was disabled due to NewForma Project Center. This is a unique software for architectural firms that integrates with yet another special piece of software for architectural firms . . . Deltek Vision which is our billing system. To summarize NewForma, it constantly accesses the files and indexes them. All the frikin time. That's why I had to disable file auditing. There would be 10 bazillion entries from NewForma and then one user entry in the security log . . . and with the limits on 2003 event log size, we got about 8-12 hours of auditing. Now with 2008 R2 I can audit only certain users/groups. So I can exclude (I think) this domain service account from auditing (sweet!). I plan on once again, auditing file access by the users. I plan on seeing how much logging is generated and then adjusting the max log size accordingly. With the improvements in the event logging system(s) in 2008 R2 in mind, any thoughts or reco's on this? Thanks, Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Has anyone seen BSOD's when applying MS10-015 Patch for Windows Kernel
I saw this articlehttp://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9155419/Windows_patch_cripples_XP_with_blue_screen_users_claim?source=CTWNLE_nlt_dailyam_2010-02-11. I deployed it to our test group and they are just fine. This is 9 XP SP3 boxes and 19 Vista SP2 boxes. They all have Office 2007 SP2. We will deploy to all remaining boxes overnight tonight. Devin On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: Getting some chatter at my workplace about reports of possible BSOD with MS10-015 being applied to machines, can anyone confirm what you are seeing from Windows XP, Vista or 7 with this patch or Windows 2000-2008? Thanks Z ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Too many replies causes Outlook to not send???
We use a low cost ISP and they limit the total number of emails for each POP3 account. The ISP is omnis, they verified that it was an antispam tactic. It was set to 200 emails per 24 hr period. They bumped ours up some. I don't remember the failure message but it wasn't very informative. hth, Devin On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:37 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote: I’ve noticed that on messages where there has been an extended email conversation, after a certain number of replies back and forth, Outlook will error out on sending. Talking Outlook 2007 here. I’ve seen it on my Outlook and on at least one user’s outlook where he’s emailing back and forth with his wife. Even if you trim the quotes, it refuses to send. This is using POP email, btw. Has anyone else seen this and does anyone have a fix for it, other than starting a new email? [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image002.jpgimage001.jpg
Re: Required Certs = Study Time at Work?
*Sarcasm Alert *You can get a Certified Application Security Specialist here: http://www.asscert.com/ No study time needed and a free logo to boot! On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: 8 days a week Is not enough to show I care. On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.comwrote: We're technically allotted 1 hour of study time per day. While I don't think anyone in management would look down on someone for utilizing that time, current workload and productivity expectations generally turn that 8 hours a week into a fantasy rather than a reality. The problem I run into is having the necessary resources to suit my studies. I've just recently started on the MCITP for 2008 Enterprise Server Administration, and it became immediately apparent that without the availability of VMWare (at home), I wouldn't gain nearly as much from the study material. We don't have the same virtualization resources available for study use at work so I opt to spend my own time studying. - Sean On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Jon D rekcahp...@gmail.com wrote: I'm curious for those whose company requires them to get certifications, if the company also gives them time to study at work. One of the partners where I work wants me to get a new certification that's probably 1,000-1,400 hours of study time. Is it too much to ask for an hour a day of study time at work or no? Thanks in advance for any insight. Jon . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Win7 God mode?
Vista Business 32 Bit SP2 w/ latest patches. It works as local admin off the C drive. Also tested as non admin under the users Documents and it works but the applets are still blocked. Devin On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:43 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Anyone? http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10423985-56.html *David Lum** **// *SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 *// *(Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: looking for free helpdesk solution
We were going to do an eval of www.sysaid.com in the next month or two. IIRC it was very customizable. It's been a while since the demo :-). It had teaming and quite a bit for free or very low cost. hth, Devin On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Kim Longenbaugh k...@colonialsavings.comwrote: I dune go to places like that. -Original Message- From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 1:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: looking for free helpdesk solution Be forewarned, once you get involved with Spiceworks, they will spam your inbox vigorously. Has anyone here actually been to a Spiceworld? Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 -Original Message- From: Jeff Johnson [mailto:jjohn...@hydraflowusa.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 11:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: looking for free helpdesk solution I think this one is overkill for you, but anyone looking for a full suite of items for their job, you just can't beat this. Plus it's FREE! There is a built in help desk. http://www.spiceworks.com/ Jeff Johnson Systems Administrator 714-773-2600 Office 714-773-6351 Fax -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 7:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: looking for free helpdesk solution http://www.liberum.org/ On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 02:26, Laurence Childs laurence.chi...@btinternet.com wrote: Hi All i have been supporting a couple of local organisations for a few years now recently i was made redundant and have expanded the portfolio of customers that i support I'm looking for some way of logging support tickets that my customers raise so that i can track them and also perhaps report on them at the end of the month as I'm a small organisation i need something free, or as close to as possible i do remember something from a few years ago that was web based that ran on a local server with an MS access database back end but can't find it when searching the Internet recently if anybody knows of anything that may fit the bill could they point me in the right direction? thanks Laurence ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- If this email is spam, report it here: http://www.onlymyemail.com/view/?action=reportSpamId=ODEzNjQ6MTAyMjg3Nj c4MjpwanBAcHNuZXQuY29thttp://www.onlymyemail.com/view/?action=reportSpamId=ODEzNjQ6MTAyMjg3Nj%0Ac4MjpwanBAcHNuZXQuY29t THIS ELECTRONIC MESSAGE AND ANY ATTACHMENTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY PROPERTY OF THE SENDER. THE INFORMATION IS INTENDED FOR USE BY THE ADDRESSEE ONLY. ANY OTHER INTERCEPTION, COPYING, ACCESSING, OR DISCLOSURE OF THIS MESSAGE IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE SENDER AND DELETE THIS MAIL AND ALL ATTACHMENTS. DO NOT FORWARD THIS MESSAGE WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE SENDER. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: 2003 Server R2
Hence the old joke that disk two was R2D2. Couldn't resist. Devin On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Jeff Bunting bunting.j...@gmail.comwrote: Unless MS has changed this, disc 1 of R2 is plain old Windows 2003. Disc 2 has the R2 components, so you could just install disc 1 and not have to extend the schema immediately. Jeff On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:36 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Scenario: Domain and forest are 2003 Server (non R2) I can no longer download 2003 Server from MVLS, 2003 R2 is the oldest I can get. I need to stand up a new DC and 2003 R2 requires extending the schema. The powers that be are likely ask me what is to be gained from extending the schema other than being able to stand up a newer OS’d DC. I found the changes here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755834(WS.10).aspxhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755834%28WS.10%29.aspx I need to answer “why” with something other than “because it’s newer”. I also have a desire to go to 2008 DC’s in the near future but I will need to make a business case for that as well (2008 R2 AD recycle bin is a good one but I’ll want more ammo). *David Lum** **// *SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 *// *(Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Consultant PC on your network
We did what Terry did with spare desktops. Also setup wired and wireless internet only access outside our firewall. So far, no exceptions have been required. Our policy is very strict and we have separate labels on the conference jacks for company equipment and for outside equipment - also have the wireless SSID and pw on a card next to the phones. On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Terry Dickson te...@treasurer.state.ks.uswrote: We have to have Laptops for them, we are not allowed to let equipment from outside our org to attach to our wire without great exception. We currently have one multi-million dollar project and those consultants each have a Project Laptop to use. They hate that because they usually have their own also. But there is a public wireless that in most locations they can connect to with their personal computers. -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 10:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Consultant PC on your network What process do you guys use for allowing a consultant to put their PC on your wire? Surely there are some questions needing to be asked, like does it have AV and is patched, probably need to make sure it's not running some DHCP or other service that might disrupt your network, right? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Wtf! [Message clipped]
Yeah, me. But just for the Google Public DNS messages though, weird. On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: wtf? [Message clipped] Anyone else getting a bunch of gmail messages as [Message clipped] click to read full message? Steven ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Freakin mondays.
