RE: Very weird file rename issue
I see the same problem with windows 8 client and 2012 server. From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 3:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Very weird file rename issue FWIW, my redirected my docs do the same exact thing and only on 2008 R2 servers. 2003 are fine. Happens even if I hit the server via \\server\sharefile:///\\server\share. From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 3:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Very weird file rename issue I've encountered a very odd issue around renaming files on a network drive. The file is in the user's redirected My Documents, and they are the owner of said file and have Full Control for it in the NTFS permissions. When they try to rename the file to replace a lowercase letter with the same letter in uppercase, they get a message that says You need permission to perform this action. You require permission for OUR_DOMAIN\Their.username to make changes to this file. However, if they rename the file and replace that letter with something different, it's fine. So for example, the file is called 'firstName.txt' and they try to rename it to 'FirstName.txt' it will throw the error. But if they rename it to 'LirstName.txt' it's happen. They can then rename it to 'FirstName.txt' and it's fine. The clients are all Windows 7 Enterprise x64 SP1, but I have seen this on remote file servers that are Windows 2003 as well as 2008 R2. It doesn't seem to matter what the file type is (text, WordDoc, etc), and doesn't happen on local drives. Anyone seen this oddity before? DAMIEN SOLODOW Systems Engineer 317.447.6033 (office) 317.447.6014 (fax) HARRISON COLLEGE 500 North Meridian St Suite 500 Indianapolis, IN 46204-1213 www.harrison.eduhttp://www.harrison.edu/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Printer ignor paper size and type.
We have a shared HP printer, LJ 4515 that we only keep plain letter size paper loaded into. Print server is 2008 R2. Workstations are Win 7. Occasionally someone will print a document with letterhead paper selected. When this happens, the printer stops, prompts to load letterhead and other jobs get backed up in the queue waiting for the ok. We would like the printer to ignore the letterhead request and just print the job on the loaded paper. Anyone know if this is possible? All my googling returns just the opposite instructions. Thanks for any pointers anyone can share. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Badging systems
Check out Windsx. Or any system that uses proximity cards. No physical contact between the reader and cards, so temp extremes should not be an issue. I think their enterprise version will integrate with AD. Not sure about external integration, but I'm guessing it is there. Wasn't a concern for us. Main company is in Texas, but our local installer is very knowledgeable. I know several local schools and hospitals use this and they are both managing several sites from one central location. From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@sfgtrust.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 9:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Badging systems I'm in the market for a new badge system. We are a food production company with several facilities. Each facility currently has disparate systems for staff that allow them entry into parking lots, exterior doors (some with magnetic locks), some interior doors. Criteria: - swipe units must be environmentally hardy: very hot or very cold for exterior units. Some units would be inside freezing or near freezing cooling units. - Active Directory integration would be a bonus, although not required. - Bonus: the ability to interface with external systems such as timekeeping, ADP payroll, etc - Centralized management: management of devices here in HQ and configuration may replicate/reside on a local controller. - Local support on the East Coast and Central regions of USA critical. We currently use the badges for photo ID as well as access. Most systems seem to accommodate this nowadays. At my last place I used Hirsch systems and they worked okay, but I had issues with remote controllers. So I'm looking to at least learn what the rest of you use. Tom ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: This can't be right (2008R2 - 2012)
Still pretty easy. Just install 2012, install updates, add hyper-v role, configure networking as before, import vms and you are done. Don't have to export vms. This is assuming vms aren't on same drive as OS. We had 2008r2 core, and hated it. Seemed the remote hyper-v console was always losing connection to the host. 08r2 full install and 2012 has never had that problem. Then if you want to go back to core, turn off gui in 2012. Pretty slick. From: Justin Thomas [mailto:jat...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 10:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: This can't be right (2008R2 - 2012) You had me excited, but I have Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008R2 and you cannot upgrade: From the installation screen: Hyper-V Server (Server Core) cannot be upgraded to Hyper-v Server 2012. You can choose to install a new copy of Hyper-V Server 2012 instead, but this is different from an upgrade... On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:38 AM, David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org wrote: I upgraded my personal lab server from 2008 R2 to Server 2012 last night. The server is mainly a Hyper-V and not much else. 1. Inserted 2012 CD 2. Chose upgrade 3. Entered 2012 Key 4. Server reboots a couple of times then gives me the logon screen Everything works as before, just now with 2012 OS, even LogMeIn came over with no issue. Since when do server OS upgrades actually work as advertised? :) Once the new server was up I flipped my VM's to VHDX. Way too easy. David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229tel:503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764tel:503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- Probable Contrarian ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: SemiOT: Cisco 2504 WLC tips?
We did this a few years back with a 5508 controller and several aps. Basically, you will need one vlan for the aps to talk to the controller. You will have to convert the access points to light weight aps. That wasn't very intuitive, so here is a link. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/controller/7.2/configuration/guide/cg_lwap.html#wp1345331 The controller handles the routing between the ap vlan and the other vlan's that the clients will use. What we did is set 4 ports on the controller in a lag, connected to 4 ports on our core switch. You will need 7.4 or higher code on the 2504 to support lag with its 4 ports. The allowed vlans on this port group are, the controller to ap vlan, data vlan for laptops, open access vlan for the public and voice vlan for ip phones. Good luck. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 9:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SemiOT: Cisco 2504 WLC tips? All, I'm the happy recipient of this beastie, and I'm reading through a bunch of manuals for it, trying to figure out a good approach for transforming our 15 x 1240AG WAPs into a cohesive group, rather than managing them individually. The WAPs are spread across three HP 2800 PWR switches, and carry three VLANs each (one is the management VLAN (wired side only) and two are broadcast with different SSIDs - a guest network and a production network, both using WPA PSK). First step is to get one of the WAPs talking to the WLC, then once that's working, change over the rest, and then I'm going to introduce 802.1x in a new SSID, and start switching all of the production wireless to it, and (I hope, depending on whether or not our barcode scanners will support 802.1x) eliminate the extra SSID. But, I'm finding I have some questions that the manuals aren't addressing. For instance, the unit has two standard 1g ports and 2 PoE 1g ports. One needs to be the management port, but should I connect the other ports to each of my three switches? Each of the switches has a connection to my layer3 switch. Should I connect the management port to the L3 switch, and out the WLC between the switches and the L3 switch, or should I just connect the 3 non-management ports to the switches? Does anyone have some pointers on setting this up? So far, I've found and read most or all of each of these: Cisco2500SeriesWirelessControllerDeploymentGuide Cisco2500SeriesWirelessControllerGettingStartedGuide CiscoWirelessLANControllerConfigurationGuide7_2 ConvertAutonomousWAPstoLightweightMode7_2 I have browsed through these: CiscoWirelessControlSystemConfigurationGuide_Release7.0.172.0 CiscoLocationApplianceConfigurationGuide_Release6.0 Haven't touched these yet: CiscoLocationApplianceConfigurationGuide_Release6.0 Cisco_SBA_BN_WirelessLANCleanAirDeploymentGuide-Aug2012 Any thoughts, on or off list, would be appreciated - even if it's a pointer to a Cisco list or forum. Thanks, Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: This can't be right (2008R2 - 2012)
+10,. Updated 2 hosts over the weekend. Now converting guests to vhdx, at least the ones I can shutdown during the day. On a related note, when we started all the vhd were created as 127gig dynamic disks. Is it possible to convert them to fixed size but shrink them to about 10 or 20 percent above current usage. Say I have a 20gig vhd. I'd like to convert it to a 40gig fixed vhdx. From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 12:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: This can't be right (2008R2 - 2012) 2012 Hyper V is awesome On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:10 AM, David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org wrote: That hadn't occurred to me :), I burned the ISO. From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.commailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 9:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: This can't be right (2008R2 - 2012) Odd, didn't think that the 2012 server install disk actually came on a CD anymore. I've just used the ISO so far. Right click, mount and then run setup. On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:38 AM, David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org wrote: I upgraded my personal lab server from 2008 R2 to Server 2012 last night. The server is mainly a Hyper-V and not much else. 1. Inserted 2012 CD 2. Chose upgrade 3. Entered 2012 Key 4. Server reboots a couple of times then gives me the logon screen Everything works as before, just now with 2012 OS, even LogMeIn came over with no issue. Since when do server OS upgrades actually work as advertised? :) Once the new server was up I flipped my VM's to VHDX. Way too easy. David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229tel:503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764tel:503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Reliability of Cybernetics san/nas HW
We have two of their units. One miSAN-D8 with 8 x 3 tb SATA drives. One iSAND with 6 x SAS drive and 6 x SATA drives. We’ve been quite happy with the support overall. We had two drives in the miSAND fail. They provide a spare for us to keep on site, replace the failed drive, send it back to them and they return a replacement spare in a few days. We originally had a problem getting replication to complete between the two units, but the latest firmware solved that problem. Now, I don’t have anything to compare it against for performance, but for our use it is works well. From: Scott Kaufman [mailto:bskauf...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 10:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Reliability of Cybernetics san/nas HW Hello everyone, Does anyone have any experience with Cybernetics SAN/NAS hardware? We have a request from a department that wants to get an 16TB model. Looks like the model # is: miSAN-D8/T8: 8TB SATA 7.2K drives, 8 bay, 2U with an expansion unit of: EX8/T8: 8TB SATA 7.2K drives, 8 bay, 2U I've read the marketing stuff from the company. I've found a few reviews, with more than 50% being negative. Just looking for more information experience if anyone has any they'd be willing to share. Thanks, Scott ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Reliability of Cybernetics san/nas HW
Can’t speak to much for vm performance. We have one esxi 5.0 host with 4 guests on the isand and performance on that small load is very good. Our main use is a datastore for dpm backups. From: Scott Kaufman [mailto:bskauf...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 11:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Reliability of Cybernetics san/nas HW Thanks Glen. Only looking at a single unit, so no replication. The unit is being recommended by the department to support a virtualization environment, using esx hyper-v v3, in both clustered and non-clustered configurations. And they would be constantly building tearing down VM’s, so there is going to be lots of random I/O. I haven’t been able to find any useful information on how performant this unit will be for the needs. Scott Sent from Windows RT From: Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edumailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu Sent: February 14, 2013 10:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Reliability of Cybernetics san/nas HW We have two of their units. One miSAN-D8 with 8 x 3 tb SATA drives. One iSAND with 6 x SAS drive and 6 x SATA drives. We’ve been quite happy with the support overall. We had two drives in the miSAND fail. They provide a spare for us to keep on site, replace the failed drive, send it back to them and they return a replacement spare in a few days. We originally had a problem getting replication to complete between the two units, but the latest firmware solved that problem. Now, I don’t have anything to compare it against for performance, but for our use it is works well. From: Scott Kaufman [mailto:bskauf...@gmail.commailto:bskauf...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 10:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Reliability of Cybernetics san/nas HW Hello everyone, Does anyone have any experience with Cybernetics SAN/NAS hardware? We have a request from a department that wants to get an 16TB model. Looks like the model # is: miSAN-D8/T8: 8TB SATA 7.2K drives, 8 bay, 2U with an expansion unit of: EX8/T8: 8TB SATA 7.2K drives, 8 bay, 2U I've read the marketing stuff from the company. I've found a few reviews, with more than 50% being negative. Just looking for more information experience if anyone has any they'd be willing to share. Thanks, Scott ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: MS site?
Working ok from VA. From: Mark Boeck [mailto:netadmin...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 10:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: MS site? looks like that's down for mee t. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: On a lighter note for a Friday, Passed my CISA exam
Dang, guess our list unsubscription fee goes up again. LOL. Congrats. From: Ziots, Edward [ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 4:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: On a lighter note for a Friday, Passed my CISA exam Thanks all, Z Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org This electronic message and any attachments may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If you are reading this message, but are not the intended recipient, nor an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you are strictly prohibited from copying, printing, forwarding or otherwise disseminating this communication. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to the message. Then, delete the message from your computer. Thank you. [Description: Description: Lifespan] From: Guyer, Don [mailto:dgu...@che.org] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 4:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: On a lighter note for a Friday, Passed my CISA exam Ditto, Z! Regards, Don Guyer Catholic Health East - Information Technology Enterprise Directory Messaging Services 3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa 19073 email: dgu...@che.orgmailto:dgu...@che.org Office: 610.550.3595 | Cell: 610.955.6528 | Fax: 610.271.9440 For immediate assistance, please open a Service Desk ticket or call the helpdesk @ 610-492-3839. [Description: Description: Description: InfoService-Logo240] From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 3:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: On a lighter note for a Friday, Passed my CISA exam Congrats! On Feb 1, 2013 11:55 AM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.orgmailto:ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: Just got the official email that I passed my CISA exam, so I guess another Certification on the title and looking forward to the auditing work that comes with it. Z Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.orgmailto:ezi...@lifespan.org This electronic message and any attachments may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If you are reading this message, but are not the intended recipient, nor an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you are strictly prohibited from copying, printing, forwarding or otherwise disseminating this communication. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to the message. Then, delete the message from your computer. Thank you. [Description: Description: Lifespan] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attachments is the property of Catholic Health East and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message, and reply to the sender regarding the error in a separate email. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to
RE: Shocking? Somehow, not...
Interesting reading. One thought that came to me that wasn't addresses. I wonder if the authorities notified the owners at the universities of the compromised command and control servers? Being in IT at a community college, I'd sure like to be notified if someone found one of our systems being used in this manner. From: kz2...@googlemail.com [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 2:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Shocking? Somehow, not... On the security front, I read this today http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/technology/chinese-hackers-infiltrate-new-york-times-computers.xml And was interested to see the network devices that compromised the Chamber of Commerce (somewhere in the middle of the article). The things you need to secure are now myriad! Sent from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY From: Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.commailto:asbz...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:23:27 -0500 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: Shocking? Somehow, not... I love it when security tools wage battle against one another :) ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBakerhttp://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market... On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.orgmailto:ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: Just tried to run it on my systems and sure enough since I have totally disabled java it barfs. That and Zero Vulnerability Exploitshield catches its .dll being invoked into java as an exploit and stops it. Z Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.orgmailto:ezi...@lifespan.org This electronic message and any attachments may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If you are reading this message, but are not the intended recipient, nor an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you are strictly prohibited from copying, printing, forwarding or otherwise disseminating this communication. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to the message. Then, delete the message from your computer. Thank you. [Description: Description: Lifespan] From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 9:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Shocking? Somehow, not... Rapid7 has a tool to scan for this vulnerability, it does require Java(!) and registration, but is otherwise free. From: Patrick Salmon [mailto:psal...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 1:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Shocking? Somehow, not... Not surprisingly, you're going to see a lot of alerts coming out on this subject. Here's the Cisco one: http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20130129-upnp which you can expect to be updated as more is learned about which products are affected. On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:44 AM, David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org wrote: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57566366-83/upnp-networking-flaw-puts-millions-of-pcs-at-risk/ David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229tel:503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764tel:503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to
RE: Favorite VPN solution?
I'm 99 percent sure the MS vpn solution in server 2012 doesn't require java. -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 12:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Favorite VPN solution? Are there 'clientless' VPN solutions that don't use Java? I don't know much about the new VPN solutions out there. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Favorite VPN solution?
Kurt. Spot on analysis. If I were starting from scratch 2012 is the bees knees as they say. And I've never understood the client requirements, enterprise and ultimate editions. IMO should have been pro and above. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 1:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Favorite VPN solution? The DirectAccess solution from Microsoft definitely doesn't require Java. However, at least for Win7, it does require Enterprise or Ultimate - I believe Win8 must be Enterprise as well. For the server, it requires either Server 2008 R2 with UAG, or Server 2012. The 2008 R2 with UAG requires a working PKI for its clients, but the 2012 version only requires a working PKI for Win7 clients. Someday MSFT might not require the Enterprise version of the clients - that would be really outstanding, but I'm not holding my breath... One big limitation of the DirectAccess technology is that it is a pure IPv6 solution. If you have client software that makes explicit calls to the IPv4 stack, and doesn't understand IPv6, you're screwed (Lync 2010 and Shoretel client, I'm looking at you). IME, the 2008 R2/UAG version is tedious and a bit tricky to set up - haven't yet played with the 2012 version. But, other than that, it's a way cool technology - no extra logins required, once the GPOs take effect, you just open your laptop, turn it on, log in as if you were in the office, and you're off to the races, subject to the limitations of your connection speed. I'm glad I turned it up. Kurt On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edu wrote: I'm 99 percent sure the MS vpn solution in server 2012 doesn't require java. -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 12:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Favorite VPN solution? Are there 'clientless' VPN solutions that don't use Java? I don't know much about the new VPN solutions out there. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Favorite VPN solution?
We're using ms direct access. Setting it up on server 2012 was super simple. Working great so far, knocking on wood. From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@sfgtrust.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 7:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Favorite VPN solution? Hi Folks, I currently use the Cisco VPN client or the Shrew Soft VPN Manager client for our staff. We have many remote staff and we issue them laptops. The clients connect to an ASA here. The clients work fine, but I'm wondering if there are other solutions out there. Long term this company may move to XenApp (used it extensively in my last job), but not anytime soon. Thoughts? Anyone using clientless VPN with a PIX? Thanks, Tom ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Favorite VPN solution?
