RE: Outlook 2010 ?
not only does it work with accounts in the same org but accounts in totally different orgs/domains as i assume Ken had setup. Greg From: Ken Schaefer [...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Thursday, 23 July 2009 1:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook 2010 ? http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2009/07/14/24982.aspx No need to OL2010 support To the OP � I don�t see why it wouldt work. Just create another profile and put your user details in. Cheers Ken From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:g...@krystaltek.com] Sent: Thursday, 23 July 2009 12:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook 2010 ? Hasnt been tested on Outlook 2010 obviously though, nor win7 for that matter if that matters. Greg From: Bob Fronk [...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Thursday, 23 July 2009 9:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook 2010 ? I cannot answer your question, however, just as an FYI... You can open multiple profiles by using multiple instances of Outlook 2007 with ExtraOutlook http://www.hammerofgod.com/download.html -- Bob Fronk -Original Message- From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 6:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Outlook 2010 ? Does anyone know if the multiple-Exchange-accounts-under-one-profile feature of Outlook 2010 will let you add multiple accounts on the same server or same Exchange org? Gracias, RS ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Remote Desktop server list reordering?
does it really matter? i have heaps of servers to manage and i just use the quick find tool. Mind you i have broken down the servers into sites, and server type. Greg From: James Rankin [kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, 24 July 2009 1:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remote Desktop server list reordering? RoyalTS. No way to do it with the built-in remote desktop tool as I know itthe reason I am testing MRemote is because I am trying to get past the limitations of RoyalTS 2009/7/23 Kim Longenbaugh k...@colonialsavings.commailto:k...@colonialsavings.com All the MRemote stuff reminded me of one of the major annoyances with Remote Desktop, which is the list of servers in the left hand pane. They remain in the order they’re added in, and to date, I’ve found no way to alphabetize them without deleting all of them and re-adding? I know you can sort them in the right-hand pane if you click “Remote Desktops” in the left pane, but I want the left list sorted. Anyone know how to accomplish that trick? Thanks, Kim -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. http://raythestray.blogspot.comhttp://raythestray.blogspot.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Mremote
+ 1 mremote at work. visionapp 2009 at home. Havent actually tried citrix yet and havent been running visionapp long enough to test it fully. The one thing i did like that vrd does that mremote does is RDP with NLA and TS Gateways. Greg From: Brumbaugh, Luke [luke.brumba...@butlerahs.com] Sent: Friday, 24 July 2009 2:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mremote We have been using visonapp (mremote merged) What a god send, especially if you have more than one monitor. Alphatize servers, drag to second monitor,reconnect instead of trying password for screensaver. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 12:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mremote I've always created mstsc *.RDP files for quick access, see screenshot. Works like a champ. And you can set specific settings for each one... [cid:image001.jpg@01CA0B93.04AF0F00] From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 11:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mremote I've had mremote installed for quite a while, but ive been in the habit of doing Win+R mstsc for so long, I never use it. Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 7:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Mremote Afternoon all Anyone else using MRemote (http://www.mremote.org/wiki/)? Very useful for consolidating window sprawl, lets me connect to RDP sessions, web interfaces, putty sessions, DRACs, etc. from one tabbed window. However the ICA connections only seem able to connect to a Citrix server desktop, anyone know how to get it to connect to a published application (if at all)? I am trying to find documentation and/or websites, just thought I would throw it out there in case any of the gurus have a quick answer to save my tired eyes :-) TIA -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. http://raythestray.blogspot.comhttp://raythestray.blogspot.com/ If this email is spam, report it here: http://www.OnlyMyEmail.com/ReportSpamhttp://www.onlymyemail.com/view/?action=reportSpamId=ODEzNjQ6OTM1MjE3ODM4OnBqcEBwc25ldC5jb20%3D THIS ELECTRONIC MESSAGE AND ANY ATTACHMENTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY PROPERTY OF THE SENDER. THE INFORMATION IS INTENDED FOR USE BY THE ADDRESSEE ONLY. ANY OTHER INTERCEPTION, COPYING, ACCESSING, OR DISCLOSURE OF THIS MESSAGE IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE SENDER AND DELETE THIS MAIL AND ALL ATTACHMENTS. DO NOT FORWARD THIS MESSAGE WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE SENDER. ** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information transmitted in this message is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this document. Thank you. Butler Animal Health Supply ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~inline: image001.jpg
RE: Remote Desktop server list reordering?
and a hover house.. is that like a hover board?? cool! Greg From: Steven M. Caesare [scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, 24 July 2009 1:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote Desktop server list reordering? Wow. Where, exactly, did you buy your house? -sc From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 11:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote Desktop server list reordering? One more rant, is there a way to turn off the 'Errors and Infos' tab? Every time my house hovers over it (which is like every time I try to hit the start menu on the Remote Desktop), it make the error log hover over part of my remote session. Highly annoying... [cid:image001.jpg@01CA0B88.32C01F70] From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 10:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remote Desktop server list reordering? RoyalTS. No way to do it with the built-in remote desktop tool as I know itthe reason I am testing MRemote is because I am trying to get past the limitations of RoyalTS 2009/7/23 Kim Longenbaugh k...@colonialsavings.commailto:k...@colonialsavings.com All the MRemote stuff reminded me of one of the major annoyances with Remote Desktop, which is the list of servers in the left hand pane. They remain in the order they’re added in, and to date, I’ve found no way to alphabetize them without deleting all of them and re-adding? I know you can sort them in the right-hand pane if you click “Remote Desktops” in the left pane, but I want the left list sorted. Anyone know how to accomplish that trick? Thanks, Kim -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. http://raythestray.blogspot.comhttp://raythestray.blogspot.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~inline: image001.jpg
RE: Outlook 2010 ?
Hasnt been tested on Outlook 2010 obviously though, nor win7 for that matter if that matters. Greg From: Bob Fronk [...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Thursday, 23 July 2009 9:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook 2010 ? I cannot answer your question, however, just as an FYI... You can open multiple profiles by using multiple instances of Outlook 2007 with ExtraOutlook http://www.hammerofgod.com/download.html -- Bob Fronk ��Please print on�� as needed. -Original Message- From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 6:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Outlook 2010 ? Does anyone know if the multiple-Exchange-accounts-under-one-profile feature of Outlook 2010 will let you add multiple accounts on the same server or same Exchange org? Gracias, RS ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: ESXi 4.0 is free... the Client isn't!?
No The client is free. Its the host you need to license. You register for the license when you download the software. You point your browser at https://esxihosthttps://esxihost/ and download the client from there. Greg From: Matthew W. Ross [mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Thursday, 16 July 2009 8:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: ESXi 4.0 is free... the Client isn't!? Okay, I'm trying ESXi 4.0... and it seems to work well. But it has me use the vSphere client... which is A) a bit slow and B) not free! Instead, It's a 60 day evaluation... and I don't see what happens after the end of that evaluation. I suspect it stops working. So I made a quick phone call to VMWare, and asked them if there was a free client for ESXi (like there was for 3.5)... Nope. vSphere client is it. So I went to VMWare's website, and couldn't find any price for vSphere client. I couldn't find one for the client at CDW either. There were prices for vSphere... but not just the client. So am I wrong, or is this a bait and switch? Is there a cost for just the client? Anybody know what the retail cost is? We effectively have a zero budget, so paid solutions will be looked at second. *grumble* Going to try XenServer 5.5 next... *grumble* --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Enterprise password management
we use http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/ to great effect Greg From: Kelsay, Mark [mark.kel...@confused.com] Sent: Monday, 6 July 2009 6:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Enterprise password management Our environment has grown over the past year and we have many new usernames and passwords to access our test and development environment. Not a fan of people having them all written down on scraps of paper littered around their desks. I am looking for an application that I can deploy that will allow specific users access to specific lists of usernames and passwords to get their job done. Web based with a SQL backend would be best as I would not like to have to deploy any apps to client machines. I found this through Google: http://www.enterprise-password-safe.com/ It looks pretty good but want to run the idea by the list and see if anyone else has deployed something similar. Thanks, Mark ** This email is sent for and on behalf of Inspop.com Limited ** Authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Registration no. 310635. Inspop.com Limited [also trading as Confused.com] is registered in England and Wales at 2nd Floor, Friary House, Greyfriars Road, Cardiff, CF10 3AE [Reg. No. 03857130]. Any opinions expressed in this email are those of the individual and not necessarily the company. This email and any files transmitted with it, including replies and forwarded copies [which may contain alterations] subsequently transmitted from the Company, are confidential and solely for the use of the intended recipient. It may contain material protected by attorney-client privilege. If you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify the Information Security Officer by telephone on +44 [0] 29 2043 4372. Please then delete this email and destroy any copies of it. This email has been swept for viruses before leaving our system. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and accept this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and any attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. We may monitor the content of E-mails sent and received via our network for viruses or unauthorised use and for other lawful business purposes. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Messagelabs. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: PDC Emulator help
Thanks Ken i know i was vague but if i detailed the whole thing i'd be here for weeks. Basically, the problem dc is not replicating to any other dc's other than in the same site. However i have been able to transfer the role, but other sites in the domain haven't picked up the change yet. I noticed today that the bridgehead for the site is the failed dc, so i have made the new one the bridgehead and hopefully this will help replication to the other dc's in other sites (touch wood) The flip side to this problem is that the dc is an exchange 2k server as well and the guys in Tampa are reluctant to migrate the users to Melbourne, FL until they get their new link up in a few weeks time. But this may have to force the issue. Thanks for your help. From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Friday, 15 May 2009 12:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PDC Emulator help You can probably fix this with less effort than what I'm detailing below (depending on whether the problem is with replication, what's in AD, what's in DNS etc). I'm not sure what you've already investigated etc, but there's no real information in your post to isolate the problem. To completely nuke the issue you can: - Verify that your new candidate DC is replicating properly with other machines in the environment - Stop the problem DC from replicating to other DCs - If required, seize the FSMO role onto the new DC (verify in AD, e.g. using ntdsutil, who is the PDCe role holder) - DCpromo the problem DC out of the domain - Force replication from the new FSMO role holder out to other DCs - Ensure that DNS is updated correctly (service record registered to point to new DC) Cheers Ken From: Greg Mulholland [g...@krystaltek.com] Sent: Friday, 15 May 2009 10:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: PDC Emulator help We are running a windows 2000 native domain. After some major issues with our PDC emulator (win2k) ie machines in other sites could not replicate with it, the pdc role has been transferred to another win2k dc in the same site. The problem now is that other dc's in other sites still think the pdc emulator is the old one. Anyone have any ideas of how i can force these other dc's to sync or look at the right pdc. There are 3 win2k dc's and the rest are win2k3 Greg ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
PDC Emulator help
We are running a windows 2000 native domain. After some major issues with our PDC emulator (win2k) ie machines in other sites could not replicate with it, the pdc role has been transferred to another win2k dc in the same site. The problem now is that other dc's in other sites still think the pdc emulator is the old one. Anyone have any ideas of how i can force these other dc's to sync or look at the right pdc. There are 3 win2k dc's and the rest are win2k3 Greg ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Windows 7 RC
no issue Greg From: Tim Vander Kooi [tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Tuesday, 12 May 2009 3:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 RC Worked just fine for me. -Original Message- From: Jon D [mailto:rekcahp...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 6:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 7 RC Anyone having issues joining Windows 7 RC1 to a domain? I heard a rumor about an issue, so I haven't tried yet. I know beta works perfect on a domain. Thanks, Jon . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: What is Vmware thinking?
Yeah.. snaphunter or even better powershell works a treat!. Svmotion would have been cool in the gui but you can do that with powershell as well! -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, 25 April 2009 6:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: What is Vmware thinking? There was a mandated separation of companies between VMware and EMC during the merger. Non-compete, etc. I believe this was in one of the announcements at the time. Well, vKernals looks interesting, I shall have to go look at it. I currently use a PowerShell script to find snapshots. If you are not experimenting with PowerShell and you are managing ESX/Virtual Center, you are seriously missing out. code Connect-VIServer -server virtual_center_server -protocol https; $snap = Get-VM | Get-Snapshot $snap | select VM, Created, Name, Description /code Steven Peck On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Travis Robinson travis.robin...@octanner.com wrote: I've been using vKernels SearchMyVM (http://www.vkernel.com/products/SearchMyVM/) for finding things like this. It has a host of queries and it's FREE. It'll report on VMs with snapshots, free space on... etc. They're also very good with feedback. I suggested a query that will show which VMs have moved due to user interactin or DRS and they put it in the release that came out about 2 weeks later. From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 5:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What is Vmware thinking? Yeah I just want a simple thing in the giu where I can search on machines with snapshots, or have them marked with a flag if they di have a snap-shot because finding the snaps isn't intuitive right now. Also S-Motion via GUI could be nice, and a way to backup the entire ESX host via Legato would be nice too, since EMC owns them, I would have already figured they gotten this hashed out... Naaa, that be too simple... Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + ezi...@lifespan.org Phone:401-639-3505 From: RM [mailto:r...@richardmay.net] Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 4:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: What is Vmware thinking? I just want thin provisioned VMDK's via vCenter, S-VMotion via vCenter, and the fault tolerance active/passive VM hot spare thingy. :-) I'll let Wall Street and Main Street hash out the product strategy. RM On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:10 -0400, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/ As an Avid Fan of Vmware and big user of the technology, it seems they are going the market, and mass confusion route to though something that is no further along than Vaporware. Eight different offers for ESX? Are they taking a licensing tip from M$ trying to generate more revenue under the guise of Cloud computing? Does anyone in the ESX server space see this in a different light than I am seeing it as first read? Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + ezi...@lifespan.org Phone:401-639-3505 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: What is Vmware thinking?