FWIW we put a 5 min UPS on all workstations 2 months ago. I explained many times that it allows you to SAVE your (#*$)@ FILE when the POWER GOES OUT. NO MORE! We then had a wind storm that killed power for about 2 blocks around us for about 12 hours. It was totally dark in the office. Major cloud cover and nobody could see to avoid the walls. I meander around (with flashlight) and see about half the users working away IN THE DARK. Some with flashlights on their keyboards. Geez. I go watch the server shut down automatically. Oh Joy. -Devin, BOFH and stuff. On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:39 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote: We too use APC... - RMc Ben Schorr b...@rolandschorr.com wrote on 11/23/2009 10:34:24 AM: What brand are you using? We’ve had almost no problems at all with American Power Conversion over the last 20 years – other than needing to replace the batteries every few years, as expected. Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer __ Roland Schorr Tower www.rolandschorr.com b...@rolandschorr.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bschorr From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 6:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Freakin mondays. OTOH, whenever we get a brown-out or sag, we almost always have one or more UPSs fail. I was told that was the difference between a $60 UPS and a $450 UPS. (The big ones make nice space heaters for winter, though...) -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCA® 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 Raper, Jonathan - Eagle jra...@eaglemds.com wrote on 11/23/2009 10:16:21 AM: Wax on….wax off… J Yeah, I’d have them order a new UPS too, probably… If the existing UPS didn’t last 5 minutes, then he must have a massive PC, an OLD UPS, a basically dead battery, or the software is set to shut the system down prematurely…. We consistently get 20 minutes of runtime (or more) from a BackUPS 750 ES for our desktop PCs…that model is a couple of years old too…and they cost less than $100… Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.com From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 11:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Freakin mondays. Breathe in, ... ... and breathe out. Hey if this dude wants a massive APC box under his desk, tell him to get it signed off. After all, all you got to do is plug it in and walk away (could install the software if he asks nicely). And breathe in, ... ... and breathe out. 2009/11/23 Phillip Partipilo p...@psnet.com Trying my hardest to not be too abrasive here. This sort of junk always happens on Mondays. This dork is complaining about a machine going down because the power went out for 5 minutes. The UPS is meant for power flickers. Come on man, our power company, Florida Power and Light, ie, FPL, is well known to be Frequent Power Loss. I hate Mondays. Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 THIS ELECTRONIC MESSAGE AND ANY ATTACHMENTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY PROPERTY OF THE SENDER. THE INFORMATION IS INTENDED FOR USE BY THE ADDRESSEE ONLY. ANY OTHER INTERCEPTION, COPYING, ACCESSING, OR DISCLOSURE OF THIS MESSAGE IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE SENDER AND DELETE THIS MAIL AND ALL ATTACHMENTS. DO NOT FORWARD THIS MESSAGE WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE SENDER. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ Any medical information contained in this electronic message is CONFIDENTIAL and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to view, copy, disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This electronic message may contain information that is confidential and/or legally privileged. It is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and/or entity named as recipients in the message. If you are not an intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete this material from your computer. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this message, and do not disclose its contents or take any action in reliance on the information that it contains. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Compaq nc6400 Laptop OEM ISO download?
HP Compaq NC6400 w/ a bad hard disk. It has a recovery partition, but we have no OEM CD's. I want to swap the HDD out. Is there a download from HP on this? I could not find anything but drivers and utilities. Maybe I can clone the recovery partition (which seems to be good) to a new disk. Thanks, Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: WSJ Reporter thinks IT departments should allow users to install whatever
He will now! On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: I suspect he may have all sorts of network performance issues as well… -sc *From:* Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, November 18, 2009 2:21 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: WSJ Reporter thinks IT departments should allow users to install whatever I liked how the WSJ IT staff refused to comment for the article. Webster *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] *Subject:* WSJ Reporter thinks IT departments should allow users to install whatever Discuss: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703567204574499032945309844.html I believe this is more an indictment of the low quality of journalism nowadays. It's little more than a rant on his employer's IT policies. In no instance does he discuss the measured effect of IT policies might have within an organization. He makes vague allusions to the productivity gains users could acheive if allowed to use any software they felt necessary to do their job. Near the end of the article he does finally discuss some of the valid reasons for constraining users ability to install shiny new software in order to be more productive. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: OT: Time estimate needed
Somewhat Off Tread but when we donate computer, we make the end user accept any license agreements. They also sign a form (attorney approved) absolving us of licensing issues. Upon purchase of new machines, we snapshot a box before first boot. When it's donated, restore it back and any original CD's (if we can find them). Can MS OFfice be set to OEM out-of-box-where-you-gotta-accept-big-fat-license-agreement? I think I saw that somewhere in the ORK. Surely someone on this list knows! Dont call me Shirley. -Devin On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Mike Hoffman m...@drumbrae.net wrote: If the machines are going to be sold on ebay then they will not be getting corporate copies of software. So unless you have one CD for Windows and Office for each then you are hard disk loading. If the machines have a COA on them then Windows is a safe bet, but I would put an Office Trial on each or else you might get implicated. If he then has the correct keys then he can put them in. Mike -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: 13 November 2009 16:11 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Time estimate needed On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 6:16 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: I'm just installing what he gives me. :-) Be warned that you may still be held liable for copyright/contract/license violations if it turns out this client didn't have the rights to do what he's asking you to do. I didn't know may sound good to you, but the courts don't always agree. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Portal laptop storage
We will soon have a Training Lab with 6 laptops. I have seen portable storage shelves that allowed you to power the laptops and lock them up. Anyone use this kind of thing? I want to be able to maintain them without continually setting them up. They are supposed to never leave the premises (yeah right) so they have no carry cases. Here is what I am seeing, anyone use these? http://www.datalinksales.com/secure_laptop_notebook_storage/multimedia_and_laptop_security_cart.html http://www.pc-security.com/products_solutions/carts_cabinets_cases/carts,_cabinets,_cases.htm El-cheapo version of above. Those kind of wheels always break: https://www.schooloutfitters.com/catalog/product_family_info/cPath/CAT11_CAT116/pfam_id/PFAM9030 Minimal and looks fairly heavy duty. May be adequate (I can put a power strip in!). https://www.schooloutfitters.com/catalog/product_family_info/cPath/CAT11_CAT116/pfam_id/PFAM697 TIA, Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Portal laptop storage
It's not for a school, its for IT training in a corporate environment. We use Dell and they have tons of them, never even thought about Dell. A little pricey though. This may work: http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Security_and_Protection/productdetail.aspx?c=usl=encs=04sku=A2257322 Many thanks Sam, Devin On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Sam Cayze sam.ca...@rollouts.com wrote: Check with you PC Provider, I am pretty sure both Apple and Dell stock these - you might get the best gain if you are using an educational discount from these vendors. (Making an assumption this is for a school...) *Sam Cayze* Information Technology Administrator *ROLLOUTS** **ONSITE • ON DEMAND** * LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/samcayze Facebook Profile http://www.facebook.com/samcayze -- *From:* Devin Meade [mailto:devin.me...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, November 13, 2009 4:19 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Portal laptop storage We will soon have a Training Lab with 6 laptops. I have seen portable storage shelves that allowed you to power the laptops and lock them up. Anyone use this kind of thing? I want to be able to maintain them without continually setting them up. They are supposed to never leave the premises (yeah right) so they have no carry cases. Here is what I am seeing, anyone use these? http://www.datalinksales.com/secure_laptop_notebook_storage/multimedia_and_laptop_security_cart.html http://www.pc-security.com/products_solutions/carts_cabinets_cases/carts,_cabinets,_cases.htm El-cheapo version of above. Those kind of wheels always break: https://www.schooloutfitters.com/catalog/product_family_info/cPath/CAT11_CAT116/pfam_id/PFAM9030 Minimal and looks fairly heavy duty. May be adequate (I can put a power strip in!). https://www.schooloutfitters.com/catalog/product_family_info/cPath/CAT11_CAT116/pfam_id/PFAM697 TIA, Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Desktop Management
We purchased Landesk management suite with patch management just over a year ago. It has really decreased the time spent on patching. All the friggin adobe deployment problems you hear about... no problem. We *just* purchased the appl virt add-on, have not had time to look at it. This uses Vmware ThinApp (they acquired it). Our two-person help desk staff (me and the guy over the cubicle) use the remote-control all the time - it works well. We don't have the management gateway, but with that piece, you can extend remote control (and the rest of the suite) to road warriors. As far as the LD software deployment piece, it is about to be totally ve-vamped in the next month or two. From their newsgroups and user-groups, the beta testers **really** like it. We decided to wait on the new released for app deployment. The current version (v 8.8) requires a second server (not a deal killer) but is a little long in the tooth, so we wait ~6 weeks. I have had a few issues and had very good (non India) support. They have an active discussion group. Landesk sponsors a quarterly user-group meeting (providing lunch) and that has been superb to catch some ideas on how to use the product. It's a big initial purchase (about than $100 a seat IIRC), but the annual renewals are about 20% of that. We test drove Altiris and could not stand it. The one thing I really like with LanDesk patch manager is the scheduling options - just about any deploy schedule you can muster up it can do. It also reports in real time during patch deployment. We ran WSUS3 before, which worked well for us. We/I have been very pleased with this product, it's not without issues (what is?). Oh yeah, when we demoed this, I could not really test the product in the free trial time period (30 or 60 days??), they extended the 100 user free trial for us - twice. FYI - We purchased our servers and workstation through Dell, and they gave us a deal on this, or so they said :-) hope this helps, Devin On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Tom Miller tmil...@hnncsb.org wrote: I'm really looking at my options, and it's nice to hear I'm not the only one struggling with this product. It has a huge following, and seems to work well for those entities that can dedicate full-time staff to desktop management - not possible here, and it was not necessary with Zen. Kace, Landesk, Altiris (sort of not really since it's now owned by Symantec), Quest... Install clientwait...create app deployment...waitcreate patch deployment...wait Lots of waiting with this product. Ray rz...@qwest.net 11/3/2009 4:15 PM We’re using SCCM, sort of, having migrated from Zen also. We call it SCUM. Tons and tons of functionality, although we could care less about most of it. For Imaging it appears to be mediocre. For remote control it’s also mediocre, if we can even get it to work. No CTRL-ALT-DELETE seems silly. I will also point out that I’m not too involved with its rollout. From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 1:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Desktop Management Have it now - don't like it. Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com 11/3/2009 3:40 PM Depending on the size try looking at the various System Center products. Jon On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Tom Miller tmil...@hnncsb.org wrote: Hi All, I'm looking for desktop management products primarily for 1) application installation/distribution, 2) patching (MS or otherwise) and 3) inventorying. Other items are bonus. I used Novell Zenworks in the past and that was good but now is too expensive. I started over the last six months using Microsoft Configuration Manager. While I like it, I'm spending much more time on it that I did with Zen. There's been discussion of Kace and that looks like a possible alternative. Anyone have any others to recommend? Thanks 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. 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. 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,