Not applicable here, sorry I can't help out with that scenario. From: Liam Freeman [mailto:liam.free...@infrasys.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 8:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Favorite VPN solution? Has anyone managed to get this working in a multi - domain environment (ie via forest trusts ) as MS say it can do with 2012? From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: 29 January 2013 13:07 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Favorite VPN solution? We're using ms direct access. Setting it up on server 2012 was super simple. Working great so far, knocking on wood. From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@sfgtrust.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 7:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Favorite VPN solution? Hi Folks, I currently use the Cisco VPN client or the Shrew Soft VPN Manager client for our staff. We have many remote staff and we issue them laptops. The clients connect to an ASA here. The clients work fine, but I'm wondering if there are other solutions out there. Long term this company may move to XenApp (used it extensively in my last job), but not anytime soon. Thoughts? Anyone using clientless VPN with a PIX? Thanks, Tom ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin CONFIDENTIAL This email and any files transmitted with it may be legally privileged and are confidential. This email should not be disclosed to anyone other than the addressee nor copied in any way. This email and its attachments may be subject to copyright protection and you should not retransmit or reproduce these without the consent of the author. If received in error please advise the sender and delete the email. Any representations or commitments expressed in this email are subject to contract. DISCLAIMER Whilst we take reasonable precautions to minimise risk, you must carry out your own virus checks before opening attachments or reading e-mails and we do not accept liability for any damage or loss in this respect. Non-business related content is not authorised by us and we shall not be liable for it. We are also not responsible for changes made or occurring after this message was sent. Information about the Company and its services is available from http://www.infrasys.co.uk ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Favorite VPN solution?
Both 7 and 8 work. I used the MS doc here. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831658.aspx With a bit of changes. We still run both UAG-DirectAccess 2010 and the new 2012. We need to make sure the user is on our local lan, change security group memberships, reboot a couple times to get the new group policies and they are good. From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 10:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Favorite VPN solution? Hey Glen, Do the client need to be Windows 8 or will this work with 7? Which tech doc did you follow to set it up? Thanks Steve On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edumailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu wrote: We're using ms direct access. Setting it up on server 2012 was super simple. Working great so far, knocking on wood. From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@sfgtrust.commailto:tmil...@sfgtrust.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 7:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Favorite VPN solution? Hi Folks, I currently use the Cisco VPN client or the Shrew Soft VPN Manager client for our staff. We have many remote staff and we issue them laptops. The clients connect to an ASA here. The clients work fine, but I'm wondering if there are other solutions out there. Long term this company may move to XenApp (used it extensively in my last job), but not anytime soon. Thoughts? Anyone using clientless VPN with a PIX? Thanks, Tom ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Favorite VPN solution?
Actually if you aren't migrating, the setup is pretty simple with 2012. You have to have the internal certificate authority if you need win 7 client support. If only win 8, then the da server can use its' own self signed cert. From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 10:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Favorite VPN solution? Hey Glen, Do the client need to be Windows 8 or will this work with 7? Which tech doc did you follow to set it up? Thanks Steve On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edumailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu wrote: We're using ms direct access. Setting it up on server 2012 was super simple. Working great so far, knocking on wood. From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@sfgtrust.commailto:tmil...@sfgtrust.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 7:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Favorite VPN solution? Hi Folks, I currently use the Cisco VPN client or the Shrew Soft VPN Manager client for our staff. We have many remote staff and we issue them laptops. The clients connect to an ASA here. The clients work fine, but I'm wondering if there are other solutions out there. Long term this company may move to XenApp (used it extensively in my last job), but not anytime soon. Thoughts? Anyone using clientless VPN with a PIX? Thanks, Tom ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: DC's and VM's
I can vouch for having a physical dc, dns and dhcp. We lost power last Thursday night, and when it was restored 3 days later, exchange, several file servers and other stuff needed a reboot as they came up before the DC was up. Now, I'm looking for better ups software and a setting to change the servers to not come back on after a power failure. Hopefully it is in the bios. Any recommendations? We use TrippLite UPS's and no backup generator. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DC's and VM's Hyper-V 2.0 also does this, at least the delay period for each VM. I have DC's always start 120 secs after host start and other VM's 300 secs after that. Server 2012 redundant DHCP...oh NICE! From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 8:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DC's and VM's That is correct (you can have redundant DHCP without splitting the pool in Windows Server 2012). Hyper-V 3.0 also allows you to specify critical VMs that must start first, with X delay before starting other VMs, and allow Hyper-V clusters to come online BEFORE AD starts. From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DC's and VM's Speaking from experience DHCP is also nice to have on physical. Say you have to power the entire facility down for one reason or another, your hosts all have to start up cold. There is no way you will get your guest running DHCP online before all your devices elsewhere on the network are already up and looking for an address. Then the dumber devices will time out after a while and will have to be power cycled again to get their address. From my understanding 2012 also helps this problem since you can have redundant DHCP servers without splitting the pool? From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DC's and VM's Unless you have a fully Hyper-V 3.0 infrastructure and your DCs are all Windows Server 2012. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DC's and VM's Is this still current thinking? Note: Always have at least one DC that is on physical hardware so that failover clusters and other infrastructure can start. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888794 David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: DC's and VM's
Just a followup. I looked around in the Dell bios and could not find a setting to prevent the server from booting when on power restore, so I've set a boot password. Not my preferred choice, but it will work. From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 1:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DC's and VM's I can vouch for having a physical dc, dns and dhcp. We lost power last Thursday night, and when it was restored 3 days later, exchange, several file servers and other stuff needed a reboot as they came up before the DC was up. Now, I'm looking for better ups software and a setting to change the servers to not come back on after a power failure. Hopefully it is in the bios. Any recommendations? We use TrippLite UPS's and no backup generator. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DC's and VM's Hyper-V 2.0 also does this, at least the delay period for each VM. I have DC's always start 120 secs after host start and other VM's 300 secs after that. Server 2012 redundant DHCP...oh NICE! From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 8:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DC's and VM's That is correct (you can have redundant DHCP without splitting the pool in Windows Server 2012). Hyper-V 3.0 also allows you to specify critical VMs that must start first, with X delay before starting other VMs, and allow Hyper-V clusters to come online BEFORE AD starts. From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DC's and VM's Speaking from experience DHCP is also nice to have on physical. Say you have to power the entire facility down for one reason or another, your hosts all have to start up cold. There is no way you will get your guest running DHCP online before all your devices elsewhere on the network are already up and looking for an address. Then the dumber devices will time out after a while and will have to be power cycled again to get their address. From my understanding 2012 also helps this problem since you can have redundant DHCP servers without splitting the pool? From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DC's and VM's Unless you have a fully Hyper-V 3.0 infrastructure and your DCs are all Windows Server 2012. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DC's and VM's Is this still current thinking? Note: Always have at least one DC that is on physical hardware so that failover clusters and other infrastructure can start. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888794 David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http
RE: DC's and VM's
Last one. Just found the power settings on the Dell servers. It is in the password area. Scroll down to the bottom. From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 3:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DC's and VM's Just a followup. I looked around in the Dell bios and could not find a setting to prevent the server from booting when on power restore, so I've set a boot password. Not my preferred choice, but it will work. From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 1:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DC's and VM's I can vouch for having a physical dc, dns and dhcp. We lost power last Thursday night, and when it was restored 3 days later, exchange, several file servers and other stuff needed a reboot as they came up before the DC was up. Now, I'm looking for better ups software and a setting to change the servers to not come back on after a power failure. Hopefully it is in the bios. Any recommendations? We use TrippLite UPS's and no backup generator. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DC's and VM's Hyper-V 2.0 also does this, at least the delay period for each VM. I have DC's always start 120 secs after host start and other VM's 300 secs after that. Server 2012 redundant DHCP...oh NICE! From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 8:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DC's and VM's That is correct (you can have redundant DHCP without splitting the pool in Windows Server 2012). Hyper-V 3.0 also allows you to specify critical VMs that must start first, with X delay before starting other VMs, and allow Hyper-V clusters to come online BEFORE AD starts. From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DC's and VM's Speaking from experience DHCP is also nice to have on physical. Say you have to power the entire facility down for one reason or another, your hosts all have to start up cold. There is no way you will get your guest running DHCP online before all your devices elsewhere on the network are already up and looking for an address. Then the dumber devices will time out after a while and will have to be power cycled again to get their address. From my understanding 2012 also helps this problem since you can have redundant DHCP servers without splitting the pool? From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DC's and VM's Unless you have a fully Hyper-V 3.0 infrastructure and your DCs are all Windows Server 2012. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DC's and VM's Is this still current thinking? Note: Always have at least one DC that is on physical hardware so that failover clusters and other infrastructure can start. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888794 David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana
RE: Patch management recommendations
Almost all the Virginia Community colleges, dumped Altiris in favor of KACE. The latest update to Altiris was a disaster for everyone that attempted it. We were not one of the brave colleges to try, but from what I heard, the system requirements were huge, a dual socket, quad core server with 24gig ram was barely adequate to serve 3 to 400 client workstations. Ouch. We currently run both the K1000 and K2000 on a HP/Compaq dl-380 dual socket, quad core with 16gig ram under vmware 5 and it is very responsive. Also two other windows virtuals on the same host. The instructor led training was very good also. From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 9:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Patch management recommendations I'd take a step back to wait and see on Altiris with yesterday's news. http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2013/01/16/altiris-to-become-altiris-again-symantec-dumping-it-for-less-than-it-paid/ From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 8:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Patch management recommendations Kace Altiris SCCM with SCUP One of these should fit most of your clients needs. Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Architect I, Corporate Office of Technology:Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Services Tel 610-807-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 christopher_bod...@glic.commailto: [cid:image001.jpg@01CDF492.11CAAC30] The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America www.guardianlife.comhttp://www.guardianlife.com/ From:Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.orgmailto:charl...@golden-eagle.org To:NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date:01/16/2013 06:04 PM Subject:Patch management recommendations I work for a consulting firm that manages a variety of SMB clients. As we increase our client load and the size of the clients (moving from the 3-10 seat to the 50-1000 seat clients) we are implementing more advanced products for a variety of tasks. We are currently looking at patch management solutions. Our current paradigm is a mix of WSUS and manual intervention, but it's not enough, obviously. I haven't used a centralized patch management system for around 5-6 years (used to use early versions of Shavlik) so I haven't been keeping up with the market. We're now looking for something that does 3rd party apps, not just MS stuff, so WSUS is off the table. Our clients are all on MS platforms, though; almost no *nix or Apple. I don't envision a one-size-fits-all product. I expect that we'll want a variety of solutions tailored to the size and complexity of the client. And I have no illusions about the ease of patch management given any product. :-) My boss would love an MSP-style of centrally managed product that can handle all our clients, but my belief is that trying to go that route is much more difficult than doing per-client implementations, especially without dedicated patch management admins. Having said all that, is anyone working with patch management systems that they really like for this space? Also, any you really DON'T like? Thanks! *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.orgmailto:charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin - This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to
RE: Patch management recommendations
Most definitely. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 12:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Patch management recommendations Was that a Symantec-inspired upgrade? ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBakerhttp://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market... On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edumailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu wrote: Almost all the Virginia Community colleges, dumped Altiris in favor of KACE. The latest update to Altiris was a disaster for everyone that attempted it. We were not one of the brave colleges to try, but from what I heard, the system requirements were huge, a dual socket, quad core server with 24gig ram was barely adequate to serve 3 to 400 client workstations. Ouch. We currently run both the K1000 and K2000 on a HP/Compaq dl-380 dual socket, quad core with 16gig ram under vmware 5 and it is very responsive. Also two other windows virtuals on the same host. The instructor led training was very good also. From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.commailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 9:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Patch management recommendations I'd take a step back to wait and see on Altiris with yesterday's news. http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2013/01/16/altiris-to-become-altiris-again-symantec-dumping-it-for-less-than-it-paid/ From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 8:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Patch management recommendations Kace Altiris SCCM with SCUP One of these should fit most of your clients needs. Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Architect I, Corporate Office of Technology:Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Services Tel 610-807-6459tel:610-807-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 christopher_bod...@glic.commailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com [cid:image001.jpg@01CDF492.11CAAC30] The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America www.guardianlife.comhttp://www.guardianlife.com/ From:Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.orgmailto:charl...@golden-eagle.org To:NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date:01/16/2013 06:04 PM Subject:Patch management recommendations I work for a consulting firm that manages a variety of SMB clients. As we increase our client load and the size of the clients (moving from the 3-10 seat to the 50-1000 seat clients) we are implementing more advanced products for a variety of tasks. We are currently looking at patch management solutions. Our current paradigm is a mix of WSUS and manual intervention, but it's not enough, obviously. I haven't used a centralized patch management system for around 5-6 years (used to use early versions of Shavlik) so I haven't been keeping up with the market. We're now looking for something that does 3rd party apps, not just MS stuff, so WSUS is off the table. Our clients are all on MS platforms, though; almost no *nix or Apple. I don't envision a one-size-fits-all product. I expect that we'll want a variety of solutions tailored to the size and complexity of the client. And I have no illusions about the ease of patch management given any product. :-) My boss would love an MSP-style of centrally managed product that can handle all our clients, but my belief is that trying to go that route is much more difficult than doing per-client implementations, especially without dedicated patch management admins. Having said all that, is anyone working with patch management systems that they really like for this space? Also, any you really DON'T like? Thanks! *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.orgmailto:charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBakerhttp://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker Providing Expert Technology Consulting Services for the SMB market... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmininline: image001.jpg
RE: PC/server management
We use KACE and haven't noticed an impact from the agent even on low end machines. The big issue for us, it doesn't multicast client os installs, so re-loading a lab can be painfully slow. So we've working more towards client management, software install, removal and such instead of complete bulk machine reloads. From: Mathew Shember [mailto:mathew.shem...@synopsys.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 2:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PC/server management What kind of a footprint does Kace introduce to a system? I have many engineers who are literally cycle counters and will notice just about anything installed and start complaining about wasted resources. They run the servers hard and like them lean as possible. The Kace people have been after me to allow them on the engineering servers. From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 10:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PC/server management I just had the Kace rep in my office yesterday afternoon and it seems like a pretty comprehensive product. I am going to check out the Landesk lunch and learn later this month as well. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Tom Miller tmil...@sfgtrust.commailto:tmil...@sfgtrust.com wrote: Folks, Looking for recommendations for pc/server management (Windows devices only at this time). At my last job I used Kace appliances and they were great. I am looking at those this time but thought I'd ask the list for additional suggestions. At my new job we have System Center Essentials 2007. It's not so good but it is old and I understand that product is EOL. Looking for: patch distribution/management, inventorying, reporting, ability to create granular groups based on factors like IP, machine type, AD memberships, OU location, software deployment, and remote control (not super important since we already own a product for this). Embedded help desk, even if basic, would be a bonus. This place doesn't have one currently. This would be for about 350 nodes. Can be appliance, vmware machine, or even hosted. As long as it does what I need. Thanks, Tom ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Replacement for SteadyState
We teach classes and let the students make any and all changes to the desktop environment. Here's one example. Student comes in and sets the desktop wallpaper to his favorite pinup gal. Next student doesn't like it, but is a beginner and doesn't know how to change it to something else. Reboot and the pin up gal is gone. Also, I've seen some programs/apps that can now be installed without admin rights, Google Chrome for example. Not a problem with Deep Freeze. I'm sure there are other ways to do this, but DeepFreeze works great in our environment. From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2013 4:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Replacement for SteadyState I've worked at a lot of customers that use DeepFreeze and similar products and I'm not a huge fan of the concept in general. It makes the overall lifecycle maintenance of a desktop environment a heck of a lot more complicated. The question I always pose (and usually don't get much of a response to), is what problems/issues is DeepFreeze protecting you from that running as a local user wouldn't solve? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Friday, January 4, 2013 11:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Replacement for SteadyState Not free, but we could not function at the school without DeepFreeze. From: Bambi J Saastad [mailto:bambi.j.saas...@seagate.com] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 11:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Replacement for SteadyState Hello I was wondering if any of you could suggest a replacement for SteadyState. I have a roomful of pc's that the factory users use for browsing etc that I am replacing with Windows 7 Pro that need to be locked down. Can anyone suggest a product that does the same thing, wipe out any changes on reboot? TIA B ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Replacement for SteadyState
