RE: DC eventid 1168, bizarre behavior

[Greg Olson]

Did you prep the domain for the read-only dc using the adprep /rodcprep cmd? 
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771055(v=ws.10).aspx

Even if you have no 2003 servers if I remember right (and I could be wrong) you 
still need to do the above with certain versions of Samba. 


-Greg 


-Original Message-
From: Elijah Buck [mailto:elijah.b...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 1:58 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: DC eventid 1168, bizarre behavior

Hello,

I've been battling an odd issue with our domain controllers, and am completely 
stumped. This seems to have been precipitated by adding a Read Only Domain 
Controller and adding a number of Linux samba servers. The symptoms of the 
issue follows:

On DC11 (2008 sp2 ReadWrite DC, 2GB ram, virtual machine on ESXi 5.0u2):

0.) cpu usage is low, typically under 5%. Memory is 800M cached. 118M free.

1.) In the Directory Service event log the following two errors are logged:
*Event ID 1168 - Internal error: An Active Directory Domain Services error has 
occured.
Additional data: Error value (decimal): 1450, Error Value (hex): 5aa, Internal 
ID: 124048b *Event ID 1168 - Internal error: An Active Directory Domain 
Services error has occured.
Additional data: Error value (decimal): 1450, Error Value (hex): 5aa, Internal 
ID: 1240627

2.) This has happened three times on DC11, and once on DC10 (also 2008 sp2). 
The time that it affected both DC11 and DC10, manually pushing 
passwords-to-be-cached to the RODC failed.

3.) Trying to read the properties of an object with ADSI edit (connected to 
DC11) returns:
Windows could not load the values for all the attributes. Operation failed. 
Error Code:
0x2121. The search failed to retrieve attributes from the database.
2121: SvcErr: DSID-0312048E, problem 5012 (DIR_ERROR), data 1450.

4.) Attempting to run Windows Update gives Error 0x800705AA, which I believe is 
ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCE.

5.) Running 'runas /user:me cmd' fails with "5: Access is denied"

6.) The server appears to continue to service auth requests, and LDAP binds 
still work. However, we seem to encounter intermittent issues with the samba 
servers during this time.

Site topology:
  CORP:
  DC4, DC5 (server 2003, auto-site coverage disabled by registry)
  DC10, DC11 (server 2008 sp2)

  CAL: connected to CORP
  RODC1 (server 2008 R2, read only domain controller)

  NY: connected to CORP and DRSITE
  NYDC4 (server 2003)

  DRSITE: connected to CORP and NY
  DC3 (server 2003)
  DC20 (server 2008 R2)

DC4 is the Schema Master. All other roles are on DC5.

repadmin /showrepl and dcdiag don't show any errors.

Two additional bits of information. (1) For some reasons, IIS is installed on 
the DC10 and DC11 domain controllers. (2) a similar thing recently happened 
with our Exchange 2010 server (2008 R2). The same error with 'runas' failing 
occured, IIS app pools couldn't restart, and the windows process activation 
service couldn't be restarted (also with error 5 access denied).

I am planning on setting up a new RWDC, physically in CORP but in the CAL AD 
site, and seeing if the issue follows the new server or stays with DC11.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Elijah

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RE: windows phone 8

[Greg Olson]

You beat me too it. It does and works very well. Touchdown is the app we tell 
our Android users to buy when they have issues connecting to Exchange as it 
seems every version of phones from venders can have a completely different 
implementation of ActiveSync. 

-Greg


-Original Message-
From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] 
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 11:43 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: windows phone 8

Touchdown/Android purports to sync Notes in with Exchange 2010.

http://www.nitrodesk.com/features.aspx

-sc

> -Original Message-
> From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 2:06 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: windows phone 8
> 
> the only "killer" feature is that notes sync to outlook in an exchange 
> environment.  The notes themselves are just text.
> At some point, MS stopped included notes as something that syncs using 
> activesync.  This very frustarting for people who had blackberries or ancient 
> windows mobile phones that synced the notes.
> 
> 
> Bill
> -Original Message-
> From: Matthew W. Ross
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 1:25 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: windows phone 8
> 
> As someone who doesn't have Exchange, I'm curious: What's the big 
> killer features of Exchange Notes? What makes it so important to have on your 
> phone?
> 
> 
> --Matt Ross
> Ephrata School District
> 
> 
> - Original Message -
> From: Stefan Jafs
> [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com]
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com]
> Sent: Thu, 15 Nov 2012
> 10:09:43 -0800
> Subject: Re: windows phone 8
> 
> 
> > I have the Nokia 920 on order with Rogers here in Toronto, all the 
> > reviews I have read is that it’s big and heavy but other vice a 
> > great phone, I also use Notes quite extensively as well, for my iPad 
> > I use iMExchange2, for the free version I just have to manually updated it.
> > For my current phone the Samsung Galaxy S III, I have not bothered 
> > with Notes yet and now I’m waiting for the Nokia so well see . .
> >
> > Stefan
> > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Guyer, Don  wrote:
> >
> > > I always trust the reviews on sites like Engadget, Gizmodo and 
> > > even NewEgg. Might not be much out there yet as it’s a fairly new 
> > > device but, what I’ve heard has all been pretty positive if you 
> > > like Windows
> > Phones.**
> > > **
> > >
> > > ** **
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > * *
> > >
> > > *Don Guyer**
> > > **Catholic Health East - Information Technology*
> > >
> > > Enterprise Directory & Messaging Services
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> > > *For immediate assistance, please open a Service Desk ticket or 
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> > >
> > > *From:* Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com]
> > > *Sent:* Thursday, November 15, 2012 11:54 AM
> > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> > > *Subject:* OT: windows phone 8
> > >
> > > ** **
> > >
> > > Thinking about getting the nokia 920.  Anyone have any reasons 
> > > they’d
> > like
> > > to share about why or why not to get this device.  Also, real 
> > > world how is the app situation for winphone 8?  Anything you 
> > > really miss from the ios
> > or
> > > android world of apps and features?
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > > All of the official reviews always seem to miss the real details 
> > > that make or break a phone for me.
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > > Bill
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Anyone heard of this company?

[Greg Olson]

http://www.groupon.com/deals/g1mm-it-university-online-san-jose-ca

It's a groupon deal for 99.00 for 5 cisco training classes from a company 
called "It university on-line".
http://www.ituniversityonline.com/complete-cisco-network-training-bundle-groupon/

Seems like a really good deal at 99.00, but I've never heard of them. But maybe 
at 99.00 I guess I really don’t care that much if its only so\so. 
Thoughts?

-Greg 


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RE: Death of the Desktops?

[Greg Olson]

The desktop isn’t going anywhere really, it's just evolving. What will probably 
fade out (except for high-end needs) is the dedicated non-mobile desktop pc. I 
can easily see were your tablet\phone\whatever  has enough processing and 
graphic power to be sitting in a dock in the office, with full keyboard and 
mouse support, and then is lifted out and taken with you on the go. There will 
always be room for the places that have users that do not need this (Call 
centers, retail, etc) so it never will truly die out.

-Greg 
  

-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 10:42 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Death of the Desktops?

Spreadsheets creation and data entry, page layout, photo processing, writing, 
presentation creation - those and more are far more difficult on anything 
without a keyboard and mouse.

Kurt

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Rankin, James R  wrote:
> Can you imagine writing technical documents or doing CAD on a tablet? 
> Sure the percentages may change, but the desktop will not go away anytime 
> soon.
> It might run on a thin client, but there's still a place for a desktop 
> - even if virtual.
>
> Pundits have been predicting things like "the death of Citrix" and 
> "the year of the Linux desktop" for a long while. I haven't noticed 
> either of them happening.
>
> YMMV, IMO, etc.
> ---Blackberried
> 
> From: Roger Wright 
> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 12:40:41 -0400
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> ReplyTo: "NT System Admin Issues" 
> 
> Subject: Death of the Desktops?
>
> There are a number of pundits pushing the notion that desktop 
> computing is facing certain death, and especially for desktop 
> computers as we've known them up to now.  Indeed, there are more 
> portable offerings available than desktop machine options, but with a higher 
> price/performance/feature ratio.
> I'm not sure I buy it, especially for many business environments where 
> access to legacy apps is critical.  But it does give me something to 
> consider as we face our annual equipment refresh cycle.
>
> What are your thoughts?
>
>
> Roger Wright
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RE: Event ID 2042: It has been too long since this machine replicated

[Greg Olson]

Probably won't work, but since this is a test domain on vm, what happens if you 
simply change all the clocks back on all of them (and the vm hosts)?
-G 


-Original Message-
From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 1:02 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Event ID 2042: It has been too long since this machine replicated

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Christopher Bodnar 
 wrote:
>
> I haven't used /removelingeringobjects for the same purpose you are having, 
> but I have used it in a USN rollback scenario. In my instance the event logs 
> clearly indicated what container the issue was in. For me that was the 
> configuration container. You should be able to find this somewhere in the 
> event logs, not exactly sure where. Once you know what container to target, 
> you need to establish what your source of truth will be. What DC is "clean" .

There is only 1 DC in the parent domain.

>Once you decide that, you should be good to go. Yes, the DC Object GUID from 
>the repadmin /showrepl is what you will need to use. For example:
>
> Repadmin /removelingeringobjects ACMEDC0 
> 2ba99ac3-8a25-4711-7d84-c87c44902d0a CN=Configuration,DC=acme,DC=com 
> Repadmin /removelingeringobjects ACMEDC2 
> 2ba99ac3-8a25-4711-7d84-c87c44902d0a CN=Configuration,DC=acme,DC=com 
> Repadmin /removelingeringobjects ACMEDC3 
> 2ba99ac3-8a25-4711-7d84-c87c44902d0a CN=Configuration,DC=acme,DC=com 
> Repadmin /removelingeringobjects ACMEDC4 
> 2ba99ac3-8a25-4711-7d84-c87c44902d0a CN=Configuration,DC=acme,DC=com 
> Repadmin /removelingeringobjects ACMEDC5 
> 2ba99ac3-8a25-4711-7d84-c87c44902d0a CN=Configuration,DC=acme,DC=com

So, in my case, I would run the command on the parent DC, referencing the 
parent DC. Do I then run the same command on the 2 DCs in the child domain? I 
don't run the "removelingeringobjects" on the parent DC, but referencing the 
child DCs, do I ?

>
>
> Where 2ba99ac3-8a25-4711-7d84-c87c44902d0a is the DC object GUID for your 
> clean DC you obtained from the repadmin /showreply command.
>
>
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>
>
>
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>
>
>
>
>
> From:Michael Leone 
> To:"NT System Admin Issues" 
> Date:08/21/2012 02:54 PM
> Subject:Event ID 2042: It has been too long since this machine 
> replicated
> 
>
>
>
> Hey all. Been a while since I've had time to read or post. But I'm 
> back, looking for advice. :-)
>
> I have a test domain (this is a private domain running on a VMware 
> server, self-contained on their own private vSwitch, completely 
> separate from my production domain), consisting of a parent (1 DC) and 
> child domain (2 DCs). This is my testing domain. Unfortunately, 
> apparently the VMs have been turned off too long, as now I have no 
> replication between the DCs, giving the error in the subject line). 
> Apparently they've been turned off since 2012-06-20, and are now there 
> beyond their tombstone life. (figures I couldn't have looked at this 
> LAST week, when it still would have been within their tombstone 
> lifetime. Oh, well ...)
>
> This is a AD 2008 domain; each DC is Win2008 R2.
>
> In reading through the options to fix this, I can't demote or re-install the 
> DCs (not easily, anyway).  So I want to try the second suggestion:
>
> 2. Use the "repadmin /removelingeringobjects" tool to remove inconsistent 
> deleted objects and then resume replication.
>
> The documentation on the exact syntax of the "/removelingeringobjects" is a 
> bit unclear to me. Obviously I have to run this on the parent DC, and one one 
> (both?) of the child DCs.
>
> Some questions before running that:
>
> SourceDCGUID-Run the command repadmin /showrepl AuthDCname |more, where 
> AuthDCname is the host name of the domain controller that you selected as 
> authoritative. Substitute the first DSA object GUID that appears for 
> .
>
> I find this odd ... when I run "repadmin /showrepl " on the parent 
> DC, I don't see a "DSA object GUID:"; I see a "DC object GUID"; is that the 
> same thing? (and why doesn't it say DSA? My production DC says "DSA". But 
> then, production has had updates applied to it, and I couldn't even begin to 
> tell you when the private domain was updated - no Internet access).
>
> LDAPPartition-The Lightweight Directory Access Partition (LDAP) name of the 
> partition that you are targeting. For example, if the lingering objects are 
> in the domain partition of the contoso.com domain, substitute 
> dc=contoso,dc=com for .
>
> How am I supposed to know where the lingering objects are, before running it? 
> :-) Also, what if there are in a different partition than the domain 
> partition; what's the syntax for that?
>

RE: Unable to ping -- why?

[Greg Olson]

Windows 7? Turn the firewall back on, and then set it to allow anything in or 
out in your profiles. I've seen strange things like this in Win 7 with the 
firewall turned off.
-Greg


From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org]
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 1:18 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Unable to ping -- why?

Bad Arp cache entry for the laptop?

Check the ARP value on the laptop as compared to what you have in your 
router/switch. I have seen that in the past cause the issue you are talking 
about.

Z

Edward Ziots
CISSP, Security +, Network +
Security Engineer
Lifespan Organization
ezi...@lifespan.org

From: Bill Monicher 
[mailto:bmacd5...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 4:10 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Unable to ping -- why?

I have a single laptop in our department that I cannot ping.
The user in question is able to access all network resources.
Windows firewall is off, and no other firewall is running
I have verified that all DHCP & DNS entries are correct.
The user can ping anything on the network.

Other symptoms:
The machine loses connection to one server periodically.
This is indicated by the fact that his computer shows the "offline" tray icon.
Any time this happens, he can choose "synchronize", and he always is back 
online.
He can access any internet/intranet site w/o problem at any time.

Switch port counters show no problems.
Changing switch port makes no difference.

Any helpful suggestions appreciated.

Regards,
--BM

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RE: OT? usb to scsi adaptor

[Greg Olson]

There are companies that will bring a truck out and grind up the drive into 
bits in front of you. Or just grab a drill and drill through it. I someone 
wants your data that bad after then Id say grind them up. You gould also get a 
degausser, and go that route as well. 

-Greg 


-Original Message-
From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 10:49 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT? usb to scsi adaptor

While blasting "'Dang' it feels good to be a gangsta" in the background.

-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 1:40 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT? usb to scsi adaptor

.44 magnum comes to mind.

-Original Message-
From: S Powell [mailto:powe...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 1:17 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT? usb to scsi adaptor

We are looking to nuke a few old SCSI drives, the server they came out of is 
dead.

We have usb to die/sata adaptors that we normally use, but I cannot find any 
usb to scsi adaptors.

amazon, newegg, tigerdirect and Adaptec all have them as EOL.

no one seems to carry anything like this.

Anyone have any ideas, or other options for nuking old SCSI drives?


-
Oh, by the way, which one's Pink?

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RE: (homedrive)

[Greg Olson]

Its anyone of the three, but I think they missed the first part, so it should 
read "when a user FIRST logs on to a computer", so the first login.
This one has it right: 
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc758898(v=ws.10).aspx

-Greg

From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 8:47 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: (homedrive)

I assume all THREE have to be met? I mean, the first one seems to apply to any 
interactive session a user might want... :)

The following list describes conditions during which Fast Logon Optimization is 
disabled:
*When a user logs on to a computer.
*When a user has a roaming user profile or a home directory for logon purposes.
*When a user has synchronous logon scripts

From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 7:40 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: (homedrive)

When he told us about it, I figured out the reg keys associated with logon 
optimization from something Darren had blogged and tested it and sure enough, 
when I removed the logon script and home folder in ADUC and rebooted 2x the key 
changed state, my logon was faster and without the "applying your settings" 
screen or whatever it is on XP.  This guy knew his stuff about slow logons and 
gave us a whirlwind tour of xperf from another customer engagement. Very cool 
tool. Unbelievable amount of detail about startup is available from it.

I did a cursory search back then for something more authoritative than "this 
PFE told me" and found this 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa374350(v=vs.85).aspx

I haven't had time to visit it further but one of our very sharp desktop guys 
is.

The above is all null and void if you are planning on blaming AD for the 
misbehavior of Citrix :-p


From: Webster 
[mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 4:03 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: (homedrive)

Bob,

I am giving a Geek Speak session at Citrix Synergy in May.  My GoogleFu isn't 
turning up anything on this.  I would like to add this to my "It's Not Citrix, 
It's Your !@#$%^& AD" talk.  (well I was told I can't use that title but that 
is what I call it.  Actually I think that was MBS' idea for my session title.)

Do you have a reference for this I could link to in my talk or maybe even send 
me a LMGTFY link?

Thanks


Carl Webster
Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional
http://www.CarlWebster.com

From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com]
Subject: RE: (homedrive)

We had a PSS PFE onsite recently for an AD engagement and we were discussing 
slow boots during a break in the action and he brought up something I had never 
heard of before.

I was always under the assumption that we had what is known as Fast Logon 
Optimization on our XP systems that allows GPOs to process asynchronously in 
the background.

He told us that it is disabled in our environment because we use the profile 
settings to map homeDir and specify login script.

Basically anything that is set on the Profile tab in ADUC is considered legacy 
NT behavior and disables logon optimization. I had heard before that roaming 
profiles or software installation policies disabled it but this was news to me. 
I played around with my account on an old XP box and it rang true, never got 
around to looking into it further or on WIN7.

FWIW, YMMV :)

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RE: Anyone Use Double-Take RecoverNow?

[Greg Olson]

Yes I use it.. opps let me re-phrase that, have a fully paid copy of the 
software that I've written off as it performed good in initial testing with 
just two machines, but have had nothing but issues with it going live anytime 
it goes over four machines. This software is basically three different products 
thrown together with a fourth product that attempts to manage it all, and fails 
miserably. For instance you create a job in the recovery console, and you 
should be able to go back there and check on status, or if you need to restore, 
run the restore from there, but you go back, and strangely the job has 
disappeared.. Hum, going over to the replication now software piece (separate 
program) and checking, it does appear to be running still. But you can't do 
restores from that software so it's off to call tech support again. Every time 
I want to do a restore. And it's frustrating when you have 25 jobs setup but 
only 2 or 3 show up, or if there is more, they show a status of failed, but 
checking the other software it is running. IT's frustrating, and we're not 
renewing the software license and fighting for a full refund, but its been 
awhile now as we've been trying to get it to work, and as always the next 
release will fix "everything". I'd stay far away from it until they work out 
the bugs (and yes I have emails from their support saying its known issues , 
and doesn't work right).
-Greg


From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 8:05 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Anyone Use Double-Take RecoverNow?

I used Double-Take until the releases of SQL Mirroring, Exchange CCR (and then 
DAG), and DPM. Since then, I've used the MSFT solutions (and refer customers to 
those solutions because I like having one place to point fingers).

Now, when I used Double-Take, I was very pleased with it. But that experience 
is several years old.

Regards,

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

From: James Kerr 
[mailto:cluster...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 10:50 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Anyone Use Double-Take RecoverNow?

Wow, nobody. I thought for sure with as many folks we have posting here there 
must be a few running that software.
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 4:25 PM, James Kerr 
mailto:cluster...@gmail.com>> wrote:
If so, how do you like it? Does it work as advertised? Any gotchas I should 
know about?

Thanks,

James

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RE: Weird issue with NEC P350W projector

[Greg Olson]

What kind of bandwidth does the projector require? What type of wireless signal 
(A,B,G,N)? How many users are on the wireless as if they have multiple people 
connected, bandwidth to each drops and maybe your hitting that.
-Greg


From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it]
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 11:09 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: R: Weird issue with NEC P350W projector

Yes, and as I told , I have no problems from cabled connections. It looks like 
the wireless connection is not so stable even for other apps they have no 
problems

Guido Elia
HELPPC - HELPPC SERVICE

Da: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
Inviato: giovedì 26 gennaio 2012 17.17
A: NT System Admin Issues
Oggetto: RE: Weird issue with NEC P350W projector

Is the wireless network on the same subnet?

 John W. Cook
Network Manager
Partnership For Strong Families
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Gainesville, Fl 32607
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From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it]
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 9:35 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Weird issue with NEC P350W projector


I have a strange issue with a NEC Lan projector

The device is cabled to the LAN and has a reservation on DHCP

All Windows 7 machines cabled to the LAN connect fine with the Windows 7 
wizard, but devices using wireless connection get error on connection even if 
the projector is found by the wizard



Any advice?