whilst it is confusing initially i can see the price-point benefit they were going for and i think ultimately it will work. Looks like a sexy product though. Greg From: Phil Guevara [pguev...@mhccov.org] Sent: Wednesday, 22 April 2009 6:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What is Vmware thinking? i wouldn't doubt it, vmware's current ceo WAS a microsoft exec From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 1:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: What is Vmware thinking? http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/ As an Avid Fan of Vmware and big user of the technology, it seems they are going the market, and mass confusion route to though something that is no further along than Vaporware. Eight different offers for ESX? Are they taking a licensing tip from M$ trying to generate more revenue under the guise of Cloud computing? Does anyone in the ESX server space see this in a different light than I am seeing it as first read? Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + ezi...@lifespan.orgmailto:ezi...@lifespan.org Phone:401-639-3505 __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4025 (20090421) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.comhttp://www.eset.com/ __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4025 (20090421) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.comhttp://www.eset.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
New machine OU placement
Hi Guys we have an issue where users are creating multiple vm's every day and joining them to the network and we end up with a number of machine accounts dumped in the default computers container. I would dearly like something that would report the machines in that container at the end of the day and possibly the user that created it, site it was created in or some such so we could pick them up and move them into the right OU. Before i sit down to script something out has anyone had an experience in this respect and could recommend a solution. Thanks Greg ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: New machine OU placement
I can but i dont want to do this globally and i do mean globally and i would still need to now where they are supposed to go if we were to move them manually. I guess i could force them to use the netdom command to place the machine in the OU of their particular section. Thanks for the info, i had thought of using this tool, i guess i just need to find a way to do it whatever fits best Greg From: James Rankin [kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 15 April 2009 9:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: New machine OU placement Can't you redirect them with redircmp? If you are creating VMs, you can script this to run after the machine is created 2009/4/15 Greg Mulholland g...@krystaltek.commailto:g...@krystaltek.com Hi Guys we have an issue where users are creating multiple vm's every day and joining them to the network and we end up with a number of machine accounts dumped in the default computers container. I would dearly like something that would report the machines in that container at the end of the day and possibly the user that created it, site it was created in or some such so we could pick them up and move them into the right OU. Before i sit down to script something out has anyone had an experience in this respect and could recommend a solution. Thanks Greg ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: New machine OU placement
Thanks everyone for their input. I think i have enough to look at. Greg From: Brian Desmond [br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Thursday, 16 April 2009 4:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: New machine OU placement Yes I have scripts and this is pretty easy to do (done it many times), but, the fields you’re looking for don’t really exist. Naming conventions are how I usually key this. If you don’t have that then this is a lot of work. If you want to do site based you could ping the machine and then map the IP to a site. That is pretty easy to do. If you want to do this user based, you need to be precreating the computer accounts with something that can do the logging for you and ideally put the accounts in the right place. The other option is to just leave them. If you’re not getting any value from moving the machines then don’t bother. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 Active Directory, 4th Ed - http://www.briandesmond.com/ad4/ Microsoft MVP - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Brian From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:g...@krystaltek.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 6:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: New machine OU placement Hi Guys we have an issue where users are creating multiple vm's every day and joining them to the network and we end up with a number of machine accounts dumped in the default computers container. I would dearly like something that would report the machines in that container at the end of the day and possibly the user that created it, site it was created in or some such so we could pick them up and move them into the right OU. Before i sit down to script something out has anyone had an experience in this respect and could recommend a solution. Thanks Greg ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: VMWare install
in 2012 :p Greg From: Ken Schaefer [...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Wednesday, 21 January 2009 11:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare install Windows Server 2008 R2 will do this too (for Hyper-V) due to the new shared cluster storage Cheers Ken From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:sj...@amico.com] Sent: Wednesday, 21 January 2009 11:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMWare install We are finally getting into the 21st century! We now have 2 HP servers running clustered VMWare, this is absolutely incredibly, today we did a VMotion, moving 1 Virtual server from 1 Physical to another, we kept pinging the moving server, we last 1 ping during the move! This is incredibly theology. Also to be able to create a Virtual from a Physical is amazing. Setting up a Windows server in less than 15min, tomorrow we’ll virtualized a few more servers. Very happy with VMWare. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: VMWare install
yeah, last i heard was late this year, but more than likely my money is on 1st 1/4 2010. r2 is not perfect and is not as feature rich as Vmware, but it will at least put them in the game a little more. a game that has years to play. To that effect Vmware will drop 4.0 soon this year which will raise allot of MS eyebrows and change the game again. Greg From: Ken Schaefer [...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Wednesday, 21 January 2009 1:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare install We’ll know more after the MVP summit, but I thought Win2k8 R2 was due to ship this year... Cheers Ken From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:g...@krystaltek.com] Sent: Wednesday, 21 January 2009 12:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare install in 2012 :p Greg From: Ken Schaefer [...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Wednesday, 21 January 2009 11:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare install Windows Server 2008 R2 will do this too (for Hyper-V) due to the new shared cluster storage Cheers Ken From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:sj...@amico.com] Sent: Wednesday, 21 January 2009 11:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMWare install We are finally getting into the 21st century! We now have 2 HP servers running clustered VMWare, this is absolutely incredibly, today we did a VMotion, moving 1 Virtual server from 1 Physical to another, we kept pinging the moving server, we last 1 ping during the move! This is incredibly theology. Also to be able to create a Virtual from a Physical is amazing. Setting up a Windows server in less than 15min, tomorrow we’ll virtualized a few more servers. Very happy with VMWare. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: VMWare install
My guess is they wont give an official one. they might just specify quarter or month Greg From: Jonathan Link [jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 21 January 2009 2:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare install C'mon! Microsoft wouldn't miss a release date, would they? On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Greg Mulholland g...@krystaltek.commailto:g...@krystaltek.com wrote: yeah, last i heard was late this year, but more than likely my money is on 1st 1/4 2010. r2 is not perfect and is not as feature rich as Vmware, but it will at least put them in the game a little more. a game that has years to play. To that effect Vmware will drop 4.0 soon this year which will raise allot of MS eyebrows and change the game again. Greg From: Ken Schaefer [...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Wednesday, 21 January 2009 1:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare install We'll know more after the MVP summit, but I thought Win2k8 R2 was due to ship this year... Cheers Ken From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:g...@krystaltek.commailto:g...@krystaltek.com] Sent: Wednesday, 21 January 2009 12:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare install in 2012 :p Greg From: Ken Schaefer [...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Wednesday, 21 January 2009 11:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare install Windows Server 2008 R2 will do this too (for Hyper-V) due to the new shared cluster storage Cheers Ken From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:sj...@amico.commailto:sj...@amico.com] Sent: Wednesday, 21 January 2009 11:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMWare install We are finally getting into the 21st century! We now have 2 HP servers running clustered VMWare, this is absolutely incredibly, today we did a VMotion, moving 1 Virtual server from 1 Physical to another, we kept pinging the moving server, we last 1 ping during the move! This is incredibly theology. Also to be able to create a Virtual from a Physical is amazing. Setting up a Windows server in less than 15min, tomorrow we'll virtualized a few more servers. Very happy with VMWare. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: VMWare alarm question - SOLVED
do you still get the alert in maintenance mode though? i thought you said you did before. Greg From: Jeff Bunting [bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, 17 January 2009 1:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare alarm question - SOLVED To follow up, I found the Update Manager plugin and tried this out. Update Manager will not work on a host in the disconnected state; the scan and remediate options are grayed out. Looks like you have to be in maintenance mode for that. Jeff On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.commailto:mblackst...@gmail.com wrote: Can you still run Update Manager against it in a disconnected state? From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.commailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 1:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare alarm question - SOLVED I was poking around the support site and ran across a bulletin instructing you to disconnect the host to make a change to a configuration file on it. Checking VC help, it said: Disconnecting a managed host does not remove it from the VirtualCenter inventory. It temporarily suspends all VirtualCenter monitoring activities. The managed host and its associated virtual machines remain in the VirtualCenter inventory. So disconnecting the host from VC will suppress the alerts from being sent. Jeff On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Greg Mulholland g...@krystaltek.commailto:g...@krystaltek.com wrote: i'd encourage you then to log it with vmware. this seems like something they should fix as it will continue to drive people crazy. Greg From: Jeff Bunting [bunting.j...@gmail.commailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, 10 January 2009 7:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare alarm question I just tried on another host which has never been in production and still got an alert email when I restarted it in maintenance mode. Just found this post: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/119038 so guess this feature doesn't work (we have v2.5 running) On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.commailto:mblackst...@gmail.com wrote: What if you put the host into Maintenance Mode? That should stop the alarm. -Original Message- From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.commailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 9:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMWare alarm question Hoping one of you VMWare gurus can answer this I'm updating the firmware on some of our ESX servers. In virtual center, there is an alarm defined at the datacenter level to email an alert when a host loses connection to VC. Is there a way to disable this alarm when performing maintenance on an individual server? The host indicates the alarm is read only except at the top level, and I obviously don't want to disable all of the alarms. Creating an alarm for each host just to be able to this isn't a very good solution either. Is there a better way? Thanks, Jeff ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: VMWare alarm question
i'd encourage you then to log it with vmware. this seems like something they should fix as it will continue to drive people crazy. Greg From: Jeff Bunting [bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, 10 January 2009 7:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare alarm question I just tried on another host which has never been in production and still got an alert email when I restarted it in maintenance mode. Just found this post: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/119038 so guess this feature doesn't work (we have v2.5 running) On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.com wrote: What if you put the host into Maintenance Mode? That should stop the alarm. -Original Message- From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 9:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMWare alarm question Hoping one of you VMWare gurus can answer this I'm updating the firmware on some of our ESX servers. In virtual center, there is an alarm defined at the datacenter level to email an alert when a host loses connection to VC. Is there a way to disable this alarm when performing maintenance on an individual server? The host indicates the alarm is read only except at the top level, and I obviously don't want to disable all of the alarms. Creating an alarm for each host just to be able to this isn't a very good solution either. Is there a better way? Thanks, Jeff ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: VMWare alarm question - SOLVED
Im confused so what they are saying is you should disconnect a host from VC if you want to perform such maintenance on it?? doesnt that go against the whole maintenance mode principle? and besides dont you actually WANT the alert to be triggered if you 'disconnect' a host, even if it happens by itself during the 9-5, isnt that the whole idea or am i missing something? Greg From: Jeff Bunting [bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, 10 January 2009 8:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare alarm question - SOLVED I was poking around the support site and ran across a bulletin instructing you to disconnect the host to make a change to a configuration file on it. Checking VC help, it said: Disconnecting a managed host does not remove it from the VirtualCenter inventory. It temporarily suspends all VirtualCenter monitoring activities. The managed host and its associated virtual machines remain in the VirtualCenter inventory. So disconnecting the host from VC will suppress the alerts from being sent. Jeff On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Greg Mulholland g...@krystaltek.commailto:g...@krystaltek.com wrote: i'd encourage you then to log it with vmware. this seems like something they should fix as it will continue to drive people crazy. Greg From: Jeff Bunting [bunting.j...@gmail.commailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, 10 January 2009 7:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare alarm question I just tried on another host which has never been in production and still got an alert email when I restarted it in maintenance mode. Just found this post: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/119038 so guess this feature doesn't work (we have v2.5 running) On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.commailto:mblackst...@gmail.com wrote: What if you put the host into Maintenance Mode? That should stop the alarm. -Original Message- From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.commailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 9:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMWare alarm question Hoping one of you VMWare gurus can answer this I'm updating the firmware on some of our ESX servers. In virtual center, there is an alarm defined at the datacenter level to email an alert when a host loses connection to VC. Is there a way to disable this alarm when performing maintenance on an individual server? The host indicates the alarm is read only except at the top level, and I obviously don't want to disable all of the alarms. Creating an alarm for each host just to be able to this isn't a very good solution either. Is there a better way? Thanks, Jeff ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Gone way OT: Windows 7 On TechNet Now
a) explorer windows keep forgetting which columns they should be displaying for file properties THANK YOU!!! This gives me the.. grrr -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Friday, 9 January 2009 9:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Gone way OT: Windows 7 On TechNet Now I like Vista. But there are some things that continue to irk me from a user perspective. Stuff like: a) explorer windows keep forgetting which columns they should be displaying for file properties b) booting is way to slow Both of the above two appear to be fixed in Win 7 betas. There is no way I could run Vista usably on a 1.6GHz netbook, but Win 7 works fine. That's good IMHO Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Friday, 9 January 2009 9:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Gone way OT: Windows 7 On TechNet Now Ok, since we are on the subject... This has been irking me lately, I need to get it off my chest! I have been highly skeptical of all the rave reviews of 7 so far. There seems to be this wonderful wave of hope around 7 in the blogosphere, touting 7 is better than Vista. But Vista kinda of had terrible press, and everyone was convinced it was the next ME. In actually, it wasn't. Vista is great. It had it SP0 bumps for sure, but Vista in general was much better that I think the press made it out to be. Everyone is jumping in joy that 7 boots faster than Vista, more stable, etc, etc. Big Whoop. IMO, IT BETTER be faster and more stable! This is not a feature, this is a EXPECTATION. Better stability? Again, not a bonus feature, it's an expectation. New versions should NEVER be slower, especially with the crazy pace of hardware advancements. All in all, I think Vista's bad rep is just paving the way for good reviews of 7. It's like when Steve Jobs put the 'improved' Audio Jack in his slide show for the Gen 2 iPhone. No, Steve, you can't do that. You *^cked up with Gen1 with the audio port, and you fixed it in Gen2. You cannot market it as a new feature. The fact that he had to market that and throw it in his slid show, just goes to show that there weren't enough other new features introduced to talk about. I don't no much about 7, I haven't tried it, I'm sure I will download it on Friday, and buy a copy on release. I just hope MS knows what they are doing forcing an OS out the door so quickly. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 2:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 On TechNet Now Since the other beta's are out... I really like the new task bar. I'm not sold on the new Start button. Otherwise - it's very much like Vista sp2. Except that it uses less memory. At idle, my Vista system uses about 850 MB. At idle (pretty much the same startup applications), Win7 uses 500 MB. Speed-wise - I don't detect any appreciable difference. But I've got pretty fast machines already. I have found a couple of pretty obvious bugs, so I don't consider it production-ready. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 3:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 On TechNet Now From what I've heard, Win7 isn't too frustrating--so I'm willing to give it a look. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 1:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 7 On TechNet Now oh dear! Then how-ever will I frustrate myself with an unfinished beta product!? -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: ESXi newbie - question about data stores
Using SSH is different to having a service console. The service console is generally what allows those apps to work. Until the new version are rewritten for esxi :) -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Wednesday, 7 January 2009 11:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ESXi newbie - question about data stores You can use SSH in ESXi, it's just unsupported by Vmware. -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESXi newbie - question about data stores ah, hadn't thought about that. Think I will keep my ESX server farm. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@ibcschools.edu wrote: Might not be able to do that with esxi as it doesn't have a service console, so maybe no sshd -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESXi newbie - question about data stores http://winscp.net/eng/index.php On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Bryan Garmon bryan.gar...@gmail.com wrote: I want to copy a few iso files to the ESXi datastore - how do I access the datastore remotely from a windows vista machine? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: VMWare Product Confusion
Those features are part of Virtual Centre. So you can use the ESXi embedded or installable version and purchase a foundation license file which provides a VC agent. Hence you can manage the host with Virtual Center etc etc. Mind you you cant use Vmotion unless you buy an Enterprise license and I don't know why you would ever do that and not use the full version anyway. Greg From: gswe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Tuesday, 6 January 2009 10:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion ESXi does not allow Vmotion, Centralized Mgmt of multiple servers, etc. basically it's the essentials of ESX..Just virtualization and nothing of the advanced feature sets that the full (Paid) versions of ESX allow. From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 6:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion Simple and concise! Thanks... Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare Product Confusion 1.x and 2.x run on top of Windows while ESXi has it's own OS, and runs independent of Windows. ESXi is a stripped down version of ESX. You will see huge increases in VM performance under ESXi. Klint Roger Wright wrote: So what are the primary differences between v1.x , and v2.0 and ESXi? Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: gswe...@actsconsulting.netmailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion We have moved all of our clients to ESXi that were using Server 1.x or 2.0 unless there was some specific reason the Host OS had to stay online. Not many cases of those though. The only main issue was some NIC driver issues on some whitebox machines we have been begging to get rid of. From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion No, ESXi is free now, and I would use it in a heartbeat over server. jlc From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 2:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMWare Product Confusion I'm running with several VMs under VMware Server 1.0.8, primarily because it was free and gave us an opportunity to move into the virtual arena. Is VMware Server 2.0 also free to use? If so, any reason not to move to 2.0? Is this the highest level VMWare product which is available at no cost? Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: VMWare Product Confusion
No. You can license it with the same functionality pretty much but as I said if you buy a full license then why wouldn't you use the full product. To use ESX you need to install ESX. To use ESXI you need to install ESXI. They are two different products From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:ma...@usc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, 6 January 2009 10:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion Can you move from ESXi to full ESX without having to rebuild the VM host? From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:g...@krystaltek.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 3:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion Those features are part of Virtual Centre. So you can use the ESXi embedded or installable version and purchase a foundation license file which provides a VC agent. Hence you can manage the host with Virtual Center etc etc. Mind you you cant use Vmotion unless you buy an Enterprise license and I don't know why you would ever do that and not use the full version anyway. Greg From: gswe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Tuesday, 6 January 2009 10:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion ESXi does not allow Vmotion, Centralized Mgmt of multiple servers, etc. basically it's the essentials of ESX..Just virtualization and nothing of the advanced feature sets that the full (Paid) versions of ESX allow. From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 6:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion Simple and concise! Thanks... Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare Product Confusion 1.x and 2.x run on top of Windows while ESXi has it's own OS, and runs independent of Windows. ESXi is a stripped down version of ESX. You will see huge increases in VM performance under ESXi. Klint Roger Wright wrote: So what are the primary differences between v1.x , and v2.0 and ESXi? Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: gswe...@actsconsulting.netmailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion We have moved all of our clients to ESXi that were using Server 1.x or 2.0 unless there was some specific reason the Host OS had to stay online. Not many cases of those though. The only main issue was some NIC driver issues on some whitebox machines we have been begging to get rid of. From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion No, ESXi is free now, and I would use it in a heartbeat over server. jlc From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 2:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMWare Product Confusion I'm running with several VMs under VMware Server 1.0.8, primarily because it was free and gave us an opportunity to move into the virtual arena. Is VMware Server 2.0 also free to use? If so, any reason not to move to 2.0? Is this the highest level VMWare product which is available at no cost? Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: VMWare Product Confusion
Always a good way to do it especially if management balk at the initial cost of virtualisation or even technological aspects of it. ESXi can be a good foot in the door and then hope that you can work it to your advantage in the next few months and then the decision makes itself for a full blow ESX datacenter with DR site using SRM :) From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:ma...@usc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, 6 January 2009 11:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion Well, I'm asking as I'm in the position where I may need to install ESXi now to get some functionality in place, but not have the money for VC/ESX full until next fiscal year. From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:g...@krystaltek.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 4:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion No. You can license it with the same functionality pretty much but as I said if you buy a full license then why wouldn't you use the full product. To use ESX you need to install ESX. To use ESXI you need to install ESXI. They are two different products From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:ma...@usc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, 6 January 2009 10:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion Can you move from ESXi to full ESX without having to rebuild the VM host? From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:g...@krystaltek.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 3:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion Those features are part of Virtual Centre. So you can use the ESXi embedded or installable version and purchase a foundation license file which provides a VC agent. Hence you can manage the host with Virtual Center etc etc. Mind you you cant use Vmotion unless you buy an Enterprise license and I don't know why you would ever do that and not use the full version anyway. Greg From: gswe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Tuesday, 6 January 2009 10:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion ESXi does not allow Vmotion, Centralized Mgmt of multiple servers, etc. basically it's the essentials of ESX..Just virtualization and nothing of the advanced feature sets that the full (Paid) versions of ESX allow. From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 6:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion Simple and concise! Thanks... Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare Product Confusion 1.x and 2.x run on top of Windows while ESXi has it's own OS, and runs independent of Windows. ESXi is a stripped down version of ESX. You will see huge increases in VM performance under ESXi. Klint Roger Wright wrote: So what are the primary differences between v1.x , and v2.0 and ESXi? Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: gswe...@actsconsulting.netmailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion We have moved all of our clients to ESXi that were using Server 1.x or 2.0 unless there was some specific reason the Host OS had to stay online. Not many cases of those though. The only main issue was some NIC driver issues on some whitebox machines we have been begging to get rid of. From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion No, ESXi is free now, and I would use it in a heartbeat over server. jlc From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 2:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMWare Product Confusion I'm running with several VMs under VMware Server 1.0.8, primarily because it was free and gave us an opportunity to move into the virtual arena. Is VMware Server 2.0 also free to use? If so, any reason not to move to 2.0? Is this the highest level VMWare product which is available at no cost? Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: VMWare Product Confusion
Yep once you have the server running as a vmdk disk its very easy to move around. -Original Message- From: Troy Meyer [mailto:troy.me...@monacocoach.com] Sent: Tuesday, 6 January 2009 11:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion Sal, Yes the backend data files for ESX/ESXi are the same and you can SCP them to the new server or use Vmotion if you are licensed for that option. Much easier if its new hardware you are moving to, if upgrading the existing hardware it may take a little planning, especially if you are moving from local to SAN disks. -Troy -Original Message- From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:ma...@usc.edu] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 4:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion Well, I'm asking as I'm in the position where I may need to install ESXi now to get some functionality in place, but not have the money for VC/ESX full until next fiscal year. From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:g...@krystaltek.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 4:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion No. You can license it with the same functionality pretty much but as I said if you buy a full license then why wouldn't you use the full product. To use ESX you need to install ESX. To use ESXI you need to install ESXI. They are two different products From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:ma...@usc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, 6 January 2009 10:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion Can you move from ESXi to full ESX without having to rebuild the VM host? From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:g...@krystaltek.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 3:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion Those features are part of Virtual Centre. So you can use the ESXi embedded or installable version and purchase a foundation license file which provides a VC agent. Hence you can manage the host with Virtual Center etc etc. Mind you you cant use Vmotion unless you buy an Enterprise license and I don't know why you would ever do that and not use the full version anyway. Greg From: gswe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Tuesday, 6 January 2009 10:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion ESXi does not allow Vmotion, Centralized Mgmt of multiple servers, etc. basically it's the essentials of ESX..Just virtualization and nothing of the advanced feature sets that the full (Paid) versions of ESX allow. From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 6:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion Simple and concise! Thanks... Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare Product Confusion 1.x and 2.x run on top of Windows while ESXi has it's own OS, and runs independent of Windows. ESXi is a stripped down version of ESX. You will see huge increases in VM performance under ESXi. Klint Roger Wright wrote: So what are the primary differences between v1.x , and v2.0 and ESXi? Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: gswe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion We have moved all of our clients to ESXi that were using Server 1.x or 2.0 unless there was some specific reason the Host OS had to stay online. Not many cases of those though. The only main issue was some NIC driver issues on some whitebox machines we have been begging to get rid of. From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion No, ESXi is free now, and I would use it in a heartbeat over server. jlc From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 2:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMWare Product Confusion I'm running with several VMs under VMware Server 1.0.8, primarily because it was free and gave us an opportunity to move into the virtual arena. Is VMware Server 2.0 also free to use? If so, any reason not to move to 2.0? Is this the highest level VMWare product which is available at no cost? Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise
RE: VMWare Product Confusion
Yeah version 4 wont have a service console if the beat is anything to go by. This will force you to know the rcli (a good thing) and vendors to re-write their software Greg From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Tuesday, 6 January 2009 2:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion ESXi has the same feature set when licensed with VC as a full ESX box. VMware had some interesting 'entry level' product lines not too long ago that included I think VCB, VC and 3 esxi licenses (for vc) for just a few thousand. ESXi lacks a console (uses busybox)for the most part that provides some underlying features that you can do directly on the box. However, RCLI is a perl based application toolset that provides about 90% of the functions of ESX by calling the vmware api remotely. The RCLI is also compatible with ESX and is recommended to use for security so this is probably the way ESX is headed. All the players like trilead, veeam are planning to fully support esxi by using the api engine and not the console calls (via ssh). Veeam Monitor 3.0 supports ESXi, is free and includes email alerts when anything goes out of whack, this tool paired with ESXi is a great resource. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 20:32 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion ESXi does not allow Vmotion, Centralized Mgmt of multiple servr... Oh it sure does! From: gswe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion ESXi does not allow Vmotion, Centralized Mgmt of multiple servers, etc. basically it's the essentials of ESX..Just virtualization and nothing of the advanced feature sets that the full (Paid) versions of ESX allow. From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 6:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion Simple and concise! Thanks... Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare Product Confusion 1.x and 2.x run on top of Windows while ESXi has it's own OS, and runs independent of Windows. ESXi is a stripped down version of ESX. You will see huge increases in VM performance under ESXi. Klint Roger Wright wrote: So what are the primary differences between v1.x , and v2.0 and ESXi? Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: gswe...@actsconsulting.netmailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion We have moved all of our clients to ESXi that were using Server 1.x or 2.0 unless there was some specific reason the Host OS had to stay online. Not many cases of those though. The only main issue was some NIC driver issues on some whitebox machines we have been begging to get rid of. From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare Product Confusion No, ESXi is free now, and I would use it in a heartbeat over server. jlc From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 2:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMWare Product Confusion I'm running with several VMs under VMware Server 1.0.8, primarily because it was free and gave us an opportunity to move into the virtual arena. Is VMware Server 2.0 also free to use? If so, any reason not to move to 2.0? Is this the highest level VMWare product which is available at no cost? Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Aaaiiiyyyeeeeee!!! OOO notices! (OT)
i saw it that way as well unil i read it again. wow, spooky! Greg From: Kennedy, Jim [kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Wednesday, 31 December 2008 2:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Aaaiiiyyyee!!! OOO notices! (OT) Ok, I am off to get more coffee. I saw doesn't instead of what you actually wrote. -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 10:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Aaaiiiyyyee!!! OOO notices! (OT) Isn't that what I said? :-) But my biggest issue is that in our organization, that's not particularly useful. We need everyone to get OOFs, including people outside the organization. Although customizing the message sent internally vs. externally is nice. -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 9:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Aaaiiiyyyee!!! OOO notices! (OT) Sure it does, that is how ours is I just retested it to be certain. Internals get OOF's and externals do not. -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 9:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Aaaiiiyyyee!!! OOO notices! (OT) Exchange 2007 does support separating the handling of OOO's between internal and external senders... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Anyone else using OpenFiler in a production environment?