No on the student login. We use a generic account per classroom. We've talked about moving to a individual student login, but I'm not sure we need or want that. For others that have gone that route, how do you handle situations where students don't logout before they leave. You either have a locked computer, logged on as said student or if not locked, then student 2 has access to student 1's account. From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 9:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Replacement for SteadyState Sure so scenarios where you're teaching classes that require changes to the OS to accomplish the class makes good sense and I'd not argue against a solution like DeepFreeze in that case. In the case of things like wallpaper and user profile stuff, are you not using named user accounts for your students? That solves a bunch of this on the spot. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Monday, January 7, 2013 7:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Replacement for SteadyState We teach classes and let the students make any and all changes to the desktop environment. Here's one example. Student comes in and sets the desktop wallpaper to his favorite pinup gal. Next student doesn't like it, but is a beginner and doesn't know how to change it to something else. Reboot and the pin up gal is gone. Also, I've seen some programs/apps that can now be installed without admin rights, Google Chrome for example. Not a problem with Deep Freeze. I'm sure there are other ways to do this, but DeepFreeze works great in our environment. From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2013 4:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Replacement for SteadyState I've worked at a lot of customers that use DeepFreeze and similar products and I'm not a huge fan of the concept in general. It makes the overall lifecycle maintenance of a desktop environment a heck of a lot more complicated. The question I always pose (and usually don't get much of a response to), is what problems/issues is DeepFreeze protecting you from that running as a local user wouldn't solve? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Friday, January 4, 2013 11:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Replacement for SteadyState Not free, but we could not function at the school without DeepFreeze. From: Bambi J Saastad [mailto:bambi.j.saas...@seagate.com] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 11:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Replacement for SteadyState Hello I was wondering if any of you could suggest a replacement for SteadyState. I have a roomful of pc's that the factory users use for browsing etc that I am replacing with Windows 7 Pro that need to be locked down. Can anyone suggest a product that does the same thing, wipe out any changes on reboot? TIA B ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security
RE: Replacement for SteadyState
And that's why there are choices. I could achieve the same with Citrix... but that's another expense, learning and such. Not saying it's good or bad, just that what we are using works well for us, so no plans to change at the moment. From: kz2...@googlemail.com [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 9:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Replacement for SteadyState You could achieve much the same end with Citrix Provisioning Services, except you'd have the options of personal vDisk as well. I have to admit I'm not a fan of the DeepFreeze/SteadyState approaches - some threats don't need to be persistent beyond a reboot to wreak havoc. I'm more inclined towards good GPOs and app management coupled with maybe PVS and StrataApps. Cheers, JR Sent from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY From: Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edumailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 13:42:08 + To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Replacement for SteadyState We teach classes and let the students make any and all changes to the desktop environment. Here's one example. Student comes in and sets the desktop wallpaper to his favorite pinup gal. Next student doesn't like it, but is a beginner and doesn't know how to change it to something else. Reboot and the pin up gal is gone. Also, I've seen some programs/apps that can now be installed without admin rights, Google Chrome for example. Not a problem with Deep Freeze. I'm sure there are other ways to do this, but DeepFreeze works great in our environment. From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2013 4:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Replacement for SteadyState I've worked at a lot of customers that use DeepFreeze and similar products and I'm not a huge fan of the concept in general. It makes the overall lifecycle maintenance of a desktop environment a heck of a lot more complicated. The question I always pose (and usually don't get much of a response to), is what problems/issues is DeepFreeze protecting you from that running as a local user wouldn't solve? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Friday, January 4, 2013 11:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Replacement for SteadyState Not free, but we could not function at the school without DeepFreeze. From: Bambi J Saastad [mailto:bambi.j.saas...@seagate.com] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 11:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Replacement for SteadyState Hello I was wondering if any of you could suggest a replacement for SteadyState. I have a roomful of pc's that the factory users use for browsing etc that I am replacing with Windows 7 Pro that need to be locked down. Can anyone suggest a product that does the same thing, wipe out any changes on reboot? TIA B ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com
RE: Replacement for SteadyState
Yes, and after 10 times, the computer is corrupted and has to be reloaded, 10 calls to the helpdesk and wasted time. Not an issue with DeepFreeze. Power it off 100 times and still no corruption From: kz2...@googlemail.com [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Replacement for SteadyState If they leave the computer locked, power it off and on. If they lose work - then learn not to leave it locked. Sent from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY From: Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edumailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 14:57:13 + To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Replacement for SteadyState No on the student login. We use a generic account per classroom. We've talked about moving to a individual student login, but I'm not sure we need or want that. For others that have gone that route, how do you handle situations where students don't logout before they leave. You either have a locked computer, logged on as said student or if not locked, then student 2 has access to student 1's account. From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 9:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Replacement for SteadyState Sure so scenarios where you're teaching classes that require changes to the OS to accomplish the class makes good sense and I'd not argue against a solution like DeepFreeze in that case. In the case of things like wallpaper and user profile stuff, are you not using named user accounts for your students? That solves a bunch of this on the spot. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Monday, January 7, 2013 7:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Replacement for SteadyState We teach classes and let the students make any and all changes to the desktop environment. Here's one example. Student comes in and sets the desktop wallpaper to his favorite pinup gal. Next student doesn't like it, but is a beginner and doesn't know how to change it to something else. Reboot and the pin up gal is gone. Also, I've seen some programs/apps that can now be installed without admin rights, Google Chrome for example. Not a problem with Deep Freeze. I'm sure there are other ways to do this, but DeepFreeze works great in our environment. From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2013 4:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Replacement for SteadyState I've worked at a lot of customers that use DeepFreeze and similar products and I'm not a huge fan of the concept in general. It makes the overall lifecycle maintenance of a desktop environment a heck of a lot more complicated. The question I always pose (and usually don't get much of a response to), is what problems/issues is DeepFreeze protecting you from that running as a local user wouldn't solve? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Friday, January 4, 2013 11:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Replacement for SteadyState Not free, but we could not function at the school without DeepFreeze. From: Bambi J Saastad [mailto:bambi.j.saas...@seagate.com] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 11:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Replacement for SteadyState Hello I was wondering if any of you could suggest a replacement for SteadyState. I have a roomful of pc's that the factory users use for browsing etc that I am replacing with Windows 7 Pro that need to be locked down. Can anyone suggest a product that does the same thing, wipe out any changes on reboot? TIA B ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http
RE: Replacement for SteadyState
Good to know. Now, the other biggie for use, user account management. We don't yet have an automated way to create/delete the accounts. Richmond is working on a system for that, but the vendor they contracted wants mega bucks to set up our server to sync with their domain. From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 10:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Replacement for SteadyState Yeah ... For all the universities I've worked at and had this discussion, this perceived problem has never morphed into an actual issue. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Monday, January 7, 2013 9:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Replacement for SteadyState how do you handle situations where students don't logout before they leave.. then student 2 has access to student 1's account. Self-correcting problem. Student 2 deletes all of Students 1's stuff and Student 1 never does it again. With 7,000 students we have very little trouble with this issue actually. Also we set inactivity timeouts so they auto log out. I would not go with generic accounts. There is no accountability, no tracking of what they do From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 10:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Replacement for SteadyState No on the student login. We use a generic account per classroom. We've talked about moving to a individual student login, but I'm not sure we need or want that. For others that have gone that route, how do you handle situations where students don't logout before they leave. You either have a locked computer, logged on as said student or if not locked, then student 2 has access to student 1's account. From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 9:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Replacement for SteadyState Sure so scenarios where you're teaching classes that require changes to the OS to accomplish the class makes good sense and I'd not argue against a solution like DeepFreeze in that case. In the case of things like wallpaper and user profile stuff, are you not using named user accounts for your students? That solves a bunch of this on the spot. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Monday, January 7, 2013 7:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Replacement for SteadyState We teach classes and let the students make any and all changes to the desktop environment. Here's one example. Student comes in and sets the desktop wallpaper to his favorite pinup gal. Next student doesn't like it, but is a beginner and doesn't know how to change it to something else. Reboot and the pin up gal is gone. Also, I've seen some programs/apps that can now be installed without admin rights, Google Chrome for example. Not a problem with Deep Freeze. I'm sure there are other ways to do this, but DeepFreeze works great in our environment. From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2013 4:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Replacement for SteadyState I've worked at a lot of customers that use DeepFreeze and similar products and I'm not a huge fan of the concept in general. It makes the overall lifecycle maintenance of a desktop environment a heck of a lot more complicated. The question I always pose (and usually don't get much of a response to), is what problems/issues is DeepFreeze protecting you from that running as a local user wouldn't solve? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Friday, January 4, 2013 11:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Replacement for SteadyState Not free, but we could not function at the school without DeepFreeze. From: Bambi J Saastad [mailto:bambi.j.saas...@seagate.com] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 11:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Replacement for SteadyState Hello I was wondering if any of you could suggest a replacement for SteadyState. I have a roomful of pc's that the factory users use for browsing etc that I am replacing with Windows 7 Pro that need to be locked down. Can anyone suggest a product that does the same thing, wipe out any changes on reboot? TIA B ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Replacement for SteadyState
Not free, but we could not function at the school without DeepFreeze. From: Bambi J Saastad [mailto:bambi.j.saas...@seagate.com] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 11:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Replacement for SteadyState Hello I was wondering if any of you could suggest a replacement for SteadyState. I have a roomful of pc's that the factory users use for browsing etc that I am replacing with Windows 7 Pro that need to be locked down. Can anyone suggest a product that does the same thing, wipe out any changes on reboot? TIA B ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: I hate newegg...
Ben. Looks like CompUSA is out. Just went to their site and found this. CompUSA.com is changing! By December 30, we will be consolidating with TigerDirect.com, a top e-commerce Oh well, moving on. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 9:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: I hate newegg... On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edu wrote: I hate mail in rebates. Not that newegg does a lot of those, I think Tiger Direct has everyone beat there. Instead of Tiger Direct, you could shop at CompUSA. Or Circuit City. Or Infotel. Or Systemax. Or... ;-) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: I hate newegg...
And CircuitCity is joining TD too. Dang, looks like TD is taking over. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 9:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: I hate newegg... On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edu wrote: I hate mail in rebates. Not that newegg does a lot of those, I think Tiger Direct has everyone beat there. Instead of Tiger Direct, you could shop at CompUSA. Or Circuit City. Or Infotel. Or Systemax. Or... ;-) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: I hate newegg...
I hate mail in rebates. Not that newegg does a lot of those, I think Tiger Direct has everyone beat there. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: I hate newegg... I go to Newegg... Then I go to Amazon. If they have it, too... On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Guyer, Don dgu...@che.orgmailto:dgu...@che.org wrote: Newegg rocks, propaganda or not. Unless I need it ASAP, then I drive 20 mins. to MicroCenter. Their prices and selection rival the Egg. Regards, Don Guyer Catholic Health East - Information Technology Enterprise Directory Messaging Services 3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa 19073 email: dgu...@che.orgmailto:dgu...@che.org Office: 610.550.3595tel:610.550.3595 | Cell: 610.955.6528tel:610.955.6528 | Fax: 610.271.9440tel:610.271.9440 For immediate assistance, please open a Service Desk ticket or call the helpdesk @ 610-492-3839tel:610-492-3839. [Description: Description: Description: InfoService-Logo240] From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.commailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 6:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: I hate newegg... Part of my job is ordering computer stuff. I've done it for so long that it takes me forever to just go to new egg or some other site to order stuff that I need personally, I've needed to order a DVD burner and some RAM for about a month, still haven't got around to it or for that matter the winch locks for my truck. Neweggs propaganda doesn't work on me. On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 4:47 PM, David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org wrote: Seems every time I buy something they give me coupon code to suck me into buying some related and irresistible item that I seem to think I really want. David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229tel:503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764tel:503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attachments is the property of Catholic Health East and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message, and reply to the sender regarding the error in a separate email. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmininline: image001.jpg
RE: Pen test vendors
And he is really nice guy to boot. He knows more cisco than I'd ever dream of trying to learn. Hate that he left his previous gig as I could call him any time for advice. I think now he'd have to charge for it. From: Shane Mullins [mailto:tsmulli...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 8:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Pen test vendors Sycom has an excellent pen tester. CCIE Security, CISSP as well as pen certs. Shane On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.orgmailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org wrote: ProudDadHatOn My kid, he is famous. :) https://www.trustedsec.com/ ProudDadHatOff If he is too busy for you, or too expensive or not what you need let me know. He has a boatload of connections in that business that he/I can refer you to. He is REALLY busy this week. It's DerbyCon this week and he owns/runs that conference. From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.commailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 11:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Pen test vendors Anyone have recommendations for reputable external pen and vulnerability testing vendors? Thanks, Richard ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Network PDF/Tiff printers
Ah ha. We just set it to autosave in \\domain\homedirs\REDMON_USER\ and the users know where it is and can move/rename if they want. Don't remember where I found that variable name, but it works. The file name is DateTime No complaints so far. -Original Message- From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 3:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Network PDF/Tiff printers I tried PDF Creator but I have the same problem with it as I do with other creators I've found that support print server installs. It cant give the client a save dialog. You can only set the server to save in a certain location. That just won't work for me. My users are saving different file types in different locations and I can't set up 50 different printer shares. Maybe it's just something impossible to do, sure you can install it locally but that defeats the entire purpose central print server and management. -Original Message- From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 2:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Network PDF/Tiff printers We are using PDF Creator. It saves the PDF in the users home folder and so far has worked great. -Original Message- From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 2:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Network PDF/Tiff printers I dug though the archives and didn't find anything specific to networking pdf printers. Hoping someone has tackled this already. Almost everyone uses a PDF printer of some sort, we also use a Tiff printer because that's what our Doc management system uses and it's also the type of file most of our customers send us prints in. In Googling around I found a package from IMECOM that has a print 2 image driver that can be installed on a print server and shared that handles pdf, tiff, etc. Anyone recommend others? Thanks ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Network PDF/Tiff printers
We are using PDF Creator. It saves the PDF in the users home folder and so far has worked great. -Original Message- From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 2:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Network PDF/Tiff printers I dug though the archives and didn't find anything specific to networking pdf printers. Hoping someone has tackled this already. Almost everyone uses a PDF printer of some sort, we also use a Tiff printer because that's what our Doc management system uses and it's also the type of file most of our customers send us prints in. In Googling around I found a package from IMECOM that has a print 2 image driver that can be installed on a print server and shared that handles pdf, tiff, etc. Anyone recommend others? Thanks ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Troubleshooting wireless
Do you have an android device handy? If so, install the wifi analyzer app and have a look around. Could be a rogue ap you don't know about, overlapping channel coverage, interference from neighbors or any number of things. Until you know what signals are present, you will just be guessing at what the problem might be. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 5:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Troubleshooting wireless We have a wireless system here that spans five floors and we have 25 AP's. For over a year I haven't been able to get a good handle on how to adequately troubleshoot this. For a while I had several older laptops spread across a few AP's and would send a ping test to and I would have some software monitoring that. Sometimes the laptops would stop responding to ping even though other systems around it could connect Sometimes the opposite was also true Most users use wireless just in our conference rooms. Some users never have a problem, other users it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Drilling down we are finding nothing in common - For example some Dell D6240's are fine, others aren't, all of them are built from the same image. We have probably 6-7 models of laptops, some have XP, some Win7. It's killing me that there seems to be only about 5% of the users reporting problems to be able to reproduce the problem at any given moment. In fact not 10 minutes ago I had a user tell me wireless quit working for them in a specific area. I take a laptop over and meet the user in the dead spot, and of course it now worked flawlessly for her and I. The wireless vendor came out months ago and said the 2.4GHz spectrum in our area is very noisy with other RF and that if we moved everyone to 5GHz things will be much better - problem is not all of our laptops area 5GHz capable and our wireless AP's are not dual radio (they can do 2.4 OR 5GHz but not both). David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Troubleshooting wireless
I don't know of any client side tools to troubleshoot, but there could be. Lots can change in 18 months. Could be someone bringing in a mifi, a smart phone with tethering enabled. As you've seen, it is going to be hard to track down without some sort of monitoring. Does the meru detect rogue aps? From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 11:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Troubleshooting wireless Here's the dumb thing: We know the root cause is RF interference. Our vendor is Meru and they did an evaluation scan of our environment before we moved into the building 18 months ago and based on what they found they recommended 25 dual-radio AP's. Our company decided that was too expensive and went with 25 single radio AP's, effectively we're a victim of our own cost cutting. Meru is very helpful with the localized troubleshooting, but I am finding it difficult to reproduce the issue at the moment they call as our users typically use wireless for the hour or so they have meetings, and they don't always have problem each time they use wireless. Is there any client side troubleshooting ideas I'm overlooking - as in, how can you? It's like having a fleet of cars that just about every time you take one to a mechanic the symptoms stop. Dave From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu]mailto:[mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 4:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Troubleshooting wireless Do you have an android device handy? If so, install the wifi analyzer app and have a look around. Could be a rogue ap you don't know about, overlapping channel coverage, interference from neighbors or any number of things. Until you know what signals are present, you will just be guessing at what the problem might be. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]mailto:[mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 5:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Troubleshooting wireless We have a wireless system here that spans five floors and we have 25 AP's. For over a year I haven't been able to get a good handle on how to adequately troubleshoot this. For a while I had several older laptops spread across a few AP's and would send a ping test to and I would have some software monitoring that. Sometimes the laptops would stop responding to ping even though other systems around it could connect Sometimes the opposite was also true Most users use wireless just in our conference rooms. Some users never have a problem, other users it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Drilling down we are finding nothing in common - For example some Dell D6240's are fine, others aren't, all of them are built from the same image. We have probably 6-7 models of laptops, some have XP, some Win7. It's killing me that there seems to be only about 5% of the users reporting problems to be able to reproduce the problem at any given moment. In fact not 10 minutes ago I had a user tell me wireless quit working for them in a specific area. I take a laptop over and meet the user in the dead spot, and of course it now worked flawlessly for her and I. The wireless vendor came out months ago and said the 2.4GHz spectrum in our area is very noisy with other RF and that if we moved everyone to 5GHz things will be much better - problem is not all of our laptops area 5GHz capable and our wireless AP's are not dual radio (they can do 2.4 OR 5GHz but not both). David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Calling the cisco experts.
