Re: A question about Virtualization
Hopping on here late, but there isn't a local software client needed to get APP-V to deliver apps? What's the benefit of deploying an App-V application vs a published App via XenApp? I feel like I'm missing a key difference here because if you're a Citrix shop what are you missing by not using App-V ? On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 11:58 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: I haven't done much ThinApp, to be fair. How easy is it to package stuff up? I find App-V dead easy, but then again it was the first thing I used for it. My other main packaging experience was with Citrix Streaming, and that ain't great at all. One thing I will say for App-V is that it's dead easy to deliver it through Citrix if you've got that kind of layered infrastructure. You don't even need the App-V streaming conduit - you just point a published app to the App-V client and add the right switches, and you can deliver the App-V stuff right through the Citrix plugins like an normal installed app. App-V also integrates nicely with AppSense and particularly their Personalization Server piece, which makes it another popular choice for the kind of deployments I do. I was just wondering how far the OP is wanting to take their entire virtualization strategy? Certainly once you get into the deeper parts of profile and application virtualization you can put together a solution based around a vast amount of different combinations of technologies rather than the more limited options available on a server or desktop virtualization level. Cheers, JR On 6 November 2012 16:39, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: I mostly agree with James with the exception of App-V, VMWare Thinapp requires no local client to run packages so IMHO it’s a cleaner distribution package. *John W. Cook* *Network Operations Manager* *Partnership For Strong Families* *5950 NW 1st Place* *Gainesville, Fl 32607* *Office (352) 244-1610* *Cell (352) 215-6944* *MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP**4, VTSP4* *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, November 06, 2012 11:35 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: A question about Virtualization Server virtualization? Desktop virtualization? Application virtualization? Profile/user virtualization? All different parts of the virtualization tree. If you are talking server, VMWare and Microsoft are probably the biggest players Desktops - I wouldn't look any further than Citrix Application - Microsoft App-V is the best IMHO Profile/user - AppSense On 6 November 2012 16:28, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: I have no experience with Virtualized anything. I have read VMware is better than Citrix. What kind of hardware do I put all of this on? A Blade server with a SAN back end? I really have no opinions or experience on any of this. Please don’t flame me to badly. Thanks David ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- *James Rankin* Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and other Federal and Florida laws. Improper or unauthorized use or disclosure of this information could result in civil and/or criminal penalties. Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- *James Rankin* Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS)
Re: A question about Virtualization
That's an eye opener, thanks James. So the client on the server simply calls the installation binaries that exist on that same server or a shared folder that could sit on the SAN ? Not having to install applications on Citirix servers is a MAJOR plus. And as you mentioned, the Citrix Streaming Profiler is just not a real elegant/easy solution, in my opinion. On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Rankin, James R kz2...@googlemail.comwrote: ** Its the packaging. To run an app thru Citrix it needs to be installed on a Citrix server. If it is delivered via App-V all you need is the client on the server, which can then run hundreds or thousands of apps without any of them needing to be installed. They are also self-contained - you can run apps that don't get on alongside each other without issue. The main benefit of App-V for me is in image management - no need to update or maintain software on hundreds of Citrix servers. Just put the App-V client and Citrix Receiver in the base image and all your apps are effectively already installed and ready for use. ---Blackberried -- *From: * Harry Singh hbo...@gmail.com *Date: *Tue, 6 Nov 2012 20:34:13 -0500 *To: *NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *ReplyTo: * NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Subject: *Re: A question about Virtualization Hopping on here late, but there isn't a local software client needed to get APP-V to deliver apps? What's the benefit of deploying an App-V application vs a published App via XenApp? I feel like I'm missing a key difference here because if you're a Citrix shop what are you missing by not using App-V ? On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 11:58 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.comwrote: I haven't done much ThinApp, to be fair. How easy is it to package stuff up? I find App-V dead easy, but then again it was the first thing I used for it. My other main packaging experience was with Citrix Streaming, and that ain't great at all. One thing I will say for App-V is that it's dead easy to deliver it through Citrix if you've got that kind of layered infrastructure. You don't even need the App-V streaming conduit - you just point a published app to the App-V client and add the right switches, and you can deliver the App-V stuff right through the Citrix plugins like an normal installed app. App-V also integrates nicely with AppSense and particularly their Personalization Server piece, which makes it another popular choice for the kind of deployments I do. I was just wondering how far the OP is wanting to take their entire virtualization strategy? Certainly once you get into the deeper parts of profile and application virtualization you can put together a solution based around a vast amount of different combinations of technologies rather than the more limited options available on a server or desktop virtualization level. Cheers, JR On 6 November 2012 16:39, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: I mostly agree with James with the exception of App-V, VMWare Thinapp requires no local client to run packages so IMHO it’s a cleaner distribution package. *John W. Cook* *Network Operations Manager* *Partnership For Strong Families* *5950 NW 1st Place* *Gainesville, Fl 32607* *Office (352) 244-1610* *Cell (352) 215-6944* *MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP**4, VTSP4* *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, November 06, 2012 11:35 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: A question about Virtualization Server virtualization? Desktop virtualization? Application virtualization? Profile/user virtualization? All different parts of the virtualization tree. If you are talking server, VMWare and Microsoft are probably the biggest players Desktops - I wouldn't look any further than Citrix Application - Microsoft App-V is the best IMHO Profile/user - AppSense On 6 November 2012 16:28, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: I have no experience with Virtualized anything. I have read VMware is better than Citrix. What kind of hardware do I put all of this on? A Blade server with a SAN back end? I really have no opinions or experience on any of this. Please don’t flame me to badly. Thanks David ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- *James Rankin* Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums
Re: East Coast people out there?
I'm in the NY area, specifically Queens and my part of the borough was unaffected. My data center is in the Flatiron part of Manhattan, and power was restored friday night. Two of my DC's crashed and corrupted the AD database with it. It also brought down DNS, which brought down a bunch of other services, vcenter an exchange being the biggest. Needless to say, I spent the entire night morning with PSS bringing my AD back to life. I spent the remainder of Saturday bringing everything else back online. Luckily, not too much was damaged as a result of the power loss. Now that the network is up and running, I have to focus my efforts on preparing the network for this kind of outage again. I've never personally dealt with such a prolonged loss of power and am real curious to here from folks on this list, how do you handle the continuance/survivability of your network? I actually have a lot of question for the list, but will try and stagger them as appropriate. Hope everyone out there is well. Harry. BTW, the gas shortages and lines are creating lines that I've never seen. I'm talking anywhere from 1-3 miles and people waiting online for gas for close to 4 hours in some places. I wasn't around in the 70's, so I can't imagine how it was when the embargo happened, but this a first for me. On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Guyer, Don dgu...@che.org wrote: Now there are gas shortages and whatever public transportation is up and running is jammed because not many people can drive. ** ** I’m praying that this Noreaster coming stays out at sea. ** ** Regards, * * *Don Guyer** **Catholic Health East - Information Technology* Enterprise Directory Messaging Services 3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa 19073 email: *dgu...@che.org* Office: 610.550.3595 | Cell: 610.955.6528 | Fax: 610.271.9440 *For immediate assistance, please open a Service Desk ticket or call the helpdesk @ 610-492-3839.* [image: Description: Description: Description: InfoService-Logo240] ** ** *From:* Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, November 05, 2012 1:14 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: East Coast people out there? ** ** I heard on the radio while driving to work this morning that over 2m people were still without power. I feel for them - a few years ago after a windstorm I went without power for 7 days, and that was bad enough, even though most of the surrounding area had power and I could go out to eat, shower at work, etc., and I had no kids then. I have trouble imagining trying to get through this when *everyone* around you has no power (except for those few with generators), and you have kids, etc. Kurt ** ** On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: NYC and NJ are still hurting. ** ** Some folks in NJ have gotten their power back recently, but it's still not good overall. *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker *Providing Expert Technology Consulting Services for the SMB market…* On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Michael Leone oozerd...@gmail.com wrote: I'm in Philly. No problems here. Power never went out, so no need for UPS or generators to kick in. I happen to live close by my data center, and my lights flickered once or twice, but that was all.. On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Guyer, Don dgu...@che.org wrote: Just South of Philly here. Storm moved through here quicker than expected, so my area escaped fairly unscathed, considering. From what I’ve seen on the news, NY got it pretty hard. Jersey shore got hammered. Regards, * * *Don Guyer** **Catholic Health East - Information Technology* Enterprise Directory Messaging Services 3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa 19073 email: *dgu...@che.org* Office: 610.550.3595 | Cell: 610.955.6528 | Fax: 610.271.9440 *For immediate assistance, please open a Service Desk ticket or call the helpdesk @ 610-492-3839.* [image: Description: Description: Description: InfoService-Logo240] *From:* Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 30, 2012 9:45 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* OT: East Coast people out there? Anyone else on the east coast dealing with the aftermath of Sandy? Still waiting to hear how our NY office faired. Chris - This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly
Re: East Coast people out there?
That's a great piece of information Jim, Thank you. This seems like exactly what I would need. On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.orgwrote: You may remember my AC disaster a few weeks ago. My advice is hire a professional to come in and audit your AC, power, fire suppression, ups setup…the whole nine yards. Best way to prepare your network for that kind of a disaster is to keep it up. We hired a company that does just that and not much else. They do not do the repairs or push you towards vendors. They work for you, figure it all out and give you budgetary numbers on costs and help you get it done. They will act as your construction manager if you want. ** ** We are just in the beginnings, the initial audit and site visit. They are now pouring over the building drawings. But I spent the whole day with them and these people know their stuff. I am confident they will come back with a really good plan. I am sure there are others out there that do this kind of thing. ** ** www.techsiteplan.com ** ** ** ** *From:* Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, November 05, 2012 1:39 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: East Coast people out there? ** ** I have to focus my efforts on preparing the network for this kind of outage again….. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: What is your IT department name?
lol...hysterical. On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.orgwrote: He sent this back. ** ** Systems Handling, Information Technology, Applications, Systems Training, and Identification Control Services ** ** http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shitasticdefid=57890 ** ** ** ** *From:* Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 23, 2012 2:02 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: What is your IT department name? ** ** I’ll see your boss, and raise you. ** ** Systems Handling and Information Technology, Training, Infrastructure, Engineering, Storage, and Transitioning. ** ** *From:* Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 23, 2012 12:26 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: What is your IT department name? ** ** Nice. My boss just took your name to the next level. ** ** Systems Handling and Information Technology, Training and Yoyo Services*** * ** ** ** ** *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 23, 2012 1:07 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: What is your IT department name? ** ** Agreed – that was my recommendation, my 2nd one being “Systems Handling and Information Technology Services”, aka SHITS J ** ** *From:* Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.orgkennedy...@elyriaschools.org] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 23, 2012 9:59 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: What is your IT department name? ** ** It Services is ours, and I think it fits your scenario very well. ** ** -- *From:* David Lum david@nwea.org *To:* NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Sent:* Monday, October 22, 2012 2:57 PM *Subject:* What is your IT department name? ** ** We get to rename the group I work for as we’re doing some restructuring. Currently the team is called the Service Desk but we’re going to roll me and another Systems Engineer into it so we’ll cover everything from workstations to phones to file/print/application server as well as all Active Directory functions. We already have product-facing IS groups called IS Delivery and IS Operations and we’d like to differentiate a little by using “IT” and we support the internal side of the house (employee’s) and not NWEA customers. I’m looking for a few ideas as well as what others’ use. *David Lum* Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 //* *Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Only took my 18 months...
Congrats! On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.orgwrote: Well in that case, Happy Birthday!! ** ** *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Monday, October 01, 2012 9:56 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Only took my 18 months... ** ** But effective today I get to add “Sr.” to my Systems Engineer job title. W00t! *David Lum* Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 //* *Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Thin Client Recommendations
+1 HP T610 models. On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Rankin, James R kz2...@googlemail.comwrote: Most modern thin clients should do both fine. The new HP devices are quite cool, supporting up to four monitors natively. ---Blackberried -- *From: * Robert Jackson r...@walkermartyn.co.uk *Date: *Wed, 8 Aug 2012 12:04:01 +0100 *To: *NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *ReplyTo: * NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Subject: *Thin Client Recommendations We are looking at the possibility of having a Virtualised environment (although like anything else at the moment cost is an overriding issue). As part of a move away from the traditional client/server model, we have a Terminal Server Farm (currently 2 Windows 2008 R2 servers) configured identically with a Session Broker (again Windows 2008 R2 VM) Server to direct users to an appropriate server for the login process. ** ** Some of our older PC’s have now started to exhibit signs of failing. So rather than replacing like for like, we were wondering if we could replace the PC’s with a form of Thin Client. I must stress that we do not have a full blown Virtualised Infrastructure in place – although my hope is to eventually go down that route. Therefore are there any recommendations for a Thin Client that would allow users to connect to our current Terminal Services Farm as well as being able to be used in a full blown VDI scenario if we decide to go down that route? ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** Regards, Rab. == Robert Jackson Phone: +44 (0) 141 332 7999 IT ManagerFax: +44 (0) 141 331 2820 Walker Martyn Ltd 1 Park Circus PlaceEmail: r...@walkermartyn.co.uk Glasgow G3 6AH, Scotland Web: http://www.walkermartyn.co.uk == ** ** The information in this internet E-mail is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee. Access, copying or re-use of information in it by anyone else is unauthorised. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Walker Martyn Ltd or any of its affiliates. If you are not the intended recipient please contact administra...@walkermartyn.co.uk. Walker Martyn Ltd, company number SC197533. Company is registered in Scotland and has its registered office at 1 Park Circus Place, Glasgow G3 6AH, UK. #13905ef7f5d10846_ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: My BriForum Presentation
Thanks for sharing, awesome doc. On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Daniel Chenault dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com wrote: Yer alright for sharing this. I don't care what ASB says. Daniel Chenault dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 2:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: My BriForum Presentation Reading through this over now. Looks really good - thanks for making this available. Kurt On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: is now available as a free PDF on my website. http://carlwebster.com/briforum-2012-chicago/ I think it went well. Thanks Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: OT: US jobs market
I'm sorry - where is it a law to have natural light at the workplace?
I've had the misfortune of working in a windowless office space for too
long.
On Sunday, July 8, 2012, Patrick Salmon wrote:
BTDT. Having moved from London to Paris to DC a while back I can attest
that your greatest challenge is the reality of two nations divided by a
common language and the myriad of cultural differences. Job wise, if
you've got the skills (note: with 'skills' including interpersonal, and not
just limited to technical) you'll be fine.
It'll be your adventure, and I'd be the first to encourage you to go for
it, but language and culture *will* bite you.
Some examples: an English accent can be a liability. I'm now expert at
spotting when someone to whom has gone into that sounds really good mode
rather than listening to the critical (to them, usually) information. Sure,
I've modified my accent a chunk but 18yrs on that one comes up regularly.
Bet you're accustomed to working in office with windows and natural light?