TIA

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RE: List response time is abysmal

[Greg Olson]

I think that’s tied to the different licenses they sell. Platinum is 10,000 
msgs per hour, Platinum Plus 100,00mgs per hour, then then there two more 
higher at 200k and 300k per hour. 
Though you'd need some big pipes after the Platinum Plus. 
-Greg 

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Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 9:09 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: List response time is abysmal

When we performed our most recent upgrade we noticed that Lyris now has an 
"SMTP Send Limit" and it will not send more than xx messages over xx amount of 
time. This gets worse the faster people post to the list with xx hours.

Unfortunately there isn't anything we can do about it at the moment, but coded 
into Lyris itself.


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GFI Software – www.gfi.com
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-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 11:38 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: List response time is abysmal

I know others have mentioned it, but it's really noticeable...

I'm talking *hours* between when I send in an email and when I see it back in 
my inbox.

More RAM, faster disks, fatter pipe?

I won't say it's unusable, but it's getting less comfortable.

Kurt

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RE: EMC VNXe oddity...

[Greg Olson]

This is an VMWare ESX limitation not the EMC Vnx. ESX lower than 5 will not 
support greater than 2tb luns even on Fibre Channel or direct attached disks. 
You should be able to present a greater than 2tb lun to a windows server 
without any issues. I have a VNX 5700 that presents a 20tb lun to a Windows 
2008 R2 server just fine. 
-Greg 


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From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 1:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: EMC VNXe oddity...

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Kurt Buff  wrote:
> We can't create a partition greater than 1.999tb in iSCSI.

  1.999 TB outta be enough for anybody.

> Their support web site says that it's a limitation of the SCSI 2 
> protocol they're using, not a limitation of iSCSI, as such.

  Which is pretty retarded.  SCSI-2 was released in 1994 and is long since 
superseded.  They've restructured the entire standard since then.

  Too late to return this thing?

-- Ben

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RE: Comparing Windows Servers

[Greg Olson]

Try running Sydi on it. It's super easy to run, free, and generates nice 
reports on each server which you could lock over. I use it on each server I 
build, and then refresh it once a year. It has default templates for a generic 
windows server, Exchange, SQL, or Linux as well.
http://sydiproject.com/

-Greg



From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 8:59 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Comparing Windows Servers

ServerInfo.exe is the replacement but it doesn't give enough info and neither 
does PSInfo.  Bummer.

Thanks



Carl Webster

Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional

http://www.CarlWebster.com

From: James Rankin mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com>>
Reply-To: NT Issues 
mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:59:01 +
To: NT Issues 
mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>>
Subject: Re: Comparing Windows Servers

Tried the old srvinfo.exe tool? That gives you a lot of info, psinfo might help 
too.

srvinfo here - http://www.petri.co.il/download_free_reskit_tools.htm
On 14 December 2011 15:47, Webster 
mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com>> wrote:
My search terms must not be configured right cuz I just can't find what I need.

I am at a customer site where I am trying to help them resolve issues with 
their 2008 R2 (XenApp 6) servers.  It appears every server was manually built 
by different people so it appears every server has been installed and 
configured differently.  I am trying to find a utility I can use to do a 
comparison of the servers.  Like what is different in software installs, 
Windows updates & hotfixes, file/registry permissions, etc.

The servers are supposed to be identical and I am in the process of talking to 
them about automating their XenApp server builds.  They all run Server 2008 R2 
SP1, XenApp 6, medical software and standard utilities (Flash/Reader, etc) 
required by the software.  But they are just "different" in unexplainable ways. 
 Would be nice to run something that will use one server as the basis for 
comparing the others against.

Thanks



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Migrate from server 2003 Windows file cluster to 2008 R2 file cluster question

[Greg Olson]

Hi all, 
I currently have a project to move a clustered file share resource from an 
older two node server 2003 file share cluster, to a newer Windows 2008 R2 file 
share cluster. My problem is that they don't want to incur any downtime for the 
move, as other application services are dependent on some of the files in this 
share.
I have the two shares in sync already, and what I thought I would do is this:
Lets say the file share network name is \\files.xyz.com
On all the servers that access this file share I would put in a host file that 
points that name to the current ip of the server. 
Then on the old 2003 cluster I'd change the network name to something like 
filesold.xyz.com, and on the new cluster id add in the name files.xyz.com to 
the new share. I'd then check dns and wins and make sure there going to the new 
server, and test on one node by removing the host file, flushing dns, and the 
trying the share. 

My issue is that as soon as I change the network name on the old clustered 
share network name resource, the clients all are no longer able to access via 
that  name (even with the hosts file). IT says duplicate name on the network. 
Access to the files via ip works fine, but the apps call it via a netbios name. 

Any suggestions on how to do this? I thought there was a way to add a name into 
the registry that a server would continue to respond to, but this being a 
cluster, I don't know how to get that to work. 
 
Any help is much appreciated. 
-Greg 


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RE: RAMDisk Prevalence? (OT)

[Greg Olson]

This whole conversation reminds me of a backup issue I had with Filemaker 
server software (I think it was ver 3 when it first came out). The software had 
a "feature" we're it didn't flush out changes that it kept in ram, until the 
ram cache filled. So even though it was backed up nightly, it never flushed out 
the changes to disk so it was never really backed up. Move ahead two months and 
a drive failed, so I though "Oh will just restore last nights backup. Yea, 
funny it has none of the changes for the last two months. Call Filemaker, ah, 
yea you have to run a cmd to flush the memory out to disk. WTF!%!.. yea that 
was an interesting conversation with my CEO and there support on the phone. It 
was also the end of Filemaker at that job
 

-Original Message-
From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 11:19 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: RAMDisk Prevalence?

But, that part was ~serious :)

http://forum.teamxbox.com/archive/index.php/t-617093.html

-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 10:42 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: RAMDisk Prevalence?

So was Scott's response. :-)

When was the last time you employed a "compressed-air-ram-freezing technique"?

Regards,

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


-Original Message-
From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us]
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 10:59 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: RAMDisk Prevalence?

I'm reasonably sure that was a joke.


-Original Message-
From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu]
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 10:37 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: RAMDisk Prevalence?

>  I backup to a RAM disk.  It's much faster that way.

At best, that's only a temporary backup.  Useful if you're changing a file and 
need to revert to the previous version rather quickly. Otherwise, as soon as 
that machine goes down for any reason, your backup starts to fade rather 
quickly. Some of the compressed-air-ram-freezing techniques may be useful here, 
but unless you're nearby soon, you're out of luck.

-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 8:29 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: RAMDisk Prevalence?

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Sam Cayze  wrote:
> Haven't heard of the notion of using RAMdisks in AGES.  Are people 
> still using them?

  I backup to a RAM disk.  It's much faster that way.

-- Ben

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RE: WiFi Web Portal

[Greg Olson]

Take a look at some of the things here:
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-howto/30150-how-to-build-an-open-source-wi-fi-hotspot-with-dd-wrt

There are some links on the bottom to open source projects that you should be 
able to use.

-Greg


From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 9:58 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: WiFi Web Portal

What you're looking for is a Captive Portal. You're going to need to have it 
integrate with the APs most likely ... doubt you'll find anything free.

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

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Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 11:02 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: WiFi Web Portal

Hi Guys,

I'm just wondering if anyone has come across some free software that acts as 
web portal similar to what you get when connecting to a public WiFi hotspot? At 
the moment we really don't have anything in place and I need to supply each 
customer device with a password to connect to the WiFi network.


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Sql Injection attacks going on right now

[Greg Olson]

Just fyi, for the list (Sorry if its already been posted I looked and didn't 
see it).

http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html


SQL Injection Attack happening 
ATM

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Published: 2011-12-01,
Last Updated: 2011-12-02 11:24:01 UTC
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We've had several reports (thanks guys) of sites being injected with the 
following string:

">

Typically it is inserted into several tables. From the information gathered so 
far it looks targeted at ASP, IIS and MSSQL backends, but that is just 
speculation. If you find that you have been infected please let us know and if 
you can share packets, logs please upload them on the contact form.

Mark

UPDATE:

Thanks to those that posted comments and those that worked behind the scenes. 
The injection string is along the lines Terry posted in his comments. the one I 
ran across is (note not the whole string is provided)

73657420616e73695f7761726e696e6773206f204445434c415245204054205641524348415228323535292c404
320564152434841522832353529204445434c415245205461626c655f437572736f7220435552534f5220464f5220736
56c65637420632e-snip--9746c653e3c7363726970742727202729204645544348204e4558542046524f4d
205461626c655f437572736f722049444f2040542c404320454e4420434c4f5345205461626c655f437572736f7220444
5414c4c4f43415445205461626c655f437572736f72+as+varchar%284000%29%29+exec%28%40s%29

Which decodes to:

declare+@s+varchar(4000)+set+@s=cast(0xset ansi_warnings off DECLARE @T 
VARCHAR(255),@C VARCHAR(255) DECLARE Table_Cursor CURSOR FOR select 
c.TABLE_NAME,c.COLUMN_NAME from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.columns c, 
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.tables t where c.DATA_TYPE in ('--SNIP---
IN EXEC('UPDATE ['+@T+'] SET ['+@C+']=''">

RE: OT - converting a VMware VM back to a physical box

[Greg Olson]

Because you can't allocate more vcpu than you physically have, so if you were 
moving it to say a single cpu, dual-core box physical, the new esxi would be a 
single cpu, dual core max as well. You're not running it with say 2 virtual 
cpu, on a box that has two 6 core procs, in which case based on the crappy 
licensing you'd have to buy 10 more licenses (one for each physical core). 
-Greg



-Original Message-
From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] 
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 6:56 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT - converting a VMware VM back to a physical box

> (and you take care of your licensing issues)

How exactly does moving from an esx server (with adjustable vcpu's) to an esx 
server (with adjustable vcpu's) solve anything?
 


-Original Message-
From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu]
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 4:53 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT - converting a VMware VM back to a physical box

Your general plan sounds decent and, as other have mentioned, your concerns 
could probably be overcome with a pre-sysprep snapshot. But, why not go a step 
further and create a copy of the .vmdk file and try the migration with that 
while the original sits safely turned off?

-Original Message-
From: Mike Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 10:37 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT - converting a VMware VM back to a physical box

So I've got a request that is confusing me.


Environment: 6 host EX 4.1 U1 cluster. VM in question - Win2003 Enterprise, 32 
bit


My boss tells me that I need to convert this from a VM back onto a physical 
machine - for licensing reasons, this needs to be a physical box, apparently.


So here's the big rub ... this VM is one of those mission-critical VMs. 
Ordinarily, what I might have done is do a sysprep of the VM, and - before 
shutting it down - do a full backup using EMC Networker. Then, I would do a BMR 
(Bare Metal Recovery) of Windows on the new physical hardware. (when doing a 
BMR, you install Windows and your backup client on the new hardware. Then do a 
full restore, using the backup client, of everything except the backup client 
program files). That way, after the reboot at the end of the BMR, sysprep would 
run, find the new disk controller drivers, etc, and not blue screen with 
inaccessible boot device errors.


However, my boss has vetoed that idea, since we can't take any chances with the 
VM perhaps not working after the sysprep. If that BMR doesn't work, then I 
would need to turn the VM back on. and we have no guarantees that it would 
continue to work the same after the sysprep, etc.


So my hands are tied that way.


Then I thought - well, we could still do a BMR, but without the sysprep first. 
Just do a regular full backup, and then the BMR to the physical box. And if it 
fails to boot, we would (maybe) do a Windows repair installation, using the 
drivers for whatever disk controllers are in the physical box. Doing the BMR 
won't overwrite any drives that would be installed for the clean first-time 
Windows install, and so they'd still be there for the repair installation to 
find. That way, either the physical box would work, and I'd leave the VM 
powered off, or the physical box would fail, and I would power the VM back up.


So: any hints on how I can take this VM, and put it on a new physical box, make 
it work .. and still get the VM to boot afterwards, in case the conversion to 
physical did not work? Basically, I need the reverse of the P2V converter, 
where - if the virtualization fails - you can still turn the physical box back 
on. I just need to do exactly that, but in the other direction.


Thanks


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RE: OT - converting a VMware VM back to a physical box

[Greg Olson]

You could even copy it and put it on the new box running the free version of 
esxi, that way you have the same number of processors as the stand alone (and 
you take care of your licensing issues) and if you ever need to migrate it 
back, just copy it back over.
-Greg
 


-Original Message-
From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] 
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 4:53 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT - converting a VMware VM back to a physical box

Your general plan sounds decent and, as other have mentioned, your concerns 
could probably be overcome with a pre-sysprep snapshot. But, why not go a step 
further and create a copy of the .vmdk file and try the migration with that 
while the original sits safely turned off?

-Original Message-
From: Mike Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 10:37 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT - converting a VMware VM back to a physical box

So I've got a request that is confusing me.


Environment: 6 host EX 4.1 U1 cluster. VM in question - Win2003 Enterprise, 32 
bit


My boss tells me that I need to convert this from a VM back onto a physical 
machine - for licensing reasons, this needs to be a physical box, apparently.


So here's the big rub ... this VM is one of those mission-critical VMs. 
Ordinarily, what I might have done is do a sysprep of the VM, and - before 
shutting it down - do a full backup using EMC Networker. Then, I would do a BMR 
(Bare Metal Recovery) of Windows on the new physical hardware. (when doing a 
BMR, you install Windows and your backup client on the new hardware. Then do a 
full restore, using the backup client, of everything except the backup client 
program files). That way, after the reboot at the end of the BMR, sysprep would 
run, find the new disk controller drivers, etc, and not blue screen with 
inaccessible boot device errors.


However, my boss has vetoed that idea, since we can't take any chances with the 
VM perhaps not working after the sysprep. If that BMR doesn't work, then I 
would need to turn the VM back on. and we have no guarantees that it would 
continue to work the same after the sysprep, etc.


So my hands are tied that way.


Then I thought - well, we could still do a BMR, but without the sysprep first. 
Just do a regular full backup, and then the BMR to the physical box. And if it 
fails to boot, we would (maybe) do a Windows repair installation, using the 
drivers for whatever disk controllers are in the physical box. Doing the BMR 
won't overwrite any drives that would be installed for the clean first-time 
Windows install, and so they'd still be there for the repair installation to 
find. That way, either the physical box would work, and I'd leave the VM 
powered off, or the physical box would fail, and I would power the VM back up.


So: any hints on how I can take this VM, and put it on a new physical box, make 
it work .. and still get the VM to boot afterwards, in case the conversion to 
physical did not work? Basically, I need the reverse of the P2V converter, 
where - if the virtualization fails - you can still turn the physical box back 
on. I just need to do exactly that, but in the other direction.


Thanks


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RE: Server room cooling units

[Greg Olson]

+1
Have 12 10ton Liebert units in various locations and I've only had one unit 
fail in 10 years time.
I'd fire that service company. We do have quarterly maintance checks we do 
(change filters, etc) and bi-annually have preventive maintance from our 
service provider.


From: Mark Boeck [mailto:netadmin...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 1:07 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Server room cooling units

We have 1 Liebert, and in 6 years it's only down for scheduled maintenance...
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Kevin Lundy 
mailto:klu...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Ironically, we have had minimal issues with our 2 8 year old Lieberts.  Here in 
Florida, they run almost 24x7.

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Bob Fronk 
mailto:b...@btrfronk.com>> wrote:
We can count on our Leibert(s) having problems shortly after any preventive 
maintenance.  It is a running joke with the service company.

BF

From: Stu Sjouwerman 
[mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com]
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 5:13 PM

To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Server room cooling units

We used Liebert at Sunbelt, but had regular outages with it, make sure that the 
company you buy from understand the concept of "preventive maintenance"

Warm regards,
Stu

From: richardmccl...@aspca.org 
[mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 11:04 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Server room cooling units


Greetings!

Currently, I have two HVAC bids regarding the expansion of our server room.  
(It will seem strange to have that room below 80 degrees, and I am not kidding 
with that number!).

We have two proposals and with two different units, both 15 tons.  One is by 
Stulz, and one is by Liebert.

Anyone care to offer their opinions/experiences/etc on the advantages one has 
over the other?

Thank you...
--
Richard D. McClary
Jr Infrastructure Architect, Information Technology Group
ASPCA(r)
1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36
Urbana, IL  61802


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RE: Happy Friday

[Greg Olson]

It used to be available from this Gopher server here:
http://quux.org:70/


From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org]
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 12:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Happy Friday

I'm ashamed to admit it, but despite being a University of Illinois grad, I no 
longer seem to be able to find NCSA Mosaic...

Steve Ens mailto:stevey...@gmail.com>>

11/04/2011 02:22 PM
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How about Netscape?

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 1:20 PM, 
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How about Safari?

BTW, the "do a barrel roll" does not do anything in Lynx.
Bill Humphries mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com>>

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Right now, I seem to have IE, firefox and chrome open on my PC.  I'm
such a browser slut.

Bill


David Lum wrote:
> LOL.   I have never even downloaded Chrome, what does it give me that I'm 
> missing with IE?
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Tigran K [
mailto:tigr...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 10:00 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Happy Friday
>
> I just assumed everybody is using Chrome. I mean why wouldn't they?
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Michael B. Smith 
> mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote:
>
>> If you want the "funny" - use Chrome.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Michael B. Smith
>> Consultant and Exchange MVP
>>
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

>>
>>
>> -Original Message-
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>> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 12:34 PM
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>> https://www.google.com/?q=Z+or+R+twice
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RE: [OT] Stats about IT

[Greg Olson]

Correction..   95.3%


From: Mathew Shember [mailto:mathew.shem...@synopsys.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 10:56 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: [OT] Stats about IT

I heard that 95% of women are grumpy in the morning.

From: Kim Longenbaugh 
[mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 10:37 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: [OT] Stats about IT

Who the heck is the she you're referring to, dude?  I heard that 93.7% of the 
people on this list make assumptions about gender based on a person's name.
:)

From: Alverson, Tom (Xetron) (ESS) 
[mailto:tom.alver...@ngc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 10:37 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: [OT] Stats about IT

She meant to say 95.3% are.

From: Kim Longenbaugh 
[mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 10:43 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: EXT :RE: [OT] Stats about IT

Or just make them up...as 95% of all statistics are.

From: Andrew S. Baker 
[mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 9:19 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: [OT] Stats about IT

You're going to want to check with the research firms:

Gartner, IDC, Forrester, ITIC, etc (http://itic-corp.com/)




Additionally, Google the question and see what references you find...
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On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Oliver Marshall 
mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com>> wrote:
Does anyone know of a good source of statistics about IT? I'm thinking of the 
kind of thing we can use in reports or to bring up on topics like "80% of 
companies see a return on investment from an increase in IT spend, 20% of 
companies without backup fail in a year, 40% of IT Managers go mad in the first 
year" that kind of thing.

Olly




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RE: Dell.com down

[Greg Olson]

It's dead Jim

-Original Message-
From: Charlie Kaiser [mailto:charl...@golden-eagle.org] 
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 3:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Dell.com down

Same here. Support.dell.com not available...

***
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Kingman, AZ
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> -Original Message-
> From: Devin Meade [mailto:devin.me...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 3:27 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Dell.com down
> 
> Hmm ... I can't get to www.dell.com on multiple computers with 
> different
ISP's.  Seems it
> not available in the Oklahoma City area.  Anyone else see this?  Maybe
they run
> blackberries :-/.
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RE: Best way to restrict access to file server?

[Greg Olson]

File server two nics.
1 nic on your untrusted users vlan, the other on your trusted users vlan.
Create a share on the untrusted users side, and the same share on your trusted 
users side.
Setup the untrusted nic as a member of the private profile on the firewall 
(assuming win 2008+) and only open the port for smb. Also, do not have a 
default gateway on the untrusted nic as well.
AV is also a must as well.

Good luck



From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com]
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 2:16 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Best way to restrict access to file server?

IPSec or 802.1x come to mind.

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

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From: Paul Hutchings 
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Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 12:26 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Best way to restrict access to file server?

I think there are a few ways to skin this cat so I'm throwing it open for any 
views on the pros and cons of each.

An office, network ports are wall mounted and all go back to a central comms 
cupboard.

In the office are two groups of people.

The two groups need an area where they can store/share files, but whilst one 
group has access to the regular LAN one group is untrusted so we want them as 
far away from the regular LAN as possible.

How would you do it?

