RE: Serail over IP adapter recommendations...

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

+1 on the DIGI, We have around 10 of them doing serial to IP for Older Door 
locks, haven't had to reboot them in a long time, forget they are there most 
times.

-Original Message-
From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] 
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 3:44 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Serail over IP adapter recommendations...

+10 Lantronice.  We used several uds100 and 1100 and never a problem.

-Original Message-
From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org]
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 3:16 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Serail over IP adapter recommendations...

Quick question, no research necessary:

Looks like I need a Serial over IP adapter. I've used a Startech and a Moxa in 
the past. The Startech needs to be reset on occasion, and the Moxa aslo needs 
reboots (but it's a Serail over Wifi, so I can't judge if a regular ethernet 
version would fail)

Can anybody recommend a good, won't need a reboot very often model of Serial 
over IP? I don't need anything special, just reliable.

Thanks.


--Matt Ross
Ephrata School District

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RE: VMWare tools

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Start the VM tools install as normal, all that does is mount the CD through 
Virtualcenter and Auto fires the Setup.exe if It can.

So instead to do a manual, start the install process so it mounts the CD then 
RDP to the machine and then run setup.exe yourself, pretty much a 
next,next,finish install

From: Richard McClary [mailto:richard.mccl...@aspca.org]
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 9:00 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMWare tools

OK, I give up - how does one do a manual install?

From: pdw1...@hotmail.com 
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Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 7:44 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMWare tools

We're on v4.1, and I always have to manually install the tools thru vcenter.  
It's not a big deal to me since I don't create that many servers.
And on that note, I am so glad we finally got a virtual solution in place.  
Instead of the get quote for a new server, order it, set it up now it's "Okay, 
give me an hour or two and I'll have it up and running."

From: cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com
To: 
ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: RE: VMWare tools
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:23:08 +
I've yet to find an issue installing tools on any server, Ubuntu, Windows 
(NT,2000,2003,2008) that being said, sometimes servers like Terminal Servers 
might have an issue timing out unless you switch modes on them.

For the most part I always open up a direct console onto the servers log on and 
then fire up the tools install so I can see what's going on, most are done 
within 5-10 minutes. Have you looked into the Event logs on the server? Maybe 
an Autorun issue? On the ones that failed have you tried a mount CD and then do 
the tools manually (next,next,finish)?

From: Richard McClary 
[mailto:richard.mccl...@aspca.org]
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 8:09 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VMWare tools

Greetings!

Why is it that on some VMWare VM's, VMTools will not install?  I can find no 
errors nor any consistency.

Locally, we are currently running ESX 3.5.  I see the failure for VMTools to 
install on some Windows 2003 machines.  On others, created at about the same 
time (within a day or two), VMTools installs on them quickly with no issues.

Several weeks back, I created my first Windows 2008 server on an ESX 4.1 
system.  In vCenter, I gave the command to install VMTools.  Only recently did 
I log back into that particular VMWare environment.  I happened to check on the 
server I had created.  In vCenter, "Summary", it shows that VMTools were not 
installed.

In vCenter, clicking that VM, then "Guest", I see I have only the option to 
cancel the installation.  (Likewise on the ESX 3.5 VM's on which VMTools would 
not install.)

Again, anybody know why VMTools simply will not install on some VM's?
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RE: VMWare tools

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

I've yet to find an issue installing tools on any server, Ubuntu, Windows 
(NT,2000,2003,2008) that being said, sometimes servers like Terminal Servers 
might have an issue timing out unless you switch modes on them.

For the most part I always open up a direct console onto the servers log on and 
then fire up the tools install so I can see what's going on, most are done 
within 5-10 minutes. Have you looked into the Event logs on the server? Maybe 
an Autorun issue? On the ones that failed have you tried a mount CD and then do 
the tools manually (next,next,finish)?

From: Richard McClary [mailto:richard.mccl...@aspca.org]
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 8:09 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VMWare tools

Greetings!

Why is it that on some VMWare VM's, VMTools will not install?  I can find no 
errors nor any consistency.

Locally, we are currently running ESX 3.5.  I see the failure for VMTools to 
install on some Windows 2003 machines.  On others, created at about the same 
time (within a day or two), VMTools installs on them quickly with no issues.

Several weeks back, I created my first Windows 2008 server on an ESX 4.1 
system.  In vCenter, I gave the command to install VMTools.  Only recently did 
I log back into that particular VMWare environment.  I happened to check on the 
server I had created.  In vCenter, "Summary", it shows that VMTools were not 
installed.

In vCenter, clicking that VM, then "Guest", I see I have only the option to 
cancel the installation.  (Likewise on the ESX 3.5 VM's on which VMTools would 
not install.)

Again, anybody know why VMTools simply will not install on some VM's?
--
Richard D. McClary
Jr Infrastructure Architect, Information Technology Group
ASPCA(r)
1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36
Urbana, IL 61802
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C: 217-417-1182
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RE: Wireless Bridge

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

We use two of them with pretty good luck

The bullets from Ubiquiti are very small can do POE, setup is a little tough on 
them.

http://www.ubnt.com/bulletm

Ruckus  Zoneflex Wireless Bridges, these are just plain awesome for speed, 
setup and reliability (not cheap), can do POE, we use these for our pelco PTZ

http://www.ruckuswireless.com/products/zoneflex-outdoor

Cheers!

Carlos




From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 12:29 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Wireless Bridge

Anyone know from personal experience of a wireless bridge that is very small 
and requires a minimal antennae size?

I have to shove one in several axis exterior PTZ domes that have a custom 
enclosure above the doom, so room is minimal.

Thanks!
jlc

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RE: Google killing Google Message Continuity (And more)

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

But then you have to expose exchange to the outside, whereas with GMC the 
service ran inside and made a secure connection to the Gapps API

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 12:40 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Google killing Google Message Continuity (And more)

They support Exchange ActiveSync, just like everyone else. :)

Regards,

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

From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos 
[mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com]<mailto:[mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com]>
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 12:28 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Google killing Google Message Continuity (And more)

Very bummed about GMC we use it here to give BES like functionality to some 
android devices I'm very surprised they're doing away with it, unless they have 
some sort of BES killer up and coming

From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com]<mailto:[mailto:sca...@gmail.com]>
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 11:43 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Google killing Google Message Continuity (And more)

FYI in case any of you are using it...
It was on my plate to start using it.

Sam

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9223615/Google_kills_more_services?taxonomyName=IT+Industry&taxonomyId=214

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RE: Google killing Google Message Continuity (And more)

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Very bummed about GMC we use it here to give BES like functionality to some 
android devices I'm very surprised they're doing away with it, unless they have 
some sort of BES killer up and coming

From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 11:43 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Google killing Google Message Continuity (And more)

FYI in case any of you are using it...
It was on my plate to start using it.

Sam

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9223615/Google_kills_more_services?taxonomyName=IT+Industry&taxonomyId=214

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RE: SpiceWorks -- Too good to be true?

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

I prefer Lansweeper for Inventory and Information, you can write your own SQL 
queries to make your own reports and it's Free / Cheap.

From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 7:28 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: SpiceWorks -- Too good to be true?

Not that I can recall.  However, it also wasn't painless like the flash updates 
have tended to be.  I'm not a Firefox user, so I can't comment about that app.
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Jay Kulsh 
mailto:jayku...@csi.com>> wrote:
Jonathan,

>frequent requirements to update...

Are they worse than Firefox or Adobe Flash?

Jay
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RE: Remote Support with UAC

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

We use Bomgar here for admin of W7 machines remotely, plus Blackberries and 
other devices. I think it was around $5K for us with two tech licenses 
unlimited devices.

-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 7:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Remote Support with UAC

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:09 PM, James Hill  wrote:
> I'm trying to find a reasonably priced remote support tool for remote 
> controlling client pc's over the internet.  The tricky part is that I 
> want something that works with non admin users and UAC.

  Remote Desktop/Remote Assistance, plus RUNAS to the admin account in a CMD 
prompt window?

-- Ben

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RE: VDI

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

+1 on View, we have about 75 desktops (XP and W7) with the basic view client 
setup, Easy to deploy, configure and manage. It helps If you already have a 
vSphere infrastructure and knowledge in place, but you can get some pretty good 
deals on a view package.

Thx!

CGM

From: Kelsey, John [mailto:jckel...@drmc.org]
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 1:27 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VDI

We're using GE Centricity in our practices and went with VMware View for our 
desktops.  So far we're very pleased with it, running about 400 desktops now.  
It sure makes doing updates and patches and whole lot easier and faster.  We 
can re-deploy all of the desktops in just a few hours.

Thanks
JCK

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Subject: VDI

Due to computerized physician order entry (part of meaningful use), we looking 
at implementing a virtual desktop solution.  I have identified three:  Citrix, 
VM View and Symantec's Corporate Workspace product (used to be Nuvision until 
it was bought out by Symantec).
I am familiar with Citrix and spent a day at a conference on VM, but I have no 
knowledge (other than what the salesperson showed us) of CWS.  Has anybody done 
any work with the Symantec product?  The price is good compared to the other 
two but we have never purchased an product based on price alone.
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RE: Windows 7 No DNS with Cisco VPN

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Yup it's #1 in bindings

From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it]
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 9:19 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: R: Windows 7 No DNS with Cisco VPN

Try to see if in the binding order CiscoVPN is on top

Guido Elia
HELPPC

Da: Garcia-Moran, Carlos 
[mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com]<mailto:[mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com]>
Inviato: giovedì 20 ottobre 2011 15.06
A: NT System Admin Issues
Oggetto: RE: Windows 7 No DNS with Cisco VPN

We have and found mostly fixes that don't apply, weve opened up a TAC case and 
laid it on their laps to fix

Thx!


From: Jon Harris 
[mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com]<mailto:[mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 6:32 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Windows 7 No DNS with Cisco VPN

Sounds like an issue with the VPN software to me.  Have you tried Cisco support 
and KB to see if there is something on this issue?

Jon
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Garcia-Moran, Carlos 
mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com>> wrote:
Everything on ipconfig looks normal, but when you're on a CMD windows and try 
to resolve anything you can't it times out. Firewall rule isn't an option for 
now, We did run wireshark , it seems DNS requests get sent , come back and then 
windows 7 IP stack eat's them

When not on VPN, DNS works perfect

From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org<mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org>]
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 10:06 AM

To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Windows 7 No DNS with Cisco VPN

I would assume that you would get the DNS settings from the DHCP scope, and 
there is a dedicated DHCP scope for those coming in via the Cisco VPN.

When you say DNS drops, do you not see it on an IPconfig /all or when you try 
and ping the DNS servers they are not responding?

I got 5.0.01.0600 running on my Windows 7 Laptop and never had a problem.  You 
could also create a inbound firewall rule on the public/domain profiles to 
allow the client to talk through, but I don't think that is going to make a 
difference.

Also if you ran a sniffer on the client, and saw what was coming via the DHCP 
packets in the offer to the client, that might help track down the issue.

Z



Edward E. Ziots
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Security Engineer
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From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos 
[mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com]<mailto:%5bmailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com%5d>
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 9:09 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Windows 7 No DNS with Cisco VPN

Hey all;

Has anyone seen this problem when migrating to windows 7? We are using the 
Cisco VPN Client Version 5.0.0.7.0240 (and latest as well on some) 90% of the 
time when a user connects things work fine, but 10% of the time DNS drops, they 
can resolve outside or inside addresses, IP works fine.

We've added hosts file's to peoples desktops and this sometimes works and other 
times it doesn't. Disabled IP Autotune, RSS and Chimney.

Any ideas?

Thx!

Carlos Garcia-Moran
Server / Storage Engineer
Sprague Energy
www.spragueenergy.com<http://www.spragueenergy.com>
P: 603-430-5355
C: 857-234-0343
F: 603-430-7219



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RE: Windows 7 No DNS with Cisco VPN

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

We have and found mostly fixes that don't apply, weve opened up a TAC case and 
laid it on their laps to fix

Thx!


From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 6:32 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Windows 7 No DNS with Cisco VPN

Sounds like an issue with the VPN software to me.  Have you tried Cisco support 
and KB to see if there is something on this issue?

Jon
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Garcia-Moran, Carlos 
mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com>> wrote:
Everything on ipconfig looks normal, but when you're on a CMD windows and try 
to resolve anything you can't it times out. Firewall rule isn't an option for 
now, We did run wireshark , it seems DNS requests get sent , come back and then 
windows 7 IP stack eat's them

When not on VPN, DNS works perfect

From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org<mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org>]
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 10:06 AM

To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Windows 7 No DNS with Cisco VPN

I would assume that you would get the DNS settings from the DHCP scope, and 
there is a dedicated DHCP scope for those coming in via the Cisco VPN.

When you say DNS drops, do you not see it on an IPconfig /all or when you try 
and ping the DNS servers they are not responding?

I got 5.0.01.0600 running on my Windows 7 Laptop and never had a problem.  You 
could also create a inbound firewall rule on the public/domain profiles to 
allow the client to talk through, but I don't think that is going to make a 
difference.

Also if you ran a sniffer on the client, and saw what was coming via the DHCP 
packets in the offer to the client, that might help track down the issue.

Z



Edward E. Ziots
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Security Engineer
Lifespan Organization
Email:ezi...@lifespan.org<mailto:email%3aezi...@lifespan.org>
Cell:401-639-3505
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From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos 
[mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com]<mailto:[mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 9:09 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Windows 7 No DNS with Cisco VPN

Hey all;

Has anyone seen this problem when migrating to windows 7? We are using the 
Cisco VPN Client Version 5.0.0.7.0240 (and latest as well on some) 90% of the 
time when a user connects things work fine, but 10% of the time DNS drops, they 
can resolve outside or inside addresses, IP works fine.

We've added hosts file's to peoples desktops and this sometimes works and other 
times it doesn't. Disabled IP Autotune, RSS and Chimney.

Any ideas?

Thx!

Carlos Garcia-Moran
Server / Storage Engineer
Sprague Energy
www.spragueenergy.com<http://www.spragueenergy.com>
P: 603-430-5355
C: 857-234-0343
F: 603-430-7219



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RE: Windows 7 No DNS with Cisco VPN

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Everything on ipconfig looks normal, but when you're on a CMD windows and try 
to resolve anything you can't it times out. Firewall rule isn't an option for 
now, We did run wireshark , it seems DNS requests get sent , come back and then 
windows 7 IP stack eat's them

When not on VPN, DNS works perfect

From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org]
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 10:06 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Windows 7 No DNS with Cisco VPN

I would assume that you would get the DNS settings from the DHCP scope, and 
there is a dedicated DHCP scope for those coming in via the Cisco VPN.

When you say DNS drops, do you not see it on an IPconfig /all or when you try 
and ping the DNS servers they are not responding?

I got 5.0.01.0600 running on my Windows 7 Laptop and never had a problem.  You 
could also create a inbound firewall rule on the public/domain profiles to 
allow the client to talk through, but I don't think that is going to make a 
difference.

Also if you ran a sniffer on the client, and saw what was coming via the DHCP 
packets in the offer to the client, that might help track down the issue.

Z



Edward E. Ziots
CISSP, Network +, Security +
Security Engineer
Lifespan Organization
Email:ezi...@lifespan.org
Cell:401-639-3505
[CISSP_logo]

From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos 
[mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com]<mailto:[mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 9:09 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Windows 7 No DNS with Cisco VPN

Hey all;

Has anyone seen this problem when migrating to windows 7? We are using the 
Cisco VPN Client Version 5.0.0.7.0240 (and latest as well on some) 90% of the 
time when a user connects things work fine, but 10% of the time DNS drops, they 
can resolve outside or inside addresses, IP works fine.

We've added hosts file's to peoples desktops and this sometimes works and other 
times it doesn't. Disabled IP Autotune, RSS and Chimney.

Any ideas?

Thx!

Carlos Garcia-Moran
Server / Storage Engineer
Sprague Energy
www.spragueenergy.com<http://www.spragueenergy.com>
P: 603-430-5355
C: 857-234-0343
F: 603-430-7219



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RE: San recommendations

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Compellent, Couldn't be happier, Great Management tool's, easy to setup, great 
scalability (not forklift like EMC), very nicely priced

From: Lists - Level Five [mailto:li...@levelfive.us]
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 10:03 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: San recommendations

Nexenta?

From: Greg Sweers 
[mailto:gswe...@acts360.com]
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 9:02 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: San recommendations

Recommendations..

Need about 12TB, ability to scale up, ISCSI for SQL/Exchange, Dedupe at the 
block level, Don't need replication at the moment.

Got a quote on an EQ box, anyone else throw out recommendations.

Thx

Greg Sweers
CEO
ACTS360.com
P.O. Box 1193
Brandon, FL  33509
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RE: Wireless switch and access points

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

We use  deployed these and they work very well

http://www.ruckuswireless.com/

medium to high pricing depending what setup you use

-Original Message-
From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 9:20 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Wireless switch and access points

I have deployed some Cisco AP541N access points.  They can be grouped and 
managed by updating only one AP and the others get the settings.  This was a 
less expensive route for me.  Maybe it isn't as robust as having a central 
management system, but it does what I need.