Well, it's the law there. Not so here. A high-paying wonderfully titled job
could lead you to what you'd consider a broom cupboard.
Or you could do like I did and tell the realtor you want a 3 bed house
with a garden. Obvious enough, right? Wrong. We narrowly avoided
homelessness by changing 'garden' to 'yard', but wouldn't have otherwise
known.
The list goes on.
Good luck!
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Rankin, James R
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On another totally OT note...there's some talk in our household about
moving to the US because my sister-in-law lives there (NY area). Just
wondering what the US IT jobs market is like at the moment (probably mainly
contract work) to see if it is worth us giving this some serious thought. I
am utterly disenchanted with the UK at the moment and would be glad to
relocate somewhere better before my kids get too old.
Cheers,
JR
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Re: The Next Microsoft
That's cool indeed. On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: Cool experiment by a 21 year old. ** ** http://www.minimallyminimal.com/journal/2012/7/3/the-next-microsoft.html** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com http://www.carlwebster.com/ ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Time for new core switches
I have the same set of switches here and they have been rock solid for over 7 years. I plan on moving forward next year and have been looking at HP and Force10. It's really hard to beat the lifetime warranty of HP, it's come in handy more than one since the HP purchase of 3com. On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Tom Miller tmil...@hnncsb.org wrote: We use the HP 5500G-EI series. Full management, and I have fiber cards in the back to that connect to our buildings here on Campus. I don't use many features, just the common VLAN and dhcp forwarding. I might just keep with the same series in 10G. The firmware set is different than the 3COM, hence I can't put them in a single stack. Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org 5/17/2012 2:55 PM Off the cuff, I'd say HP. Which model depends on your needs. What switch(es) were you using? Exact model please. Are there additional features you require for this switch? (Layer 3 routing, Fiber uplinks, etc.) --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Thu, 17 May 2012 11:30:46 -0700 Subject: Time for new core switches Hi Folks, My core switch bank is a series of 3COM (HP) 1GIG managed switches. They've worked very well. I don't think the exact model is made anymore, so I cannot add to the current bank. Looking at my options, what speeds are you now using for your core switches: 1 GB, 10, 100? We don't do any audio or AutoCad type of things here, but I do have several SANS that are connected to the core. I haven't run any port stats yet but I will. What about port size? Each of these switches has 24 ports. I could continue with smaller switches or look for a few switches with many ports. I recall seeing a Foundry core switch a few years ago and I think it had a few hundred ports. Thoughts? Tom Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: My Citrix Synergy presentation
That is pretty darn cool! Thanks for sharing!!, it contains nothing but pure gold. Thanks to all those on this list who contributed as well. Great stuff. Happy Monday Cheers, Harry. On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: Greetings, ** ** Even though I had a LOT of anxiety leading up to the event, I actually had fun doing my 45 minute presentation. If you would like a copy of the PDF, go here: ** ** http://carlwebster.com/synergy-2012-san-fancisco-geek-speak-live-presentation/ ** ** My talk was on *10 things in AD that can hurt XenDesktop or XenApp and how to fix them*. I received a lot of positive feedback and also suggestions for the next time I present this same presentation. I have already been asked to present at Synergy Barcelona and plan on breaking the talk into 2 parts to allow me time for more detail. The founder of Citrix was at my talk and asked if I would come to Boca Raton, FL and give the talk to his engineers! How cool is that? ** ** Thanks ** ** Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com http://www.carlwebster.com/ ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: VMware Training
FWIW, In order to get your VCP you have to be enrolled in an official VMware class and have at least 85% recorded attendance. I just finished training with NH and this was clearly disclosed on the first day. On Thursday, April 5, 2012, Jay Kulsh wrote: VMware site offers All-Access eLearning (self-paced) as described here: http://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrreg/courses.cfm?ui=www_edua=oneid_subject=8906 Would like to know experience of others who may have taken these online courses. TrainSignal also offers VMware training, but they have many packages. Which of their package may be equivalent to 29 courses described in above link? Are they superior in their presentation? Thanks. Jay Kulsh So. Pasadena, CA ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com javascript:; with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: VMware Training
FWIW, In order to get your VCP you have to be enrolled in an official VMware class and have at least 85% recorded attendance. I just finished training with NH and this was clearly disclosed on the first day. On Thursday, April 5, 2012, Jay Kulsh wrote: VMware site offers All-Access eLearning (self-paced) as described here: http://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrreg/courses.cfm?ui=www_edua=oneid_subject=8906 Would like to know experience of others who may have taken these online courses. TrainSignal also offers VMware training, but they have many packages. Which of their package may be equivalent to 29 courses described in above link? Are they superior in their presentation? Thanks. Jay Kulsh So. Pasadena, CA ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com javascript:; with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: PC lifecycle?
To those who interface directly with your CFO/CEO or are the decision maker, what reasoning/justification did you provide in order to shorten the length of the refresh? I'm at a place that looks to refresh close to 5-6 years, and that's even a fight sometimes. I know there is a wide range of IT Pros here so curious to see if any actually had to fight for a 3-4 year refresh or you've been lucky enough to work for a company which pursues an aggressive refresh policy. Also, those that buy a refurb with 3 yr maintenance -- what's your target margin of savings compared against buying a new machine? In other words, if a new machine would cost $800 what's your target price for a refurb? On Monday, March 12, 2012, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com wrote: My customers vary from 3-5, err’ing to the left. Whatever the choice, they generally have maintenance on the hardware. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132 From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 12:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: PC lifecycle? How long do you folks keep PCs and laptops in your organizations? 4? 5? 6 years? My oldest are a few from 2006. I am thinking I should start replacing after they hit 5 years (4 years if heavy user/issues). I know it will depend on the business environment…I’m just trying to get some idea as to what others do. Thx . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: PC lifecycle?
That's certainly an approach I've used in the past but at the current %dayjob it's akin to say a non-profit or a company that doesn't many of the conventional revenue producing staff (outside of the leadership/executive team) e.g. marketing, sales, graphic designers, architects, etc. Putting your CEO hat on, In some instances it's a tough sell to say that a task-based worker needs a new PC every 3-4 years. And at the current day job most of the workforce is considered task-based. Productivity is the direction I choose to base decisions on lifecycle management, but it's a constant battle on how to convey the need in an effective way which produces results. Touching back on the topic of buying refurbs. I've done it previously, and it works great for one-off purchases, but it presents issues with hardware standardization and inventory. Plus, it increases support overheard for help desk, so we've stayed away from that recently. On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:42 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: That’s is how I sold my client on an SBS swing to new hardware, along the lines of: “if your average employee compensation is xx/hr and they are waiting nn mins/day for the machine to boot and nn/mins/day while the server is processing something the cost is $$/employee/day. If new hardware/software cuts the total employee “wait” time by nn mins/day then multiplying that by xx/hr you gain $$/day of production. ** ** My client wanted to upgrade 10 of their 17 PC’s (their PC’s are 24yrs old) to speed things up –but it was their SBS server that was getting flattened (SATA drives running Exchange and SQL!), I said if they spent that money on a new server instead (old was is a PE840) the’d see ROI in under six months. ** ** Yesterday was their first day on the their new server and one maintenance job they would run at the end of the day went from 20 minutes to just under 5. That alone is 1hr 15mins/week gained for that one employee. ~$100/mo saved right there. ** ** If employee’s are idle waiting for the system to do something, that’s generally time they are not adding value. ** ** Dave ** ** *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, March 13, 2012 6:39 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: PC lifecycle? ** ** You have to work the numbers. How much downtime/lost productivity. It's dependent on the situation. As I said, our computers are in the hands of revenue producers. When they're down, they aren't billing their time. They either have to make it up (morale issue) or it is lost productivity (money issue). At current billing rates, it doesn't take long for an hour or two of downtime to justify some additional upfront expense. If these are office drones, it's a bit harder to justify it from a cost-benefit perspective. YMMV. On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Harry Singh hbo...@gmail.com wrote: To those who interface directly with your CFO/CEO or are the decision maker, what reasoning/justification did you provide in order to shorten the length of the refresh? I'm at a place that looks to refresh close to 5-6 years, and that's even a fight sometimes. I know there is a wide range of IT Pros here so curious to see if any actually had to fight for a 3-4 year refresh or you've been lucky enough to work for a company which pursues an aggressive refresh policy. Also, those that buy a refurb with 3 yr maintenance -- what's your target margin of savings compared against buying a new machine? In other words, if a new machine would cost $800 what's your target price for a refurb? On Monday, March 12, 2012, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com wrote: My customers vary from 3-5, err’ing to the left. Whatever the choice, they generally have maintenance on the hardware. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132 From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 12:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: PC lifecycle? How long do you folks keep PCs and laptops in your organizations? 4? 5? 6 years? My oldest are a few from 2006. I am thinking I should start replacing after they hit 5 years (4 years if heavy user/issues). I know it will depend on the business environment…I’m just trying to get some idea as to what others do. Thx . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise
Re: Carolina BBQ Sauce (was Re: Proxy server and ISA)
Really looking for to the TAP NY beer festival happening sometime in April. There has been a lot of decent stuff coming out of the entire state and even Long Island. FWIW, I'm into IPA's, whites, stouts and a good Pilsner with a clean finish. couple that with BBQ, and i would be set. There are some places in NY that actually try to stay true to the texas way, e.g importing wood directly from texas. I think Dinasour BBQ is the first that comes to mind. My BBQ experience is limited, but that place is consistently good. On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Richard McClary richard.mccl...@aspca.orgwrote: Fat Tire is New Belgium's most bleh product. It is quite good, but their other stuff I enjoy much more! -- *From:* Maglinger, Paul [pmaglin...@scvl.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, March 13, 2012 1:37 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Carolina BBQ Sauce (was Re: Proxy server and ISA) From hereabouts, I like Fat Tire. From over yonder, I like Monty Python’s Holy Grail. There are very few stouts I like except one from a micro where I currently reside, and I don’t drink it too often. Can’t stand Guinness no matter what you do with it --- http://www.drinksmixer.com/drink4041.html -Paul *From:* Heaton, Joseph@DFG [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] *Sent:* Tuesday, March 13, 2012 11:29 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Carolina BBQ Sauce (was Re: Proxy server and ISA) I like Newcastle. So, if it’s filth, please share what I should look for instead. I’m pretty open to trying new options, but I just can’t drink the really dark and heavy options, such as Guinness. I know it’s very popular, and I wouldn’t dream of insulting those that drink it. To each their own, in my opinion. Joe Heaton ITB – Windows Server Support *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, March 13, 2012 7:47 AM *To:* Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Carolina BBQ Sauce (was Re: Proxy server and ISA) That was me in sweeping generalization mode I was actually quite surprised to hear the filth known as Newcastle Brown Ale is actually quite popular in the States On 13 March 2012 14:08, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: We brew ales here, too. On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 9:53 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: American beer is lager This topic will now soon be banned from here too, along with BBQ sauce On 13 March 2012 13:23, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: It is an international mailing list and you can imagine the american beer is water type arguments. The burgers wars were just incredible. Who knew burgers, the types of meat, the style of cooking, comparing various chains, cooking methods, etc etc etc. It was such a horrible thread, I being the list owner had to step in and ban the topic from further discussion. It has been 10 years since all three thread topics were banned. When we tuba players gather at conferences, the list members still talk about the vile language and name calling that went on in those discussions. They would have made Gary Slinger look like a saint! :) Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com http://www.carlwebster.com/ -- *From:* Jonathan Link [jonathan.l...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, March 13, 2012 7:53 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Carolina BBQ Sauce (was Re: Proxy server and ISA) Is it the well done/not well done burger debate? I can't imagine what situation arose that needed to ban beer from the discussion. It must have been truly heinous. On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: I run a mailing list for tuba and euphonium players since mid 90s. There are three banned topics: Drum Bugle Corp Burgers Beer Who would have thought that tuba players would be banned from discussing beer and hamburgers!!! But in that world, those are world war starting topics. Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com http://www.carlwebster.com/ -- *From:* John Leto [jo...@colonialsavings.com] *Subject:* RE: Carolina BBQ Sauce (was Re: Proxy server and ISA) I agree. It's been my experience that the topics that start the most fights around here are indeed politics, religion, and BBQ. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am
Re: New to virtualization
FWIW, there is also the vCenter virtual appliance that allows you to run the vCenter database on the same appliance. One less windows license to worry about. It supports iBMDB2 and Oracle, not SQL databases and It also doesn't support linked-mode. As far as the bottleneck goes, NetApp and Vmware both support NIC teaming and, although unfamiliar with NetApp, I'm sure they have intelligence built-in to load balance/distribute between network links to minimize any throughput issues. In my experience, Vmware's network load balancing ( route based on IP hash, route based on originating ID) works extremely well. On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Gary Slinger gary.slin...@gmail.comwrote: I don't have a supporting link for this handy, but not only 'can' you run vCenter in a VM, that is currently VMware's declared best practice. G -- Gary K. Slinger Practice/Content Manager, Virtualization Services Practice Mainline Information Systems Office: 727-475-1947 (Tampa, FL) -- *From: * Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu *Date: *Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:00:18 + *To: *NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *ReplyTo: * NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Subject: *RE: New to virtualization In a VMware environment VirtualCenter (or vCenter Server) is the management box for handling all your VMware servers and guests. This server **can** be a VM and is supported as such. Some people have nervous twitches about it, but it’s perfectly workable. ** ** DAMIEN SOLODOW Systems Engineer 317.447.6033 (office) 317.447.6014 (fax) HARRISON COLLEGE ** ** *From:* David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, March 13, 2012 2:12 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: New to virtualization ** ** Thanks, Right now I have 3 DL360s (dual proc, 4GB, 32bit) for 75 Citrix users and they are taxed pretty hard. I always get alerts for CPU and RAM, and if I physically check the boxes, they usually say 200M free of ram, w/ 6GB pagefile in use. ** ** What do you mean by “Virtualizing VirtualCenter”? ** ** ** ** ** ** *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, March 13, 2012 11:48 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: New to virtualization ** ** Nothing wrong with virtualizing your Citrix kit, but another thing you'll need to remember the latest Citrix XenApp version (soon to be the only supported one, by July 2013) is 64-bit only, so you'll need to do some heavy app testing to make sure everything will work OK. If it doesn't, you'll have to invest in some other way of getting at those apps (VDI, VM Hosted Apps, etc.) Obviously you won't get as many users on a virtual XenApp system as you do on a physical one (unless your physical ones are highly underpowered) - I've seen round about 30-40 users per box being a ballpark figure dependent on the RAM and processing power you throw at the VMs. The only thing you really maybe need to leave physical is a DNS server, maybe a DC if you want to be able to log in to the domain when everything else is down. Virtualizing VirtualCenter (if you go the VMWare route) isn't that much of an issue. On 13 March 2012 15:04, David Mazzaccaro david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com wrote: Hi all, I am starting to investigate moving our aging network infrastructure into the virtual world. ~ 10 servers, 6-7 years old Windows 2003 domain Exchange 2003 Citrix 4.0 farm ~190 users After some initial discussions w/ a reseller, here’s what they are recommending: (3) DL 380 G7 servers (to host the VMs) ~$18,000 (1) Net App FAS2240 (this is the SAN that would host 12 600GB drives of storage for the VMs) ~$20,000 VMWare essentials plus kit (VMware software) ~$5200 (3) MS Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise (this would allow the 3 HP servers to run 4 Windows 2008 VMs each) I guess the way it would work is that the VMs would reside on the SAN, and the 3 hosts would call up the SAN to load each VM utilizing the host’s CPU, RAM, NIC, etc.)… right? I have meetings scheduled w/ 2 other vendors, but verbally both have started the conversation along the same path as above. Being very new to VM, does the above scenario seem to make sense? It is hard for me to imagine all that traffic going between the SAN and the host servers w/o creating a huge bottleneck (over gig Ethernet) Do people recommend virtualizing every server? Domain controllers? Exchange? Citrix farm (4 server)? Shouldn’t something be left physical? Is 7 TB of storage enough (probably only 3 usable after array config)? ** ** Is the net app a decent appliance? $20k sounds cheap to me… I have done a little more reading, and from what I understand w/ 3
Re: (homedrive)
The below kb is a a godsend. Fixing perms after the fact on file share is a major PITA. On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.orgwrote: A single share with each of their folders in there. \\server\users\%username% Self-created with this spiffy MS KB. My favorite KB of all time since we need 7000 new folders every August. ** ** http://support.microsoft.com/kb/274443 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Friday, March 09, 2012 1:00 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* H: (homedrive) ** ** Do you guys create individual shares for each user, or do something different? *David Lum* Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 //* *Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: A Little Help Needed
On top of what already has been suggested the only item in AD you should do is associate that subnet (101) with the site in Domain 1 inside of the AD sites and services snap-in. On Thursday, March 8, 2012, James Hill falc...@gmail.com wrote: There isn’t anything else to it. You obviously have the necessary routing in place so just go ahead and activate that DHCP scope and deactivate the old 192.168.101.x one. It IS that simple. From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 9 March 2012 12:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: A Little Help Needed I have a DC from domain 1 sitting on domain 2's LAN. I can activate DHCP on that server with the same 192.168.101.x scope, no problem. It is also running DNS. The DC from domain 1 is happy up there on domain 2's LAN and is replicating with the other domain 1 DCs. It seems too simple though. I think I need to grab some spare desktops and do some testing. On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote: Not sure you really need to do anything, at least initially. So right now the domain 2 clients (192.168.101.x) are receiving DHCP addresses from their local DC or some DHCP server on domain 2 that has a scope setup for the 192.168.101.x address range, correct? When you flip these clients over to the domain 1 domain, they will still be physically on the same side of the VPN, so they will continue to get DHCP addresses from the same box they were getting from before. My guess is that you want to flip them to a DHCP server in domain 1 at some point after the migration? If so something like this should work. On the DC that sits on the domain 2 side of the VPN, or some other box you designate, setup DHCP and configure a scope identical to how it currently is for the box that's currently handing it out for 192.168.101.x, but don't activate it yet. Then when the migration is complete, de-activate the scope on the old DHCP server, and activate it on the new DHCP server. Should be that simple. Unless your network is more complex. Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Achitect I, Corporate Office of Technology Tel 610-807-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 christopher_bod...@glic.com thismessage:/mail/u/0/s/?view=attth=135f467f002ada19attid=0.1disp=embzwatsh=1 The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America www.guardianlife.com From:James Kerr cluster...@gmail.com To:NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date:03/08/2012 08:40 AM Subject:A Little Help Needed Hello all, Little road block I have hit trying to work on a project here and I need a little advise on how to handle. We have two domains, I'll call them domain 1 and 2, they are in two physical locations. Domain 1 is on subnet 192.168.100.1, domain 2 is on 192.168.101.1. There is a VPN tunnel between the two that connects the two domains and allows us to have a trust between the two. We want to eliminate domain 2. We already have a domain 1 DC on the domain 2 LAN. The issue we are having is how to get the desktops in domain 2 a ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: KVM over IP
Or you can buy it separately. Make sure to get the enterprise version of
the iDRAC, not the express.