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RE: 2008 DC problem - uh oh

[Greg Olson]

+1 with this approach. Much cleaner to remove it and rebuild. 


-Original Message-
From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] 
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 9:54 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: 2008 DC problem - uh oh

Yep, rebuild, don't even try and "fix" the problem server.

Carl Webster
Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional
http://www.CarlWebster.com



> -Original Message-
> From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 11:44 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: 2008 DC problem - uh oh
> 
> Because it's the right thing to do? Restoring from backup to recover a DC is
> really a last ditch option IMO when it isn't possible to just re-replicate 
> over
> the wire.
> 
> I'm not sure what lead to your problem but you may just want to rebuild the
> box all together?
> 
> Thanks,
> Brian Desmond
> br...@briandesmond.com
> 
> w - 312.625.1438 | c   - 312.731.3132
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 11:42 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: 2008 DC problem - uh oh
> 
> That's the direction we're leaning.  Your reasons why?
> 
> Original Message:
> -
> From: Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com
> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:40:12 +
> To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
> Subject: RE: 2008 DC problem - uh oh
> 
> 
> Please use option 1.
> 
> Thanks,
> Brian Desmond
> br...@briandesmond.com
> 
> w - 312.625.1438 | c   - 312.731.3132
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 11:24 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: 2008 DC problem - uh oh
> 
> 
> 
> Have a situation where my main 2008 DC is no longer working properly.  It's
> not processing logon requests anymore and is really hosed.  I have several
> other 2008 DCs that are operating fine still. I am considering two options:
> 
> 1.  Boot into AD Restore Mode, and run DCPROMO /forceremoval.  Then
> from
> another 2008 DC, delete that computer object, seize FMSO roles, clean up
> DNS, etc.  Then bring the demoted DC back into AD using DCPROMO.
> 
> 2. Boot into AD Restore Mode and restore the system state backup from
> Backup Exec from Friday night.  (will the server sync up with the changes
> in AD since Friday night on the other DCs properly?)
> 
> Any option seem preferable to you?
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> mail2web.com - Microsoft® Exchange solutions from a leading provider -
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RE: Open Source cloud stack

[Greg Olson]

KeyboardHow Quaint..
-Scotty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9kTVZiJ3Uc



-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 1:26 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Open Source cloud stack

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 13:13, Ben Scott  wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Kurt Buff  wrote:
>> Private clouds can certainly make sense.
>
>  Even if it doesn't have a keyboard?

Mine will always have keyboards...

Kurt

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RE: HP going out

[Greg Olson]

Kayaks! +100 
I also had the pleasure of having to support SGI 320 and 540 Visual 
workstations. 
What a disaster they were. SGI built them for windows 2k only to get delayed 
(by MS) and they had to hack up drivers for NT to run them. 
We had so many issues,(everything in them was priority except the hard drive, 
and cd-rom) in the end SGI literally sent us 20 of each to keep on the shelf 
for parts at no cost, then the next week pretty much closed that whole line 
down. 
I still have one 540 setup at new %work% as a conversation piece.



-Original Message-
From: Mathew Shember [mailto:mathew.shem...@synopsys.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 10:25 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: HP going out

Oh gateway  *censored, censored, censored*

I remember that endless loop as well.

Then they company decided on HP Kayaks.Now that was an adventure in 
installation..



-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 10:19 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: HP going out

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:44 PM, C.E. Gene Connor  wrote:
> Will the new buyer have to stand behind what we are now getting from HP ??

  I think that will depend on how things go down.  One hopes HP will want their 
customers taken care of.

  Before I started at %WORK%, they were buying Gateway PCs.  I put a stop to 
that as soon as I could, but there were plenty around I still had to support.  
Then Gateway sold their business PC division to MPC.
The warranties and support contracts basically evaporated.  MPC said call 
Gateway, Gateway said call MPC, I got nothing.

  Shockingly, that division soon went out of business.  It's almost like their 
customers didn't trust them anymore.  Whodathunkit?

-- Ben

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RE: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes

[Greg Olson]

So one thing that I'm hoping I'm getting confused on is this:

Let's say Right now I have an Esx enterprise host with 64gb of ram and two 6 
core procs. Currently I have two enterprise licenses to cover this. Now based 
on the new licenses it looks like I'd have the same licenses 2x32gb for memory, 
but reading the line below is worrisome:
Q: How is consumed vRAM capacity determined?
A: Consumed vRAM is equal to the sum total of vRAM configured to all powered on 
virtual machines managed by a single instance of VMware vCenter Server or by 
multiple instances of VMware vCenter
Server in Linked Mode.

So, I have over 30vm's running on this host (one of about a dozen QA eSX 
servers) that have vm's with 4gb of ram allocated to them each, that work well 
with memory sharing. Now based on what I read above, that means I now have to 
buy 4 licenses to cover each server as I'm at 120gb of VRam!? Add that cost 
across our QA and even worse our dev and prod environment's, and  that's a big 
sticker hit.

I hope I'm reading that wrong, if not our test Hyper-v cluster will be 
expanding over the next 6 months.

:(


From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:bem...@pittcountync.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 9:51 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes

Windows Server has those types of limitations, too, and have as long as I have 
been using it.  It used to be that you had to go up to the Enterprise Edition 
to use over 4 GB of memory.  It's higher today at 32 GB (Standard Edition 
limit), but you still are constrained by the software.  I am not saying that I 
like the licensing change that VMWare is doing, but it's hardly anything 
unprecedented.


From: Randal, Phil 
[mailto:pran...@herefordshire.gov.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 9:02 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes

I don't have a problem with paying a licence fee for every installed copy of 
the software, but I strongly challenge the right of any software vendor to 
charge self-imposed taxes on their customers' hardware.

This sort of licensing should be illegal, IMHO.

Phil
--
Phil Randal | Infrastructure Engineer
NHS Herefordshire & Herefordshire Council  | Deputy Chief Executive's Office | 
I.C.T. Services Division
Thorn Office Centre, Rotherwas, Hereford, HR2 6JT
Tel: 01432 260160

From: Webster 
[mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com]
Sent: 13 July 2011 13:57
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes

One analyst says for some large VMware shops with large VMs this could 
quadruple their VMware licensing costs.

Another analyst says VMware is sending a clear message to SMBs, "You can't 
afford us".

Like MBS, I am NOT a VMware person.  This is just my $0.02US worth.


Webster

From: Michael B. Smith 
[mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Subject: RE: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes

Great way for vmware to drive customers to Hyper-V.

Regards,

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

From: Paul Hutchings 
[mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk]
Subject: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes

http://blogs.softchoice.com/advisor/2011/07/12/big-changes-in-licensing-model-for-vmware-vsphere-5-vmware/

Note how licensing is moving to be CPU based but limited by vRam.

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RE: BPOS questions

[Greg Olson]

And BPOS users will have to move to 365 anyway so why do the same work twice:
http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=63092



-Original Message-
From: Ryan Finnesey [mailto:ryan.finne...@harrierinvestments.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 4:14 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: BPOS questions

Rethink that :)

-Original Message-
From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 2:11 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: BPOS questions

They opted for BPOS thinking it would be more stable.

Michael B. Smith wrote:
> Are you going BPOS? Or Office 365?
>
> These are wildly different.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael B. Smith
> Consultant and Exchange MVP
> http://TheEssentialExchange.com
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 1:57 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: BPOS questions
>
> Hey all,
>
> We have a client that is breaking up with parent and is going to use 
> BPOS.  Only 75 users.  We are setting up 2008r2 AD, but no local
exchange.
>
> The documentaion for the BPOS sync tool keeps mentioning mail enabled 
> users and objects as what it syncs.  Does this mean I can't use the 
> sync tool to add users to BPOS?  I didn't think I could have mail 
> enabled users/contacts etc without exchange.
>
> I'm leaning toward not even bothering with the sync tool since there 
> are only 75 users.  Bad idea?
>
> grazie.
>
> Bill
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Question on PCI compliance

[Greg Olson]

Hi all,
I have a quick question on pci compliance and how you guys\gals are handling
it for servers you have that take credit card data?
We have a small amount of servers that basically host the web code to take
cc info and its then passed on directly to the processor. Nothing stays on
the server at any time, but we would like to be able to pass a pci audit on
these servers which requires that we have "automated" software that monitors
and detects changes in the log files, and software that monitors key files
(windows directories, and our app directories) for any changes and sends out
an alert.
We're looking at Tripwire product, but they seem pretty expensive for the
small amount of servers we're talking about.
Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance.
-Greg

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RE: Backup internet access?

[Greg Olson]

One other thing you might think about is looking at a cellular 3\4g option as 
well.
We happen to have great Sprint service (The office were in used to be Sprints 
SF headquarters) and have a 3g\4g  CradlePoint MBR1200 router With the Sprint 
U600 3g\4g usb modem and it works great as a backup. It’s cheap at 59.95 a 
month which includes 5gb of data on the 3G (.05 per mb after), and unlimited 
data on the 4g (Which we happen to have).  I think the router was under 400.00 
as well.

http://www.cradlepoint.com/products/mbr1200-failsafe-gigabit-n-router-mobile-broadband#



Good luck.
-Greg




From: Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 12:34 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Backup internet access?

http://www.towerstream.com/

They have been doing wireless for quite some time in my area. I don't have 
first hand experience, but for a backup line it should more than suffice.





On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 3:30 PM, David Mazzaccaro 
mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com>>
 wrote:
Who's the wireless provider?


-Original Message-
From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 3:07 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Backup internet access?

I have a remote site (6 people) that has no access to wired Internet or 
telephone.  We are using a wireless provider for Internet and for "landline" 
phone.  It has some latency issues and the VPN drops occasionally, but overall, 
it would probably be a decent backup solution for you.

At my main site, the wireless provider wanted too much money for very little 
bandwidth, so they priced themselves out of contention.

-Original Message-
From: David Mazzaccaro 
[mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 2:34 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Backup internet access?

LOL
I didn't even think about wireless.  Thanks!

I got the following pricing (monthly):
Single T1 1.5M $450
2 Ts bonded 3M $830




-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 2:19 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Backup internet access?

I'd seriously consider a wireless link - and I don't mean 802.11, either.

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 06:41, David Mazzaccaro 
mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com>>
 wrote:
> I’m looking for suggestions on how/what to get for secondary internet
> access.
>
> We currently have a single point of failure (cable internet) and I
> would like to maybe get a T1 line installed as a backup in case the
> cable goes down.
>
> Or – would it be better to have the T1 as the primary internet access
> and cable as a backup?
>
> We’ve had cable for ~10 years here and it’s been VERY reliable and fast.
>
> 170 users in 9 locations across 6 states all come back to our main
> site to go out through the cable modem.
>
> The solution doesn’t have to be auto-failover.
>
> We can manually move a cable or plug in a router/firewall to switch
> providers.
>
> Wondering what others are doing…
>
> Thx!
>
> .
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RE: Private video server

[Greg Olson]

Check out these guys as well:
http://www.equilibrium.com/eq-software/mediarich-server/overview/
I believe they even have a sharepoint plug-in as well./ 

-Greg 


-Original Message-
From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 8:32 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Private video server

Could you use the VLC player embedded in the webpage rather than 
Flash/Silverlight?


Roger Wright
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On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Ben N  wrote:
> I'm looking for some software that can do this.
> 1. domain users can upload video to an internal webpage we host, or 
> maybe to a file share 2. video is accessible from a HTTPS URL that we 
> host that prompts for domain username/password (basic auth over HTTPS 
> most likely on an IIS server) 3. video is played using an embedded 
> flash/silverlight player software could convert videos to a single 
> format if required to play in a web player We want to support command 
> file types, ie. mp4, mpg, avi, wmv, etc..
> any ideas or solutions you already have implemented?
> I don't really feel like hiring out devs to do this, hoping something 
> like this already exists.
> -BenN
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RE: OT: Media Center tuner card for Comcast

[Greg Olson]

I use this:
http://www.cetoncorp.com/products.php
And then you just need a cablecard from Comcast. They usually make someone come 
out to install the card though, so just an fyi.
Comcast was a pain in the beginning getting it installed as there "tech's" 
don't really know anything about how to install it, but that was last year. 
Sould be easier now.

-Greg


From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 2:00 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OT: Media Center tuner card for Comcast


I have the $12 basic cable package, and my ancient tuner card works fine still 
(last time I checked)

Is that the cable package you are curious about... I can check what card I have 
later if interested.

Sam
On Apr 11, 2011 7:33 AM, "Erik Goldoff" 
mailto:egold...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Now since Comcast has been digital, the old analog tuner card in my 5+ year
> old XP Media Center pc won't tune in even the 'free' cable channels. The HP
> PC is so old that it does not have any of the slot types that the newer
> cards fit.
>
>
>
> I'm thinking of building a new, Windows 7 based media center system, and
> wonder if any of you that are also Comcast customers have done the same
> successfully. If so, what tuner card (make and model) did you use and do
> you recommend it for others ?
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
>
> Erik Goldoff
>
> IT Consultant
>
> Systems, Networks, & Security
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Off-topic:-Would VMware be right for me?

[Greg Olson]

You can play many of the Quest games in your browser for free (and authorized 
by Activision) here:
http://sarien.net/

-Enjoy


-Greg


From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 1:07 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Would VMware be right for me?

I just checked my esxi4 console and for Windows it shows 3.1 and up, but there 
is an 'other' selection as well.

Late to the party.
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Jonathan Link 
mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Love the Quest for Glory series!

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 9:09 PM, 
mailto:gswe...@acts360.com>> wrote:
Mapping the LPT port in DOSbox to a network print queue worked pretty well when 
we did it a few years ago..  Its been awhile since I have had to do anything 
with DOSbox for network applications though. I just use it to spin up Quest for 
Glory or Police Quest, Space quest when I am feeling nostalgic.



Greg Sweers
CEO
ACTS360.com
P.O. Box 1193
Brandon, FL  33509
813-657-0849 Office
813-758-6850 Cell
813-341-1270 Fax

From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 6:40 PM

To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Would VMware be right for me?


DOSbox is awesome.  That is all.

-ASB: http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker

Sent from my Motorola Droid
On Mar 5, 2011 4:42 PM, "Ben Scott" 
mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Evan Brastow
> mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com>> wrote:
>> This has worked reasonably well for us over the years... right up until now.
>> Windows 7 does not run 16 bit programs. ... it would be nice for them to
>> be able to run Windows 7 on a new 64 bit machine
>
> Technically speaking it's not Windows 7 but the CPU architecture.
> When in long mode (64-bit), the x86-64 architecture does not support
> virtual 8086 mode (for 16-bit tasks). I believe if you install a
> 32-bit flavor of Windows 7 it should work. (Though I haven't tried
> it.) That said, MSFT's plan is that Win 7 will be the last available
> in 32-bit flavors so you're going to have to move to 64-bit
> eventually.
>
> You need a machine emulator. VMware will do it, I believe. I've
> also heard good things about DOSbox. The VMware ESXi that someone
> suggested is a stand-alone OS that lets you run your DOS boxes on a
> server and export the virtual console over the network. VMware
> Workstation is a single-user program that runs like any other Windows
> program. Choose what makes the most sense for you.
>
> What's the DOS software doing? If it is talking to special hardware
> (like a CNC controller) you may run into real trouble. If it's just
> accounting or something you'll prolly be in good shape.
>
> Printing is going to be a pain no matter what you do. Your best bet
> might be to load the Microsoft Networking client for MS-DOS, use a
> virtual NIC in the virtual DOS machine, get the virtual DOS machine on
> your LAN, and capture an LPT1: port to a network print queue.
>
> -- Ben
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RE: Conficker

[Greg Olson]

I can confirm that it does exactly this as it was trying to login with AD 
service accounts from a laptop that we're created one off for a Linux server). 
We got hit with it again last week on two machines, but luckily we we're 
running account lockout software that tracks lockouts real-time and it was 
really easy to trace it down to the two machines quickly and take them off-line 
before they got to others. Both machines had the latest and greatest MS patches 
and Vipre defs as well which is sad panda.
If you don't have something watching your ad for lockouts they have a free 30 
day trial that I'd highly recommend if you're going through a Conficker 
outbreak. It's fully functional and will get you a picture of what machines are 
doing the work really quickly. On a normal day we would have a few (maybe 4-5 
lockouts) but one conficker machine would cause 30-40 in a few minutes. Times 
that but a ton of infected machines and uggh.
http://www.netwrix.com/account_lockout_examiner.html

Good luck!
-Greg


From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 10:54 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Conficker

I'm sorry for what you are going through - but that's impressive if true.

--
ME2




On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:52 AM, James Rankin 
mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com>> wrote:
It is locking out unique userids that haven't logged on to the machines in 
question, ever. I can only assume it must be querying the directory in some way.

On 23 February 2011 18:50, Micheal Espinola Jr 
mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com>> wrote:
It attempts to brute-force common accounts with common passwords as a method of 
authentication in order to spread. Are you seeing something that you would 
consider /unique/ to your domain?

I wasnt aware that it would try to attack unique accounts based on locallly 
chached information, but it certainly wouldnt be a far stretch for what 
downadup can otherwise do.

--
ME2





On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:26 AM, James Rankin 
mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com>> wrote:
Right, for my sins I appear to be stuck in the middle of a Conficker outbreak. 
I'm not here to advise about security, but five minutes into outbreak and the 
glaring hole of Autoplay being enabled is clearly how this thing is 
propagating, and they've been told. Fools - they are in the process of learning 
the hard way.

I avoided Conficker in my last few roles thanks to good security practices, 
there's one question I can't work out from the Conficker write-ups though. How 
does this thing get it's list of accounts to attack? We have accounts locking 
out right left and centre, but they are clearly not just accounts that have 
previously logged on to the local machine. Does anyone know if this little 
beastie queries Active Directory in some way?

TIA,



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RE: USB to Serial interface

[Greg Olson]

+1 we use that one here at work as well. 


-Original Message-
From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 5:08 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: USB to Serial interface

I use this one. Always works...
http://www.iogear.com/product/GUC232A/


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From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 2:46 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: USB to Serial interface

All,

Just search my archives, and don't see a definitive answer, so thought I'd ask 
here.

Does anyone have a brand recommendation for a usb to serial interface for a 
Win7 laptop?

I've just got a brand new Dell E6510 with Win7 Pro on it, and need to config 
some network equipment.

I know that under XP some of our folks had mixed results, and definitely had 
some brand preferences, but I don't know the situation under Win7 at all.

Thanks,

Kurt

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DDOS mitigation

[Greg Olson]

Hey guys and gals, 
Just wondering what you guys are doing to protect yourself against a DDOS 
attack? I was helping a buddy over the weekend who's company was getting 
attacked, and it was an eye opening experience in just how un-prepared most 
companies are for this. The attackers we're coming from hundreds of machines 
across Europe, and we're doing a syn-flood\http get overload attack. While the 
syn-flood was relatively  easy to mitigate, the http get flood was not. In the 
end they had to sign on with a scrubbing service at a hefty price to get it 
cleaned up. It's defiantly made me look at what I can do pro-actively in 
setting up the right gear to control as much as I can when it gets to our local 
network, but I'm thinking by the time it gets to us, its too late, as they 
could easily overwhelm a gig pipe with the right attack. 

Thoughts?

Thanks, 
-Greg
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RE: Quick question, Missing Dail-in Tab in Windows 2008 R2 AD domain

[Greg Olson]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975448


-Original Message-
From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] 
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 12:18 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Quick question, Missing Dail-in Tab in Windows 2008 R2 AD domain

In Windows 2008 R2 domains, it seems when I am looking from a Windows 7 PC ( 
Yes I have the Advanced Features Turned on) I can't find the Dail-in Tab which 
enabled or disabled the Dail-in Networking settings like back in Windows 2003. 

Anyone know where that is hiding in Windows 2008/R2 and how to turn it off? 

Z

Edward E. Ziots
CISSP, Network +, Security +
Network Engineer
Lifespan Organization
Email:ezi...@lifespan.org
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RE: Konica Minolta Drivers

[Greg Olson]

Try this:
There was a version difference between the print driver on the client PC and 
the one on the Terminal Server. Blowing out the driver on the client and 
reinstalling the print driver from the print server on the client and the 
terminal server session resolved the problem.
Good luck!
-Greg


From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 1:34 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Konica Minolta Drivers

Try an HP LaserJet 5 driver and see what happens. I seem to remember using an 
HP LJ driver with a KM a while back, and if memory serves, it did what we 
needed.