BF 

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Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 9:12 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Wireless switch and access points

Am after more the integration that comes with them all being managed from one 
place rather than lots of little units.

Olly



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RE: Cell Data Access in China?

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

We’ve had pretty good luck with Xcom devices + Gvoice for our travelers.

http://www.xcomglobal.com/

Cheapest overall for International rates that I’ve found.

From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com]
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 2:11 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Cell Data Access in China?

Its cheaper to just buy a phone in-country and buy minutes from China mobile.
--
Sent from Kaiten Mail for Android. Please excuse my brevity.
Martin Blackstone mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com>> wrote:
You’re gonna get raped on data charges too.

From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 10:58 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Cell Data Access in China?

http://www.wireless.att.com/learn/international/

http://www.wireless.att.com/travelguide/coverage/coverage_details.jsp?MNC=CING&CIDL=156&dropFormChoice=2.29%3B1.99%3B156&product1rate=%242.29&product2rate=%241.99&x=25&y=9



From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 12:14 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Cell Data Access in China?

I have a tourist trip planned for early November and would like to have data 
access on my AT&T Blackberry phone while in China.  I don't need BB mail access 
or even cell phone, but would like to access websites and to use the Google 
Translate app while we're there.

Is this feasible?

Any recommended options?


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RE: IT: How to Tell Remotely what Service Pack (Office, and Windows) remote PC is running

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Or Lansweeper

From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 3:03 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IT: How to Tell Remotely what Service Pack (Office, and Windows) 
remote PC is running

Spiceworks will give you all the info you need
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 3:00 PM, justino garcia 
mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Any way to get this info, remotely.
I checked my kbox, and it is not accurately saying the version of office 
installed.
Running a script or some CMD line syntax to tell what Service Pack remote PC is 
running.

Office 2007.
Windows, XP, 7 and so on.

Thanks,

--
Justin
IT-TECH

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RE: Business Class Comcast internet Service

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

I'm on the other side of the coin we use them as the main internet on quite a 
few of our remote sites, it's a mixed bag for the most part we've not had a ton 
of issues with the connection's and they're very reliable, good speed. But when 
something goes wrong it's like pulling teeth to get a competent person who can 
give you good business class support. That being said price wise and 
connectivity wise they are a good choice if you can handle dealing with them

Thx!

Carlos

From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 2:45 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Business Class Comcast internet Service

Well, I can only tell you my own experiences. Other peoples' may vary, 
obviously.

For me, it's been the smartest thing I ever did. I switched from a T1 that was 
costing us around $650 a month to Comcast for all of our Internet, Phone and TV 
service. We went from spending around $1200 a month for those services combined 
to under $400 a month, and my biggest fears - that the Internet service would 
be unreliable, and that Comcast's customer service would be bad - were 
unfounded. Our Internet service has dropped out once in a year and a half, and 
that was for about an hour when our cable modem died. I called Comcast and they 
got someone out here very quickly to replace the modem. Their hold times are 
reasonable, the people are knowledgeable... it's just been great. I'm going to 
switch from Verizon to Comcast for my home phone service, too.

Evan


From: Robert LeBlanc [mailto:robert.lebl...@aanmpc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 2:40 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Business Class Comcast internet Service

Howdy folks,

Can anyone give any insight (good and bad) to Comcasts Business Class internet 
service. Our service agreement with TWtelecom ends in a few months and it seems 
that Comcast can blow TW's prices out of the water. But then again it's Comcast 
and since they don't offer an SLA in their agreement and some things I've heard 
in the past such as oversubscribing, outages, bandwidth speed dropping, etc 
concerns me. We may just use it as a backup service but have talked about 
replacing our primary service with it. We are a relatively small shop and 
operate now with a 4Mb up and down with a 1.5 DSL as backup that also handles 
wireless. We are looking at Comcasts 22Mb/2Mb service. Thanks for any input and 
feel free to contact off list as well. Oh yeah and here in New Mexico Comcast 
currently operates with their DOCSIS2.0 but is upgrading infrastructure to 
DOCSIS3.0

Robert

Robert LeBlanc
Network Administrator MCP,MCSE
Anesthesia Associates of New Mexico, P.C.
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RE: How to refresh CAL's used in BES 5.0

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

That's very odd, when I remove a user for the web interface on BES 5.0 the 
license is immediately available, You sure that the users are no longer listed 
in the BES? If you search for all users they are no longer there?

Bouncing the server would work best since BES has quite a few services and they 
are very interdependent and require certain order to stop/start

Thx!

Carlos

From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 11:35 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: How to refresh CAL's used in BES 5.0

Bounce the service or server???

 John W. Cook
System Administrator
Partnership For Strong Families
5950 NW 1st Place
Gainesville, Fl 32607
Office (352) 244-1610
Cell (352) 215-6944
MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4

From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 11:28 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: How to refresh CAL's used in BES 5.0

I have 60 CAL's in my BES and need to add 1 more user, I found 3 users that I 
could delete, so I did however it's still showing 60 out of 60 used, how do I 
refresh the Licenses used?


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RE: Admin ipad apps

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

The Vmware View client is awesome if you have View onsite

From: Pete Howard [mailto:pchow...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 11:36 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Admin ipad apps

Changing double typo in subject line ! Reply to this thread only.

Looking into jump..

Also looking into a bluetooth or wifi serial adapter like this one:
http://serialio.com/products/mobile/wifi/WiSnapKit1.php



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Subject: RE: Admin ipads apps for
You mentioned rdp client. I use jump. Very pleased with it.

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Anyone have a list of must have apps for the ipad ? So far I have these:
iSSH (ssh, telnet, VNC) $10
UCS Pro
Junos (juniper vpn client)
Vsphere admin
RDP client
Flipreader (for rss, twitter, fb etc)





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RE: Barracuda SPAM filters to Symantec Failures

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Got 2 Cuda's here in Failover mode for that reason, outside of this issue 
they've performed very well for us.

From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 10:44 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Barracuda SPAM filters to Symantec Failures

I just found it simpler to restrict outbound smtp traffic to the exchange 
server at the firewall (which should be done anyway) and send directly from 
exchange.  That way if your Barracuda dies you can at least still send outbound 
mail and you don't have a single point of failure both ways.  I guess that's 
not really an issue any more since I migrated to their virtual appliance.

________
From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 9:34 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Barracuda SPAM filters to Symantec Failures
Yup so it goes

Exchange - Barracuda - Outside to other email server's

I can make CMD prompt connections from the Exchange to others and send mail 
through a script. The barracuda is the defacto mail server on the outside 
connection wise and resolves to the right DNS, I checked blacklists and RBL's 
and we aren't showing on any of them. Seems the Cuda's and Symantec's don't 
want to currently chat

From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 10:16 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Barracuda SPAM filters to Symantec Failures

Just to be clear you are doing outbound spam filtering and all your outbound 
email is being delivered by your Barracuda?  If so have you tried sending 
direct from your mail server and not out through the Barracuda?

________
From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 9:13 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Barracuda SPAM filters to Symantec Failures
Hey All;

Anyone have Barracuda SPAM appliances or Symantec Ones? We are having an issue 
that started 2-3 days ago where any Symantec Appliance drops our mail 
connection. We are talking with both vendors and other companies we send mail 
to, just curious if anyone has seen this in their areas

Thx!

Carlos Garcia-Moran
Server / Storage Engineer
Sprague Energy
www.spragueenergy.com<http://www.spragueenergy.com>
P: 603-430-5355
C: 857-234-0343
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RE: Barracuda SPAM filters to Symantec Failures

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Doing so now, we have opened a Ticket with Barracuda and Symantec so we can 
play musical chair blame game ☺

From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 10:39 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Barracuda SPAM filters to Symantec Failures

We use Barracuda here but I have not seen that.  Sometimes I get a mail queue 
high alert, but the queue is low.  A reboot resolves it.  I'm due for a 
firmware update on it - perhaps you could check your Barracuda for firmware 
updates?

>>> "Garcia-Moran, Carlos" 
>>> mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com>> 
>>> 5/26/2011 10:34 AM >>>
Yup so it goes

Exchange – Barracuda – Outside to other email server’s

I can make CMD prompt connections from the Exchange to others and send mail 
through a script. The barracuda is the defacto mail server on the outside 
connection wise and resolves to the right DNS, I checked blacklists and RBL’s 
and we aren’t showing on any of them. Seems the Cuda’s and Symantec’s don’t 
want to currently chat

From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 10:16 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Barracuda SPAM filters to Symantec Failures

Just to be clear you are doing outbound spam filtering and all your outbound 
email is being delivered by your Barracuda?  If so have you tried sending 
direct from your mail server and not out through the Barracuda?

____
From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 9:13 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Barracuda SPAM filters to Symantec Failures
Hey All;

Anyone have Barracuda SPAM appliances or Symantec Ones? We are having an issue 
that started 2-3 days ago where any Symantec Appliance drops our mail 
connection. We are talking with both vendors and other companies we send mail 
to, just curious if anyone has seen this in their areas

Thx!

Carlos Garcia-Moran
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RE: Barracuda SPAM filters to Symantec Failures

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Yup so it goes

Exchange - Barracuda - Outside to other email server's

I can make CMD prompt connections from the Exchange to others and send mail 
through a script. The barracuda is the defacto mail server on the outside 
connection wise and resolves to the right DNS, I checked blacklists and RBL's 
and we aren't showing on any of them. Seems the Cuda's and Symantec's don't 
want to currently chat

From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 10:16 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Barracuda SPAM filters to Symantec Failures

Just to be clear you are doing outbound spam filtering and all your outbound 
email is being delivered by your Barracuda?  If so have you tried sending 
direct from your mail server and not out through the Barracuda?

____________
From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 9:13 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Barracuda SPAM filters to Symantec Failures
Hey All;

Anyone have Barracuda SPAM appliances or Symantec Ones? We are having an issue 
that started 2-3 days ago where any Symantec Appliance drops our mail 
connection. We are talking with both vendors and other companies we send mail 
to, just curious if anyone has seen this in their areas

Thx!

Carlos Garcia-Moran
Server / Storage Engineer
Sprague Energy
www.spragueenergy.com<http://www.spragueenergy.com>
P: 603-430-5355
C: 857-234-0343
F: 603-430-7219



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RE: Dual Booting a PC with Win 7 and Snow leopard

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Yup it's very much doable here's the rub tho, It's 100% against the apple EULA 
to run their OS on any other type of hardware than their own. That being said 
check out the forums on insanelymac, they have very good tutorials and a 
database of machines that can support it. Doing it takes quiet a lot of 
tinkering and you have to be careful about OS updates that will make the system 
unbootable.

The easiest method is to do a VM Guest running Snow leopard. There's 
instructions on how to do it on the same forum, All you need is a licensed copy 
of Workstation, Snow Leopard and a decent host machine you can have a full MAC 
OS for under $100 bucks. Keep in mind it's still against the EULA

Cheers!

From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 10:17 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Dual Booting a PC with Win 7 and Snow leopard


It's doable.  I think 'hackintosh' is your keyword to search for.

Also, double check the legality/ licensing.  I think this might break their 
EULA, etc
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RE: Adding Drive space in vSphere client

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

+1

Quickest method, add space to the VM's thru the console, and then use dell's 
"extpart" to expand the space within the OS, Done this tons of time's I've 
never had an issue

#2 use Gparted ISO to boot the guest into and expand partition with it.

#3 super safe , add a 2nd drive to the size you want, clone A to B with size 
expansion, remove A, boot server back, re assign drive letters

Cheers!

Carlos

From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu]
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 1:17 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Adding Drive space in vSphere client

Are you talking about expanding the virtual drive at the VM level or expanding 
the partition at the guest level?
The first can be done via the vSphere client, and the latter with diskpart.

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

From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 1:16 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Adding Drive space in vSphere client

I have a few virtual machines that I need to add more disk space. These are NOT 
boot drives and OS is Windows 2003.
What is the "best" method? Dell used to have a utility but it's pulled and 
apparently not "safe"?

That's why I'm asking.

--
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RE: Password complexity

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Space’s would make it more complex and difficult to crack…

Passwords hacks have to be matched exactly as they are, so “Ilikebananas” is 
easier than “I like bananas” more characters to crack

From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 12:49 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Password complexity

yup




Sent from my Palm Pre on the Now Network from Sprint



On May 3, 2011 11:39 AM, MMF 
mailto:mmfree...@ameritech.net>> wrote:
I’ve been watching this thread, but I have a question. I was always told not to 
use words at all as it was easier to crack. So wouldn’t the use of spaces 
between regular words actually make it easier to password crack? I use 
sentences but no spaces between words thinking that it is more difficult to 
crack. Am I wrong in my thinking?

Murray`

From: Crawford, Scott
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 11:19 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Password complexity

Actually, looks like ascii did come first and ibm introduced ebcdic to compete 
with ascii. Who knew? ☺

The table listed here has even more disjoint letter sequences, but fortunately 
they’re separated by 64 so you can still use binary math to convert, even in 
EBCDIC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebcdic


From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 11:12 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Password complexity

Kinda makes me chuckle to think of ASCII and EBCDIC competing for first mover 
advantage ☺

From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 11:02 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Password complexity

Yes, this was a time where people had a chance to think before implementing 
things, and weren't preoccupied with "first mover advantage"



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On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Crawford, Scott 
mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu>> wrote:
Off topic side note about the punctuation between upper and lower case...

The reason for them is to separate a capital letter from its lowercase 
counterpart by 32. This enables you to set the case of letters easily with 
boolean operations.

ToUpper = AND 223
ToLower = OR 32
SwitchCase = XOR 32
If you wanna stick with 32, you can use OR 32, followed by XOR 32

You can see this in action in calc.exe. Change to advanced or programmer mode. 
Put in 65 (ascii for A), click OR, 32 and get 97 (ascii for a). Maybe not all 
that useful for windows admins :), but I still think its neat to see where some 
of these ideas come from and to see the foresight of the pioneers.

-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 10:04 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Password complexity

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Michael B. Smith 
mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote:
> I'm not in front of a computer tocheck, but I believe that special
> characters are define as those having a numeric value less than that
> of a space or higher than that of lower-case 'z'.

I don't think that's it, as most of the punctuation in ASCII is between space 
and zero, which is all below the letters.  Some punctuation is stuck between 
the upper- and lower-case letters, though.
-- Ben

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RE: Password complexity

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This is a very interesting older article, although some stuff has been updated 
about password and Complexity.

http://bit.ly/kFXdPL

2008 AD here with complexity turned on, W7 and XP client's, we recommend the 
use of passphrases to all our users, Mine has spaces and I haven't had any 
issues authenticating to other platforms using AD

Thx!


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From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 10:10 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Password complexity

Ok, that's a good reason. Appreciate the heads up in case we run into that.

From: Gary Whitten [mailto:li...@undiscoveredworlds.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 10:01 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Password complexity

I have heard of passphrases, but never used them and thus forget about them.  
The primary reason is that where I'm at now, there is a lot of password 
synching between AD and applications, and the rules are not the same across the 
board.   I do use similar things in my own passwords but don't use space but I 
do use the char/num substitution as well as part of it. Thank you all for 
the education.

From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 9:48 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Password complexity

+1

And often much easier to remember.  For those simpler clients not needing 
extreme measures, I recommend simple pass phrases that mimic some situation or 
characteristic of their lives so they won't need to write anything down ( but 
also a few simple letter to number and punctuation substitutions )...

Ie

My chair is old  = MyCha1r1s0ld!
The wall is blue =Th3*wa11*isblu3

You get the idea, still not likely to be susceptible to dictionary attack.

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From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 9:39 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Password complexity

Why? Ever heard of "pass-phrases"? They are more secure than "passwords", IMHO
On 3 May 2011 14:36, Gary Whitten 
mailto:li...@undiscoveredworlds.com>> wrote:
Personally, I'd be shocked if any user ID or password was allowed to have a 
space in it.

From: Kennedy, Jim 
[mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 8:38 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Password complexity

Using 2008 R2 with password complexity set to true.   A   is not a 
special character and does not count?!?

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RE: Windows 7 deployments - MAK or KMS keys?

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Depending on your company size? We used KMS here since we were doing a lot of 
re imaging and VDI deployments. With KMS we weren't worried about making sure 
we did not use up our MAK Keys and had to call MS to reset them.

We used Ghost, made a gold image and then syspreped a clone of it

-Original Message-
From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 3:47 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Windows 7 deployments - MAK or KMS keys?

For those that have done Windows 7 rollouts to their organizations, have you 
used MAK keys or KMS keys (and KMS server) on the Windows 7 boxes, and WHY did 
you chose one way or the other?  Is there a general preference?