On Tuesday, March 6, 2012, Cynicalgeek wrote:
Costly mistake.
You should call your *DELL SALES REP* TM and have them add it.
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:11 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:
Damn and I just had a Dell server shipped…
** **
*From:* Heaton, Joseph@DFG [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
*Sent:* Tuesday, March 06, 2012 8:05 AM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: KVM over IP
** **
We use DRACs here on all our Dell servers. Order them installed. But
we’re fully a Dell shop here.
** **
Joe Heaton
ITB – Windows Server Support
** **
*From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
*Sent:* Tuesday, March 06, 2012 5:44 AM
*To:* Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: KVM over IP
** **
Yeah Dell called ‘em DRAC cards and I also see you can buy add-in cards
that serve the same function.
** **
The the LanTronix Spider looks like a winner, everything else I was
finding started at $350 and up..
** **
*From:* cynicalg...@gmail.com [mailto:cynicalg...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Monday, March 05, 2012 6:25 PM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Cc:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* Re: KVM over IP
** **
I'm buying my next motherboard with it built into the board itself.
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 5, 2012, at 5:44 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:
Do you guys have a preferred low-ish dollar KVM over IP solution? It’s
something I wouldn’t need very often but would be one of those “when I need
it, I need it” things, mainly to get into and past BIOS screens. You know,
use them 2x/year but each time saves me about an hour of time.
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Re: Find PST on all computer in the Network
http://blogs.technet.com/b/bobh/archive/2012/01/30/microsoft-pst-capture-tool-for-exchange-2010-and-office-365-released-deep-dive-technet-radio-episode-coming.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/01/30/pst-time-to-walk-the-plank.aspx Cheers, Harry. On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: I’m guessing you have no management system in place, like ConfigMgr? ** ** *From:* justino garcia [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, March 06, 2012 7:19 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Find PST on all computer in the Network ** ** Any good way to get a Report of all the computers on the network, that have PST. Trying to see who has archived PST on their computers... -- Justin IT-TECH ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Citrix published app launch issue
So there isn't a single app that launches from xenappsrv 1-6, correct? assuming that the testxenapp1 server is the same build/os type than xenappsrv 1-6, have you checked to make sure the install path is the same across all 6 servers ? Have you tried publishing the app server by server to check to see if there a server that could launch any app? Any recent hotfix installs? On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote: Users having the issue are both internal and external. The farm settings for the web interface are correct; applications enumerate properly and apps published to other servers in the farm launch without issue. We do have a services site, and it exhibits the same behavior with the apps on the problem servers. ** ** DAMIEN SOLODOW Systems Engineer 317.447.6033 (office) 317.447.6014 (fax) HARRISON COLLEGE ** ** *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, February 28, 2012 4:18 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Citrix published app launch issue ** ** Are your users hitting the problem launching it from the Web Interface internally or externally? What are the farm settings for the Web Interface, are they correct? Can they launch the same app through the Services Site on the Web Interface (if you have one, you know, what used to be the PNAgent URL) and does it throw the same error? On 28 February 2012 21:06, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote: Help me NTSYSADMIN, you’re my only hope! ;) This has me pulling my hair out and I wanted to see if I can get a fresh view. Citrix Web Interface 5.4 with Secure Gateway 3.2 on Windows 2008 R2 SP1.** ** Our Citrix farm is currently a mix of Windows 2003/PS 4.5, Windows 2008/XA5, and Windows 2008 x64/XA5. The majority of the servers are on XA5 (only 4 of the 2003 ones left). There is an application (of course something important) that is published on XenApp5Srv1-XenApp5Srv6. When any user attempts to launch that application via the web interface, it sits through the timeout period for hitting the service brokers and then throws the error “error connecting to resource”. The application can be run without issue via a legacy ICA file that points to the application. The servers XenApp5Srv1-6 only host this problematic app; no others. If I create a new test app (like Notepad) and publish it to those servers the same behavior occurs. If I then take that test application and point it instead to TestXenApp1, it launches and runs without issue. All of these servers have the XML service running on port 80, and IIS is not installed. DAMIEN SOLODOW Systems Engineer 317.447.6033 (office) 317.447.6014 (fax) HARRISON COLLEGE 500 North Meridian St Suite 500 Indianapolis, IN 46204-1213 www.harrison.edu ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ** IMPORTANT INFORMATION/DISCLAIMER * This document should be read only by those persons to whom it is addressed. If you have received this message it was obviously addressed to you and therefore you can read it, even it we didn't mean to send it to you. However, if the contents of this email make no sense whatsoever then you probably were not the intended recipient, or, alternatively, you are a mindless cretin; either way, you should immediately kill yourself and destroy your computer (not necessarily in that order). Once you have taken this action, please contact us.. no, sorry, you can't use your computer, because you just destroyed it, and possibly also committed suicide afterwards, but I am starting to digress.. * *The originator of this email is not liable for the transmission of the information contained in this communication. Or are they? Either way it's a pretty dull legal query and frankly one I'm not going to dwell on. But should you have nothing better to do, please feel free to ruminate on it, and please pass on any concrete conclusions should you find them. However, if you pass them on via email, be sure to include a disclaimer regarding liability for transmission.* *In the event that the originator did not send this email to you, then please return it to us and attach a scanned-in picture of your mother's
Re: Acronis = the new Symantec?
+1000 on Partition. magic. That software worked well for me on so many occasions. On Friday, February 24, 2012, Ben Scott wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.comjavascript:; wrote: Each release introduces new bloat, a completely changed interface, and more bugs. I doubt I'll be renewing anymore. Very frustrating and disappointing. Don't forget the name change with each major release. Each name is usually some kind of word salad, too. We've got Acronis True Image Echo Workstation here for some of our stand-alone PCs. I've been pretty disappointed, after all I'd heard in past years. Best thing I can say about it is, it's better than what Symantec's done to Ghost. I miss PowerQuest. Before Symantec bought them, they were the cat's onomatopoeia. Partition Magic lived up to its name, back when nothing else could even think of doing partition resizing. And Drive Image gave Ghost a run for its money. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com javascript:; with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Dumb Citrix security question - #1
Take a look at this article, it could provide some helpful information http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX101997 The STA relies on the XML service that sits on your CPS 4.5 box. I believe that version had the requirement to install IIS as well, so the path they are referring to is to the ctxsta.dll file located in /scripts/ctxsta.dll inside your IIS directory structure on the CPS 4.5 box. It's there, trust me. You wouldn't be able to open any published apps if the STA was not working or mis-configured. CSG needs to talk to your CPS box via the port number configured for XML on that CPS server. And it needs the absolute path to that ctxsta.dll as the path. HTH On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Richard McClary richard.mccl...@aspca.orgwrote: Greetings! ** ** For PCI Complaince, I am needing to configure an up-and-running Citrix server through Citrix Secure Gateway. ** ** The server is Windows 2003 Server, SP2. ** ** The Citrix installation is old – 2007, “Presentation Server”, 4.5. Farm (and the entire Citrix environment) exists on only that one box. ** ** I have the software installation for Secure Gateway on a separate machine, which can be moved into our DMZ once I get things figured out... ** ** So, Dumb Question #1: I keep seeing references to the Secure Ticket Authority (STA), requesting both the FQDN and the path. Looking at the Presentation Server, I see nothing resembling this. Is it possible that our Citrix server has been up and running these 5 years without STA having been installed? Some documentation says the STA and the presentation server can be on the same machine beginning with 4.5. Still… (If in fact STA is on that server, where would I find the path to it?) ** ** Thanks! -- Richard D. McClary Jr Infrastructure Architect, Information Technology Group *ASPCA®* 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richard.mccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 www.aspca.org ** ** The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals® (ASPCA®) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Dumb Citrix security question - #1
Actually, it doesn't need the absolute path, it needs the web address to the ctxsta.dll that sits on your CPS 4.5 box. e.g. http:// fqdnofserver/citrix/scripts/ctxsta.dll On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Harry Singh hbo...@gmail.com wrote: Take a look at this article, it could provide some helpful information http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX101997 The STA relies on the XML service that sits on your CPS 4.5 box. I believe that version had the requirement to install IIS as well, so the path they are referring to is to the ctxsta.dll file located in /scripts/ctxsta.dll inside your IIS directory structure on the CPS 4.5 box. It's there, trust me. You wouldn't be able to open any published apps if the STA was not working or mis-configured. CSG needs to talk to your CPS box via the port number configured for XML on that CPS server. And it needs the absolute path to that ctxsta.dll as the path. HTH On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Richard McClary richard.mccl...@aspca.org wrote: Greetings! ** ** For PCI Complaince, I am needing to configure an up-and-running Citrix server through Citrix Secure Gateway. ** ** The server is Windows 2003 Server, SP2. ** ** The Citrix installation is old – 2007, “Presentation Server”, 4.5. Farm (and the entire Citrix environment) exists on only that one box. ** ** I have the software installation for Secure Gateway on a separate machine, which can be moved into our DMZ once I get things figured out... ** ** So, Dumb Question #1: I keep seeing references to the Secure Ticket Authority (STA), requesting both the FQDN and the path. Looking at the Presentation Server, I see nothing resembling this. Is it possible that our Citrix server has been up and running these 5 years without STA having been installed? Some documentation says the STA and the presentation server can be on the same machine beginning with 4.5. Still… (If in fact STA is on that server, where would I find the path to it?)*** * ** ** Thanks! -- Richard D. McClary Jr Infrastructure Architect, Information Technology Group *ASPCA®* 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richard.mccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 www.aspca.org ** ** The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals® (ASPCA®) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: File Server Tuning - Update
This has been a great thread. Thanks for the update Kurt. On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: All, On Saturday in the early morning, I performed a V2V of the VM, moving it from an ESX 3.5 box to an ESXi 4.1 box. After that was done, I manually started the backups, and they all finished by Sunday at 15:00. That's a quarter of the time that it has been taking recently - probably a bit faster than before it had *really* started slowing down a few months ago. There are several factors at play here, so I hesitate to give too much credit to any one thing, but I wanted to note a few things that I think are interesting: 1) The V2V involved a conversion change of the VM from a type 4 to a type 7 VM. 2) At startup of the VM after the V2V, I found that it had 4 phantom NICs - 2 Intel E1000s from when it had been P2V'ed, and 2 VMWare NICs from the V2V. I deleted them, using techniques learned while paying attention on this list (THANK YOU, David, Anders, Mike, Steven, Ben, Jim, et al - I kept the thread from 2012-01-02 titled Neat tip of the week). 3) As noted already, the host went from ESX 3.5 to ESXi 4.1 4) The two hosts have what I would judge (with a SWAG) to be roughly VM load, modulo the file server itself 5) The two hosts have the same amount of ram (16gb), but the ESX 3.5 box is dual proc/dual core E5405s (2GHz), and the ESXi 4.1 box is a single quad-core proc (X3470 @3GHz). 6) The ESX 3.5 boxes NICs are not optimally configured, which I discovered after digging down on the box during the V2V process - essentially the 4 NICs are grossly misallocated, and I'll need to correct that at some point. The ESXi 4.1 box has 6 NICs, and their configuration is *much* better. Lastly, I started a perfmon session against the file server before starting the backups, and have set it to run for 4 days. I'll be looking at it when it stops on Tuesday, and will let folks know what I see. However, the results so far are so stellar that I expect to find nothing out of the ordinary. I do expect to transition file services to a new Win2k8 R2 box in the medium term, but this takes a great big load off my mind. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Self-Service Account Unlock
500+ users here and am a big fan of account lockout durations of less than
5 minutes. Our annual security assessment advisor didn't like that very
much, for reasons i'm still attempting to figure out. I've read several
pieces of documentation suggesting keeping the lockout duration to even
about 1 minute would be secure, but I'm far from an info sec expert. I'm
eager to hear from the folks on this list who disagree with the lockout
duration being set to anything higher than 5 minutes (for arguments sake).