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


From: Kelli Sterley [mailto:kjsterley.li...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 3:21 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Konica Minolta Drivers

Thanks John ... I have reluctantly been trying the universal print driver for 
both my print server and the clients but now I keep getting this error when a 
TS client tries to print:

"Only users who have administrative privlieges can use this printer driver.  It 
is necessary to add the printer to the printer folder with administrator 
privileges to enable the limited user's using."

Googling hasn't turned up much of anything.  Has anyone else seen this error 
before?
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle 
mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com>> wrote:
Kelli,

We use some KM devices - in fact, we just installed two new ones about 20 
minutes ago. In my past experience (5 years or so with KM, specifically), KM 
has not offered much in the way of drivers for the devices that we've acquired. 
If there isn't a 64 bit driver on their website, chances are that there won't 
be one (based on my experience, anyway).

YMMV. Good luck.

Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
Technology Coordinator
Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA
jra...@eaglemds.com
www.eaglemds.com


From: Kelli Sterley 
[mailto:kjsterley.li...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 10:00 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Konica Minolta Drivers

This probably isn't the correct list but I'm hoping someone else has what I 
need or can point me in the right direction.

I have a Konica Minolta BizHub 222 and I need both the 64 and 32 bit drivers 
for it.  The only thing KM has on their website is a universal driver that 
isn't worth the time it takes to download.  It can't even find my BizHub.

Any help would be great - I've tried contacting KM but they are no help at all.

KS

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RE: Problem loading W7 on new HD

[Greg Olson]

Dose Windows 7 see the drive, but just doesn't let you "install" to it?
I think I remember having the same issue on machine and it was something really 
stupid about having the "Boot from CD\DVD" listed first in the boot order. I 
had to remove all other hard drives, select the new drive as the first in the 
bios boot order, reboot and then hit the F12 one-time boot order to boot from 
the dvd.
Ahh, here's the thread that helped me:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproinstall/thread/876d552c-428b-402b-be19-adeab4fd618e

-Good luck!
-Greg



From: VIPCS [mailto:vi...@stny.rr.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 11:53 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Problem loading W7 on new HD

If you create a small partition for the OS (say 40GB), does it still fail on 
first reboot?


Sincerely,



Jeffrey and Mary Jane Harris

VIPCS


From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 2:40 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Problem loading W7 on new HD

Sorry for the OT, not doing a lot of hardware at the moment, and hoping those 
of you out there who are doing this everyday might be able to assist:

OK, so I have got a frankenclone machine at home that I wanted to update with a 
larger HD and load Windows 7 on, currently has Vista Ultimate 64-bit. Basic 
specs:

MSI P6NGM2-L Motherboard
Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200 2.5Ghz 2M
2G DDR2 RAM
300G WD HD
DVD R/W drive

So I order a new WD 1.5TB SATA HD, and swap out the old drive for the new one, 
then try to boot from the OS DVD.  BIOS sees the new drive,  but unable to load 
Windows 7 on it. Tried different media, different versions of ISO images, tried 
retail version DVD, tried a different DVD drive. Nothing works. I then tried 
loading an older OS (Windows Vista, Windows XP) all of which see the new HD, 
but when it reboots for the first time after formatting and copying files it 
continuously reboots. So it's not specific to W7.  Almost like something is 
screwed up with the MBR. Is there any kind of incompatibility that my current 
MB won't support a newer drive of this size? Is there some kind of SATA 
compatibility I should be looking for on a new HD for a 2 year old MB 
(purchased in 2/2009)? I have checked and I do have the latest version of the 
BIOS. Not opposed to swapping out the MB, but would like a better idea of why 
it won't work.

Thanks

Chris Bodnar, MCSE
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Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services
Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
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RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home

[Greg Olson]

We use a Juniper SSL vpn for our remote users that does the following:
1. Determines the client connecting in (PC, MAC, Linux, smartphone, iphone)
2. For the smartphones\iphones it checks policy for the user and if there in 
the approved group it allows them to access our internal apps via there client 
app only IF they have our security toolset (Junos) installed. Otherwise it 
boots them off. 
3. For pc\macs, it checks for our internal certificate (along with their login 
in credentials) and if it has the proper cert, it passes them over to go 
through our network connect policy, which verifies that they are running one of 
our approved AV programs, that the defs are not more than 1 day old (if they 
are it tells the client virus program to update, and waits for up to 3 minutes 
to update and checks again), and that there firewall on the laptop is up and 
running. If that's all good, they get assigned network access based on their ad 
group info, and it works very well.   If it does not have our cert (such as a 
home pc) direct network access is denied, and all that we allow is a proxied 
terminal server session that is run in a browser session (so no remote disks, 
or any direct connection from the client. Only the SSL vpn device talks to the 
connected RDP session). What lists of machines they can connect to via the 
proxied rpd is determined by group access in AD and shows as a bookmark on 
their web page. 

This also works well for contractors as we can give them just the access they 
require and nothing more. If they need to upload files for example, they get a 
web browser with a upload link to the share that we defined. They can't go 
anywhere else.  So it makes for a great Extranet setup. 

The great thing about this setup is the client piece. It's really easy on the 
end user. And being ssl it gets us past many of the old challenges using ipsec 
or PPTP, etc. 
Not the cheapest, but we'll worth it. 

Good luck!
-Greg 

-Original Message-
From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 6:18 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Remote access - Allow employees work from home

If you're talking about RDP (TS/RDS) or ICA (Citrix) bandwidth on the users' 
end is only an issue if they are on dial-up. Any kind of wired broadband 
connection is more than enough. Even a 256kbit line is fine.

Home satellite might be an issue; the problem is more latency than bandwidth.

On 12/8/2010 6:01 PM, Gary Whitten wrote:
> I'm not sure of all the reasons involved, but logmein and GotoMyPC are 
> banned by our security group for use in connectivity.  We use a VPN 
> solution from company laptops into the network.  For other users, a 
> Citrix solution is used.
> 
> Until a few minutes ago, I was keeping an eye on this thread just on general
> interest.   I've just been asked to provide a comprehensive list of what is
> needed for people to work at home.  While this thread has generally 
> concentrated on the actual solutions involved, which we generally have 
> set up, something I don't think that has come up with is the 
> requirements from the user's end.
> 
> If it's a company laptop, we can generally control the specs of the machine
> and the software and policies on it.If it's a home machine going to a
> terminal server, Citrix farm, etc., it's less so but as a rule, most 
> machines sold in the last several years can handle that, unless the 
> user has turned it into sludge with their computing habits.  Still, I 
> think a minimum CPU and RAM requirement may not be a bad idea.
> 
> Another big variable is bandwidth and connectivity.  I think it would 
> be prudent to not support wireless connections for several reasons, primarily
> that supporting them is rather hellish should something go wrong.   In terms
> of providers, I'm most familiar with cable (Comcast).  Do satellite 
> internet providers for the home give enough bandwidth pull this kind of thing 
> off?
> I believe FiOS is definitely capable of the level of bandwidth needed.
> Would you require a speed test with one of the sites out there that do 
> that, specifying a destination near your connection point, which 
> wouldn't necessarily be conclusive.
> 
> What other considerations on this line of thought are there? 
> 
> Gary Whitten
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Fergal O'Connell [mailto:foconn...@curamsoftware.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 6:25 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home
> 
> Jim,
> A user will pretty much RDP into their desktop and therefore have full 
> access to the full development environment - all other core services 
> that are not public lie OWA etc.
> 
> Another option that is management and I have to consider is using a 
> 3rd party vendor to provide the solution for us - like logmein.com etc
> 
> Win2008 R2 TS is something else that I have too look into but have 
> very little knowledge or experie

RE: Issue with Service and Login Account on NT 4.0 SP6a machine, ideas?

[Greg Olson]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942564


From: VIPCS [mailto:vi...@stny.rr.com]
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 4:04 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Issue with Service and Login Account on NT 4.0 SP6a machine, ideas?

Did you check to see if the account password has expired, or the account is 
locked out?  Does the account have the "login as a service" user right?

Are there group policies that may be affecting the ability of the account to be 
granted the correct user rights?

Is the account in question a domain user account, or a computer account?

Note also that just because an account exists does not mean the account is what 
the service is looking for.  If you had a domain "cvsmdm" account and it was 
deleted, and then recreated, it has a new SID, so that its previous permissions 
(such as login as a service) are gone.

Finally, to follow up on what Michael Smith asked, what are the circumstances 
under which the problem arose?  In particular, how long after raising the 
FFL/DFL?


Sincerely,



Jeffrey and Mary Jane Harris

VIPCS


From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org]
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 5:07 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Issue with Service and Login Account on NT 4.0 SP6a machine, ideas?


All,



Having a problem on one of my servers, that I am trying to disprove that it's a 
domain based problem. It's a Windows 2008 R2 FFL/DFL domain. The server in 
question is Windows NT 4.0 SP6a. It has a service that runs under the context 
of domain account. Which out of the blue has popped the following error: (Note 
this is a vendor supplied system)



Cannot set the startup parameters for the CVSMDM_000 service.  Error

1057 occurred.  The account name is invalid or does not exist."



The account its trying to use exists. I did a nltest /Server:SERVERNAME 
/SC_Query:DOMAINNAME ( which returns success, so I know the secure channel is 
fine).



Any other ideas, only other idea I could think of was to reset the password for 
that account and retry or make up a new account and try that one.



Maybe even a possibility of putting entries in the LMHOSTS to point directly to 
a Domain Controller accordingly, for this server, but again don't think that is 
the problem if I can verify the secure channel is good with the NLTEST command 
then we can eliminate that.



But not sure whatelse to take a look at to see what might be the issue.



Any ideas, feel free to chime in.



Z


Edward E. Ziots
CISSP, Network +, Security +
Network Engineer
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RE: Um, WTF?

[Greg Olson]

BGP is also very helpful in companies with mixed vender gear. For instance we 
use it here as it makes the Junipers and Cisco and Palo Alto devices all play 
together nicely.

From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 10:49 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Um, WTF?

Not always.  I did some work a few years back for a company with multiple T1's, 
multiple providers and they were only a 1 site, 100 user company.  Their 
business model dictated that they needed multiple paths...  On a 15 site dual 
MPLS WAN, I run BGP as well.  It just depends on the needs.
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Michael B. Smith 
mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote:
But big boys, right? Not your average SMORG.

Regards,

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

From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 1:41 PM

To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Um, WTF?

To be fair, BGP is not just for ISP's...  I've run BGP in quite a few companies 
depending on the needs...
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Bill Humphries 
mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com>> wrote:
yeah mainline courses like network+ do not get into ISP level routing tech.

Bill

Michael B. Smith wrote:
I've never seen BGP covered in networking courses. Other than advanced Cisco 
courses.

OSPF and RIP and IGRP - common interior protocols, yes; but not BGP.

You must attend a better grade of schooling than I did. :)

Regards,

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

From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 11:53 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Um, WTF?

Any networking course should cover BGP.

When I did my networking subjects, we have to cover OSPF, RIP, BGP etc.

Cheers
Ken

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Friday, 19 November 2010 12:39 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Um, WTF?

If you've never worked for an ISP, or acquired a CCNP (or higher), or worked 
for a telecommunications company - it's unlikely that you would've run into BGP 
or ASNs.

We all have our areas of expertise. Don't ask me to set up KMS, for example (to 
reference another ongoing thread on this mailing list). I know zero about it.

Regards,

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

From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 11:33 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Um, WTF?

Ah. I have heard that term I just didn't connect it.

Why is it the more I learn the more ignorant I feel? Some days I actually think 
I do know a lot and then something like this pops up and I'm back to "eh, I'm 
just a n00b..."

From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 8:28 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Um, WTF?

Border Gateway Protocol
Z

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

From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 11:21 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Um, WTF?

Ok so I'm behind the curve.

BGP?




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RE: IE9 beta

[Greg Olson]

Seems to replace ie8. But is pretty snappy so far.


From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 2:59 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IE9 beta

Can it run alongside IE 8, like FF4 can run alongside FF3?  Or will it replace 
IE 8?
33MB Download, not bad MS, not bad.

Sam

From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 4:51 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IE9 beta

I'll pop it into a VM on the weekend.  Maybe.

ASB

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Michael B. Smith 
mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote:
Am I the only one that has installed the IE-9 beta?

I like the minimalism. Even more minimal than Chrome...it seems to work pretty 
well with most sites. FB can crash it, though, when not in compatibility mode...

Regards,

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RE: Dumb DL360 Question

[Greg Olson]

We run a few racks of 42 dl360 G3\G4's right on top of each other for the past 
four years with no issues.
-Greg

From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 11:05 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Dumb DL360 Question

The vents in the 360's we have are on a sloped section of the back edge of the 
case, which means they get air circulation even when stacked with no space in 
between.

-sc

From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 12:52 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Dumb DL360 Question

I'm thinking this isnt a problem and they are probbaly designed for this but 
just wanted to be sure. It is ok to stack these 1U servers one on top of the 
other right? I just ask because the biggest vent is on the top of the thing. 
I've been leaving 1U in between but I'm running out of space.

James

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RE: Mac and Windows mix

[Greg Olson]

I believe the list sponsor now has Vipre for the Mac as well for Enterprise 
clients. 
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/vipre-mac.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SunbeltBlog+%28Sunbelt+BLOG%29


-Original Message-
From: S Powell [mailto:powe...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 1:20 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Mac and Windows mix

OH there are patches they are just different. software update does not like 
to be run by normal users only admins, so you have to manually install or allow 
the users to run as admin ug



Are you planning on any mac servers, because that is a whole new level of 
fun

We don't run AV, but i do have ClamX on my macbook for fun.  while the mac may 
not get infected with a windows virus, they can pass them on so you do have to 
be careful there.

There are other things to be aware of, but we've had good luck.  I love the 
Mac, I am an utter fan boy, but I would say that unless users are used to the 
mac I'd be resistant on letting the users lose with them in a windows office.

ymmv


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> I would like to hear from those of you who have a mixed Windows/Mac
> environments: How do you handle management of the diverse environment?
> Presumably with Mac's there is no patching or AV. Can you use GPO's on 
> them in any fashion (wondering if there's some add-in to allow equivalency).
>
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RE: Generating report for Exchange Distribution groups?

[Greg Olson]

Thanks Steven,
This was very helpful.
:)
-Greg


From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 12:35 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Generating report for Exchange Distribution groups?

Different tack.  exploration rather then answer.

The PowerShell team tries hard to make cmdlet names 'discoverable' so
the Exchange module is a snapin and has 2 elements so this will get all the 
Exchange cmdlets loaded
  Get-Command -Module Microsoft.Exchange.*
or you can guess by the name distribution group
  Get-Command *distri*
  Get-Command *group*

Either way this will get you to two commands
  Get-DistributionGroup
  Get-DistributionGroupMember

Using help to get examples and Get-member to see what is available
  help Get-DistributionGroup -examples # (turns out to be sort of useless on 
this command)
  Get-DistributionGroup 'some group' | Get-Member  # (more useful)
We see a managed by and Name property

So now you have the main command (get-distributiongroup) and need to expand it. 
 Yay foreach-object (alias % expands to foreach-object) and do similiar 
Get-Memeber for the Get-DistributionGroupMember

Now Micheal's one liner is awesome and actually more useful then my quick try 
(you can pipe it to out-text) but I can't quite get there that fast yet.  If 
the process is what caught you out, hopefully this will be helpful in a 
different way then his script.

Link to cool ebook: http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/ebook/

Have fun,
Steven Peck
http://www.blkmtn.org
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Steven Peck 
mailto:sep...@gmail.com>> wrote:
No surprise, Micheals is better then mine.  SO much for beating him :)
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Greg Olson 
mailto:gol...@markettools.com>> wrote:
Awesome, I will give this a shot.
Thanks MBS!
-Greg


-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith 
[mailto:mich...@smithcons.com<mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>]
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 12:01 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Generating report for Exchange Distribution groups?

E. You might also need a couple of resultsize parameters there, depending 
on the size of your organization. (I just ran it at a larger customer of mine 
and ran into this.)

get-distributiongroup -resultsize unlimited |% {
   $group = $_;
   "Name: $($group.Name), ManagedBy: $($group.ManagedBy), Identity: 
$($group.Identity)"
   $members = Get-DistributiongroupMember -identity $group.Identity 
-resultsize unlimited;
   foreach ($member in $members) {
   "`t$($member.Name)"
   }
}

Regards,

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


-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith 
[mailto:mich...@smithcons.com<mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>]
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 2:55 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Generating report for Exchange Distribution groups?

[PS] C:\>get-distributiongroup |% {
>> $group = $_;
>> "Name: $($group.Name), ManagedBy: $($group.ManagedBy), Identity: 
>> $($group.Identity)"
>> $members = Get-DistributiongroupMember -identity $group.Identity;
>> foreach ($member in $members) {
>> "`t$($member.Name)"
>> }
>> }
>>
Name: j-and-m, ManagedBy: smithcons.local/Users/Administrator, Identity: 
smithcons.local/Users/j-and-m
   Michael B. Smith
   Jacqui
...
Etc.
...

Regards,

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

-Original Message-
From: Greg Olson [mailto:gol...@markettools.com<mailto:gol...@markettools.com>]
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 2:48 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Generating report for Exchange Distribution groups?

All,
Is there any way to generate a report that lists out all of our Distribution 
groups, along with the members and owners of the lists? I see how to generate a 
listing of the groups, but not a way to have it put the members of each group 
and the owners as well.
I'm sure there is probably a PowerShell way of doing this, but my ps skills are 
weak and Google Fu is failing today. This is on Exchange 2007  and Outlook 2010.
Thanks in advance for any help!
-Greg


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RE: Generating report for Exchange Distribution groups?

[Greg Olson]

Awesome, I will give this a shot.
Thanks MBS!
-Greg


-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 12:01 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Generating report for Exchange Distribution groups?

E. You might also need a couple of resultsize parameters there, depending 
on the size of your organization. (I just ran it at a larger customer of mine 
and ran into this.)

get-distributiongroup -resultsize unlimited |% {
$group = $_;
"Name: $($group.Name), ManagedBy: $($group.ManagedBy), Identity: 
$($group.Identity)"
$members = Get-DistributiongroupMember -identity $group.Identity 
-resultsize unlimited; 
foreach ($member in $members) {
"`t$($member.Name)"
}
}

Regards,

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


-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 2:55 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Generating report for Exchange Distribution groups?

[PS] C:\>get-distributiongroup |% {
>> $group = $_;
>> "Name: $($group.Name), ManagedBy: $($group.ManagedBy), Identity: 
>> $($group.Identity)"
>> $members = Get-DistributiongroupMember -identity $group.Identity; 
>> foreach ($member in $members) {
>> "`t$($member.Name)"
>> }
>> }
>>
Name: j-and-m, ManagedBy: smithcons.local/Users/Administrator, Identity: 
smithcons.local/Users/j-and-m
Michael B. Smith
Jacqui
...
Etc.
...

Regards,

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


-Original Message-
From: Greg Olson [mailto:gol...@markettools.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 2:48 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Generating report for Exchange Distribution groups?

All,
Is there any way to generate a report that lists out all of our Distribution 
groups, along with the members and owners of the lists? I see how to generate a 
listing of the groups, but not a way to have it put the members of each group 
and the owners as well. 
I'm sure there is probably a PowerShell way of doing this, but my ps skills are 
weak and Google Fu is failing today. This is on Exchange 2007  and Outlook 2010.
Thanks in advance for any help!
-Greg 
 

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Generating report for Exchange Distribution groups?

[Greg Olson]

All, 
Is there any way to generate a report that lists out all of our Distribution 
groups, along with the members and owners of the lists? I see how to generate a 
listing of the groups, but not a way to have it put the members of each group 
and the owners as well. 
I'm sure there is probably a PowerShell way of doing this, but my ps skills are 
weak and Google Fu is failing today. This is on Exchange 2007  and Outlook 2010.
Thanks in advance for any help!
-Greg 
 

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RE: Repairing a broken DB cluster

[Greg Olson]

I would think the cleanest\safest way would be change the name of the new 
server and add it in as an additional member. Set it up and test failing over 
form the current running node (leaving the failed node still in an offline 
state). Once everything passes, remove the failed node and do clean up as 
necessary on the San to get rid of the old server info. You'll have some pauses 
during failover, and a potential downtime if something doesn't work as 
expected, but it should fail right back over to the original node if there is 
an issue so it should be  alight impact.
I defiantly wouldn't rename it to the same name as you just know there is going 
to be some weirdness down the line that makes it a pain to troubleshoot.
Good Luck!
-Greg


From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:bem...@pittcountync.gov]
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 9:16 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Repairing a broken DB cluster

Evicting the old node sounds right.  Again, I'm not sure how that works with 
the new server having the same name.  Hopefully, it's a non-issue.