Re: OT error loading ssl cert onto wm 6.1 phone
We have had cert problems if the date and time is wrong on the phone. I had one phone that the year was . . . minus 10! hth, Devin On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Sean Rector sean.rec...@vaopera.org wrote: One other thing – my certs were saved as .CER files. I don’t know if that makes a difference. I forgot one more thing… On the WM phones, I copy them to a documents folder, then simply double-click the certificate file to install it on the phone. Sean Rector, MCSE From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com] Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 3:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT error loading ssl cert onto wm 6.1 phone I have gone thru the steps that Simon Butler lays out and I am still getting the error on the phone. 85010014. Dumb question but which cert am I grabbing from the exchange server to load onto the phone? The email.domain.com in personal folders or in the trusted root CA UTN-USERFirst-Hardware that it is issued by? Thanks still struggling with this. From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 7:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT error loading ssl cert onto wm 6.1 phone Hi, ActiveSync works by sending requests directly to the configured ActiveSync web application. All the information about the user, and what command it wants to run etc. are contained within the querystring of the request. The The ActiveSync client doesn't have a way of negotiating past the FBA login screen, which might explain why it's failing. Cheers Ken From: Eldridge, Dave [...@parkviewmc.com] Sent: Thursday, 29 October 2009 8:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT error loading ssl cert onto wm 6.1 phone thanks From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 3:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT error loading ssl cert onto wm 6.1 phone Yes, I had to setup a second virtual directory, fba ActiveSync don't like each other. Check Daniel Petri's web site for the how to's on setting up a second vd. On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Eldridge, Dave d...@parkviewmc.com wrote: No single server. I have fba enabled along with ssl. The article Richard mentioned talks about doing this second virtual directory. From: Carol Fee [mailto:c...@massbar.org] Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 3:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT error loading ssl cert onto wm 6.1 phone Yes we do and no we did not. Are you using FE/BE setup ? CFee From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 4:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT error loading ssl cert onto wm 6.1 phone Yea that pertains to loading the cert into the phone’s root cert. We verified that. It’s amazing how varied the responses are to this issue. J Do you have wm accessing your exchange? If so did you create an additional virtual directory? From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 2:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT error loading ssl cert onto wm 6.1 phone Try this link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/915840 On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Carol Fee c...@massbar.org wrote: If I remember correctly, the cert has to be installed in the Root certs on the phone. CFee From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 3:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT error loading ssl cert onto wm 6.1 phone Looking for some guidance here. Right up front I have no experience with mobile phones and I now I have to start supporting a bunch of these. My boss has a Samsung i760 running wm 6.1 and is getting the following error code 85010014 I have done the following to export the cert off the exchange server 2003 sp2. Opened up mmc and certs. Went to personal folder. Right click my web cert called email.domain.com, export, no to export the private key Select crypto (p7b) as the file extension. Give a file name and load onto phone The cert does install on the phone but gets an error code of 85010014 when trying to connect to exchange. What am I missing here? This shouldn’t be this hard. Any ideas? Thanks Can’t wait until the BES part of this project comes up also. J This e-mail contains the thoughts and opinions of the sender and does not represent official Parkview Medical Center policy. This communication is intended only for the recipient(s) named above, may be confidential and/or legally privileged: and, must be treated as such in accordance with state and federal laws. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use of this communication, or any of its contents, is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please return
Re: What else would you tell this user?
+999E999 On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Phillip Partipilo p...@psnet.com wrote: +1 I agree that a certain point is reached where I don’t even want the users money any more. Sometimes I want to pay them to stay as far away from me as possible. Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 11:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What else would you tell this user? I personally like the ball-peen hammer technique used in “Casino”. From: Lee Douglas [mailto:lee.doug...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 9:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: What else would you tell this user? Had one the other day with Windows Police Pro on it and couldn't boot into safe mode, couldn't run the task manager fix and couldn't load / run MBytes. After about 2 1/2 hours (shouldn't have spent more than 10 minutes, but I'm stubborn), I finally prescribed a format re-install. I can sort of understand how the Trojan authors get off on their cleverness, but I'm advocating that we bring back public flogging, just for them... On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:50 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote: 1. Often, these trojans will keep REAL anti-malware applications from running. However, if the system can be booted into Safe Mode (I came across one that could not!), MalwareBytes at least ought to run. 2. They guy is being prevented from downloading MBytes or anything else on that machine. He will need to obtain a copy of MBytes or VIPRERESCUE elsewhere and install from portable media. 3. I've seen entirely too many of these occurrences on systems with McAfee on them. Good luck! -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCA® 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richardmccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 www.aspca.org The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals® (ASPCA®) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. David W. McSpadden dav...@imcu.com wrote on 10/27/2009 09:40:36 AM: Follow this thread from top to bottom. What else would you tell this home user?? I don’t understand how this keeps happening I have Microsoft security running also but I am getting tierd of this junk these things need to find another home besides mine From: David McSpadden Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:32 AM To: xx Subject: RE: Home Computer Sure. From: xx Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:30 AM To: David McSpadden Subject: RE: Home Computer Ok I will try tonight if I cant do you want it back? From: David McSpadden Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:28 AM To: xx Subject: RE: Home Computer Those pictures are a part of the Trojan/virus/thingy. Yes if you can get on the internet you can find it by googling for Microsoft security essentials download. From: xx Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:26 AM To: David McSpadden Subject: RE: Home Computer So I will just find that on the internet? If I can get on the net because when I tried last night I couldn’t get around all the pop ups ( I will get those pics to you asap LOL) So does that mean someone has been looking at that stuff or is that just the possible virus causing that to pop up ? From: David McSpadden Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:19 AM To: xx Subject: RE: Home Computer I think you should send me the naughty pictures for an objective opinion. Also, I think you should download Microsoft’s Free Security Essentials virsus/spyware scanner. It is quick and easy. All you have to do it tell it when and what to scan. That might find something your Mcafee doesn’t. From: xx Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:11 AM To: David McSpadden Subject: Home Computer Hi It’s me again….. I think my computer has issues again I have been getting pop ups telling me my computer could be infected but it wasn’t from Mcafee so I ignored it then mcafee would pop up and say it blocked a trojen so I thought I was ok but last night when I tried to get into my email naughty pics poped up? So I thought I would run a full scan but couldn’t get into mcafee. What do you think If this email is spam, report it here:
Re: Exchange 10 or 7?
We plan on moving from Exchange 2003 to 2010. Possibly with two
servers doing database replication.
Question: I am budgeting Exchange Server CALS and Exchange server
itself on new hardware. We currently have Outlook 2007 CALS, will
those work with Exchange 2010? We don't plan on upgrading Outlook
until probably 2011.
Thanks,
Devin
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com wrote:
Since SBS follows the version of Windows, you might wish for SBS 2008 R2 to
include E2010. But I wouldn't hold my breath.
Carl
From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com]
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 10:12 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 10 or 7?
I wonder if there is going to be a SBS 2010 to include e2k10
Phillip Partipilo
Parametric Solutions Inc.
Jupiter, Florida
(561) 747-6107
From: Sean Rector [mailto:sean.rec...@vaopera.org]
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 8:42 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 10 or 7?
As my mailbox is the only one set up on our 2k7 setup, I’m definitely going
to go to 2k10.
Sean Rector, MCSE
From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org]
Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 5:19 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 10 or 7?
Going to 2010 prolly here also, lots of good stuff in the new exchange…
Z
Edward Ziots
Network Engineer
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From: Leedy, Andy [mailto:ale...@butlerahs.com]
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 11:16 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 10 or 7?
+1
From what I’ve heard CAS/HUBS can be on the same box as MB servers. Less
hardware. J
From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com]
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 11:07 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 10 or 7?
You’re going to be doing the work twice to go from 2007 to 2010. There’s no
in place upgrade or anything like that.
If you’re just running one box then it seems logical to me that going
straight to 2010 would be A LOT easier and cheaper in the long run.
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com
c - 312.731.3132
From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org]
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 9:46 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange 10 or 7?
I have been using Exchange 03 here at the Museum for a few years. I have
Exchange 07 software, we are a non-profit so licenses are cheap. But I was
wondering if I should skip over 07 and go right to 10. Is this a harder
upgrade? Impossible? Anyone done it? Either way, I would use another server,
faster with 6 times the RAM of our 03 machine and run either over Server 08,
64-bit. And then transfer over a couple of weeks. One of my admin buddies
from another firm says best to go with 7, impress everyone, and then go with
10 in a year or two. I also have a problem mentioned earlier with too many
of the employees saving too much in their Inboxes, so I would give them an
increase to save even more ridiculous stuff.
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Re: Exchange 10 or 7?