i use it for our test clusters. but i wouldnt use it in production. Steve and i have had this discussion and he wont convince me. NEVER!!! Greg From: Steve Moffat [st...@optimum.bm] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin [ntsysad...@optimum.bm] Sent: Friday, 12 December 2008 7:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone else using OpenFiler in a production environment? I'll second Openfiler. Been using it to run a powervault 220s for 2 years now with not one issue. And if you need enterprise support they have that too. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 4:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone else using OpenFiler in a production environment? My ESX instructor learned us how to use OpenFiler, and he said many companies use it for production. I don’t use it here, but I was very impressed with OpenFiler. Maybe at some point... From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 2:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Anyone else using OpenFiler in a production environment? Planning a move to VMWare ESX, and I'm evaluatiing my SAN choices. I have OpenFiler in a production environment storing some of our data. On of our NAS box's flaked out on me, and I repurposed a server with Openfiler to fill the void and try out iSCSI SAN features. I've been extremely happy with the performance. Using it to run VM's and take advantage of High Availability features is where I am having some pause. Wonder if anyone here has already blazed this trail Thanks, Jonathan ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Anyone else using OpenFiler in a production environment?
Our storage requirements are pretty clear cut and needy so they were happy to pay to do it properly. you dont need openfiler or freenas. just enable the iscsi target on most linux distros (fedora etc) plenty of google reading on that Greg From: Matthew W. Ross [mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Friday, 12 December 2008 9:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone else using OpenFiler in a production environment? We use OpenFiler here, with good results. Basically, if boils down to: If you want something you support yourself for cheap (This is our case), use OpenFiler or FreeNAS. If you want something with paid support, especially for the hardware, go with a commercial product. For us, the cost savings of OpenFiler iSCSI outweighed the support provided by the Commercial iSCSI solutions. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:g...@krystaltek.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:48:29 -0800 Subject: RE: Anyone else using OpenFiler in a production environment? i use it for our test clusters. but i wouldnt use it in production. Steve and i have had this discussion and he wont convince me. NEVER!!! Greg From: Steve Moffat [st...@optimum.bm] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin [ntsysad...@optimum.bm] Sent: Friday, 12 December 2008 7:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone else using OpenFiler in a production environment? I'll second Openfiler. Been using it to run a powervault 220s for 2 years now with not one issue. And if you need enterprise support they have that too. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 4:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone else using OpenFiler in a production environment? My ESX instructor learned us how to use OpenFiler, and he said many companies use it for production. I don’t use it here, but I was very impressed with OpenFiler. Maybe at some point... From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 2:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Anyone else using OpenFiler in a production environment? Planning a move to VMWare ESX, and I'm evaluatiing my SAN choices. I have OpenFiler in a production environment storing some of our data. On of our NAS box's flaked out on me, and I repurposed a server with Openfiler to fill the void and try out iSCSI SAN features. I've been extremely happy with the performance. Using it to run VM's and take advantage of High Availability features is where I am having some pause. Wonder if anyone here has already blazed this trail Thanks, Jonathan ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Anyone else using OpenFiler in a production environment?
you are a pita! :p i guess what matthew says is right. if you need a cheap alternative then there are a few around. It will come down to specific circumstances. Greg From: Steve Moffat [st...@optimum.bm] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin [ntsysad...@optimum.bm] Sent: Friday, 12 December 2008 9:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone else using OpenFiler in a production environment? Openfiler is a SAN...whether you like it or not...iSCSI target is a PITA From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:g...@krystaltek.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone else using OpenFiler in a production environment? Our storage requirements are pretty clear cut and needy so they were happy to pay to do it properly. you dont need openfiler or freenas. just enable the iscsi target on most linux distros (fedora etc) plenty of google reading on that Greg From: Matthew W. Ross [mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Friday, 12 December 2008 9:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone else using OpenFiler in a production environment? We use OpenFiler here, with good results. Basically, if boils down to: If you want something you support yourself for cheap (This is our case), use OpenFiler or FreeNAS. If you want something with paid support, especially for the hardware, go with a commercial product. For us, the cost savings of OpenFiler iSCSI outweighed the support provided by the Commercial iSCSI solutions. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:g...@krystaltek.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:48:29 -0800 Subject: RE: Anyone else using OpenFiler in a production environment? i use it for our test clusters. but i wouldnt use it in production. Steve and i have had this discussion and he wont convince me. NEVER!!! Greg From: Steve Moffat [st...@optimum.bm] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin [ntsysad...@optimum.bm] Sent: Friday, 12 December 2008 7:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone else using OpenFiler in a production environment? I'll second Openfiler. Been using it to run a powervault 220s for 2 years now with not one issue. And if you need enterprise support they have that too. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 4:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone else using OpenFiler in a production environment? My ESX instructor learned us how to use OpenFiler, and he said many companies use it for production. I don’t use it here, but I was very impressed with OpenFiler. Maybe at some point... From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 2:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Anyone else using OpenFiler in a production environment? Planning a move to VMWare ESX, and I'm evaluatiing my SAN choices. I have OpenFiler in a production environment storing some of our data. On of our NAS box's flaked out on me, and I repurposed a server with Openfiler to fill the void and try out iSCSI SAN features. I've been extremely happy with the performance. Using it to run VM's and take advantage of High Availability features is where I am having some pause. Wonder if anyone here has already blazed this trail Thanks, Jonathan ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: i also need software recommendations
Thanks ED i think ill go with the 5000va or the hp r5500. still waiting on quotes. Greg From: Ziots, Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 6 December 2008 2:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: i also need software recommendations Greg we are using the APC PowerStructure UPS’s and Metered Whips with our Blades. I would figure a 5000 Model or higher should have enough juice to take care of the blade enclosure. Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 401-639-3505 MCSE, MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 10:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: i also need software recommendations We are looking at the HP Blade enclosure c3000, MSA2000 and some brocade switches. I am trying to find a suitable UPS for this gear. Looking at the r5500 or the r3000. Anyone used these particularly with the blade enclosures mentioned. I would also like a comparable price with and APC model which i can get from our rep. (we normally get APC) Greg ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: LinkedIn?
yer. actually had someone mail me with a job prospect. A recommendation helped it think too Greg From: Angus Scott-Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 21 November 2008 5:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: LinkedIn? Anyone here belong to LinkedIn? Found it any use? Angus ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi
Firstly ESX and ESXi are two different beasts. ESX in any way shape or form is not free. ESXi by itself is however. Without any added features like Virtual Center etc etc Hyperv will run on just about any hardware as it uses the windows driver model where as ESXi will be a little more tricky, not buy much though, Carl was not quite right. ESXi will run fine on whiteboxes, or desktops. The only requirements that you will generally find is the scsi or sata controller is supported and the network card. I have successfully built a number using a $150 sata controller and Intel 1gb nic's. In fact my home AMD workstation is running ESXi right now. If you are looking at this from a licensing perspective (good luck) then you will need to evaluate whether buying a std, ent, dc version of Windows 2008 and the additional licenses to run Hyperv guests on that box will be something that floats your boat or not. You would also need to look at which version of hyperv you would use, full, server core or standalone. Pay some attention to how you will manage these virtual hosts too, hint# if you are planning server core or standalone then be prepared for some hoop jumping. I have used both and an unashamedly of the Vmware religion as is my job these days and so am a little biased. But I have had a fair play with Hyperv in all its forms and it still feels betaish to me. Some of the feature set outlined for the next version look great but that is 2 years away. If we compare these two versions only then I would say they both work but I like the Vmware VIClient interface and management much more than the Hyperv console. My advice, after all that would be to try them out. Presumably you are going to have to look after them and feel comfortable supporting them so I would start with building a box for yourself to test with and going through the normal procedures you would to get this into production. Then try the other type and you will get an idea of what suits your environment and your skillset. Greg From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 4:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi Hi folks, I know this has been discussed earlier, but it has been a few months, and (iirc) VMWare ESXi has come out since then. Also I think/hope some of the experts here have had a chance to try Hyper-V and/or ESXi a bit more, and might have more comments. I am under financial restraints, and thus the full ESX version, or other paid products, will not be viable for me. At this point, I'm looking at virtualizing a few web servers, using MS Server 2003. These are front end machines that hook to a back end SQL servers. A couple of these web servers get very little traffic, and some will have more. I'll look into Enterprise and DataCenter versions because of the multiple copies on a virtual server that are allowed. I'm planning on using the local server for disk storage, no NAS/SAN involved. I do have the hardware that can run the virtual software necessary (maybe need some more RAM). My question. Preference? Also any new links that might compare the two? I might also look into Xen/Citrix free version, so if anybody has comments on that, please let me know. Thanks. Mark ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: RE: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi
Be careful.. We are not talking about ESX and Hyperv here. Anyone with half a brain knows there is no contest between the two overall. We are talking strictly about ESXi and HyperV Greg -Original Message- From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RE: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi Yup, indeed it does. Also, there is no comparison between any version of ESX HyPer-V At the moment, ESX wins hands down on all fronts. MS will probably catch up in around 10 years. S -Original Message- From: Al Lilianstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 6:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RE: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi ESXi will run on white boxes and desktops. I have run it on a Dell Optiplex 620 and there is a whole community of folks running it on whiteboxes. Google esx white box Particularly the link - http://communities.vmware.com/thread/98225 Lots of people are running esx and ESXi on cheap hardware. al -- Al Lilianstrom CD/LSC/CSI/CSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi The basic differences between the two free products - Hyper-V Server 2008 (hereafter HVS08) vs. ESXi , are: ESXi has specific requirements on server and storage hardware. Those requirements are far more restrictive than HVS08 - for example you won't be able to run ESXi on a white box or desktop. HVS08 will run on any hardware with driver support for Windows 2008. HVS08 requires 64-bit and Intel-VT or AMD-V CPU support. ESXi can run on older server platforms that predate those features. ESXi allows over-subscription of memory. That means you could run two VMs allocated 4 GB each on a machine with less than 8 GB. HVS08 has almost as much RAM overhead as running it under Windows Server 2008 Core - so you would need about 9 GB to run two 4GB VMs. Carl From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi Hi folks, I know this has been discussed earlier, but it has been a few months, and (iirc) VMWare ESXi has come out since then. Also I think/hope some of the experts here have had a chance to try Hyper-V and/or ESXi a bit more, and might have more comments. I am under financial restraints, and thus the full ESX version, or other paid products, will not be viable for me. At this point, I'm looking at virtualizing a few web servers, using MS Server 2003. These are front end machines that hook to a back end SQL servers. A couple of these web servers get very little traffic, and some will have more. I'll look into Enterprise and DataCenter versions because of the multiple copies on a virtual server that are allowed. I'm planning on using the local server for disk storage, no NAS/SAN involved. I do have the hardware that can run the virtual software necessary (maybe need some more RAM). My question. Preference? Also any new links that might compare the two? I might also look into Xen/Citrix free version, so if anybody has comments on that, please let me know. Thanks. Mark ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Virtual Nic's
We have 6-8 nics in our boxes (either dual or quad port cards) this allows us redundancy on all virtual switches. In most cases From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 8:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Virtual Nic's We use VLAN tagging on our NIC's in ESX3.5i which is nice when you want to push multiple VLAN's over 1 NIC or 2 NIC's total and not have to buy a ton of NIC's per Virtual Server. Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 401-639-3505 MCSE, MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + From: Brumbaugh, Luke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 4:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Virtual Nic's As long as you have Gb nics, I wouldn't buy additional nics for each virtual server. If you are using more bandwidth than that on a virtual, does it really need to be virtual or off on it's own box. From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 4:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Virtual Nic's What is the list's opinion on using network connections in virtual machines? Do you put a separate NIC for each virtual machine or do you piggy back on the internal NIC(s)? I bought a quad NIC for my Hyper V and just split off one for each machine. But for those servers that have more than 10 machines on them, I guess you would have to share... ** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information transmitted in this message is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this document. Thank you. Butler Animal Health Supply ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
webiste to create zip file
Hi Guys Sort of a weird request but I'm looking for a website that will allow users to upload a file and download the archived zip file. With one catch, not a .zip but a .7z extension. We use 7z but some of our clients cant install the software on their machines and im looking for a way to get around it. If anyone knows of any sites like that I'd be grateful. I've found a few that only give you a .zip Thanks Greg ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: webiste to create zip file
No its because I am talking about clients who we deal with who don't have control over their machines or soe. But yes I'd say they may well be :) -Original Message- From: Durf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 9:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: webiste to create zip file Is this just because users are too dumb to run 7zip locally...? I don't have anything helpful to contribute...just mind boggled. --Durf On 11/6/08, Greg Mulholland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys Sort of a weird request but I'm looking for a website that will allow users to upload a file and download the archived zip file. With one catch, not a .zip but a .7z extension. We use 7z but some of our clients cant install the software on their machines and im looking for a way to get around it. If anyone knows of any sites like that I'd be grateful. I've found a few that only give you a .zip Thanks Greg ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: webiste to create zip file
Political reasons. Not much choice -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 12:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: webiste to create zip file Concur. -Original Message- From: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 2:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: webiste to create zip file Then I would stick to ZIP. Why burden clients with stuff like this? -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 2:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: webiste to create zip file No its because I am talking about clients who we deal with who don't have control over their machines or soe. But yes I'd say they may well be :) ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: webiste to create zip file
Yeah I thought as much.. thanks -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 1:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: webiste to create zip file Uggg. OK, there is a 7z SDK available. You may have to get creative and build your own. http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html -Original Message- From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 6:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: webiste to create zip file Political reasons. Not much choice -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 12:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: webiste to create zip file Concur. -Original Message- From: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 2:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: webiste to create zip file Then I would stick to ZIP. Why burden clients with stuff like this? -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 2:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: webiste to create zip file No its because I am talking about clients who we deal with who don't have control over their machines or soe. But yes I'd say they may well be :) ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: VMware ESXi 3.5 On Dell 2550
Am I missing something here. Its not so much that you cant install esx, its that rhel wont see any storage right? If you had hcl issues ESX would complain about not being able to finish its install. Fwiw I have 3 2550's in my test esx lab and they work fine. So if you open the vi client does the vmfs volume for your local storage show up under the configuration/storage area? How big is it? -Original Message- From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 11:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMware ESXi 3.5 On Dell 2550 Okay, maybe perc4 is as far back as it goes. Check the esxi hcl -Original Message- From: Robert Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 08:14 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMware ESXi 3.5 On Dell 2550 The install doesn't complete. Only gets as far as partitioning the disks. When it can find any, the installation aborts. -Original Message- From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday October 2008 12:10 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Bayesian Filter detected spam - RE: VMware ESXi 3.5 On Dell 2550 When the install completes do you have available storage? Im surprised you get through the installation but then get a message like that. IIRC all PERC controllers are listed in the HCL. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ The information in this internet E-mail is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee. Access, copying or re-use of information in it by anyone else is unauthorised. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Walker Martyn Ltd or any of its affiliates. If you are not the intended recipient please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Walker Martyn Ltd, company number SC197533. Company is registered in Scotland and has its registered office at 1 Park Circus Place, Glasgow G3 6AH, UK. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: So... how is the recession affecting your buying decisions?