Problem solved. I first had tried a reload on that module and it failed diags, and went to a powered off state. Powered down the switch, reseated the module causing the problem, restarted the switch and all is well. Thanks everyone for all the suggestions. -Original Message- From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 9:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Calling the cisco experts. Took a while to check but no, the vlan mismatch errors only show on 6 switches all attached to module 4 in the core. Module 4 is an 8 port fiber card. 2 ports on this module are connected to switches that don't show the errors. Switches attached to modules 1, 3, 5 don't show those errors. Total of 22 switches without errors. Here is the status from module 4s ports. 4/1 Errors --- cisco 3560 4/2 No errors -- cisco 2960s 4/3 Errors -- cisco 3560 4/4 No errors -- 3560 4/5 Errors -- 2960s 4/6 Errors -- 2960s 4/7 Errors -- 2960s 4/8 Errors -- 2960s It also doesn't seem to be remote switch model specific. Here is the configuration from module 4 #module 4 : 8-port 1000BaseX Ethernet set trunk 4/1 nonegotiate dot1q 1-4094 set trunk 4/2 nonegotiate dot1q 1-4094 set trunk 4/3 nonegotiate dot1q 1-4094 set trunk 4/4 nonegotiate dot1q 1-4094 set trunk 4/5 nonegotiate dot1q 1-4094 set trunk 4/6 nonegotiate dot1q 1-4094 set trunk 4/7 nonegotiate dot1q 1-4094 set trunk 4/8 nonegotiate dot1q 1-4094 set port qos 4/1-8 trust trust-cos set port qos 4/1-8 vlan-based set port lacp-channel 4/7-8 mode off #End Ports 7 and 8 were originally configured as an LACP channel to one building but when the errors started the remotes switches erro-disabled their ports. I had to disable the channel as that building was down when I came in Monday morning. I am thinking that a core switch reboot may fix this strangeness and I hope to test tonight. I may also clear the config from module 4 and recreate it as it is pretty simple. -Original Message- From: Eldridge, D K, [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 2:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Calling the cisco experts. This doesn't help now but this is where Kiwi Kat tools really shines. I have it grabbing 160 running switch configs 5 times a day 7 days a week. You could compare them side by side to see differences. Great tool and not very expensive. If you do a term monitor on the remote switches, are they all showing vlan mismatches? -Original Message- From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 10:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Calling the cisco experts. Got a really strange one here. About 1:30pm on Saturday, July 28 our log server starts showing lots of VLAN mismatch errors. I'm looking around, but not finding any changes. The only two people that have access to the infrastructure were not working on Saturday. Our config is a Cisco 6506 running hybrid catos/ios as core and several cisco 2960 and other switches branched out from it. All the errors are coming from various closet switches. What is even stranger. If I telnet to one of the closet switches, issue a sho cdp neighbor command, I see all the devices I expect to see, ip phones and such, but I also see every port on the core switch listed as a neighbor, hence the vlan mismatches. Nothing has changed, that I can detect. Nothing in the config for the core switch looks amiss, but I'm stumped. I plan to reboot the core tonight, but hoping for some suggestions. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin This e-mail contains the thoughts and opinions of the sender and does not represent official Parkview Medical Center policy. This communication is intended only for the recipient(s) named above, may be confidential and/or legally privileged: and, must be treated as such in accordance with state and federal laws. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use of this communication, or any of its contents, is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please return to sender and delete the message from your computer system. Parkview Medical Centerhttp://www.parkviewmc.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage
RE: Calling the cisco experts.
Took a while to check but no, the vlan mismatch errors only show on 6 switches all attached to module 4 in the core. Module 4 is an 8 port fiber card. 2 ports on this module are connected to switches that don't show the errors. Switches attached to modules 1, 3, 5 don't show those errors. Total of 22 switches without errors. Here is the status from module 4s ports. 4/1 Errors --- cisco 3560 4/2 No errors -- cisco 2960s 4/3 Errors -- cisco 3560 4/4 No errors -- 3560 4/5 Errors -- 2960s 4/6 Errors -- 2960s 4/7 Errors -- 2960s 4/8 Errors -- 2960s It also doesn't seem to be remote switch model specific. Here is the configuration from module 4 #module 4 : 8-port 1000BaseX Ethernet set trunk 4/1 nonegotiate dot1q 1-4094 set trunk 4/2 nonegotiate dot1q 1-4094 set trunk 4/3 nonegotiate dot1q 1-4094 set trunk 4/4 nonegotiate dot1q 1-4094 set trunk 4/5 nonegotiate dot1q 1-4094 set trunk 4/6 nonegotiate dot1q 1-4094 set trunk 4/7 nonegotiate dot1q 1-4094 set trunk 4/8 nonegotiate dot1q 1-4094 set port qos 4/1-8 trust trust-cos set port qos 4/1-8 vlan-based set port lacp-channel 4/7-8 mode off #End Ports 7 and 8 were originally configured as an LACP channel to one building but when the errors started the remotes switches erro-disabled their ports. I had to disable the channel as that building was down when I came in Monday morning. I am thinking that a core switch reboot may fix this strangeness and I hope to test tonight. I may also clear the config from module 4 and recreate it as it is pretty simple. -Original Message- From: Eldridge, D K, [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 2:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Calling the cisco experts. This doesn't help now but this is where Kiwi Kat tools really shines. I have it grabbing 160 running switch configs 5 times a day 7 days a week. You could compare them side by side to see differences. Great tool and not very expensive. If you do a term monitor on the remote switches, are they all showing vlan mismatches? -Original Message- From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 10:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Calling the cisco experts. Got a really strange one here. About 1:30pm on Saturday, July 28 our log server starts showing lots of VLAN mismatch errors. I'm looking around, but not finding any changes. The only two people that have access to the infrastructure were not working on Saturday. Our config is a Cisco 6506 running hybrid catos/ios as core and several cisco 2960 and other switches branched out from it. All the errors are coming from various closet switches. What is even stranger. If I telnet to one of the closet switches, issue a sho cdp neighbor command, I see all the devices I expect to see, ip phones and such, but I also see every port on the core switch listed as a neighbor, hence the vlan mismatches. Nothing has changed, that I can detect. Nothing in the config for the core switch looks amiss, but I'm stumped. I plan to reboot the core tonight, but hoping for some suggestions. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin This e-mail contains the thoughts and opinions of the sender and does not represent official Parkview Medical Center policy. This communication is intended only for the recipient(s) named above, may be confidential and/or legally privileged: and, must be treated as such in accordance with state and federal laws. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use of this communication, or any of its contents, is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please return to sender and delete the message from your computer system. Parkview Medical Centerhttp://www.parkviewmc.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Calling the cisco experts.
Got a really strange one here. About 1:30pm on Saturday, July 28 our log server starts showing lots of VLAN mismatch errors. I'm looking around, but not finding any changes. The only two people that have access to the infrastructure were not working on Saturday. Our config is a Cisco 6506 running hybrid catos/ios as core and several cisco 2960 and other switches branched out from it. All the errors are coming from various closet switches. What is even stranger. If I telnet to one of the closet switches, issue a sho cdp neighbor command, I see all the devices I expect to see, ip phones and such, but I also see every port on the core switch listed as a neighbor, hence the vlan mismatches. Nothing has changed, that I can detect. Nothing in the config for the core switch looks amiss, but I'm stumped. I plan to reboot the core tonight, but hoping for some suggestions. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: W7 workstation cannot install drivers
Check windows update service. If the system is attempting to download the driver from the internet, that service needs to be running. From: Jon Harris [jk.har...@live.com] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 8:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: W7 workstation cannot install drivers Have you checked to see if the 1. USB is blocked by a GPO or reg hack 2. Is the correct type a 2 will not see a 3 only but a 3 will see a 2 or 1 type 3. Is there any lost or hidden items in the Device Manager keeping all of the USB's from funtioning (rare but could happen) Jon From: r...@lmr.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: W7 workstation cannot install drivers Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 19:47:37 -0400 I'm trying to figure out why a Windows 7 Business Pro 64 bit workstation will not let me (a member of the Administrator's Group) install any drivers. It allowed driver installation before, but it will not permit the installation of a driver for a blood glucose meter (Bayer Contour) (it uses a USB to serial converter) or a Fitbit pedometer also USB. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Ping help
Need help please. We have 3 x 2008r2 domain controllers. We've been fighting with some unusually slow domain logins and other flakiness for a while. For example navigating between OUs in active directory users and computers is painfully slow. While testing basic connectivity, I found that a ipv6 ping to one of our domain controllers fails, but here is the interesting part. If I ping -6 from domain controller to my workstation, then for a couple minutes, ping -6 from my workstation to the domain controller works. After just about 2 minutes, it begins failing again when I ping workstation to server. Destination host unreachable is the error. Ping -6 from my workstation to all other servers and domain controllers work fine. I checked the windows firewall on the failing computer and it looks identical to the other 2 domain controllers. One point that may be relevant. The failing DC has 2 nics. I did try disabling one of the nics and rebooting. No help. Turned windows firewall off, no help. Any suggestions appreciated. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Ping help
Kurt. Turned on logging both allowed and dropped in the 2008r2 server. I don't see any entries for dropped traffic from my workstation, but if I ping from server to workstation, then ping workstation to server, I see the allowed packed. What I do see for dropped packets is a lot of this which is all IPv4 traffic. Date time action protocol src-ip dst-ip src-port dst-port size tcpflags tcpsyn tcpack tcpwin icmptype icmpcode info path 2012-07-03 13:55:50 DROP ICMP 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.9 - - 56 - - - - 5 0 - RECEIVE 192.168.0.1 is our core router. 192.168.0.9 is the server. Also, just for testing, I uninstalled Symantec AV. Only the AV part, no network threat protection. No change. The hunt continues. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 1:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Ping help On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edu wrote: Need help please. We have 3 x 2008r2 domain controllers. We've been fighting with some unusually slow domain logins and other flakiness for a while. For example navigating between OUs in active directory users and computers is painfully slow. While testing basic connectivity, I found that a ipv6 ping to one of our domain controllers fails, but here is the interesting part. If I ping -6 from domain controller to my workstation, then for a couple minutes, ping -6 from my workstation to the domain controller works. After just about 2 minutes, it begins failing again when I ping workstation to server. Destination host unreachable is the error. Ping -6 from my workstation to all other servers and domain controllers work fine. I checked the windows firewall on the failing computer and it looks identical to the other 2 domain controllers. One point that may be relevant. The failing DC has 2 nics. I did try disabling one of the nics and rebooting. No help. Turned windows firewall off, no help. Any suggestions appreciated. While I haven't run into this problem, I'd like to suggest an approach... Do you have access to a span/mirror port on the switch to which the 2008R2 server connects? Can you run a wireshark capture of the traffic between that server and the machine you're using to diagnose this issue? This will be your best bet for capturing the true network traffic. Also, is there anything in any of the logs on either machine? Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Nah, you're not responsible while behind the wheel
OTOH, http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/22/11797573-could-you-be-sued-for-texting-with-a-driver-experts-say-maybe?lite From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 5:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Nah, you're not responsible while behind the wheel I attended a mobile device / BYOD webinar today and some of the discussion was about mobile devices and driving. They had polls during the meeting and one of them was: Do you believe you company should be liable for injuries while driving and using a device? (Yes\no) And while I don't know how many attended this webinar (might have been 20, might have been 200). 66% of the respondents said YES! ARE YOU KIDDING ME? In other words when you're driving you're not 100% responsible for your portable device distracting you? Put into the worst case, if I you are using some device while driving for my company and you hit my kid, it's *my* fault you don't have the capacity to pay attention to driving? If that's the case as a business owner I reserve the right to disable forward motion of the vehicle any time you want to use said corporate device. Is there some scenario I am overlooking where it's not the drivers' primary job to be in control of their vehicle? David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Latest flash
Anyone have info on the latest flash update 11.3.300.257, specifically from the distribution page at the url below, there is now only one msi install for the plugin version and one msi for IE. The download doesn't specify if it is x32 or x64. The FAQ is blank at least in my browser. http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Latest flash
So really what I was asking, does anyone know if adobe dropped the x64 versions. The link you provided doesn't mention x32 or x64? -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 10:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Latest flash http://secunia.com/advisories/49388/ You are going to install the 32-bit version since you are probably using a 32-bit browser. :-) -Original Message- From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 10:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Latest flash Anyone have info on the latest flash update 11.3.300.257, specifically from the distribution page at the url below, there is now only one msi install for the plugin version and one msi for IE. The download doesn't specify if it is x32 or x64. The FAQ is blank at least in my browser. http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Latest flash
Thanks for the info. BTW, I think I'll hold off on deploying this one. While googling for info, I found several mentions of broken audio after installing this one. Glen. From: Ralph Smith [mailto:m...@gatewayindustries.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 11:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Latest flash This seems to be the case now. On the page to download the uninstaller (http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-windows.html), they used to have both 32 and 64 bit versions, now it also has just one file with the note: The Flash Player uninstaller executes on both 64-bit and 32-bit version of the Windows operating systems. -Original Message- From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com]mailto:[mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 11:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Latest flash It's one installer for both versions. On x64 systems, both are installed by default. -Original Message- From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 11:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Latest flash So really what I was asking, does anyone know if adobe dropped the x64 versions. The link you provided doesn't mention x32 or x64? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Semi-OT: UPSes Other Than APC
We switched from APC to TrippLite 2 or 3 years ago and I am much happier. APC's constantly had swollen batteries and short run time. Granted, we did go to the online models from TrippLite, but they have worked well. Now, apparently not all APC's have that problem. We have one big unit that powers a cisco 6506 switch, 208 volt 7200va and it has been rock solid since 2006. From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 12:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Semi-OT: UPSes Other Than APC I don't really care who makes the batteries; APC's name is on them, and APC is who I hold responsible for their performance. For the past couple of years, I haven't been impressed with the life we've been getting from our APC batteries. My reseller indicated that he has heard similar comments from other people, so I don't think I'm alone. The dead/swelling battery wasn't in a unit-it hadn't even been taken out of the box. APC refused to make the situation right, and that was my tipping point. If other UPS manufacturers are willing to warrant their batteries for three years vs. APC's one, I'd be remiss not to at least explore those options. If it turns out that their quality is no better than APC's, then I won't switch. John From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]mailto:[mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 11:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Semi-OT: UPSes Other Than APC Well that's kind of like saying you want to look at other makes of cars because your battery died really quickly in your Ford, or you wanted to get away from your Sony laptop because the battery crapped. APC doesn't make batteries, that's outsourced. I've never had an issue with an APC unit itself and if the batteries are replaced on a regularly scheduled basis (read - not when they're dead and swelling up in the unit) you should not see any issues. 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: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us]mailto:[mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 11:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Semi-OT: UPSes Other Than APC We've been an APC shop here for a long time, but lately I've been thinking of trying something else. I've not been impressed with the battery life of our UPSes, and APC only warrants them for a year. We had a battery that sat in a closet for a while, and when we opened it to use it we found that it had leaked. This was clearly a defective battery, and thankfully it wasn't in a UPS-but APC refused to replace it because it was just over a year old. I should add, it was just over a year since it was *manufactured*. Not that we had had it for that long. But we had no proof of purchase, and APC was unwilling to help. Minuteman advertises three-year warranties on its batteries (at least the ones in the higher-end models, it looks like). Our reseller has also suggested CyberPower. Does anyone have any experience with brands other than APC? I'm looking for warnings or recommendations. John Hornbuckle, MSMIS, PMP MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin This email and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the author and do not represent those of the company. Warning: Although precautions have been taken to make sure no viruses are present in this email, the company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage that arise from the use of this email or attachments. CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and other Federal and Florida laws. Improper or unauthorized use or
RE: Semi-OT: UPSes Other Than APC
Given the sporadic and marginally controlled nature of electricity being supplied for charging it isn't a big surprise. This statement makes absolutely no sense. There are so many regulators between the wall socket and the battery there would be no bearing on electricity and battery life, especially in a laptop. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 3:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Semi-OT: UPSes Other Than APC Do you mean on just buying and replacing a battery without a computer? Because I can buy a computer with 1 year on the battery, and I can increase the battery warranty up to 3 years. Any batteries dying in that time get replaced. Not sure what you're saying here, so I'd appreciate a clarification On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:23 PM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.orgmailto:john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: Dell only warrants their laptop batteries for 6 months IIRC. Given the sporadic and marginally controlled nature of electricity being supplied for charging it isn't a big surprise. John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office (352) 244-1610tel:%28352%29%20244-1610 Cell (352) 215-6944tel:%28352%29%20215-6944 MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.usmailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 3:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Semi-OT: UPSes Other Than APC Just heard back from Minuteman. They only warranty their replacement batteries for 90 days... From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.usmailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 2:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Semi-OT: UPSes Other Than APC Interesting-it looks like APC warranties the battery that comes in a UPS for two years, but the replacement battery for only one. I'll need to check with the other companies to see how they handle that. Warranties don't preclude failures, but one might reasonably assume that the longer a company warranties something, the greater their confidence that the item being covered will last. John From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]mailto:[mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 1:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Semi-OT: UPSes Other Than APC Sort of. Warranties do not preclude failures, they only give you (with proper documentation as JH could not provide) recourse for replacement at the manufacturers discretion. That said, here is the official stance from APC http://www.apc.com/support/faq.cfm#9 John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office (352) 244-1610tel:%28352%29%20244-1610 Cell (352) 215-6944tel:%28352%29%20215-6944 MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin This email and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the author and do not represent those of the company. Warning: Although precautions have been taken to make sure no viruses are present in this email, the company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage that arise from the use of this email or attachments. CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and other Federal and Florida laws. Improper or unauthorized use or disclosure of this information could result in civil and/or criminal
RE: OT:windows phone and outlook notes
Same wish for android phones. Touchdown does notes, but is $20. And to save list bandwidth, pick any two, fast, cheap, good. -Original Message- From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 2:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT:windows phone and outlook notes Hey guys, anyone here using windows phone found a reasonable solution for syncing exchange/outlook notes to your phone? I'm really missing this and my google-fu is failing me. Since I'm so OT anyway, I'll go ahead and day I'm really liking the windows phone interface, just missing some of my favorite apps right now. Bill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
GP Software problem
Sure hope someone can point me in the right direction here. 2008 r2 domain with xp and 7 clients. We have been using machine group policies to send out flash and until a few months ago, it worked ok. For some unknown to us reason, the updates have slowly became more un-reliable so we decided it was time to move on to something else. So we purchased a Dell KACE system and are beginning to use it, but not quite there yet. One thorn that keeps popping up. We deleted the GPO that installs flash, checked the box, allow users to continue to use the application. Unfortunately, that isn't working and now random machines will uninstall flash. We can manually install it and two or three reboots later, it uninstalls again. Any suggestions appreciated. Glen. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Wireless controller for 2 APs?