Probably a second server, a PowerEdge R410 or R510. I am just reading about Ex2010 db replication. The main server will probably be a PE2900II with DAS. We use double-take for file server replication, using DT for exchange server replication gives me shudders. I know we should be using shared storage, but I can't get that to fly, so I am proposing server-to-server replication. Upper mgt wants some kind of HA but says no to a storage array with ESX etc. Then we can compare those numbers. We only have two servers that are mission critical, so using shared storage does not give us much economy of scale. Devin On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.com wrote: What do you plan to use to do database replication? On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Devin Meade devin.me...@gmail.com wrote: We plan on moving from Exchange 2003 to 2010. Possibly with two servers doing database replication. Question: I am budgeting Exchange Server CALS and Exchange server itself on new hardware. We currently have Outlook 2007 CALS, will those work with Exchange 2010? We don't plan on upgrading Outlook until probably 2011. Thanks, Devin On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com wrote: Since SBS follows the version of Windows, you might wish for SBS 2008 R2 to include E2010. But I wouldn't hold my breath. Carl From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 10:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 10 or 7? I wonder if there is going to be a SBS 2010 to include e2k10 Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 From: Sean Rector [mailto:sean.rec...@vaopera.org] Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 8:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 10 or 7? As my mailbox is the only one set up on our 2k7 setup, I’m definitely going to go to 2k10. Sean Rector, MCSE From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 5:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 10 or 7? Going to 2010 prolly here also, lots of good stuff in the new exchange… Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + ezi...@lifespan.org Phone:401-639-3505 From: Leedy, Andy [mailto:ale...@butlerahs.com] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 11:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 10 or 7? +1 From what I’ve heard CAS/HUBS can be on the same box as MB servers. Less hardware. J From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 11:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 10 or 7? You’re going to be doing the work twice to go from 2007 to 2010. There’s no in place upgrade or anything like that. If you’re just running one box then it seems logical to me that going straight to 2010 would be A LOT easier and cheaper in the long run. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 9:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 10 or 7? I have been using Exchange 03 here at the Museum for a few years. I have Exchange 07 software, we are a non-profit so licenses are cheap. But I was wondering if I should skip over 07 and go right to 10. Is this a harder upgrade? Impossible? Anyone done it? Either way, I would use another server, faster with 6 times the RAM of our 03 machine and run either over Server 08, 64-bit. And then transfer over a couple of weeks. One of my admin buddies from another firm says best to go with 7, impress everyone, and then go with 10 in a year or two. I also have a problem mentioned earlier with too many of the employees saving too much in their Inboxes, so I would give them an increase to save even more ridiculous stuff. ** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information transmitted in this message is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this document. Thank you. Butler Animal Health Supply ** Information Technology Manager Virginia Opera Association E-Mail: sean.rec...@vaopera.org Phone: (757
Re: Quick hardware recommendation
We have a number of Adaptec 3405 PCIe cards. With Western Digital RE3 SATA 3 drives they can write about 75% as quick as our Poweredge 2900 using SAS drives. Get the optional battery if you use this. Also, the get VERY HOT, we have extra slot fans for these. Devin On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone? On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 09:05, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: All, I've got a Supermicro box with an Intel motherboard in it that is having issues with the motherboard RAID controller. - it's an Adaptec SATA HostRAID controller, and it's choking on the load we've given it. Anyone have a good recommendation for an add-in RAID1 controller that I can move the OS to? There are 6 other drives in the chassis in a RAID5 array, and they're on a 3ware 9550SX controller, which seems to be performing just fine, but I want the OS on a separate controller for better throughput. Thanks, Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Buffalo TeraStation III
We are considering this for a NAS device. I see some rave reviews here on this newsgroup and on Amazon. I also see some horrific tech support stories on Amazon reviews. But can you really trust Amazon reviews? I also see a range of bad / good reviews on cnet.com (most from prior to 2008, but one from 4 mos ago). The majority of the negative reviews are for replacement hard drives, that ought to be easy-peasy-lemon-squeazy to fix. Hmmkay. Anyway I see that they have new firmware which fixes a multitude of problems. I see good reviews for the most part for the last year or so - maybe they have their ducks lined up now. Has anyone used one of these AND had a disk failure that was resolved like it should be? http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-reviews/30790-the-terastation-reborn-buffalo-terastation-iii-reviewed I see they are using SATA 3. That was too hard to find out. http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/index.php?option=com_nasItemid=chart=12 Shows 55MB / sec write performance - on a 2 drive setup. No RAID5 numbers??? Does anyone have a RAID5 setup and have write performance numbers? We are considering the 4 drive array using 2TB drives (giving us 6TB usable). ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Buffalo TeraStation III
Thanks guys - we are budgeting for next year. Maybe we will know more then. On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Ben Schorr b...@rolandschorr.com wrote: I haven't looked at the III but the biggest problem we saw with the earlier versions was that there was NO provision for file or folder-level security. You could ONLY apply security at the SHARE level. Which rendered the unit mostly useless for our business clients. I hope they've fixed that because otherwise I really like their devices. Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer __ Roland Schorr Tower www.rolandschorr.com b...@rolandschorr.com -Original Message- From: Devin Meade [mailto:devin.me...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 9:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Buffalo TeraStation III We are considering this for a NAS device. I see some rave reviews here on this newsgroup and on Amazon. I also see some horrific tech support stories on Amazon reviews. But can you really trust Amazon reviews? I also see a range of bad / good reviews on cnet.com (most from prior to 2008, but one from 4 mos ago). The majority of the negative reviews are for replacement hard drives, that ought to be easy-peasy-lemon-squeazy to fix. Hmmkay. Anyway I see that they have new firmware which fixes a multitude of problems. I see good reviews for the most part for the last year or so - maybe they have their ducks lined up now. Has anyone used one of these AND had a disk failure that was resolved like it should be? http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-reviews/30790-the-terastation- reborn-buffalo-terastation-iii-reviewed I see they are using SATA 3. That was too hard to find out. http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/index.php?option=com_nasItemid=ch art=12 Shows 55MB / sec write performance - on a 2 drive setup. No RAID5 numbers??? Does anyone have a RAID5 setup and have write performance numbers? We are considering the 4 drive array using 2TB drives (giving us 6TB usable). ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Deleting printer from XP
Were they deployed via Group Policy? If so, you will get an access denied message when you try to delete it. On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:09 PM, N Parr npar...@mortonind.com wrote: I have a couple XP SP3 workstations that can't delete any printers that are installed and shared on other computers. Anyone ever run in to this? It has to be something on the workstation side because some of the printers are installed on other XP workstations and 2000/2003 servers and I can't delete any of them. But I can just fine from other workstations. Bouncing the spooler, rebooting doesn't help. I can't find anything helpful googling because the search terms fit so many problems. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Clipboard funkyness
Could you have a password manager that clears the clipboard upon exit or minimize? Password safe has this option. Devin On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Candee Vaglica can...@gmail.com wrote: It works for me... XP PRO SP3; Outlook 2007, Word 2007 All SP's/fixes On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: OK, so while back I was whin^H^H^H^Hmentioning about the Windows clipboard behavior change. I’ve finally figured out one of the combinations that reproduces it for me. -WinXP + all SP’s/fixes -Office 2K7 + all SP’s/fixes 1) Compose document in Word. Type some junk and CTRL+C to clipboard. 2) Test by pasting a few times in to same document. Data remains on clipboard for multiple pastes. 3) Switch to Outlook. Reply to a message[1] and type a few things in the message body (you don’t have to actually send). 4) Switch back to Word and paste. Nothing. Nada. Zip. This is annoying and breaks long-standing proper clipboard behavior IMO. I’ll attempt on a couple of other machines/platforms as well. -sc [1]- For some reason composing a new email doesn’t trigger it, where a Reply does. -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Block device from DHCP scope
You could give it a bogus address, then use an alert system to ping that address (if it will return one) to let you know to go hunting. On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:26 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.comwrote: Cheers, I did have some thoughts down that route, but didn't know whether you could give it a bad address in terms of the scope or not. Shows you how long it is since I set up any DHCP stuff. Let's wait for the support call from the idiot telling me he can't access the internet from work with his (or her) IPhone any more... 2009/9/16 Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com Agreed just grab the Mac address and give it the address 127.0.0.1 as a reservation with the same address as the gateway. Lots of fun. Jon On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:10 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Sure… can you get the MAC address of that device? If so, just give it a static assignment that is “bad” and you’re all set. J Not quite what you had in mind, but it works quite well. J [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, September 16, 2009 11:07 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Block device from DHCP scope Anyway I can block a device from obtaining an IP address from our DHCP scope? I have a rogue IPhone that appears intermittently on my DHCP range. I haven't managed to find out who it is yet but if I do I will be sure to address it via HRturning off the wireless unfortunately is not an option. I know the user could probably bang in some static settings to get around the block, but seeing as though our users can't save things in the right folders, I'm relying on them not being savvy enough to enter some network settings themselves. Thanks for all ideas... -- 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. http://raythestray.blogspot.com -- 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. http://raythestray.blogspot.com -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
Re: Disk based backup
FYI Backup Exec 2010 is to be released in March. This next batch of products from Symantec promises De-Dupe Everywhere. Yep uh-huh it's vaporware from (cough) Symantec... I bet that we are about to see a ton of backup products that will do de-dupe. The quotes we got from Exagrid were 2-3 timesmore than yours :-). I expect the Symantec products to be less capable than Exagrid / DataDomainEMC / etc, but at *hopefully* a small fraction of the cost. I wonder if our firm - at about 4TB nightly - has the economy of scale to use D2D. We may do D2D2T for offiste DR. We certainly can't use these product's ability for offsite delta replication to another disk array. We have no second office. I wonder if we could get a hosting service to host an offiste DR box like this... On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Evan Brastow ebras...@automatedemblem.com wrote: Hi guys, I wanted to thank everyone for their suggestions… I looked at Exagrid, DataDoimain and FalconStor, and I think I left out a key fact in my email… budget! My apologies! Exagrid and DataDomain were in the $18k to $22k range from what I saw (with their lowest-end offerings) and I didn’t get a chance to see the cost of FalconStor. I paid about $5500 for my Tandberg T24 library which gave me 38TB of compressed storage (800GB/1.6TB per tape.) As far as off site storage, I hadn’t actually thought about that when thinking of moving to disk based backup. That could complicate things a bit as I was just taking one backup tape per month on a Sunday and moving it off-site. Software-wise, I’m using Backup Exec 12 and it isn’t killing me, so I’ll probably stick with that as I still have support and maintenance agreements for it. I’m able to get a quote of about $3500 for a Tandberg T24 with a 12 slot magazine (instead of the 24 slot my current one has, where I only use 12 slots anyway) for $3500, which seems to be a good buy for the route I want to go. It’s cheap, and I’ll get an extended warranty with this one. Make sense to people? Thanks again for your time and help! Evan From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 9:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Disk based backup Do you want to do pure D2D? Or would you want to look at Virtual Tape? Do you have any plans for off-site storage? Or will you replicate to a separate site? Exagrid is one option, as it FalconStor. On the software side, you can look at products like Ultrabac, unless you're happy with your existing backup vendor. -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker Providing Competitive Advantage through Effective IT Leadership On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Evan Brastow ebras...@automatedemblem.com wrote: Hi guys, I did a search on subject headings for this year to see if I could find anything about this, but nothing jumped out at me. I have a 1-1/2 year old Tandberg Data T24 storage library and the drive just bit the dust six months out of warranty. Tandberg has told me (as expected,) “If it turns out the repair and service agreement is close to the cost of a new unit, that might serve as an option for you as well.” Before I go down the route of fix or replace I’m wondering if I should look into disk based backup? I’m looking to backup about 1.5 TB per night in a window that is about six hours in length between backup and verify. Anyone have disk based backup that’s fast and working for them? Thanks, Evan -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: [OT] Phone number to tell you your phone number.