Hardware spending is not so much of an issue. We are fortunate that HP owes us some money and is giving us hardware instead. So we are basically going from a dell dc to a hp dc. New c class blade chassis with 5 blades + esx ent license for each, new fc san, fully racked and ups'ed. So other hardware purchases are small. The biggest issue is IT resourcing. We have been trying to hire a new 2nd level for a month or two now and head office won't have a bar of it. Greg From: Don Guyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 1:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: So... how is the recession affecting your buying decisions? We're going through next year's budget right now and it's being slashed like a victim from Nightmare on Elm St. :) Don Guyer Systems Engineer Information Services Department Prudential Fox Roach/ Trident 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Ph: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 www.prufoxroach.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: So... how is the recession affecting your buying decisions? You're all the admins who actually buy the stuff that people like Sunbelt (and many, many others make). How are you seeing the recession impact your buying decisions? Are you being told to hold off until later? Is it business as usual? Or is it a bloodletting? Are you still buying cheap stuff but not buying expensive stuff? Etc., etc. Maybe I'm opening the Pandora's Box here, but I think we need to all look at the situation realistically. Alex This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. It may contain information protected by state and federal privacy and intellectual property laws. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail from your system. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail, and you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Basic Drive Partition Question
No way in hell would I put mbs in your bracket!! :p You did ask for it! From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question Before Mulholland chips in...Not as old as me!! :) From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 6:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question I said USED TO BE. I'm old. :) Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question Interesting, I see your point. Still though, the head would be jumping around a lot less. Wouldn't that contribute to some gains? From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question From a friend of mine at Fujitsu. There is no longer any point to short stroking a drive. Modern Drives have recording density zones that basically change with the distance from center. I am not sure there's been a non-zoned drive made in about a decade...:) S From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question Not funny at all, actually; it used to be quite common to avoid full stroke access. You never wanted a disk to use more than 20% of its stroke time in order to maximize performance. I saw this in mainframes, in large database rollouts, in large Exchange rollouts, etc. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 4:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question Lol...that's too funny!!! From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question I say yes. What if you create a partition on the faster, outer edge of the drive platters, and put your most accessed system files there, or the whole OS? And less accessed files toward the inside of the drive. From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 2:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question Performance no, perhaps even a small hit to performance. But you can keep the data on another partition to keep it from filling and crashing the whole OS if it were just all on one partition. From: Bill Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Basic Drive Partition Question We've been arguing here...and I can't find anything definitive on Google... Is there any gain in performance if you have a single (NTFS) drive in two partitions? One partition for the OS and the other for everything else? I say no but it wouldn't be the first time I've been wrong. Bill Lambert Windows System Administrator Concuity A healthcare division of Trintech, Inc. Phone 847-941-9206 Fax 847-465-9147 [cid:image001.gif@01C939B0.7D339690] NASDAQ: TTPA The information contained in this e-mail message, including any attached files, is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the recipient) you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~inline: image001.gif
RE: VMware Server 2.0
I think it is. Been using it since the day it came out for client test kits. Works a treat. Greg From: Joe Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 25 October 2008 6:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMware Server 2.0 I was just wondering if VMware Server has gotten any better since it came out of beta. I stopped using the beta due to some performance issues that I attributed to all the debug code that was in there. I've stuck with 1.x versions until now because the were more lightweight, but am considering updating it. Thanks in advance. -Joe -- Joe Fox Systems/Network Administrator Mobile# (716) 846-9308 http://www.linkedin.com/in/josephfoxjr ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs
yep http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/downloads/addon/rm.mspx From: Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 22 October 2008 7:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs Office 2003 works with Windows Rights Management (as does IE6 with some add-on component you need to install). Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 22 October 2008 7:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs Thanks for all the info chaps. I think that with some changes to the email policies and a bit of reporting, as well as some time spent looking at WRM (they are currently running Office 2003 so won't be any use till they upgrade) then I think we will easily satisfy the requirements of local law. I feel a blog post coming on. Olly -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 October 2008 01:52 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs Windows Rights Management can stop people printing things. Copying stuff to USB keys is pointless - the documents are encrypted. If you don't have access to the RM server, you can't decrypt the document. Same with forwarding the document somewhere else. You can stop Alt+Print Screen as well. You can't stop *analogue* attacks (which is why it's called Digital rights management). If someone brings in a camera and takes a photo of the screen, then there's not much you can do about that. But analogue attacks are much slower to execute than digital attacks. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 22 October 2008 11:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs It also won't stop printing it and faxing it or putting the paper in their pocket. Or alt print screen and emailing the jpg. Or a hundred other ways we could all dream up. The OP needs to make enough effort to satisfy the law in his country so that a good faith effort can be shown from what I read in his original post. If this gets him there only the lawyers can say. From: Sherry Abercrombie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 4:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Stopping users emailing out internal docs Policies to prevent the unauthorized use of usb ports. There's good software that will do this, and will apply even on machines (laptops) that are off the network. On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 3:28 PM, NTSysAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would that stop them dragging dropping onto a usb stick? S From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 5:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs Good job guys, Information Rights Management, that's it... http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA101029181033.aspx Dave From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] om] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 12:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs And thats still part of Office Server isn't it ? From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: 21 October 2008 20:15 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs Microsoft's Rights Management can do much of what you seek. Although it isn't perfect and can be beat it should get you to be able to say you tried really hard to the lawyers. From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] om] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 2:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs Remember remember. From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 October 2008 19:43 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stopping users emailing out internal docs I seem to think InfoPath or Groove or some other MS tool can do this kind of job - you can select an e-mail and effectively make it unforwardable, it was pretty slick...now if I could only remember what product it was... David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] om] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Stopping users emailing out internal docs Hi chaps, We've had a case this week of a client who found out a user, who is in the
RE: Server naming - virtual vs physical
same here From: Steven M. Caesare [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 14 October 2008 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Server naming - virtual vs physical No. Server name is based on unit/function. We didn’t differentiate HP’s from Dell’s, so we don’t differentiate physical from virtual. -sc From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 11:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Server naming - virtual vs physical Those of you with a good mix of virtual servers in your environment – do you differentiate the virtual servers from the physical ones on the server name? If so, how? If not, why not? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
hyperv server
OK so im giving in to the dark side and setting up a hyperv server (the standalone thing they brought out last week or so) Has anyone had a play with this and been able to get a vista client to manage it. Im trying to manage it with my laptop (server and client in workgroup) I know the ridiculous amount of steps you had to go throuoght to enable remote management with hyperv installed on server core but this is a different kettle of fish all toghether. The same procedurs dont work simply because those parts of the OS are not present in the standalone hyperv. The error i get is 'cant connect to remote host, make sure the vmm service is running or something to that effect. Ive spent days searching the net for any info but havent found any. I am going to attempt to rebuild the hyperv and see if that magically fixes anything. It seems that MS are forcing you into domain membership with your host and management pc's and if that is there strategy, good luck is all i can say, equivalent products in the market dont seem to have such limitations. They need to fix hyperv in the future if they want to compete. I laughed when i read a blog the other day about 'hyper, the windows you know and love' yeah the one that is harder to manager, takes longer to install/deploy/configure than others i.e ESX. I thought it was extermely funny that when i had finished the setup part of the hyperv server it said preapring dektop for 2 minutes and all i got was a dos window :). but i am giving it a go. Greg ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Stupid DNS question...
Sounds like a bad practise to allow internal web requests to be forwarded out to the net unless you have a good reason to do so. From: Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 10:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Stupid DNS question... It resolves to the IP address of my main DC - the FSMO role holder. On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does ping mycompany.com resolve to? Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 10:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Stupid DNS question... My DNS skills are weak... We run a split brain DNS - ISP takes care of external, we do internal. Internally, www points to external web site, but president of company wants bare URL (http://mycompany.com) also to resolve to external. I tried adding a blank record to internal DNS pointing to external web site, but that seems not to be working. How can I implement this? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: hyperv server
Both in a workgroup. initialiy it didnt becausse the server has an admin account and my vista machine doesnt. After adding a local user (mirroring my vista user) to the hv server still no joy. From: Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 2:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: hyperv server Are they in a workgroup? Or a Domain? If using a workgroup - does it work if you have the same username/password on both machines? Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 12:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: hyperv server I'm able to manage Hyper-V from my Vista machine. I don't recall having had to jump through any big hoops to get it to work... John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us -Original Message- From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 9:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: hyperv server OK so im giving in to the dark side and setting up a hyperv server (the standalone thing they brought out last week or so) Has anyone had a play with this and been able to get a vista client to manage it. Im trying to manage it with my laptop (server and client in workgroup) I know the ridiculous amount of steps you had to go throuoght to enable remote management with hyperv installed on server core but this is a different kettle of fish all toghether. The same procedurs dont work simply because those parts of the OS are not present in the standalone hyperv. The error i get is 'cant connect to remote host, make sure the vmm service is running or something to that effect. Ive spent days searching the net for any info but havent found any. I am going to attempt to rebuild the hyperv and see if that magically fixes anything. It seems that MS are forcing you into domain membership with your host and management pc's and if that is there strategy, good luck is all i can say, equivalent products in the market dont seem to have such limitations. They need to fix hyperv in the future if they want to compete. I laughed when i read a blog the other day about 'hyper, the windows you know and love' yeah the one that is harder to manager, takes longer to install/deploy/configure than others i.e ESX. I thought it was extermely funny that when i had finished the setup part of the hyperv server it said preapring dektop for 2 minutes and all i got was a dos window :). but i am giving it a go. Greg ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: hyperv server
Yep.. even on servcer core you shouldnt have to do what you have to do to get it working, i would have hoped. From: Steve Ens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 12:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: hyperv server Hey Greg Sorry I can't help out with the bare metal hyper V...however I've run it sucessfully in the core and even easier with the full Windows install. Steve On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Greg Mulholland [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK so im giving in to the dark side and setting up a hyperv server (the standalone thing they brought out last week or so) Has anyone had a play with this and been able to get a vista client to manage it. Im trying to manage it with my laptop (server and client in workgroup) I know the ridiculous amount of steps you had to go throuoght to enable remote management with hyperv installed on server core but this is a different kettle of fish all toghether. The same procedurs dont work simply because those parts of the OS are not present in the standalone hyperv. The error i get is 'cant connect to remote host, make sure the vmm service is running or something to that effect. Ive spent days searching the net for any info but havent found any. I am going to attempt to rebuild the hyperv and see if that magically fixes anything. It seems that MS are forcing you into domain membership with your host and management pc's and if that is there strategy, good luck is all i can say, equivalent products in the market dont seem to have such limitations. They need to fix hyperv in the future if they want to compete. I laughed when i read a blog the other day about 'hyper, the windows you know and love' yeah the one that is harder to manager, takes longer to install/deploy/configure than others i.e ESX. I thought it was extermely funny that when i had finished the setup part of the hyperv server it said preapring dektop for 2 minutes and all i got was a dos window :). but i am giving it a go. Greg ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: hyperv server
what version of hyperv. i am asking specifically about the latest standalone hypervisor install, not windows 2008. From: John Hornbuckle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 12:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: hyperv server I'm able to manage Hyper-V from my Vista machine. I don't recall having had to jump through any big hoops to get it to work... John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us -Original Message- From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 9:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: hyperv server OK so im giving in to the dark side and setting up a hyperv server (the standalone thing they brought out last week or so) Has anyone had a play with this and been able to get a vista client to manage it. Im trying to manage it with my laptop (server and client in workgroup) I know the ridiculous amount of steps you had to go throuoght to enable remote management with hyperv installed on server core but this is a different kettle of fish all toghether. The same procedurs dont work simply because those parts of the OS are not present in the standalone hyperv. The error i get is 'cant connect to remote host, make sure the vmm service is running or something to that effect. Ive spent days searching the net for any info but havent found any. I am going to attempt to rebuild the hyperv and see if that magically fixes anything. It seems that MS are forcing you into domain membership with your host and management pc's and if that is there strategy, good luck is all i can say, equivalent products in the market dont seem to have such limitations. They need to fix hyperv in the future if they want to compete. I laughed when i read a blog the other day about 'hyper, the windows you know and love' yeah the one that is harder to manager, takes longer to install/deploy/configure than others i.e ESX. I thought it was extermely funny that when i had finished the setup part of the hyperv server it said preapring dektop for 2 minutes and all i got was a dos window :). but i am giving it a go. Greg ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Stupid DNS question...
and on a DC too.. starting to sound like an sbs setup :) *duck* From: Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 3:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question... I thought the OP was asking about INTERNALLY. I don't think that ISA is a solution there Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 12:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question... Well, Microsoft does make something called ISA Server :-) But there are some much lighter-weight options. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 2:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question... Well, tru dat. I was thinking of specifically MSFT software. So shoot me. :-) Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question... You could put a proxy on your DCs - no need for IIS specifically. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 2:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question... Can't be done without installing IIS (or a really smart traffic shaper). What you would do on your DC's is everything that comes in port 80 for example.com you would redirect to www.example.com. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Stupid DNS question... BTW - I'm fine if the answer is can't be done without installing IIS - 'cause then I can tell them it's not worth it for security reasons, and be done with it. On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have IIS installed on your domain controllers? Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Stupid DNS question... My DNS skills are weak... We run a split brain DNS - ISP takes care of external, we do internal. Internally, www points to external web site, but president of company wants bare URL (http://mycompany.com) also to resolve to external. I tried adding a blank record to internal DNS pointing to external web site, but that seems not to be working. How can I implement this? Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Stupid DNS question...
Thats the way i took it. actually a wpad script could probably do this in ISA or a simple proxy.pac if you had some other flavour. You'd have to test and might need some stuffing around to get it working. Greg From: Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 3:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question... I got the impression that the boss wanted internal users that type in http://company.com to be taken to their externally hosted website, just like if they typed that into a browser when outside the company network. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 3:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question... I thought the OP was asking about INTERNALLY. I don't think that ISA is a solution there Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 12:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question... Well, Microsoft does make something called ISA Server :-) But there are some much lighter-weight options. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 2:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question... Well, tru dat. I was thinking of specifically MSFT software. So shoot me. :-) Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question... You could put a proxy on your DCs - no need for IIS specifically. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 2:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question... Can't be done without installing IIS (or a really smart traffic shaper). What you would do on your DC's is everything that comes in port 80 for example.com you would redirect to www.example.com. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Stupid DNS question... BTW - I'm fine if the answer is can't be done without installing IIS - 'cause then I can tell them it's not worth it for security reasons, and be done with it. On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have IIS installed on your domain controllers? Regards, ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Stupid DNS question...