Is it saying to stop the cluster service on the surviving member, or the one 
being evicted?  If you are stopping it on the surviving member, I don't know 
how you would go about trying to do any funtions (like evict).  If it is on the 
failed/gone member, then you can't technically do that anyway (although, I 
guess being on a dead server does meet the definition of "stopped").

I am fairly certain that stopping the cluster service is going to prevent the 
node from accessing any shared resources, such as the disks.  Technically, you 
would still have a connection to the SAN, but you wouldn't be able to actually 
access the disks.  That said, I have not had a situation like this.  My 
experience would be that you have stopped the cluster service on one node, 
while another node is still going (and has control of the resources).  If 
nobody is participating in the cluster, I'm not sure if the mechanisms 
preventing multiple access are still invoked.  If they are not, then you could 
theoretically just start the relevant services manually.  Otherwise, I would 
imagine you are pulling a late night.

Bill Mayo


From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org]
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 12:05 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Repairing a broken DB cluster

Thanks!

Looking around in Cluster Administrator (and its Help section), I think I 
should first Evict the old node - kind-of an SID issue?  Then add in the new 
one.

The "Help" indicates that Cluster Service must first be stopped.  Does this 
then disconnect the active server from the SAN until Cluster Service is 
re-started?

If so, then it becomes a 2:30 AM job.

Thanks again...
--
richard

"Mayo, Bill" mailto:bem...@pittcountync.gov>> wrote on 
08/13/2010 10:44:36 AM:

> Richard, we do some clustering here.  Our setup is different than
> yours (EMC SAN and SQL Server), but since there hasn't been much
> discussion, I'll try and throw in my 2 cents.
>
> I believe the first step should be to add the new server to the
> cluster.  Steps here look right: http://www.windowsitpro.
> com/article/configuration/q-how-can-i-add-nodes-to-a-windows-
> server-2003-cluster-.aspx.  I'm a little concerned you might run
> into trouble because the new server has the same name as the old
> server, but I really don't know.  You will, of course, have to take
> care of making the relevant storage available to the box first.
>
> Once you have the server in the cluster, you would then have to get
> it integrated into the right resource groups.  I am completely
> unfamiliar with DB2, so I don't know what that looks like.  If this
> is an Exchange 2003-like installation, you should just have to
> install the application on the new server and add it to the resource
> group.  If this is a SQL Server-like installation, where the
> installer installs to all nodes at once, I would guess there would
> be some function in there to install to a new node.
>
> I recognize all that info is rudimentary, but it is offered FWIW.
>
> Bill Mayo
>
> From: richardmccl...@aspca.org 
> [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org]
> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 9:36 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Repairing a broken DB cluster

>
> Greetings!
>
> We once had a pair of Dell PE-2950s, Win2003 R2 Enterprise running
> in a Microsoft fail-over cluster for DB2.  The databases themselves
> are on a NetApp StoreVault iSCSI SAN.
>
> We had one of the servers go belly-up on is MON.  We have a
> replacement server in place.  The question now is, how to go about
> re-creating the fail-over cluster with as little down-time as
> possible.  That is, we'd like the backup member of the cluster added
> without needing to take down the currently active server.
>
> To aggravate things a bit, the replacement has the same name as the
> one which died. 

RE: Portable A/C for computer room?

[Greg Olson]

That said, what happens if your 3-ton unit we're to fail right now? I would 
suggest you could also look into something like this:
http://www.movincool.com/portable-air-conditioner/classicplus26.php#  (They 
have units that goto 60,000 btu).

The benefit is that you could have it wired into your environment in a config 
like Ben had spoken about (Auto-start genny, at switch, etc) and you get the 
added benefit of having a redundant cooler in case the three ton unit we're to 
fail (and it will at some point). You could also take it in two phases, getting 
a gen to run it. I had a Honda  EB6500 that ran an older version of this unit 
for a room a little bigger than yours just fine. During normal operations it 
was pulled into a dedicated circuit in the room and provided fail capacity for 
when the 5 ton unit would go down (Which seemed to be once or twice a year). 
Good luck!
-Greg

-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 2:03 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Portable A/C for computer room?

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:58 PM, David Mazzaccaro 
 wrote:
> We have 8 remote locations (WAN) that all rely on us to be able to do 
> anything.
> All of our resources are here, and the remote sites run all apps over 
> Citrix, and all phones are run VoIP from here.
> So if we go down... Everyone goes down.

  These discussions should always be build around cost of downtime.
If you really mean "everyone goes down" (and it sounds like you do), then I'd 
say your cost of downtime would be quite large.  Given that, I would say you 
should absolutely get an auto-start generator and an automatic transfer switch, 
hard-wired so that they power your computer room chiller and your UPS.  Don't 
futz around with mickey-mouse solutions.

-- Ben

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ 
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RE: Windows 7 VM issue

[Greg Olson]

The Shutdown command is not available on the Start menu to shut down and 
restart, when you are using Remote Desktop. To shut down a remote computer when 
you are using Remote Desktop, press CTRL+ALT+END, and then click Shutdown. Or, 
use the shutdown command at a command prompt.

-Greg
-Original Message-
From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:52 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Windows 7 VM issue

Ya, I'm thinking it's another new "feature" of Win 7.  It's not that much more 
inconvenient, I guess.

>>> Jon Harris  7/27/2010 3:42 PM >>>
I saw that with SCE as well but thought it was a good idea to prevent an 
accidental restart or shut down.  I actually liked it.

Jon

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Joseph Heaton  wrote:

> Hmm... that'll work.  Kinda strange to have to do that, though.  
> Thanks, Charlie.  Anyone know if there's a way to get it to work normally?
>
> >>> Charlie Kaiser  7/27/2010 3:20 PM >>>
>  Start, windows security, up arrow next to the red button in the lower 
> right corner. That's how I do my W7 VMs...
>
> ***
> Charlie Kaiser
> charl...@golden-eagle.org
> Kingman, AZ
> ***
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 3:17 PM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: Windows 7 VM issue
> >
> > I've built up a Win7 x64 VM to do some testing with SCCM.
> > When I connect to the machine through RDP, I don't have the normal 
> > Start menu power options.  I can Log off, Disconnect or Lock.  I 
> > don't have a Shutdown or Restart option.  I've looked through the 
> > local security policy, and it looks the same as my Win 7 desktop.  
> > I've also looked at the local groups, and the account I'm using is a 
> > member of the Administrators group, so I don't understand what's 
> > going on.
> > Anyone have any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Joe
> >
> >
> >
> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ 
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> >
>
>
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RE: Power meter

[Greg Olson]

I use a clamp meter
http://www.tequipment.net/Extech380976.html

Works across many different circuit types and is easy to use. Measure power 
from a single machine or from the end of a power strip.

From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 12:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Power meter

Kill-a-watt - http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/travelpower/7657/



Phillip Partipilo
Parametric Solutions Inc.
Jupiter, Florida
(561) 747-6107


From: Adam Meixler [mailto:ad...@interlink1.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 2:33 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Power meter

Hi all,

I know this has been asked a million times but haven't found it in the archive.

We need to size a new UPS. Any suggestions on how to get accurate readings for 
our current power consumption?

Thank you!









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RE: Ok HERE'S a weird one

[Greg Olson]

I remember this happening a while ago to us, and a more detailed check of the 
logs showed that the firewall had choked trying to defend against what it 
though was a denial of service against it. It was a Cisco bug, and upgrading to 
a more recent code version fixed it. Sorry I don't remember the code version 
anymore. But worth a shot. 


-Original Message-
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] 
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 9:11 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Ok HERE'S a weird one

Yep, SMTo and ICMP worked, http and others did not. Our ASA was generating 
error messages, a reboot fixed it - kind of what I suspected.

Dave

-Original Message-
From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org]
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 9:08 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Ok HERE'S a weird one

First guess: Firewall. You're allowing ICMP packets through, but not the other 
protocols.


--Matt Ross
Ephrata School District


- Original Message -
From: David Lum
[mailto:david@nwea.org]
To: NT System Admin Issues
[mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com]
Sent: Thu, 15 Jul 2010
09:00:38 -0700
Subject: Ok HERE'S a weird one


> Currently we get Internet e-mail, and I can PING Google, but http, 
> Telnet to Internet destinations don't work (http://www.google.com and 
> other website fail).  Anyone ever see selected protocols go down on a router?
> 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! ~ ~ 
>   ~

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RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

[Greg Olson]

Its amazing what you remember if you see something enough. I used to work at 
Costco years ago as a teenager and I can still remember some of the numbers for 
certain items (As back in the day before scanners you actually had a person 
calling the numbers out to the cashier and we would type them in). I can 
remember amazing people by looking at their cart and entering in all the items 
before they were even out of the cart.
Now can I remember a name. Nope, but 18982 used to be Coke...
-Greg

From: Ralph Smith [mailto:m...@gatewayindustries.org]
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 8:29 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

When I first started working in IT about ten years ago every user had a 
permanent password and the IT department kept a list on paper.  After about a 
month I could remember the passwords for all 150 or so employees, and everyone 
seemed amazed by that.  Now I can barely remember their names anymore much less 
passwords (which I don't know to start with anyway).  I use keepass for all my 
work and personal passwords, account numbers, and any other sensitive 
information I need to save.  For users who need to remember multiple passwords 
I set them up with keepass also.



From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 10:56 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

I keep almost all of my passwords (both work and personal) in my head. I have 
ONE password written down, but that's because I didn't create it, and there are 
too many variables for character substitutions (eyeroll). I used to keep a list 
of passwords for some infrequently used system in a list on my palm pilot, but 
not any more.

People are amazed when they realize how many passwords I keep in my head. I 
have very little tolerance for people who complain about changing their domain 
password every 90 days. I change mine on that same interval as well, and I have 
yet to forget my new password. If you can't remember yours, go get a job that 
doesn't require the use of a computer and leave me alone.


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


From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 10:47 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

I'm weirder than I thought, it would NEVER occur to me to tell someone to have 
*any* password on paper ANYWHERE, but apparently some security guys don't have 
a problem with it:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20010621-245.html?tag=mncol;title

99% of the passwords I have to remember are for things I access via computer so 
I have a password mgmt app (KeePass). I have 2-3 other codes (door codes 
mainly) that I store in my head. Maybe I just don't have enough non-PC-based 
passwords to worry about?

How many of you (oops I mean know someone) who actually write down passwords on 
a piece of paper?
David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764







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New virus?

[Greg Olson]

We've got a ticket open with Sunbelt and are awaiting a reply, but it looks 
like a new virus is going around. We've got this on one of our file servers 
(That was running Vipre with latest defs), and it appears some Symantec 
customers are getting it too. 
Here's the info:
http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/virus-copy-folder-name-extension-exe

Ugh, happy Friday.
-Greg 


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Online File Sharing/Collaboration Choices

[Greg Olson]

Why not just setup a free Windows Skydrive account and share the login info 
between the team. 25gb of free space and you can install the Active-x tool for 
drag and drop. I do think it has a 50mb max per file size limitation though 
that may of changed. 
-Greg

-Original Message-
From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 2:56 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Online File Sharing/Collaboration Choices

The company has no network - just 3-4 individuals working from home with POP3 
email.  Transferring files via email is tedious inefficient.

Similar to SharePoint, I've found this system and it looks fairly
complete:  http://www.webworkspace.com/index.asp


Die dulci fruere!

Roger Wright
___




On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Michael B. Smith  wrote:
> What about Windows SharePoint Services (WSS)? Free and all that...
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael B. Smith
> Consultant and Exchange MVP
> http://TheEssentialExchange.com
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 5:47 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Online File Sharing/Collaboration Choices
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/features
> Perhaps?
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 4:02 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Online File Sharing/Collaboration Choices
>
> I have someone looking for recommendations for sharing files for review, 
> modification, etc. over the Internet with a colleague in another city.
> She just needs to be able to place her docs, PDFs, XLS files, and others in a 
> secure location for the colleague to pick up and be notified when they've 
> been changed or are ready to review.
>
> I'm familiar with some of the freebie sites like drop.io, and others but they 
> seem to be lacking in features.  Free is not a requirement but the budget 
> isn't too great.
>
> What options would you suggest?
>
>
> Die dulci fruere!
>
> Roger Wright
> ___
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RE: OT, vintage memories

[Greg Olson]

Even better was the "Adult" drive in that was around when I was a teenager. It 
was off the beaten path, but a perfect place for us teenager's to go and watch 
the scenery.
Most hilarious thing ever was when a friend of mine spotted his parents car 
there, rocking and rolling. To this day we still give him crap about it. 
-G
   

-Original Message-
From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] 
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 10:54 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT, vintage memories

We still have one that I know of here in Sacramento.

>>> "Steven M. Caesare"  5/24/2010 9:44 AM >>>
There was a coffee-table book I saw once that was photography of dilapidated 
drive-ins across the country... was sad.

 

-sc

 

From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu]
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 10:03 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT, vintage memories

 

They are just now finally shutting down the local Puget Park drive-in theater 
that we have hung onto forever.  Sad to see it go, but it's been a prime piece 
of real estate, even in these times.  I think there are only a few left in the 
state now.

 

 

From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu]
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 1:23 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT, vintage memories

 

I must be living in a time warp.

Our small town still has a drive in theater.

http://www.moonlitetheatre.com/ 

I've also gotten fingers/arms caught in one of those wringer washing machines 
that mom used when I was a youngin.

Got caught sneakin "out" of it once many moons ago.

 

From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 4:16 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT, vintage memories

 

Yeah... I remember about 2/3 of those... including Drive-In movie theaters, 
Brownie Hawkeye cameras, flashbulbs, flash cubes, Wolfman Jack, Jiffy Pop 
(still around, but darned hard to find!) and a few other things. I remember as 
a kid gas going up to a whopping 50¢ a gallon or something and thinking that 
was high, then watching as I was about to start driving, gas got up to, gasp, 
almost a whole dollar a gallon.
Never figured it would reach almost $3/gallon (or more in some areas!)

 

  

 

From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 4:08 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT, vintage memories

 

I had a 1976 TransAm that I pulled out the unleaded plug in the fill neck and 
removed the catalytic converter so I could use leaded because it was cheaper 
for a poor High School student.

 

From: Greg Olson [mailto:gol...@markettools.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 3:33 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT, vintage memories

 

Even better was when they we're phasing out Regular gas. I had a 1970 Firebird 
and remember paying $.40-45 per gallon for my Junior year in High School. 

 

 

From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 11:53 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT, vintage memories

 

Yep.. Remember all of it.

 

Except gas was about $0.75 when I started driving.  

 

From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 2:28 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT, vintage memories

 

For those of us who are "vintage", a fun link

 

http://www.webmarketing101.com/memory_lane.htm 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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RE: Just wondering

[Greg Olson]

http://www.offlineblog.net/2009/07/yes-android-for-your-laptop-live-cd-or-usb-how-to-create-android-live-cd-usb/


-Original Message-
From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:mark.rei...@prairie.edu] 
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 10:02 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Just wondering

You are correct, I was thinking of the iPod Touch.

Mark

-Original Message-
From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com]
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 10:54 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Just wondering

Normal iPods -> no

The device you're thinking of is the iPod Touch.

On 5/21/2010 11:42 AM, Reimer, Mark wrote:
> The IPod is (if my information is correct), an IPhone without the
phone.
> Is there an equivalent for Android devices? I have an old Windows
mobile
> based PDA (yes, it still uses a stylus), and it's still working great, 
> but I think it will come to the end of its life before too long.

-- 

Phil Brutsche
p...@optimumdata.com

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RE: OT, vintage memories

[Greg Olson]

Even better was when they we're phasing out Regular gas. I had a 1970 Firebird 
and remember paying $.40-45 per gallon for my Junior year in High School.


From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 11:53 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT, vintage memories

Yep.. Remember all of it.

Except gas was about $0.75 when I started driving.

From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 2:28 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT, vintage memories

For those of us who are "vintage", a fun link

http://www.webmarketing101.com/memory_lane.htm










~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: mid-tower cases

[Greg Olson]

I'm in the Bay Area, but it's a good tip, if you have a local computer 
recycler, they often strip out the components and throw away cases, and are 
good places to stop by every once in awhile and look there there piles of stuff.

From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 10:09 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: mid-tower cases

Hmm... where you at and do you want to sell one? :)

[cid:image001.jpg@01CAF73C.91FD8590][cid:image002@01caf73c.91fd8590]

From: Greg Olson [mailto:gol...@markettools.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 1:04 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: mid-tower cases

Funny, I just picked up 3 Antec 900 cases for $15.00 from a local computer 
recycler. They we're going to throw them away.
:)


From: Matt Cross [mailto:mrforkl...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 9:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: mid-tower cases

Antec 900 is my favorite case -- great airflow, quiet fans -- with all fans on 
low, have never had an i7 system overheat in it.

Its little brother, the Antec 300, is pretty good, but does not come with the 
front fans -- still has good airflow.


--
Matt Cross
mailto:mrforkl...@gmail.com<mailto:mrforkl...@gmail.com>
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:16 PM, John Aldrich 
mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>> wrote:
My current machine at home is running *very* hot. I have to have a powerful fan 
pointed almost directly at the CPU in order to keep it from overheating. That's 
with a couple 80mm fans in the back! I think it's time to get a new case that's 
built for temperature control. Any suggestions? I'm not overclocking my CPU or 
anything, it just runs hot!
I'd prefer to keep a new case below about $50-75, max. If you have any 
particular cases in mind, can you post a link to where they can be found 
on-line? I prefer NewEgg, as they tend to honor their rebates. TigerDirect will 
use any excuse to keep from paying rebates! :(

[cid:image001.jpg@01CAF73C.91FD8590][cid:image002@01caf73c.91fd8590]



















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RE: mid-tower cases

[Greg Olson]

Funny, I just picked up 3 Antec 900 cases for $15.00 from a local computer 
recycler. They we're going to throw them away.
:)


From: Matt Cross [mailto:mrforkl...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 9:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: mid-tower cases

Antec 900 is my favorite case -- great airflow, quiet fans -- with all fans on 
low, have never had an i7 system overheat in it.

Its little brother, the Antec 300, is pretty good, but does not come with the 
front fans -- still has good airflow.


--
Matt Cross
mailto:mrforkl...@gmail.com

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:16 PM, John Aldrich 
mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>> wrote:
My current machine at home is running *very* hot. I have to have a powerful fan 
pointed almost directly at the CPU in order to keep it from overheating. That's 
with a couple 80mm fans in the back! I think it's time to get a new case that's 
built for temperature control. Any suggestions? I'm not overclocking my CPU or 
anything, it just runs hot!
I'd prefer to keep a new case below about $50-75, max. If you have any 
particular cases in mind, can you post a link to where they can be found 
on-line? I prefer NewEgg, as they tend to honor their rebates. TigerDirect will 
use any excuse to keep from paying rebates! :(

[cid:image001.jpg@01CAF73A.982A18E0][cid:image002@01caf73a.982a18e0]











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RE: Free (or cheap) Net. scan tool

[Greg Olson]

You thinking of this:
http://www.solarwinds.com/register/registrationform.aspx?Program=583&c=7015000E50d&CMP=LEC-PT-MS-LSE-EMT-Q408

-Greg


From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 4:44 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Free (or cheap) Net. scan tool

Sorry been through my notes and the TechNet mag's I still have and could not 
find it.

Jon
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Jon Harris 
mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I think it was last year that there was a free network scanner that linked with 
Visio Pro, on the TechNet Mag Tools.  I will look for it in my notes and see if 
I can find it.  Pretty neat little tool ran fast and worked in Vista and XP if 
memory is any good.

Jon
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 2:21 PM, 
mailto:jbech...@actsconsulting.net>> wrote:
Does anyone know of a good free (or cheap) network scanning tool that I can use 
to export a network scan into Visio?

,Josh















~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

Intresting AV attack bypass article

[Greg Olson]

Anyone read this article on this new AV exploit that researchers discovered?:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/07/argument_switch_av_bypass/

http://www.matousec.com/info/articles/khobe-8.0-earthquake-for-windows-desktop-security-software.php

Pretty much every AV vendor failed the exploit as well. 
Sigh, Let's hope this doesn't get into the wild, but with so much detailed info 
on what they did someone will make this a reality. 
-Greg 



~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network.