Also, while I'm on the subject of deployment..  We typically have rolled out XP 
images with Symantec Ghost Enterprise and Sysprep.  Can Windows 7 still utilize 
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RE: Android phones

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

+1, since there are some issues with the native email client on some android 
devices working correctly with exchange. $20.00 bucks saves you a lot of 
aggravation, free for 30 days to try

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Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 9:25 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Android phones

Touchdown for Exchange by NitroDesk.

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Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 8:27 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Android phones

Anyone seen any good answers for hooking Androids up to Exchange 2007 servers? 
IPhones are easy.

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RE: Win 7 configuration options?

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

+1 and Action Center Too, id be interested

Cheers!

From: Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 3:49 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Win 7 configuration options?

Can you disable Libraries via GPO? Please share if there is a way...libraries 
are a pain for users used to the old ways

Typed frustratingly slowly on my BlackBerry® wireless device


From: "Tom Miller" 
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:29:19 -0400
To: NT System Admin Issues
ReplyTo: "NT System Admin Issues" 
Subject: RE: Win 7 configuration options?

We are starting the Win 7 rollout here as well.  The only two things I added to 
our standard settings were 1) Disable the really annoying "Action Center" and 
2) Disable Windows Libraries.  Windows Libraries are a neat idea, but at least 
in my work environment it will just add to confusion.

I can send you GPO edits for these if you want.

Tom

>>> "Steven M. Caesare" mailto:scaes...@caesare.com>> 
>>> 3/21/2011 2:25 PM >>>
Oh agreed.

We are using Group Policy for enforcing the US Government Baseline security 
settings… but that’s been implemented by my network team here, and focused 
specifically on the policy settings we have to implement to comply with the 
mandates. But by and large it looks like the desktop group here has had almost 
zero configuration definitions or best practices for all the other Win 
configuration options…

I’m trying to collect whatever collateral to put in front of them that I can on 
short notice to get them thinking on what they can do from a centralized 
configuration perspective… do they can take a stab at building a config 
document to generate an image to validate against.

-sc


From: William Robbins [mailto:dangerw...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 2:19 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Win 7 configuration options?

Well, in my past positions, we started off with business needs, and looked to 
see what we could accomplish with GPO's.  Typically it was things to 
meet/exceed existing security polcies, but were sometimes as trite as setting a 
facility specific wallpaper.

I suppose, not knowing what you are needing to accomplish, I can't offer much 
advice save the term "baby steps."  GPO's are awesome magical beings that when 
used inappropriately, or in error can wreak havoc faster than you can say 
Rumplstilkskin!

 - WJR
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 13:01, Steven M. Caesare 
mailto:scaes...@caesare.com>> wrote:
Awesome, thanks WJR.

Next question… how do folks define what they want in their organizations?

Do you go through this ginormous document? Do you just decide on SOME things 
you want to do initially (redirect default save locations, etc…), and then 
refine over time?

How do you go about deciding settings  things that_AREN’T_ managed via GPO?

My gut and initial reading seems to reinforce the idea that I want’ very little 
customization in the image itself… just the OS and necessary drivers.. with 
just the things I cannot manage via GPO. After that we’ll layer apps on as 
individual packages.

Is that how you folks are addressing client lifecycle configuration and 
management?

Thanks.

-sc

From: William Robbins [mailto:dangerw...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 1:52 PM

To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Win 7 configuration options?

Lest I be thought completely useless:
Group Policy Settings Reference for Windows and Windows Server
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=18c90c80-8b0a-4906-a4f5-ff24cc2030fb&displaylang=en

 - WJR
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:32, Steven M. Caesare 
mailto:scaes...@caesare.com>> wrote:
So… I’m being pulled in to a Windows 7 rollout project that previously has had 
very little adult supervision… and as such needs to have several parts of it 
rebooted.

We need to quickly do some work to define what configuration options we want in 
the base image we are going to deploy. The obvious goal is to manage as much 
via GPO as possible… but not everything is GPO-manageable (power setting, 
etc…?).

Regardless as to if the setting is set via GPO, it still needs to be decided 
upon. So my question is: Other than paging through the GPO MMC snapin and 
looking at each setting, is there good comprehensive doc that lists everything 
out that we can use as the basis for discussion?

If this does exist, does it cover all the things not managed via GPO as well?

Thanks.

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RE: Quickly capture security information

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

How many workstations? Can you install something? I Use LansSweeper to get info 
from all my PC's and Servers and find it invaluable, but you have to install on 
a server. You can also run HWINFo32 (as stated) on each device manually and 
collate the info to XLS.

Cheers!


From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 11:53 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Quickly capture security information

While PSINFO, SYSTEMINFO, SRVINFO, MSINFO32 and some others can help with size, 
make and model will be more interesting.

You're probably looking at something like: http://www.hwinfo.com/sdk.html

The best CLI option is: 
http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/tips/jsi-tip-7913-compinfo-exe-freeware-displays-information-about-your-computer-.aspx



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On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:35 AM, 
mailto:gro...@beachcomp.com>> wrote:
Happy Friday folks!

Anyone know of a quick-to-run utility that can be run on each workstation in an 
office to quickly capture information such as make, model & hard drive size?

Thanks much as always!



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RE: Windows 7 Professional / VMWare

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

If you do a P2V, since all the HW will change on the system it will ask you to 
activate again no way to avoid this especially if the grace period is over, but 
normally you get 30 days.

What type of licenses do you have? We use a Volume KMS for all our VM W7 and 
2008 servers, so as long as the guest can contact the Domain it’s  good to go.  
I believe retail keys will only give you X activations per key.

From: Bob Hartung [mailto:bhart...@wiscoind.com]
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 8:57 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Windows 7 Professional / VMWare

Thanks.

On a related issue, I know you can "virtualize" an existing system using a 
VMWare utility. I did it just to see how it worked. Came up fine but, as 
expected, it wanted to phone home to the mothership immediately.

How do you handle licensing when you do this? I've got a couple of XP Pro 
systems I'm interested in virtualizing. Do you virtualize them and then 
register them with Win7 licenses?

(Small editorial aside: I hate MS Licensing!)

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From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com]
To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com]
Sent: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:44:29 -0500
Subject: RE: Windows 7 Professional / VMWare
Volume License, KMS preferred if you will keep making more from a gold image or 
MAK if they are static
Registration works 100% the same
Not as long as the hardware is the same, if not it will go thru a new HW 
discovery which might require acticvation

Cheers!

Carlos

From: Bob Hartung [mailto:bhart...@wiscoind.com<mailto:bhart...@wiscoind.com>]
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 2:41 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Windows 7 Professional / VMWare

I'm interested in creating 3 or 4 Windows 7 Pro VMs on an ESXI 3.0 server; new 
territory for me.

  *   Do you just use retail or volume license versions of Win7? Or is there 
any different licensing options for VMs?
  *   If I create a Win 7 VM, does the registration process work identically to 
a PC install?
  *   If you create a Win 7 VM on one server and then move it to another, is 
that comparable to installing Win 7 on one PC and then installing it on another?


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RE: Windows 7 Professional / VMWare

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

That is right and also, I would suggest you upgrade to the 4.1 version if you 
can, you are a little far back revision wise

From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 2:57 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Windows 7 Professional / VMWare

From what I understand, you'll need ESXI 3.5 U5 or higher to run Win 7 guests.
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Bob Hartung 
mailto:bhart...@wiscoind.com>> wrote:
I'm interested in creating 3 or 4 Windows 7 Pro VMs on an ESXI 3.0 server; new 
territory for me.

  *   Do you just use retail or volume license versions of Win7? Or is there 
any different licensing options for VMs?
  *   If I create a Win 7 VM, does the registration process work identically to 
a PC install?
  *   If you create a Win 7 VM on one server and then move it to another, is 
that comparable to installing Win 7 on one PC and then installing it on another?


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RE: Windows 7 Professional / VMWare

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Volume License, KMS preferred if you will keep making more from a gold image or 
MAK if they are static
Registration works 100% the same
Not as long as the hardware is the same, if not it will go thru a new HW 
discovery which might require acticvation

Cheers!

Carlos

From: Bob Hartung [mailto:bhart...@wiscoind.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 2:41 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Windows 7 Professional / VMWare

I'm interested in creating 3 or 4 Windows 7 Pro VMs on an ESXI 3.0 server; new 
territory for me.

  *   Do you just use retail or volume license versions of Win7? Or is there 
any different licensing options for VMs?
  *   If I create a Win 7 VM, does the registration process work identically to 
a PC install?
  *   If you create a Win 7 VM on one server and then move it to another, is 
that comparable to installing Win 7 on one PC and then installing it on another?


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RE: OT Rooting Android phones

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Rooting also depends on your tinkering level, how necessary is your phone on 
your daily life. I have a nexus one running the custom Cyanogen Rom. Rooting is 
medium complex but once you get it, the whole world opens. I can now Tether my 
ipad on tmobile w/o paying extra, loaded better VPN modules, can run a full 
backup/restore of the phone, Skin the phone, added an IP camera App. Etc...

But always be cautious that you can ruin your phone, rare but it happens.

Cheers!


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From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 3:43 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT Rooting Android phones

I will add overclocking and using custom ROMS which can be used to make the 
'desktop' your own or different experience. Tethering without paying and 
running Gingerbread now and on a phone that maybe won't ever get it.

Good place to go figure it all out:   http://www.droidforums.net/


-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 3:41 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Rooting Android phones

Basically by "rooting" your phone you get the ability to install 3rd party apps 
that are not specifically approved by your carrier and as you say, uninstall 
crap that you don't want. :-)



From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 3:40 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT : Rooting Android phones

Lately I've been seeing a number of articles and videos on rooting Android 
phones, including the HTC EVO that I use.

Besides the obvious 'gaining root access', has anyone done this that can list 
some of the benefits from rooting your phone ?
(I'm thinking maybe I could finally uninstall that Nascar app that was bundled 
by Sprint )

Thanks in advance

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RE: OT? Laptop bag suggestions

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

I just replaced my old broken Swiss gear backpack with this one

http://www.amazon.com/Swiss-Gear-17-Inch-Notebook-Backpack/dp/B000WQCYDI/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&qid=1299592717&sr=8-15

not bad for the price, there's a newer more expensive one, but this one had 
everything my last one did and it's a better design.

From: Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 8:57 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT? Laptop bag suggestions


Ok, started my new job yesterday and found out that a laptop bag is my 
responsibility to acquire. In my last gig, it was provided by the company and 
property of the company, so I didn't give it much thought. I'm leaning toward 
Swiss Army, because that's what I had last and it seemed pretty sturdy but 
haven't really looked. I prefer a backpack. I'll be travelling some in airports 
in the US, but not a ton.

Any suggestions as to what to consider or avoid?

Thanks,

Jonathan A+, MCSA, MCSE

Thumb-typed from my HTC Droid Incredible (and yes, it really is) on the Verizon 
network. Please excuse brevity and any misspellings.

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RE: Backing up CentOS in a Virtual Environment

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

It depends on what type of backups the BUE is taking, if they're transactional 
or crash consistent, without the agent I believe they will be crash consistent, 
so you will be able to recover the entire server but you might be missing some 
data. You can either buy the Linux agent (that would be the best since you 
already are using BUE for the backups), or ask the DEV for a backup plan.

I do a simple script on my Linux VM's here that dumps SQL, take a copy of the 
WWW directory and tar's it up into a ball that gets copied to a location on the 
file server where BUE scoops it up for backup since we don't currently used the 
VM Agent for BUE. This makes my backups server agnostic, I can recover them by 
basically building a new Linux VM and un tarring the backups with a SQL import.

Most backup companies are moving or already there with transactional full VM 
backups, makes restoring a breeze.

Cheers!


Carlos Garcia-Moran
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Sprague Energy
www.spragueenergy.com
P: 603-430-5355
C: 857-234-0343
F: 603-430-7219



From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 4:04 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Backing up CentOS in a Virtual Environment

Why does the the developer get to dictate... oh never mind.

Tell the developer that you need a backup/restore plan as part of the turn over 
to production and have such documentation be added to the scope of work for 
(his buddy :) the consultant along with an actual test of the  backup restore 
plan.

Don't try and blindly design the plan yourself, make the people who put you in 
the corner responsible for deliverable along with you.  You are also going to 
need a plan for updating CentOS in a manner that won't break your application 
too so I'd get that documentation as well while you're at it.  Despite many 
myths, Linux has security and software updates as well.

As to the VMware backup being enough?  Might be, but how will you know without 
a documented backup/restore plan of the application itself?

Steven Peck
http://www.blkmtn.org

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Stefan Jafs 
mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Ok, I'm venturing into the big unknown  . . . . . . . world of Linux and the 
reason is, we are setting up an e-commerce site and the developer insists on 
using Linux for the webserver. So I hired a consultant and had the server up 
and running in an afternoon and they are now loading the web software as we 
speak.

So my question is about backup. I'm running this in VMware 4.0 and my backup 
Software is BackupExec 2010 R2. I have the Agent for VMware infrastructure and 
can back up the VM that way, just did it and it worked.
Now my question is would this snapshot backup be sufficient or should I get the 
Agent for Linux and be able to do an GRT backup?

What are your suggestions?


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RE: vSphere 4.1 U1

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

You can check the status of the VM tools on the Virtual center / vSphere hosts 
on the Virtual Machine Tab under the “vmware tools status” header, you can also 
get it with a couple of PowerShell scripts


From: Randal, Phil [mailto:pran...@herefordshire.gov.uk]
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 3:43 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: vSphere 4.1 U1

In our environment, I'm seeing VMs not prompting for the upgraded tools.

Best to open VMware tools, check "about" and if it doesn't say Copyright © 
1998-2011 then the tools need updating. It's easier to visually check for the 
year "2011" than remember obscure build numbers.

Cheers,

Phil

From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
Sent: 24 February 2011 18:43
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: vSphere 4.1 U1


1.   You can set the autoupdate on each guest to tell you when an update is 
available but you have to initiate it on each vm.

From: Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 1:41 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Cc: Damien Solodow
Subject: Re: vSphere 4.1 U1

I can't remember if there is a feature in Vmware, but I believe there is a 
script out there that can update the tools en masse. I know VMware Tools checks 
for upgrades, but can't remember if it does the actual install when there is an 
upgrade available.

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Damien Solodow 
mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu>> wrote:
You definitely do.

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

From: Martin Blackstone 
[mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 1:36 PM

To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: vSphere 4.1 U1

You will probably need to upgrade the VMWare tools on the guests.


From: Paul Hutchings 
[mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 10:19 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: vSphere 4.1 U1

Anyone applied it and had anything other than “next, next, reboot, done”?

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RE: Personal phones connecting to your corporate data - how do you handle security?

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

We don’t allow any personal device unless it’s running Good here, that enables 
us to encrypt, password protect the device and wipe if needed, Also we give 
Zero support outside of Good and VPN. Employees sign a form agreeing to let us 
wipe / lock the device at our discretion. It has worked pretty well plus saved 
us quite a few blackberry bucks on renewal’s and new devices.

Cheers!

Carlos Garcia-Moran
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Sprague Energy
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C: 857-234-0343
F: 603-430-7219



From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 5:05 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Personal phones connecting to your corporate data - how do you handle 
security?

For you guys that recommended the good.com product, do you have any personal 
phones that connect to the organization's network? Actually let me back that 
out, I assume more than a few people here have employees whose personal phones 
connect to the network - how do you handle security on those?
David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER
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RE: New Issue with IE patch and Vmware View Client on Windows 7

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Excellent thx! I was having the exact same issue as reported and DL'ed the 
updated patch and now it works fine

Here's the VMware updated KB with link to the new file

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1034262

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Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 3:46 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: New Issue with IE patch and Vmware View Client on Windows 7

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/302164

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RE: LCD TV's with Ethernet port

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Yup it does DLNA and standard media types, I have a sammy plugged into my 
network and it sees my NAS broadcasting shares with Pics, Music and Movies, I 
can select and play them easily thru the network

From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com]
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 1:58 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: LCD TV's with Ethernet port

My Samsung has a Ethernet port and supports some sort of media server on the 
network. I don't know much about it but I suspect it's a brand standard so you 
should be able to pull the manual for any recent model and see what it 
needs/can do.

Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com

c   - 312.731.3132

From: Chris Blair [mailto:chris_bl...@identisys.com]
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 12:56 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: LCD TV's with Ethernet port

A bit off topic, but maybe someone can help. We want to show a looped video on 
a few TV's in the lobby. Instead of buying converters to run HDMI over 
Ethernet, I was thinking of the LCD TV's that have a Ethernet port built in.

Has anyone used one in this manner?


Thanks,
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RE: Terminal Server 2003 Pauses

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

I was planning on opening up an MS case, just wanted to see if anyone had any 
spots to look into or suggestions on tools to use, last two times we called MS 
they were slow and useless

From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com]
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 1:32 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Terminal Server 2003 Pauses

If I had to guess you've got a memory issue of some sort. PSS is very adept at 
tracking these things down so given the option I'd suggest booking a case and 
getting some help.

PTEs, Non-Paged/Paged Pool depletion, etc would be where I'd start.

Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com<mailto:br...@briandesmond.com>

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From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com]
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 12:26 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Terminal Server 2003 Pauses

Not to our knowledge, I'll talk with one of my compatriots, there's around 200+ 
guests on the same two switches for all the guest traffic, the VM's themselves 
don't show any saturation or errors.

From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net]
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 1:16 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Terminal Server 2003 Pauses

I would look at the network.  Any changes to the switches, VLANS, etc??

Greg Sweers
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ACTS360.com<http://www.acts360.com/>
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Brandon, FL  33509
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From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com]
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 12:55 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Terminal Server 2003 Pauses

Hey All;

We have five TS 2003 SP2 server's exhibiting the same odd issue lately, they 
freeze up for like 30 secs to a minute, or seem very slow in responding. CPU , 
Memory and HD are fine from what we could see, I've used process explorer and 
TCPview. These are pretty static server's we don't do any OS updates or app 
updates and when we do we test for a while. They VM guests's and I looked at 
the cluster + hosts but don't see any issues there.

I'm a little puzzled, any suggestions where else to look?

Thx!

Carlos Garcia-Moran
Server / Storage Engineer
Sprague Energy
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RE: Terminal Server 2003 Pauses

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Not to our knowledge, I'll talk with one of my compatriots, there's around 200+ 
guests on the same two switches for all the guest traffic, the VM's themselves 
don't show any saturation or errors.

From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net]
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 1:16 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Terminal Server 2003 Pauses

I would look at the network.  Any changes to the switches, VLANS, etc??

Greg Sweers
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From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com]
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 12:55 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Terminal Server 2003 Pauses

Hey All;

We have five TS 2003 SP2 server's exhibiting the same odd issue lately, they 
freeze up for like 30 secs to a minute, or seem very slow in responding. CPU , 
Memory and HD are fine from what we could see, I've used process explorer and 
TCPview. These are pretty static server's we don't do any OS updates or app 
updates and when we do we test for a while. They VM guests's and I looked at 
the cluster + hosts but don't see any issues there.

I'm a little puzzled, any suggestions where else to look?

Thx!

Carlos Garcia-Moran
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RE: Moving VM's between vCenter clusters?

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Yup pretty much it, as long as there is a link between the hosts + Clusters + 
Vcenter, you can move VM's around no problem. You are using Storage Vmotion at 
the time since the VM's are offline. Done this quite a few times. Just drag and 
drop the VM's.

Depending on your setup you can even move them online I did that last time 
around. Moved from an EMC NS20 to a Compellent with Zero downtime. I attached 
the new storage to all the hosts I had, but in this case I was only moving 
storage and not hosts like you are

Thx!

Carlos

From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 10:09 AM
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Subject: Moving VM's between vCenter clusters?

I have a new SAN and vCenter server and vSphere hosts which I'm finalizing 
testing.

One thing I've not been able to easily try is how to get the VM's off my 
existing hosts and onto the new hosts.

My understanding is that I should be able to simply join the current vSphere 
boxes (ESX 3.5) to the new vCenter and from there, do a migration (offline) of 
the VM's to the new servers and storage.

I'm using thin provisioning on the new SAN and within vSphere so I need to run 
something like sdelete in each existing VM to zero the free space, but other 
than that, have I missed anything blindingly obvious please?

Thanks,
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RE: Way OT - Anyone here had Lasik? How has it impacted your daily work (looking at screens, keyboards, etc)

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

I just got it done in December best money I've ever spent, after looking into 
prices and tech, I ended up going to Canada, it was $3500 minus $400 for being  
a US citizen, I got the Custom Wavefront bladeless which was the current best 
surgery and I can get it done a 2nd time if needed, The place I went LasikMD 
was recommended by two coworkers who had gotten it done there before. It 
guarantees 20/20 and the surgery I got covers all checkup's and 2nd surgery's 
if needed for life. Also I submitted to my bill for FSA reimbursement no 
problem since it's an approved expense even though it's outside of the country.

I actively Kick box 3 times a week and do some swimming. You can't have direct 
trauma to the eyes for 3 months, outside of some dryness on my left eye, I can 
read at night with no issues.

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From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 8:41 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Way OT - Anyone here had Lasik? How has it impacted your daily 
work (looking at screens, keyboards, etc)

Not athletically active, but had mine done with assistance from my FSA account 
12 years ago. My eyesight beforehand was 20/400 in one eye, and 20/425 in the 
other. It cost $2k/eye. I gulped hard and did it.

Afterward, it was 20/20 both eyes.

I am so very glad I did it.

Of course, I instantly needed reading glasses, (I was over 40 at that
point) but being able to see the road signs while being driven home from the 
operation brought more tears to my eyes than could be accounted for by the 
operation.

I got it done on a Friday, and by Monday was good to go, and have always told 
folks who ask that I would do it again in a heartbeat.

I was a "practice" patient - the surgeon who performed it was at the time the 
president of the board of ophthalmology for WA STate, but was being proctored 
for this procedure by someone. He is/was an amazing doctor, who performed RK on 
my then-wife a few years earlier and worked a near miracle for her as well.

I say, ask a couple of ophthalmologists who don't perform this particular 
procedure who they would choose if they had to get it done, and see what they 
have to say.


Kurt

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> have an astigmatism in my left eye). I've heard great stories, and I've read 
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>
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> procedure) 8 years ago and claims zero regrets and no long term ill effects. 
> I probably wouldn't do it, because for me it would be a luxury, but I'm 
> positioned to lose up to $2,600 that I have siting in a Flexible Spending 
> Account if it isn't used by March 31 of this year (I checked, and even though 
> the plan was for last 2010, my plan has a grace period that allows for Date 
> of Service until March 31, 2011). The surgeon I'm considering is Karl 
> Stonecipher, who claims having done well over 50,000 procedures.
>
> So, any stories, good, bad, or otherwise are welcome. I'm particularly 
> interested in any stories for anyone who is athletically active.
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RE: Home RAID enclosure recommendations?

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

I have an old netgear NV+, it been pretty good to me decent speed and features, 
I stream movies from it and store pics/music etc plus use it as a backup 
target. I was looking to replace it with either a Synology or a Qnap, they seem 
to be the current leaders for mid-level NAS boxes. Depends on how much you want 
to spend for features it can get costly 300+ range.

I don't know how good they are but LG just put out some dual HD boxes with 
either a CD or BD drive to save your data externally.


From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 9:04 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Home RAID enclosure recommendations?

Network World just did an article on NAS under a grand.
http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/120610-network-attached-storage-test.html

I just  bought a Qnap 459pro and put in 4 1tb WD drives. Works great.

dave



From: Jim Slattery [mailto:slattery_...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 6:57 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Home RAID enclosure recommendations?

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
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RE: ESET anti virus- admin console

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

I have been using it for the past 3 years, with 500+ seats, Haven't had any 
major issues outside of a bad Def once which caused CPU issues with some XP 
machines.

The latest client is pretty decent resource wise across W7 and XP machines, I 
have the Remote piece on my laptop as the other admins and the Server is a very 
small footprint resource Virtual machine have had zero issues on that part.

Config wise it's a slight steep learning curve to get all the features working 
the right way but once you do it's pretty much set it and forget it, the CFG is 
an XML base file which is easy to replicate and you can push different versions 
to your clients.

Overall I've been pretty happy since we migrated off Symantec.

From: John Leto [mailto:jo...@colonialsavings.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 3:11 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: ESET anti virus- admin console

I would like opinions regarding anyone out there using ESET anti virus and in 
particular the ESET admin console. How would you rate the products as far as 
ease of use and administration, effectiveness in catching viruses and malware, 
system resource usage, etc.

Thanks


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RE: First Steps into the SAN Arena

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

The Compellent SAN's have the same tech and it does work pretty well, most of 
our File server volumes have moved to SATA since they haven't gotten touched in 
months. It saved us tons of Fiber Space, Not sure how all the other vendors 
implement it but the Tech does work

-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 1:20 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: First Steps into the SAN Arena

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Sean Martin  wrote:
> EQL on the other hand inclues a lot of built-in functionality like 
> snapshots, array-to-array replications, etc. without charging more. I 
> hear they will soon (or maybe have already) provide CIFS/NFS but that 
> will require an additional array. I also hear that Dedupe and 
> Compression are coming.

  Sat through an EQL sales pitch earlier this week (they paid for lunch in 
return, which is why I went).  One thing he said was they have or will soon 
have hierarchical storage, so the busiest blocks get stored on SSDs, the next 
busiest on SAS, and the least used on SATA, and automagically migrate blocks as 
demand changes.

  Standard sales guy disclaimer applies, i.e., his lips were moving, so he was 
probabbly lying.

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RE: First Steps into the SAN Arena

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

I'd stay away from EMC :) and the Celerra, while the system is not horrid, 
configuration and management is, also the way that you have to present storage 
to the Celerra ends up wasting disks. We've move to a Compellent and couldn't 
be happier.

We had a CX500 and the NS20 with the Celerra head, had tons of problems with it 
that even EMC was baffled. We got the Compellent with a little less Fiber than 
the two EMC's together since the tiering storage moves data down to the SATA 
array, moved to a W2008 VM server with VMFS volumes for each share. LO and 
behold our performance has been fantastic and the cost was only slightly higher 
than the renewal for Maintenance of the two EMC's was going to be.

From: Anders Blomgren [mailto:chanks...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 3:57 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: First Steps into the SAN Arena

And EqualLogic is where we headed when it was time to set up a vsphere cluster. 
Getting another celerra or adding shelves to the current one didnt  make sense.

-Anders

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On 19 nov 2010, at 01:47, Jonathan Link 
mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Yes, I got an EMC pitch before I stepped into an EqualLogic.
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Anders Blomgren 
mailto:chanks...@gmail.com>> wrote:
That behind that admitedly much improved gui the celerra is a complex beast.

That quite a few more complex system changes require an EMC Technitian.

That being said, I do like our Celerra. And probably wont get another one when 
our current one needs replacing. The celerra is clariion storage and a file 
serving box which is unnecessarily complex for our needs. I'll probably 
increase the storage for our vsphere cluster and stand up a windows vm.

So it all depends on your actual needs, i.e. number of vsphere hosts and nas 
clients.

Probably more than you asked for but i get the feeling that EMC is targeting 
smb's with a product that they don't always have the resources to manage.

-Anders

Sent from my iPhone

On 18 nov 2010, at 23:45, 
"jwalt...@specservices.com" 
mailto:jwalt...@specservices.com>> wrote:
Hello,

I know there are many vendors and ways to skin the SAN gopher but I'm leaning 
towards this basic system as it meets our specs:

EMC NS-120 10GB/s Celerra System
Dual Data Movers
Dual SPS
NFS
CIFS

Seems they're offering a pretty good price.

I'm looking to virtualize with VMWare VSphere and think this SAN backend will 
meet our needs.

My question is, does anyone have any experience with EMC Celerra systems or EMC 
in general?
Would I be making a big mistake going with EMC or the Celerra from a support or 
stability perspective?

Being new to SAN's I don't have a lot of experience so are there any gotcha's I 
should be looking for?  Any pieces of info EMC sales guys frequent forget to 
offer up?

Please feel free to render any advice one way or the other.

Thanks

Jim


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RE: Software Auditing/Inventory?

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Have you tried Lansweeper, pretty inexpensive and very report customizable

From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 12:57 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Software Auditing/Inventory?

Market leading?  Makes a good press release intro.

From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 12:48 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Software Auditing/Inventory?

How do you find it please?  Not cheap but apparently one of the market leaders.

From: Ames Matthew B [mailto:mba...@qinetiq.com]
Sent: 17 November 2010 17:43
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Software Auditing/Inventory?

We use this:

http://www.frontrange.com/software/it-asset-management/network-discovery/http://www.frontrange.com/software/it-asset-management/network-discovery/>

formally 'centennial discovery'

(I expect a similar message will appear on the list tomorrow when the firewall 
guys release it because it failed the automatic contentent checking due to the 
signature block of the message I initially replied to!)


From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk]
Sent: 17 November 2010 16:27
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Software Auditing/Inventory?
What do you all use for this please?  We're looking for something and of course 
you have lots of products all of which promise a lot.

The sort of things we're looking to do is run regular scans of PC's to capture 
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instances of Package X we have installed vs. how many we have licensed.

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RE: Backup exec 2010 r2

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They have products to enhance management and backup virtual guests, but you 
don’t NEED them in order to run VM's 

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Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 4:17 PM
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Subject: RE: Backup exec 2010 r2

Anyone here able to speak about something called VEEAM? Got a consultant who 
wants to get it for us to use to manage a couple virtualized servers. They said 
we'd need the paid-for version of VMWARE. :-(



From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu]
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Subject: Re: Backup exec 2010 r2

Yep. ESX and ESXi 4.1 and it just works. 
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Subject: Backup exec 2010 r2 
 
Anyone using backup exec 2010 r2 with VMWare agent?
Are you backing up esxi versions?
If so what are your feelings?


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Butler Animal Health Supply
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RE: Finding 64 bit Win 7 machines

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Lansweeper, install it let it gather the info on your domain and look for the 
W7 OS Report

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Subject: Finding 64 bit Win 7 machines

Ok, so I have an OU full of Windows 7 machines. I need to split them into  64 
bit and 32 bit for some group policies. Any suggestions/ideas for a quick way 
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RE: Professional Services Firm recomendation in FL

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Thx Will take a look into that!

From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 12:29 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Professional Services Firm recomendation in FL

Seeing your NH phone number, I recommend that you find people that are 
originally from out-of-state - preferably from the North.  Lots of companies 
down there (founded by non-Floridians) seek out-of-state employees because the 
local talent has a much different work ethic that does not mesh well.

>From what I have seen/heard while living in Fort Lauderdale, some companies 
>group together and "lease" outside talent to come down there, do work for the 
>group members over months at a time, and then return to their place of origin 
>when finished.

Fort Lauderdale has a surprising amount of Bostonians and New Yorkers.  My 
recommendation would be to find them.  It may not seem this way to people from 
other parts of the US.  But, IME, it is a common perception of people from the 
North East.

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Hey all;

Does anyone know of a good Professional services group in FL Greater Fort 
Lauderdale area, we need to get someone out there for a 5-6 month ongoing 
project, need a firm that has some well-rounded tech's with Strong network 
skill's wireless, router etc... plus general PC skills would be nice.

Thx!

Carlos Garcia-Moran
Server / Storage Engineer
Sprague Energy
www.spragueenergy.com<http://www.spragueenergy.com>
P: 603-430-5355
C: 857-234-0343
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Professional Services Firm recomendation in FL

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Hey all;

Does anyone know of a good Professional services group in FL Greater Fort 
Lauderdale area, we need to get someone out there for a 5-6 month ongoing 
project, need a firm that has some well-rounded tech's with Strong network 
skill's wireless, router etc... plus general PC skills would be nice.

Thx!

Carlos Garcia-Moran
Server / Storage Engineer
Sprague Energy
www.spragueenergy.com
P: 603-430-5355
C: 857-234-0343
F: 603-430-7219


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RE: VMWare vs Hyper-V

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

+1 For VMware, they are by far a more robust, flexible , 3rd party supported, 
great tools for it. That being said, they aint cheap setup does require some 
extra knowledge but don't think more than learning Hyper-V from scratch

It all depends on your requirements, budget, DR planning etc... I've been using 
Vmware for quite a few years now and it has done well by me, While I dabbled in 
Hyper-V at the time it didn't compare. You can have a production ready VM host 
in around 30 minutes provided you have a Server, Network and Storage for it

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Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 9:48 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VMWare vs Hyper-V

Probably a can of worms here but we have not done much virtualization but are 
about to get into it more. It will be pretty simple virtualization, a couple of 
big boxes running 4 or 5 virtualized servers each. No cluster failovers or 
anything like that. We dabbled in VMWare before Hyper-V became mature but now I 
need to pick one and run with it. I am leaning towards Hyper-V because it is 
included with our license and so far has been pretty painless in testing. I 
found VMWare to be confusing with all the different packages, 
licensing...upgrades and all that. I suspect it provides far more flexibility 
but not knowing what that flexibility really is concerns me.

So thought I would ask the knowledgeable masses here if I am missing anything 
important.

TIA

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RE: BES 4.0 - 5.0

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Called Rim and get a Transporter Kit, it's free, I migrated from 4 to 5 about 6 
months ago and did it with Zero downtime and only a couple of BB that didn't 
work out of 200 users. You install the new server as a stand alone BES 5.0 and 
then there's the software you run on it to transfer users on a batch run. RIM 
gives you a new SRP to run for 60 days which once you are done becomes your new 
one.

From: Level Five - List [mailto:li...@levelfive.us]
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 7:34 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: BES 4.0 - 5.0

Thanks Greg, we are using the same bes acct on the 4.0 and 5.0 . the bes acct 
still seems to be working because we brought a mail archiving system online and 
have been using that account to extact mail from mailboxes successfully. I will 
still triple check it.