Unless you can foresee growth I don't think I would spend $ on a controller for only 2 ap's. -Original Message- From: Jon D [mailto:rekcahp...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 11:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Wireless controller for 2 APs? I'm new to enterprise wireless. I'm setting up 2 APs to share out a fios connection for our conference rooms. 100% seperate from our corporate network. Our IT consultants is trying to sell a cisco wireless controller to manage the APs. Does this sound like overkill to anyone? Do you really need a wireless controller to manage 2 APs? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Internet radio suggestion
No experience with these, but if you haven't already done so, check out www.avsforum.comhttp://www.avsforum.com Might ask that question in one of their forums and get opinions or other suggestions. From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 9:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Internet radio suggestion Thought some people on this list might have one of these devices. Looking to replace an FM/CD player in my kitchen. Wife and kids primarily listen to the FM radio and sometimes CDs. But the CD's are all ripped to my computer and are on our iPhones as well. So. feature set I'm looking for in order of preference: FM Radio Wi-Fi Ability to stream from PC Internet Radio iPhone dock CD player Based on that set of features, I've found the following devices: Sangean DDR-63 All-in-One Sangean WFR-1 Revo Axis Anyone have experience with any of them? Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Achitect I, Corporate Office of Technology:Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Services Tel 610-807-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 christopher_bod...@glic.commailto: [cid:image001.jpg@01CD1963.D50C6B30] The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America www.guardianlife.comhttp://www.guardianlife.com/ - This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmininline: image001.jpg
RE: 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 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: (homedrive)
I've been following this thread very closely as we've experienced extremely slow logins and yes we use the roaming profile and home directory settings on the profile tab in ADUC. Does anyone know what the statement, When a user has a roaming user profile or a home directory for logon purposes, actually means? Specifically the part, for logon purposes? Does it just mean that if the user has a home directory or profile defined or something totally different? Also, what is the recommended way to do home directory mapping and profiles, if not in the profile tab? From some of the links, I'm guessing a group policy preference, but not sure. -Original Message- From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 11:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: (homedrive) Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [10.210.3.203] Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=_000_748CF90EABA4224ABF3D957402E1271515146A84EXCHMBFF123Util_ MIME-Version: 1.0 X-CFilter-Loop: Forwarded --_000_748CF90EABA4224ABF3D957402E1271515146A84EXCHMBFF123Util_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Better link than the one from MSDN http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc758898(v=3Dws.10).aspx Fast Logon Optimization is always off during logon under the following cond= itions: When a user *first* logs on to a computer. (the MSDN link leaves out the o= perative word...doh) When a user has a roaming user profile or a home directory for logon purpos= es. When a user has synchronous logon scripts. From: Free, Bob Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 7:39 AM To: 'NT System Admin Issues' Subject: RE: (homedrive) When he told us about it, I figured out the reg keys associated with logon = optimization from something Darren had blogged and tested it and sure enoug= h, when I removed the logon script and home folder in ADUC and rebooted 2x = the key changed state, my logon was faster and without the applying your s= ettings screen or whatever it is on XP. This guy knew his stuff about slo= w logons and gave us a whirlwind tour of xperf from another customer engage= ment. Very cool tool. Unbelievable amount of detail about startup is availa= ble from it. I did a cursory search back then for something more authoritative than thi= s PFE told me and found this http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windo= ws/desktop/aa374350(v=3Dvs.85).aspx I haven't had time to visit it further but one of our very sharp desktop gu= ys is. The above is all null and void if you are planning on blaming AD for the mi= sbehavior of Citrix :-p From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com]mailto:[mailto:webster@carlw= ebster.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 4:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: (homedrive) Bob, I am giving a Geek Speak session at Citrix Synergy in May. My GoogleFu isn= 't turning up anything on this. I would like to add this to my It's Not C= itrix, It's Your !@#$%^ AD talk. (well I was told I can't use that title= but that is what I call it. Actually I think that was MBS' idea for my se= ssion title.) Do you have a reference for this I could link to in my talk or maybe even s= end me a LMGTFY link? Thanks Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com]mailto:[mailto:r...@pge.com] Subject: RE: (homedrive) We had a PSS PFE onsite recently for an AD engagement and we were discussin= g slow boots during a break in the action and he brought up something I had= never heard of before. I was always under the assumption that we had what is known as Fast Logon O= ptimization on our XP systems that allows GPOs to process asynchronously in= the background. He told us that it is disabled in our environment because we use the profil= e settings to map homeDir and specify login script. Basically anything that is set on the Profile tab in ADUC is considered leg= acy NT behavior and disables logon optimization. I had heard before that ro= aming profiles or software installation policies disabled it but this was n= ews to me. I played around with my account on an old XP box and it rang tru= e, never got around to looking into it further or on WIN7. FWIW, YMMV :) ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/= my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmanage= r...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin --_000_748CF90EABA4224ABF3D957402E1271515146A84EXCHMBFF123Util_ Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable html xmlns:v=3Durn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml xmlns:o=3Durn:schemas-micr=
RE: Windows 2008 DC getting AAAA records instead of A records for DNS
If the tunnel adapter doesn't show media disconnected, then something is advertising as a 6to4 router. I'm no expert so could be some other DNS entry or maybe it doesn't even need a dns entry, just something advertising as a router. I think ipconfig /all should show the ipv6 router and a tracert might lead to where it is. Good luck. From: Kramer, Jack [mailto:jack.kra...@ur.msu.edu] Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 4:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 2008 DC getting records instead of A records for DNS The tunnel adapter has that address, yes. We don't have DirectAccess and there's also no DNS entries for ISATAP as far as I can see. ISATAP is also still on the block list. Jack Kramer Manager of Information Technology University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edumailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:38:06 + To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Windows 2008 DC getting records instead of A records for DNS Looks familiar. One of the guides I read on configuring direct access said to remove the ISATAP dns block. Unless you have a pre-existing ipv6 network, you shouldn't remove the block. If you are not using direct access, something else may be advertising as an ISATAP router. I'd look at one of the workstations ipconfig /all and see what network has the 2002:2308 address. Most likely it will be one of the tunnel adapters. From: Kramer, Jack [mailto:jack.kra...@ur.msu.edu] Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 4:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 2008 DC getting records instead of A records for DNS They're all 2002:2308 addresses. Jack Kramer Manager of Information Technology University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edumailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:25:48 + To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Windows 2008 DC getting records instead of A records for DNS What are the 1st 4 digits in the ipv6 address. If 2002 or 2001, it could be related to what I just went through. We had unblocked the ISATAP dns entry which was allowing our machines to activate ipv6 address via a tunnel adapter. Re-added the ISATAP dns entry, disable, then re-enable the nic and no more ipv6 registrations. From: Kramer, Jack [mailto:jack.kra...@ur.msu.edu] Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 3:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 2008 DC getting records instead of A records for DNS Hi all, Having some trouble with my Windows 2008 DCs and my google-fu has failed me. We have a domain with two 2008 (not R2) controllers and two 2003R2 controllers. DHCP is served on this domain with a set of 2008R2 DHCP servers. Unfortunately, this seems to be causing a problem-our AD's DNS now has records instead of A records for our client machines running Windows 7. Our network doesn't allow IPv6 traffic so this is obviously not a good thing to have happening. The clients all show their IPv4 address as preferred. Is there any way to fix this? I'd be okay with both and A records showing up in the DNS, but records only are a problem. Jack Kramer Manager of Information Technology University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise
RE: Windows 2008 DC getting AAAA records instead of A records for DNS
What are the 1st 4 digits in the ipv6 address. If 2002 or 2001, it could be related to what I just went through. We had unblocked the ISATAP dns entry which was allowing our machines to activate ipv6 address via a tunnel adapter. Re-added the ISATAP dns entry, disable, then re-enable the nic and no more ipv6 registrations. From: Kramer, Jack [mailto:jack.kra...@ur.msu.edu] Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 3:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 2008 DC getting records instead of A records for DNS Hi all, Having some trouble with my Windows 2008 DCs and my google-fu has failed me. We have a domain with two 2008 (not R2) controllers and two 2003R2 controllers. DHCP is served on this domain with a set of 2008R2 DHCP servers. Unfortunately, this seems to be causing a problem-our AD's DNS now has records instead of A records for our client machines running Windows 7. Our network doesn't allow IPv6 traffic so this is obviously not a good thing to have happening. The clients all show their IPv4 address as preferred. Is there any way to fix this? I'd be okay with both and A records showing up in the DNS, but records only are a problem. Jack Kramer Manager of Information Technology University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Windows 2008 DC getting AAAA records instead of A records for DNS
Looks familiar. One of the guides I read on configuring direct access said to remove the ISATAP dns block. Unless you have a pre-existing ipv6 network, you shouldn't remove the block. If you are not using direct access, something else may be advertising as an ISATAP router. I'd look at one of the workstations ipconfig /all and see what network has the 2002:2308 address. Most likely it will be one of the tunnel adapters. From: Kramer, Jack [mailto:jack.kra...@ur.msu.edu] Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 4:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 2008 DC getting records instead of A records for DNS They're all 2002:2308 addresses. Jack Kramer Manager of Information Technology University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edumailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:25:48 + To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Windows 2008 DC getting records instead of A records for DNS What are the 1st 4 digits in the ipv6 address. If 2002 or 2001, it could be related to what I just went through. We had unblocked the ISATAP dns entry which was allowing our machines to activate ipv6 address via a tunnel adapter. Re-added the ISATAP dns entry, disable, then re-enable the nic and no more ipv6 registrations. From: Kramer, Jack [mailto:jack.kra...@ur.msu.edu] Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 3:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 2008 DC getting records instead of A records for DNS Hi all, Having some trouble with my Windows 2008 DCs and my google-fu has failed me. We have a domain with two 2008 (not R2) controllers and two 2003R2 controllers. DHCP is served on this domain with a set of 2008R2 DHCP servers. Unfortunately, this seems to be causing a problem-our AD's DNS now has records instead of A records for our client machines running Windows 7. Our network doesn't allow IPv6 traffic so this is obviously not a good thing to have happening. The clients all show their IPv4 address as preferred. Is there any way to fix this? I'd be okay with both and A records showing up in the DNS, but records only are a problem. Jack Kramer Manager of Information Technology University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Binaries to the list
Looks like I missed a rule about original posting. This is the fourth try, this time as a reply. Pardon if this is a repeat, I’ve sent it twice before, once Wednesday and once Thursday and have yet to see it in the list. I know this is a long shot, but I have to ask. We set up MS Direct Access using MS UAG. So far it has worked pretty good, with one unintended side effect. When setting this up, the docs say to unblock the ISATAP dns entry and add the internal ISATAP IPv4 address in DNS. For some odd reason, several of our servers on the same subnet as the UAG server have 2002:… ipv6 address and have registered those ip addresses in our DNS server. I see that the 2002: prefix is on the tunnel adapter named ISATAP.domain.com The few workstations that are on the same subnet as the servers don't seem to be effected, but other workstations on other subnets are experiencing extremely long login times. 20 minutes or more in some cases. Also some machines are having problems connecting to our EX2010 server. Especially when they try to set the out of office function. I think the delay is due to the fact that there is no IPv6 router between the subnets and at this time, I have no desire to jump into that pond. Has anyone deployed Direct Access and seen this problem and solved it? I see lots of posts that say not to disable IPv6 on servers, but how do I prevent clients from using it and servers from registering those IPv6 addresses in DNS? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Another tablets question
I think I read that the viewsonic has been discontinued. I had also viewed a demo last year and was pretty impressed, until I saw the price. Can't remember what it was, but I do remember thinking it was way more that I felt it was worth. -Original Message- From: Terry Dickson [mailto:te...@treasurer.state.ks.us] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 9:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: re: Another tablets question I am not recommending this, but a few months ago I saw a Viewsonic 10 Tablet demonstrated. The unique thing about that one was the dual OS, it had Android, and Windown 7. The time to switch between the two was a matter of less than 10 seconds. I have yet to get a demonstrator, even though I have repeatedly asked, but I am still interested. I am probably going to try out an ASUS tablet in the next two weeks to see how they work with our environment. The Asus also runs windows 7. If you want a real interesting option look at the Yoga by lenovo. It is not due out for a few months and will run windows 8 but it is pretty cool from the online reviews I have seen. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Setup separate lab VLAN
The DG for the lab should the the VLAN 2 ip. The DG should always be the closest router. From: Jay Dale [jd...@unetek.com] Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 8:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Setup separate lab VLAN Making the DG of the DHCP server .30 won’t mess up the rest of the network will it? It currently holds 2 scopes, one for each subnet. What should it issue as the DG for the workstations – the firewall or the VLAN IP? And if the VLAN IP, which one? Jay From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 5:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Setup separate lab VLAN What is the default gateway on the DHCP server? I’m pretty sure it should be 192.168.1.30 I don’t think you want to have to add routes to all your devices on your data vlan. From: Jay Dale [mailto:jd...@unetek.com]mailto:[mailto:jd...@unetek.com] Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 9:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Setup separate lab VLAN Ok, I added a route on the DHCP server itself with the “route add” command and I can now ping the DHCP server from a static .2 subnet address and I can ping the .2.10 IP on the lab VLAN from the DHCP server. But it still doesn’t seem to be handing out .2 IP’s from DHCP. I’m still missing something it seems. Jay Dale Senior Systems Administrator P:281-574-2414 From: Jay Dale [mailto:jd...@unetek.com]mailto:[mailto:jd...@unetek.com] Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 8:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Setup separate lab VLAN The switch is a Layer 3 switch, it’s set up as a stack of 4 with the top 1 totally dedicated to lab machines. The others are data for the rest of the network. So essentially the lab machines are segmented from the other switches but still need to access the rest of the network for apps, mail, etc. Currently the routes on the switch are as follows: Default route – IP of firewall 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.0/24 – 192.168.1.30 (IP of data VLAN) 192.168.2.0/24 – 192.168.2.10 (IP of lab VLAN) I can ping both VLAN addresses from the firewall and both from a static IP on the .2 network, but I still can’t ping the DHCP server at 192.168.1.2. One person suggested I make the DHCP server DG the IP of the data VLAN, but wouldn’t that mess up the rest of the network? Jay Jay Dale Senior Systems Administrator P:281-574-2414 From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu]mailto:[mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 7:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Setup separate lab VLAN What is this switch connected to? You’ll need a route on the switch it’s connected to that points to this switch. If the DHCP server is on the other switch, you’ll need the VLAN defined there as well. Are the 460’s a layer 3 switch? From: Jay Dale [mailto:jd...@unetek.com]mailto:[mailto:jd...@unetek.com] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 3:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Setup separate lab VLAN When I put a static address of 192.168.2.100 on one of the lab PC’s, I can ping the IP address of the lab VLAN which is set to 192.168.2.10 and I can ping the IP of the default data vlan which is 192.168.1.30. However I can’t ping the DHCP server address which is 192.168.1.2. Am I missing a route somewhere? Jay Dale Senior Systems Administrator P:281-574-2414 From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu]mailto:[mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 2:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Setup separate lab VLAN What isn’t working. Do the machines on the lab vlan not get an IP address? What device is routing from lab vlan to the vlan where dhcp server is? From: Jay Dale [mailto:jd...@unetek.com]mailto:[mailto:jd...@unetek.com] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 2:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Setup separate lab VLAN Hey all, I’m truly stuck, hopefully I can find some assistance here. I have a client which is a school that is running out of IP addresses. Their subnet is 192.168.1.x/24 I would like to segment off their lab, which is around 50 PC’s right there (in addition to all the youtube/facebook users) on it’s own VLAN using subnet 192.168.2.x/24 I’m currently using 4 Extreme x460’s – 1 of which is dedicated only to lab machines. I’ve set up another DHCP scope for the 192.168.2.x network. I created a VLAN on the switch and did the following commands: Create vlan Lab Configure vlan lab ipaddress 192.168.2.10/24 Configure vlan lab add ports 1:1-1:48 Enable bootprelay vlan lab Configure bootprelay add ip of DHCP server Configure bootprelay dhcp-agent information option Configure bootprelay dhcp-agent information check Enable ipforwarding vlan Lab I activated the scope, but it doesn’t work. Is there a manual scope option that needs to be entered? Thanks, Jay Jay Dale Senior Systems Administrator Unetek, Inc. Phone: 281.574.2414 Email:jd...@unetek.commailto:jd...@unetek.com
RE: Setup separate lab VLAN
What isn't working. Do the machines on the lab vlan not get an IP address? What device is routing from lab vlan to the vlan where dhcp server is? From: Jay Dale [mailto:jd...@unetek.com] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 2:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Setup separate lab VLAN Hey all, I'm truly stuck, hopefully I can find some assistance here. I have a client which is a school that is running out of IP addresses. Their subnet is 192.168.1.x/24 I would like to segment off their lab, which is around 50 PC's right there (in addition to all the youtube/facebook users) on it's own VLAN using subnet 192.168.2.x/24 I'm currently using 4 Extreme x460's - 1 of which is dedicated only to lab machines. I've set up another DHCP scope for the 192.168.2.x network. I created a VLAN on the switch and did the following commands: Create vlan Lab Configure vlan lab ipaddress 192.168.2.10/24 Configure vlan lab add ports 1:1-1:48 Enable bootprelay vlan lab Configure bootprelay add ip of DHCP server Configure bootprelay dhcp-agent information option Configure bootprelay dhcp-agent information check Enable ipforwarding vlan Lab I activated the scope, but it doesn't work. Is there a manual scope option that needs to be entered? Thanks, Jay Jay Dale Senior Systems Administrator Unetek, Inc. Phone: 281.574.2414 Email:jd...@unetek.commailto:jd...@unetek.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and/or privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this e-mail and attachments, if any, or the information contained herein, is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Neat tip of the week
Set it using the gui, under System environment variables and my experience is no reboot needed. -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 8:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Neat tip of the week I'll be damned, even mo' bettah, thanks! Dave -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 5:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Neat tip of the week Just to amplify what you saidyou need to start devmgmt.msc from the same command prompt that you issue the set command from, so it picks it up. -Original Message- From: Anders Blomgren [mailto:chanks...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 4:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Neat tip of the week Start cmd.exe Type: set DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1 Type: devmgmt.msc Same thing without the reboot. -Anders Sent from my iPhone On 3 jan 2012, at 07:22, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Ok so this is an ld tip, but I just recently had a need for it. Ever have a VM that when you assigned it an IP address it complained that (and I am paraphrasing) a hidden network device also has this IP address and if it becomes active there will be a conflict but when you go to device manager and have it show hidden devices there's only one NIC listed? I see this usually when I P2V a machine, but also moving a VM from one environment to another (just copying the VHD's and using the copy to create a new VM) will generate this as well. In any case, here's how you can remedy that little issue: Add in your system environment variables the variable DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES set it's value to: 1 reboot your machine goto your device manager show all hidden devices Works for 2003 Server and later Windows OS's. Sweet! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: RAID array rebuild Q
Haven't created a raid 10 set on that controller, but a raid 1 is almost instantaneous. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 10:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RAID array rebuild Q I have a client that I get to flatten and rebuild an OS (an already-mentioned-here move from 64-bit 2008 to 2008 R2), as part of the change I am going -on the same server- from a 3-disk RAID5 setup to a 4-disk dual RAID1 setup (or RAID10, can't decide, but almost the same thing). My question is this - should I expect it to take long to reconfigure the disks and be able to start loading the OS? Mainly I'm wondering if there's a long please wait while building array step once I configure the RAID arrays in the system setup (in this case, Dell PERC 6/I, four 450GB SAS drives on a Dell T605 tower). David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Backup Software Recommendation
Windows Home Server. -Original Message- From: Burian, Matthew J. (mjb) [mailto:m...@burianit.com] Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Backup Software Recommendation I have a very small business customer (~4 users) who purchased a NAS device for backups of their Windows 7 machines. I typically use the Windows 7 backup utility for situations like this, however the customer purchased computers before I began working with them that are running Windows 7 Home Premium, and thus cannot use the Win 7 backup tool since it won't allow network locations. They don't want to spend the money on the Win 7 Pro upgrade. I have used Acronis in the past, however I haven't used the latest release and it looks to be getting mixed reviews. Any suggestions on an affordable piece of software that would work in this situation? It would be ideal if it offered options for file copy backup and a system image. Thanks for the suggestions. Matt Burian | President Sr. Consultant Burian Information Technology, LLC. E m...@burianit.com | P 937 681 3600 - This message may contain confidential, competitive, or other non-public information. Please do not disseminate this message without the approval of the sender. If you received this message in error, please notify the sender via reply e-mail and delete this message from your system. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Home Throughput Issue
Sounds like you've eliminated most everything except the network interface in this one machine. Can you add/replace the network card? You didn't say if it is a desktop or laptop? If it is a laptop, I'd test at a different location. Friend, co-worker or some other place. If a desktop, slap a cheap nic in and see what happens. From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Home Throughput Issue A colleague has a problem that is stumping us: He has broadband at home and when connecting wirelessly to his router his throughput is significantly slower than when using the Ethernet connection. Speedtest.net says he's getting in excess of 20Mbps down and 5Mbps up via a wireless connection, but with a wired connection to the router his reported speed drops to 5 down/1 up, and the difference is readily apparent when browsing. Connecting with a wired connection from another machine, however, doesn't not report a slower speed and closely matches the wireless speed. He's updated the drivers for the NIC, adjusted the speed and duplex settings, disabled the software firewall, tried other ports on the router, swapped cables, but cannot improved his throughput when using an Ethernet connection from this machine. It seems odd that his wireless connection would be noticeably faster than his Eethernet connection. Anything else he can check? Roger Wright ___ I just had my vision checked. My hindsight was 20/20. My foresight is legally blind. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Home Throughput Issue
He could also pick up a USB to Ethernet adapter to test. I just did a quick search on TigerDirect and found several pages. From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 10:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Home Throughput Issue You are correct - his wireless connection is faster than the wired connection. It is a laptop with a the NIC on the motherboard. He'll have to try the machine at a different location using another router to see if he gets the same results. Roger Wright ___ I just had my vision checked. My hindsight was 20/20. My foresight is legally blind. On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.commailto:asbz...@gmail.com wrote: I think you meant to say faster rather than slower in that first sentence. :) The only thing left is to try a different NIC in the problematic machine. Also, what kind of router? Years ago, I had a netscreen 5XT firewall at home, and had setup throttling of traffic for a particular IP because of a slow machine, and when I changed out the system, I forgot that I had set there, and it took me a few days to pin it all down. :) ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.commailto:rhw...@gmail.com wrote: A colleague has a problem that is stumping us: He has broadband at home and when connecting wirelessly to his router his throughput is significantly slower than when using the Ethernet connection. Speedtest.net says he's getting in excess of 20Mbps down and 5Mbps up via a wireless connection, but with a wired connection to the router his reported speed drops to 5 down/1 up, and the difference is readily apparent when browsing. Connecting with a wired connection from another machine, however, doesn't not report a slower speed and closely matches the wireless speed. He's updated the drivers for the NIC, adjusted the speed and duplex settings, disabled the software firewall, tried other ports on the router, swapped cables, but cannot improved his throughput when using an Ethernet connection from this machine. It seems odd that his wireless connection would be noticeably faster than his Eethernet connection. Anything else he can check? Roger Wright ___ I just had my vision checked. My hindsight was 20/20. My foresight is legally blind. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Google, What Happened To 'Do No Evil'?