1-800-444- On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Phillip Partipilo p...@psnet.com wrote: In a previous life, I worked in telecom biz. There was this great phone number we used when we clipped a buttset up and you called this number, and a computer answered and told you the phone number you are calling from. That's all it did. We're in the process of going VoIP and our ancient phone system is a complete mess of spaghetti! Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 THIS ELECTRONIC MESSAGE AND ANY ATTACHMENTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY PROPERTY OF THE SENDER. THE INFORMATION IS INTENDED FOR USE BY THE ADDRESSEE ONLY. ANY OTHER INTERCEPTION, COPYING, ACCESSING, OR DISCLOSURE OF THIS MESSAGE IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE SENDER AND DELETE THIS MAIL AND ALL ATTACHMENTS. DO NOT FORWARD THIS MESSAGE WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE SENDER. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Restores from Incremental backups
Palindrome was acquired Seagate was acquired by Veritas was acquired by Symantec. Seagate dropped support for Palindrome about a year after acquisition. That was around 1992? We used the Tower of Hanoi / G/F/S rotation scheme. It would give you a total history of any file by browsing to it. You could select a folder (or file) and say restore. It would prompt you as to what tape to insert. It also kept a db of what tapes should be offsite/onsite. Reminded me of CA-11 from the IBM 3090 days. Twas all character graphics! Devin On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote: like the old Palindrome, used a Tower of Hanoi rotation scheme, restore a file/folder/system and it would tell you the specific ( and minimum ) tapes required ... but isn't that basically the predecessor of Symantec's NetBackup product ? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 2:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Restores from Incremental backups I think the point was the software (BackupExec, I'm guessing) should be able to understand incremental restores and not rely on the operator to have to manually find select each incremental copy for the restore. I always thought that was an obvious feature it lacked. Not being able to tell be how much disk space a restore was going to need was another. On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 5:10 PM, jesse-r...@wi.rr.com jesse-r...@wi.rr.com wrote: I understand the whole differential versus incremental pros/cons. ... So, that's why I was wondering about an easier method to restore incremental backups. If you really understand, why are you looking for something you obviously can't do? :-) Incremental only store the data since the last incremental, so you need all the incremental to restore all your data. If you don't use all the media you don't have all the data. There's no magic wand that re-creates data you don't have (as many people have discovered, much to their dismay). ... with the files changing in some cases as much as they do, especially the backing up of flat database files, and other things, differentials would hurt us ... One strategy is monthly full, weekly differential, and daily incremental. That way, the worst case is restoring a full, a diff, and and four incs, instead of a month worth of incs. Another strategy is different schedules and rotations for your different data sets. Example: Some data that doesn't change often or much, but you have a lot of it. Do fulls every few months, plus differentials once a week or whatever. Some other data changes every day and overwrites old data. Do fulls every day of just that data. Etc. It should in theory be possible to have a backup system that knows how much data has changed, and automatically does diff or inc based on that, but I've never encountered such. Maybe the more expensive stuff, like Tivoli. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: group policy updating
Try RSOP.MSC on the machine in question. hth, Devin On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Joseph Heatonjhea...@dfg.ca.gov wrote: I'm updating a group policy, to add a login banner. Some of the machines in question had one, but they were added manually either to the Local Security Policy, or directly to the registry. I've gone in, deleted any entries in these two locations, I've run gpupdate /force, and logged out and back in. When I do this, some machines show the correct banner, and show it in Local Security Policy, grayed out, which tells me it's getting it from GP. Other machines don't seem to be updating, even after sitting for a while.The successes and failures vary from 2k3 to 2k8, physical, and virtual boxes. Anyone have any idea what I can look at to troubleshoot this? I've gone into GPMC, and run the Group Policy Results tool, using my account on the boxes in question, and the results come back saying that the desired group policy is supposed to be affecting it. Thanks, Joseph L. Heaton Windows Server Support Group Information Technology Branch Department of Fish and Game 1807 13th Street, Suite 201 Sacramento, CA 95811 Desk: (916) 323-1284 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: On Topic-ish: 67 terabytes, one box, under US$8k
I like the lighter fluid on the laptop video. I was expecting more smoke! On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Maglinger, Paulpmaglin...@scvl.com wrote: Wow, that might acutally satisfy our DBAs... for a year or two... :-) -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 11:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: On Topic-ish: 67 terabytes, one box, under US$8k http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build- cheap-cloud-storage/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: dell.com down?