I was wondering if the bes is registering 2 times with the same domain (bes4 
and bes5) if this was causing an issue on the blackberry network side about how 
to route, the confusing part was seeing the 'invalid' ids come in with an 
un-wiped phone, and then a wiped phone nothing seems to make its way.

From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net]
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 9:34 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: BES 4.0 - 5.0


Pretty sure though you cant have the same codes on 4 and 5, so that's most 
likely not it.  If you are getting ERP messages than you are communicating with 
RIM but the BES user account most likely doesn't have permissions to access the 
boxes.  Double check your permissions, and then recheck.  Dumb question...the 
bes account is not a domain admin is it?  It was common in 4 to prevent the sd 
admin process from overwriting permissions for the account used.  If you are 
using the same account in the domain its possible the perms on the account are 
wrong.

Easy way to check is open the user mailbox in ad and look at custom permissions 
to see if your service account has read and send mail perms.

Then the Exchange perms needs to be there as well.

Last case if login to a box that has outlook as the service account and try and 
open a mailbox, if you cant then you know it's a perms issue.

Greg

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Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 7:13 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: BES 4.0 - 5.0

I don't think so, but I will have to double check, they had TMobile initially 
and then about 6 months ago moved to Sprint and got all new phones and Sprint 
gave them a 20 user bes 5.0, they just went and re-registered them on their 4.0 
at the time. I will double check that though, obviously that wouldn't work and 
I didn't think about it, but as a test I could disable the 4.0 , register a 
phone then, and if it works I know I can proceed



From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 1:31 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: BES 4.0 - 5.0

Are you trying to use the same SRP ID on both servers while they are both 
running?

From: Level Five - List [mailto:li...@levelfive.us]
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 10:24 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: BES 4.0 - 5.0

I have a bes 4.0 on win2k that's being migrated to 2008/bes5

It was installed with sql express so I cant use the wizard apparently to swing 
it over. I figured I could just remove the user from 4, and add them into 5.

When I do this I get an error on the bes5 that its seeing an unexpected pin 
number or serial number, so I master reset the phone (which makes sense) , and 
then re-activate again but then nothing happens, not even a check into the bes 
server. The etp.dats are showing up in the mailbox and disappearing as 
expected. If I put the user back on bes4 and activate it comes right up.

Could this be  because I have the same domain registering with 2 bes servers? 
In looking up how to do it, looks like my options are to swing it over (which I 
cant) or wipe the phone and reset them, annoying but okay, I would just like to 
get 1 to work so I know I will be good once I start doing everyone's.

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RE: PST viewer

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

I totally forgot, I use this one constantly to export PST results in various 
form's for Lawyers. Not free but very inexpensive

http://www.processtext.com/abcoutlk.html

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Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 10:20 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: PST viewer

Bill,

On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:53:20 -0400, Bill Humphries
wrote:

>OK, need to provide some emails to lawyers for parent
company of 
>client.  Parent company uses lotus notes.  Anyone know
of a decent 
>preferably free PST viewer that would allow them to
open, browse a PST 
>and print to paper or maybe pdf? 

>I'd much rather point them in that direction, rather
than have them ask 
>me to convert 2000 emails to pdf.

>Bill

Would this work for you?

http://www.oemailrecovery.com/pst-viewer.html





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RE: favorite Android Apps

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Excellent, I use appbrain as well had no idea we can share lists J
here's mine, I do love the flexibility of the android platform

 

http://www.appbrain.com/user/aragones/apps-on-the-phone

 

From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 8:37 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: favorite Android Apps

 

thank you !

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Rod Trent 
wrote:

Favorite?  That's hard to say.  Most apps have their uses (some have no
use at all)  nd it depends on how you work and what you use the phone
for.

 

However, you can see my list here:

 

http://www.appbrain.com/user/rodtrent/apps-on-the-phone

 

Get Appbrain and you can share app lists.

 

Best new Social Media app is my6sense, btw.

 

 

From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 8:18 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT : favorite Android Apps

 

I recently upgraded to the HTC EVO with Android 2.2 ...  Android is
still  a bit new to me, but since there are some folks on here who have
opinions I respect, I thought I'd ask ;

 

What are your favorite Android apps, and why ?

 

Thanks in advance, 

Erik

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RE: Cheap/Free POP3/SMTP Server?

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

+2

I use 2 VM's with postfix enabled on them on Ubuntu Linux to do all of
our SMTP stuff. Works like a peach, you can be up and running in a
couple of hours with a very robust solution with great logging

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Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 11:08 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Cheap/Free POP3/SMTP Server?

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Paul Hutchings
 wrote:
> Any suggestions on anything else that is cheap/free and easy to
configure?

  Linux?  :)

-- Ben

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RE: security concern - ESX host repeatedly hitting external IP...

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

The traffic from the hosts and the guests is  normally segregated, if
the IP you are seeing is the ESX host management IP then he is the
culprit, you can SSH to the box and check out  what ports / ip's the ESX
host has open or if they are running 3rd party tools inside of it.

 

Do check what the NTP config is to rule it out, Also the DNS settings,
do you know the port being used?

 

From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 11:49 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: security concern - ESX host repeatedly hitting external
IP...

 

I found that same info, but can't ANYONE join pool.ntp.org if they have
a server with a static public IP?

 

http://www.pool.ntp.org/en/join.html

 

I know which host it is coming from, and we're running ESX 3.5. I'll
double check the guest OSes just for kicks, but wouldn't the packet be
coming from the guest OS IP Address, and not the ESX host itself? How
would I interrogate the ESX host?

Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
Technology Coordinator
Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA
jra...@eaglemds.com mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com> 
www.eaglemds.com http://www.eaglemds.com/>  



From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] 
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 11:44 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: security concern - ESX host repeatedly hitting external
IP...

 

> 72.18.205.156

 

Name:mail.freerip.com

Address:  72.18.205.156

 

That isnt pool.NTP.ORG block, which is commonly utilized in ESX
environments to provide synced time to the ESX hosts and therefore its
underlying ESX guests.  You might need to see which ESX host its coming
from and interrogate the ESX guests to see who might be possibly
behaving badly. 

 

http://whois.domaintools.com/72.18.205.156

 

IP Information for 72.18.205.156

IP Location: 

 United States Warminster Jim Garvey 

Resolve Host: 

mail.freerip.com   

IP Address: 

72.18.205.156     
  
  
  
 

Reverse IP: 

3 websites
  use
this address. (examples: freerip.com
  mauriziogiunti.it
  mgshareware.com
 ) 

NetRange:   72.18.205.0 - 72.18.205.255
CIDR:   72.18.205.0/24
OriginAS:   
NetName:CONTINENTALTRANSIT-APLUSHOSTING-LAS01
NetHandle:  NET-72-18-205-0-1
Parent: NET-72-18-192-0-1
NetType:Reassigned
Comment:Hosted by APlusHosting.com
RegDate:2005-10-12
Updated:2005-10-12
Ref:http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-72-18-205-0-1

CustName:   Jim Garvey
Address:868 W. Street
City:   Warminster
StateProv:  PA
PostalCode: 18974
Country:US
RegDate:2005-10-12
Updated:2005-10-12
Ref:http://whois.arin.net/rest/customer/C01196342

OrgAbuseHandle: PNA11-ARIN
OrgAbuseName:   PremiaNet Network Abuse
OrgAbusePhone:  +1-702-442-1962 
OrgAbuseEmail:   
 
OrgAbuseRef:http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/PNA11-ARIN

OrgTechHandle: PTSD-ARIN
OrgTechName:   PremiaNet Technical Support Division
OrgTechPhone:  +1-800-234-1655 
OrgTechEmail:   
 
OrgTechRef:http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/PTSD-ARIN

OrgNOCHandle: PNA12-ARIN
OrgNOCName:   PremiaNet Network Administration
OrgNOCPhone:  +1-800-234-1655 
OrgNOCEmail:   
 
OrgNOCRef:http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/PNA12-ARIN

RAbuseHandle: PNA11-ARIN
RAbuseName:   PremiaNet Network Abuse
RAbusePhone:  +1-702-442-1962 
RAbuseEmail:   
 
RAbuseRef:http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/PNA11-ARIN

RNOCHandle: PNA12-ARIN
RNOCName:   PremiaNet Network Administration
RNOCPhone:  +1-800-234-1655 
RNOCEmail:   
 
RNOCRef:http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/PNA12-ARIN

RTechHandle: PTSD-ARIN
RTechName:   PremiaNet Technical Support Division
RTechPhone:  +1-800-234-1655 
RTechEmail:   
 
RTechRef:http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/PTSD-ARIN

NetRange:   72.18.192.0 - 72.18.207.255
CIDR:   72.18.192.0/20
OriginAS:

RE: security concern - ESX host repeatedly hitting external IP...

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Looks like he has NTP setup to sync to an external resource, depending
on what version of ESX he has , the setup should be somewhere here

 

 

 

From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 11:23 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: security concern - ESX host repeatedly hitting external IP...

 

We're getting ready to decommission an old router, and almost all of the
traffic to and through it (except broadcast) has stopped. I'm reviewing
the syslog, and keep seeing this:

 

9/16/2010 8:36:50 AM [Internal Router Private IP Address] Informational
SEC-6-IPACCESSLOGP 651364: 44w0d: %SEC-6-IPACCESSLOGP: list permit_any
permitted udp [ESX Private IP Address](0) -> 72.18.205.156(0), 1 packet

 

I've asked our VMware admin to look over his host configuration to make
sure he isn't pointing to the old router, but he says everything is
"fine."

 

Anyone else seen this or have any ideas as to why I'm seeing this
traffic?

 

Upon Googling said IP Address, it appears that it may be part of
pool.ntp.org, but I cannot confirm this. This host is located in
Warminster, PA, according to some sites.

 

Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE

Technology Coordinator

Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA

jra...@eaglemds.com

www.eaglemds.com 

 

 

    

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RE: SAN Storage

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

We got the latest greatest Dual storage controller's, 6 Trays of Fiber
with 15K 300 GB (24 TB), and 1 tray of SATA 1 TB 7K (13.6 TB), Price was
the factor for getting the SATA, we had to meet a certain budget so  we
cut out what the preferred config was they suggested to meet our needs
for VMware, File Server and Physical DB's.

 

14K plus IOPS, if I read it right, still a noob with their reporting, on
the whole system and we've barely tapped it, this is the 1st time that
out App folks and FS users haven't complained about our upgrades, they
instead have said things are way better.

 

Here's the space breakdown, the compellent's  bundle all the disk's
together into a massive pool and you carve out the space you need @
RAID10, everything else shifts down to Tier 3 from that

 

Total Disk Space

38.20 TB

 

Total Sata + fiber we got

Allocated Space

38.20 TB

99.99%

Space we gave out to Host's / Physical's / File Share's

Free Disk Space

15.68 TB

41.04%

Free Allocated but not used space (not written)

Used Disk Space

22.52 TB

58.96%

Used Allocated space (written)

Active Space

12.36 TB

32.34%

Actual space being written to of the allocated space

Replay Space

5.95 TB

15.57%

These are the "snaphost's"

System Space

1.31 GB

0.00%

OS Space

 

Let me know if something doesn't make sense J

 

Thx!

 

From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 1:14 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SAN Storage

 

I'd be interested in knowing what sort of disk config you went with
based on IOPS (feel free to mail me off list if you'd sooner not share).

 

I'm waiting for some figures as (been here before haven't we...) none of
these folks really publish price lists and with storage list price seems
to go out the window as soon as you look at a vendor.

 

Just out of curiosity is there a reason you went SATA over the 1tb/2tb
7k SAS drives?

 

The perpetual licenses are a good point.

 

From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com] 
Sent: 07 September 2010 13:24
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SAN Storage

 

I got a Compellent recently and I can say I am very impressed with the
System, their Tiering works as expected, Non Active Data gets moved down
to cheaper storage according to the profiles you setup, against their
advice we cut out some SATA in the order and now that we have it we see
what they meant, turns out most of our Premium storage is barely used. I
have to say compared with EMC and Equallogic, Compellent wins hands down

 

The Array is very easy to use, their reporting the best ive seen in a
while and since we purchased enough hardware all our software licenses
are 100% included from now on, all we need now is extra hardware to
expand if we needed.

 

From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] 
Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 11:42 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SAN Storage

 

I'll have a gander at their website.  Anyone familiar with Compellent?

 

They're going to be quoting and have made much out of their automatic
storage tiering, the pitch being buy some fast 15k SAS disk, buy more
cheaper, slower disks (e.g. 2tb 7.2k SAS) and let the system
automatically move stuff that's infrequently accessed to the slower,
cheaper bulk storage.

 

From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 05 September 2010 15:14
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: SAN Storage

 

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On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Paul Hutchings
 wrote:

OK so I have pricing (albeit approximate) on Lefthand, Equallogic and
Dell EMC, still waiting on Netapp.

 

Anyone else care to throw any other vendors into the equation?

 

I'm not convinced by the block only products, just seems it may be too
much of a limitation somewhere down the line.

 

From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] 
Sent: 31 August 2010 17:56


To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SAN Storage

 

Thanks Mark, have to admit I'd been mostly comparing the 16 disk
Equallogic trays and the 8 or 12 disk Lefthand.

 

In our case out IOPS profile works out pretty low, it's the volume of
data that pushes the spindle count up it would appear - I'm certainly
not convinced that for our file server it's worth the price premium of
SAS over, say MDL SAS or even SATA as we have some LUNs on SATA right
now and it's just not been an issue.

 

The replication reserve is something I've heard about, IIRC Equallogic
use minimum 16mb blocks for replication whilst Netapp presumably use
smaller blocks.

 

From: Weber, Mark A [mailto:mark-a-we...@uiowa.edu] 
Sent: 31 August 2010 16:37
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SAN Storage

 

My boss did this calculation - it 

RE: User Slowness Woes

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Perfmon mostly, We are starting W7 deployments soon, hoping it might
change some things for us

 

From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 12:39 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: User Slowness Woes

 

How are you looking at these things?

 

I have to say that Win7's (I think it was introduced in Vista, but I try
to forget) Resource Monitor which gives very granular counters by
process, and most importantly breaks down both network and disk I/O down
by process, with the ability to drill down and filter as well, is a
great addition to the diagnostic toolbox...

 

Goes along very well with the SysInternals tools ASB mentioned..

 

-sc

 

From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 10:09 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: User Slowness Woes

 

Hey All;

 

So we all have them, but I am curious to see what everyone else does and
what tools are used when the users chief complaint is my PC is "slow" .
Most times, I take a look at the Four major's CPU, Mem, HD, Network, I
look at their event viewer, OS and Application patch levels, and what
they're doing at the time of the complaint

 

A lot of the times though I think most of these complaints are
subjective to what a user perceives as slow, there never is a magic
number you can refer to and say hey you're at 11 and that's slow let me
bring you down to a 5 and speed you up. 

 

Suggestions?

 

Thx!

 

Carlos Garcia-Moran

Server / Storage Engineer

Sprague Energy

www.spragueenergy.com

P: 603-430-5355

C: 857-234-0343

F: 603-430-7219

 

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RE: User Slowness Woes

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

What do you use to benchmark the machines? Mind you we just did a
refresh to the desktops / laptops here All of them are at minimum Dual
or Quad Core CPU's 3GB memory and 7200 RPM drives, that's what boggles
me J

 

 

 

From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 10:22 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: User Slowness Woes

 

That's why I always try to benchmark the performance of my PCs/thin
clients when they go live. When a user says "it takes x longer to log on
than it used to", I have actual physical data that proves it is quicker.

On 7 September 2010 15:09, Garcia-Moran, Carlos
 wrote:

Hey All;

 

So we all have them, but I am curious to see what everyone else does and
what tools are used when the users chief complaint is my PC is "slow" .
Most times, I take a look at the Four major's CPU, Mem, HD, Network, I
look at their event viewer, OS and Application patch levels, and what
they're doing at the time of the complaint

 

A lot of the times though I think most of these complaints are
subjective to what a user perceives as slow, there never is a magic
number you can refer to and say hey you're at 11 and that's slow let me
bring you down to a 5 and speed you up. 

 

Suggestions?

 

Thx!

 

Carlos Garcia-Moran

Server / Storage Engineer

Sprague Energy

www.spragueenergy.com

P: 603-430-5355

C: 857-234-0343

F: 603-430-7219

 

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User Slowness Woes

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Hey All;

 

So we all have them, but I am curious to see what everyone else does and
what tools are used when the users chief complaint is my PC is "slow" .
Most times, I take a look at the Four major's CPU, Mem, HD, Network, I
look at their event viewer, OS and Application patch levels, and what
they're doing at the time of the complaint

 

A lot of the times though I think most of these complaints are
subjective to what a user perceives as slow, there never is a magic
number you can refer to and say hey you're at 11 and that's slow let me
bring you down to a 5 and speed you up. 

 

Suggestions?

 

Thx!