yeah i was thinking of the wrong thing. i'm sure ive done similar to this once with a script file or host file like of some sort. i just cant remeber the exact details. From: Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 3:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question... Um - that just sets the user's proxy server configuration. The problem here is DNS resolution... Either the proxy server needs to use different DNS servers, or where the internal DNS record resolves to (DCs) needs to host a proxy server. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 3:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question... Thats the way i took it. actually a wpad script could probably do this in ISA or a simple proxy.pac if you had some other flavour. You'd have to test and might need some stuffing around to get it working. Greg From: Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 3:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question... I got the impression that the boss wanted internal users that type in http://company.com to be taken to their externally hosted website, just like if they typed that into a browser when outside the company network. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 3:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question... I thought the OP was asking about INTERNALLY. I don't think that ISA is a solution there Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 12:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question... Well, Microsoft does make something called ISA Server :-) But there are some much lighter-weight options. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 2:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question... Well, tru dat. I was thinking of specifically MSFT software. So shoot me. :-) Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question... You could put a proxy on your DCs - no need for IIS specifically. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 10 October 2008 2:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stupid DNS question... Can't be done without installing IIS (or a really smart traffic shaper). What you would do on your DC's is everything that comes in port 80 for example.com you would redirect to www.example.com. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 7:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Stupid DNS question... BTW - I'm fine if the answer is can't be done without installing IIS - 'cause then I can tell them it's not worth it for security reasons, and be done with it. On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have IIS installed on your domain controllers? Regards, ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Good text editor
I use ultraedit and notepad++ From: Jim Dandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 7 October 2008 11:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Good text editor UltraEdit? -Original Message- From: IS Technical [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 10:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Good text editor #What's the best text editor out there for writing code and scripts and such? I'd like to find #one that does line numbering obviously, and does some formatting to keep things neat. #Like color coding expressions, functions, etc. I'm trying to learn JavaScript, and using #Notepad and Dreamweaver are proving difficult. JEdit. Regards, Charles --- Charles Figueiredo PhD Integrated Solutions - Enhancing Small Business Systems --- ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Virtual Center query
What versions are you running.. I have seen this when the host agent dies. I think it was a 3.02 box from memory i think i had to kill the vpxa service and restart it from within the host (using ssh). I think there was a kb article about it, but i cant remember where right now I'd be interested to know if the host is part of a cluster and if so removing it and re-adding it helped. also you can edit the xml file and turn up VC logging to give you more info, but i dont have that handy at the moment. I documented it for work but im not there right now Greg From: James Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 3 October 2008 7:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Virtual Center query Does anybody have any idea why sometimes some of my ESX servers show as not responding in VirtualCenter, and the guests running on it show as disconnected? The guests themselves are still up and running fine, but they won't respond to VirtualCenter commands (all the options are greyed out). The only way to get around this seems to be shut down all the guests on the affected server, and then restart the ESX server - not really an option when my Exchange, Excalibur and SQL servers are running on this particular ESX box. If ESX was Windows, I guess I'd be looking for a failed service or something, but being a bit of a Unix/ESX amateur I'm not sure where to start troubleshooting TIA, JRR ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: SysInternals Updates
Well everyone knows that African swallows are non migratory! ahh never get sick of a good python reference. g From: wjh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 2 October 2008 12:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SysInternals Updates what do you mean? African or European swallow? WJH Kurt Buff wrote: Cool. So, what is the airspeed of an unladen swallow? Heh. On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops. sorry. I'm under pressure to finish this @#$)([EMAIL PROTECTED] book. Any posting that I can respond to gives me a little break. :-) Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 9:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SysInternals Updates That was somewhat, sort of, in the nature of a joke, but I'm glad to hear it nonetheless. On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it uses webdav. nothing to do with your browser. Everything to do with whether web client is an available and running service on your computer. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 9:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SysInternals Updates Does it work with Firefox? On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Sam Cayze [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You experts might all know this, but the following is VERY HANDY: Sysinternals Live Sysinternals Live is a service that enables you to execute Sysinternals tools directly from the Web without hunting for and manually downloading them. Simply enter a tool's Sysinternals Live path into Windows Explorer or a command prompt as http://live.sysinternals.com/toolname or \\live.sysinternals.com\tools\toolname. You can view the entire Sysinternals Live tools directory in a browser at http://live.sysinternals.com. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V
I'll jump in in here where Ken left off. The great benefit as i see it of using the Standalone HyperV model is that you dont have to introduce win2k8 servers into your network if you are not ready to for whatever reason. In fact you could go totally license free presuming that you were using open sauce software as guest VM's. There will be some benefit on the hardware resource side but bugger all if you choose to install the Hyperv as part of a server core installation. But the additional 512mb you may gain might be enough for 'a' guest.. hardly worth the trouble, that and they have said that the performance characteristics between them will be identical. The drawback i see of the standalone hyperv is that you lose any clustering support and therefore what they call High Availability features obviously because you lose the benefits of the parent OS. It is also limited to 4 physical processors and 32GB RAM. Ken sort of did touch on these features but i guess you rubbed him the wrong way and he balked. So if i understand your question you want to make sure that when you buy your single 2k8 std license that it is utilised for something individual or important like a stand alone file server for instance and not a HyperV host?? If that is the case and you cant/wont buy more licenses the yes i would agree, but the point Ken was trying to make im sure, is that only you will be able to make that judgement. Hopefully i have provided some detail for you from what i know so far. If you still need more you are going to have to dig yourself and perhaps wait until it is released and there is better supporting documentation. HTH Greg From: Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2008 10:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2008 9:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V But what is the advantage to spending the resources (RAM, disk) on even a 2008 Server Core config to run the Hyper-V host, when my other choice is to save those resources for the actual VMs and use the standalone Hyper-V server instead? What feature in Hyper-V host services under 2008 makes it advantageous to use that instead of standalone Hyper-V server, for the functional requirement I've outlined? Answer the question or say I don't know. This wasn’t your original question. Please take your attitude somewhere else For reference, your original question was: Why would I NOT prefer to use standalone Hyper-V for all virtualized servers including 2008? And the answer to that is “it depends”. You go figure it out for yourself. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V
watch it buddy!! :p From: Steve Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2008 10:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V So Carl's not allowed to ask more than one question per post. I think your attitude is the bad attitude. They must be giving MVP status to anyone in OZ nowadays... From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 9:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2008 9:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Standalone Hyper-V vs. 2008 Hyper-V But what is the advantage to spending the resources (RAM, disk) on even a 2008 Server Core config to run the Hyper-V host, when my other choice is to save those resources for the actual VMs and use the standalone Hyper-V server instead? What feature in Hyper-V host services under 2008 makes it advantageous to use that instead of standalone Hyper-V server, for the functional requirement I've outlined? Answer the question or say I don't know. This wasn’t your original question. Please take your attitude somewhere else For reference, your original question was: Why would I NOT prefer to use standalone Hyper-V for all virtualized servers including 2008? And the answer to that is “it depends”. You go figure it out for yourself. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Looks like Vmware Update 2 is available again.
Only if yours guests are synchronising time with your esx hosts. not sure why you would want to do that? From: Tim Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 15 August 2008 12:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Looks like Vmware Update 2 is available again. If you are running a DC virtualized, setting the clock back could have an impact. ...Tim -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 7:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Looks like Vmware Update 2 is available again. Dang... vmware makes one little small mistake and the world unleashes an arse kicking on them. MS makes many big mistakes all the time and we don't even flinch? Maybe vmware should drop the ball daily and we would be happier? Man, that's life! Software has bugs, all I know is my history w/ esx has always been extremely positive, and even this bug was trivial! Set clock back, turn on vm's, set clock forward, **NO** harm done. Wow... -Original Message- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 7:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Looks like Vmware Update 2 is available again. Hopefully they unbugged it with the new update accordingly, so you don't reapply faulty SP... Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 -Original Message- From: N Parr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 8:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Looks like Vmware Update 2 is available again. http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Looks like Vmware Update 2 is available again.
Not in 3.5 i don't think. It is a per VM setting, from memory Greg From: Tim Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 15 August 2008 1:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Looks like Vmware Update 2 is available again. Well, yeah. I guess I got in a hurry and forgot to say that. Isn't it the default to sync time with the host on ESX? -Original Message- From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 4:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Looks like Vmware Update 2 is available again. Only if yours guests are synchronising time with your esx hosts. not sure why you would want to do that? From: Tim Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 15 August 2008 12:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Looks like Vmware Update 2 is available again. If you are running a DC virtualized, setting the clock back could have an impact. ...Tim -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 7:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Looks like Vmware Update 2 is available again. Dang... vmware makes one little small mistake and the world unleashes an arse kicking on them. MS makes many big mistakes all the time and we don't even flinch? Maybe vmware should drop the ball daily and we would be happier? Man, that's life! Software has bugs, all I know is my history w/ esx has always been extremely positive, and even this bug was trivial! Set clock back, turn on vm's, set clock forward, **NO** harm done. Wow... -Original Message- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 7:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Looks like Vmware Update 2 is available again. Hopefully they unbugged it with the new update accordingly, so you don't reapply faulty SP... Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 -Original Message- From: N Parr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 8:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Looks like Vmware Update 2 is available again. http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Major Vmware Bug Hits Today, BE advised.
I applied the update yesterday on esxi and all is well again I can understand the timebomb code, most places will do it to stop propagation of leaked code but to not remove it when it goes live is a cardinal sin and a major balls up on their part in my book. How fortunate we were to not have all our hosts up to date yet! Greg From: Ziots, Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 14 August 2008 1:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Major Vmware Bug Hits Today, BE advised. The funny part this guy was an EX Microsoft Higher Up, and he is already making the wrong impression with the Virtual world at Vmware. And trust me folks, the fix is not pretty, we are applying it now, and its quite funky, Z VMware has announced the availability of a patch to fix the date bug that was reported earlier yesterday. They have also released a letterhttp://blogs.vmware.com/console/2008/08/letter-from-vmw.html from their CEO, Paul Maritz, explaining the problem and apologizing for it. From VMware support: Dear VMware Customer, The express patches are now available for download that will resolve the ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2 issue which causes the product license to expire as of August 12, 2008. Please go to http://www.vmware.com/go/esxexpresspatches for more information. Thank You, The VMware ESX Product Team The express patch page displays the following information, be sure and carefully read through the KB articles that apply to either ESX or ESXi before download the new versions. The ESXi patch is about 204MB in size and the ESX patch is 104MB. The patches do not require a reboot of the ESX host but it must be in maintenance mode and all virtual machines shut down or moved to other hosts before it can be applied. The suggested steps for applying the patch as posted by one user in the Vmtn forums are: 1) Turn off the ntp client on ESX 3.5 u2 server that you are going to VMotion VM’s too 2) Make sure VM’s tools do not have time “checked” Time synchronization between the virtual machine and ESX server operation system 3) Change the date on ESX server that you are going to vmotion your VMs to 4) vmotion the VM’s to the ESX server with the date changed 5) Apply the patch to the ESX 3.5 u2 server that the VMs have been moved off of 6_ Vmotion the VM’s back to the patched ESX 3.5 u2 server 7) Patch and change the date back on the other ESX 3.5 u2 server. Express Patch Download Special Notice: Please Read An issue has been uncovered with ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2 that causes the product license to expire on August 12, 2008. Follow the steps below to correct this issue: 1. Read the following Knowledge Base articles first: * Fix of virtual machine power on failure issue, refer to KB 1006716http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006716 * For VI 3.5, refer to KB 1006721http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006721 for deployment consideration and instruction * For VI3.5i, refer to KB 1006670http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006670 for deployment consideration and instruction 2. Download and apply the express patch according to the product(s) you have: * VMware ESXi 3.5 Update 2 Express Patchhttp://www.vmware.com/go/esxiu2patch081208 * VMware ESX 3.5 Update 2 Express Patchhttp://www.vmware.com/go/esxu2patch081208 The full product downloads are still currently unavailable and are expected to be re-released as a new build number shortly. Earlier VMware also released this update that provides some more information on the issue and answers to frequently asked questions. Dear VMware Customers, Please find the latest update about the product expiration issue. We are staging the express patches and expect it to complete in an hour. When the staging is done, we will send out a communication with more details. Please see FAQ 1) for details about these express patches. In FAQ 2), we describe what upgrade media and update patch bundles to be release later are for. These are the updates since our last communication. Complete information on the ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2 issue follows: *Problem:* An issue has been discovered by many VMware customers and partners with ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2 where Virtual Machines fail to power on or VMotion successfully. This problem began to occur on August 12, 2008 for customers that had upgraded to ESX 3.5 Update 2. The problem is caused by a build timeout that was mistakenly left enabled for the release build. The following message is displayed in the vmware.log file for the virtual machine: This product has expired. Be sure that your host machine’s date and time are set correctly. There is a more recent version available at the VMware web site: http://www.vmware.com/info?id=4. —– Module License Power on failed. *Affected Products:* •- VMware ESX 3.5 Update 2 ESXi 3.5 Update 2. * - The problem will be seen ifESX350-200806201-UG is applied to a system. * - No other VMware products are affected. *What has been done?* * - VMware removed the ESX 3.5 Update and
RE: Major Vmware Bug Hits Today, BE advised.
We do have VC but i havent got around to installing UM just yet. Only just recently gone to 3.5 and this is our first esxi box, all others are 3.5 update 1 The way i did it was to run the Vmware Infrastructure Update program. It found the available update and i ran it from there with no hassles. Read the ESXi setup guide (either installable or embedded depending on which one you have) The details of how to use IU is in there http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_UScmd=displayKCexternalId=1006670 Cheers Greg From: Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 14 August 2008 10:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Major Vmware Bug Hits Today, BE advised. Greg what did you do to update it? Do you have a Virt Center license and use UM? The RCLI command that is supposed to work hasn’t for me? jlc From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 4:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Major Vmware Bug Hits Today, BE advised. I applied the update yesterday on esxi and all is well again I can understand the timebomb code, most places will do it to stop propagation of leaked code but to not remove it when it goes live is a cardinal sin and a major balls up on their part in my book. How fortunate we were to not have all our hosts up to date yet! Greg From: Ziots, Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 14 August 2008 1:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Major Vmware Bug Hits Today, BE advised. The funny part this guy was an EX Microsoft Higher Up, and he is already making the wrong impression with the Virtual world at Vmware. And trust me folks, the fix is not pretty, we are applying it now, and its quite funky, Z VMware has announced the availability of a patch to fix the date bug that was reported earlier yesterday. They have also released a letterhttp://blogs.vmware.com/console/2008/08/letter-from-vmw.html from their CEO, Paul Maritz, explaining the problem and apologizing for it. From VMware support: Dear VMware Customer, The express patches are now available for download that will resolve the ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2 issue which causes the product license to expire as of August 12, 2008. Please go to http://www.vmware.com/go/esxexpresspatches for more information. Thank You, The VMware ESX Product Team The express patch page displays the following information, be sure and carefully read through the KB articles that apply to either ESX or ESXi before download the new versions. The ESXi patch is about 204MB in size and the ESX patch is 104MB. The patches do not require a reboot of the ESX host but it must be in maintenance mode and all virtual machines shut down or moved to other hosts before it can be applied. The suggested steps for applying the patch as posted by one user in the Vmtn forums are: 1) Turn off the ntp client on ESX 3.5 u2 server that you are going to VMotion VM’s too 2) Make sure VM’s tools do not have time “checked” Time synchronization between the virtual machine and ESX server operation system 3) Change the date on ESX server that you are going to vmotion your VMs to 4) vmotion the VM’s to the ESX server with the date changed 5) Apply the patch to the ESX 3.5 u2 server that the VMs have been moved off of 6_ Vmotion the VM’s back to the patched ESX 3.5 u2 server 7) Patch and change the date back on the other ESX 3.5 u2 server. Express Patch Download Special Notice: Please Read An issue has been uncovered with ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2 that causes the product license to expire on August 12, 2008. Follow the steps below to correct this issue: 1. Read the following Knowledge Base articles first: * Fix of virtual machine power on failure issue, refer to KB 1006716http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006716 * For VI 3.5, refer to KB 1006721http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006721 for deployment consideration and instruction * For VI3.5i, refer to KB 1006670http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006670 for deployment consideration and instruction 2. Download and apply the express patch according to the product(s) you have: * VMware ESXi 3.5 Update 2 Express Patchhttp://www.vmware.com/go/esxiu2patch081208 * VMware ESX 3.5 Update 2 Express Patchhttp://www.vmware.com/go/esxu2patch081208 The full product downloads are still currently unavailable and are expected to be re-released as a new build number shortly. Earlier VMware also released this update that provides some more information on the issue and answers to frequently asked questions. Dear VMware Customers, Please find the latest update about the product expiration issue. We are staging the express patches and expect it to complete in an hour. When the staging is done, we will send out a communication with more details. Please see FAQ 1) for details about these express patches. In FAQ 2), we describe what upgrade media and update patch bundles to be release later
RE: Major Vmware Bug Hits Today, BE advised.
That's strange. stupid question, are you sure its a U2 host? From: Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 14 August 2008 10:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Major Vmware Bug Hits Today, BE advised. That’s the thing, the vi client from the http server on the 3.5i server did not install Infrastructure Update… Not sure how to get that now that all 3.5i stuff is pulled from the vmware website. Oh well… jlc From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 6:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Major Vmware Bug Hits Today, BE advised. We do have VC but i havent got around to installing UM just yet. Only just recently gone to 3.5 and this is our first esxi box, all others are 3.5 update 1 The way i did it was to run the Vmware Infrastructure Update program. It found the available update and i ran it from there with no hassles. Read the ESXi setup guide (either installable or embedded depending on which one you have) The details of how to use IU is in there http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_UScmd=displayKCexternalId=1006670 Cheers Greg From: Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 14 August 2008 10:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Major Vmware Bug Hits Today, BE advised. Greg what did you do to update it? Do you have a Virt Center license and use UM? The RCLI command that is supposed to work hasn’t for me? jlc From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 4:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Major Vmware Bug Hits Today, BE advised. I applied the update yesterday on esxi and all is well again I can understand the timebomb code, most places will do it to stop propagation of leaked code but to not remove it when it goes live is a cardinal sin and a major balls up on their part in my book. How fortunate we were to not have all our hosts up to date yet! Greg From: Ziots, Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 14 August 2008 1:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Major Vmware Bug Hits Today, BE advised. The funny part this guy was an EX Microsoft Higher Up, and he is already making the wrong impression with the Virtual world at Vmware. And trust me folks, the fix is not pretty, we are applying it now, and its quite funky, Z VMware has announced the availability of a patch to fix the date bug that was reported earlier yesterday. They have also released a letterhttp://blogs.vmware.com/console/2008/08/letter-from-vmw.html from their CEO, Paul Maritz, explaining the problem and apologizing for it. From VMware support: Dear VMware Customer, The express patches are now available for download that will resolve the ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2 issue which causes the product license to expire as of August 12, 2008. Please go to http://www.vmware.com/go/esxexpresspatches for more information. Thank You, The VMware ESX Product Team The express patch page displays the following information, be sure and carefully read through the KB articles that apply to either ESX or ESXi before download the new versions. The ESXi patch is about 204MB in size and the ESX patch is 104MB. The patches do not require a reboot of the ESX host but it must be in maintenance mode and all virtual machines shut down or moved to other hosts before it can be applied. The suggested steps for applying the patch as posted by one user in the Vmtn forums are: 1) Turn off the ntp client on ESX 3.5 u2 server that you are going to VMotion VM’s too 2) Make sure VM’s tools do not have time “checked” Time synchronization between the virtual machine and ESX server operation system 3) Change the date on ESX server that you are going to vmotion your VMs to 4) vmotion the VM’s to the ESX server with the date changed 5) Apply the patch to the ESX 3.5 u2 server that the VMs have been moved off of 6_ Vmotion the VM’s back to the patched ESX 3.5 u2 server 7) Patch and change the date back on the other ESX 3.5 u2 server. Express Patch Download Special Notice: Please Read An issue has been uncovered with ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2 that causes the product license to expire on August 12, 2008. Follow the steps below to correct this issue: 1. Read the following Knowledge Base articles first: * Fix of virtual machine power on failure issue, refer to KB 1006716http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006716 * For VI 3.5, refer to KB 1006721http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006721 for deployment consideration and instruction * For VI3.5i, refer to KB 1006670http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006670 for deployment consideration and instruction 2. Download and apply the express patch according to the product(s) you have: * VMware ESXi 3.5 Update 2 Express Patchhttp://www.vmware.com/go/esxiu2patch081208 * VMware ESX 3.5 Update 2 Express Patchhttp://www.vmware.com/go/esxu2patch081208 The full product
RE: Major Vmware Bug Hits Today, BE advised.