I watched the video and I'm definitely not supporting this practice, but what I see is keystrokes, tests and such being sent to the app. What I'd really like to see is a packet capture of data being sent from the phone back to the mother ship. It is possible that the app doesn't store/sent everything it receives. With the phone in airplane mode and the right software on a wifi access point I think it could be done by someone with more talent than me. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 1:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Google, What Happened To 'Do No Evil'? On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:35 PM, John Hornbuckle john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us wrote: Makes me extra glad to have Windows Phone. Do we have any reason to believe the carriers aren't tracking that somehow, too? Some people said, Glad I'm on Verizon!. Then the apparent Verizon reporting was discovered. Other people were saying, Glad I don't use Android!. Then Symbian and RIM reporting was discovered. Other people said, Hah hah! Apple would *never* let this happen! Then the iOS reporting was discovered. There appears to be a trend here. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Sharepoint as file storage
I'm interested in the same. Our president has asked me to look into doing the same thing. One our benefit is to allow part time folks that aren't on campus to have access to forms and documents. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 12:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Sharepoint as file storage Last week I found out my director has told her team to put all files/documents into Sharepoint instead of a network folder - basically stop using the shared drive and use Sharepoint instead, for ALL MS Office documents that are to be shared. This seems like a bad idea but I cannot articulate why. From a technological standpoint it seems crazy to store everything into a SQL database, but from a user standpoint...? David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Group Policy processing problems
Pardon the long email, but the explanation and back info might be helpful. We have 3 x 2008 R2 sp1 domain controllers, 2008 domain and forest functional level. My testing is on a Win 7 X64 sp1 workstation. For quite some time, maybe a year or more, login scripts, group policy settings and software assignments to computers have been unreliable. So things slowed a bit and with all the Adobe Reader and Flash updates I thought it was time to get this working better. After a day and a half, I'm not much closer. What I've done so far. About 2 weeks ago, set up assigned Adobe reader 9.4.6 in group policy and all is good. This week, I want to update flash. I've been installing flash via gpo for a while but have just recently found that lots of machines aren't getting the updates. Maybe not the reader updates also. So I start looking into the event logs on my machine. First one was 5719 computer was unable to set up a secure session with domain controller. Googled that and found one post that said to set group policy Startup Policy Processing Wait time. Set that to the default 120 seconds. Next error is 1014 name resolution for _ldap._tcp.msdcs.domain time out. Ran nslookup _ldap._tcp.msdcs.domain and I get a valid response from all 3 domain controllers. So is it still a timing issue with the network not coming up fast enough or something similar. I ran dcdiag /v and dcdiag /test:dns on all the domain controllers. Everything comes back clean except one DC says no records for the 3 servers. IPv6 is enabled on the DCs and I've read not to disable it as we are running exchange 2010. I don't think that error is relevant anyway. Odd that only one DC reports that error even though none of the 3 domain controllers have records. Portfast is enabled on the switch port. Nic driver is the latest from Dell, Intel 8257 gig Ethernet. Tried setting the nic and switch port to 100 full, 1000 full and no help. Tried connecting the workstation to a different, dumb switch. No help. Installed KB2459530-v3-x64 after finding an article from MS in reference to a TCP/IP bug in win 7. No help Group policy set to always wait for network at boot and logon enabled. Negative DC discovery Cache Setting enabled and set to 0 from default of 45 Startup policy processing wait time enabled and set to 120 seconds. Right now the event log errors are, 5717, no secure session with domain controller, 1014 name resolution for __ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.domain and 130, ntp unable to set a domain peer. I can browse to the installation point, and the permissions allow domain computer and users read and execute. Any more ideas as to how to fix this? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: OT - Phone System In A Virtual Machine
+1 and most of the community colleges in VA are doing the same, so +22 -Original Message- From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 10:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - Phone System In A Virtual Machine We manage to run switch to phone to desktop without any problems at all of our clients. We've never run cable just for phones. YMMV, but we never have problems. Of course that assumes you are using a well optimized codec for voice. Bill James Kerr wrote: Yeah, if we go VOIP we will be running a new CAT6 infrastructure just for the phones and perform lots of testing before we cut over. On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Jonathan Bible jtbi...@gmail.com mailto:jtbi...@gmail.com wrote: I am surprised no one has mentioned ShoreTel. It is supported on VMware 4.0. Just remember when you add VOIP to your network it will expose your latency and misconfigurations because missing 3 seconds of voice is critical and an email will go unnoticed. VOIP is like the canary in the mine. It dies first and gets all the blame. ShoreTel is designed from the IT prospective and is easy to manage. On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:48 PM, James Kerr cluster...@gmail.com mailto:cluster...@gmail.com wrote: I've thought about hosted solutions also but we are currently locked into contracts for our PRI's. This will be an interesting venture that's for sure. James On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Stu Sjouwerman s...@sunbelt-software.com mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com wrote: James, I went through that whole exercise a year ago, and decided for VOIP, but running it In the Cloud as opposed to in-house. RingCentral gives you an enormous amount of features for about 20 bucks per person per month, unlimited phone minutes. If you absolutely want to run it in-house, a dedicated server with Asterisk would be a good idea. VOIP is sensitive to a bunch of things, you need to spec out the hardware correctly. Warm regards, Stu *From:* James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, November 08, 2011 8:57 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* OT - Phone System In A Virtual Machine We are looking at replacing our phone system. This has got me thinking about VIOP systems and being a sys admin who maintains our current phone system (for the most part) has got me thinking about phone system redundancy. I have a desire to run a voice-mail and PBX on virtual machines, if possible. I just don't know if such things exist and was wondering if any of you guys had any info about such systems. We have about 150 phones in two locations two PBXs and one central voice-mail/auto attendant. Venders I've spoke with so far just want to offer newer versions of what we already have. I want something more redundant and easier to bring up again in case of disaster. Thanks for any replies. James ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- Thanks, Jonathan Bible
RE: OT - Phone System In A Virtual Machine
I'm pretty sure that Cisco now supports their offering in a VMWare environment. From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 8:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT - Phone System In A Virtual Machine We are looking at replacing our phone system. This has got me thinking about VIOP systems and being a sys admin who maintains our current phone system (for the most part) has got me thinking about phone system redundancy. I have a desire to run a voice-mail and PBX on virtual machines, if possible. I just don't know if such things exist and was wondering if any of you guys had any info about such systems. We have about 150 phones in two locations two PBXs and one central voice-mail/auto attendant. Venders I've spoke with so far just want to offer newer versions of what we already have. I want something more redundant and easier to bring up again in case of disaster. Thanks for any replies. James ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: OT - Phone System In A Virtual Machine
I see all the comments re: latency, but I'm sure the server is only used for call setup and teardown in our cisco system. Most of the actual voice traffic doesn't go through the server. I've actually disconnected the server network cable with calls in progress and no one noticed. Not on purpose, mind you. Now if the server has special hardware or some gateway or such, then all bets are off, but in our cisco system the servers are just generic hp hardware. Voice traffic is point to point, ie phone to phone or phone to gateway. Now there could be issues if using a software conference bridge or some such and access to a voice mail system could definitely be problematic for a virtual environment. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 9:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - Phone System In A Virtual Machine On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 8:56 AM, James Kerr cluster...@gmail.com wrote: I have a desire to run a voice-mail and PBX on virtual machines, if possible. If the phone system requires any special hardware in the PC, it's unlikely to work. For example, expansion cards for interface to analog or TDM ports. For something that's just an Internet Protocol node, it should work. expect vendor support will be the biggest issue. Phone equipment makers often act[1] rather ignorant when it comes to their PC-based platforms. You don't want to end up in a We don't support that configuration scenario if your phones are down. From a technical standpoint, it should be fine. OSes are already time-sliced; you're just time-slicing the OS now, too. There may be some tech details to work through. Real-time voice is very susceptible to latency and jitter, so there may be some VM tuning involved there. You prolly don't want to oversubscribe the host resources for that VM. -- Ben [1] Act, not necessarily are ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Print strangness- fixed
I'm 99.375% sure it was a corrupt print drive on the workstation. Other people on the same print server/printer could print normally. Removing and re-installing the printer on the workstation didn't help. I'm not sure that process actually removes the print driver files completely though. But what worked. Had the user remove the printer, updated the driver on the server, user re-added the printer and life is good. I'm just hoping that the other users on the same printer will get the new driver, like the MS docs say they will. BTW, it was the HP Universal PCL driver. Went from version 5.1 something, don't know for sure, to the latest, 5.3. Thanks for all the suggestions everyone. Glen. From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 2:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Print strangness Rebooted the printer? LOL From: Shauna Hensala [mailto:she...@msn.com]mailto:[mailto:she...@msn.com] Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 4:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Print strangness is default 'letter' defined as 8.5 x 11? Shauna Hensala From: gjohn...@vhcc.edumailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Print strangness Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 21:11:55 + Yep. Set for default Letter From: Shauna Hensala [mailto:she...@msn.com]mailto:[mailto:she...@msn.com] Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 4:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Print strangness have you checked the paper size settings? Shauna Hensala From: gjohn...@vhcc.edumailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Print strangness Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 20:58:07 + Thanks, but that didn't help. It is printing all pages on one sheet. I originally was told it was just 2 pages, but it doesn't matter how many pages the document has, they all print on the same piece of paper. One sheet of paper, with multiple images on the same side of the page. Just came back for the office where it is happening and I sure don't see any setting that would cause that behavior. I created an excel sheet. Entered This is cell a1 in cell a1 This is cell a92 in cell a92 This is cell a109 in cell a109. Print this sheet, print preview says it will print 3 pages. Previews look normal. One line per page. On the printer I get one page, with this. Top of page. This is cell a1 Middle of page, This is cell a109. Bottom of page. This is cell a92 It is like the driver isn't sending a form feed command between pages. Any more advice appreciated? From: Gary Slinger [mailto:gary.slin...@gmail.com]mailto:[mailto:gary.slin...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 2:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Print strangness That is a Word / driver setting. File / Print / Printer Properties / Advanced / Document Options / Layout Options / Page Order = Front to Back (or Back to Front, as appropriate). On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edumailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu wrote: Just got a call from a user. Prints a two page word document, 2nd page prints on top of first page. Os is Win7 enterprise, Word 2010 to a 2008r2 print server using the HP Universal print drive to a HP 424 and also HP Color 4700. All other users on same print server, printer and such are working normally. Any idea what setting on the workstation might cause that problem? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- Gary K. Slinger Voice: 727-475-1947 // gChat gary.slin...@gmail.commailto:gary.slin...@gmail.com // Skype: garyslinger Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/garyslinger ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here
RE: OT: Streaming media device
If surround sound and picture quality are a concern, then head over to avsforum.org and do some reading. I know the PS3 and Roku 2 devices do adaptive streaming, which means you get the best picture quality that you internet connection can handle. If you bandwidth drops, your pick quality can be scaled back instead of pausing. I used a Tivo S3 for Netflix for a long time and pausing was pretty common. Switched to a PS3 and much better. Never saw a pause in the 2 months I used it. Switched to the Roku due to ps3 fan noise and power usage. Now have the Roku and no pauses at all. Great little system. Only uses 2 to 5 watts and not moving parts. At avs forum, look in these two areas. Digital Video Audio Devices/Networking, Media servers Content Streamers. And Video Components/Video Download Services Hardware. From: David [mailto:blazer...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 1:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Streaming media device Hmmm. I hadn't been looking for Wifi, but I will (wired is available, so I may not care). All new, I don't believe CostCo sells any refurb anything. DAF On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.commailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote: It depends. How much under $100? Are they refurbished, or new? Any of them have built in wi-fi? I'm seeing most of the regular models with the streaming services in the $79-$99 (lower prices usually refurb units) at TigerDirect and Amazon. Add another $30 for the units with built-in Wi-Fi. YMMV Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.commailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459tel:610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003tel:610-807-6003 From:David blazer...@gmail.commailto:blazer...@gmail.com To:NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date:11/07/2011 01:23 PM Subject:Re: OT: Streaming media device I see CostCo is carrying several blu-ray players, Sony, Panasonic, et al, all of which purport to have streaming interfaces for Netflix and the like. Are these a good buy? They had all of them for under $100. On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.commailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote: I just ordered a Roku XD for my father, if it's as good as it seems to be from the reviews I've read, I'm leaning towards adding that to my setup instead of switching to the Sony Blu-Ray player. From what I've read the interface for the streaming services on the Sony isn't great, and there are some quirks in the DLNA for streaming media files. Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.commailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459tel:610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003tel:610-807-6003 From:Benjamin Zachary li...@levelfive.usmailto:li...@levelfive.us To:NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date:11/05/2011 10:44 PM Subject:RE: OT: Streaming media device I was at one of my friends house who setup the little acer's with BluRay on his main and living room TV's he is using some new Sony little keypad, very nice, looked sort of like an xbox controller ... -Original Message- From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 3:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Streaming media device I was using thi sgyration mediacenter remote: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823172020 But I recently ditched those for these: http://www.amazon.com/Superior-Wireless-Keyboard-removable-adjustable/dp/B00 4I4SSCQ They are awesome. plugnplay. The battery is like a cell phone battery and you can charge the remote via USB. The keyboard is backlit. And my wife has no i don't know how to work this issues because it is just a keyboard and touchpad. Bill Rod Trent wrote: What do you use for a remote? -Original Message- From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 2:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Streaming media device i use old laptops on my TVs. Christopher Bodnar wrote: List seems a little slow today so thought I would throw this out there. Currently I'm using Samsung Blue-Ray players as my streaming media devices. Love them, but they are lacking a few media services that I would like: Amazon VOD Crackle I am able to do Amazon VOD with the Yahoo! App as a widget on my newer Samsung LED. But there is still no Crackle app. So I was looking at
RE: Print strangness