 

Carlos Garcia-Moran

Server / Storage Engineer

Sprague Energy

www.spragueenergy.com  

P: 603-430-5355

C: 857-234-0343

F: 603-430-7219

 


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RE: SAN Storage

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

I got a Compellent recently and I can say I am very impressed with the
System, their Tiering works as expected, Non Active Data gets moved down
to cheaper storage according to the profiles you setup, against their
advice we cut out some SATA in the order and now that we have it we see
what they meant, turns out most of our Premium storage is barely used. I
have to say compared with EMC and Equallogic, Compellent wins hands down

 

The Array is very easy to use, their reporting the best ive seen in a
while and since we purchased enough hardware all our software licenses
are 100% included from now on, all we need now is extra hardware to
expand if we needed.

 

From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] 
Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 11:42 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SAN Storage

 

I'll have a gander at their website.  Anyone familiar with Compellent?

 

They're going to be quoting and have made much out of their automatic
storage tiering, the pitch being buy some fast 15k SAS disk, buy more
cheaper, slower disks (e.g. 2tb 7.2k SAS) and let the system
automatically move stuff that's infrequently accessed to the slower,
cheaper bulk storage.

 

From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 05 September 2010 15:14
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: SAN Storage

 

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On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Paul Hutchings
 wrote:

OK so I have pricing (albeit approximate) on Lefthand, Equallogic and
Dell EMC, still waiting on Netapp.

 

Anyone else care to throw any other vendors into the equation?

 

I'm not convinced by the block only products, just seems it may be too
much of a limitation somewhere down the line.

 

From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] 
Sent: 31 August 2010 17:56


To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SAN Storage

 

Thanks Mark, have to admit I'd been mostly comparing the 16 disk
Equallogic trays and the 8 or 12 disk Lefthand.

 

In our case out IOPS profile works out pretty low, it's the volume of
data that pushes the spindle count up it would appear - I'm certainly
not convinced that for our file server it's worth the price premium of
SAS over, say MDL SAS or even SATA as we have some LUNs on SATA right
now and it's just not been an issue.

 

The replication reserve is something I've heard about, IIRC Equallogic
use minimum 16mb blocks for replication whilst Netapp presumably use
smaller blocks.

 

From: Weber, Mark A [mailto:mark-a-we...@uiowa.edu] 
Sent: 31 August 2010 16:37
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SAN Storage

 

My boss did this calculation - it is usually true that at some point
tray based systems can meet or beat the same cost/GB as the EQL - for
the systems we were comparing (FAS3040 vs EQL PS6500e) it was around the
300TB mark. Of course this all depends on what kind of deal you can get
with your vendor, how many shelves you buy at once, what features you
need to enable on the Netapp, etc. Dell gave us a killer price on our
first two PS6500e's to lock us in - we are looking at buying one or two
more and the new quote is coming in about 6K more for the exact same
system 6 months later.

 

A few things to be aware of:

If you go the Netapp route, I would keep in mind the cost of snapmirror
for your replication later - it isn't cheap.

On the EQL side - the snapshot overhead is much higher than the Netapp.
The default snap reserve on Netapp volumes is 20% and on EQL is 100%.
The same is true for replication - the default replication reserve on
the EQL side is 300% if I remember correctly. It all depends on your
change rate, retention policy, etc but there is a significant difference
between the two.

 

mark

 

From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] 
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 4:15 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SAN Storage

 

One of the things that concerns me about Lefthand and EQL is that they
are "node" based - good for performance scale out but it means that at
certain points you're committed to paying for a new tray complete with
spindles and controllers whilst with other vendors you pay up front for
the controllers but (hopefully) have slightly lower costs when you want
to add disks as (trays aside) all you're doing is adding disks.

 

The capacity we need (around 15tb usable) isn't a nice number for either
EQL or Lefthand as it means multiple nodes.

 

I should add to my original post that whilst budgets may mean we can't
do it from day one, we do have a DR location with fast fibre to our main
location as we'd like to have full replication of data to this location
- we don't need instant failover or anything, but the intention is that
it would have to be a very bad day before we'd have to hit the tapes.

 

From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 30 August 2010 20:54
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: SAN Storage

 

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RE: NOD32 and XP 5418 DEF Issue

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Yeah that really did mess up my THU, but at least it didn't happen
tomorrow J im still trying to get some machines rebooted and updates
pushed

 

From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 12:50 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: NOD32 and XP 5418 DEF Issue

 

More info if needed:

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=281024

 

 

 

From: Durf [mailto:stygm...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 10:19 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: NOD32 and XP 5418 DEF Issue

 

Thanks for the advance warning.  I was just in the middle of starting to
get calls with freezing systems when I saw this.  Saved me quite a lot
of time.  Almost 1,000 seats of NOD32 under management here across 200
small networks.   Getting communication out early seems to have made
this a much less bad day than it could have been!

 

-- Durf

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Garcia-Moran, Carlos
 wrote:

FYI guys for anyone using NOD32 and XOP , there's a problem with
DEF5418, Current solution from ESET is to reboot the affected PC

 

 

 

Update for "bad update- 5418 on xp machines" 

Hello,

Thank you for contacting ESET Customer Care. 
We will update you as soon as we get release a new update. For now,
please restart those machines that are affected. This will release the
ekrn and egui process.


Thank you for using ESET security products,
ESET Customer Care

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Cheers!

 

 

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Sprague Energy

www.spragueenergy.com

P: 603-430-5355

C: 857-234-0343

F: 603-430-7219

 

 

 

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NOD32 and XP 5418 DEF Issue

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

FYI guys for anyone using NOD32 and XOP , there's a problem with
DEF5418, Current solution from ESET is to reboot the affected PC

 

 

 

Update for "bad update- 5418 on xp machines" 

Hello,

Thank you for contacting ESET Customer Care. 
We will update you as soon as we get release a new update. For now,
please restart those machines that are affected. This will release the
ekrn and egui process.


Thank you for using ESET security products,
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Cheers!

 

 

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www.spragueenergy.com  

P: 603-430-5355

C: 857-234-0343

F: 603-430-7219

 

 

 


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RE: Network Graphing

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Take a look @ this http://cactiez.cactiusers.org/ you should be up and
running with a Cacti install and graphing the network in like 30 minutes

 

From: helpdesk UK [mailto:uk.helpd...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 12:41 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Network Graphing

 

Hello Everyone,

 

I have been asked to setup detail graphing of the ESX host and the core
switches.

 

I am not monitoring expert by any means so please bare with me on
this

 

What I am looking for is a pre configured vm all I would have to do is
import it in the virtual enviroment and than point it to monitor all the
interfaces of the HP 82xxzl switch 

 

Of course the solution needs to be free as well  :)

 

I have been told by the customer that you get pre configured Cacti VM's
which all you would have to do is run quick start wizard and you are up
and running in minutes ?

 

Any recomendations ?

 

Thank you in advance for all your help

 

cheers

Peter

 

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RE: SAN Storage

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Way cheaper cost than EMC , Netapp and Equalogic comparing apples to
apples

Licensing, after a set number of disks all systems are fully licensed
with all features, all's you pay in the future is hardware costs when
you want to expand

Their Tiering and replay tech is far beyond what I've seen with the
other vendors

Upgrade costs are way cheaper since a new tray of disks benefit's the
entire array and also all components are usable across all their
hardware, no more forklift upgrades

Their tech support is top notch, Ive called twice, barely been on the
phone waiting and the person that answered was an actual engineer that
helped me

 

How big of a system do you need? If you are shopping around might as
well make an informed decision J 

 

 

From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 12:10 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SAN Storage

 

One thing that the HP rep I talked to pointed out, is that a lot of the
perceived savings using tiered storage don't pan out because you don't
really end up doing a lot of moving stuff from "hot" storage to "warm"
storage. I know that in our environment, we don't have any virtual
machines, etc so there's no need for "hot" storage, it'll all be "warm"
storage.

 

  

 

From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] 
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 11:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SAN Storage

 

I did briefly look at Compellent some time back.  At the kind of size of
business that we are I wasn't entirely clear what their key benefit was
other than the storage tiering?  There's a few vendors that fall into
that category, Pillar being another one, where I look and think "I'm
sure they make a nice SAN but what makes them stand out over XYZ?".

 

From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com] 
Sent: 30 August 2010 16:52
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SAN Storage

 

Take a looksee @ Compellent, we just replaced and EMC NS-20 with a
Compellent Unit and we couldn't be happier. With their Tiered Tech we
were able to get less Fiber and more Sata shelf's which saved us a
bundle.

 

Compared to EMC the Setup / management was breeze. I Dmotion'ed all the
VM's live and had Zero downtime from SAN to SAN. 

 

 

 

From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] 
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 11:40 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SAN Storage

 

Thanks Andy, one of the things that appeals about Lefthand and EQL is
that all the licenses are included, whilst with Netapp/EMC the licenses
for different things are additional, it's something I'll be keeping a
close eye on when looking at figures/options.

 

From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] 
Sent: 30 August 2010 16:36
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SAN Storage

 

Paul,

I've got a considerable amount of Equallogic experience and one of the
main reasons I chose them was that you get SAN-to-SAN replication for
free.  Along those same lines, watch the software\licensing costs as you
compare solutions.  As you license SAN protocols  (NFS\CIFS\iSCSI, etc.)
and features (replication...) the costs will climb.  

 

Also, I'm happy to refer you, or anyone, to a top-notch Dell channel VAR
that I've worked with for about seven years.  

 

Shook

 

From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] 
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 11:30 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: SAN Storage

 

Looking for a little feedback folks.

 

We've got a SAN replacement coming up in a few months.  We're pretty
much a vmware shop except where a service has to run on a physical
server (IO cards etc.).

 

The vendors I'm primarily looking at are Lefthand, Equallogic and
Netapp, and possibly EMC since Dell can quote on an EMC solution as well
as Equallogic.

 

I've not had quotes yet, but so far my instincts are leaning towards
Netapp, mainly because of the things I keep hearing about NFS for
vmware, as well as the fact they seem to offer a lot of flexibility
whereas Lefthand and Equallogic offer iSCSI and, well yeah, they offer
iSCSI.

 

Be interested to hear any experiences, especially around vmware and
replication between SANs at live/backup sites (not a live failover site
but a "this will take a little work but we have a copy of the data
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RE: SAN Storage

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Take a looksee @ Compellent, we just replaced and EMC NS-20 with a
Compellent Unit and we couldn't be happier. With their Tiered Tech we
were able to get less Fiber and more Sata shelf's which saved us a
bundle.

 

Compared to EMC the Setup / management was breeze. I Dmotion'ed all the
VM's live and had Zero downtime from SAN to SAN. 

 

 

 

From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] 
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 11:40 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SAN Storage

 

Thanks Andy, one of the things that appeals about Lefthand and EQL is
that all the licenses are included, whilst with Netapp/EMC the licenses
for different things are additional, it's something I'll be keeping a
close eye on when looking at figures/options.

 

From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] 
Sent: 30 August 2010 16:36
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SAN Storage

 

Paul,

I've got a considerable amount of Equallogic experience and one of the
main reasons I chose them was that you get SAN-to-SAN replication for
free.  Along those same lines, watch the software\licensing costs as you
compare solutions.  As you license SAN protocols  (NFS\CIFS\iSCSI, etc.)
and features (replication...) the costs will climb.  

 

Also, I'm happy to refer you, or anyone, to a top-notch Dell channel VAR
that I've worked with for about seven years.  

 

Shook

 

From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] 
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 11:30 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: SAN Storage

 

Looking for a little feedback folks.

 

We've got a SAN replacement coming up in a few months.  We're pretty
much a vmware shop except where a service has to run on a physical
server (IO cards etc.).

 

The vendors I'm primarily looking at are Lefthand, Equallogic and
Netapp, and possibly EMC since Dell can quote on an EMC solution as well
as Equallogic.

 

I've not had quotes yet, but so far my instincts are leaning towards
Netapp, mainly because of the things I keep hearing about NFS for
vmware, as well as the fact they seem to offer a lot of flexibility
whereas Lefthand and Equallogic offer iSCSI and, well yeah, they offer
iSCSI.

 

Be interested to hear any experiences, especially around vmware and
replication between SANs at live/backup sites (not a live failover site
but a "this will take a little work but we have a copy of the data
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RE: Remote desktop access with user approval

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You can also take a look @ LanSweeper, I know it's an inventory product,
but part of the actions you can do with it is remote control with perms.
It's very cheap $200-$300 a year. We find the tools and info it provides
invaluable for the price

 

From: tony patton [mailto:tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 4:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Remote desktop access with user approval

 

Sorry if this has already been answered, was out sick yesterday and just
getting to emails now. 

We use UltraVNC here with that exact setup.  Users are prompted to
Approve or Reject the connection. 
We are also authenticating against AD. 

Regards

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Ext 8078
Direct Dial 049 435 2878
email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com 



From:"Tom Miller"  
To:"NT System Admin Issues"
 
Date:24/08/2010 21:36 
Subject:Remote desktop access with user approval 






Folks, 
  
Any suggestions on a product that we can use for remote desktop access
whereby the user must approve access before we can see the desktop being
accessed?   
  
I'd like to use VNC, but prompting for permission is not possible (as
far as I can tell) so that can't be used.  And remote desktop won't work
since we need to be able to have the user see our actions (sometimes we
remote in to provide short training). 
  
We already use gotoassist but I'm thinking of a more vnc-like product. 
  
Suggestions appreciated. 
  
Tom 

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RE: VMWare View, How are you handling AV? (Viper to be specific)

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We put AV on any OS Device regardless of what it is, Virtual  or Physical if 
they are connected to the network where they can talk do any other devices. The 
risk is too great.

From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 11:06 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VMWare View, How are you handling AV? (Viper to be specific)


So does anyone have any pointers on this?  Are you just not worrying about it 
since you can wipe the linked clones out at any time if they get infected?  I'm 
sill worried about handling outbreak protection.  Don't care if the clone gets 
hosed but I don't want all my clones getting infected with something and trying 
to spread it around.  If you install AV on the base image and don't use 
persistent clones then they will have to update signatures every time they boot 
from the day the base image was created.  If you use persistent clones then 
their deltas will grow because of signatures being added every day.  And then 
you've got licensing and agents on linked clones trying to update from the 
enterprise server with a pc name that is different than the base image they 
were created from.  I don't think a lot of AV vendors have really thought this 
type of situation through.





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RE: Some VMware questions - upgrading ESX, and failover clustering (OT)

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See below :)

-Original Message-
From: Mike Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 11:57 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Some VMware questions - upgrading ESX, and failover
clustering (OT)

On 6/30/2010 11:48 AM, Garcia-Moran, Carlos had this to say:
> Migration will be very straightforward, but will require downtime on 
> the guests since you are changing Hardware in the Hosts and ESX 
> Versions, as long as the cluster's share the same storage do the 
> following at a high level.
>
> 1) Load up the new hardware with ESX, Create your new cluster "B" , 
> make sure all your networks look the same config wise

OK .. you mean load the new hardware with vSphere v4, not ESX 3.5,
right? 

Yup , latest ESX version

> 2) Shutdown a Guest, Move from Cluster A to Cluster B (migrate option 
> in
> VC)

And no problem migrating from ESX 3.5 to vSphere v4? No upgrade
prerequisites for the VMs? (I've migrated between hosts often, yes)

Ive had no problems, the only prereq's are the after the fact ones
stated below

> 3) Turn on, upgrade VM Tools to latest
> 4) Shutdown, upgrade virtual hardware

"upgrade virtual hardware"? In what way and why? Is that something that
vSphere requires? I don't need to change the specs on my VMs, if that's
what you're referring to here.

The VM version in vSphere is 7, you do a right click on the VM and it's
an menu option , it has different improved "hardware" IDE, SCSI, PCI
Bridges etc... while you don't have to do it at one point you won't get
100% of the benefit of running in vSphere, I've yet to have an issue
doing this as long as you do the tools 1st which contains the drivers
for the new hardware

> 5) Turn on, run windows update in case you need Stuff like "AMD
Opteron"
> / "Intel" updates
> 6) Rinse and Repeat for all guests

Sounds manageable enough. Thanks!

> Replication DR gets a little more complex since it's dependent on 
> quite a few things, you can use SRM, but to do so you need to be able 
> to do storage replication 1st with your SAN's. there's other backups /

> restore product's out there like Vizioncore and PHDvirtual

Yeah, my current SAN here is an HP EVA; no idea what the SAN is going to
be at the hot site is; I haven't been involved in that, but hopefully
it's all the same module stuff from HP, for consistency sake.

Thanks

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RE: Some VMware questions - upgrading ESX, and failover clustering (OT)

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Migration will be very straightforward, but will require downtime on the
guests since you are changing Hardware in the Hosts and ESX Versions, as
long as the cluster's share the same storage do the following at a high
level.