Are you managing them via VC? If you point a client at the server itself does it ask to download the update, and it still doesnt install the updater? then im stumped without looking any deeper. Greg From: Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 14 August 2008 1:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Major Vmware Bug Hits Today, BE advised. Oh yeah, vm’s wont start w/o the date set back :) It’s the fact that the installer never installed Infrastructure Update. jlc From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 8:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Major Vmware Bug Hits Today, BE advised. That's strange. stupid question, are you sure its a U2 host? From: Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 14 August 2008 10:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Major Vmware Bug Hits Today, BE advised. That’s the thing, the vi client from the http server on the 3.5i server did not install Infrastructure Update… Not sure how to get that now that all 3.5i stuff is pulled from the vmware website. Oh well… jlc From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 6:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Major Vmware Bug Hits Today, BE advised. We do have VC but i havent got around to installing UM just yet. Only just recently gone to 3.5 and this is our first esxi box, all others are 3.5 update 1 The way i did it was to run the Vmware Infrastructure Update program. It found the available update and i ran it from there with no hassles. Read the ESXi setup guide (either installable or embedded depending on which one you have) The details of how to use IU is in there http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_UScmd=displayKCexternalId=1006670 Cheers Greg From: Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 14 August 2008 10:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Major Vmware Bug Hits Today, BE advised. Greg what did you do to update it? Do you have a Virt Center license and use UM? The RCLI command that is supposed to work hasn’t for me? jlc From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 4:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Major Vmware Bug Hits Today, BE advised. I applied the update yesterday on esxi and all is well again I can understand the timebomb code, most places will do it to stop propagation of leaked code but to not remove it when it goes live is a cardinal sin and a major balls up on their part in my book. How fortunate we were to not have all our hosts up to date yet! Greg From: Ziots, Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 14 August 2008 1:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Major Vmware Bug Hits Today, BE advised. The funny part this guy was an EX Microsoft Higher Up, and he is already making the wrong impression with the Virtual world at Vmware. And trust me folks, the fix is not pretty, we are applying it now, and its quite funky, Z VMware has announced the availability of a patch to fix the date bug that was reported earlier yesterday. They have also released a letterhttp://blogs.vmware.com/console/2008/08/letter-from-vmw.html from their CEO, Paul Maritz, explaining the problem and apologizing for it. From VMware support: Dear VMware Customer, The express patches are now available for download that will resolve the ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2 issue which causes the product license to expire as of August 12, 2008. Please go to http://www.vmware.com/go/esxexpresspatches for more information. Thank You, The VMware ESX Product Team The express patch page displays the following information, be sure and carefully read through the KB articles that apply to either ESX or ESXi before download the new versions. The ESXi patch is about 204MB in size and the ESX patch is 104MB. The patches do not require a reboot of the ESX host but it must be in maintenance mode and all virtual machines shut down or moved to other hosts before it can be applied. The suggested steps for applying the patch as posted by one user in the Vmtn forums are: 1) Turn off the ntp client on ESX 3.5 u2 server that you are going to VMotion VM’s too 2) Make sure VM’s tools do not have time “checked” Time synchronization between the virtual machine and ESX server operation system 3) Change the date on ESX server that you are going to vmotion your VMs to 4) vmotion the VM’s to the ESX server with the date changed 5) Apply the patch to the ESX 3.5 u2 server that the VMs have been moved off of 6_ Vmotion the VM’s back to the patched ESX 3.5 u2 server 7) Patch and change the date back on the other ESX 3.5 u2 server. Express Patch Download Special Notice: Please Read An issue has been uncovered with ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2 that causes the product license to expire on August 12
RE: Vmware ESXi question
Foundation shouldn't be that much. I think you are thinking of Standard. The only benefit Std over Fnd is HA which we aren't doing on our non-prod environment. We do however want to manage it with VC as we do with all our hosts, hence we need to pay for that. From: Sam Cayze [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 4:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question Yeah, ESXi should be about $70 usd with Dell on the 2950's. But the foundation virtual center licseanse, which you will want, is about 3K. You don't 'have' to have it, but managing a virtual infrasture, even with one ESX box, is much nicer with Virtual Center. From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 11:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question OK i think i see what's going on here. ESXi in both flavour (installable or embedded is indeed free) the issue we had was to be able to manage it with Virtual Center which is our choice requires a Virtual Center Agent. ESXi doesnt not come licensed with a VC Agent. Hence you still need to buy either Foundation $995, Standard $2995, Enterprise $5750 software. We were being quoted for the Standard license on top which is where the extra 3k came from on the quote. The standard license is what we have been buying of later, so i guess he figured that would be ok this time. So i think it is going to be at least a foundation license for this one just so we can use it with Virtual Center. You know i have to hand it to these Vmware guys. Every feature from the ground up requires a different license and additional software to work with the other. The prime example being you can buy an Enterprise license but to drive any of it you need to cough up for Virtual Center! :) ahh well. Greg From: Greg Mulholland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 1:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question So the installable version is free, but the embedded isn't? i am getting this right ? From: Martin Blackstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 12:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question No. You did. :) From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question The installable version is free right now. OP is asking about the embedded version. Are you suggesting that Dell, HP, IBM, etc. will stop charging for the embedded version? From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question ESXi will be free in a few weeks so anything more than $0 is too much. From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question Sorry no server is 11k and esxi is 3k on its own if we go the embedded option. I am not willing to pay 3k when i can download it for fre!! From: Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question Wow, 3k for the server *and* esxi I hope? Who cares about it being embedded? My esxi runs on two small 36 gig sas mirrored drives, and the rest of the space holds iso’s :) jlc From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 6:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Vmware ESXi question Hi all Got a quick question for the ESX folk among us. We are looking at adding some more no -prod vm hosts and i am in the process of quoting for Dell 2950's and have been to-ing and fro-ing about ESXi installable or embedded. Our Dell rep is quoting us 3k AUS for the ESXi embedded portion. Does that sound right, did they only make the installable version free? It seems to me like he hasn't caught with the news!! I would like to go for the embedded version however i am not convinced it is worth it for 3k a pop!! anyone have anymore info or able to do a quick check with their Dell or HP rep? Cheers Greg ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: VMWare and Exchange
Both! From: Fogarty, Richard R Mr CTR USA USASOC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 10:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare and Exchange Front end, back end? -Original Message- From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 8:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare and Exchange Two exchange boxes both virtualised. FC SAN. no issues. Looking at a upgrading other sites as well in the same frame From: Fogarty, Richard R Mr CTR USA USASOC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 10:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare and Exchange I've worked with the VMWare engineer. His statement was pretty much what I expected - he stated that the capacity planner usually is pretty much dead on for most people. Those numbers indicated no issues that we didn't expect. We analyzed the numbers of the IOPs and determined that a Fiber Channel environment would be better (as space wasn't really an issue for us) and decided upon that instead of ISCSI. I think the only issue that I can recall with MS clusters in a vmware environment was that iSCSI was not supported. That was one of the other reasons we went with FC. Still looking for stress testing our environment to get a more accurate picture -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare and Exchange Multiple sites. Largest site runs 4,000 mailboxes (users + resource) active/active/passive cluster, Hitachi SAN The SAN is shared across multiple resources through fiber switches. A load in one environment (SQL, FPS, etc) can have a significantly negative effect elsewhere. Not virtualized performance is barely acceptable and our SQL clusters (databases in the hundreds of GB and TB range) have to really watch disk IO as well. Mailbox size not really regulated by fiat. That's why I have the caveats about your environment being key. Checking your performance numbers in consideration with the VMware is crucial. Your size though should really get you a VMware engineer to personally chat with. We're being pushed in this direction as well but we would be switching back ends. Until I actually see what that will be I will remain somewhat cynical. :) I remember some reading some issues with running Microsoft clusters in virtualized environments but cannot find the references and it was a year or two ago I researched it so it may have changed since then. Steven On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Fogarty, Richard R Mr CTR USA USASOC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Care to share the size of your environment? -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 5:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare and Exchange We have a test environment with Exchange clusters and it is very sensitive and stops occasionally and is small (100 test users). I doubt our production environment would survive virtualization with the number of users we have. Search for 'VMware Dell Exchange white paper and you will find the white paper with information on Exchange 2003. VMware itself claims to be running all their Exchange servers in a VMware environment (big shock I know) and they are more then happy to provide access to reps/engineers to talk about it pretty much anytime. I myself am not comfortable with the concept of running an Exchange mailbox server on VMware due to disk i/o concerns in my environment but yours may be different. Things I have heard about Exchange 2007 will cause me to research that as a separate issue because the IO load is supposed to have been significantly reduced so the impact will probably be less. Any MS support concerns are a separate issue and for the most part can be dealt with if you are of sufficiently sized support contract. Virtualization depends on your environment. There are to many test environments alone out there proving it will work, it depends on will it work in your environments supporting your users and their expectations. Steven Peck On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Fogarty Richard MR - CONTR - Team EITC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone virtualized their whole Exchange environment? Any issues? Has anyone had issue particularly with a backend box being virtualized? What about if it is clustered with MS Clustering services. Rick Fogarty Team EITC, Senior Systems Engineer Planning Systems Engineering Coordinator US Army Special Operations Command (910) 396-0501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com
Vmware ESXi question
Hi all Got a quick question for the ESX folk among us. We are looking at adding some more no -prod vm hosts and i am in the process of quoting for Dell 2950's and have been to-ing and fro-ing about ESXi installable or embedded. Our Dell rep is quoting us 3k AUS for the ESXi embedded portion. Does that sound right, did they only make the installable version free? It seems to me like he hasn't caught with the news!! I would like to go for the embedded version however i am not convinced it is worth it for 3k a pop!! anyone have anymore info or able to do a quick check with their Dell or HP rep? Cheers Greg ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: VMWare and Exchange
Two exchange boxes both virtualised. FC SAN. no issues. Looking at a upgrading other sites as well in the same frame From: Fogarty, Richard R Mr CTR USA USASOC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 10:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare and Exchange I've worked with the VMWare engineer. His statement was pretty much what I expected - he stated that the capacity planner usually is pretty much dead on for most people. Those numbers indicated no issues that we didn't expect. We analyzed the numbers of the IOPs and determined that a Fiber Channel environment would be better (as space wasn't really an issue for us) and decided upon that instead of ISCSI. I think the only issue that I can recall with MS clusters in a vmware environment was that iSCSI was not supported. That was one of the other reasons we went with FC. Still looking for stress testing our environment to get a more accurate picture -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare and Exchange Multiple sites. Largest site runs 4,000 mailboxes (users + resource) active/active/passive cluster, Hitachi SAN The SAN is shared across multiple resources through fiber switches. A load in one environment (SQL, FPS, etc) can have a significantly negative effect elsewhere. Not virtualized performance is barely acceptable and our SQL clusters (databases in the hundreds of GB and TB range) have to really watch disk IO as well. Mailbox size not really regulated by fiat. That's why I have the caveats about your environment being key. Checking your performance numbers in consideration with the VMware is crucial. Your size though should really get you a VMware engineer to personally chat with. We're being pushed in this direction as well but we would be switching back ends. Until I actually see what that will be I will remain somewhat cynical. :) I remember some reading some issues with running Microsoft clusters in virtualized environments but cannot find the references and it was a year or two ago I researched it so it may have changed since then. Steven On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Fogarty, Richard R Mr CTR USA USASOC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Care to share the size of your environment? -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 5:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare and Exchange We have a test environment with Exchange clusters and it is very sensitive and stops occasionally and is small (100 test users). I doubt our production environment would survive virtualization with the number of users we have. Search for 'VMware Dell Exchange white paper and you will find the white paper with information on Exchange 2003. VMware itself claims to be running all their Exchange servers in a VMware environment (big shock I know) and they are more then happy to provide access to reps/engineers to talk about it pretty much anytime. I myself am not comfortable with the concept of running an Exchange mailbox server on VMware due to disk i/o concerns in my environment but yours may be different. Things I have heard about Exchange 2007 will cause me to research that as a separate issue because the IO load is supposed to have been significantly reduced so the impact will probably be less. Any MS support concerns are a separate issue and for the most part can be dealt with if you are of sufficiently sized support contract. Virtualization depends on your environment. There are to many test environments alone out there proving it will work, it depends on will it work in your environments supporting your users and their expectations. Steven Peck On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Fogarty Richard MR - CONTR - Team EITC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone virtualized their whole Exchange environment? Any issues? Has anyone had issue particularly with a backend box being virtualized? What about if it is clustered with MS Clustering services. Rick Fogarty Team EITC, Senior Systems Engineer Planning Systems Engineering Coordinator US Army Special Operations Command (910) 396-0501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Vmware ESXi question
Sorry no server is 11k and esxi is 3k on its own if we go the embedded option. I am not willing to pay 3k when i can download it for fre!! From: Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question Wow, 3k for the server *and* esxi I hope? Who cares about it being embedded? My esxi runs on two small 36 gig sas mirrored drives, and the rest of the space holds iso’s :) jlc From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 6:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Vmware ESXi question Hi all Got a quick question for the ESX folk among us. We are looking at adding some more no -prod vm hosts and i am in the process of quoting for Dell 2950's and have been to-ing and fro-ing about ESXi installable or embedded. Our Dell rep is quoting us 3k AUS for the ESXi embedded portion. Does that sound right, did they only make the installable version free? It seems to me like he hasn't caught with the news!! I would like to go for the embedded version however i am not convinced it is worth it for 3k a pop!! anyone have anymore info or able to do a quick check with their Dell or HP rep? Cheers Greg ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Vmware ESXi question
So the installable version is free, but the embedded isn't? i am getting this right ? From: Martin Blackstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 12:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question No. You did. :) From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question The installable version is free right now. OP is asking about the embedded version. Are you suggesting that Dell, HP, IBM, etc. will stop charging for the embedded version? From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question ESXi will be free in a few weeks so anything more than $0 is too much. From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question Sorry no server is 11k and esxi is 3k on its own if we go the embedded option. I am not willing to pay 3k when i can download it for fre!! From: Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question Wow, 3k for the server *and* esxi I hope? Who cares about it being embedded? My esxi runs on two small 36 gig sas mirrored drives, and the rest of the space holds iso’s :) jlc From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 6:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Vmware ESXi question Hi all Got a quick question for the ESX folk among us. We are looking at adding some more no -prod vm hosts and i am in the process of quoting for Dell 2950's and have been to-ing and fro-ing about ESXi installable or embedded. Our Dell rep is quoting us 3k AUS for the ESXi embedded portion. Does that sound right, did they only make the installable version free? It seems to me like he hasn't caught with the news!! I would like to go for the embedded version however i am not convinced it is worth it for 3k a pop!! anyone have anymore info or able to do a quick check with their Dell or HP rep? Cheers Greg ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Vmware ESXi question
OK i think i see what's going on here. ESXi in both flavour (installable or embedded is indeed free) the issue we had was to be able to manage it with Virtual Center which is our choice requires a Virtual Center Agent. ESXi doesnt not come licensed with a VC Agent. Hence you still need to buy either Foundation $995, Standard $2995, Enterprise $5750 software. We were being quoted for the Standard license on top which is where the extra 3k came from on the quote. The standard license is what we have been buying of later, so i guess he figured that would be ok this time. So i think it is going to be at least a foundation license for this one just so we can use it with Virtual Center. You know i have to hand it to these Vmware guys. Every feature from the ground up requires a different license and additional software to work with the other. The prime example being you can buy an Enterprise license but to drive any of it you need to cough up for Virtual Center! :) ahh well. Greg From: Greg Mulholland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 1:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question So the installable version is free, but the embedded isn't? i am getting this right ? From: Martin Blackstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 12:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question No. You did. :) From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question The installable version is free right now. OP is asking about the embedded version. Are you suggesting that Dell, HP, IBM, etc. will stop charging for the embedded version? From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question ESXi will be free in a few weeks so anything more than $0 is too much. From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question Sorry no server is 11k and esxi is 3k on its own if we go the embedded option. I am not willing to pay 3k when i can download it for fre!! From: Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 1 August 2008 11:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vmware ESXi question Wow, 3k for the server *and* esxi I hope? Who cares about it being embedded? My esxi runs on two small 36 gig sas mirrored drives, and the rest of the space holds iso’s :) jlc From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 6:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Vmware ESXi question Hi all Got a quick question for the ESX folk among us. We are looking at adding some more no -prod vm hosts and i am in the process of quoting for Dell 2950's and have been to-ing and fro-ing about ESXi installable or embedded. Our Dell rep is quoting us 3k AUS for the ESXi embedded portion. Does that sound right, did they only make the installable version free? It seems to me like he hasn't caught with the news!! I would like to go for the embedded version however i am not convinced it is worth it for 3k a pop!! anyone have anymore info or able to do a quick check with their Dell or HP rep? Cheers Greg ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: San Recommendations
We actually decided on a HP MSA 2000i. simply for our ISCSI setup. Looking at 20tb initially and adding another shelve later down the track, if we even need it. We will deal with our FC setup when our cx300 runs out of warranty.. anyone have any experience with the 2000i? Greg From: Greg Mulholland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 10 July 2008 12:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: San Recommendations Thanks Martin I am waiting confirmation from Dell that we can use our existing shelves and disks but i think that is true as we have been told it is a more cost effective solution as far as being able to upgrade.. Obviously this leaves HP out of the question. FC is working well for us and whilst i do love the idea of cheap sata disks for our non prod and low end storage requirements i am not sure that SATA will provide the iops, throughput maybe, to sustain our database servers and mail servers. Thanks for your info. Greg From: Martin Blackstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 10 July 2008 12:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: San Recommendations Greg, will the new SAN allow you to reuse your existing shelves or disks? I'm not sure if you were alluding to that or not, but obviously if you can, that would be a huge advantage. Also, FC rocks, but don't think that ISCSI can't handle your enterprise applications. Especially with 10GB Ethernet out there. SATA is also starting to gain a foothold there as well. I'm still not 100% sold on the later, but its moving up. It also makes for great archival storage. -Original Message- From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 7:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: San Recommendations Guys We are in the process of updating our aging and nearly out of warranty Dell CX300 SAN. We were looking at the CX3-20 as we currently use FC disks. The CX3-20 would allow us to use FC and Sata with ISCI shelves. The SATA/ISCSI will be handy for our non production and non critical requirements. We have now started to look at HP because they are trying to appease us and i would like to know if anyone has any recommendations on HP san models. This office has about 250-300 users with a pro/non prod requirement for potentially 100tb or near of space. We would also like to preferably keep our FC available for the exchange, sql and oracle use that is our core business. Fwiw the majority of our servers are broken into vmware ESX hosts (prod and non prod) Be interested to hear anyone's thoughts. Greg ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: San Recommendations