Yes. I can't get to the quote page. Gmail was for a while too. C/B they run PowerEdge servers? On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Eldridge, Daved...@parkviewmc.com wrote: Anyone else? This e-mail contains the thoughts and opinions of the sender and does not represent official Parkview Medical Center policy. This communication is intended only for the recipient(s) named above, may be confidential and/or legally privileged: and, must be treated as such in accordance with state and federal laws. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use of this communication, or any of its contents, is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please return to sender and delete the message from your computer system. -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
APC vs Dell 19inch racks
We will be getting a 19 inch 42u rack for our current PE2950 and future Dell PowerEdge servers. It will house servers and possibly a disk array. Is that considered medium density? We already have some APC metered PDU's (AP7830's) on a 16KVA Symettra UPS. They are 0U' PDU's, which I suppose is a standard for PDU's. I want to mount two of these PDU's per rack, as we use redundant power supplies in our servers. Should they be mounted on either side, in the rear? Dell offers a Versa Rail so the server can be slid like a drawer, while keeping the cables managed. Is that worth it? I would think that we should use APC accessories with APC racks, and Dell acc's with Dell racks. Do you like APC over Dell? Other players? We will start with one rack, and possibly add to that in a year as tower servers are retired. This is in a dedicated, locked room with dedicated A/C. No raised floor though. I have seen plenty of APC racks in the field, but no Dell, maybe I have the answer... I am considering a Dell 4220, APC NetShelter and those units at Graybar down the street, whatever they are (hmm must go look now) Thanks . . . and have a great weekend! Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: OT: Our profession has been exposed
Re-imaging a system that has an unknown problem can part of the problem isolation process. Problem isolation as a part of troubleshooting is a lost art. So is verification that you followed a written procedure, but I do digress... I keep seeing entry level techs that want to fly by the seat of their pants. They are dying to prove they know how to defrag or chkdsk or run malwarebytes or whatever. They don't want to define the problem and then record their actions. On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Rayrz...@qwest.net wrote: But all too often IT is running leaner, as well as the endusers could be. Techs screwing around for 1/2 hour or longer just cause downtime for both parties. -Original Message- From: Charlie Kaiser [mailto:charl...@golden-eagle.org] Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 7:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: Our profession has been exposed Troubleshooting is an extremely valuable tool. Curing a symptom doesn't fix a problem. Even a wipe and rebuild can be ineffective if the root cause is elsewhere. It's one thing to wipe/rebuild a desktop machine for a problem, but when it's a strange issue with an exchange box, or SQL server, or DC, it's not always an option, much less the best one. And it's kind of embarrassing to wipe a PC, return it to service, and have the same problem crop up again later that day. Doesn't look very professional, IMO. Being able to troubleshoot is a skill that has, to a great degree, been lost in our business. That's why we end up with things like that sysadmin flowchart. There's an art and skill to methodical diagnosis that differentiates the artisans from the parts changers... There's also an art in knowing when to wipe and when to troubleshoot... :-) *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 7:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: Our profession has been exposed +1 Time is money. Having said that sometimes I will troubleshoot out of curiosity even after it's obvious blowing away and starting over is faster - I get a burning desire to know WHAT happened. Sometimes that tidbit pays huge dividends later, or sometimes knowing exactly what happened amazes other tech's. Dave From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 7:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: Our profession has been exposed lost art? Or (in most cases) it's just not cost effective. From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 10:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: Our profession has been exposed That's how our field techs resolve a lot of issues. Troubleshooting is a lost art form, to most techs today. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com From: Lee Douglas [mailto:lee.doug...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 9:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Our profession has been exposed One thing they left out is to format the drive and start over - I've heard that a lot on this forum g On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: Sigh, Who Ratted us all out. they should be TARRED and feathered. Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + ezi...@lifespan.org Phone:401-639-3505 From: Candee Vaglica [mailto:can...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 7:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Our profession has been exposed I *love* it! On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Now anyone can be a sysadmin/tech support person: http://xkcd.com/627/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Monitor: regular or widescreen
It depends on the work being done. Our users have two screens. Our CAD jockeys have a a 22 and a 17 and can put more drawing on the 22 w/o the annoyance of two monitors. Some will put the toolbars on the 17. Our E-mail / Word / Excel jockeys use two 17's and like to be able to snap the app to one or the other monitor, widescreen is a waste for them. We have one user who just can't handle the truth of using 2 monitors but I digress. I know you asked about using one monitor, but there ya go. Devin On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Tom Miller tmil...@hnncsb.org wrote: Folks, Im about to start purchasing for our annual PC refresh cycle. I normally purchase 17 monitors (we are a Dell shop) but I see I can get 19 regular and 19 wide screen for just a bit more. Anyone care to comment on the benefit of wide v. regular size? Thanks, Tom Miller Engineer, Information Technology Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board 757-788-0528 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. -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Monitor: regular or widescreen
We purchased one system with a 22 widescreen and 17 normal screen as a demo unit. The first one was sent back and then we got a second one. We tested more than just the dual monitor setup (CPU, vid card, ram, etc...). We had a few select users test drive it for a day or two each and then got feedback. Not everyone agreed but we went into the test stating that we would order uniform machines, no one-off's! On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Joe Heaton jhea...@etp.ca.gov wrote: I have to say that I think I fall into this type of user. I’ve never used dual monitors. I currently have a 21” wide screen, and many windows open during the day. I’ve never had that much of a problem just going down to the taskbar and switching windows there. Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel *From:* Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] *Sent:* Monday, August 10, 2009 9:40 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Monitor: regular or widescreen “*Why not ask your users what they want?”* *They won’t know.** * *I deployed dual monitors to all my employees way back, and many didn’t even understand why, some didn’t want it. 2 weeks later I asked them how it was working out, and they ALL agreed that they didn’t know how they ever got by without one. (In our business – dual monitors is a must). * *It’s actually made employees not want to work from home anymore because they can’t function with one monitor. Many now have 2 monitors at home.* *Sam* *From:* Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] *Sent:* Monday, August 10, 2009 11:31 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Monitor: regular or widescreen *Why not ask your users what they want?* * * *Thanks,* *Brian Desmond* *br...@briandesmond.com* * * *c - 312.731.3132* * * *From:* Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] *Sent:* Monday, August 10, 2009 11:03 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Monitor: regular or widescreen Folks, Im about to start purchasing for our annual PC refresh cycle. I normally purchase 17 monitors (we are a Dell shop) but I see I can get 19 regular and 19 wide screen for just a bit more. Anyone care to comment on the benefit of wide v. regular size? Thanks, Tom Miller Engineer, Information Technology Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board 757-788-0528 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. -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: LinkedIn
Aaruughhh Deskworks 36 nightmares! I knew just about all the PF key assignments for that little jewel. PF12 we re-calc I think. Press that and everyone takes a coffee break while your spreadsheet re-calculated (then you go fix errors and do it again). I think it had ~8 inch floppy disk cartridges or something like that. Good times, good times. On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: Nice! The System/36 at our company had a mechanical “life system” in it where in you attached a ratchet to a hex head crank and ratcheted the disc pack up so you could get at the guts underneath it. First time I saw a computer that needed sockets the same size I used on my car engine. -sc *From:* Len Hammond [mailto:lenhammo...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, August 10, 2009 4:02 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: LinkedIn I've got one of those in my garage to save for posterity. Weighs about 100 pounds and the drive motor is 1/3 horsepower. Was 'huge' too, by the standards of the day - 550MB. It had 4 each 14 platters. When I retired the VAX it was attached to I pulled the other one apart and most of us in the company signed a platter and presented it to the company owner president to remember the VAX by. Len Hammond CSI:Hartland lenhamm...@gmail.com On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: C’mon… belt-driven hard disks are uber c00l! -sc *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, August 07, 2009 10:11 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: LinkedIn We still have is run in the walls but Thank God all the hardware that used it is gone. System 36 and what a nightmare that was. -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: AOL
Heh, to this day I drive by a UMB Bank branch office I say to myself Upper memory block bank. Nobody gets that except for subscribers to ntsysadmin. QEMM-386 beat the pants of of memmaker any day! Devin On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote: Yep, I'd use QEMM, but had sk1llz and would tweak the configs for best results ... used to know what was in each UMB, sadly those sk1llz that used to earn big $$$ are no longer in play : ( BIG re-education cycle in the IT field, much more rapid than medicine, like I told the doctors at the CDC ( Doctors were considered 'professional' staff, IT/Computer Specialists were 'administrative support' !!! ) Erik Goldoff *IT Consultant* *Systems, Networks, Security * -- *From:* Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] *Sent:* Friday, August 07, 2009 12:09 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: AOL Anyone cool was using QEMM and Desqview/386! Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 -- *From:* Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] *Sent:* Friday, August 07, 2009 11:59 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: AOL m...@d himem sk1llz? -sc -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Black Hat / Visual studio / I-phones....
This week in conclusion: 1. Any developers that use Visual Studio must patch it, recompile and redistribute all apps. Nice. 1. A. It seems that all our doze boxes have the run time version of this and must get the dev patch, not just the iE patch (done yesterday btw). 2. Patch I.E. (relatively easy). 3. Patch I-phones with I-tunes (pphf . . .). The carrier can't patch it wirelessly? 4. Watch closely for a Windows Mobile patch. 5. Watch for a text message with one single character ... a box. 6. Lookout for laptop BIOS level security packages (computrace, et.al.). We have none of these. 7. Have a good weekend! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: BB outage?
Our BES is working well with our 30 BB's - ATT in Oklahoma. -Devin On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 4:56 PM, chosha2...@yahoo.com wrote: No issues here. I'm in TX. --Original Message-- From: wjh To: NT System Admin Issues ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues Subject: BB outage? Sent: Jul 31, 2009 4:44 PM Anyone having issues with blackberry service? I'm in Atlanta. Bill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: OT: Star Trek Science Fiction?