1) Load up the new hardware with ESX, Create your new cluster "B" , make
sure all your networks look the same config wise
2) Shutdown a Guest, Move from Cluster A to Cluster B (migrate option in
VC)
3) Turn on, upgrade VM Tools to latest
4) Shutdown, upgrade virtual hardware
5) Turn on, run windows update in case you need Stuff like "AMD Opteron"
/ "Intel" updates
6) Rinse and Repeat for all guests

I've done migrations / upgrades countless of time, this is the safest,
you can also do a massive Unregister / Register VM's into a new cluster
etc...

Replication DR gets a little more complex since it's dependent on quite
a few things, you can use SRM, but to do so you need to be able to do
storage replication 1st with your SAN's. there's other backups / restore
product's out there like Vizioncore and PHDvirtual

Cheers!

Carlos

-Original Message-
From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 11:37 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Some VMware questions - upgrading ESX, and failover
clustering (OT)

VMWare has a product called site recovery manager IIRC just for that
express purpose. Not free, you can ping me offlist if you need details.

John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
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-Original Message-
From: Mike Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 11:33 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Some VMware questions - upgrading ESX, and failover clustering
(OT)

Sorry for the OT. I have a call into my vendor about this, but thought
I'd ask here, as some of you probably have experience at this.

I have a VMware ESX 3.5 cluster, 10 hosts, 20 CPUs, with HA and DRS.
What I want to do:

Migrate my existing cluster to new hardware, in the process upgrading
from ESX 3.5 to vSphere v4. That would be first - a set of directions
for that.

THEN, I want to physically move the old ESX 3.5 servers to my D/R hot
site, set it up as a 2nd VMware cluster (I would be wiping these clean,
and then installing vSphere v4). And then keep the two in sync, and be
able to fail over from here to there, and back again, as needed.

I haven't been able to determine if the syncing and failing over is a
feature of vSphere 4; an add-on for it; or needs a 3rd party tool
(something by the FalconStor folks was mentioned to me, but I don't know
any more about that [yet]).

So any advice, pointers, links, horror stories, etc would be greatly
appreciated. Especially since they just told me today that we will
definitely be doing this. In the next 6 weeks. D'OH! Up to this point,
it was more of a "Know what would be nice to have?" sort of discussion
...

Thanks, and sorry for the OT.

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RE: Verizon FIOS for Small Business

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We use it on quite a few sites ourselves, haven't had many problems or
outages, speed is pretty decent, can't beat the price for business, we
have them behind Pix 501's

 

From: Chyka, Robert [mailto:bch...@medaille.edu] 
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 9:14 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Verizon FIOS for Small Business

 

Is anyone using FIOS for a small office?  I have a side job that came up
for a medical building. They have 32 users and 3 people that will need
to VPN into the network from remote satelite offices.

 

I know FIOS bandwidth isn't guaranteed but will I be safe getting
35meg/35meg or 50/20 for this amount of users that need internet/vpn
access?  I have a cisco 5505 that will sit behind the FIOS router.

 

Thanks for the input.

 

Bob

 

 

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RE: Small business/SOHO accounting

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I had good luck running a SOHO on GNUcash

http://www.gnucash.org/

Although have you looked at QuickBooks online? Intuit is a pain but the
product is pretty decent and they were doing a 90 Free trial, cant beat
it :)

-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 2:43 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Small business/SOHO accounting

Hello, world!

  Anyone care to give recommendations in the small business/SOHO
accounting product space?  QuickBooks is very common, but also rather
expensive, and in the past I've had horrible experiences with Intuit
customer service, and I've learned that "most common" does not mean
"best".  For this user, traditional software and web services are both
acceptable.  They've got just one PC, running Vista.

  I Googled "quickbooks alternatives" and found a bunch of hits, but
this is one of those areas where practical experience is invaluable, so
I thought I'd see if anyone here has anything they'd want to share.
 Recommendations on what to avoid would also be useful.

  advTHANKSance

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RE: Yahoo / IM Virus New??

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Woot! NOD32 5080 and above is blocking the Worm :0 , We are Saved, Well
until someone else clicks on another one 

 

From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 9:42 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Yahoo / IM Virus New??

 

> So of my users are reporting getting a link to a PHP page in the
Yahoo

> Chats from Known contacts, once clicked (of course they did) it scans

> through their IM contacts and sends the exact link to all of them.
Just a

> heads up, don't know if it's new or not but 1st time I've seen it. In
case

> anyone gets it, ours is like this "foto http bflmages com / images
php" add

> dot's and stuff of course 

 

In the news right now:

 

  Yahoo! Messenger Users Infected By New Worm, Form An IRC Botnet |
CyberInsecure.com

 
http://cyberinsecure.com/yahoo-messenger-users-infected-by-new-worm-form
-an-irc-botnet/

 

A new worm is quickly spreading on Yahoo! Messenger (YM) via Web links
to fake images. Users who fall victim to this threat have an IRC botnet
client installed on their computers.

 

According to security researchers from Vietnam-based antivirus vendor
Bkis, who analyzed the new worm, it spreads though YM spam. The malware
sends out malicious links of the form
http://[rogue_domain_name]/image.php to the entire contact list of any
user logged into YM on an infected computer.

 

 

 

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Yahoo / IM Virus New??

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Hey all;

 

So of my users are reporting getting a link to a PHP page in the Yahoo
Chats from Known contacts, once clicked (of course they did) it scans
through their IM contacts and sends the exact link to all of them. Just
a heads up, don't know if it's new or not but 1st time I've seen it.

 

 

In case anyone gets it, ours is like this "foto http bflmages com /
images php" add dot's and stuff of course

 

Cheers!

 

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RE: VMware --> Hyper-v

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I know it might start a flame war :) but why not stay with ESX, it's
currently a more mature, flexible and 3rd party developed product. Cost
wise it's always a pain, but licenses are perpetual, you can get away
with not renewing support or renewing support for only one host in case
you are in a jam. What systems are you running? Im surprised at your
ratio, I have 4/75 and a 2/48 clusters right now, you might look into
lowering the number of hosts and upping their power to get costs down.

That being said, you can do conversions back and forth easy enough

-Original Message-
From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 10:29 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: VMware --> Hyper-v

If you go for SCVMM (System Center Virtual Machine Manager, the
management tool of Hyper-V installs) you get a V2V tool to convert ESX
VMs to Hyper-V.

I believe the price on it is $1k US for an unlimited number of Hyper-V
hosts.

On 4/5/2010 8:09 PM, Richard Stovall wrote:
> Has anyone out there moved an existing virtual environment from ESX /
> vSphere to Hyper-V?  I've got VMware support renewal coming up in a
> few months and I'm very seriously considering dumping VMware
> altogether.  Our environment is small (currently ~30 VMs on 5 ESX 3.5
> hosts) and the potential cost savings are significant.
> 
> Just curious if there's any history for this out there.

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RE: vSphere Client annoying redraw

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Also are you talking about the vSphere Client to a single host or the
vSphere client to a VirtualCenter? In the 2nd instance speed depends on
what system you are running VC on and the backend Database.

 

-Carlos

 

From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 11:41 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: vSphere Client annoying redraw

 

Nope.

 

What version? What platform? What link type?

 

-sc

 

From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 11:34 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: vSphere Client annoying redraw

 

Any having any visual issues with the Client?  It's terrible slow to
redraw the GUI on my machine.  I dread when I have to run it.

 

 

 

 

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RE: Office install audit

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You can also try Lansweeper, a little overkill but in case you need more
info about your PC's after the office keys it will help

 

From: Gavin Wilby [mailto:gavin.wi...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 12:00 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Office install audit

 

Perfect, many thanks

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Joe Tinney  wrote:

ProduKey. Has command line parameters to generate different types of
files and can use a computer list or the entire domain.

 

From: Gavin Wilby [mailto:gavin.wi...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 11:21 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Office install audit

 

Hi,

 

I need to run something at login that will interrogate a few PC's on a
domain, and return to me their Office serial number that they have
installed.

 

I realise that Jelly bean can get this off, but I could do with
something automated?

 

Ideas please?

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Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby
GSXR Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk  

 

 

 

 




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RE: OT: VMware remediation

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I do it during the day as well and haven't had an issue, Well till last 
week when we applied update 4 and one Guest had a prior stuck tools install the 
update kicked it off and the server rebooted :) needless to say the business 
wasn’t happy. Make sure all guests have everything updated prior to doing 
remediation might be a good idea, or after hours works too!

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From: Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 6:16 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OT: VMware remediation

Vsphere aka esx 4 here: Update manager with regard to patching hosts
works well so far. I stage patches during the day, vmotion guests, re
mediate , rinse repeat per server.

On 2/5/10, Steven Peck  wrote:
> Yes you can choose the baseline you wish to to run remediation against.
>
> So, the update manager is really cool.. except it's stupid.  If
> for any reason some server doesn't want to migrate it will just error
> out.  What we have found faster is to migrate guests off the target
> server first, then set it in maintenance mode and remdiate it.  Does
> update manager work?  Yes.  Is it stupid about issues?  Yes.
>
> Generally we do it some evening from home while remoted in to work and
> watching a movie or gaming.  about every 20-30 minutes have to do
> something.  We found it was faster for us.
>
> You should go with VMware 4.  It has the ability to 'pre-stage' the
> patches on the ESX hosts which is most of your time when patching.
> Get everything prestaged from work during the day, then get the rest
> done from home.
>
> Frankly we'd be just as happy to patch vmware during the day but the
> 'business' freaks at that thought.
>
> Steven
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Michael Leone  wrote:
>> Sorry for all the OTs. I've finally got my VMware Update Manager
>> installed and working. My problem before was with the SQL user I had
>> created for the VUM DB. Once I used the "sa" login, like I did for
>> vCenter, it all Just Worked.
>>
>> So what I want is to upgrade my ESX hosts from Update 4 to 5. I want
>> all 10 to be at Update 5, then I'll install all the fixes since that
>> major update release. So what I did was create a new baseline, that
>> filter out everything except Update 5, and attached that to all my ESX
>> servers. The instructions are a bit confusing to me - I want to
>> remediate *just* that new baseline, so all that happens is the Update
>> 5 upgrade.
>> (I want to do this in stages, obviously)
>>
>> When I go to remediate each ESX server, can I choose just that new
>> baseline I created, as the source of the remediation? Even if there
>> are multiple baselines attached? (I have the standard baselines also
>> attached, for when I do the post-Update 5 patches).
>>
>> Since I have HA and DRS enabled, the remediation should migrate off
>> all my VMs; upgrade my ESX server; reboot it (if necessary); and put
>> VMs back on. I think. Or do I have to manuualy put the ESX servers in
>> maintenance mode, first?
>>
>> Sorry for the nervous newbie question. But when it comes to updating
>> VMware .. .well, I *am* a nervous newbie. :-)
>>
>> Thanks for any help
>>
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RE: Virtual Desktop (VMWare)

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VMware View is only cost effective for larger deployments or certain type of 
deployments.

 

Base cost is 150/250 for Enterprise /premier per concurrent license. Add cost 
of OS plus PC or Term Device and you are still looking around 600-700 per user. 
Now that’s just for the VDI’s you also need the vSphere backend to support this 
Hosts, Disks etc..

 

But it’s great for things like having 2-3 base images that are linked to a 
deployed pool of VDI’s you can upgrade the base image and have your new pools 
updated with what you did. Helps also on places that have Shifts or Classroom 
where you can do a Many-to-one implementation

 

Thx!

 

Carlos

 

From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] 
Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 9:50 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Virtual Desktop (VMWare)

 

I haven't looked at VMWare yet, it's on the list.  Cost is important for us.  
Generally the product that gets the job done the cheapest (and fewest 
man-hours) gets the sale.  Our various Citrix products are expensive but have 
saved me many hours, so it's a toss up so far.

 

Does Microsoft have a virtual desktop enterprise product?  

>>> "Wilhelm, Scott"  2/5/2010 9:31 AM >>>

We’ve only looked at VMWare solutions so far since we have already virtualized 
90% of our servers using their products.  Have you compared Citrix vs VMWare to 
see the pro’s & con’s?

 

I’m guessing we’ll go w/ VMWare, but I guess it wouldn’t be smart to exclude 
everyone atleast for the fact finding purposes.

 

Thanks!

 

 

 

From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] 
Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 9:13 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Virtual Desktop (VMWare)

 

We are looking into the Citrix virtual desktop, as our Citrix representative 
claims that over the long term is it cheaper.  I'm not sure about that and 
asked for some numbers, since Citrix licensing and renewals are very expensive 
(and there is no non-profit/gov't pricing).  We already use several Citrix 
products though, and they work well.

 

I can see about 60% of our staff using VM desktops, which might be able to save 
us money.

 

Any other technologies to review?

>>> "Wilhelm, Scott"  2/5/2010 7:19 AM >>>

Has anyone setup their desktops to run in a virtual environment on a 
organization wide scale?  

 

We’re a k-12 school looking for whatever cost savings, and I’m trying to 
investigate whether it’s worth the switch, if there’d be an actual cost 
savings, and what solutions are available and work best.

 

Any information would be greatly appreciated.

 

Regards,

 

Scott

 

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RE: OT: WOL cost savings

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

We are doing a pilot test of the surveyor green pc product from Verdiem
to see if we want an automated agent that controls our PC's to save in
energy among other things, but we are basically finding out that savings
aren't great until the long run. It does help with doing things like AV
scan, patches and what not at nighttime by controlling the PC state

-Original Message-
From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 3:18 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT: WOL cost savings

Not having dove into the WOL computations myself, wouldn't it require
standby power?

A quick Google came up with an average of 10-15 Watts used for standby
mode.

We were just talking about this here last week, in regards to all of the
electronics in our homes that now run in standby mode.

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


-Original Message-
From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 3:11 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT: WOL cost savings

So far this is the best thing I've found online. 

http://www.eu-energystar.org/en/en_008b.shtml



Chris Bodnar, MCSE
Sr. Systems Engineer
Infrastructure Service Delivery
Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services
Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com
Phone: 610-807-6459
Fax: 610-807-6003

-Original Message-
From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 3:07 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT: WOL cost savings

Something like this
Average 65 watts for 1 computer (while idle)
8760 hours in a year - 2000 (hours you are at work) = 6760 (hours you
are not at work per year)
65 watts * 6760 hours / 1000 = 439.4 kilowatt-hours
439.4 * $.119 (RATE) = $52.29 (cost per year of one computer being on
while you are not there) 


-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 3:04 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OT: WOL cost savings

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:45, Christopher Bodnar
 wrote:
> Has anyone put something together to show management in regards to the

> possible ROI of using WOL? I'm more interested in getting some solid 
> numbers on the savings per PC per month. I'm not really sure where to 
> go in order to get these kinds of numbers. I've seen some general 
> stuff out there that range between $25-$75/year per PC. But not how
that was calculated.

One obvious metric is to calculate energy costs for the PCs - how much
electricity they consume when turned on 24x7 vs when turned on 8x5.
That alone should be fairly significant.

Kurt

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RE: VMware upgrade question - update shows no updates available?

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At this point you're better off calling their support, it's tough since
everyone's config isn't the same, I have my VC and VUM on the same
server same DB.

-Original Message-
From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 3:29 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: VMware upgrade question - update shows no updates
available?

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Garcia-Moran, Carlos
 wrote:
> YES VC is backwards compatible the most current will manage your
hosts.

Hrm. Must have done something wrong. I found my 2.5 Update 4
installation media, and ran the Update Manager install from there. I
created a new database, and a new login, and configured the DSN, all
according to the Update Manager installation PDF. It all seemed to
work. The "Test Connection" was successful.

I then saw the plugin available in the VI Client (yay!), downloaded
it, and told it to enable. And then it says:

The VMware Update Manager cannot accept requests now because
VirtualCenter server   cannot be reached, or the database cannot be
reached, or it is in the process of stopping

Obviously, it can reach the VCenter. The Update Manager service says
"Started". So that only leaves me with database can not be reached ...

I created the SQL user as "domain/loginname", gave it "public" and
"db_owner" for the "VMwareUpdateManager" DB I created. Has the same 2
rights for the msdb DB (under "User Mapping").

Dunno where I went wrong, or where to go from here ...

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RE: VMware upgrade question - update shows no updates available?

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

YES VC is backwards compatible the most current will manage your hosts.

-Original Message-
From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 2:38 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: VMware upgrade question - update shows no updates
available?

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Martin Blackstone
 wrote:
> When you upgrade VC, it should at some point ask you if you want to
install
> Update Manager. Say yes, install.

OK. I just downloaded VC v2.5 Update 6. I should be able to upgrade to
that now, even thought all my ESX hosts are at 3.5 Update 4, right?
That should get me the Update Manager.

> Then run VC and go to Plug Ins, and add it in.
> You will probably need to give it time download the updates (like
overnight
> or whatever schedule you set it for).
> After that's all happened, right click on each host and select scan
for
> updates and let it do that.
> Finally after all that has happened, you can remediate which means to
> install the updates.

Thanks. I will start that now.

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RE: VMware upgrade question - update shows no updates available?