Harry.
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, since you're that understaffed, I'd personally set the timeout
to 5 minutes, and let the students deal with it. I say that wearing my
BOFH hat, but I don't think that it's all that unreasonable.
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 14:50, Blackman, Woody wblack...@occ.cccd.edu
wrote:
Well, in an academic environment, we have 35,000 students per semester
using about 2,000 resources (computers in labs) and about 6 people per
shift to help them. They need access and we need automation/self-service
wherever there is opportunity.
-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 2:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Self-Service Account Unlock
So, I have some questions regarding this:
What is the rush on the part of the end user to have this done? They
can't wait 5 or 10 minutes for the unlock to happen automagically?
How often do account lockouts happen that this is something worth
spending time and money on a solution?
Frankly, with my user base of about 250 staff, I consider it unusual to
get as many as three requests in a month for account unlocks.
Kurt
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:44, Sean Rector sean.rec...@vaopera.org
wrote:
I’ve been looking through the multitude of options, but they all seem
to be web-portal-based. Is there one that puts the Unlock option on
the Logon Screen?
My point is – what’s the use of a web-portal version when they can’t
log on to their machine? A kiosk-type user account doesn’t seem the
safest route to go.
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Re: South Florida position.
I thought I was the only one that paused when I read $12/hr after such an exhaustive description. On Thursday, February 2, 2012, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: You need to seriously reassess your compensation. Its way out of balance with your expectations. -- Espi On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 9:42 AM, gro...@beachcomp.com wrote: Folks, I truly hope this is allowed and that I don't upset people by this e-mail. We're looking for some reliable people to start and grow with us. If you know anyone, please forward this to them. Thanks! On-Site Computer Field Technician Tech Support Rep (Hollywood, Aventura, North Miami Beach) Please DO NOT apply for this position if you do not meet all the qualifications listed below. Job Purpose: Candidates will be required to manage and deliver On-Site Over-the-phone services including repairing servers and workstations by utilizing diagnostic and repair techniques, virus/malware removal, data backup, operating system installation, end user software support. Common job tasks also associated with the core job functions are pre post sales and support, help desk and customer support to users by researching and answering questions; resolving problems; providing resources. Candidates will also need to be able to create marketing advertising materials for use by the company. In addition to the duties listed below, candidate will be required to actively market the services offered by the company and accomplish a goal of Two signed maintenance agreements per month. Duties: - Repair workstations while logging repair work orders; responding to requests. - Comply with policies while adhering to requirements; advising management of needed actions. - Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading technical publications. - Enhance organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments. - Receive materials by inspecting shipped contents against order; verifying receipt; arranging for shipment of missing items; tracking backorders. - Provide answers to clients by identifying problems; researching answers; guiding client through corrective steps. - Improve client references by writing and maintaining documentation. - Participate in development of client training programs by identifying learning issues; recommending instructional language. - Accommodate client disabilities by recommending devices and techniques. - Improve system performance by identifying problems; recommending changes. - Accomplish information systems and organization mission by completing related results as needed. - Develop new concepts/techniques and complete assignments/tasks in innovative and effective ways. - To be considered for this position, you must put resume for job 210222 in the subject line of your e-mail. - Work on assignments that may be extremely complex in nature where a high degree of independent judgment, initiative and technical knowledge is required to resolve problems. - Complete work independently and handle unique situations. - Determine optimal methods and procedures for new assignments. - Answer incoming calls and assist customers with issues. - Remove systems from premises when required and return upon repair while maintaining responsibility. - Participate in local marketing events such as Chamber of Commerce meetings. Skills/Qualifications: - Knowledge of MS products and the ability to verify that the system starts up and works after installation. - Working knowledge of XP, Vista, Win 7, Win 2003, Win 2008 operating systems. - Ability to perform data transfers and setup computers, laptops, printers and other peripherals. - Familiarity with various types of laptops and their peripherals. - Familiarity with networking protocols with troubleshooting skills. - Attention to details and organizational skills. - Ability to communicate verbally and in written form. - Customer service skills are required. - Problem Solving, Electronics / Computer Troubleshooting, Software Testing, Network Hardware Configuration and Troubleshooting, Messaging Systems, Quality Focus, Organization, Planning, Coordination, Help Desk Experience, Phone Skills, Customer Service, Training, Verbal Communication, Documentation Skills, Product Knowledge. This position requires daily travel from North of Boca Raton to South Miami with the main concentration in the Hollywood, Aventura North Miami Beach Areas. Own transportation is a requirement and considered inclusive of position. Hours will vary include weekend and after hours Tolls, fuel Mileage are inclusive as part of payment. Please DO NOT apply for this position if you do not meet all the qualifications listed above. Location: Hollywood, Aventura, North Miami Beach Compensation: $12-$25/hr Please contact solutionssq...@gmail.com to apply. ~
Re: ESXi 4 Host access
I manually create an A record in DNS for all my hosts. There is a way to add them to an AD domain, but start with creating a static DNS record first. +1 on making sure you set up the default gw and the right subnet. On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Miguel Gonzalez miguel_3_gonza...@yahoo.eswrote: and maybe the netmask needs to be checked too -- *De:* Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com *Para:* NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Enviado:* Miércoles 1 de febrero de 2012 19:46 *Asunto:* Re: ESXi 4 Host access What is the default gateway on the ESXi server's management NIC? Is it the same as the other machines on your subnet? On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Dave Vantine dvant...@gmail.com wrote: I am a VMware newbie and have a ESXi host running on my local subnet. I am able to ping this machine by IP and can access this machine with the Vsphere client to manage the guest on this subnet. I want to give access to the host to an administrator located at our branch office on a different subnet. We have a site to site vpn and all the other machines on the two subnet are pingable except for the ESXi host. When you try to ping the host or run a Vsphere client from the branch subnet there is no response. I know for certain that there is nothing blocking the traffic between the subnets so there must be something within the ESXi host that is only allowing IP's on the local subnet to communicate with it. Any idea on how I can get the Vsphere client on the remote networ to be able to connect? -- Thanks In Advance Dave Vantine ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Cron for Windows 2008
I'd for one be very interested in knowing what is the PS equivalent to wget. On Wednesday, February 1, 2012, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: I used to run wget from a powershell script using a scheduled task. (Then I figured out how to do the same thing with just powershell and got rid of wget.) On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Need to run a wget command. Rod Trent thismessage:/mail/u/0/s/?view=attth=1353beed23172452attid=0.1disp=embrealattid=c1ce1794ec09ac12_0.1zwthismessage:/mail/u/0/s/?view=attth=1353beed23172452attid=0.2disp=embrealattid=c1ce1794ec09ac12_0.2zwthismessage:/mail/u/0/s/?view=attth=1353beed23172452attid=0.3disp=embrealattid=c1ce1794ec09ac12_0.3zwthismessage:/mail/u/0/s/?view=attth=1353beed23172452attid=0.4disp=embrealattid=c1ce1794ec09ac12_0.4zw From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 6:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Cron for Windows 2008 I gotta ask – what’s wrong with Task Scheduler? It was basically re-written for LH and has lots of nice features and functionality now… Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 5:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Cron for Windows 2008 Anyone running Cron jobs on Windows 2008? I need a good, stable Cron app. Hopefully something that can be run as a service, but not required. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Cron for Windows 2008
First couple links on Google give you options Michael mentioned and the new Get-Web. Curious to know which option was used, that's all man. Seriously. On Wednesday, February 1, 2012, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: I think another lmgtfy is in order :) Seriously, first couple hits take you to the popular scripts that do it... From: Harry Singh [hbo...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 7:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Cron for Windows 2008 I'd for one be very interested in knowing what is the PS equivalent to wget. On Wednesday, February 1, 2012, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: I used to run wget from a powershell script using a scheduled task. (Then I figured out how to do the same thing with just powershell and got rid of wget.) On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Need to run a wget command. Rod Trent thismessage:/mail/u/0/s/?view=attth=1353beed23172452attid=0.1disp=embrealattid=c1ce1794ec09ac12_0.1zwthismessage:/mail/u/0/s/?view=attth=1353beed23172452attid=0.2disp=embrealattid=c1ce1794ec09ac12_0.2zwthismessage:/mail/u/0/s/?view=attth=1353beed23172452attid=0.3disp=embrealattid=c1ce1794ec09ac12_0.3zwthismessage:/mail/u/0/s/?view=attth=1353beed23172452attid=0.4disp=embrealattid=c1ce1794ec09ac12_0.4zw From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 6:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Cron for Windows 2008 I gotta ask – what’s wrong with Task Scheduler? It was basically re-written for LH and has lots of nice features and functionality now… Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 5:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Cron for Windows 2008 Anyone running Cron jobs on Windows 2008? I need a good, stable Cron app. Hopefully something that can be run as a service, but not required. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Remote software
Not entirely sure what DNS issues you're dealing with or lack of functionality therein, but Dameware allows you to connect to a machine via its IP address, among many many other useful features. On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: Lots of people. Its old-school standard for different industries. -- Espi On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:08 AM, justino garcia jgarciaitl...@gmail.comwrote: Symantec is asking customer not to use PCanywhere? Is anyone still using PC anywhere?? On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:50 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.comwrote: Wow, is the SMS key here again? That takes me back On 26 January 2012 15:06, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Incidentally, ConfigMgr 2012 adds some great new features to the Remote Control component. Some have been added back from previous versions. http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2012/01/25/configmgr-2012-brings-back-ctrla ltdel-to-remote-control-other-things/http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2012/01/25/configmgr-2012-brings-back-ctrla%0Altdel-to-remote-control-other-things/ -Original Message- From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 9:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remote software We're a LANDesk shop, especially for end-user support. My developers also like RDP to their servers. And since most of my servers are virtualized, if need be, I can just access the console via vCenter, as well. On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: What's everyone's favorite tool for remote access to your users' workstations. I have a new satellite office that does not have an IT person on staff. I'm looking for something along the lines of VNC or Dameware where the remote agent software is running all the time. I also need to be able to see all the active agents on an admin console and begin a remote session from there. Thanks, RS ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ** IMPORTANT INFORMATION/DISCLAIMER * This document should be read only by those persons to whom it is addressed. If you have received this message it was obviously addressed to you and therefore you can read it, even it we didn't mean to send it to you. However, if the contents of this email make no sense whatsoever then you probably were not the intended recipient, or, alternatively, you are a mindless cretin; either way, you should immediately kill yourself and destroy your computer (not necessarily in that order). Once you have taken this action, please contact us.. no, sorry, you can't use your computer, because you just destroyed it, and possibly also committed suicide afterwards, but I am starting to digress.. * * The originator of this email is not liable for the transmission of the information contained in this communication. Or are they? Either way it's a pretty dull legal query and frankly one I'm not going to dwell on. But should you have nothing better to do, please feel free to ruminate on it, and please pass on any concrete conclusions should you find them. However, if you pass them on via email, be sure to include a disclaimer regarding liability for transmission. * * In the event that the originator did not send this email to you, then please return it to us and attach a scanned-in picture of your mother's brother's wife wearing nothing but a kangaroo suit, and we will immediately refund you exactly half of what you paid for the can of Whiskas you bought when you went to Pets** ** At Home yesterday. * * We take no responsibility for non-receipt of this email because we are running Exchange 5.5 and everyone knows how glitchy that can be. In the event that you do get
Re: Windows 7 Copy Default Profile
Thanks for the response Jim. I'm a little green when it comes to desktop deployments so sorry for the basic questions. But how do i successfully leverage WIA to get what i need done ? I presume I install WIA onto the base windows 7 template and have it generate the unattend.xml, but since i haven't been successful at this before, do you have some links or tips on how to properly create the unattend.xml file and apply it using sysprep ? On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.orgwrote: Anything other than copyprofile set to true in a sysprep unattend.xml file will lead to a disaster that will haunt you for months. ** ** You will end up with registry keys for your users that show their desktops and folders set up as c:\users\LocalAdminThatYouUsed\desktop for example. Instead of %username%\desktop. It will be ugly and you will have to redo them all. There will be hidden little gems of disaster like that all over the place. ** ** I know this, really I do. First hand. ** ** WIA toolkit/sysprep/unattend.xml is not fun. But once you get one of them right, you will be all done and you can move on. ** ** ** ** *From:* Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, January 25, 2012 12:39 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Windows 7 Copy Default Profile ** ** Anyone have a quick and proven method (read: script) to copy the finalized local administrator's profile to the Default User profile in Windows 7 x86 ? ** ** I really don't want to use the WIA toolkit and last time I tried to sysprep using /generalize /unattend:my unattend.xml file it didn't work for me as expected. ** ** I'm guessing and hoping there is a much simpler way. ** ** Thanks, ** ** Harry. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Windows 7 Copy Default Profile
This is a perfect starting point. I really appreciate the help so far. Thanks again! On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.orgwrote: Actually you install it on your workstation, not the one you are creating. Then you pick components that you want to modify and add them to the template. Then make the settings changes in the template and save the xml. It is overwhelming when you first do it. Components can be used in different areas and where you use them will change what settings that component hits. ** ** So lets start with the basics. This will generate a basic one for you and may be all you need. If there is a setting on that page you don’t want to adjust, then leave it blank and see how it goes. ** ** http://benosullivan.co.uk/windows-7-unattend-xml-generator/ ** ** If you need more install the WIA and open that xml file….and then you can see how the componets are used in that xml. Then what I do is google the change I want to make and figure out what compontent and what step it needs to be added to. ** ** Full reference here to the components and where they can be used, which are very helpful. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722132%28WS.10%29.aspx ** ** And last a basic walkthrough for making your own basic unattend from scratch that I really found helpful. ** ** http://theitbros.com/sysprep-a-windows-7-machine-%E2%80%93-start-to-finish ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** *From:* Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, January 25, 2012 2:17 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Windows 7 Copy Default Profile ** ** Thanks for the response Jim. ** ** I'm a little green when it comes to desktop deployments so sorry for the basic questions. But how do i successfully leverage WIA to get what i need done ? ** ** I presume I install WIA onto the base windows 7 template and have it generate the unattend.xml, but since i haven't been successful at this before, do you have some links or tips on how to properly create the unattend.xml file and apply it using sysprep ? ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.org wrote: Anything other than copyprofile set to true in a sysprep unattend.xml file will lead to a disaster that will haunt you for months. You will end up with registry keys for your users that show their desktops and folders set up as c:\users\LocalAdminThatYouUsed\desktop for example. Instead of %username%\desktop. It will be ugly and you will have to redo them all. There will be hidden little gems of disaster like that all over the place. I know this, really I do. First hand. WIA toolkit/sysprep/unattend.xml is not fun. But once you get one of them right, you will be all done and you can move on. *From:* Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, January 25, 2012 12:39 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Windows 7 Copy Default Profile Anyone have a quick and proven method (read: script) to copy the finalized local administrator's profile to the Default User profile in Windows 7 x86 ? I really don't want to use the WIA toolkit and last time I tried to sysprep using /generalize /unattend:my unattend.xml file it didn't work for me as expected. I'm guessing and hoping there is a much simpler way. Thanks, Harry. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http
Re: Size of this NT admin list
I'm not nearly as active as i should, but i would think there would be a minimum of 100 lurkers and non-lurkers combined. On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: At least two: me and you. Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com http://www.carlwebster.com/ From: David Lum david@nwea.org Reply-To: NT Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:30:58 + To: NT Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Size of this NT admin list Anyone know how many people are subscribed to this list? * * ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: bougt the book
Showing up late to the party here, but Carl could you be so kind and enlighten me to as to what you mean by registering your book on o'reilly? Being new to the Kindle has me interested in bringing some of my PDF's and other books to it. A cursory search on o'reilly really doesn't provide much info. On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: Brian's book is a very useful resource and reference tool. (Broken record here) I registered my book on oreilly.com, paid $4.99 and got the Kindle, epub, and PDF versions. Copy those files to the appropriate devices and I have Brian's book with me all the time. Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com http://www.carlwebster.com/ From: David Lum david@nwea.org Reply-To: NT Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:08:07 + To: NT Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: bougt the book Book bought. I expect big things Brian! J ** ** Dave ** ** *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Thursday, January 05, 2012 1:07 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Concur for expense management ** ** You mean…buy the book? Get out… ** ** *From:* Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] *Sent:* Thursday, January 05, 2012 11:47 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Concur for expense management ** ** Without going in to all the gory details, Brian’s homegrown glue is reference is fairly spot on J ** ** *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Wednesday, January 04, 2012 2:00 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Concur for expense management ** ** Wait – Concur is telling us we need ADFS 2.0 to use SAML. How do you do it without ADFS? ** ** *From:* Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, January 04, 2012 1:01 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Concur for expense management ** ** Ditto. ** ** We went from our old internal hosted to external Concur last year using SAML for authN. No ADFS. ** ** *From:* Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, January 04, 2012 7:01 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Concur for expense management ** ** the 2003 to 2003 R2 is very simple. More like adding additional features, than a true OS upgrade. You should be fine. No issues. We use Concur here, but do not have federation services configured. Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From:David Lum david@nwea.org To:NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date:01/04/2012 09:17 AM Subject:Concur for expense management -- Does anyone here use Concur for expense management? I need to configure Federation with them and they sent me a SAML document and it looks like I need to install ADFS…which requires 2003 R2 and we don’t have any 2003 R2 servers, ours are straight 2003. It’s not a big deal to stand up a 2003 R2 DC in a 2003 domain is it? Is an in-place upgrade possible? I seem to think on the 2003 versions, 2003 and 2003 R2 are very similar. *David Lum* Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 //* *Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
Adfind Active Email CSV Dump.