[Greg Olson]

No Vipre. 
:)

-Original Message-
From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] 
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 10:04 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: R: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network.


With SEP ? 


GuidoElia
HELPPC

-Messaggio originale-
Da: Greg Olson [mailto:gol...@markettools.com]
Inviato: venerdì 7 maggio 2010 18.57
A: NT System Admin Issues
Oggetto: RE: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network.

Lucky you are sir. 
I've got entire offices down, servers offline, and all kinds of joy. 
Updating them is becoming a goto each and try to run a manual update. Which is 
only working sometimes. Machines are so horked up that we're rebooting into 
safe mode, and updating from there. 
-Greg 


-Original Message-
From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it]
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 9:33 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: R: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network.


I feel good with my "poor" Symantec Endpoint Protection ! 


GuidoElia
HELPPC

-Messaggio originale-
Da: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com]
Inviato: venerdì 7 maggio 2010 17.31
A: NT System Admin Issues
Oggetto: RE: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network.

Already discussed in another thread, update your Vipre defs.

Is anyone keeping track of the number of bad defs out of Sunbelt for this year 
alone?

Carl

-Original Message-
From: Luke [mailto:tesla...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 10:57 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network.

The Network Administrator and I have been working on this all morning. Since 
about 7:00AM random machines on the Local Network have been slipping into and 
out of a random state of unresponsiveness ("Freezing"). 

The symptoms are pretty serious - I have seen it take up to 5 minutes to  bring 
an already open window from the background to the foreground on client machines 
- and there are servers that are so unresponsive that I am not even able to log 
into them (enter Username and Password and nothing happens for the next 
30min.). We have had to cold boot one server 3 times in the past hour!

This problem is not specific to any user, profile, machine, OS, network switch, 
etc. - at least from what we have been able to Identify. So far it has affected 
Windows 7, XP and Server 2003. However, this issue is not affecting everyone on 
the network. My Colleague sitting right next to me has been having all kinds of 
trouble with his PC and I have not. 

We have found that cold booting the affected machines does help a little or at 
least for a while, but more often than not the machine will just return to its 
unresponsive state after a few minutes. On the machines that I have that are 
accessible I am attempting scan with Vipre. 

We are seriously starting to suspect that Vipre is doing something (in the 
background that we cant see) that is actually causing all this. We completely 
removed Vipre from one PC that was having trouble and it seemed to fix the 
problem. The PC has been running fine since.

Any thoughts?

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<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: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network.

[Greg Olson]

Lucky you are sir. 
I've got entire offices down, servers offline, and all kinds of joy. 
Updating them is becoming a goto each and try to run a manual update. Which is 
only working sometimes. Machines are so horked up that we're rebooting into 
safe mode, and updating from there. 
-Greg 


-Original Message-
From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] 
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 9:33 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: R: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network.


I feel good with my "poor" Symantec Endpoint Protection ! 


GuidoElia
HELPPC

-Messaggio originale-
Da: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com]
Inviato: venerdì 7 maggio 2010 17.31
A: NT System Admin Issues
Oggetto: RE: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network.

Already discussed in another thread, update your Vipre defs.

Is anyone keeping track of the number of bad defs out of Sunbelt for this year 
alone?

Carl

-Original Message-
From: Luke [mailto:tesla...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 10:57 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Computers becoming unresponsive accross entire network.

The Network Administrator and I have been working on this all morning. Since 
about 7:00AM random machines on the Local Network have been slipping into and 
out of a random state of unresponsiveness ("Freezing"). 

The symptoms are pretty serious - I have seen it take up to 5 minutes to  bring 
an already open window from the background to the foreground on client machines 
- and there are servers that are so unresponsive that I am not even able to log 
into them (enter Username and Password and nothing happens for the next 
30min.). We have had to cold boot one server 3 times in the past hour!

This problem is not specific to any user, profile, machine, OS, network switch, 
etc. - at least from what we have been able to Identify. So far it has affected 
Windows 7, XP and Server 2003. However, this issue is not affecting everyone on 
the network. My Colleague sitting right next to me has been having all kinds of 
trouble with his PC and I have not. 

We have found that cold booting the affected machines does help a little or at 
least for a while, but more often than not the machine will just return to its 
unresponsive state after a few minutes. On the machines that I have that are 
accessible I am attempting scan with Vipre. 

We are seriously starting to suspect that Vipre is doing something (in the 
background that we cant see) that is actually causing all this. We completely 
removed Vipre from one PC that was having trouble and it seemed to fix the 
problem. The PC has been running fine since.

Any thoughts?

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ 
  ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ 
  ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ 
  ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Kind of OT: Generic Accounts

[Greg Olson]

We do this what a product from Thycotic called Secret Server 
(http://www.thycotic.com/ ). Secret Server is basically password management 
system that not only stores and creates passwords (and gives you great auditing 
on who accessed what passwords), but can connect to a machine and change the 
password remotely. So for the users machines, if there on the road we can give 
them the local administrator password, and then we schedule it to be changed 
once they login to the network. For the server side, we automate changing the 
local admin passwords on all servers every xx days, and on service accounts 
every xx days. 
Really slick. 

-Greg 

-Original Message-
From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 11:18 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Kind of OT: Generic Accounts

On 5 May 2010 at 21:09, Tim Evans  wrote:

> You can get passgen from Jesper's  site:
> http://msinfluentials.com/media/p/6532.aspx

MSinfluentials.com ... the site for influential people ...

Thanks.

--
Angus Scott-Fleming
GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
1-520-290-5038
Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/





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  ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Server 2003 cannot map it's own shares

[Greg Olson]

IP Nat running by any chance?

I was also getting such kind of message i try to follow the below steps:-
1. Right click on My Computer, and then click on Properties.
2. Click on Device Manager, by going through Hardware Tab.
3. On the View menu, click on Show hidden devices.
4. Now expand Non-Plug and Play Drivers, right-click on IP Network Address 
Translator, and then click Disable.
5. Now finally click Yes to restart the computer.



-Original Message-
From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:ma...@usc.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 2:16 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Server 2003 cannot map it's own shares

2003 SP2 Standard
Per the subject line, I have a machine that is both a web and file server that 
receives a System Error 67 when attempting to connect to shares it hosts. Of 
course, the applications it hosts require access to local content using UNC 
paths, so they won't load.

Google has so far been less than helpful. Anyone ever seen something like this 
or have some tips?

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ 
  ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Riverbed Steelhead appliances v. Cisco WAAS v. Citrix Branch repeater

[Greg Olson]

+3
I tested both Cisco Waas, and Riverbed. We we're using a product called Tacit, 
that has since been bought and sold and EOL'd now so it was time to change.  
Riverbed really outshined Waas. The Cisco product was (and still is IMHO) being 
defined inside Cisco, and I had two code upgrade patches that came out during 
testing that was like pulling teeth to get to work properly. Exchange 2007 on 
Wass with the default encryption was painful, and half-baked at the time (might 
be better now).  Also, if you plan on using there remote user solution Cisco's 
product is a totally separate product and requires it's own infrastructure. The 
Riverbed units, just plain worked great going in. I've had 0 issues or 
complaints with file locking issues, or other oddities that used to plague us 
with the Tacit solution. The Steelhead mobile clients require a Steelhead 
Mobile controller for licensing (can be run on a vm inside a normal Steelhead 
server) but they use our already in-place Steelhead servers to connect to, and 
the process is pretty seamless. We also got rid of all of our remote office 
domain controllers and print servers and run a Windows 2008 vm on the Steelhead 
servers in those offices now to reduce our footprint. One complaint I have with 
them is that on the smaller units they are still 32-bit, so you can't run 
2008R2 on them as a vm although I'm told there going to be "fixing" that issue 
soon (which to me means the cpu must already be 64-bit). 

Best thing about it is that it just plain works. 

Good Luck!
-Greg 




-Original Message-
From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 9:02 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Riverbed Steelhead appliances v. Cisco WAAS v. Citrix Branch 
repeater

On 12 Apr 2010 at 10:06, Derrenbacker,  L. Jonathan  wrote:

> 
> I tested all of the major wan optimizers about 2 years ago including 
> Riverbed Steelheads, Cisco WAAS, and the Citrix product. The end 
> result is the Riverbed blew everyone out of the water. It wasn´t even 
> close. I initially thought the Citrix product would be best since at 
> the time all wan users used citrix for 100% of their work, but what I 
> found after installing demo units is the ICA protocol was apparently 
> not being optimized to the degree I had anticipated. I worked with 
> engineers of the product who explained how the ICA optimization worked 
> which after understanding it I wasn´t too impressed. The users notice 
> no real difference.When I put the steelheads in, the performance 
> increase was so great I actually eventually pulled everyone at all 
> remote sites off of citrix with the exception of 2 database apps that 
> still have to go through citrix because they´re too chatty. I average 
> a 7x bandwidth increase with the steelheads with their compression. IMO, they 
> might cost a lot more, but are worth every penny.

Is Microsoft's new Branch Office Server attacking this same problem?

--
Angus Scott-Fleming
GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
1-520-290-5038
Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/





~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ 
  ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: VIPRE 4 Enterprise

[Greg Olson]

Question, are you sure you upgraded to the right version of Vipre for your key? 
If you upgraded to Vipre Enterprise premium, then your key will not work and it 
will display the problems you are having as that is an upgrade from the 
previous version (aka, new firewall support). You need to download the Vipre 
Enterprise (non-premium) and it should work with your old key. (Just throwing 
this out there just in case). 

Also, what we found that seems to work pretty well is we built up a new server, 
and on the old one we updated our policy's to point to the new server. All the 
clients have moved over, and we can now start the upgrade process and we still 
have a fail back if needed. Once we're done we'll decom the old vm. 
-Greg 



-Original Message-
From: Todd Lemmiksoo [mailto:tlemmik...@all-mode.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 10:28 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: VIPRE 4 Enterprise

For #3
You will need to limit the SQL memory to 1 GB, will allow the OS to function 
better.


Todd Lemmiksoo

-Original Message-
From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 1:00 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: VIPRE 4 Enterprise

For #2:

The remote console works fine. If you're having trouble connecting with
the console it's probably because of an SQL service configuration issue
- the remote console talks directly to the SQL engine and not the VSS. I
had to configure SQL Express to listen for connections on the ethernet
interface rather than just on the loopback.

For #3

It works fine on non-R2 2003.

The VSS makes *heavy* use of MSSQL, and if you've "only" got 2GB in the
machine you could be running into memory shortage issues. In my setup
the SQL Express instance VIPRE is using is currently sitting at 1.4GB of
memory, even though the VIPRE DB itself is well under 100MB. Granted,
the SQL instance hasn't been restarted since the upgrade; it'll be
interesting to see what it does after the reboot for today's patches.

richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote:
> 2. I am currently needing to work off the server console.  In previous

> VIPRE versions, I could install the console on my desktop machine, 
> point it to the VIPRE server, and then I could manage everything from
there.
>  No such luck with V4!  I simply cannot connect to the "site 
> database", the server, or much of anything else.
> 
> 3. I do not have a "spare" copy of R2.  My server, which was fine for
> V3.1 (2 Gb RAM) is painfully slow to do much of anything.  The 
> slowness could be related to either or both of these.
> 
> I've been using the beta versions of Home Premium since November, and
it
> has been pretty sweet!  This "Enterprise" version, though,   :-@

-- 

Phil Brutsche
p...@optimumdata.com

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  ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: SBS 2003 Server and growing temp files

[Greg Olson]

Also saw this one:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrgeneral/thread/4ae35dd5-de3b-4072-b769-969b5867fc2b


From: Greg Olson [mailto:gol...@markettools.com]
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 11:59 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SBS 2003 Server and growing temp files

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/899392
Probably the same thing.


From: Ben N [mailto:bennordlan...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 11:58 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: SBS 2003 Server and growing temp files

I also did set the global send/receive setting for how large message can be a 
few days ago to 30MB. unlimited before. Obviously that wasn't it...

-Ben
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Ben N 
mailto:bennordlan...@gmail.com>> wrote:
This isn't my server really.. i just am supporting it / helping out when i can. 
It sure isn't a configuration i would have picked out :)
C: drive is a Raid 1 and they have a standalone drive as E: that i see their 
backup files on there. Looks like they using built in SBS backup and its 
working ok. recent "Small Business Server Backup (01).bkf file. Circular 
logging is NOT turned on and their exchange log files are doing ok.. not too 
many of them. Looks solid from that stand point.

-Ben
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:47 AM, David Lum 
mailto:david@nwea.org>> wrote:
Bah, disregard, maybe I should read the ENTIRE e-mail before replying...

From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org<mailto:david@nwea.org>]
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 11:45 AM

To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SBS 2003 Server and growing temp files

Sounds like Exchange might not be getting backed up at night? Also, there IS 
another drive other than C: right? As a rule I have servers with no less than 2 
logical drives and all the transation/temp files go somewhere other than the 
system drive...

Dave

From: Ben N [mailto:bennordlan...@gmail.com<mailto:bennordlan...@gmail.com>]
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 11:42 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: SBS 2003 Server and growing temp files

helping out on this server for someone, i have full access to it remotely.

The C: drive is filling up to the point where it just runs out of space.. takes 
about 24-36 hours for it to happen between reboots.
I come to find out it's these large tmp files in C:\windows\Temp. Some of the 
file names are DST199.tmp, DST146.tmp, DST15A.tmp.. etc...
Last week they were each half a GB in size.. after the latest reboot. they are 
now 1GB in size. I'd say the rate the last i checked was about 2MB every 
second. Once the tmp file gets to a 1GB it makes a new one.
I run process monitor and learn that it's store.exe that is involved.
If i restart the SMTP service.. nothing happens/changes. they continue to grow.
If i run IISRESET, then the log files disappear.. but will eventually start to 
come back.


any ideas?

-BenN



























~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~

RE: SBS 2003 Server and growing temp files

[Greg Olson]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/899392
Probably the same thing.


From: Ben N [mailto:bennordlan...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 11:58 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: SBS 2003 Server and growing temp files

I also did set the global send/receive setting for how large message can be a 
few days ago to 30MB. unlimited before. Obviously that wasn't it...

-Ben
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Ben N 
mailto:bennordlan...@gmail.com>> wrote:
This isn't my server really.. i just am supporting it / helping out when i can. 
It sure isn't a configuration i would have picked out :)
C: drive is a Raid 1 and they have a standalone drive as E: that i see their 
backup files on there. Looks like they using built in SBS backup and its 
working ok. recent "Small Business Server Backup (01).bkf file. Circular 
logging is NOT turned on and their exchange log files are doing ok.. not too 
many of them. Looks solid from that stand point.

-Ben
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:47 AM, David Lum 
mailto:david@nwea.org>> wrote:
Bah, disregard, maybe I should read the ENTIRE e-mail before replying...

From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 11:45 AM

To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SBS 2003 Server and growing temp files

Sounds like Exchange might not be getting backed up at night? Also, there IS 
another drive other than C: right? As a rule I have servers with no less than 2 
logical drives and all the transation/temp files go somewhere other than the 
system drive...

Dave

From: Ben N [mailto:bennordlan...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 11:42 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: SBS 2003 Server and growing temp files

helping out on this server for someone, i have full access to it remotely.

The C: drive is filling up to the point where it just runs out of space.. takes 
about 24-36 hours for it to happen between reboots.
I come to find out it's these large tmp files in C:\windows\Temp. Some of the 
file names are DST199.tmp, DST146.tmp, DST15A.tmp.. etc...
Last week they were each half a GB in size.. after the latest reboot. they are 
now 1GB in size. I'd say the rate the last i checked was about 2MB every 
second. Once the tmp file gets to a 1GB it makes a new one.
I run process monitor and learn that it's store.exe that is involved.
If i restart the SMTP service.. nothing happens/changes. they continue to grow.
If i run IISRESET, then the log files disappear.. but will eventually start to 
come back.


any ideas?

-BenN























~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Disk configuration in new server

[Greg Olson]

You don't need three separate raid controllers either. I would separate them 
out though logically as you have listed.
Also, you want to add the battery backed cache to you server as well, as for 
one it allows you to use other raid options than 0 or 1 (Which HP used to allow 
for free, but now requires you to purchase a controller upgrade to use 5, 6(adg 
they call it), or 10). Also, if you have a power issue its nice to have that 
data committed and not lost with the small potential to corrupt data.
They have a few options now, but if you go with Sata drives for the Exchange 
data store (A totally viable option in EX10) the new flash cache modules for 
the raid card, really make a nice difference in performance (The 1gb ones we 
have now really do a nice job).
-Greg


From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 4:39 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Disk configuration in new server

+1

No RAID5 for me where Exchange is concerned.

Which reminds me... I haven't updated my recommended server config chart in 
ages.


-ASB: http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker
Sent from my Verizon Smartphone


From: "Erik Goldoff" 
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 19:31:09 -0500
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Disk configuration in new server

I'd say run mirrors for all volumes except the data (information store) if your 
IS size is already large ...

but best decision will be based on your current disk usage and projected 
growth.  Depending on your backup schedule and traffic volume, your log files 
may require large storage too.

Erik Goldoff

IT  Consultant

Systems, Networks, & Security

'  Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! '



From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 4:17 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Disk configuration in new server
Hi guys.

I'm looking at this server: 
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=1723415 to be our next 
Exchange 2010 Enterprise server (currently running 2003 Ent. on 7 year old 
hardware.)

What I'm wondering is, if I wanted to have a separate RAID array for the 1) OS 
and Exchange  2) Exchange data  3) Exchange logs... then do I need 3 RAID 
controllers? I've never set up multiple RAID arrays on a server before.

Or do I even need to separate them out? Storage is not a big concern, but speed 
is.

Thanks,

Evan














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~   ~

RE: VIPRE versus Trend

[Greg Olson]

Yep, that is true.
-G


-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 4:45 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: VIPRE versus Trend

Alex, and other Sunbelt staff,

I just have to say this: With no other commercial product that I'm familiar 
with do we see the CEO and the PM of the product (let alone actual support 
stat) on a public list working through issues like this.

This is part of why I am a fan of VIPRE.

Kurt

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 14:16, Alex Eckelberry  
wrote:
> Notice he said “the new VIPRE PM”
>
> 
>
> We’ll have a little chat here with some folks.
>
> Alex
>
> Alex Eckelberry, CEO
> Sunbelt Software
> 33 N. Garden Avenue, Clearwater, FL 33755 p: 727-562-0101 x220
> e: a...@sunbeltsoftware.com MSN: alex...@hotmail.com
> w: www.sunbeltsoftware.com b: www.sunbeltblog.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 4:57 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: VIPRE versus Trend
>
>
>
> LOL
>
>
>
> Great! Looking forward to it.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 
>
> From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 4:56 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: VIPRE versus Trend
>
> Yah. We changed that password!  LOL
>
> We’re getting the new VIPRE PM on the list so that he can answer and
> clarify some of these issues being discussed.
>
>
>
> Also, a lot of new stuff in Version 4 addresses several points mentioned.
>
>
>
> Warm regards,
>
>
> Stu Sjouwerman
>
> Co-Founder, Publisher, Sunbelt Media
> P: +1-727-562-0101 ext 218
> F: +1-727-562-5199
> s...@sunbelt-software.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
> From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 4:51 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: VIPRE versus Trend
>
>
>
> I predict mischief.
>
> From: Donald Bittenbender [mailto:dona...@sunbelt-software.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 3:49 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: VIPRE versus Trend
>
>
>
> Ok Curt,
>
> Obviously any mail you send to ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
> will post to the list, like below.
>
> It says you are receiving copy of the list emails. Make sure you don’t
> have any mail filters on or they aren’t setup to go to one of your 
> sub-folders.
>
> If you do have to use the web-interface to reply to messages from,
> login and your username/password is:
>
> Username:cu...@sunbelt-software.com
> Password:  p...@ssw0rdmanager
>
>
>
> I show you currently subscribed to:
> NTsysadmin
> Ninjablade
> cse
> viper_enterprise
>
> --
>
> Donald Bittenbender
>
> Salesforce Administrator
>
> IT Developer/DBA/Sysadmin
>
> Sunbelt Software
>
>
>
> From: Curt Larson [mailto:cu...@sunbelt-software.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 4:34 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: VIPRE versus Trend
>
>
>
> OK, I done did read all of it. Where would you like me to start?
>
>
>
> Curt Larson
>
> VIPRE/CounterSpy Product Manager
>
> Sunbelt Software
>
> www.SunbeltSoftware.com
>
> cu...@sunbeltsoftware.com
>
> 727-562-0101 x397
>
> 
>
> From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 4:26 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: VIPRE versus Trend
>
>
>
> Oh, we’re reading all of it.  We’ll come back with some feedback shortly.
>
>
>
> Warm regards,
>
>
> Stu Sjouwerman
>
> Co-Founder, Publisher, Sunbelt Media
> P: +1-727-562-0101 ext 218
> F: +1-727-562-5199
> s...@sunbelt-software.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
> From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org]
> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 2:17 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: VIPRE versus Trend
>
>
>
> I don't see that text in the link you provided, but that (the first
> link) is a pretty old discussion and there have been upgrades since then.
>
>
>
> I think what Sunbelt means is the "main" server gets its updates from
> Sunbelt servers but all other servers should be pointed to that main
> server for updates.  Then the remote server in turn updates its agents
> within the policy scope.  At least that's the way it works here, very
> similar to how I had Symantec working.  As for the second threat that makes 
> no sense.
>
>
>
> If I were you I'd send this thread to Sunbelt for clarification and
> let us know the response.
>
 "David Mazzaccaro"  2/25/2010 12:34
 PM
 >>>
>
> Really???
>
> Both Curt and Brian from Sunbelt Software on the forum say otherwise.
>
>
>
>
>
> ~/SNIP/~~
> http://supportforums.sunbeltsoftware.com/messageview.aspx?catid=27&thr
> eadid=1155&highlight_key=y
>
> A remote update server pulls definitions directly from Sunbelt and
> downloads them to those agents. All policies and reporting are still
> handled by the VIPRE service, thus the remote machines remain in
> contact. The remote update server negates the 

RE: VIPRE versus Trend

[Greg Olson]

I have to +1 with this assessment. We're having all the issues reported below 
and more. My director of customer support has had it now, and is lobbying hard 
to get rid of it. I really wanted to see it work well, and lobbied hard to get 
in into play. And perhaps the new version will fix some if it. I really do 
believe Sunbelt will get it up to snuff eventually, but its hard to justify our 
support staff spending 60% of their time on Vipre issues.