No we didn't really have a choice. HP was the only option due to special circumstances!! From: Sean Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 11 July 2008 9:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: San Recommendations Greg, Just curious, did you look at the NS Series from EMC for your iSCSI needs? - Sean On 7/10/08, Greg Mulholland [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We actually decided on a HP MSA 2000i. simply for our ISCSI setup. Looking at 20tb initially and adding another shelve later down the track, if we even need it. We will deal with our FC setup when our cx300 runs out of warranty.. anyone have any experience with the 2000i? Greg From: Greg Mulholland [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 10 July 2008 12:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: San Recommendations Thanks Martin I am waiting confirmation from Dell that we can use our existing shelves and disks but i think that is true as we have been told it is a more cost effective solution as far as being able to upgrade.. Obviously this leaves HP out of the question. FC is working well for us and whilst i do love the idea of cheap sata disks for our non prod and low end storage requirements i am not sure that SATA will provide the iops, throughput maybe, to sustain our database servers and mail servers. Thanks for your info. Greg From: Martin Blackstone [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 10 July 2008 12:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: San Recommendations Greg, will the new SAN allow you to reuse your existing shelves or disks? I'm not sure if you were alluding to that or not, but obviously if you can, that would be a huge advantage. Also, FC rocks, but don't think that ISCSI can't handle your enterprise applications. Especially with 10GB Ethernet out there. SATA is also starting to gain a foothold there as well. I'm still not 100% sold on the later, but its moving up. It also makes for great archival storage. -Original Message- From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 7:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: San Recommendations Guys We are in the process of updating our aging and nearly out of warranty Dell CX300 SAN. We were looking at the CX3-20 as we currently use FC disks. The CX3-20 would allow us to use FC and Sata with ISCI shelves. The SATA/ISCSI will be handy for our non production and non critical requirements. We have now started to look at HP because they are trying to appease us and i would like to know if anyone has any recommendations on HP san models. This office has about 250-300 users with a pro/non prod requirement for potentially 100tb or near of space. We would also like to preferably keep our FC available for the exchange, sql and oracle use that is our core business. Fwiw the majority of our servers are broken into vmware ESX hosts (prod and non prod) Be interested to hear anyone's thoughts. Greg ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
San Recommendations
Guys We are in the process of updating our aging and nearly out of warranty Dell CX300 SAN. We were looking at the CX3-20 as we currently use FC disks. The CX3-20 would allow us to use FC and Sata with ISCI shelves. The SATA/ISCSI will be handy for our non production and non critical requirements. We have now started to look at HP because they are trying to appease us and i would like to know if anyone has any recommendations on HP san models. This office has about 250-300 users with a pro/non prod requirement for potentially 100tb or near of space. We would also like to preferably keep our FC available for the exchange, sql and oracle use that is our core business. Fwiw the majority of our servers are broken into vmware ESX hosts (prod and non prod) Be interested to hear anyone's thoughts. Greg ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: San Recommendations
Thanks Martin I am waiting confirmation from Dell that we can use our existing shelves and disks but i think that is true as we have been told it is a more cost effective solution as far as being able to upgrade.. Obviously this leaves HP out of the question. FC is working well for us and whilst i do love the idea of cheap sata disks for our non prod and low end storage requirements i am not sure that SATA will provide the iops, throughput maybe, to sustain our database servers and mail servers. Thanks for your info. Greg From: Martin Blackstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 10 July 2008 12:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: San Recommendations Greg, will the new SAN allow you to reuse your existing shelves or disks? I'm not sure if you were alluding to that or not, but obviously if you can, that would be a huge advantage. Also, FC rocks, but don't think that ISCSI can't handle your enterprise applications. Especially with 10GB Ethernet out there. SATA is also starting to gain a foothold there as well. I'm still not 100% sold on the later, but its moving up. It also makes for great archival storage. -Original Message- From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 7:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: San Recommendations Guys We are in the process of updating our aging and nearly out of warranty Dell CX300 SAN. We were looking at the CX3-20 as we currently use FC disks. The CX3-20 would allow us to use FC and Sata with ISCI shelves. The SATA/ISCSI will be handy for our non production and non critical requirements. We have now started to look at HP because they are trying to appease us and i would like to know if anyone has any recommendations on HP san models. This office has about 250-300 users with a pro/non prod requirement for potentially 100tb or near of space. We would also like to preferably keep our FC available for the exchange, sql and oracle use that is our core business. Fwiw the majority of our servers are broken into vmware ESX hosts (prod and non prod) Be interested to hear anyone's thoughts. Greg ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Hyper V and VMWare Comparison
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=enq=compare+hyperv+to+esxbtnG=Searchmeta= From: Active Elk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 1 July 2008 4:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hyper V and VMWare Comparison Hi Ken, We just want to compared what can each VM solution do and what they cannot do. Basically it is like a feature to feature comparison. MS and VMWare will have their own marketing team to bash the other party up and we would like to have a more independent and fair comparison. Thanks. Best Regards, WY - Original Message From: Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Tuesday, 1 July 2008 12:32:58 Subject: RE: Hyper V and VMWare Comparison I have a fairly detailed comparison, but it's our internal IP. Do you have specific areas that you want compared? Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Active Elk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 1 July 2008 8:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hyper V and VMWare Comparison Hi, With Hyper V now officially shipping from MS. Does anyone know of any website that does a detailed comparison between Hyper V and VMWare ESX? Thanks. Best Regards, Wei Yu ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ Yahoo! Toolbar is now powered with Search Assist.Download it now! http://sg.toolbar.yahoo.com/ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Hyper V and VMWare Comparison
Besides.. esx is $1000 for the foundation version. I'd spend the extra $100! -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 1 July 2008 5:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hyper V and VMWare Comparison Only 50 active guests, and max 128GB host RAM supported. We haven't benchmarked disk I/O performance with Xen, but I've heard it's not great. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Steve Burkett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 1 July 2008 5:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hyper V and VMWare Comparison Might also want to take a look at Citrix XenServer. Citrix licensed the opensource Xen hypervisor, and have released as a commercial product with proper management console, virtual machine moving (ala vMotion) and so on. Aggressively priced at around $900 per server, they're trying to push in on the other two, placing themselves in between the other two in terms of features: http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=683148 -Original Message- From: Active Elk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 July 2008 07:03 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hyper V and VMWare Comparison Hi Ken, We just want to compared what can each VM solution do and what they cannot do. Basically it is like a feature to feature comparison. MS and VMWare will have their own marketing team to bash the other party up and we would like to have a more independent and fair comparison. Thanks. Best Regards, WY - Original Message From: Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Tuesday, 1 July 2008 12:32:58 Subject: RE: Hyper V and VMWare Comparison I have a fairly detailed comparison, but it's our internal IP. Do you have specific areas that you want compared? Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Active Elk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 1 July 2008 8:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hyper V and VMWare Comparison Hi, With Hyper V now officially shipping from MS. Does anyone know of any website that does a detailed comparison between Hyper V and VMWare ESX? Thanks. Best Regards, Wei Yu ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ Yahoo! Toolbar is now powered with Search Assist.Download it now! http://sg.toolbar.yahoo.com/ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: VMWare / Virtualization
I'd agree with most here There may be some special cases that do not warrant virtualisation as people have mentioned, fortunately our network has a limited amount of them. We have successfully virtualised multiples of Exchange 2k7, SQL, all dc's, and a host of other stuff. 40 or so in total. Our hosts are 2x quad cores with 16gb ram at present. There has been no need to upgrade memory at this point but we keep a fair bit of head room for host failover. I love the DR scenarios it allows me with consummate ease and also the provisioning of new servers takes bugger all time now. Unfortunately we are limited to our real failover without vmotion as yet but you cant win them all. Greg From: Fogarty, Richard R Mr CTR USA USASOC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 25 June 2008 10:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare / Virtualization Excellent points. I had forgotten about our RAS box and I didn't know about the Oracle issue - I'll have to dig into that one. E2k7 - that shouldn't be an issue as we have an Enterprise agreement and moving it to a physical box for support shouldn't be an issue. -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 5:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare / Virtualization Anything that requires specialized ISA/PCI/PCI-X/PCI-E hardware - fax cards, crypto cards, etc - absolutely cannot be virtualized. Anything that's timing sensitive - VoIP, software that needs to communicate over serial or parallel - might or might not work. VoIP in particular is discouraged for production but is passable for testing purposes. Anything else is fair game, but be aware that not all applications are supported in a virtualized environment. E2k7 is one of them (but I'm sure Hyper-V will be officially supported - gee, imagine that), Oracle is another. That's not to say it won't work, it's just that if: a) they find out it's virtualized b) trace a problem you're having to the fact that it's virtualized the support people will say we can't help you. Fogarty Richard MR - CONTR - Team EITC wrote: When virtualizing a datacenter is there a stand fast rule on what one can/cannot virtualize? -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: 10 most annoying programs on the Internet
Yeah i 'wowed' at that too.. life would be worth living without Outlook. Ok i exaggerate a bit! -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 1 June 2008 9:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: 10 most annoying programs on the Internet Obviously that guy has never used Notes for mail, otherwise Outlook wouldn't be there! Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 31 May 2008 5:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: 10 most annoying programs on the Internet Add to the list any site that makes you click 'Next' ten times to read a damn article. I'd have to agree with all of them except Outlook/Exchange. Wow, can't believe that was on the list. -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 2:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: 10 most annoying programs on the Internet I'm sure there are many more that could make the list: http://preview.tinyurl.com/64ynuo ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: ASA VPN device
You know you are :p -Original Message- From: Thomas W Shinder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 29 May 2008 2:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ASA VPN device Actually, if you upgrade to Windows Server 2008 you don't have to be hobbled by open source code. MS fully backs its SSTP solution which performs better and is arguably more secure than OpenVPN. And, since SSTP isn't supported by ISA, you can't claim that I'm an ISA ho' :) HTH, Tom -Original Message- From: Troy Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 4:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ASA VPN device Its not part of the GUI, but a quick search of the dd-wrt wiki provides: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/VPNC -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 2:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ASA VPN device Well there we go...so the cheap solution isn't viable, right? - Andy O. -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 4:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ASA VPN device Absolutely not. An OpenVPN client needs to talk to an OpenVPN server, and the only OpenVPN server implementation is native to Linux/*BSD, with a Windows port available. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: ISA Server 2006 SP1
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. What's good for the goose is not good for the gander and such... We use it, we love it, do you run your workstations on a 'cut down' linux kernel as well? G -Original Message- From: Clayton Doige [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 27 May 2008 5:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ISA Server 2006 SP1 I am not sure if ISA is the firewall of choice for a pure Microsoft environment Tom. There are plenty of other boxes I would trust more, maybe I am being old skool and need edukatin, but it's still a software firewall. Don't get me wrong, I use the product, but that's to secure things like Windows Mobile etc, and even then I plop in the DMZ behind another hardware box. -Original Message- From: Thomas W Shinder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 May 2008 20:22 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ISA Server 2006 SP1 I don't think that's fair. If you have an all UNIX or Linx environment, there are plenty of good firewalls out there. ISA is the firewall of choice only when you're running mostly Windows clients and servers. If you're running mostly *IX clients and servers, you might be happy with another firewall. HTH, Tom -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 10:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ISA Server 2006 SP1 If it's not ISA, it's crap! -Original Message- From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 8:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: FW: ISA Server 2006 SP1 From another list http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2008/05/23/isa-server-2006-serv ice- pack-1-features.aspx ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
FW: ISA Server 2006 SP1
From another list http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2008/05/23/isa-server-2006-service-pack-1-features.aspx ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Terminal Server Cals issue
We have a win2k3 r2 TS Server/licensing server. If I look at that, all I see is that it has issued temp licenses and not used any of the 100 device cals. Consequently we have a user who is reporting that he gets a your temp license will expire in 4 days. As far as I can gather this is correct as from my understating the first connection gets a grace period cal for 90 days. This would seem right cos his temp license has 4 days until the expiration and has been valid form 3 months ago (minus 4 days). The things that's getting me is that we have 34 temp licenses been issued and none of Windows 2000 Server - TS Per Device CAL of which we have 100 provided by our ent agreement Volume license are in use or being issued. The following article (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=822134) is interesting but im yet to make much sense of it or confirm what is happening. Very interestingly if I go into TS configuration\Server Settings \ Licensing mode it is set for Remote Desktop fro Administration which to me doesn't seem right, I would have thought it should say either per device or per user. One more thing I would through into the mix is that our previous license server was win2k, however this is a new box. Lastly if I start an app via nfuse/citrix and then go and check the licensing server there seems to be no license issued to me. I'm not much on TS and Citrix yet so any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks G ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Terminal Server Cals issue
Well that's my thinking now.. originally we had a 2k licensing server and had enterprise agreement cals. We upgraded the licensing server (rebuilt-new box) to win2k3. This article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837211/) seems to suggest that there is an issue there however it's a pre sp1 hotfix and we are at sp2. From the way that I figure if anyone with an existing license is fine but new connections would get a win2k3 temp license and not a 2k license. So what we would need to do it install 2k3 cals as part of our ent agreement. Trying to find some lit to support this theory though. From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 22 May 2008 6:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Terminal Server Cals issue I am not a TS person but can you even use Windows 2000 licenses on a Windows 2003 server? Jon On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Greg Mulholland [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a win2k3 r2 TS Server/licensing server. If I look at that, all I see is that it has issued temp licenses and not used any of the 100 device cals. Consequently we have a user who is reporting that he gets a your temp license will expire in 4 days. As far as I can gather this is correct as from my understating the first connection gets a grace period cal for 90 days. This would seem right cos his temp license has 4 days until the expiration and has been valid form 3 months ago (minus 4 days). The things that's getting me is that we have 34 temp licenses been issued and none of Windows 2000 Server - TS Per Device CAL of which we have 100 provided by our ent agreement Volume license are in use or being issued. The following article (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=822134) is interesting but im yet to make much sense of it or confirm what is happening. Very interestingly if I go into TS configuration\Server Settings \ Licensing mode it is set for Remote Desktop fro Administration which to me doesn't seem right, I would have thought it should say either per device or per user. One more thing I would through into the mix is that our previous license server was win2k, however this is a new box. Lastly if I start an app via nfuse/citrix and then go and check the licensing server there seems to be no license issued to me. I'm not much on TS and Citrix yet so any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks G ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Terminal Server Cals issue
Funny thing is our citrix server is win2k but our licensing server is 2k3. So they should be able to access the right permanent cal then i would have thought. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 23 May 2008 6:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Terminal Server Cals issue On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 4:56 AM, Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not a TS person but can you even use Windows 2000 licenses on a Windows 2003 server? Nope. CALs are good for older versions of Server, but not newer versions. For example, a 2003 TSCAL can be used to gain access to a 2000 Server, but not a 2008 Server. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/licensing-faq.aspx -- Ben ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: First look at 2008
If you are looking at windows server 2008 in any case then I'd look at the new TS features like remote app. Greg From: Gavin Wilby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 11 May 2008 2:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: First look at 2008 OK, I have a site in Ireland that have ti access 3 apps from a server on the Isle of Man, they currently do this via a TS2003 server, but they get the entire desktop to use - its confusing for them and irritating to support. I want to simply deliver these 3 apps to the users desktop - what to use 2008 TS or Citrix? On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:17 AM, Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Gavin Wilby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Subject: Re: First look at 2008 For me the killer in 2008 is the application delivery over TS Web. Easy to configure and works really well. Who needs Citrix anyhow? Those of us who don't want the limitations of TS 2008. http://www.citrix.com/site/resources/dynamic/salesdocs/Citrix_PresentationServer45_TerminalServices2003_2008FeatureAnalysis.pdf BTW, that document is a collaboration between the Citrix and MS Terminal Service teams so it is just not Citrix marketing hype. Webster ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Changing the logon screen saver
Background screen or screensaver? Cant remember the background screen key off the top of my head but you can do it.. as for screensaver try this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314493 Greg From: Bill Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 10 May 2008 6:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Changing the logon screen saver Hello all... I have a custom screen saver deployed by Group Policy that works fine when users are logged in. Is there a way using group policy to change to the custom screen saver when users are logged out? The environment is W3K3 AD, XP clients. Thanks for any help/advice. Bill Lambert Windows System Administrator Concuity A healthcare division of Trintech, Inc. Phone 847-941-9206 Fax 847-465-9147 [cid:image001.gif@01C8B26D.3D092CD0] NASDAQ: TTPA The information contained in this e-mail message, including any attached files, is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the recipient) you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. Thank you. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~inline: image001.gif
RE: Changing the logon screen saver
What he said... I'd use reg2adm -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 10 May 2008 7:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Changing the logon screen saver You will likely need to create a custom .adm file to import your registry changes into Group Policy. REG2ADM.EXE will help you do this. File deployments of .scr files, etc, will need to be done with custom .msi packages or perhaps computer startup scripts. Actually, it may be easier to just deploy everything via a custom. msi package in one shot. On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Bill Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Greg. I'm trying to change the login screen saver (as opposed to the regular one that comes up after users are logged in) to a custom one. I had seen that KB and actually used it to configure one PC as a test which worked fine. Now I would like to deploy those setting throughout the domain via GP and I've been unable to figure out how to do that. Bill Lambert Concuity 847-941-9206 From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 4:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Changing the logon screen saver Background screen or screensaver? Cant remember the background screen key off the top of my head but you can do it.. as for screensaver try this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314493 Greg From: Bill Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 10 May 2008 6:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Changing the logon screen saver Hello all... I have a custom screen saver deployed by Group Policy that works fine when users are logged in. Is there a way using group policy to change to the custom screen saver when users are logged out? The environment is W3K3 AD, XP clients. Thanks for any help/advice. Bill Lambert Windows System Administrator Concuity A healthcare division of Trintech, Inc. Phone 847-941-9206 Fax 847-465-9147 NASDAQ: TTPA The information contained in this e-mail message, including any attached files, is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the recipient) you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. Thank you. -- ME2 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Trusted Intranet Sites