All -- I could use a hand with generating the output i need using adfind. I'm trying to dump all active e-mail addresses excluding those belonging to Disabled Users to a csv file for HR. I'm using the following syntax. C:\Tools\AdFindadfind -csv -nodn -b dc=domain,dc=org -f ((objectCategory= person)(objectClass=user)) name mail displayName mailusersjan62012.csv I suppose i could remove the -nodn and do find/replace within excel, but am curious if there was a way to exclude disabled users. I do keep all my disabled users in a single OU, so i'm assuming there could be a filter switch i could use but am unfamiliar with that syntax as well. Also, the above dumps name, mail and displayname, but is there to way to only output if the the mail field is not null ? Since my objective is to get all email addresses, I don't want those users who don't have anything populated in the mail field to appear. Again, if i have to manipulate excel, that could work but it would sweet if i could accomplish everything with one command. Regards, Harry. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Adfind Active Email CSV Dump.
Perfect! Worked like a charm! Thanks Michael. On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: Adfind –csv –nodn –b “dc=domain,dc=org” –f “((objectCategory=person)(mail=*)(!userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))” name mail displayName You won’t be able to copy-n-paste that, but if you type it in, it gives you what you want. ** ** Regards, ** ** Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com ** ** *From:* Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, January 09, 2012 1:44 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Adfind Active Email CSV Dump. ** ** All -- ** ** I could use a hand with generating the output i need using adfind. I'm trying to dump all active e-mail addresses excluding those belonging to Disabled Users to a csv file for HR. I'm using the following syntax. ** ** C:\Tools\AdFindadfind -csv -nodn -b dc=domain,dc=org -f ((objectCategory= person)(objectClass=user)) name mail displayName mailusersjan62012.csv* *** ** ** I suppose i could remove the -nodn and do find/replace within excel, but am curious if there was a way to exclude disabled users. I do keep all my disabled users in a single OU, so i'm assuming there could be a filter switch i could use but am unfamiliar with that syntax as well. ** ** Also, the above dumps name, mail and displayname, but is there to way to only output if the the mail field is not null ? Since my objective is to get all email addresses, I don't want those users who don't have anything populated in the mail field to appear. Again, if i have to manipulate excel, that could work but it would sweet if i could accomplish everything with one command. ** ** Regards, ** ** Harry. ** ** ** ** ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Folders in AD
If this SE was responsible for your AD Infrastructure, I'd be a little bit concerned. On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 1:10 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Actually no, I had an SE asking me what they did and he said “doesn’t seem like they should be in there”, and not seconds after posting to the list me telling him those only appear when “show advanced features” is on got an “ooh that’s why I haven’t seen them before”. I am used to seeing them, not being an “AD guy” per se (he knows his way around it, but doesn’t mess with it every single day, for example) he wasn’t so he fired off some Q’s. ** ** He was satisfied with why he’d never noticed them before J ** ** Dave ** ** *From:* Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, December 20, 2011 9:23 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Folders in AD ** ** *A lot of different services and AD components store data in there. Is there a specific item in question?*** * * *Thanks,* *Brian Desmond* *br...@briandesmond.com* * * *w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132* * * *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Tuesday, December 20, 2011 8:11 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Folders in AD ** ** Do you guys have objects in your AD structure off the root that are called “Program Data” and “System”? What are those for? *David Lum* Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 //* *Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: VDI
If you already have VMware in your backend, they make pricing very competitive. Especially for the number of desktops you're planning on deploying. Disclaimer: The thought of a Symantec product doing VDI just seems to leave a bad taste in my mouth. But that's just my own biased opinion based on no prior information or experience with the product or its capabilities at all. harry. On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:42 PM, pdw1...@hotmail.com wrote: I agree, Harry. I'd like to justify using View. We haven't got a quote on it yet so a lot depends on how close it is to the Symantec solution. -- Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:19:54 -0500 Subject: Re: VDI From: hbo...@gmail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com I don't know a thing about CWS and I know you mentioned Citrix but have you looked at their VDI-in-a-Box solution? http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=2316437 I would try my best to somehow justify the price difference to get either VM and Citrix as those two players seem to very active in the VDI space. Which ultimately means easier integration and better support, community or otherwise, for you. Harry. On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:09 PM, pdw1...@hotmail.com wrote: Due to computerized physician order entry (part of meaningful use), we looking at implementing a virtual desktop solution. I have identified three: Citrix, VM View and Symantec's Corporate Workspace product (used to be Nuvision until it was bought out by Symantec). I am familiar with Citrix and spent a day at a conference on VM, but I have no knowledge (other than what the salesperson showed us) of CWS. Has anybody done any work with the Symantec product? The price is good compared to the other two but we have never purchased an product based on price alone. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: VDI
What kind of thin clients are you using at the desktop? Are you using vcenter to deploy updates and patches to the View desktops? All 400 desktops are on a LAN or do you have some connecting via WAN? On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Kelsey, John jckel...@drmc.org wrote: We’re using GE Centricity in our practices and went with VMware View for our desktops. So far we’re very pleased with it, running about 400 desktops now. It sure makes doing updates and patches and whole lot easier and faster. We can re-deploy all of the desktops in just a few hours. ** ** ** ** Thanks JCK ** ** *From:* pdw1...@hotmail.com [mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, December 13, 2011 3:09 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* VDI ** ** Due to computerized physician order entry (part of meaningful use), we looking at implementing a virtual desktop solution. I have identified three: Citrix, VM View and Symantec's Corporate Workspace product (used to be Nuvision until it was bought out by Symantec). I am familiar with Citrix and spent a day at a conference on VM, but I have no knowledge (other than what the salesperson showed us) of CWS. Has anybody done any work with the Symantec product? The price is good compared to the other two but we have never purchased an product based on price alone. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin This email and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the author and do not represent those of the company. Warning: Although precautions have been taken to make sure no viruses are present in this email, the company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage that arise from the use of this email or attachments. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: VDI
I don't know a thing about CWS and I know you mentioned Citrix but have you looked at their VDI-in-a-Box solution? http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=2316437 I would try my best to somehow justify the price difference to get either VM and Citrix as those two players seem to very active in the VDI space. Which ultimately means easier integration and better support, community or otherwise, for you. Harry. On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:09 PM, pdw1...@hotmail.com wrote: Due to computerized physician order entry (part of meaningful use), we looking at implementing a virtual desktop solution. I have identified three: Citrix, VM View and Symantec's Corporate Workspace product (used to be Nuvision until it was bought out by Symantec). I am familiar with Citrix and spent a day at a conference on VM, but I have no knowledge (other than what the salesperson showed us) of CWS. Has anybody done any work with the Symantec product? The price is good compared to the other two but we have never purchased an product based on price alone. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: WiFi Web Portal
I know dd-wrt has a bundled Sputnik agent which works too. On Thursday, December 8, 2011, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: n Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote: Open Source and free. http://www.chillispot.info/ Probably others too. Yah, I know I've seen several FOSS captive portals. Off the top of my head, NoCat was one of the originals. Still seems to be around. http://nocat.net/ I'm sure one could find any number of companies willing to take lots of money for a solution, too. Quite possibly using the free tools, even. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Backup Exec ver. 12.0
You should be able to download the product from the following website using the serial number you currently have. https://fileconnect.symantec.com On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Eric Brouwer ithelp.e...@gmail.comwrote: Geetings, With my predecessor completely out of the picture now, I'm evaluating everything he was in charge of. One of his duties was setting up backup routines, and testing them. I am not able to find our installation media for Backup Exec 12. I have the license keys, but no way to install it. I sent an inquiry to Symantec to see if it was available for download, but I doubt it. Does any one on this list have a copy of this? I need to be able to install the core product, and agents for Windows servers, Exchange, and SQL. Thank you, Eric ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Sharepoint as file storage
We're in the process of moving documents to SharePoint. I'm not handling this project, but I have convinced management to purchase more storage as a result. The combination of office 2010 and sharepoint 2010 so far appears to be the ideal combination, especially if you have SharePoint Workspace 2010, which makes uploading documents en masse much simplier. On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edu wrote: I’m interested in the same. Our president has asked me to look into doing the same thing. One our benefit is to allow part time folks that aren’t on campus to have access to forms and documents. ** ** *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Monday, November 28, 2011 12:06 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Sharepoint as file storage ** ** Last week I found out my director has told her team to put all files/documents into Sharepoint instead of a network folder – basically stop using the shared drive and use Sharepoint instead, for ALL MS Office documents that are to be shared. ** ** This seems like a bad idea but I cannot articulate why. From a technological standpoint it seems crazy to store everything into a SQL database, but from a user standpoint…? *David Lum* Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 //* *Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: VMware help
what kind of hardware did you add which prompted a BSOD? I've added, NIC's and iSCSI HBA's to ESX/i 4.1 servers without an issues. I've also added RAM and a second CPU to a ESXi 5.0 without any issues as well. All of which conformed to VMware's HCL. On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 2:27 PM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: Do you mean actual hardware? Once ESXi is installed you really shouldn't add any actual hardware of any kind, it'll break it - BSOD John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office (352) 244-1610 Cell (352) 215-6944 MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 -Original Message- From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:ithelp.e...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 2:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMware help Greetings, I inherited a VMware ESXi Ver. 5.0.0 server, and have no virtual experience. Can anyone point me to a good resource to get my knowledge ramped up? I specifically need help figuring out how to install new hardware in the server, and getting my Windows Server to recognize it. Thanks, Eric ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and other Federal and Florida laws. Improper or unauthorized use or disclosure of this information could result in civil and/or criminal penalties. Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: VMware help
True...It really is purple. On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.eduwrote: PSOD? -Original Message- From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 1:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMware help Do you mean actual hardware? Once ESXi is installed you really shouldn't add any actual hardware of any kind, it'll break it - BSOD John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office (352) 244-1610 Cell (352) 215-6944 MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 -Original Message- From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:ithelp.e...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 2:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VMware help Greetings, I inherited a VMware ESXi Ver. 5.0.0 server, and have no virtual experience. Can anyone point me to a good resource to get my knowledge ramped up? I specifically need help figuring out how to install new hardware in the server, and getting my Windows Server to recognize it. Thanks, Eric ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and other Federal and Florida laws. Improper or unauthorized use or disclosure of this information could result in civil and/or criminal penalties. Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: PDF viewer in IE
+1 on Nitro. Once we finalize the purchasing side,we're moving to Nitro org-wide next year. On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote: Dave, we also depend on PDFs for many custom workflows, and need can’t use Reader software like FoxIt. (Personally I stay far away from that product). We also need to move to Acrobat X. ** ** However, I’ve had some big issues with deploying X to my small test group. I’ve had major issues with 9 AND X that I’ve shared here, and I’m at the end of my rope with them. ** ** Trying out NitroPDF Pro right now. Each seat will cost my about $70 instead of $200ish for Acrobat. The sales team at Nitro was kind enough to give me 3 free volume licenses to try it not (Not demo/trial licenses).*** * ** ** So far, the users are loving it. As soon I can confirm it integrates well with our automatic workflow processes, I’m purchasing it in bulk. ** ** Food for thought. ** ** Sam ** ** *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Tuesday, November 22, 2011 8:09 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: PDF viewer in IE ** ** We have ~270 users identified with Acrobat 8 that need to be upgraded to Acrobat X because the way NWEA generates our product (tests) PDF’s are the primary working format, so it’s not a matter of telling folks to use Office and “Save as PDF”. ** ** *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, November 21, 2011 8:34 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: PDF viewer in IE ** ** How many users are impacted? If only one, then I'm not sure that you'll find a better option. How about: Install Fox-it Software PDF Reader *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market…* ** ** On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:26 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:*** * Situation: * User has Acrobat 8 Pro installed, as well as Reader X. * Reader X is the default viewer for PDF files, EXCEPT when opening in IE* *** * Opening Reader X…Edit…Preferences…Internet, “Display PDF in browser” points to Acrobat 8 Pro but is greyed out Google-Fu points to people with the same issue. I can disable the PDF Add-in but what I really want is to change the association in IE to point to the newer reader instead. The only fix I found was uninstall/re-install Adobe Reader X, anyone have a better solution? *David Lum* Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 //* *Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: OT: Juniper Netscreen config issue
Forgive me, but is a smarthub a 3G hotspot type device from a mobile carrier? In the event that it is, you should find out if the provider is allowing for IKE traffic. Phase 1 errors point to the fact that there isn't basic connectivity between both gateways attempting to setup the tunnel. If you're setting it up behind the netscreen, and you can't configure the smarthub to act in bridge mode, or IOW, it needs to terminate the IPSEC tunnel, you can possibly have it sit behind the netscreen and you can forward IKE through the netscreen to the smarthub in order to get that to work. On the netscreen side, you would set the untrusted interface to route mode. Not knowing what the capabilities of the smarthub I'm not entirely clear what other options you may have. HTH, Harry. On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: If the Smarthub is employing NAT, then you're going to have a problem setting up your IPSec tunnel. I take it the ADSL is not employing NAT? * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.com wrote: Good afternoon all, I have a working Juniper NS-5GT that I have used to create a VPN tunnel back to HO using an ADSL connection (I have verified that everything is functioning correctly). NowWhat I'm trying to do is put a smart hub in the mix so that if I lose an ADSL line I could put one of these in place (wi-fi connection) until the ADSL gets repaired. I've tried all sorts of configuration changes but can't get it to allow the tunnel. So here's the setup. NS-5GT IP 10.240.30.1 DHCP 10.240.30.100-110 Smart Hub IP scheme can't be changed apparently Hub IP 192.168.20.1 It will hand out DHCP addresses It does have a static internet address Setup as a gateway I've tried setting the untrust IP as 192.168.20.1 and the default route to use the public IP, setting the untrust ip as the public ippretty much all the different combinations that I could think of. As far as I know there is no filtering going on with this smart hub. It looks like it's hitting my main firewall across the Internet, but it's not going any further than telling me Phase 1: Retransmission limit has been reached. Now nothing on the two firewalls have changed so I know that the security settings DO work when I take the smarthub out and use an ADSL connection. If there is any information that I've forgotten to include, please let me know. Any ideas? TIA! Cameron ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Veeam
Just purchased VEEAM. Roger - do you have veeam on a physical or virtual machine? are you using Direct SAN Access with iSCSI or are you using FC? On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote: We switched from vRanger to Veeam about 3 months back due to constant issues with vRanger. Veeam is working well for us, a bit more intuitive and faster. I can't comment regarding how it works with Exchange 2010 since we're still on Exchange 2003. Roger Wright ___ If the universe is constantly expanding, how come I can't find a parking space? On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Joseph Heaton jhea...@dfg.ca.govwrote: Anyone have any experience with this product? Supposed to be a VMWare backup software, which is able to do incrementals on the actual VM guests by expanding the .vmdk, finding the changes, and backing those up to an offsite copy. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: OT - converting a VMware VM back to a physical box
What kind of role(s) is this VM hosting? My suggesting being if it's SQL or Exchange you could just stand up the Physical machine independently and migrate data across the network either through restoring from SQL database or if its Exchange, just moving mailboxes into a newly created database. On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:39 AM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: Snapshot the VM before you do anything else. John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office (352) 244-1610 Cell (352) 215-6944 MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 -Original Message- From: Mike Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 11:37 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 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and other Federal and Florida laws. Improper or unauthorized use or disclosure of this information could result in civil and/or criminal penalties. Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Antivirus Recommendations?