Here's a copy of some of an email he sent to myself and our VP of IT. I put 
some comments in () below.
Quote:
Here is a summary of the problems that we are facing with Vipre from the 
information that I gathered from my team:



a.   Vipre becomes inactive on machines for no evident reason. When VIpre 
support was contacted the response was that this will be fixed in the next 
version upgrade (hoping it will, nervous about jumping to the new version 
though, but are testing it)

b.  Vipre starts crashing user machines. This behavior is seen in machines 
that also run the security software by Dell which works on disk encryption and 
biometric authentication. According to viper the only solution is to not use 
the Dell security software which is not a good option because with the proposed 
windows 7 rollout we are planning to implement disk encryption and also the 
biometric authentication is a good feature to use in windows 7. (This I thought 
was fixed, but I listened in on the support call he had with Sunbelt, and the 
Tech did say it might still have issues with the newer version, but he (meaning 
us) will just have to try it an see)

c.   Vipre gets uninstalled from clients: This happened in a few instances 
and when contacted by viper this happens if the definitions downloaded by the 
client are not installed appropriately and there is no solution for this 
problem according to viper. They claim that this issue is resolved in their 
latest version but we will not know that for sure until we start having these 
problems again but there is no way to detect these problems until a client 
reports this themselves which is very unlikely. (very disturbing, and has left 
us with over 30 laptops that have had this issue so far, including the CIO's 
machine, defiantly need some sort of patch upgrade failback and retry, it 
should NEVER uninstall its self and leave a machine totally venerable, I'm 
pretty sure they will fix this one in the new version, its too insane not too)

d.  Vipre starts a scan as soon as the machines boots and utilizes all the 
available system resources making it impossible for the user to log in. The 
only solution to this problem according to viper is to disable the agent on the 
machine in safe mode and reboot the machine, let the user log in and then 
enable the agent again. This is happening pretty frequently and is causing a 
lot of productivity downtime. (need to have a min do not scan till xyz minutes 
after a boot-up to fix this)

e.  False alarms: we are getting at least 20 to 25 false alarms everyday 
when viper opens tickets for browser cookies which are mostly harmless and are 
removed as soon as the user closes his browser session (we have cookies allowed 
as fyi, but this doesn't really worry me, the removal of good programs does), 
sometimes viper is detecting genuine software to be malicious and is 
quarantining or deleting them making the user reinstall programs. We can add 
all these false alarms as exceptions in viper policy and make it work but this 
will add a huge overhead based on the amount of false alarms we are getting. 
For example Vipre quarantined its own executables and some HP management 
software executables as threats.

f.No malware engine. Vipre doesn't seem to have a malware engine or the 
engine is pretty useless because thus far we have not seen viper detect any 
malware infections at all. Recently we came across a malware that was causing 
user machines to reboot as soon as they login and viper was not able to detect 
it via safe mode or command line utility. We had to install third party 
solutions in most of the cases where users reported infections to get them 
cleaned as viper is neither preventing nor cleaning the infections.

g.   Known threats. We are having at least a few instances everyday where 
user machines are infected with known exploits and threats and viper, with 
active protection running, does not prevent or detect the viruses/Trojans/worms 
etc and we are ending up installing other applications (Symantec endpoint, 
zonealarm, malware bytes etc) to get rid of these infections.

h.  Deployments: Vipre has been horrible as far as remote deployments are 
concerned rolling out viper in our enterprise was a nightmare. Took us 3 months 
as most of the times remote deployment either failed or cause system issues, I 
believe lot of us within the team had issues with the deployments too including 
the CTO. Even now the deployments are a matter of luck, if we 

RE: Cisco servers?

[Greg Olson]

The new servers run 64 bit no problem. I've seen it running 2008R2. These 
things are really made to be virtualization (ESX 4, Microsoft) hosts, as each 
blade can goto 384gb of ram. And they really do clean up cabling with pretty 
much only 4 cables coming out per chassis.
Unified Computing Systems is not Unified Communications Systems.  
 
I think there biggest challenge is that it really requires a complete 
switchover to really take full advantage of there platform, so I see these 
initially as coming on-line in DC rebuilds or new installs.

Should be an interesting few years as the vendors consolidate. I predict HP 
will buy Juniper within the next year. We'll see. 
-G 



-Original Message-
From: Barsodi.John [mailto:john.bars...@igt.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 3:42 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Cisco servers?

Yeah Cisco's site is horrible.

We use many of the Cisco products for UC, connectivity, etc too.  I'd agree 
their stuff is all over the place.  However, the UCS blades are different in 
the sense of initial design.  The memory consolidation tech they developed is 
huge and single pane of management across multiple chassis. 

Thanks,
JB


-Original Message-
From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 3:20 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Cisco servers?

If you say so. I spent about 30 minutes on the page you sent the link to and 
saw nothing saying 32 or 64-bit, other than a reference to x86 architecture. 
I'm only picking on Cisco slightly since we use their software for VOIP and 
other communication purposes as well as VPN and ACS and I can tell you that 
almost none of their software is yet 64-bit capable so with nothing on the site 
stating that UCS is 64-bit my assumption with all things Cisco is that it is 
not capable until proven otherwise.
Tim

-Original Message-
From: Barsodi.John [mailto:john.bars...@igt.com]
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 5:12 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Cisco servers?

Mmm, UCS is Nehalem only, perhaps you've heard of it?  I think they've got the 
x64 thing figured out

Not saying it's the right solution for everyone, or even most SMB's, but their 
product does have a fit. 

I think in this day and age of cost cutting IT budgets are taking you have to 
look at alternatives to everything and evaluate them.  If you are looking to 
deploy a large new vSphere environment, the Cisco UCS blades might be a great 
fit.  If you need to grow and constrict your environment dynamically Cisco UCS 
would be a good fit.

Thanks,
JB


-Original Message-
From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com]
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 2:45 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Cisco servers?

Perhaps one of these days Cisco will figure out that 64-bit computing has in 
fact arrived. At that time they might have some legitimate claim to belong in 
the server space. Until then, they really don't.
Personally, I would much rather buy an EqualLogic SAN with a PowerConnect 
shoved in the back, or a LeftHand SAN with a ProCurve built in; than a Cisco 
switch with God-knows what kind of server hardware hung off the front of it.
JMO,
Tim

-Original Message-
From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 4:35 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Cisco servers?

Does that mean you have to use IE5 with  the version of Java that shipped with 
Windows 2000 for the PDM type management interface, like you have to do with 
PIX PDM ??? 



Erik Goldoff
IT  Consultant
Systems, Networks, & Security 

'  Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! '



-Original Message-
From: Barsodi.John [mailto:john.bars...@igt.com]
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 5:22 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Cisco servers?

Is this a surprise?  Got a demo of them a few weeks back, they are sweet and 
would work well in elastic environments.  The management looks like the Cisco 
PDM from 2004. The hardware scalability is really attractive.  Read up on what 
they've done with their memory optimization.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns944/

Thanks,
JB


-Original Message-
From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com]
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 1:57 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Cisco servers?

I got that information from a Cisco reseller.

The IBM servers they are selling are purely for the UCM VoIP stuff. Even then, 
that much may be temporary.

Raper, Jonathan - Eagle wrote:
> Hey Phil - care to reveal your source on that? The only thing I've 
> found is from a Cisco blog where some Cisco employee flatly states 
> that Cisco's servers are truly Cisco, and not manufactured by either 
> HP or IBM...

-- 

Phil Brutsche
p...@optimumdata.com

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  ~

~ Finally, pow

RE: Cisco servers?

[Greg Olson]

Cisco does now carry there own line of blade and they have a few Nas devices 
(used to be Linksys stuff):
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10280/

The blade servers are interesting especially if you buy into the Cisco Kool-Aid 
and go with there Nexus line of switches. 

I went to a Cisco Executive Briefing demo and they look very nice, but there 
still Gen 1 to me, and changing to the Nexus line of switches to really utilize 
the reduced cabling and 10gb backplanes will be awhile for us. 

-G 



-Original Message-
From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 12:32 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Cisco servers?

You sure about that?  They were re-branding the servers before (they looked 
exactly the same, but had Cisco stickers on them).  These new servers don't 
look anything like HPs anymore.

-Original Message-
From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] 
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 2:23 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Cisco servers?

They are re-branding HP's for their VOIP solution. 

Z

-Original Message-
From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:08 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Cisco servers?

Just got an email from our Cisco rep that Cisco now "does servers".  I'm not 
talking about the Cisco branded HPs.  These look entirely different.  Anyone 
out there heard anything about them (aside from what the sales people tell you)?
 

Paul

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RE: Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 R2

[Greg Olson]

+1 have a backup and you should be good to go.
Have done this at 20 locations so far with no issue.


From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 12:31 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 R2

Did this a few times for different reasons with no issues. Just make sure you 
backup AD before you extend the schema.

Don Guyer
Systems Engineer - Information Services
Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group
431 W. Lancaster Avenue
Devon, PA 19333
Direct: (610) 993-3299
Fax: (610) 650-5306
don.gu...@prufoxroach.com

From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 3:28 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 R2

I wanted to OCS it instead of Skype that the President is trying to show down 
everybody's trough.
So I downloaded the trial and setup a new VM (2008 R2).

Now it needs Forest Prep, Domain Prep etc.

Honestly I'm a bit scare of doing the AD updates to extend the schema, should I 
be? What could go wrong?


--
Stefan









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RE: OT: Moto Droid and Lack of Xch GAL

[Greg Olson]

On the Droid that is correct it doesn’t pull up the gal, and contact sync is 
weak (compared to other phones, such as the iphone and BBerry). But that said 
there is a third party software that Verizon recommends called TouchDown that 
fixes these issues, and really brings it up to par with BBerry and others 
(allows enterprise admins the ability to wipe and lockdown the phone and many 
other things). Plus it just plain works better in receiving my mail than the 
built in email app does. And I think it’s actually better than active sync on 
Win mobile.

We’ll worth checking out as they give you a 5 day trial, and it’s only 
something like $20.00 or so.
-Greg


From: Daniel Rodriguez [mailto:drod...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 2:43 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OT: Moto Droid and Lack of Xch GAL


I have the verizon htc eris. I have not seen this problem come up. I know that 
i can tell it to sync with my gmail and yahoo contacts. I dont see why it cant 
pull up the xch gal as it has a specific feature to integrate with xch.
On Jan 25, 2010 3:56 PM, "Don Guyer" 
mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com>> wrote:
Everyone,

I posted this to the Xch list but figured I’d post here also 
for complete coverage:

I’ve been teetering back/forth on getting this phone. Today, I 
read that it lacks the ability to pull up the Exchange GAL? Can anyone using 
one verify this for me? This would be a huge con!

Thanks,


Don Guyer
Systems Engineer - Information Services
Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group
431 W. Lancaster Avenue
Devon, PA 19333
Direct: (610) 993-3299
Fax: (610) 650-5306
don.gu...@prufoxroach.com










~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Robocopy GUI

[Greg Olson]

I've always used Robocopy in cmd line and it seems to work fine, but if you 
really want the gui, Microsoft has (IMHO) a better tool called RichCopy.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx?pr=blog
-Greg



From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com]
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 11:22 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Robocopy GUI

No.

I think Brian is trying to say:


a)  Please describe what you are trying to do

b)  Please describe how you are trying to do it

c)   Please describe what the actual error/output is that you are seeing

Based on the information above, someone can provide some advice as to what the 
problem might be, and how to fix it.

Posting an email that says "I'm trying to use tool  and I've set it up but I 
don't get the results I expect" is, unfortunately, usually not enough 
information to provide any sort of diagnosis.

Cheers
Ken

From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it]
Sent: Saturday, 23 January 2010 3:10 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: R: Robocopy GUI

Brian, do you mean that if you select options that is impossible to execute you 
don't get any advice ?

GuidoElia
HELPPC



Da: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com]
Inviato: sabato 23 gennaio 2010 6.59
A: NT System Admin Issues
Oggetto: RE: Robocopy GUI
What you're trying to accomplish and the switches you're using would be a 
useful start...

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

c - 312.731.3132

From: Haralson, Joe (GE Comm Fin, non-GE) [mailto:joe.haral...@ge.com]
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 8:18 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Robocopy GUI

I'm trying to use the GUI verson of Robocopy for first time but having issues 
getting it to work. I've installed the application and setup the parameters for 
source and destination along with switches. However, when I select run I 
receive a message stating that Robocopy started at a certain time. I've checked 
the logs but have no entry. Does anyone known why Robocopy isn't working.


Joe Haralson











~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: Exchange list?

[Greg Olson]

David,
I think the list your thinking about which shut down around that time has moved 
to a forum style here:
http://forums.slipstick.com/index.php

At least that's we're a lot of the guys moved over to. The Sunbelt one and the 
Yahoo Exchange 2003 group are good resources as well.



From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com]
Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 1:02 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange list?

Nope, still there !!


From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 12:43 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange list?
Is there a Exchange list/ I swear I was subscribed to one and it used to be as 
busy as that one, but that last post I see from 11/24. Did it move to a forum 
or something?

I have some Outlook / Exchange issue that are a high priority (my exec's are 
involved, time for me to pay attention..)
David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764





...





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RE: OT setting up vlans on ESX3.5

[Greg Olson]

Here's an example doc:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004074


From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com]
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 1:52 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT setting up vlans on ESX3.5

Sorry for the ot on networking.

Ok I know this can be done.
I have a vendor that wants me to setup a virtual  server with an ip in the same 
subnet as their other server which is physical using 83 as the subnet.
I need to vlan 83 into my esx cluster for this vm. All my current vms use 82 as 
their subnets. I can't seem to find the docs I need to do this. I know I have 
to trunk from my Cisco to a virtual switch both vlans (82&83). What is it I 
need to do on the esx side to setup a trunked port and then access ports for 
the different vlans? Just like you would physical switches.
thanks

dave

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RE: How long to get a server?

[Greg Olson]

X3
Usually I only have seen that if it's something new, or specific (2.93 proc on 
delay, but the 3.1 proc available now). Still your rep should of contacted you 
after the delay, given you the reason, and given options.
That's one of the good reasons for having a good relationship with a vendor, 
and one of the reasons we go with HP. Dell always seemed to change reps and 
having to re-build the relationship every 3 months got old pretty quickly.


From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 6:13 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: How long to get a server?

Ditto, only time we've ever had anything like this with HP is when there was a 
production delay in a component for the specific server we ordered, and we were 
notified by telephone by our HP rep, and given the option to select something 
that was available or wait and given an ETA on how long that would be.

Not acceptable at all IMHO.
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 8:06 AM, David Mazzaccaro 
mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com>> wrote:
HP Proliant shop here, going on 5+ years... and always within 7-14 days.
So, no... given my experience, I would not consider that acceptable.




From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 8:55 AM

To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: How long to get a server?
first I'd have the rep find out WHY they are delayed ... maybe one component is 
constrained, maybe the specific CPU you ordered is not available but the next 
closest is shipping now ...

and NO, that is NOT acceptable, if the rep said 7 to 14 days, I'd consider that 
a verbal contract, allowing some leeway for the market, but this sounds like 
false advertising to get your sale locked in.  Are you married to Dell for 
servers, or can you also consider HP Proliants ?

Might be a good time to put virtual servers into your plan ... ideally you can 
run your virtual servers on most any host running Virtual Server, Hyper V, or 
VMWare as long as your new host box is running the same Virtual Host system
Erik Goldoff

IT  Consultant

Systems, Networks, & Security

'  Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! '



From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:cbusitl...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 8:50 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: How long to get a server?
So how long does it take to get a server after you order one?  I ordered two 
servers (nothing special) from Dell for a small business that I am supporting.  
Rep said it would take 7-14 days max to build and would then overnight the 
servers to me.  That was a month and a half ago.  We have got 4 notices that 
the servers have been delayed.  At this point they are 1 month late and we 
just got another delayed notice.

Just checking to see if this is within what you all would consider a acceptable 
time frame for getting a servers.   I have recently started on a Disaster 
Recovery plan that if our building should burn down or servers get stolen that 
we would order new ones from Dell, however if the business was down for a month 
and a half while we were waiting for servers I would be out of a job..   
Going to have to rethink the DR plan for servers as I guess getting new ones in 
a day or two is out of the question

I wander if I would get faster service if I was an Enterprise size company 
instead of an SMB

Thanks

Matt















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Ot: Merry Christmas everyone!

[Greg Olson]

Just a slightly off-topic Merry Christmas (or Happy Holidays, or Hanukah, or 
Festivus, etc) to all!
Thanks to Stu and the gang for providing this list as I'm sure I speak for most 
in the fact that it's saved my butt a few times. 

Cheers!

-Greg Olson



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RE: My Tuesday Morning/Afternoon

[Greg Olson]

These are always good learning opportunities if nothing else. I had the joy of 
being in the Datacenter at 365 Main in SF back in 2007 when through a really 
interesting set of events it went dark. Even the best of planning sometimes 
doesn't cover everything, but it does allow for looking at how we handled it, 
and improving our response. I know we're in a far better state now in terms of 
what systems to bring up and in the right order if something like this we're to 
happen again. Our biggest time sync was issues with DB's coming on-line before 
the san had fully re-initialized and issues with servers booting up before the 
domain controllers we're back up. We now have scripts that delay boot up for X 
seconds  on the servers which cover the order.
Always fun stuff :)

Oh, and if you want to know what killed a Data center with N+2 redundancy 
here's a link to the final report:
http://365main.com/status_update.html

-Greg

From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 11:22 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: My Tuesday Morning/Afternoon

Actually Dave, I wish the AC had failed on the switch back to house power.  We 
would have known that if not immediately, because we do a physical check on it 
when the generator goes off, within a few minutes because we would have started 
getting heat alert messages from our Netbotz.  That would have given us a good 
30 minutes to assess the situation & get the electrician in here and very 
realistically avoided this whole situation.

I am asking some very pointed questions right now, like why didn't the 
generator detect that the ups was still on battery and kick inwhy didn't 
the electrician get notifications on his pager that the ups was still running 
on battery like it's supposed to be setup to doetc.  This should not have 
happened..
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Eldridge, Dave 
mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com>> wrote:
You lucky the AC stayed on.
Makes my day look easy. :) good luck with this one.
You should book that Colorado ski vacation soon and get away.


From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 11:13 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: My Tuesday Morning/Afternoon

So here's how my Tuesday morning/afternoon is going so far.

Arrive shortly after 7AM CST, all is quiet and functioning normally.  I proceed 
with taking care of some Heat tickets, monitoring stuff as normal via Nagios, 
checking on backups, etc etc.  Send a few emails to this list about Citrix, 
blah blah blah, all rocking along nice and quiet like.