Well just keep your eye on the red shirts, they never live to the end of the episode. On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.comwrote: I refer to TNG as The kinder, gentler Star Trek. Where's the violence, the fist fights, the torn clothing? I WANNA SEE BLOOD AND GORE AND GUTS AND VEINS IN MY TEETH! EAT DEAD BURNT BODIES! KILL KILL KILL KILL! -- *From:* Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, July 29, 2009 8:42 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: OT: Star Trek Science Fiction? nope, I discount TNG ... look at the captain ... all that technology, and they still can't cure baldness ? grin Erik Goldoff *IT Consultant* *Systems, Networks, Security * -- *From:* Wolf [mailto:th3.w...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, July 29, 2009 9:11 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: OT: Star Trek Science Fiction? It can clone. There are two Riker's now, remember? TNG 6th season Second Chances On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote: hell, even their data storage ... remarkably like a 3-1/2 diskette 20+ years before they actually came into use The TRANSPORTER is the pure science fiction ... if it worked, it would also be a clone machine ... because it has to destroy (deconstruct) the source object to send it before it can recreate it at the other side, but once in the buffer, should be able to continuously replicate the object Erik Goldoff *IT Consultant* *Systems, Networks, Security * -- *From:* Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, July 29, 2009 3:08 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: OT: Star Trek Science Fiction? Well, let's not forget the communicatorany one use a cell phone these days? Pens as we know them today also were a direct result of the original series -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Happy birthday NASA
From Wikipedia:NASA was established by the National Aeronautics and Space Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Aeronautics_and_Space_Act on July 29, 1958 And no special Google page? - Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Please keep me ON this mailing list
This is not the day to leave this list, today's humor alone is worth it! Anyone remember the Way back machine? Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: New IE zero day exploit in the wild
Where do your rate Grad School Professors? Below or above Dr's and/or Lawyers (grin)? On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, well... In the medical field, right after doctors, I'd put CCU nurses. Heh. Kurt On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:27, paul chinnerypdw1...@hotmail.com wrote: Thanks. I am so forwarding this to our Clincal Analyst; she's a licensed RN who use to work in CCU. Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 11:44:54 -0700 Subject: Re: New IE zero day exploit in the wild From: kurt.b...@gmail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Since I don't work with doctors in my capacity of IT geek, I don't know for sure. However, I was married to a critical care nurse for 7 years, and I'll put my money on the doctors. Heh. On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 05:04, paul chinnerypdw1...@hotmail.com wrote: A third of my users are doctors. I wonder which group is harder to work with: engineers or doctors? Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:51:09 -0700 Subject: Re: New IE zero day exploit in the wild From: kurt.b...@gmail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Truth. However, there are also political and training issues. 1) We haven't, as a company (nor within IT) figured out how to make our standard apps work under under non-admin accounts. This will take time and resources to figure out, and then further time and resources to figure out how to productionise the application of these settings and apply them across the domain, including two offices overseas. 2) A large portion of our users are engineers who have a rabid aversion to the idea that they can't be admins on their own boxes. I'm in the (multi-year!) process of simply trying to convince engineering managers that none of the staff need two NICs in their boxes - one for the production LAN and one for the test/dev LAN. 3) The overseas offices are also politically resistant to this idea. While I agree that the load would be lessened, and we'd have a much better managed and more secure environment, this is not a trivial effort, and at times I despair. But, I persist, and have it as a goal to work toward this fiscal year. The first step is to get signoff by company management, in the form of an actual policy - something of which there are no good examples. There are practices and recommendations regarding IT, but very little in the way of a real IT policy that has been agreed to by management. Kurt On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 07:52, Jonathan Linkjonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: After taking local admin rights away from users my plate is less full. YMMV. On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, unfortunately, all our users are admins. It sucks, but I use it to my advantage when I can. The reason we've not done a GP is because we haven't had the luxury of studying to understand them. Our plates always seem to be full with other things. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 19:04, Ken Schaeferk...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Are all your users admins? Otherwise, how is that logon script going to update HKLM? Machine-based startup script would be better idea, no? Cheers Ken From: Kurt Buff [kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 8 July 2009 2:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: New IE zero day exploit in the wild I'm just pushing out the .reg file in the login script: regedit /s \\fileserver\public\patches\videokillbits.reg The file was easy to create, in a capable editor (not notepad or wordpad) that allows metacharacter search and replace, such as '\n' for CRLF and '\t' for tab. I used the ancient, no-longer-supported PFE32. I really should switch to VIM, I suppose. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 08:40, Eric Wittersheimeric.wittersh...@gmail.com wrote: I'm pushing out the .reg via GP. So far so good. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:38 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: The “Microsoft fix-it” is an MSI that I am pushing via SMS and is pushing fine (so far just a few test cases have it, but no issues). Beats trying to push out a .REG or something… David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
Trend Micro and IE zero day exploit
FYI - If you have Trend Micro Office Scan and are using the web reputation feature, you are covered: http://us.trendmicro.com/us/threats/microsoft-mpeg-vulnerability/index.html Trend Micro products with Web Reputation technology currently block malicious URLs associated with this exploit. -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Gmail
Refresh took mine out of beta. Hey I only have 96 gmail invites left. What happened to the bazillion I had? On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: I guess that shows what they think of you. -sc *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, July 07, 2009 1:03 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Gmail Mine still shows as Beta. Jon On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: Well, well, well… finally out of beta. -sc -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Poll: Internal temperature of UPS?
Heh, that reminds me: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: \On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:29 PM, David Mazzaccarodavid.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com wrote: Wondering what others typically see their UPS equipment running an internal temp at? My APC 3000XLS has gotten up to 103.2 F, just wondering how bad that is??? I have no hard evidence, but I suspect APC UPSes have some kind of long-standard failure mode where they overcharge the batteries, leading to the batteries swelling and getting stuck in the unit. High temperatures would be another symptom of overcharging. Check to see if the batteries will still slide out of the unit or not. If not, be ready with a screwdriver and a downtime window the next battery change. You'll have to disassemble the entire chassis. As I said, no hard evidence, but I've experienced stuck swollen batteries several times myself. Only with APC. Many others report the same. Google finds many, many hits for this for APC, few or none for other manufactures. This apparent design defect is my only complaint about APC. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: OT: Filling method guideline
Gene, I work for a AE firm. Early this year we revamped (um... I mean created where none existed) our Records Retention and Document Control policies. This has very stringent guidelines for everything. No exceptions. We paid lawyers to QC it (they always trump IT guys, and everyone else too). Not to change the subject of this post, but if you are in this field, you run the risk of a lawsuit. The product you create is a construction document or contract. That old exchange server tape left on the shelf can cost big time. BIG TIME. That old PC under your desk as well. The short story is that we retain only contract documents into infinity. Now, our project creation process includes the creation of empty folders. These are not to be renamed, moved or deleted. Sorry, I an not at liberty to share folder structure, but its not that complicated. Upon completion each project now goes through an archiving process. No engineering calcs will be kept into infinity. The lawyers hate these. If it's not a deliverable to the client, it gets deleted at archive time. This includes emails (another can-of-worms). Your filing and naming conventions don't matter, as long as it is documented and *stringently followed*. The quarrels inside the firm on this can be a nightmare (been there, done that). I really don't mean to belittle your OP, but this needs to go to the ownership of the firm level. FYI - There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth when this was implemented grin. hth, Devin On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Gene Giannamore gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com wrote: Anyone work at an Architectural, Engineering, or General Contractor firm? I am looking for a filling system guideline. Right now we are having several people all insisting that their way is the only way to file. It just makes it very difficult to find things, especially when we cannot get everyone to follow the naming conventions. Just wondering if anyone might be willing to share, their filling guidelines. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Trend Micro Client Outbreak - Need to remove it from Domain ...fast
There might be a group policy installing this. Maybe the option to uninstall the software if it falls out of the scope of management was checked on, if so disable the GPO, force a policy update and reboot them. Could it be that the clients are homed to a server that is no more? If so, you may be able to re-home them to the existing and working server, then uninstall. Look for a move operation under the client management piece. If you have the TMVS running, then you could identify the machines and write a quick startup script (with a if computername==xxx to uninstall them - I don't have the cmd line for that, sorry. Hopefully you are now done with this... :-) hth, Devin On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 5:06 PM, acitkcont...@yahoo.com wrote: Thank you for your replies. Unfortunately, the domain has SAV version 10.1.8. I do not see any options for removing T/M in there, but of course, I could have missed it. As for the T/M web console, when I am in it, the desktops group is completely empty. That is why I say I am not sure how the installations were done. For all I know, he went out and did them manually because he thought better to have something on the workstation that nothing... I was able to do a scan of the network using the TM vulnerability scanner. It was able to find all of the workstations, T/M managed or otherwise...) but I did not see any way to remove clients because they, themselves were not listed in the web console. I don't know how to refresh the console to see what is actually installed. If I were able to do that, perhaps I would be able to right click on them and uninstall the client as suggested. and ideas??? TIA ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Trend Micro Client Outbreak - Need to remove it from Domain ...fast
FYI If you need to re-home the servers, you will need to TCP port the clients are using. From my fading memory it could be 8080 or 8090 as the defaults. It depends on the TM version, I think. -Devin On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Devin Meadedevin.me...@gmail.com wrote: There might be a group policy installing this. Maybe the option to uninstall the software if it falls out of the scope of management was checked on, if so disable the GPO, force a policy update and reboot them. Could it be that the clients are homed to a server that is no more? If so, you may be able to re-home them to the existing and working server, then uninstall. Look for a move operation under the client management piece. If you have the TMVS running, then you could identify the machines and write a quick startup script (with a if computername==xxx to uninstall them - I don't have the cmd line for that, sorry. Hopefully you are now done with this... :-) hth, Devin On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 5:06 PM, acitkcont...@yahoo.com wrote: Thank you for your replies. Unfortunately, the domain has SAV version 10.1.8. I do not see any options for removing T/M in there, but of course, I could have missed it. As for the T/M web console, when I am in it, the desktops group is completely empty. That is why I say I am not sure how the installations were done. For all I know, he went out and did them manually because he thought better to have something on the workstation that nothing... I was able to do a scan of the network using the TM vulnerability scanner. It was able to find all of the workstations, T/M managed or otherwise...) but I did not see any way to remove clients because they, themselves were not listed in the web console. I don't know how to refresh the console to see what is actually installed. If I were able to do that, perhaps I would be able to right click on them and uninstall the client as suggested. and ideas??? TIA ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Devin -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Cable tester suggestion