You can. As ken suggested predefine all the security zone settings for IE in gpo. -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 6 May 2008 10:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Trusted Intranet Sites You can do this with the Microsoft supplied GPOs (use the Site To Zone assignment option) Do not edit the Default Domain Policy - create a new Domain policy for your business, and put all your domain-wide policies in there. Why? Then you know exactly what came in the box from Microsoft and what you've changed subsequently. It will help with maintenance and troubleshooting. I would always use a GPO over a batch file/logon script *if* they do the same thing. It's really easy to model the net effect of GPOs on users and computers using RSOP/GPMC. It's virtually impossible to model the effect of batch scripts unless you have a unit test harness... Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Troy Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 6 May 2008 4:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Trusted Intranet Sites You could use an adm if you wanted to, it all depends on how you want to run things. I went the lazy route and just added a bat file into the user login script in a GP (under User Config - Admin Templates - System - Logon - Run these programs at user logon). It checks a couple settings and then applies a couple registry settings so stuff matches. Things like registry adds to HKCU are super fast and the user doesn't even notice. -tm -Original Message- From: Phil Hershey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 11:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Trusted Intranet Sites Troy, How would I actually go about applying the registry hack with a policy? I'd need to use the Inetesc.adm file, wouldn't I? - Philip This communication, including attachments, is for the exclusive use of addressee and may contain proprietary, confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, disclosure, dissemination or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, delete this communication and destroy all copies. -Original Message- From: Troy Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 11:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Trusted Intranet Sites Phil, If you wanted to add rather than replace, this is merely a registry setting. Adding all of monacocoach.com to your local intranet would look like: (excuse silly outlook wrapping) reg add HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains\monacocoach.com /v * /t REG_DWORD /d 0001 /f So you could take that string and easily apply that in a policy without replacing existing settings. -troy -Original Message- From: Phil Hershey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 11:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: GPO: Trusted Intranet Sites I need to add an internal site to every user's Local Intranet sites. Is there a simple way to do that with a GPO or even the Default Domain GPO, since it applied to everyone? Phil Hershey ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Vista Ent Virtual Licensing
Does anybody know what the deal is with the vista licensing. We have allot of QA and Dev guys who we are looking at upgrading to Vista Ent as part of our Enterprise Agreement. These guys all use a number of VM's on their machine for testing purposes. I understand that we are allowed to run up to 4 vista vm's on each of their desktops as part of this however there is one major flaw. After testing the activation of one of these vm's it does in fact decrement our licence counter. Meaning that once we have activated the number of licenses we have available to us then bam.. no more licenses. Also im trying to work out how this structure works with the portability of the vm's. Anyone have any dealings with this I'd be interested to hear or any more up to date information. Cheers Greg ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Salary Advice
The salary game is always a funny question to me. What some people would value as 100k others would value at 70k so you sometimes cant compare salaries. My theory is if i really think i am worth 150k and it wont be a pain to move then i will chase that money. However if i think i know i can get more somewhere else but life and work circumstances mean moving is not advisable or possible then i will be happy with what i get. To me the place i work is just as important as what i do and the money i get paid.. Incidentally today is my last day at my current job.. :) From: Kevin Lundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 2 May 2008 2:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Salary Advice I'm in the Tampa area and if I had an opening, I'd hire someone with the skills you describe for about 80k. You said medical industry but I didn't see any mention of regulatory compliance. If you are responsible for that, maybe another 10k. On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Christos Ruci [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Afternoon, I need some advice on what you all think the relevant salary is for my current position. Currently I am the MIS (IT) Manager for a medical company with the following responsibilities. -9 offices -200 employees -2 technicians underneath -no network administrator -normal network management (Exchange,IIS, ISA, FTPS, Fax Server….etc) -in-house Web Application development/testing/hosting -Open 24 hours -Also manage the record management department (I created an in-house system to make all items electronic….member files, applications..etc) My salary is in review and I know they will be asking me what I think a fair salary is due to the upcoming changes that are to occur and the additional projects I am to complete. --I am heading a company move to another city and need do the wiring, design of the IT room, design of all the seating, moving of numbers, ordering of T1's/PRI's…etc --I am switching the company over to a VOIP system rather than a normal analog system. --I am also in the process of implementing a cyber center where we will be hosting all of our server with a DS3 connection back to corporate. (Due to being in Florida we needed something more secure for hurricane season) --I am also implementing redundant vendors for voice and data. Of course there is more but that is the jist of it. I should also include that I have been with the company for 3 years and 5 years prior experience. I have a BA in CIS and pursuing my MBA as well. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Salary Advice
Thanks .. i am really looking forward to it.. large dell shop and get some real hand on exp with ESX and just about everything else ive been doing for the last few years just on a larger scale. Plus there are some nice carrots for the next year, OCS, OPSmgr, Win2k8 etc.. oh and they money is a bonus :) From: James Kerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 2 May 2008 7:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Salary Advice Well, good luck at the new gig dude. - Original Message - From: Greg Mulhollandmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issuesmailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 5:49 PM Subject: RE: Salary Advice The salary game is always a funny question to me. What some people would value as 100k others would value at 70k so you sometimes cant compare salaries. My theory is if i really think i am worth 150k and it wont be a pain to move then i will chase that money. However if i think i know i can get more somewhere else but life and work circumstances mean moving is not advisable or possible then i will be happy with what i get. To me the place i work is just as important as what i do and the money i get paid.. Incidentally today is my last day at my current job.. :) From: Kevin Lundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 2 May 2008 2:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Salary Advice I'm in the Tampa area and if I had an opening, I'd hire someone with the skills you describe for about 80k. You said medical industry but I didn't see any mention of regulatory compliance. If you are responsible for that, maybe another 10k. On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Christos Ruci [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Afternoon, I need some advice on what you all think the relevant salary is for my current position. Currently I am the MIS (IT) Manager for a medical company with the following responsibilities. -9 offices -200 employees -2 technicians underneath -no network administrator -normal network management (Exchange,IIS, ISA, FTPS, Fax Server….etc) -in-house Web Application development/testing/hosting -Open 24 hours -Also manage the record management department (I created an in-house system to make all items electronic….member files, applications..etc) My salary is in review and I know they will be asking me what I think a fair salary is due to the upcoming changes that are to occur and the additional projects I am to complete. --I am heading a company move to another city and need do the wiring, design of the IT room, design of all the seating, moving of numbers, ordering of T1's/PRI's…etc --I am switching the company over to a VOIP system rather than a normal analog system. --I am also in the process of implementing a cyber center where we will be hosting all of our server with a DS3 connection back to corporate. (Due to being in Florida we needed something more secure for hurricane season) --I am also implementing redundant vendors for voice and data. Of course there is more but that is the jist of it. I should also include that I have been with the company for 3 years and 5 years prior experience. I have a BA in CIS and pursuing my MBA as well. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Salary Advice
LOL -- you have to explain in-jokes... related article: http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/business_news/7806.cntns Besides aren't you supposed to be in hospital?? From: Steve Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 2 May 2008 8:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Salary Advice OGC :) From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 7:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Salary Advice Thanks .. i am really looking forward to it.. large dell shop and get some real hand on exp with ESX and just about everything else ive been doing for the last few years just on a larger scale. Plus there are some nice carrots for the next year, OCS, OPSmgr, Win2k8 etc.. oh and they money is a bonus :) From: James Kerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 2 May 2008 7:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Salary Advice Well, good luck at the new gig dude. - Original Message - From: Greg Mulhollandmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issuesmailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 5:49 PM Subject: RE: Salary Advice The salary game is always a funny question to me. What some people would value as 100k others would value at 70k so you sometimes cant compare salaries. My theory is if i really think i am worth 150k and it wont be a pain to move then i will chase that money. However if i think i know i can get more somewhere else but life and work circumstances mean moving is not advisable or possible then i will be happy with what i get. To me the place i work is just as important as what i do and the money i get paid.. Incidentally today is my last day at my current job.. :) From: Kevin Lundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 2 May 2008 2:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Salary Advice I'm in the Tampa area and if I had an opening, I'd hire someone with the skills you describe for about 80k. You said medical industry but I didn't see any mention of regulatory compliance. If you are responsible for that, maybe another 10k. On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Christos Ruci [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Afternoon, I need some advice on what you all think the relevant salary is for my current position. Currently I am the MIS (IT) Manager for a medical company with the following responsibilities. -9 offices -200 employees -2 technicians underneath -no network administrator -normal network management (Exchange,IIS, ISA, FTPS, Fax Server….etc) -in-house Web Application development/testing/hosting -Open 24 hours -Also manage the record management department (I created an in-house system to make all items electronic….member files, applications..etc) My salary is in review and I know they will be asking me what I think a fair salary is due to the upcoming changes that are to occur and the additional projects I am to complete. --I am heading a company move to another city and need do the wiring, design of the IT room, design of all the seating, moving of numbers, ordering of T1's/PRI's…etc --I am switching the company over to a VOIP system rather than a normal analog system. --I am also in the process of implementing a cyber center where we will be hosting all of our server with a DS3 connection back to corporate. (Due to being in Florida we needed something more secure for hurricane season) --I am also implementing redundant vendors for voice and data. Of course there is more but that is the jist of it. I should also include that I have been with the company for 3 years and 5 years prior experience. I have a BA in CIS and pursuing my MBA as well. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: xobni invites
Ditto. 6 left -Original Message- From: Jon B. Lewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 25 April 2008 6:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: xobni invites Ditto. Got six left currently. Jon Lewis -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 2:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: xobni invites I've got invites, if anyone still needs. Contact off-list. Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 12:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: xobni invites lol.. For some odd reason I thought that was sent directly to me. Time for more coffee! On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, but I've been all out for hours. On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Eric Woodford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll take one! Looks promising... On 4/24/08, Sherry Abercrombie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so no invites on mine so far. On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Christopher J. Bosak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the bottom of the pane. J Christopher J. Bosak Vector Company c. 847.603.4673 [EMAIL PROTECTED] *You need to install an RTFM Interface, due to an LBNC issue.* *- B.O.F.H. (Merged 2 into 1) - Me* *From:* Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Thursday, April 24, 2008 07:57 hrs *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: xobni invites So I've gotten it installed, where do I find the invites to hand out at? BTW, LOVE IT!! On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 7:50 AM, mck1012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would also like one if anyone has an extra. - Original Message From: Andy Crellin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 8:45:44 AM Subject: RE: xobni invites These are all disappearing pretty quickly so if anyone's got a spare one knocking about I'd like to try it out. Cheers, Andy. *Andy Crellin * Technical Services Manager Leonard Cheshire Disability Telephone: 01904 479200 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *From:* Christopher J. Bosak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* 24 April 2008 13:27 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: xobni invites I also have some sitting around gathering dust if anyone wants any. Christopher J. Bosak Vector Company c. 847.603.4673 [EMAIL PROTECTED] *You need to install an RTFM Interface, due to an LBNC issue.* *- B.O.F.H. (Merged 2 into 1) - Me* *From:* Haralson, Joe (GE Comm Fin, non-GE) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Thursday, April 24, 2008 07:04 hrs *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: xobni invites I will take one if you don't mine George. Thanks Joe Haralson -- *From:* george rovithis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Thursday, April 24, 2008 6:52 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* xobni invites If anybody wants i also have xobni invites -- Get news, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Check it out! http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx%20 Internet communications are not secure and therefore Leonard Cheshire Disability does not accept any liability for the content of this message. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Leonard Cheshire Disability. If you have received this transmission in error, please contact the sender and delete it immediately. Leonard Cheshire Disability is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England no: 552847, and a registered charity no: 218186 (England Wales) and no: SC005117 (Scotland) VAT no: 899 3223 75. Registered office: 30 Millbank, London SW1P 4QD. -- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51733/*http:/mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ah u06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced
RE: Xobni issues and invites
Yeah the extraoutlook thing caught me out too. From: Carl Houseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 24 April 2008 4:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Xobni issues and invites Monday I put my name on the list at the Xobni website and got approved less than 24 hours later. It may have had something to do with my using Vista and Outlook 2007. So I have 6 invitations if anyone wants one, but ask in PRIVATE mail only. Installed it this morning and already I have issues. Xobni and ExtraOutlook don't get along. Not surprising, the worst I can say about that is the Xobni boings and pops up a warning that it can't run twice. I don't expect Xobni to program around it, since ExtraOutlook is very commonly used. But, Xobni is setting messages to read just for clicking on them (no preview pane enabled). And in one case, all 15 or so unread messages in a Public Folder went read at once, and I'm pretty sure I didn't click on each message. I poked around looking for don’t mark messages as read in the Xobni options and not finding it, I send a report to tech support. Just now while writing this message, 3-4 other unread messages in my NTSYSADMIN public folder became read. Not good. Unread status tells me I need to look at it. Messages going unread by themselves isn't something I can tolerate for very long. Carl ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Shutdown script
Having an issue with the below scenario and i think i need to come at it from a different angle but need some more eyes/brains. I think the issue is to do with as the machine is in shutdown mode when the script runs the reg cannot be written to. any ideas on a different way of doing this? You can schedule tasks at startup and logon but not at shutdown or logoff. Situation presents itself as follows: Users who carry laptops get proxy settings assigned via gpo. When the users logoff and go home they logon to a cached copy of their profile. Hence we need a script to kill their IE proxy settings at shutdown. So what i have done is create the script which toggle the proxy enable regkey, add it to a shutdown script gpo for the OU the laptops all reside in and whacko. Running the script manually works a treat however running the script automatically at shutdown doesn't. If i turn on 'show shutdown scripts as visible in gp a dialog box pops up which my eyes cant read. I have tried to photo it but i need to blow it up more than the phone will allow. A few things: wpad cannot be used i can created a proxy.pac file which i could push to with gp however this is a per user setting not a workstation setting which is what i require. laptop users also do have pc's which they work from so we cant apply this policy on a user base nothing of any sort in the event logs there is a requirement that this process be totally transparent to the user user access level has no bearing on the outcome. OU structure doesnt allow for a user/logoff script instead of shutdown local profiles on the laptop cannot be used on the laptop at home, must be cached domain profile Thanks Greg ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Shutdown script
Thanks for the response Ken a) Im working in an environment that uses a linux proxy of sorts and is fixed on using gpo to publish the proxy settings b) the way the OU structure is setup it splits users and computers into separate OU's. Even if i could add an additional sub OU to the users OU these people still have workstations so the policy would apply to them as well in that case, hence it has to be workstation based. I have tried to use HKU proxy settings and i have had no real joy with that either. From: Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 18 April 2008 10:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Shutdown script Couple of quick questions a) Why can’t you use WPAD or similar? b) What do you mean “OU structure doesnt allow for a user/logoff script instead of shutdown”? Are you doing the settings on a machine or user basis at the moment? Cheers Ken From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 17 April 2008 2:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Shutdown script Having an issue with the below scenario and i think i need to come at it from a different angle but need some more eyes/brains. I think the issue is to do with as the machine is in shutdown mode when the script runs the reg cannot be written to. any ideas on a different way of doing this? You can schedule tasks at startup and logon but not at shutdown or logoff. Situation presents itself as follows: Users who carry laptops get proxy settings assigned via gpo. When the users logoff and go home they logon to a cached copy of their profile. Hence we need a script to kill their IE proxy settings at shutdown. So what i have done is create the script which toggle the proxy enable regkey, add it to a shutdown script gpo for the OU the laptops all reside in and whacko. Running the script manually works a treat however running the script automatically at shutdown doesn't. If i turn on 'show shutdown scripts as visible in gp a dialog box pops up which my eyes cant read. I have tried to photo it but i need to blow it up more than the phone will allow. A few things: wpad cannot be used i can created a proxy.pac file which i could push to with gp however this is a per user setting not a workstation setting which is what i require. laptop users also do have pc's which they work from so we cant apply this policy on a user base nothing of any sort in the event logs there is a requirement that this process be totally transparent to the user user access level has no bearing on the outcome. OU structure doesnt allow for a user/logoff script instead of shutdown local profiles on the laptop cannot be used on the laptop at home, must be cached domain profile Thanks Greg ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Shutdown script
It would be my choice, if it were my network to run wpad across the whole site(s) however it aint. Until i speak to the Manager here (who isnt in yet!) i wont be able to make any decisions on that, only to say that he has expressed a need read:want to keep the status quo. i thought wpad wasnt independent. that might be an option to create a gpo that publishes wpad info via dhcp to all laptops in a particular OU. can you generate your own wpad.dat? i know how to do is in ISA and beleeiiieve mne that would be my preference if it was my baby but it snot!. top level user gpo applys the IE settings to all users. From: Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 18 April 2008 10:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Shutdown script OK – still a bit unsure what’s going on here; a) WPAD is proxy independent as far as I know. You could use either DNS or DHCP to specify the proxy info location. Is there some reason you can’t do that? b) WRT to OUs/GPOs – how are you getting the settings out at the moment? (and there doesn’t need to be more OUs – security group filtering may suffice) Cheers Ken From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 17 April 2008 5:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Shutdown script Thanks for the response Ken a) Im working in an environment that uses a linux proxy of sorts and is fixed on using gpo to publish the proxy settings b) the way the OU structure is setup it splits users and computers into separate OU's. Even if i could add an additional sub OU to the users OU these people still have workstations so the policy would apply to them as well in that case, hence it has to be workstation based. I have tried to use HKU proxy settings and i have had no real joy with that either. From: Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 18 April 2008 10:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Shutdown script Couple of quick questions a) Why can’t you use WPAD or similar? b) What do you mean “OU structure doesnt allow for a user/logoff script instead of shutdown”? Are you doing the settings on a machine or user basis at the moment? Cheers Ken From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 17 April 2008 2:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Shutdown script Having an issue with the below scenario and i think i need to come at it from a different angle but need some more eyes/brains. I think the issue is to do with as the machine is in shutdown mode when the script runs the reg cannot be written to. any ideas on a different way of doing this? You can schedule tasks at startup and logon but not at shutdown or logoff. Situation presents itself as follows: Users who carry laptops get proxy settings assigned via gpo. When the users logoff and go home they logon to a cached copy of their profile. Hence we need a script to kill their IE proxy settings at shutdown. So what i have done is create the script which toggle the proxy enable regkey, add it to a shutdown script gpo for the OU the laptops all reside in and whacko. Running the script manually works a treat however running the script automatically at shutdown doesn't. If i turn on 'show shutdown scripts as visible in gp a dialog box pops up which my eyes cant read. I have tried to photo it but i need to blow it up more than the phone will allow. A few things: wpad cannot be used i can created a proxy.pac file which i could push to with gp however this is a per user setting not a workstation setting which is what i require. laptop users also do have pc's which they work from so we cant apply this policy on a user base nothing of any sort in the event logs there is a requirement that this process be totally transparent to the user user access level has no bearing on the outcome. OU structure doesnt allow for a user/logoff script instead of shutdown local profiles on the laptop cannot be used on the laptop at home, must be cached domain profile Thanks Greg ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