Thanks, but that didn't help. It is printing all pages on one sheet. I originally was told it was just 2 pages, but it doesn't matter how many pages the document has, they all print on the same piece of paper. One sheet of paper, with multiple images on the same side of the page. Just came back for the office where it is happening and I sure don't see any setting that would cause that behavior. I created an excel sheet. Entered This is cell a1 in cell a1 This is cell a92 in cell a92 This is cell a109 in cell a109. Print this sheet, print preview says it will print 3 pages. Previews look normal. One line per page. On the printer I get one page, with this. Top of page. This is cell a1 Middle of page, This is cell a109. Bottom of page. This is cell a92 It is like the driver isn't sending a form feed command between pages. Any more advice appreciated? From: Gary Slinger [mailto:gary.slin...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 2:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Print strangness That is a Word / driver setting. File / Print / Printer Properties / Advanced / Document Options / Layout Options / Page Order = Front to Back (or Back to Front, as appropriate). On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edumailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu wrote: Just got a call from a user. Prints a two page word document, 2nd page prints on top of first page. Os is Win7 enterprise, Word 2010 to a 2008r2 print server using the HP Universal print drive to a HP 424 and also HP Color 4700. All other users on same print server, printer and such are working normally. Any idea what setting on the workstation might cause that problem? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- Gary K. Slinger Voice: 727-475-1947 // gChat gary.slin...@gmail.commailto:gary.slin...@gmail.com // Skype: garyslinger Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/garyslinger ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Print strangness
Yep. Set for default Letter From: Shauna Hensala [mailto:she...@msn.com] Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 4:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Print strangness have you checked the paper size settings? Shauna Hensala From: gjohn...@vhcc.edumailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Print strangness Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 20:58:07 + Thanks, but that didn't help. It is printing all pages on one sheet. I originally was told it was just 2 pages, but it doesn't matter how many pages the document has, they all print on the same piece of paper. One sheet of paper, with multiple images on the same side of the page. Just came back for the office where it is happening and I sure don't see any setting that would cause that behavior. I created an excel sheet. Entered This is cell a1 in cell a1 This is cell a92 in cell a92 This is cell a109 in cell a109. Print this sheet, print preview says it will print 3 pages. Previews look normal. One line per page. On the printer I get one page, with this. Top of page. This is cell a1 Middle of page, This is cell a109. Bottom of page. This is cell a92 It is like the driver isn't sending a form feed command between pages. Any more advice appreciated? From: Gary Slinger [mailto:gary.slin...@gmail.com]mailto:[mailto:gary.slin...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 2:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Print strangness That is a Word / driver setting. File / Print / Printer Properties / Advanced / Document Options / Layout Options / Page Order = Front to Back (or Back to Front, as appropriate). On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edumailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu wrote: Just got a call from a user. Prints a two page word document, 2nd page prints on top of first page. Os is Win7 enterprise, Word 2010 to a 2008r2 print server using the HP Universal print drive to a HP 424 and also HP Color 4700. All other users on same print server, printer and such are working normally. Any idea what setting on the workstation might cause that problem? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- Gary K. Slinger Voice: 727-475-1947 // gChat gary.slin...@gmail.commailto:gary.slin...@gmail.com // Skype: garyslinger Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/garyslinger ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: event id 428 (ESENT) Low disk space
VSS backups? From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 3:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: event id 428 (ESENT) Low disk space We have a VM server here that acts as an AD server for our hosted rack of servers in the data centre. It does nothing but AD duties and local DNS. It's a small VM with 50GB of disk space and a few GB of ram with windows 2008 R1. Last night on two occasions we got Event ID 428 errors stating that the database engine rejected update operations due to low disk space. The odd thing is that the VM has about 28GB free and our monitoring software shows that the server has dropped below 50GB of disk space for the last week or mo. Anyone seen this before or know why we would get such weird false alarms? Olly ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: video surveillance software recommendations
Curious. What bugs are you seeing? Do you have IP cameras or analog to ip converters? We have a mix. What brand cameras if they are IP. I've heard some cameras work better than others. All our IP cameras are various model Axis. We are running ver 4.3.0.30 x32 with 85 cameras and it works well. My biggest complaint is they don't have an easy upgrade path to the X64 version. We had one issue where the embedded sql database reached the 4gig limit, but tech support worked tirelessly to find and resolve the problem. Turned out that the system had lost delete rights to the video folder and it couldn't delete old files. Fortunately we didn't run out of space. System is on a Dell pe-2950 with 6tb video storage. 2x ZEON 2.x cpu and 4 gig ram. OS is Win 2008. Like I said, I'd like to upgrade to win 2008r2 but they said we would loose our config and videos. I'm thinking that next year we will upgrade the server and start over with the 64bit version. From: Thomas Mullins [mailto:tsmull...@wise.k12.va.us] Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 4:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: video surveillance software recommendations We are using Video Insight. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]mailto:[mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 4:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: video surveillance software recommendations What are you using now? ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Thomas Mullins tsmull...@wise.k12.va.usmailto:tsmull...@wise.k12.va.us wrote: Good afternoon everyone, Does anyone have a recommendation for some video surveillance software? We have about 10 sites, and most sites have about 16 cameras. This project has landed in my lap. The software we are currently using is extremely buggy. Support has expired, and the cost to renew this software is extremely high. I am looking to migrate to a new product. Cost is a concern, but not the major concern. We need something we can count on. Shane ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: fake-out NetBIOS
Google disable strict name checking and you will find what you seek. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: fake-out NetBIOS How do I go about having a Windows client (XP, or 7) connect to a UNC that's different from the actual hostname w/out using a FQDN? I have a server named BOB but I want users to be able to attach using \\FREDfile:///\\FRED. David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: fake-out NetBIOS
Same way I learn 90% of what little I know. This list. We are using it here for a couple systems that were put in service and later retired. If at all possible, use DFS name spaces in the future. It makes replacing file share servers a non issue. With DFS, your share names become \\domain\sharefile:///\\domain\share name. Notice no server name there. In DFS mgt, the share name points to the server or multiple replicated servers. So when you replace/upgrade a server, copy the data to the new server, update the DFS pointer and no one even notices. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: fake-out NetBIOS That's perfect, thanks! I have never run into this before nor even heard of disable strict name checking, so this is good new stuff. Reason number 703,510 to love this list. How did you know about that anyhow? Dave From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu]mailto:[mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 6:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: fake-out NetBIOS Google disable strict name checking and you will find what you seek. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]mailto:[mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: fake-out NetBIOS How do I go about having a Windows client (XP, or 7) connect to a UNC that's different from the actual hostname w/out using a FQDN? I have a server named BOB but I want users to be able to attach using \\FREDfile:///\\FRED. David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: lastLogon time is different on different DCs
Here is a blog post that should explain it. http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2009/04/15/the-lastlogontimestamp-attribute-what-it-was-designed-for-and-how-it-works.aspx -Original Message- From: Mike Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: lastLogon time is different on different DCs I am confused about something (the standard state of affairs ...). We're trying to determine the last logon time for a now-disabled user. This user used to logon at the site where he worked, and where we have a DC. Here's the weird thing - if I connect to that DC using an XP machine (which has the acctinfo.dll loaded, so I can see last logon/logoff times), I see his last logon/logoff. If I connect to one of the DCs back here at our main location, I see the same info. But if I connect to a different DC (a virtual one, unlike the others), this user shows last logon/logoff as not set. Now how can that be? I checked replication, and see no errors - everything seems to be replicating properly with everything else. Yet this one DC shows different info than the others. What threw me was that I by default connect to this 3rd DC, and couldn't understand why it showed no logon/logoff info at all, for this user. So I tried connecting to 2 other DCs, and they show the info. I think this is problem; my fellow admin does not. Is it a problem? If so, where should I go to troubleshoot further? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Anti-virus boot-up disks?
I'm with you guys. I tried it on a flash drive over the weekend and it worked well. BTW, the target machine came back clean. Later found the hard drive was on its' way out. If my understanding is correct, then even a badly infected machine wouldn't infect the flash drive since the code on the infected machine is never executed. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 12:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anti-virus boot-up disks? Exactly... You shut down the PC in question, disable writing on the Flash Drive (moot point, but still...for those paranoid people out there *grin*) boot off the flash drive and do your scan. Where's the danger??? From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 11:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anti-virus boot-up disks? You are booting into a completely different OS and not launching any applictions to do this scan. I am not sure I understand the level of paronoia. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:41 AM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: My point exactly - a CD/DVD is 100% safe. I can't tell you how many times I've had users call in telling me their wireless isn't working on their laptop only to find out they've accidentally hit the slider on the side of the computer that turns it off. It happens, even to IT people (especially when they are under pressure to fix several high priority things). I'm not against using a USB drive but for safety it's my second choice. And a DVD costs me about $.20, maybe less. 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: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 11:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anti-virus boot-up disks? Well, I guess if it's read-only, a virus would have a hell of a job copying itself to it. But if the virus is already present when you set the switch to read-only, then it will still execute, I should think. On 13 September 2011 16:28, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: I have never used a flash drive with a write-protect switch. Does anyone on the list have any experience with those and know whether or not a virus would be able to bypass that? Just curious how effective it would be in keeping viruses at bay. That being said, if you're booting off it, I don't really see a huge issue as you're not going to be running anything off the hard drive, so at least in theory, you shouldn't need to worry about viruses that may be on the hard drive. From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 11:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anti-virus boot-up disks? Quick check of Amazon.com seems to show: 2GB drive for $10 http://www.amazon.com/Flash-Drive-write-protect-switch/dp/B005KL31E6 8GB drive for $20.99 http://www.amazon.com/RiDATA-Flash-Drive-Slider-Drives/dp/B000RGDA5E/ref=pd_ cp_e_4 32GB drive for $57.99 http://www.amazon.com/Ritek-Ridata-Twister-Protection-RDEZ32G-TW-LIG0/dp/B00 2G9TWUM Sure, you can get a DVD for less than a dollar, but for the prices above, I'd just get the flash drive and the ease of use that comes with that. Cheers Ken From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 13 September 2011 9:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anti-virus boot-up disks? They are lots more expensive than CD/DVDs, however. Not that this is automatically a non-starter, but it speaks to Mr. Cook's earlier point. I'd sooner get a USB DVD drive, even though they are slightly less portable. ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market. On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 9:12 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: There are USB sticks with a switch that is supposed to make them read-only until you flip the switch again. I don't know how that works or how well, but I know that there are flash drives with a write-protect switch on 'em. You can find 'em on NewEgg and probably elsewhere. I just checked on NewEgg to make sure I wasn't misremembering. From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 8:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anti-virus boot-up disks? Did not and here's why - I have yet to hear about any guaranteed way to make a USB drive unwriteable on any machine you plug it into short of having a manufacturer burn the data to one and ship it to you in which case you're paying 25x more for the same effect a non rewritable CD/DVD gives you. If anyone knows of a way to do it (and I'm not talking about a reg hack on a machine or a program that disables the functionality on a computer) please share. John W. Cook System Administrator
RE: Having 3 TV's / Flat screens showing Airport like info.
A VGA distribution amp with 3 or more outputs and as someone else mentioned VGA over cat5 extenders should work well. And if you really want to impress them, 3 of those nice new drool inducing Sharp 70 LCD tvs. Did I mention, I want one. From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 1:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Having 3 TV's / Flat screens showing Airport like info. The company would like to have a spreadsheet showing on 3 screens about 50 screens, this is a scheduler that shows job in process. What's the best way of accomplishing this -- Stefan Jafs ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: HP universal driver for 2008 x64 and x32?
Do you have one downloaded and installed We are running a 2008 R2 print server with only one driver serving 30+ printers. When you add a printer, you will need to manually pick the already installed driver and then it will detect the printers capabilities You might look on the print server properties and find that you only have on driver installed anyway. -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 11:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: HP universal driver for 2008 x64 and x32? Perhaps I'm missing something but... I can no longer find the print drivers for various HP printers anymore using Windows 2008 x32 or x64. Normally, you could download the universal print driver for each printer model, but the driver seems missing from their webpages? The only thing I see is the 'HP Printer Administrator Resource Kit1.4' which does NOT contain the driver itself? Anyone else able to check HPs site for the universal driver for models such as the laserjet 4000n, 2025n, etc. Windows 2008 x32/x64 and see if I'm losing my mind? Thanks. mail2web LIVE - Free email based on Microsoft(r) Exchange technology - http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Security and maintenance on virtual co-lo servers
Pardon the jump in here. Care to share the web site that does the free scanning. I spent several hours last year cleaning up our church web site and would like to periodically scan our site. Same as you describe. One very long line of java code inserted at the end of each page. Thanks. Glen. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 8:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Security and maintenance on virtual co-lo servers Thanks. I republished the website (after I got in touch with the web designer and he told me how) and that got rid of the errors. He said there was just a single line of script at the end of some of the pages and apparently republishing the website took care of it. I have asked our web host to lock down FTP access to just our IP address. Also, the web designer said that the virtual server did NOT have auto-update enabled. *sigh* I'm going to email him and ask him to enable it. I also found a site that will do a free scan of a website for malware and am running a scan now. From: Kevin Lundy [mailto:klu...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 4:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Security and maintenance on virtual co-lo servers I would suggest that rather than worrying about how contracts normally work, I think you should focus on fixing the issue. Your web site is still infected by at least 2 downloader trojans. To leave the site online with a known infection is irresponsible. You also realize there is more to web server security than just antivirus don't you? How did the system get infected to begin with for example? SQL injection, open SMB, open ftp etc. I would have the hosting company take the server off line NOW, and do a bare metal restore. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: 13 July 2011 15:44 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Security and maintenance on virtual co-lo servers Our website was attacked and malware posted on it apparently over the weekend. I'm not sure, but I don't think there is any antivirus / anti-malware on the virtual server we are renting. Who's responsibility is it *normally* to handle security and Microsoft updates on a virtual server? I don't know the terms of our contract, so I can't say whether or not the hosting company is in violation of those terms or not. Just wondering how these things normally work. Thanks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- MIRA Ltd Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 VAT Registration GB 100 1464 84 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is prohibited. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: install server 2008r2 from USB to DL series HP server
Here is a link on Technet to install 7 from a usb flash drive. Might work for server too. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd535816.aspx -Original Message- From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 11:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: install server 2008r2 from USB to DL series HP server Hi all, I have a couple of people on site at client. They are supposed to be repurposing to older servers. They showed up and the servers don't have DVD, only CD drives. Anyone have experience installing 2008r2 from a thumbdrive to a DL360 or DL320? My google-fu is failing me. Thanks. Bill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Is anyone else seeing MSNBC being down?