9AM - Generator testing, happens every Tuesday @ 9AM.

9:30AM - Generator shuts down, check on AC in server room to confirm it has 
made the switch from generator  back to house power (doesn't always switch & 
will not be cooling in that event.)  All is normal.

10:25AM - Fire suppression system starts alerting with a very loud beeping 
noise, server room is locked down, we cannot access with our proximity badges.  
Fire suppression system continues to alert with a "System Problem" issue.

10:28AM  - Gain entry into server room.  AC unit is runningand that's the 
only thing that is running.  Server room is black, no power.

Now that the issue has been assessed, it has been determined that the UPS 
didn't make the switch from being on battery power for the generator test, back 
to house power.  Batteries drained, when batteries drained completely & power 
went down, fire suppression system performed like it was supposed to and locked 
everything down, shut the dampers on the vents etc, and went into almost there 
is a fire mode.  Fortunately it didn't release since no fire or smoke was 
detected.

Now 12:10PM and most everything is back on-line with the exception of 2 VMWare 
hosts that are not being cooperative and the Oracle databases.

Sigh.Can I go home now?

Oh, and the replacement parts are on order and should be here by in the 
morning, electrician says he can replace the parts with no disruption of 
service, and one minor detail, this could happen again before the parts get 
replaced tomorrow.  Glad I'm not the on-call person this week!!

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RE: connectivity issue using name vs ip

[Greg Olson]

Found it. An older Cisco router that had IDP code loaded into it was 
blackholeing 445 traffic on the return path from that office. 
Phew, that was fun. 
Thanks for your help guys!


 

-Original Message-
From: Todd Lemmiksoo [mailto:tlemmik...@all-mode.com] 
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 1:12 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: connectivity issue using name vs ip

I would say the QA server name is not in the production domain's DNS. 

-Original Message-
From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com]
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 4:07 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: connectivity issue using name vs ip

Looks like I picked a bad time to stop sniffing glue.

How are your DNS servers configured to resolve hosts in the trusted domain?  
Can you do an nslookup against the default nameservers in the production 
domain?  I know you said that you could ping, so it seems like name resolution 
probably isn't the issue.  To test that you could put an entry in your hosts 
file.  Just offering ideas...

-Original Message-----
From: Greg Olson [mailto:gol...@markettools.com]
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 3:57 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: connectivity issue using name vs ip

The helper service is on. I'm wondering if something didn't change in the 
firewall to break name resolution. 
Time to pull out the sniffer. 


-Original Message-----
From: Greg Olson [mailto:gol...@markettools.com]
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 12:16 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: connectivity issue using name vs ip

Correct it works fine via \\ip\incoming. 
I'll go check the Netbios helper. 
Thanks,
-G 


-Original Message-
From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com]
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 12:08 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: connectivity issue using name vs ip

When you say connect via the ip address, do you mean that \\ip\incoming is 
successful?

One thing to check is whether the "TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper" service running on 
the machine which you're trying to connect from?

-----Original Message-
From: Greg Olson [mailto:gol...@markettools.com]
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 3:03 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: connectivity issue using name vs ip

All,
I have an issue that came up after we moved our qa lab to a different office 
that I could use some advice on. 
A quick overview:
Our Qa lab is on its own domain with a trust relationship to our corp domain. 
I have a Windows clustered file share on our qa network called "incoming" that 
we connect to using the path \\upload.qadomain.com\incoming Now from the QA 
domain it works fine, no issues. But from our corporate domain when we use the 
link it says that the "windows cannot find \\upload.qadomain.com\incoming"
Now if I ping the server name upload.qadomain.com it shows the correct ip, and 
I can connect to it via the ip address?
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance for any help!
-G 


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RE: connectivity issue using name vs ip

[Greg Olson]

The helper service is on. I'm wondering if something didn’t change in the 
firewall to break name resolution. 
Time to pull out the sniffer. 


-Original Message-
From: Greg Olson [mailto:gol...@markettools.com] 
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 12:16 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: connectivity issue using name vs ip

Correct it works fine via \\ip\incoming. 
I'll go check the Netbios helper. 
Thanks, 
-G 


-Original Message-
From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] 
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 12:08 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: connectivity issue using name vs ip

When you say connect via the ip address, do you mean that \\ip\incoming is 
successful?

One thing to check is whether the "TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper" service running on 
the machine which you're trying to connect from?

-Original Message-
From: Greg Olson [mailto:gol...@markettools.com]
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 3:03 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: connectivity issue using name vs ip

All,
I have an issue that came up after we moved our qa lab to a different office 
that I could use some advice on. 
A quick overview:
Our Qa lab is on its own domain with a trust relationship to our corp domain. 
I have a Windows clustered file share on our qa network called "incoming" that 
we connect to using the path \\upload.qadomain.com\incoming Now from the QA 
domain it works fine, no issues. But from our corporate domain when we use the 
link it says that the "windows cannot find \\upload.qadomain.com\incoming"
Now if I ping the server name upload.qadomain.com it shows the correct ip, and 
I can connect to it via the ip address?
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance for any help!
-G 


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~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~

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RE: connectivity issue using name vs ip

[Greg Olson]

Correct it works fine via \\ip\incoming. 
I'll go check the Netbios helper. 
Thanks, 
-G 


-Original Message-
From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] 
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 12:08 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: connectivity issue using name vs ip

When you say connect via the ip address, do you mean that \\ip\incoming is 
successful?

One thing to check is whether the "TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper" service running on 
the machine which you're trying to connect from?

-Original Message-----
From: Greg Olson [mailto:gol...@markettools.com]
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 3:03 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: connectivity issue using name vs ip

All,
I have an issue that came up after we moved our qa lab to a different office 
that I could use some advice on. 
A quick overview:
Our Qa lab is on its own domain with a trust relationship to our corp domain. 
I have a Windows clustered file share on our qa network called "incoming" that 
we connect to using the path \\upload.qadomain.com\incoming Now from the QA 
domain it works fine, no issues. But from our corporate domain when we use the 
link it says that the "windows cannot find \\upload.qadomain.com\incoming"
Now if I ping the server name upload.qadomain.com it shows the correct ip, and 
I can connect to it via the ip address?
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance for any help!
-G 


~ 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/>  ~

connectivity issue using name vs ip

[Greg Olson]

All, 
I have an issue that came up after we moved our qa lab to a different office 
that I could use some advice on. 
A quick overview:
Our Qa lab is on its own domain with a trust relationship to our corp domain. 
I have a Windows clustered file share on our qa network called "incoming" that 
we connect to using the path \\upload.qadomain.com\incoming
Now from the QA domain it works fine, no issues. But from our corporate domain 
when we use the link it says that the "windows cannot find 
\\upload.qadomain.com\incoming"
Now if I ping the server name upload.qadomain.com it shows the correct ip, and 
I can connect to it via the ip address?
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance for any help!
-G 


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~   ~

RE: Google Wave Invitations

[Greg Olson]

On its way

From: Daniel Rodriguez [mailto:drod...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 12:12 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Google Wave Invitations

me! Me! Me
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Lee Douglas 
mailto:lee.doug...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Just got 8 more! Mine are very moderately priced.

Contact me off-line, please

lee.doug...@gmail.com

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it!












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RE: Google Wave Invite Available

[Greg Olson]

If there are any left, I'll take one too!
Thanks!

From: Jeff Brown [mailto:2jbr...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 10:21 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Google Wave Invite Available

I would appreciate a hand up as well, if possible.
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:13 PM, 
mailto:leftongr...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Fyi - got mine in 15 mins.
Riding the wave...
;)









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RE: Conficker Help!

[Greg Olson]

Go grab the trial version of NetWrix Account lockout Examiner:
http://www.netwrix.com

It will monitor your domain controllers and look for lockout's and report what 
machine there coming from.


From: Orland, Kathleen [mailto:korl...@rogers.com]
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 6:08 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Conficker Help!

That's what I did with my Conficker hit earlier this year. Also, in spite of 
the fact it looked as though everyone was infected and popping up virus alerts 
we really only had one infected laptop. McAfee (not my choice to run) was 
popping up alerts on every PC every time the one infected PC tried to use a bad 
password. I was able to determine alot from checking 1) bad password attempts 
2) McAfee logs.
- Original Message -
From: Mayo, Bill
To: NT System Admin Issues
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 8:41 AM
Subject: RE: Conficker Help!

Look for multiple bad password attempts coming from the same source.


From: Kelsey, John [mailto:jckel...@drmc.org]
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 8:34 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Conficker Help!
Looks like we're getting hit the Conficker this morning.  Sophos is reporting 
several hundred 'conficker detected/cleaned' messages, so at least its catching 
it...BUThow do I determine the source of the infection?  Something I can 
look for with wireshark or something?  Apparently there are some unprotected 
machines on the network.

Any suggestions are welcome!


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RE: Network-wide indexing

[Greg Olson]

http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/en/us/default.aspx
I think Express is free.

I have one of the Google appliances sitting in my garage at home (wasn't worth 
renewing the license). I always threaten to shut off Google with my daughter 
when she acts up. HA, she still believes it.



From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 2:57 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Network-wide indexing

I've never used it, but have seen the dt products advertised for years:
http://www.dtsearch.com/


Roger Wright
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On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Phillip Partipilo 
mailto:p...@psnet.com>> wrote:
Is there some software that will crawl our local network, and build a
recursive index of the filenames and their location on every share on every
computer on the network, and then provide an interface to query this index?
Each system here holds its own stash of data locally, and it would be nice
to do a query to find out how many copies are out there.  Just about 40
systems and two main server stashes.  A web interface to the query tool
would be cool too.


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Parametric Solutions Inc.
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RE: Constantly getting locked of 2003 domain

[Greg Olson]

Any chance an old terminal session is still logged in? 

-Original Message-
From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:jt...@teachtci.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 4:40 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Constantly getting locked of 2003 domain

Joe: When I go to control panel > user accounts > advanced > manage passwords, 
I don't see anything in there.  I was logged as myself as well.  I did start 
deleting some apps that I thought could have been causing the problem so lets 
see if the problem still continues.

Sean: I did restart many times.

-Jimmy

-Original Message-
From: Joe Tinney [mailto:jtin...@lastar.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 4:32 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Constantly getting locked of 2003 domain

A colleague of mine recently encountered this with his account. It turned out 
that he had stored his credentials on the machine and then, after he had to 
change his password, he started getting locked out. 

For Windows XP, there seem to be user-level and system-level stored passwords. 
You view them both similarly, but administrators stored passwords seem to 
always be stored at the system level. To view them, go to: Control Panel > User 
Accounts > Advanced > Manage Passwords.

Unfortunately, you can't view the user-level passwords from there and the only 
way I've found to view it via the GUI is to be logged in as that user. To view 
them when you are a non-admin, go to Control Panel > User Accounts. It will ask 
for an admin password but do not give it one. That would result in seeing the 
system level passwords you could see as an admin. At the bottom of that dialog 
box there is a link to manage your passwords. If you click on that link you can 
see your user-level stored passwords.

You can also run "rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr" without the quotes and 
it will pull up the Stored Passwords window.

It may not be the issue at all but it has been in the past here.

Good luck!

-Original Message-
From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:jt...@teachtci.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 6:56 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Constantly getting locked of 2003 domain

I went to the link and everything checked out ok.  This machine isn't mission 
critical so I could reimage it but I'd like to try to figure out the problem.

Thanks,

Jimmy

-Original Message-
From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 6:20 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Constantly getting locked of 2003 domain


Those random letter strings at the bottom are not good. This worm usually 
blocks most of the anti-virus websites. See if you can get to trendmicro.com or 
mcafee or symantec. Or hit this link and see if you can see their logo's

http://www.confickerworkinggroup.org/infection_test/cfeyechart.html

Can you just fdisk this machine, or is it mission critical?


From: Jason Morris [jmor...@mjmc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 4:46 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Constantly getting locked of 2003 domain

Sorry, missed CurrentVersion

[cid:image002.png@01CA519C.8D4C8230]

From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:jt...@teachtci.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 3:33 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Constantly getting locked of 2003 domain

This is what I get which looks normal:



[cid:image003.png@01CA519C.8D4C8230]

Jimmy

From: Jason Morris [mailto:jmor...@mjmc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 1:10 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Constantly getting locked of 2003 domain

Thats because Conficker runs as the Network Services Account.

Look under:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\SVCHost\NETSVCS and see if there is any 
gobbledygook at the bottom of the entries. Ths your DLL that is running under 
Windows\System32.



From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:jt...@teachtci.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 3:08 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Constantly getting locked of 2003 domain

No services running under my account when logged in as a different user.
Jimmy


From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 1:06 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Constantly getting locked of 2003 domain

Any services running under your account with an old password?


Roger Wright
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On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Jimmy Tran 
mailto:jt...@teachtci.com>> wrote:
Every 5 minutes or so, I get lock out of our domain.  I ran EventCombMT and 
traced it back to a specific machine.  Does anyone have any suggestions on what 
I can do to figure out what program/service is attempting to contact the DC 
with an incorrect password?ve been dealing with this all morning and it is 
driving me crazy.


Windows 2003 Domain
Windows XP SP3 machine

Thanks,

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RE: Win 7 key

[Greg Olson]

+1
And you have to click on the "New MAK Keys" tab on top that is to the right of 
"Existing Keys"

-Greg


From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 10:23 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Win 7 key

I know I had to request my MAK key, KMS was the only one that appeared on the 
VL site until after my request.
Tim

From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 12:19 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Win 7 key

I have licenses for 5 Windows 7 systems but the only key code I received is for 
KMS, not MAK ones, is this normal?
David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
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RE: Sql Drive letter in cluster question

[Greg Olson]

Thanks for the confirmation that this will work guys!
-Greg


From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 8:54 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Sql Drive letter in cluster question

+1

Can also confirm that this definitely works with SQL Server 2005 + Windows 
Server 2003

Cheers
Ken

From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 19 August 2009 2:48 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Sql Drive letter in cluster question

Mount points are definitely supported and are a common way here. I think SQL 
2005 was the first SQL to support mount points.

I would create one mountpoint LUN per cluster resource group and group things 
that way. Don't forget to create parent/child relationships between your 
mountpoints and parent LUNs.

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

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From: Greg Olson [mailto:gol...@markettools.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 12:59 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Sql Drive letter in cluster question

Hey all,
Just a quick question to the group. How do you guys handle assigning drive 
letters in a SQL cluster group?
For instance, I have a 4-node sql cluster, and every drive letter from A-Z is 
currently assigned. I was thinking of putting each DB and their log drive under 
a single drive letter using mount points under the letter to point to the 
different luns.
My concern\question is doing this in a Microsoft cluster, is this a supported 
config?
Thanks in advance for your input!
-Greg Olson















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Sql Drive letter in cluster question

[Greg Olson]

Hey all,
Just a quick question to the group. How do you guys handle assigning drive 
letters in a SQL cluster group?
For instance, I have a 4-node sql cluster, and every drive letter from A-Z is 
currently assigned. I was thinking of putting each DB and their log drive under 
a single drive letter using mount points under the letter to point to the 
different luns.
My concern\question is doing this in a Microsoft cluster, is this a supported 
config?
Thanks in advance for your input!
-Greg Olson



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RE: Custom BIOS

[Greg Olson]

If your purchasing 750 pc's from HP, have them config the bios with your 
settings for you before it ships. I've had them do this in the past in another 
life, and with that quantity they shouldn't charge you to do it. They used to 
also offer putting in your company's logo as part of the config as well. This 
would at least get you started, and then you can research ways to automate it 
going down the road (for Bios password changes for example).
Good luck!


From: Eisenberg, Wayne [mailto:wayne.eisenb...@pbvllc.com]
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 1:44 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Custom BIOS

Look at HP Client Manager and/or System Software Manager. Those may be able to 
do what you are looking for, but I don't believe they support all systems. 
Unfortunately, I think the dc7900 is on the unsupported list. It's been a while 
since I looked at them so it may be updated to include them at this point. YMMV.


--
Wayne Eisenberg
Server and PC Support Manager
Pepsi Bottling Ventures, LLC



From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 10:10 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Custom BIOS
HP has tools to script all this for servers and IIRC Dell has it for clients so 
I'd venture to guess HP may have it for clients as well. Look for stuff 
centered around deployment scripting/automation/etc on their site.

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

c - 312.731.3132

From: Okan Bostan [mailto:bosta...@itu.edu.tr]
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 7:39 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Custom BIOS

Hi List,

We have  purchased ~750 PC (Hp DC7900) for student labs. I want to set a 
password for BIOS for all the new computers, and make some restirictions, like 
disabling cdrom boot. Is there a way to automate this process? I don't want to 
set all passwords manually.

I have seached a little, I think about taking the modified bios image and 
applying it as bios update to computers via Group policy. In addition to this, 
I have tried uniflash, awdflash or HPQFLASH and FLASHBIN to backup the current 
password protected BIOS as .bin file but I cannot succeed it,

Any suggestions?

Thanks.













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RE: Data replication in real-time (or near real-time)

[Greg Olson]

Check out RichCopy from MS. 
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx
IT's free, and it's multi-threaded and recovers from network drops well. 
-Greg


-Original Message-
From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 10:36 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Data replication in real-time (or near real-time)

Down, Boy!  Down!  It was just an analogy, although a clever one if I do
say so myself.

-Original Message-
From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 11:39 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Data replication in real-time (or near real-time)

I was sold when I heard there would be Prisms!

-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 11:33 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Data replication in real-time (or near real-time)

Well, the servers are on the same physical network, just separated by a
few hundred yards and a few walls. :-) One server is in my office, the
other is up the hill in a separate building connected by Gigabit fiber.
:-)

I'll look into Datacore. Thanks.



-Original Message-
From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 12:18 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Data replication in real-time (or near real-time)

There's a company called Datacore that will do synchronous and
asynchronous mirroring locally or to a remote DR site.  It sits between
your storage and the storage consumers, and the analogy I've used is
that it sort of "prisms" all traffic to/from the storage and splits off
a copy to send to your DR site.

Well worth looking into, although it's not cheap.  Also, you do need to
implement their recommended HA configuration unless you're willing to
accept a single point of failure between your data and your servers.

How close to real-time you get will depend on your bandwidth

-Original Message-
From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 10:59 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Data replication in real-time (or near real-time)

Robocopy doesn't do block-level incremental syncs though (Delta Copy) 
:(   (Unless something has changed) 

-Original Message-
From: Stephan Barr [mailto:stephan.b...@bdtechnology.org] On Behalf Of
lists
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 10:57 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Data replication in real-time (or near real-time)

Robocopy with a scheduler ( System Scheduler is cool
http://www.splinterware.com/) to run every few minutes or so works for
me.  Free/Cheap. It only copies changed files. Not good for containers
(SQL, others)  but great for individual files.

Cheers.

-Original Message-
From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 10:50 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Data replication in real-time (or near real-time)

Finding a product (free or paid) that will replicate to no one existent
disk space is going to be pretty tough. ;-) If you find someone who
delivers on that promise please be sure to let us all know.
TVK


-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 10:33 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Data replication in real-time (or near real-time)

Yeah...there were a couple different types of errors -- one was
insufficient space for replication (the drive on the main server was low
on drive space so it couldn't replicate...) and another problem was as
you said that there were open files when it was trying to replicate.

Unfortunately, those are show stoppers for us. We need something that
will ignore locked files and replicate no matter what.



-Original Message-
From: Terry Dickson [mailto:te...@treasurer.state.ks.us]
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 11:05 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Data replication in real-time (or near real-time)

So when you noticed that the data was not there did you check your DFS
logs to see if there was a problem.  We are currently using Windows 2008
and the only times we have seen this behavior were listed in the logs
showing the DFS errors.  The other reason was also listed in the logs,
depending on the application that is creating/updating the file is file
closure.  DFS will not update a file that is still open, until the file
is closed.



-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 9:50 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Data replication in real-time (or near real-time)

The new DFS - DFS/R in Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2.
 


From: John Aldrich [jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 10:50 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Data replication in real-time (or near real-time)



We

Riverbed VS Cisco Waas

[Greg Olson]

Hi all, 
We're currently evaluating the Riverbed and Cisco Waas products, and would like 
to get any feedback the list might have on either product. Things like ease of 
integration, User perception, issues and gotcha's, outright lies,  
troubleshooting, management issues, and anything else along the lines of your 
impression of the products would be greatly appreciated. 
Thanks, 
-Greg Olson
  

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