Looking at Sophos now and hope to migrate off SAV Q1 of next year. Not keen on delivering a/v over GPO, I'm hoping Sophos built-in delivery doesn't use SMB. On Friday, November 11, 2011, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Incidentally, Truesec has LMS which allows management of Forefront without SCCM: http://lms.truesec.se/ From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 8:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Antivirus Recommendations? Oh right. That's a bit more slippery. On 11 November 2011 13:01, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: No, you don't have to use SCCM to deploy, but SCCM provides the management of it. if you install it managed, then you need SCCM (or my previously mentioned third-party product). You can also install it unmanaged. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://theessentialexchange.com/ From: James Rankin [kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 7:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Antivirus Recommendations? SCCM to deploy it? Didn't realise that. Nasty. I'm still a fan of Vipre, and Trend's offering isn't too bad, although the detection rates were not vastly impressive. I tend to look at things from a XenApp/RDS point of view though so I may dismissing some products that would be perfectly fine for you on a traditional fat client machine. On 11 November 2011 12:27, Paul Hutchings paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk wrote: We actually have Forefront licenses via an MS agreement, I just don’t think I want to try and get my teeth into SCCM right now just to administer it (I appreciate that SCCM does all manner of things but YKWIM, it’s a bit of a monster). We do all the defence in depth stuff regards perimiter scanning, URL blocking etc. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: 11 November 2011 12:20 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Antivirus Recommendations? I haven't dealt much with AV over the last year, but I liked Vipre Enterprise last time I did. However we did move from Symantec so anything would probably have been a vast improvement. I notice a lot of people are fans of the MS offerings now (Forefront, Security Essentials, etc, don't know the exact current brand names). Truth be known is that no AV can provide 100% coverage, and the ones that provide advanced heuristic detection are usually the ones with the bigger footprints. I'm personally a fan of coupling up your reactive AV with something like AppLocker from MS, if you're an AD shop, and obviously some good event log monitoring procedures. Defense-in-depth is usually the only way to stay fairly safe. YMMV, etc. On 11 November 2011 12:11, Paul Hutchings paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk wrote: Our Avira Antivir license is up for renewal in a couple of months. Whilst we’ve had no significant issues, I want to look at a couple of other options so that even if we stay with Avira it’s for the right technical reasons. We have around 550 PC’s, a mix of Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, predominantly 32bit with some x64. I’d be looking for a mixture of good centralised management (this almost always seems to rule out many vendors) combined with low client footprint – and something that is totally “hands off” from the end user perspective and that “just works”. Suggestions? Thanks, ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. * IMPORTANT INFORMATION/DISCLAIMER * This document should be read only by those persons to whom it is addressed. If you have received this message it was obviously addressed to you and therefore you can read it, even it we didn't mean to send it to you. However, if the contents of this email make no sense whatsoever then you probably were not the intended recipient, or, alternatively, you are a mindless cretin; either way, you should immediately kill yourself and destroy your computer (not necessarily in that order). Once you have taken this action, please contact us.. no, sorry, you can't use your computer, because you just destroyed it, and possibly also committed suicide afterwards, but I am starting to digress.. The originator of this email is not liable for the transmission of the information contained in this communication. Or are they? Either way it's a pretty dull legal query and frankly one I'm not going to dwell on. But should you
Re: Tool to simulate a poor network connection?
I remember there being a tool that was specifically used in Citrix
environments to reproduce WAN latency, dropped packets, etc. I'll try it
look it up but i'm guessing someone on this list will get it before i can
find it.
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Harsh. Windows ME would be a better (or worse) candidate :)
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Re: Tool to simulate a poor network connection?
Cursory search brought me to this app, which may or may not work for you.
It's called TMNetSim.
http://www.tmurgent.com/tools.aspx
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Harry Singh hbo...@gmail.com wrote:
I remember there being a tool that was specifically used in Citrix
environments to reproduce WAN latency, dropped packets, etc. I'll try it
look it up but i'm guessing someone on this list will get it before i can
find it.
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Harsh. Windows ME would be a better (or worse) candidate :)
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Re: Tool to simulate a poor network connection?
wanem does look cool. Thanks for the link and tip. On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Derrenbacker, L. Jonathan jderrenbac...@kshgs.com wrote: Just finished getting WANem running. Super easy, works perfect. Just dialed in 50ms of delay between my VM and one of my servers. ** ** For anyone who wants to try it, they have a vm image of it. Set it to NAT inside of vmware, boot it up, give it a static ip in the range your vmware gives out, set your VM client going through WANem to use WANem’s ip as its default GW, hit the default GWs web interface http://WANemIP/WANem And set whatever you want. Pretty cool.. ** ** Looks like you can add delay, jitter, loss, packet deplication, packet corruption, reordering, etc. ** ** ** ** Jon ** ** ** ** *From:* Derrenbacker, L. Jonathan *Sent:* Thursday, November 10, 2011 10:10 AM *To:* 'NT System Admin Issues' *Subject:* RE: Tool to simulate a poor network connection? ** ** Good ideas on Windows98/ME, lol. I’m trying wanem now. It has settings for packet drop, latency, etc. Look like it should do the job… Thanks Martin. ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: ShoreTel
Our IT shop handles (read: manage) ALL telecom from pots lines, cell phones and all telephony. We're moving towards hosted VoIP with Thinking Phone Networks for all of our branches. On Wednesday, November 9, 2011, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: We put in Procurve 2510s. They work, and match the rest of our switches. Kurt On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 15:24, Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com wrote: Shortels do work on other switches at least $dayjob$ they are using Cisco exclusively. Like Matt I am not the phone guy but I sit across from two of them. The only complaint I hear them make is during upgrades of older phone systems. They have to go out and manually fix things in the remote offices. That said I know they like the ability to put new staff and offices into the central phone server and preprogram the new systems and then go out and drop them in. I don't know where it went but whey were looking at setting up internal conferencing thru the system for a while. Jon On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: I would be interested in hearing of any licensing gotchas or things to be aware of. One license gotcha we just recently experienced: We have a user who uses their Personal license. This gives the users an extension, mailbox, etc... But this user wanted a feature which was only available to the Workgroup Agent license. (What the user wanted to do was to sign in/out of the workgroup remotely, which apparently a personal license can't do.) What we found out is that we can't upgrade the license, nor can we get a refund. If we choose to do this, we just have to purchase the additional license (at over $200). Which vendors switches are you using? Shoretel makes you choose and stick to a vendor. I am unable to purchase additional licenses/phones/switches from a different vendor without completely transferring my vendor. We are using NCA ( http://www.ncanet.com/) and we have had good to excellent support from them for over 10 years. We briefly looked into other vendors in our area. If your question is more of a which hardware switches do you use: A mix of the Shoretel 120s (IP phone capable or 24 analog lines) and the Shoretel 24As (Cheaper, 24 analog extension only switch). Oh, and a Shoretel T1 for our PRI. I'm not as involved in the financial side of this, I'm coming at this more from the technical side (I currently have zero knowledge of phone systems but obvious once you move from a monolithic analogue system to an IP system it starts to merge with network/server stuff). I'm not really a phone guy. My predecessor was a phone guy. He is the one who got the school to move to Shoretel, and I thank him for it every time I use it. While now there are good, useable alternatives, it's worth looking into other solutions. But I have been extremely happy with this product. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:51:16 -0800 Subject: RE: ShoreTel Thanks Matt that helps and awful lot as it's the nitty gritty that tends to get overlooked. I would be interested in hearing of any licensing gotchas or things to be aware of. Which vendors switches are you using? I'm not as involved in the financial side of this, I'm coming at this more from the technical side (I currently have zero knowledge of phone systems but obvious once you move from a monolithic analogue system to an IP system it starts to merge with network/server stuff). Thanks again, Paul From: Matthew W. Ross [mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: 09 November 2011 4:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ShoreTel Shoretel is the the phone system we're using. Pros: * Very easy to use. * Works great for windows environments. * Has good support for mass deployment of analog phones (which some do not, and we use a lot of). * Can be used as your intercom (Using IP phones). * Support has been good for us. * Outlook integration (We don't use this, but it's there.) Cons: * Windows Centric (There is now a web based client which is a big improvement in this front). * Serious product lock-in: ** Their switches will only work with Shoretel. ** Their IP phones will only work with Shoretel. ** They license you per extension, and those licenses cannot be refunded/transferred. ** SIP phones do work, for an additional fee. * Optional support is not so optional. It is also primarily through your vendor, not Shoretel. * Not cheap. I hope this helps. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] To: NT System
Re: web filtering
Websense now has a solution in place to monitor remote and off-site laptops via client or browser setting. I have websense and it is costly, but our juniper appliances have native websense/surfcontrol integration and this provided us (about 8 years ago) the luxury of not needing to purchase/install devices at each site or clients on each desktop. I haven't seen the offerings from other vendors in recent years so the gap may not be as pronounced as it was previously. Also, websense does has the ability to filter within Citrix sessions. On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 11:48 AM, David Mazzaccaro david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com wrote: iPrism here. Love it. It was (maybe still is?) the only solution that offers remote monitoring of laptops. There is a small client proxy that gets installed on our laptops, that allows them to be monitored and blocked from anywhere they connect. I just renewed: $2,500 for 15 months. ~100 users ** ** ** ** ** ** *From:* pdw1...@hotmail.com [mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, November 08, 2011 11:40 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* web filtering ** ** I've finally gotten a budget to put in place a web filtering platform. I've looked at three so far: Websense, iPrism and Barracuda. Of those, I like Websense but it was too costly and no one liked Barracuda. iPrism is looking good so far but I'd like to demo a few more. I'm not opposed to a cloud-based service either. If you are using a web-filtering product, can you tell me what it is and whether you feel it is worth the price you pay? I've been reading some reviews on different products, but a review is secondary to what actual users experience. Thanks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: web filtering
For those using Zscaler, are you guys integrating into your AD? If yes, what is Zscaler using to pull user/group info and how responsive is it to changes/adds? On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:35 PM, David Mazzaccaro david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com wrote: “we have a training room set up where people can go and do personal stuff like FB or ebay. So, being able to set a policy so training room pc's can get to those sites but block MI or MM pc's is also a requirement.” This is exactly what we do w/ iPrism. ** ** ** ** *From:* pdw1...@hotmail.com [mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, November 08, 2011 3:53 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: web filtering ** ** Around 200 users as not everyone is allowed access to the internet. Our firewall doesn't do any kind of web filtering. Good reporting must be an essential part of the product. I just got a request from a supervisor asking for a web usage report on all the people in Admitting and MI. Trying to glean that info from syslogs would be a nightmare. I've tried it before on a smaller scale and it was quite time consuming. The ability to customize for either user or machine, too. For example, we have a training room set up where people can go and do personal stuff like FB or ebay. So, being able to set a policy so training room pc's can get to those sites but block MI or MM pc's is also a requirement. -- From: paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: web filtering Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 17:48:53 + Our firewall has URL filtering which is provided by Brightcloud. Seems pretty effective. You’ve not mentioned user count or what your current firewall is, or what you’re really trying to do (do you want lot of nice reports on normal activity or do you just want to block “bad stuff”?). FWIW you could use a DNS service like DYN and you’d get Barracuda’s web filtering, so you have a ton of options from cheap to very expensive. Paul ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Streaming media device
out of curiosity, would you know where does the Roku XS pull 300+ channels of movies, TV Shows and sports from? It looks a great little box and the price is just right. On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote: Thanks for the reply Stu, Yeah, it's the almost everything that is the issue. So far the only one that I found that seems to have everything is the Sony blu-ray player. And for the price (~$130), i'm going to get it and test it out. Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From:Stu Sjouwerman s...@sunbelt-software.com To:NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date:11/04/2011 10:09 AM Subject:RE: Streaming media device -- Funny you should ask. I just bought a new combo blu-ray player and LED TV from Visio. Both come with a bunch of applets that cover almost everything on your list. I subbed To VuDu, Hulu+, already am on Amazon Prime, it offers Netflix but also Blockbuster Streaming. Basically had it all for less than 1,000 and the player itself is about $100, Works like a charm. Happy Friday ! Warm regards, Stu *From:* Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.comchristopher_bod...@glic.com] * Sent:* Thursday, November 03, 2011 1:07 PM* To:* NT System Admin Issues* Subject:* OT: Streaming media device List seems a little slow today so thought I would throw this out there. Currently I'm using Samsung Blue-Ray players as my streaming media devices. Love them, but they are lacking a few media services that I would like: Amazon VOD Crackle I am able to do Amazon VOD with the Yahoo! App as a widget on my newer Samsung LED. But there is still no Crackle app. So I was looking at alternatives that would give me everything I want in one device. Here is the wish list: NetFlix Amazon Prime VuDu Crackle HuLu+ Blue-Ray player DLNA Wi-Fi built in As you can see my primary interest is in the streaming media services (NetFllix, VuDu, etc). From everything that I've seen the Sony BDP-S580 will do all of this. Anyone else have a recommendation for a single device? I know I can add a device to my setup such as a Roku box that will give me the content I'm lacking, but I'd like to have a single device and not add an additional piece of hardware to my current setup. Thanks Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: *christopher_bod...@glic.com* christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 - This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ *http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/*http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: * http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/*http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to *listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com*listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ *http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/*http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: * http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/*http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to *listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com*listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Streaming media device