Appears down form VA, both via our ISP and Verizon wireless, but Downforeveryoneorjustme.com says it is up. From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 8:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Is anyone else seeing MSNBC being down? Anyone seeing that MSNBC is down? Getting the page can't be displayed here. Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 [CISSP_logo] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmininline: image001.jpg
RE: Printer/Print server migration from 2003 32 bit to 2008R2 64 bit
I don’t know if that would work, but I think it would. Normally when users connect to a server\print-share if the printer drive is newer than what is already installed or doesn’t match what is on the workstation, the workstation gets updated. From: Don Kuhlman [mailto:drkuhl...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 4:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Printer/Print server migration from 2003 32 bit to 2008R2 64 bit Glenn, does that mean as long as the share names match, then the users will still be able to print (no user impact) without re-creating their existing printers, even if the backend drivers are 64 bit and may be differently named? That would be great - because now I've just noticed a new issue - it looks like the concept of exporting the hklm\system\currentcontrolset\lanmanserver\shares key to grab the shares isn't working going from 32 bit to 64 bit. I may have to manually recreate all the shares too now. Thanks much! Don From: Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edu To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Fri, June 17, 2011 3:19:35 PM Subject: RE: Printer/Print server migration from 2003 32 bit to 2008R2 64 bit That’s what we did. Match share names, although we are still running both servers. I never thought that maybe I could shutdown the old 32 bit server, rename the 64bit server same as the old one and be golder. Might have worked, but we are too far along not to try it. From: Don Kuhlman [mailto:drkuhl...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 4:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Printer/Print server migration from 2003 32 bit to 2008R2 64 bit Thanks Glen. That's exactly what I'm seeing now - I've tried to download every flavor of 64 bit drivers from the mfg web site, then install them on the 32 bit server and it keeps failing - comes back with something to the effect that the specified location does not contain the driver x x for the specified processor architecture I wonder if I should try to install the 64 bit drivers on the 64 bit server and then make sure the names match (if I can do that) and then try the migration again? Don From: Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edu To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Fri, June 17, 2011 3:00:38 PM Subject: RE: Printer/Print server migration from 2003 32 bit to 2008R2 64 bit My experience has been that the x32 and x64 bit drivers have to be the same name and version, but my experience was on a 64bit server. We were never able to get the x64 drivers to work on an x32 server. From: Don Kuhlman [mailto:drkuhl...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 2:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Printer/Print server migration from 2003 32 bit to 2008R2 64 bit Thanks John. I went hunting for 64 bit versions of HP, and Lanier drivers to download and install on the 2003 server, but when I go into Printers to add drivers after extracting these universal drivers that said 64 bit, the server is telling me that these aren't the right files for the selected architecture, and then it dies. Wierd, as both HP and Lanier sites said these were the drivers for the specific printer model - eg a Universal driver for 64 bit. Don From: John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Fri, June 17, 2011 12:04:28 PM Subject: RE: Printer/Print server migration from 2003 32 bit to 2008R2 64 bit IIRC that is correct, it’s been a while since I did it. 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: Don Kuhlman [mailto:drkuhl...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 12:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Printer/Print server migration from 2003 32 bit to 2008R2 64 bit Thanks Cameron. Actually we're not having problems with the file server rename/file copy piece, it's getting the printers from the old server to come over to the new server. What I'm seeing seems to indicate that we have to install 64 bit drivers on the old server for each particular printer that exists and then do the migration that way to make the printers come over to where the 64 bit server will re-create or import them. Don From: Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Fri, June 17, 2011 10:25:50 AM Subject: Re: Printer/Print server migration from 2003 32 bit to 2008R2 64 bit Why not just use a new name for the server? If you are using a login script, tis easy enough to change user by user...and takes the pressure off of you. Just a thought... On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Don Kuhlman drkuhl...@yahoo.commailto:drkuhl...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi folks. Happy
RE: OEM parts
Same thing here with re-manufactured toner cartridges. Sales guy says they are great. We say, we've had problem in the past with the cartridges coming apart in the printer and spilling toner everywhere. Sales guy puts in writing, if that happens we will come clean the printer. After 2 or more trips here to clean printers, we've not heard from them again. From: pdw1...@hotmail.com [mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com] Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 11:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OEM parts I'll +1 on the printer cartridges. We had a problem a year or so ago with Mat Mgmt buying non-OEM cartridges to save money. After keeping a record of printer problem calls, we were able to show them that they weren't saving any money at all considering the problems the non-OEM cartridges were causing and time to fix the problem. From: jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: OEM parts Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 10:24:12 -0400 Ok... I learned my lesson. :D Never again will I fail to buy an OEM battery unless I just *can't* buy one from the OEM. As some of you may recall, I bought a battery for a company laptop awhile back and tried to save money by getting an aftermarket battery. Bad idea. It quickly turned out to be a dud and so I bought an OEM battery and it's lasting 2-3 hours on a charge. Guess some things I just gotta learn the hard way! Just wanted to say you were right to everyone who said get the OEM battery! Never again will I doubt you. Also, I'd like to make a point here about inkjet cartridges...I'm slowly coming to the point of view that you get what you pay for with the OEM cartridges as well I've been getting remanufactured cartridges and I've just about decided that isn't a good thing. Pretty much they either work or they don't... about 2 to 1 (rough guess) on the don't work. :( -- Thanks, John Aldrich Blueridge Industries IT Manager ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Printer/Print server migration from 2003 32 bit to 2008R2 64 bit
My experience has been that the x32 and x64 bit drivers have to be the same name and version, but my experience was on a 64bit server. We were never able to get the x64 drivers to work on an x32 server. From: Don Kuhlman [mailto:drkuhl...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 2:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Printer/Print server migration from 2003 32 bit to 2008R2 64 bit Thanks John. I went hunting for 64 bit versions of HP, and Lanier drivers to download and install on the 2003 server, but when I go into Printers to add drivers after extracting these universal drivers that said 64 bit, the server is telling me that these aren't the right files for the selected architecture, and then it dies. Wierd, as both HP and Lanier sites said these were the drivers for the specific printer model - eg a Universal driver for 64 bit. Don From: John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Fri, June 17, 2011 12:04:28 PM Subject: RE: Printer/Print server migration from 2003 32 bit to 2008R2 64 bit IIRC that is correct, it’s been a while since I did it. 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: Don Kuhlman [mailto:drkuhl...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 12:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Printer/Print server migration from 2003 32 bit to 2008R2 64 bit Thanks Cameron. Actually we're not having problems with the file server rename/file copy piece, it's getting the printers from the old server to come over to the new server. What I'm seeing seems to indicate that we have to install 64 bit drivers on the old server for each particular printer that exists and then do the migration that way to make the printers come over to where the 64 bit server will re-create or import them. Don From: Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Fri, June 17, 2011 10:25:50 AM Subject: Re: Printer/Print server migration from 2003 32 bit to 2008R2 64 bit Why not just use a new name for the server? If you are using a login script, tis easy enough to change user by user...and takes the pressure off of you. Just a thought... On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Don Kuhlman drkuhl...@yahoo.commailto:drkuhl...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi folks. Happy Friday. At the new gig now and have been assigned another project which I haven't worked on before. We're migrating a 2003 32 bit Windows file/print server to 2008R2. I've never had to move printers/print servers before because we never used Windows Print servers at old j0b. My question is this - to migrate printers/print drivers from 32 bit 2003 server to 64 bit 2008R2, do you have to first put 64 bit drivers on the old server that has the 32 bit drivers, and do they have to have the exact same names as the existing 32 bit drivers in order to migrate successfully to 64 bit? Thanks! Here is the background (long) synopsis... I've been researching this since yesterday, and haven't come up with a solid answer that is clear. I've got a server migration scheduled for this weekend and the printers are a major part of it, so I'm hoping the list can point me in the right direction. I've built the new 2008 server, gave it a temporary name, etc. Plan is to ship it to the site, migrate the data, shares, permissions, and printers, then rename the old one, rename the new one to the old one's name, and be done. While tyring to do the printer piece, I used printmig to backup and restore the printers from the 32 bit box to the new 64 bit box. However, the new 2008 R2 server isn't importing or restoring any of the printers - I guess because they are all 32 bit drivers but not sure. So in my research I see that you can use Printbrm.exe on 2008 to try it, or the Print Migration features of the 2008 Print Management role. The printer migration tool is also failing - errors like 0x80070705 and 0x80070c6 are showing on that tool. I checked around and ended up on the MS Print blogs here - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd379557(WS.10).aspx and another site here - http://blogs.technet.com/b/print/archive/2009/08/17/print-services-migration-guide.aspx This was listed as a tip in the blog - As a best practice, you need to install a driver with the same name as the native architecture. To add the x86-based driver to the x64-based destination server, use the x86-based client to remotely open the x64-based server using Windows Explorer and navigate to the remote printer folder and add the driver. To install an x64-based driver on the x86-based source server, use the x64-based client to remotely open the x86-based server using Windows Explorer and navigate to the remote printer folder
RE: Printer/Print server migration from 2003 32 bit to 2008R2 64 bit
That’s what we did. Match share names, although we are still running both servers. I never thought that maybe I could shutdown the old 32 bit server, rename the 64bit server same as the old one and be golder. Might have worked, but we are too far along not to try it. From: Don Kuhlman [mailto:drkuhl...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 4:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Printer/Print server migration from 2003 32 bit to 2008R2 64 bit Thanks Glen. That's exactly what I'm seeing now - I've tried to download every flavor of 64 bit drivers from the mfg web site, then install them on the 32 bit server and it keeps failing - comes back with something to the effect that the specified location does not contain the driver x x for the specified processor architecture I wonder if I should try to install the 64 bit drivers on the 64 bit server and then make sure the names match (if I can do that) and then try the migration again? Don From: Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edu To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Fri, June 17, 2011 3:00:38 PM Subject: RE: Printer/Print server migration from 2003 32 bit to 2008R2 64 bit My experience has been that the x32 and x64 bit drivers have to be the same name and version, but my experience was on a 64bit server. We were never able to get the x64 drivers to work on an x32 server. From: Don Kuhlman [mailto:drkuhl...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 2:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Printer/Print server migration from 2003 32 bit to 2008R2 64 bit Thanks John. I went hunting for 64 bit versions of HP, and Lanier drivers to download and install on the 2003 server, but when I go into Printers to add drivers after extracting these universal drivers that said 64 bit, the server is telling me that these aren't the right files for the selected architecture, and then it dies. Wierd, as both HP and Lanier sites said these were the drivers for the specific printer model - eg a Universal driver for 64 bit. Don From: John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Fri, June 17, 2011 12:04:28 PM Subject: RE: Printer/Print server migration from 2003 32 bit to 2008R2 64 bit IIRC that is correct, it’s been a while since I did it. 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: Don Kuhlman [mailto:drkuhl...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 12:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Printer/Print server migration from 2003 32 bit to 2008R2 64 bit Thanks Cameron. Actually we're not having problems with the file server rename/file copy piece, it's getting the printers from the old server to come over to the new server. What I'm seeing seems to indicate that we have to install 64 bit drivers on the old server for each particular printer that exists and then do the migration that way to make the printers come over to where the 64 bit server will re-create or import them. Don From: Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Fri, June 17, 2011 10:25:50 AM Subject: Re: Printer/Print server migration from 2003 32 bit to 2008R2 64 bit Why not just use a new name for the server? If you are using a login script, tis easy enough to change user by user...and takes the pressure off of you. Just a thought... On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Don Kuhlman drkuhl...@yahoo.commailto:drkuhl...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi folks. Happy Friday. At the new gig now and have been assigned another project which I haven't worked on before. We're migrating a 2003 32 bit Windows file/print server to 2008R2. I've never had to move printers/print servers before because we never used Windows Print servers at old j0b. My question is this - to migrate printers/print drivers from 32 bit 2003 server to 64 bit 2008R2, do you have to first put 64 bit drivers on the old server that has the 32 bit drivers, and do they have to have the exact same names as the existing 32 bit drivers in order to migrate successfully to 64 bit? Thanks! Here is the background (long) synopsis... I've been researching this since yesterday, and haven't come up with a solid answer that is clear. I've got a server migration scheduled for this weekend and the printers are a major part of it, so I'm hoping the list can point me in the right direction. I've built the new 2008 server, gave it a temporary name, etc. Plan is to ship it to the site, migrate the data, shares, permissions, and printers, then rename the old one, rename the new one to the old one's name, and be done. While tyring to do the printer piece, I used printmig to backup and restore the printers
RE: Win 7 Start Menu.... arrrgghhhh
This worked for me. Open the network folder where the app is. Right click the app's EXE, copy. Click the windows orb, Right click All Programs, Open. Navigate to where you want the network app to be. Right click and Paste Shortcut. From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 11:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win 7 Start Menu arrrgg Okay, I've Googled this and I've searched through previous threads on this list, but I cannot seem to find an answer to a question that I'm sure a ton of people have had. I have an app (home made in PowerBuilder) that runs off a network drive. I want to add the shortcut to the .exe file to the Start Menu in Windows 7. But, I can't. I can't drag it. I can't right click and select Pin to Start Menu because that option is not there. The only suggestion I've seen when I Googled it was to create a folder on the desktop with the shortcut in it, then create a new toolbar and point it to that folder. That's rather kludgy. Any way to work around this seemingly bizarre new restriction? Thanks, Evan ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: dust
Never mind the screen, what about your lungs? From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 4:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: dust Greetings! At home, my PC is in the same room with two kitty litter boxes. (Well, it's a crappy machine anyway, right?) The monitor is a flatscreen with a matte finish. The kitty litter tends to put out a LOT of dust. (Even at the office, though, dust on similar monitors becomes an issue.) It is now like trying to see through a couple of layers of wax paper. What have folks found that does a decent job of getting these sceens clean again? Thanks! -- richard ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: VOIP design questions
+100. Cisco shop with 200+ phone, pc connected into every one of the phones. 500+ workstations, student labs, printers, ip cameras, you name it and the phone system has been the most reliable of all the systems we run. Separate voice clan with QOS and call quality is super. Almost all the community colleges in VA have similar setups and they are all doing the same converged network and we are one of the smaller composes. Take your vendors advice, especially if they have a few installations that you can verify. Good luck. From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:bem...@pittcountync.gov] Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 10:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VOIP design questions Agreed. We have been using Cisco-based VOIP for nearly 10 years. I had some concerns about the bandwidth and putting the phones between the computers and switches in the beginning, but it has really been a non-issue. We do use a different VLAN for the voice traffic and have all POE switches. We use all Cisco gear (phones, switches, call manager), so I can't speak for other vendors, but our stuff has been very solid. Bill Mayo From: Kevin Lundy [mailto:klu...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 10:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VOIP design questions Tom, We do everything the vendor recommends. Have been for about 8 years. One of the benefits of VoIP is the collapsing of your infrastructure. If you keep everything isolated, you still have full double infrastructure. As Jim suggests, certainly segregate via VLAN. We use the port on the back of the phone. Keeping a couple of phones as spare in each physical location is a lot cheaper than doubling your port count. We have over 1200 phones deployed, and in 8 years I think 10 have failed. 10 spares is a lot cheaper than 1200 more network ports and cabling. We are a Cisco shop, so can't speak to the reliability of Mitel. On our new offices, we have saved quite a bit of money by only doing a single cable plant. On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.orgmailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org wrote: If you have the unused bandwidth then your current network can do it. VIOP data is not as much as you think. I would however segregate with VLAN's and prioritize the voice packets. I am not a big fan of plugging the computers into the phones, I would re-patch if you can budget for that. What about POE for the phones?...if you don't go that route then you have to plug power bricks in for every phone. From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.orgmailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 9:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VOIP design questions Folks, We are planning to retire our current phone system and move to a Mitel VOIP system. Not having implemented VOIP before, I have some questions for those of you that have: - our vendor claims our current data network can easily handle VOIP traffic since it's a small amount of traffic (don't know exact amount yet, still awaiting vendor response). As such, they tell it is possible to use our current network to accommodate voice and data. I'm not sure if Im comfortable with this. I was thinking of a more segregated approach: different network and voice and data never intersect. - our vendor claims we can use the existing data jack for the phones, and plug the desktop PCs/laptops into the phone as a sort of switch. I'm thinking this would add another level of complexity: phone is broke and by the way you can't get on the network now. - the reason the vendor suggests the above is that the current voice drops (cat5) terminate to phone patch panels (in most cases). Those cables would need to be cut and re-terminated to switches. So I have some concerns about our vendor claims. The dollar figure they propose does not include network changes, new switches, etc. Looking at the cost proposal, I am thinking there are quite a few hardware and man-hours costs missing. What do you folks do for VOIP? Thanks, Tom Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here:
Cybernetics san
Anyone have comments about these folks. Got a call as I was leaving work on Friday and from the sales droid sphell, it sounds pretty reasonable. Off the cuff, 16tb for under $10k. Got a webex tomorrow and plan to do some reading later today, but would appreciate any advice from folks with experience. We are looking to move several vm's to a san for offsite replications and also high availability. May also move our SQL and Exchange 2010 databases to the SAN later on. Didn't see them mentioned when searching the list archives so I thought I'd ask. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: workgroup printer recommendations
When we migrated our print server to 2008 R2, I put the HP Universal PCL5 driver on. X32 and 64. Best change we've made in a long time. One driver for all our HP printers. -Original Message- From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 12:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: workgroup printer recommendations Hi all, So I'm looking to replace a printer that is used by a five person department. I was looking at the HP P2035n, but see some reviews bitching about Win7 drivers. What do you guys like for small workgroups that has decent Win7 drivers? I'd like to keep this under $300. This group uses it to print forms and need a decent manual feed. Thanks. Bill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: DirectAccess HowTo?
As I remember the PKI wasn't too bad, the hardest part was migrating it from 2003 to 2008 last year. We had set it up quite a while back. We're using it for wireless authentication -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 2:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DirectAccess HowTo? How difficult was the PKI infrastructure to setup? We had a hiccup with that which required a call to PSS to get figured out, and even that took a few days, and just happened to find the one guy who said did you clear this cache? Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edu 3/14/2011 7:42 AM I used this one and it was easy enough for a me to follow. http://blog.concurrency.com/infrastructure/uag-directaccess-configuration-guide/ We're using it with about a dozen dell laptops and so far all are working except one. Got the log from it, but need to analyze it to figure out what's not up. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 10:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DirectAccess HowTo? Does anyone have a favorite/very easy to use set of instructions for configuring DirectAccess? I've got the product documentation, but I'm asking for something you LIKE and found easy to use. I'd rather not spend two days setting up a DA lab if I can avoid it. Thanks. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: DirectAccess HowTo?
I used this one and it was easy enough for a me to follow. http://blog.concurrency.com/infrastructure/uag-directaccess-configuration-guide/ We're using it with about a dozen dell laptops and so far all are working except one. Got the log from it, but need to analyze it to figure out what's not up. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 10:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DirectAccess HowTo? Does anyone have a favorite/very easy to use set of instructions for configuring DirectAccess? I've got the product documentation, but I'm asking for something you LIKE and found easy to use. I'd rather not spend two days setting up a DA lab if I can avoid it. Thanks. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: DirectAccess HowTo?
Yes we are using UAG. Sorry I didn't mention that. Also in the process or moving several publishing rules from ISA 2006 to TMG. Hopefully the last one will be finished today at noon. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 10:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DirectAccess HowTo? So, are you using UAG? Or did you avoid that? Thanks. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 10:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DirectAccess HowTo? I used this one and it was easy enough for a me to follow. http://blog.concurrency.com/infrastructure/uag-directaccess-configuration-guide/ We're using it with about a dozen dell laptops and so far all are working except one. Got the log from it, but need to analyze it to figure out what's not up. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 10:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DirectAccess HowTo? Does anyone have a favorite/very easy to use set of instructions for configuring DirectAccess? I've got the product documentation, but I'm asking for something you LIKE and found easy to use. I'd rather not spend two days setting up a DA lab if I can avoid it. Thanks. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