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

When you installed VC, did you then install the Update manager on the
same or another server and configure it? You should have an "update
manager" tab in your VC client either local (which requires a plugin
install) or remote on the VC itself

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From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 12:38 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: VMware upgrade question - update shows no updates
available?

Oddly, when I try the VMware Infrastructure Update, and tell it to
"Check Now", it says "No Updates" Even tho I know I am only at Update
4. And on the lists of hosts, it is blank (on the VI client on the
vCenter server). On the VI Client on my workstation, I see (as hosts)
the vCenter Server, and only 1 ESX server. And not the other 9. Still
says no updates, tho.

Any clues? Do I have to update the vCenter server to Update 5 first?
My license server shows that I do have a license to run the Update,
but it doesn't see to be abel to go and get them itself, nor does it
seem to know what hosts I have.

Help! :-)

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RE: VMware upgrade question

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

I've just updated our entire VM Infrastructure to 4.0 Update 1, it's
cake as long as you have some items in place. You need VM update Manager
and Hosts in DRS clusters. It took around less than 30 minutes per host
Zero downtime on the cluster. As someone else explained it's very
straightforward.

 

Update VC 1st to latest patch level you need ( I just downloaded the VC
ISO and ran the install from inside an RDP to the VC VM)

Use VUM to create a patch group for your hosts. 

Scan Hosts

Remediate Hosts one by one ( the remediation takes care of it all, Maint
mode reboot patches etc..)

 

Thx!

 

Carlos

 

From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 10:47 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VMware upgrade question

 

I'd think you could download the Host Update utility (I think it's on
the ESX4 ISO, just DL the whole thing and browse to the app) and do it
from a standalone machine like I did with my VSphere upgrade. It'll ask
you to select the host, tell it where the files are and put it in
maintenance mode and kick it off.

 

John W. Cook

Systems Administrator

Partnership For Strong Families

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Office (352) 393-2741 x320

Cell (352) 215-6944

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MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I, A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4

 

From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 10:41 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: VMware upgrade question

 

What about moving the guests off the hosts, rebooting it from the U5 CD
and running the update from there?  Possibly more work, but a valid
scenario, right?

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Martin Blackstone
 wrote:

I still prefer to put it into maintenance mode manually.
But yes, you should use Update Manager to fly this.


-Original Message-
From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 7:04 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues

Subject: RE: VMware upgrade question

I don't know of any ESX lists like this one unfortunately.

You are on the right track for the upgrade process, but it may be even
simpler then you are thinking.

First, upgrade vCenter like you're thinking. It's perfectly ok to have a
newer vCenter managing older ESX hosts. I would suggest making a backup
of the vcenter database first just in case.

After vcenter is upgraded, you can use VMware Update Manager to apply

Update 5 to the hosts. When you tell VUM to apply the upgrade, it will

automatically put the host in maintenance mode (which because it's a DRS
cluster will migrate off the guests). It will then apply the upgrade and
reboot the host. Once it comes back up and re-establishes communication
with vCenter it will be taken out of maintenance mode.

-Original Message-
From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com]

Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 9:59 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues

Subject: OT: VMware upgrade question

Sorry for the OT. Actually, I have 2 questions:

1. Anyone know of a good VMware mailing list, like this one? I dislike
web forums, and realize that VMware is a bit OT for this list.
2. I need to upgrade my ESX 3.5 Update 4 cluster to 3.5 update 5 (so I
can use Win2008 R2 as a VM, which is supported in Update 5), and
wondered if I had the upgrade procedure correct. Maybe someone could
comment?

My config:
vCenter 2.5 Update 4, on Win2003 Standard. A 10 node ESX 3.5 Update 4
cluster, with HA and DRS, with all datastores on FC SAN (so no local
storage on the ESX hosts).  About 60 or so VMs.

I've gone through the Upgrade Guide, and most of it seems to deal with
updating from a much earlier version of ESX. Even the "Minor Upgrade"
section seems a lot more complicated than my situation calls for.  For
example, I have no need for upgrading my datastores from VMFS v2 to
v3, since my original installation was VMFS v3. So all my VMs and
templates were created with v3.5 Update 4 already, and shouldn't need
to be upgraded further.

If I'm understanding correctly, I need to:

1. Upgrade vCenter. I download vCenter 2.5 Update 5, and just run it.
I let it update my database version, if it wants to. (MS SQL Server
2005 SP3 is installed on the vCenter server).

Reboot? I assume it's OK to be running a slightly later version of
vCenter than what the ESX servers are running?

2. Set the ESX host into maintenance mode, so all VMs migrate off.

I see something about "Relocate VM files". Do I do this, rather than
migrate the VMs off that host? It doesn't seem so, since I have no
local storage on my ESX hosts, only datastores from my SAN.

3. Copy the Update 5 ZIP file to the ESX host (SFTP over SSH, in my
case, I believe). Unzip.
4. Execute "esxupdate update".
5. Reboot when prompted.
6. Take host out of maintenance mode, so VMs migrate back.

Repeat steps 2 through 6, for each of the other 9 ESX hosts.

Upgrade the VM Tools in each VM. This can be more problematic, since
this requires a reboot, which requires scheduled downtime.T

RE: Web hosting

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Had 4 sites with them for around 5 years, no major issues to speak of
with them

 

From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 3:04 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Web hosting

 

Anyone here got any recommendations for *professional* web hosting,
including an MS SQL database, etc? Needs to be Windows 2003. Don't need
email hosted, just the web. We're going to continue with our current
host for email for now.

 

One name I've heard from a couple different people is 1and1.com. Anyone
got any first-hand knowledge of them?

 

  

 

 

 

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RE: Resizing C partition in Server 2003

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Used this extensively on Physically and Virtual Machines, boot from CD /
iso,  there's a wizard and a manual steps you can do, click the volume
you want to expand commit changes reboot and youre done. Haven't had it
fail once.

But Ive also used Gparted and Extpart with excellent results and both
free

-Original Message-
From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu] 
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 2:18 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Resizing C partition in Server 2003

Never used this tool to do it, but I've successfully used others before.
Moving the D partition may take a while as it requires actually moving
the data.

-Original Message-
From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 2:12 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Resizing C partition in Server 2003

Anyone ever expanded a C partition in a multi-partitioned RAID-5 server?

Client needs to do so to add new software.  Any time I've thought about
doing 
this it has been: back up twice, verify backups, blow away D partition,
expand 
C, add D partition, restore from backup.  Client uses Acronis to back up
server 
and when he talked to their sales people they sold him this $600
program, which 
I had never heard of:

--- Included Stuff Follows --- 
  Acronis Disk Director Server 10.0

Windows and Linux partitioning tool: create, fix, format, delete,
remove, 
resize and repair Windows and Linux partitions  

The suite includes the Acronis Partition Expert product which allows
you 
to automatically or manually merge, split, resize, copy, and move 
partitions without losing data. It also lets you reorganize the hard
disk 
drive structure, optimize disk space usage and much more.  

- Included Stuff Ends -
 
http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/diskdirector/partitioning.htm
l

He's says he's going to try this, and I may get to pick up the pieces
;-)


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RE: VMware ESX cluster at a hot site?

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Hmmm there's a lot of unknowns here for you. This as depends on the type
of DR you want, how you will setup replication, what software you will
use for it VMware or 3rd party. How will your users connect etc... 

DR is different for everyone here's how I'm currently doing it

1) Mix of Physical and Virtuals in production
2) 12 ESX Hosts on a NS20 array
3) Tape backups for the Physical
4) ESXpress (http://www.phdvirtual.com/) backups for the VM's

1) 3 Hosts in DR attached to a iSCSI HP MSA array
2) ESXpress Replication Restores everyday from last night's backups
(guests are offline till needed)
3) Offline Guests ready for tape restores
4) We test 4 times a year, been pretty good

Now future wise, I'm planning on doing more like SAN replication thru
Compellent arrays, and when I buy more equipment in production send the
older one to DR for expansion.

Big questions for you are.

How exactly is the SAN replication is going to happen? You can replicate
the VMFS where the guests live and then use something like VMware SRM
(http://www.vmware.com/products/site-recovery-manager/) to do the DR
guest work on the other side.

You don't need the exact Hosts number of hosts in DR as long as you can
get hold of hardware quick in case of  Disaster and the configs
depending how what network's you will carry don't need to be exact, but
you can do Host Profiles thru Virtual Center to make them all the comply
to a specific setup

You can setup two VC hosts to Heartbeat for one another in a DR type
environment, they will be basically the same
(http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-server-heartbeat/) 

Cheers!

Carlos


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From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 12:27 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: VMware ESX cluster at a hot site?

A bit OT, I apologize. I have a VMware ESX 3.5 cluster here (10 ESX
hosts, fed off our HP EVA 8000, about 70 VMs). We're thinking of
setting up a hot site, in case of disaster. This hotsite would have an
EMC SAN, and we would replicate our SAN storage out to there. (I
haven't been involved in those meetings, so I apologize for the
shortage of info).

So here's my question: I'm told that we'll have 10 ESX servers out at
the hot site, and that the EMC SAN will present the same storage to
them, as our HP SAN presents to our production ESX cluster here. But I
am unclear as to how this all would work, if I needed to use the hot
site in case of DR.

- I know I'd need 10 ESX hosts out there, configured the same as here.
Is there a way to extract out the current config here, and import it
to those ESX hosts?
- Do those 10 ESX hosts then stay powered down, until needed?
- I would need a copy of my VCenter server, so same questions - do I
just create a 2nd one out there, and (somehow) import the
configuration from here?
- Do I need a 2nd VMware cluster defined as those other 10 hosts?

etc etc etc

Any links, write-ups, experiences, etc would be most appreciated.

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RE: Vmware User Group meeting

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

I'm from NH and mostly go to as many VMUG as I can, there's two types,
The ones organized by VMware are about 3-4 a year, There's Vendor
tables, breakout IT sessions, Networking and more. These I've found to
be very useful since you get to talk with Admins like us that are in the
field working with VM all the time and you can swap stories about
equipment and such, All levels of expertise are welcome

 

The other is monthly groups run locally where admins get together to
exchange info and network about VMware in their environment. I'd
recommend both, Sign up for the VMUG discussions for  the area you live
on to find info on upcoming events.

 

From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 4:38 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Vmware User Group meeting

 

I've been to almost all of our local VMUG meetings in central IL.  They
have all been very good.

 



From: Philip Brothwell [mailto:philip.brothw...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 2:31 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Vmware User Group meeting

Hi,

I just got an invitation to a VMware User Group meeting at Gillette
Stadium in Foxborough MA.  Has any here gone to one of these and was it
worth going to?


tia

Phil

 

 

 

 

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RE: Phone Equipment Buyer/Reseller?

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Haha no problem, with our new VOIP stuff we've setup some new call ID
rules for our phones, People we don't want to bother us get routed to an
auto attendant with a crazy tree of questions and answers, they quit
before they finish

 

From: Orland, Kathleen [mailto:korl...@rogers.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 12:21 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Phone Equipment Buyer/Reseller?

 

This is true! Many phone calls and emails as well. I'm happy I have call
display.  

- Original Message - 

From: Bob Fronk <mailto:b...@btrfronk.com>  

To: NT System Admin Issues
<mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>  

Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 12:17 PM

Subject: RE: Phone Equipment Buyer/Reseller?

 

Just hope you don't get on their call list.  They will call you
more than PCMall.

 

From: Orland, Kathleen [mailto:korl...@rogers.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 12:05 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Phone Equipment Buyer/Reseller?

 

+1

- Original Message - 

From: Walker, Michael <mailto:mwal...@mail.cvhp.org>  

To: NT System Admin Issues
<mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>  

Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 11:42 AM

Subject: RE: Phone Equipment Buyer/Reseller?

 

http://www.cxtec.com/ <http://www.cxtec.com/> 

 

Michael Walker

Senior Network Engineer

Citrus Valley Health Partners

140 W. College Street, Covina, CA  91723

Phone/Fax/Pager: (888) 299-6882

mwal...@mail.cvhp.org <mailto:mwal...@mail.cvhp.org> 

 

 


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From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos
[mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 8:40 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Phone Equipment Buyer/Reseller?

Hey All;

 

Anyone know of a phone Equipment reseller / buyer local
to the New England Area that buys used equipment? We have replaced our
system with a new Cisco VOIP and are looking to see the old Mitel
equipment off

 

Thx!


Carlos


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RE: Phone Equipment Buyer/Reseller?

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Excellent thx!

 

From: Walker, Michael [mailto:mwal...@mail.cvhp.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 11:42 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Phone Equipment Buyer/Reseller?

 

http://www.cxtec.com/ <http://www.cxtec.com/> 

 

Michael Walker

Senior Network Engineer

Citrus Valley Health Partners

140 W. College Street, Covina, CA  91723

Phone/Fax/Pager: (888) 299-6882

mwal...@mail.cvhp.org <mailto:mwal...@mail.cvhp.org> 

 

 



From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 8:40 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Phone Equipment Buyer/Reseller?

Hey All;

 

Anyone know of a phone Equipment reseller / buyer local to the New
England Area that buys used equipment? We have replaced our system with
a new Cisco VOIP and are looking to see the old Mitel equipment off

 

Thx!


Carlos

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Phone Equipment Buyer/Reseller?

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Hey All;

 

Anyone know of a phone Equipment reseller / buyer local to the New
England Area that buys used equipment? We have replaced our system with
a new Cisco VOIP and are looking to see the old Mitel equipment off

 

Thx!


Carlos


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RE: How to properly clone a VM in Vsphere

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

A VM clone is 100% the same as the source machine you cloned from, the
only thing that changes is the Name given by you on the VC Client, so as
stated, disable the NIC prior to making changes on the VM or you will
have Name / IP conflicts

 

From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 5:06 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: How to properly clone a VM in Vsphere

 

The hostname remains the same too.  I generally disable the NICs in
virtual center (uncheck "connect at power on")  before starting up a
clone to make sure everything (IP, name, domain, SID) has been properly
changed.

Jeff

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Don Guyer 
wrote:

In 3.5 it would remain the static address.

 

Let us know if it's different in Vsphere, please, as we're heading that
way.

 

Thx,

 

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: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] 

Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 2:40 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues

Subject: How to properly clone a VM in Vsphere

 

I want to clone a VM, never done it before!

The wizard looks pretty straight forward, I have a question, what
happens to the IP on the clone will it automatically become dynamic?
(the host is static).

Is there anything else I should worry about?

-- 
Stefan Jafs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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RE: Lansweeper alternatives

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

You can do path scanning of any type of files (you need the location, it does 
take in some variables) in LS and make reports out of it, Also AD isn't 100% 
required you can do a batch login scan or a couple of other methods for a small 
office.

Price wise it's either free, or at the most $1,000 which is a small price, if 
you use it multi company

-Original Message-
From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] 
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 10:27 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Lansweeper alternatives

On 18 Dec 2009 at 10:08, Garcia-Moran, Carlos  wrote:

> I love Lansweeper!, It´s very customizable if you dabble in some SQL. The
> price can´t be beat. The only other one I know like it it´s Spiceworks 

For very small LANs Lansweeper might be a no-go as it requires AD.  Spiceworks 
just released v4.5, much better performance.

Don't know if Lansweeper can produce an inventory of all EXEs on the LAN but 
Spiceworks relies on the remote computers's "Installed Software" list to show 
programs installed.  This means Google Chrome and all the Portable Apps and all 
of the SysInternals tools will not be inventoried.

--
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GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
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RE: Lansweeper alternatives

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

I love Lansweeper!, It's very customizable if you dabble in some SQL.
The price can't be beat. The only other one I know like it it's
Spiceworks

 

From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] 
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 9:52 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Lansweeper alternatives

 

 

I would like to hear experiences about the product , compared to others
about pricing and features, for using at several small customers sites

TIA 

GuidoElia 
HELPPC 

 

 

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Power Profile / PC Shutdown

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

Hey Guys;

 

We've been task to  find out how to create a new  "green" power profile
on our PC's / laptops and also have them shutdown at a specified time at
night. Poking around Google I see that XP system's wont accept an AD
power policy by default but the powercfg.exe can be used to push one as
noted here
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=power_mgt.pr_power_mgt_ez_gpo 

Has anyone used this or have any suggestions (or nightmare scenarios) on
other tools that can be used, free or cheap of course J

 

Cheers!

 

 

Carlos Garcia-Moran

Server / Storage Engineer

Sprague Energy

www.spragueenergy.com  

P: 603-430-5355

C: 857-234-0343

F: 603-430-7219

 

 


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RE: P2V a DC

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

P2V will work with ANY of the VSphere line of products as well as the
free version. The Vmware converter product is free
http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/get.html

 

From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] 
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 9:18 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: P2V a DC

 

I'm thinking of trying to do a P2V on one of our DCs for D/R purposes.
If I get the "cheap" version of VMWare, can I do that, or do I need to
get the "enterprise" class of VMWare. Any other virtualization software
that would work (well) and not be super-expensive to P2V our Win2K3 DC?

 

  

 

 

 

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