That link led to what i was looking for: http://www.rokuprivatechannels.com/ Thanks. That's pretty sweet. On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote: This might help: http://blog.roku.com/blog/2011/08/24/what-are-private-channels/ Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From:Harry Singh hbo...@gmail.com To:NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date:11/04/2011 10:32 AM Subject:Re: Streaming media device -- out of curiosity, would you know where does the Roku XS pull 300+ channels of movies, TV Shows and sports from? It looks a great little box and the price is just right. On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Christopher Bodnar * christopher_bod...@glic.com* christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote: Thanks for the reply Stu, Yeah, it's the almost everything that is the issue. So far the only one that I found that seems to have everything is the Sony blu-ray player. And for the price (~$130), i'm going to get it and test it out. Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: *christopher_bod...@glic.com* christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: *610-807-6459* 610-807-6459 Fax: *610-807-6003* 610-807-6003 From:Stu Sjouwerman *s...@sunbelt-software.com*s...@sunbelt-software.com To:NT System Admin Issues * ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com*ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date:11/04/2011 10:09 AM Subject:RE: Streaming media device -- Funny you should ask. I just bought a new combo blu-ray player and LED TV from Visio. Both come with a bunch of applets that cover almost everything on your list. I subbed To VuDu, Hulu+, already am on Amazon Prime, it offers Netflix but also Blockbuster Streaming. Basically had it all for less than 1,000 and the player itself is about $100, Works like a charm. Happy Friday ! Warm regards, Stu *From:* Christopher Bodnar [*mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com*christopher_bod...@glic.com] * Sent:* Thursday, November 03, 2011 1:07 PM* To:* NT System Admin Issues* Subject:* OT: Streaming media device List seems a little slow today so thought I would throw this out there. Currently I'm using Samsung Blue-Ray players as my streaming media devices. Love them, but they are lacking a few media services that I would like: Amazon VOD Crackle I am able to do Amazon VOD with the Yahoo! App as a widget on my newer Samsung LED. But there is still no Crackle app. So I was looking at alternatives that would give me everything I want in one device. Here is the wish list: NetFlix Amazon Prime VuDu Crackle HuLu+ Blue-Ray player DLNA Wi-Fi built in As you can see my primary interest is in the streaming media services (NetFllix, VuDu, etc). From everything that I've seen the Sony BDP-S580 will do all of this. Anyone else have a recommendation for a single device? I know I can add a device to my setup such as a Roku box that will give me the content I'm lacking, but I'd like to have a single device and not add an additional piece of hardware to my current setup. Thanks Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: *christopher_bod...@glic.com* christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: *610-807-6459* 610-807-6459 Fax: *610-807-6003* 610-807-6003- This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ *http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/*http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: * http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/*http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to *listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com*listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ *http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/*http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE
Re: So, my Mac Mini server arrived today...
Matthew - Are you running Parralells (or whatever the Apple VM tech is called) or VMware to run the Windows 7 VM simultaneously? Single NIC, so i assume it's running in a Bridged NAT mode? The footprint and hardware makes it something i wouldn't mind playing around with at home. On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.orgwrote: Are you running mac os Server or client? any major issues with running Server OS as a desktop? We run 10.6 Server on an XServe in the main server room. It's doing our Open Directory master stuff. I'm running 10.6 Client on my desktop. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: justino garcia [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:51:20 -0700 Subject: Re: So, my Mac Mini server arrived today... Are you running mac os Server or client? any major issues with running Server OS as a desktop? On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.orgwrote: My main computers is a Mac Mini. I love this little thing. It's quite the great piece of hardware. I have it running a VM of Windows 7, and I do my windows stuff on that. It'd dedicated to a second screen. You got the server, so no DVD drive. Did you get it with a second HD? If not, you may want to consider adding one. (There is space in there for a second 2.5 drive. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:01:50 -0700 Subject: RE: So, my Mac Mini server arrived today... Hell I dunno, I have this thing on my desk and when it reboots it's like R2D2 singing at me look I know you're there, now shut up. LOL It surfs the Internet just like a PC, so there's hope for this thing yet. From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 2:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: So, my Mac Mini server arrived today... So you now have a Mac Mini [server] and a [mini] Mac Mini? -- Espi On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 8:09 AM, David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org wrote: The thing is the size of portable CD player. Opening the manual (out of curiosity, not like I RTFM and with Mac why should I have to?), the cover says simply Hello. And the opening page says: Congratulations, you and your Mac Mini were made for each other. No, we weren't, you are a necessary evil you damn Mac Mini... David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229tel:503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764tel:503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto: listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto: listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- Justin IT-TECH ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here:
Re: Streaming media device
I'm currently using a WDTV Live Hub (1TB locally installed) and couldn't be happier. The only service I don't have yet is VuDu, which i like. I have a panasonic Blu-Ray that does have it, in case i need really need something. I'd get a cheaper Blu-Ray and spend your money on any of those boxes out there: roku, wdtv, etc. On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Roku? ** ** http://www.amazon.com/Roku-XS-1080p-Streaming-Player/dp/B005CLPP84/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8qid=1320341782sr=8-1 ** ** BTW: You might wait a bit, too, if you can. The XBOX TV thing is coming and will offer a huge number of options, and GoogleTV is getting a big update. ** ** *From:* Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] *Sent:* Thursday, November 03, 2011 1:07 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* OT: Streaming media device ** ** List seems a little slow today so thought I would throw this out there. Currently I'm using Samsung Blue-Ray players as my streaming media devices. Love them, but they are lacking a few media services that I would like: Amazon VOD Crackle I am able to do Amazon VOD with the Yahoo! App as a widget on my newer Samsung LED. But there is still no Crackle app. So I was looking at alternatives that would give me everything I want in one device. Here is the wish list: NetFlix Amazon Prime VuDu Crackle HuLu+ Blue-Ray player DLNA Wi-Fi built in As you can see my primary interest is in the streaming media services (NetFllix, VuDu, etc). From everything that I've seen the Sony BDP-S580 will do all of this. Anyone else have a recommendation for a single device? I know I can add a device to my setup such as a Roku box that will give me the content I'm lacking, but I'd like to have a single device and not add an additional piece of hardware to my current setup. Thanks Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 - This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: From the Mac Enterprise list
The people who think that Mac's will never fly in the enterprise portray the same attitude that those who thought that Linux would never fly in the enterprise. Or that PCs would never fly in the enterprise (mainframes are so much more reliable and capable, after all). Macs may gain more traction in business, or not, but simply assuming they won't because they haven't yet isn't good. +1000 On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.orgwrote: From: Ben Scott The people who think that Mac's will never fly in the enterprise portray the same attitude that those who thought that Linux would never fly in the enterprise. It aggravates me, just a little bit, when people assume that MacOS X (or Linux, or even Windows) is inferior to another OS. Doubtless, there have been thousands of individuals who have worked very hard over many years to make these systems usable for us, to enhance our ability to do work. Some might be better than others for for specific tasks... but thus far I have found them all useful and productive. Of course, by the same token, simply assuming buying a Mac will make IT problems go away isn't good, either. +1 On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Rankin, James R kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Are they all fanbois? No, there are fewer there than there are Windows fanbois here. Admittedly, I think this is a larger list. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 08:15:43 -0700 Subject: Re: From the Mac Enterprise list On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 9:53 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: It actually doesn’t read much different than this list – they run into the same issues with software deployment, VPN, networked printers, new OS deployments and things that break with a new OS in their environment, etc. Hate to tell ya, they’re like us, just dealing with a different OS. I've said for decades that Mac's are just another computer. They're not inherently better or worse at anything than any other computer. Particular implementation issues are better or worse, but that's the case with anything. The people who think that Mac's will never fly in the enterprise portray the same attitude that those who thought that Linux would never fly in the enterprise. Or that PCs would never fly in the enterprise (mainframes are so much more reliable and capable, after all). Macs may gain more traction in business, or not, but simply assuming they won't because they haven't yet isn't good. Of course, by the same token, simply assuming buying a Mac will make IT problems go away isn't good, either. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Ethernet cable testers
I use one from Black Box. It does the job and has for a few years now. On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.eduwrote: I just use the lights on the back of the computer J ** ** *From:* Reimer, Mark [mailto:mark.rei...@prairie.edu] *Sent:* Tuesday, November 01, 2011 8:56 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Ethernet cable testers ** ** Folks, ** ** Just wondering what you use for testing Ethernet cable testers. ** ** I know Fluke is the king (or at least it appears that way to me). I’m looking for something that will catch opens, shorts, crossed cable, and I really would like it to tell me how long the cable is. I think I have some cables over 300 feet, and want to double-check. ** ** Recommendations? ** ** Thanks. ** ** Mark ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Is this thing on?
I've noticed Monday nights are usually slow, but that could just be me... On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: Been too busy with beg-o-ween. On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote: Haven't seen anything for a few hours. Nope, we're not getting your mail. In fact, this entire list is just a hallucination. Prolly brought on by working too hard. To answer Is the list just quiet or is something broken? questions, check the web UI. If there's mail there but not in your mailbox, something's gone off the rails. http://lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com/read/?forum=ntsysadmin -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: WireShark analysis for pay
If you're allowed to disclose this information, I'm definitely interested in finding out what was the change that caused the problem. On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: This issue appears to have been resolved with the help of a friend from another mailing list. The Wyse Xenith device is extremely sensitive to network traffic and noise. A change had been made by the soon-to-be previous IT services provider. They had insisted their change couldn't be affecting anything. WRONG! As soon as their change was undone, bingo, no more ICA connection reset by peer issues. ZERO. :) Needless to say this customer is very happy, their users are happy and the other list member has turned me into the hero of the day. I am now this IT departments new bestest friend ever. Pays to know or have access to really smart people. Thanks Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com http://www.carlwebster.com/ -- *From:* Webster [webs...@carlwebster.com] *Sent:* Monday, October 17, 2011 4:34 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* WireShark analysis for pay Have a customer with Wyse zero client devices. They are constantly getting ICA Connection Reset by Peer. According to Google, this issue seems to occur only with Wyse thin clients. This customer has a Wyse maintenance contract but Wyse appears to not be concerned with fixing this issue for this customer on their devices. Customer has followed Wyse's instructions and obtained Wireshark traces on three devices having this connection issue. Since Wyse appears to not care to resolve the issue, the customer has asked me to see if I can find someone who could analyze the Wireshark traces (for pay) and see if they could possibly find what the culprit may be. The users are having this connection reset issue continually and as you can image the users and the IT staff would like this resolved promptly. If you are experienced at reading Wireshark traces and would like to make some money while doing so, contact me off list. webs...@carlwebster.com Thanks Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com http://www.carlwebster.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: dns A record disappearing
I've dealt with a similar issue. Is scavenging configured? If it is, is it configured for anything other than the default amount of days? Take a look at this article, which helped me. http://msmvps.com/blogs/acefekay/archive/2009/09/02/using-adsi-edit-to-resolve-conflicting-or-duplicate-ad-integrated-dns-zones.aspx On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:39 AM, daemonR00t daemonr...@sysadmin-cr.comwrote: Never tried this but what if you do a repadmin /showobjmeta ? -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 9:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: dns A record disappearing Windows 2008 infrastructure and DNS servers. I have a static record (A record) in one of my forward zones. The static record has been set so the checkbox for Delete record when it becomes stale is UN-checked (viewed with Advanced DNS settings). Yet, this record gets deleted every now and then. The associated PTR record is not getting deleted and always remains. We are having to re-add that record periodically. Any idea why it's being deleted or determine what is deleting it? The record is for one of our Mac Lion servers. Thanks J mail2web.com - What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
OT: WAN Optimization Recommendations
Subject says it all..I'm looking for recommendation on WAN Optimization appliances that you folks have either used or heard good things about. Kindly exclude Riverbed, Cisco WAAS and Citrix as I'm actively obtaining pricing information on these. Also, if anyone is using the Citrix Branch Repeater Virtual Appliance, shoot me an email. I'm curious to know what off-the-shelf hardware you're running to support this Virtual Appliance. Cheers, Harry. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: OT: WAN Optimization Recommendations
Thanks Andrew. On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: We've been looking at Exinda... Hoping to do a pilot test in a few weeks, perhaps. * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Harry Singh hbo...@gmail.com wrote: Subject says it all..I'm looking for recommendation on WAN Optimization appliances that you folks have either used or heard good things about. Kindly exclude Riverbed, Cisco WAAS and Citrix as I'm actively obtaining pricing information on these. Also, if anyone is using the Citrix Branch Repeater Virtual Appliance, shoot me an email. I'm curious to know what off-the-shelf hardware you're running to support this Virtual Appliance. Cheers, Harry. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: AV and malware protection?