This also is a tone generator and works with the Fluke probe: http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=783550RecommendedFOREDC=742687RecoType=ACcm_sp=Product-_-RecoAcc-_-Fluke+Networks+IntelliTone+Pro+200+Probe On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Devin Meade devin.me...@gmail.com wrote: Worth every cent, and it makes me into a super-hero (grin). *Fluke IQ Cable qualifier. * http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?edc=742687enkwrd=ALLPROD%3a742687 This is not cheap, but we had one of those continuity testers before. I kept pitching a fit when I saw 6 inches of jacket removed from cat 5 cable with frayed ends etc. I am currently moving a bundle of cables that were laid over vibrating duct work and I see some copper on a few of them. I predict a new cable run... Now don't let any phone guys near our network closet. hth,Devin On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Phillip Partipilo p...@psnet.com wrote: I've got a basic cable tester that essentially just tests continuity and polarity. Every now and then, during our rollout of entire-office gigabit, there is a line that performs like crap. This cheap tester makes the connection look fine, when, after a re-crimp, it obviously is not. I know more sophisticated testers exist, that might indicate a small short, crosstalk, interference, reflections, a partial-crimp causing resistance, etc. If any of you use and/or have used such a tester, what would you recommend? Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 THIS ELECTRONIC MESSAGE AND ANY ATTACHMENTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY PROPERTY OF THE SENDER. THE INFORMATION IS INTENDED FOR USE BY THE ADDRESSEE ONLY. ANY OTHER INTERCEPTION, COPYING, ACCESSING, OR DISCLOSURE OF THIS MESSAGE IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE SENDER AND DELETE THIS MAIL AND ALL ATTACHMENTS. DO NOT FORWARD THIS MESSAGE WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE SENDER. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Devin -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Performance problem on VMwareServer2 - gah
I played around with VMWare server 2.0 and found the ajax web server sucked all the life out of the host. That was the only thing on a fairly quick machine. Version 1 kills Version 2 performance wise. Throw in AJAX with the rest of your google search terms and read on. -Devin On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: FFS - the OP is running a grand total of 5 OSes - 4 VMs and the host, with nothing running in any of the VMs across 3 disks on a new server I can do better than that my laptop (I am writing this email whilst running 4 MOSS servers, 1 SQL Server and a DC) on my Dell E6400 with 3 spindles. Seeing 15 minute lags in the VMs at a time means that something else is up. It's not the number of disks. It be the RAID controller, or some other driver issue. Cheers Ken From: Charlie Kaiser [charl...@golden-eagle.org] Sent: Saturday, 23 May 2009 5:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Performance problem on VMwareServer2 - gah You've got an inadequate disk subsystem for what you're trying to do. Choices... 1. Launch fewer VMs at one time. 2. Add JBOD storage and run one VM per spindle. 3. Add USB drives and run the VMs off of that. Not ideal, but workable. A Raid5 array, as Joseph pointed out, with its parity overhead, is going to be unworkable long term. BTDT. My best solution in the past has been a bunch of disks, ideally mirror sets for reliability if you can swing it, with one VM per array. *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 11:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Performance problem on VMwareServer2 - gah Single Array, RAID5, made up of 3 physical disks (thats all we have). Original Message: - From: Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 11:08:22 -0700 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Performance problem on VMwareServer2 - gah How are the physical drives configured? We usually put no more than one VM on a spindle. The conflicts between two VMs on one spindle produce unacceptable bottlenecks in my experience. *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 10:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Performance problem on VMwareServer2 - gah Thought I'd ask our resident gurus... I have a brand new HP DL360 server. 8GB memory, 2 quads, 3 SAS drives with a P400i/512 controller w/BBWC. I am running Windows 2003 R2 Enterpise on the host machine. I also created (4) VMs (each 75GB in size, preallocated) each with a Single vCPU, and 2GB of memory, running Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise. NOTE -- These VMs have NOTHING on them except the O/S. No applications, no nothing. I have serious performance problems as it relates to the VMs becoming unusable for a periond of 15 minutes or so every now and then I am noticing, on the HOST, that the logical disk - % write time performance counter just shoots up 100% for as much as 10-15 minutes (see attachment diskusage1.jpg) and then slowly comes down back to near zero (see attachment diskusage2.jpg). The graphs show a total time duration of 16 minutes - FYI... During this high spike of Disk Write % on the host, the VMs themselves are doing NOTHING. Again, they are PLAIN OS installed with nothing installed. Performance monitoring on those VMs shows barely ANY activiate at all, while the host shows 100% disk write %. So it's definitely the host, it seems, causing the poor performance. Also, notice in Attachment diskusage2.jpg the slow decline of Disk Write %... This ALWAYS happens after a period of 100% disk write % usage it trails off slowly like that over a 10-15 minute period before it come down to zero again. Any idea what is causing this? I'm thinking about giving up and going to ESXi. ?? picture1 - http://communities.vmware.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/126 0005-23055/dis kusage1.jpg?tstart=0 picture2- http://communities.vmware.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/126 0005-23054/dis kusage2.jpg?tstart=0 Thanks all! Remember the true meaning of Memorial Day! JR mail2web.com - Enhanced email for the mobile individual based on MicrosoftR Exchange - http://link.mail2web.com/Personal/EnhancedEmail ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
Re: Disaster Recovery (Was Access Based Enumeration on WS08)
We are a much smaller shop. I setup an external disk to replicate our IS fileshare. It's also on tape, but without a tape dirve, well... It has all documentation, keycodes, etc. We also keep an updated offsite DR set that has at least two copies of tested optical media (server, w/s, LOB apps). I also keep a printed copy of: workstation deploy documentation, IP Addresses, support contract info, home phone numbers and active projects sorted by client. hth, Devin On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.comwrote: At my last company, we had a rolling cabinet at our DR site that we could store items in. We had a few large software binders, as well as some paper documentation. We tested DR processes quarterly and updated these items at that time where necessary. Yes, it was time consuming to build a software repository and cost a bit of money for the media, etc, but it was well worth it all. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com *From:* Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu] *Sent:* Thursday, May 21, 2009 11:26 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Disaster Recovery (Was Access Based Enumeration on WS08) On the topic of DR, quick question. What methods do other people use for storing your critical DR recover information offsite? I’m not talking about your actual data (tapes, disk, etc). What I mean is lists of things like hardware specs for servers, switches, etc—the lists of things you would need to get back up and running, like what to physically replace first and lists including what software is installed where. The problem I see with our current setup is that this info is being stored on the servers that could need to be restored. It changes too often to make a paper copy or printout each time. I’m thinking of something like a google app service where the data would be available outside of our site in the event we really need it. Free (like google) is nice, but a secure pay-for service is also something to consider as they would really be there if you need them. -Bonnie *From:* Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu] *Sent:* Wednesday, May 20, 2009 6:57 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Access Based Enumeration on WS08 First off, I apologize if this has been covered recently as I haven’t had time to read any list mail for over two weeks. I went on vacation for a week, and while I was gone, this happened to one of our schools: http://www.komonews.com/news/44411737.html http://www.komonews.com/news/44500317.html There were four servers in the building. If you don’t have your DR plans updated, I highly recommend reviewing them. On to the question— In Windows Server 2008, is there a way to enable Access based enumeration by default on all file shares? I can’t seem to find it. I know how to do so for individual shares via share and storage management, but I’m looking for something that will either turn it on by default or act like the checkbox on 2003 that allowed you to reset all shares to the same as the one you are working with. Thanks, Bonnie -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Looking for good PCI Express SATA controller
We have some Adaptec 3405 cards with Server 2003. They work well. We have two boxes with 4 drives set to RAID 5, three more boxes with two drives set to RAID 1. Get the battery so you can enable the write cache. Card and battery was around $450. The card runs HOT, make sure the box has ventilation. The array manager software has adequate alerting for our needs (email, annoying alarm, write to evt log, etc). They can use SATA II and SAS drives. We use SATA II and they are fast enough. Never tried SAS though. Note that when writing, they are about 70% as fast as our Poweredge servers using RAID5. HTH, Devin On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Richard Stovall richard.stov...@researchdata.com wrote: I have one machine with an Areca 1130 that has been great. I think it cost around $600. 12 ports sounds like overkill for what you’re looking for, but there is a model 1210 that’s PCI-e with 4 ports. I haven’t used a 1210, but so far the 1130 has been rock solid. Actually had to use the array roaming feature the other day and it worked like a charm. http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcie.htm People love the 3ware cards, but we’ve had two that were absolute dogs. *From:* Eric E Eskam [mailto:ees...@usgs.gov] *Sent:* Wednesday, May 20, 2009 1:38 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Looking for good PCI Express SATA controller I need a quick recommendation from someone actually using one of these things with Server 2003 - validation that it works with SBS 2003 would be even better. I'm just looking for two ports, Hardware RAID 1 (mirroring), support for native command queuing, SATA 3 speed (preferable) and most importantly stable Windows server drivers. Ability to boot from the controller is also a requirement. While the Internet is full of information, finding the *most pertinent* information isn't always that easy. So if someone has a good SATA PCI Express SATA controller that they are happy with, please reply with make/model. Thanks! Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. - P. B. Medawar -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: 2 Port Ethernet Switches?
Somewhere I saw a single-gang wall plate that did that. It replaced a normal wall plate and was a 2 or 3 port hub. I think it was blackbox, good luck. Devin On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:50 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote: They might. However, given that the 4-6 port switches have been around $20 for some time, I can't see too many manufacturere putting capital into the tooling for a 2-port. I understand the need, though - good luck! -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCA® 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richardmccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 www.aspca.org The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals® (ASPCA®) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. Sam Cayze sam.ca...@rollouts.com wrote on 05/18/2009 09:41:54 AM: Kinda like the ones built into VoIP phones. I am envisioning something that looks like a Y-Adaptor... Do these exist? Sam Cayze Information Technology Administrator ROLLOUTS ONSITE • ON DEMAND 952.279.6218...Direct Dial 612.386.3946...Mobile 877.471.6495...eFax www.Rollouts.com www.e-Technicians.net CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachment(s) are intended only for the designated recipient(s). Rollouts Incorporated prohibits use, distribution or transmittal by or to an unintended recipient without Rollouts' express written approval. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this email and notify Rollouts. -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