What's the name of the sleeping AV component? This thread is of particular interest since I'm plannning to pilot a VDI deployment and a few engineers have mentioned the need to not have local AV protection any longer. I tend to err on the side of caution, but it's a persuading assertion; either from a cost and technical perspective. On Sunday, October 9, 2011, kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Reactive AV is being phased out of our XenApp systems next week. We are going to maintain a sleeping AV component and do a deep scan once a week. Realtime monitoring is being turned off and we will rely entirely on the application management suite. We are not doing this blithely - currently app management stops about thirty or forty pieces of malware executing per week, and our AV catches precisely zero. In this environment, AV is just a waste of resources. Sent from my POS BlackBerry wireless device, which may wipe itself at any moment -Original Message- From: Alex Eckelberry alex.eckelbe...@gfi.com Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 17:55:58 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.comSubject: RE: AV and malware protection? Hmmm Take a look at the Wildlist, which is the list of currently verified viruses. There's still a lot of nasty stuff out there. http://www.wildlist.org/WildList/201108.txt We see plenty of viruses out there, and relying on a product like Malwarebytes as your only line of defense is a serious mistake, IMHO. It's an excellent product (remember we partner with them and are very close to them, so this is not a slight in the least on their technology) but you really, really need an AV product as a complement. Alex -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2011 1:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issue Subject: Re: AV and malware protection? On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Alex Eckelberry alex.eckelbe...@gfi.com wrote: It's worth noting that MalwareBytes is not an antivirus product. It is, however, an excellent protecter/cleaner against modern Trojans and rogue antivirus products. And the difference between these two things is...? Viruses are largely obsolete anyway. Between ubiquitous network connectivity and autorun, nobody needs to bother. Today's injection vectors are exploitable vulnerabilities in networked software and social engineering. An attacker crafting malware to piggy-back on benign executables exchanged via sneakernet is like worrying about how to attach a team of horses to your car. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin DISCLAIMER The information contained in this electronic mail may be confidential or legally privileged. It is for the intended recipient(s) only. Should you receive this message in error, please notify the sender by replying to this mail. Please do not read, copy, forward or store this message unless you are an intended recipient of it - unauthorized use of contents is strictly prohibited. Unless expressly stated, opinions in this message are those of the individual sender and not of GFI. While all care has been taken, GFI is not responsible for the integrity or the contents of this electronic mail and any attachments included within. (GFI2011) ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Delayed Startup for Exchange services?
While I'm not running SBS, something similar happened to me last year. On the server if you run a nltest /dsgetsite do you get an error? In my case, I had to manually enter in the site name at the following reg key for Exchange SA to start up successfully. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters\SiteName HTH Harry. On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: If you set the services to delayed start you’ll break Exchange. ** ** You need to find out what is delaying DNS and NetLogon and fix it. ** ** Regards, ** ** Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com ** ** *From:* Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] *Sent:* Thursday, October 06, 2011 5:52 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Delayed Startup for Exchange services? ** ** We have a problem with an SBS2011 server when it reboots. After the reboot all the Exchange services fail to start seemingly because the DNS server isn’t up yet. We get a load of alerts saying that the exchange services can’t find any AD servers and a few other services which log on using specific accounts also fail to start with logon errors. If you want a few mins then they happily start up. ** ** Is there anything wrong with setting the Exchange services to delayed start? Would that, do you think, have any knock on effects? ** ** Olly ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Steve Jobs R.I.P.
So sad. On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: http://www.apple.com/ ** ** ** ** Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com http://www.carlwebster.com/ ** ** ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Free syslog virtual appliance recommendations?
Not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but it may be useful. http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/848 On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Mike Leone oozerd...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/20/2011 11:05 AM, Mayo, Bill wrote: Kiwi has a free one. http://www.kiwisyslog.com/ Really? That doesn't look like a pre-built VM appliance ... I didn't know that Kiwi was a part of Solar Winds. We use Solar Winds. I'll have to look to see if we already have some of that capability already. The reason for the appliance is that I can easily make a new VM, and download and install Kiwi. But then I have to use up one of my Windows licenses. And usually, appliances are based on Linux, and don't (always) have licensing costs. -Original Message- From: Mike Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 10:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT:Free syslog virtual appliance recommendations? Hey all. I could use a syslog server, as a central logging point for my VMware ESX servers, my Cisco switches, etc. Since it wasn't in the budget, I'm looking for a free one. I know it can be done with a Linux server, but I am unclear on how, and so was hoping to find a pre-built one, so I could save some time. Anybody doing this, and if so, what would you recommend? (I'd want to run this on my VMware ESX 4.1 servers as a VM) ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: DigiNotar compromise
***While I do get you point about the relative costs for services like digital certificates, we have no idea whether or not an appropriate level of revenues is being invested back into the security infrastructure. Yes, more expensive *should* mean something, but there's no way to be sure that it does.Our awareness of a breach doesn't mean it hasn't been going on for quite some time...* * * +1 I'm curious to see what will the future (immediate or otherwise) bring to both the business and technology of the CA/SSL cert industry. On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Until recently, DigiNotar also had a profitable business model to protect. So did RSA, for that matter. While I do get you point about the relative costs for services like digital certificates, we have no idea whether or not an appropriate level of revenues is being invested back into the security infrastructure. Yes, more expensive *should* mean something, but there's no way to be sure that it does.Our awareness of a breach doesn't mean it hasn't been going on for quite some time... * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.comwrote: And yet people ask: “why should I pay $x * 100 for a Verisign/etc. cert vs $x for a DigiNotar/etc. cert”. ** ** Yet, I suppose this is capitalism in action. There is not guarantee that Verisign is non-hackable, yet they have a profitable business model to protect. Each of us has to make a tradeoff to decide whether a cheaper price is worth the risk that too cheap a price is compromising due diligence on behalf of the CA ** ** *From:* Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] *Sent:* Wednesday, 7 September 2011 10:30 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: DigiNotar compromise ** ** Honestly, ** ** It doesn’t surprise me on this one, I am sure there are others that are just as bad or worse, that will get owned at sometime in the future and the same kind of stuff will be un-earthed. ** ** Z ** ** Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 [image: CISSP_logo] ** ** *From:* Tim Evans [mailto:tev...@sparling.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, September 06, 2011 4:02 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* DigiNotar compromise ** ** If this is true, I find this absolutely unacceptable that a commercial CA would run a system like this. Incredible ** ** http://computer-forensics.sans.org/blog/2011/09/06/diginotar-incident-response-report-no-logging-weak-password-no-protected-network ** ** ** ** Tim Evans *Associate, Information Technology Manager* ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadminimage001.jpg
Re: Looking for Position and Positions in Pennsylvania
Wasn't Moon a viking QB at some point too? On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: Well, it is the Eagles, what do you expect? This is coming from a long time Vikings sufferer, I mean fan. Seems like we take old-used up Eagles QBs give them a nice season when they come to Minnesota, and then expect the same in the second season. Oh wait, we do that with all veteran QBs, now that I think about it. Cunningham, Favre, George, McMahon. If the pattern holds, the Vikings should have a great year and then choke sometime in the playoffs. On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Guyer, Don don.gu...@fiserv.com wrote: Man, they sure made our “standout” corners look bad last night, even though it’s only preseason. ** ** *Don Guyer* Windows Systems Engineer RIM Operations Engineering Distributed – A Team, Tier 2 Enterprise Technology Group *Fiserv* don.gu...@fiserv.com Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 Fax: 610-233-0404 www.fiserv.com [image: Description: Frog Signature] ** ** *From:* Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] *Sent:* Friday, August 19, 2011 7:30 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Looking for Position and Positions in Pennsylvania ** ** Hey Hey that is my home sweet home PA ( abiet I was born on the west side outside Pittsburgh) ( Go Steelers!) ** ** Z ** ** Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 [image: CISSP_logo] ** ** *From:* Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] *Sent:* Thursday, August 18, 2011 5:22 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Looking for Position and Positions in Pennsylvania ** ** And you expected ME to know Pennsylvania geography? Good lord, I can barely spell the state! J ** ** Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com http://www.carlwebster.com/ ** ** ** ** *From:* Guyer, Don [mailto:don.gu...@fiserv.com] *Sent:* Thursday, August 18, 2011 3:12 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Looking for Position and Positions in Pennsylvania ** ** LOL! ** ** Here’s your sign… ** ** That’s actually not in my area, but thx for matchmaking anyway, Webster!* *** ** ** J ** ** *Don Guyer* Windows Systems Engineer RIM Operations Engineering Distributed – A Team, Tier 2 Enterprise Technology Group *Fiserv* don.gu...@fiserv.com Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 Fax: 610-233-0404 www.fiserv.com [image: Description: Frog Signature] ** ** *From:* Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] *Sent:* Thursday, August 18, 2011 4:04 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Looking for Position and Positions in Pennsylvania ** ** Christopher Bodnar meet Don Guyer, Don meet Chris. ** ** If anyone is looking or knows of someone who is looking, we will be interviewing soon for a Sr. level Sys Admin position. Ideal candidate will have the typical qualifications with an emphasis on Citrix (XenApp 6, XenApp 5). This is a FTE position not a contract position, and will be located here in Bethlehem PA. Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com http://www.carlwebster.com/ ** ** ** ** *From:* Guyer, Don [mailto:don.gu...@fiserv.com] *Sent:* Monday, August 15, 2011 9:30 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* OT: Looking for Position ** ** Everyone, ** ** I was just notified that my position will be cut, effective the end of September. If anyone hears of anything open in the Southeastern area of PA, please contact me offline at don.gu...@comcast.net. ** ** Thanks, ** ** *Don Guyer* Windows Systems Engineer RIM Operations Engineering Distributed – A Team, Tier 2 Enterprise Technology Group *Fiserv* don.gu...@fiserv.com Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 Fax: 610-233-0404 www.fiserv.com [image: Description: Frog Signature] ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
Re: Why not failwords?
I could be missing your objective here, but could you explain how would this work in a computing environment? You use the *h@rd3r* password on relatively sensitive websites ( banks, corporate login , email etc) and use your failword for everything else? Would you expect, as an example, an AD database to store two sets of passwords? And if brute force occurs the weaker password (failword) is obtained and subsequently used triggering a security event? I could be missing the efficacy of using a failword in a computing environment entirely. Cheers, Harry On Thursday, August 18, 2011, William Robbins dangerw...@gmail.com wrote: That's always the balance security has to walk between what's safe and what's usable. But as Ben said, the more usable you make it and allowing for PEBKAC errors, the easier it is for it to be compromised. I do the CAPS lock thing on occasion, or what ever too...but after that first notification I pay attention to everything to be certain I don't lock my account. 3 - 5 attempt should be more than adequate I think. - WJR On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 13:24, Hilderbrand, Doug doug.hilderbr...@craneaerospace.com wrote: Let's just drop the SG thing. I didn't mean to start a flame war. I don't like lockout attempt settings too low. On more occasions than I'd like to admit, I have used up multiple attempts because of a caps-lock issue or because I'm trying to get a valid password *from a different site* to work or something else silly. I think we're all id10ts at one time or another. Doug Hilderbrand | Systems Analyst, Information Technology | Crane Aerospace Electronics -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 11:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Why not failwords? On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Hilderbrand, Doug doug.hilderbr...@craneaerospace.com wrote: Why hasn't anyone implemented fail words? These are called duress codes and are commonly assigned for things like security alarms, locks (like your bank vault), etc. The key aspect of a duress code is that *it appears to succeed like the normal code would*. It notifies responders without alerting the point-of-use. They're intended to protect the person under duress. If the duress code refused entry (or acted like bad password, etc.), the attacker could harm the person under duress. If all the person under duress cares about is protecting the asset, they just refuse to enter any code and take the knife to the guts. Looking for common words as a trap against untargeted attacks is adds nothing; you should already be implementing lockout after a few failed attempts. Stop listening to GRC. While he's not a complete idiot, he's often misinformed, and Can't! Talk! About! Anything! Like! It's! Not! The! Most! Amazing! Thing! Ever!, even if what he's just discovered or invented has been well-known for decades. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin Check out the new Crane Aerospace Electronics Newsroom! http://newsroom.craneae.com Like us on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Crane-Aerospace-Electronics/163305413682908 We value your opinion! How may we serve you better? Please click the survey link to tell us how we are doing: http://www.craneae.com/ContactUs/VoiceofCustomer.aspx Your feedback is of the utmost importance to us. Thank you for your time. Crane Aerospace Electronics Confidentiality Statement: The information contained in this email message may be privileged and is confidential information intended only for the use of the recipient, or any employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient. Any unauthorized use, distribution or copying of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy the original message and all attachments from your electronic files. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
Re: VMware vSphere 5 Licensing and Pricing Update
There must be an extremely urgent business reason why you have to go to a GA release of a major platform upgrade (vSphere 5) instead of waiting for update 1 of said release. On Thursday, August 18, 2011, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.com wrote: It sounds to me like they are talking about the reporting features and they will offer a standalone reporting tool for now. From: Ben N [mailto:bennordlan...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 5:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMware vSphere 5 Licensing and Pricing Update So... what does this mean? we have to wait for an update to v5 before this new vRAM entitlement is out? [i] http://blogs.vmware.com/rethinkit/2011/08/changes-to-the-vram-licensing-model-introduced-on-july-12-2011.html#_ednref1 Note: this change will NOT be reflected in the native vCenter Server 5 vRAM reporting capability at GA time; it will be included in a future vCenter Server 5 update release. However, before such update release is available, customers will be able to use a stand-alone free utility for tracking vRAM usage that will reflect this change. from http://blogs.vmware.com/rethinkit/2011/08/changes-to-the-vram-licensing-model-introduced-on-july-12-2011.html -Ben On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote:Indeed. ASBhttp://about.me/Andrew.S.BakerHarnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Free, Bob r...@pge.com wrote:AKA- The “Let’s throw this up against the wall and see if it sticks mentality” J ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: VMware vSphere 5 Licensing and Pricing Update
No crime of negligence would be committed if you apply this process to a lab environment or pilot deployment, absolutely. But, there are some cases, in my experience, where either preparing your lab environment for the right amount of compatibility prerequisites or allocating enough resources and time to a lab environment become time consuming or considerably drawn out. That being said, considering VMware isn't considerably slow to release their first update to their GA products, in my opinion, it would take a strong business (read: financial, compliance) requirement not to wait and deploy their updated product in my lab environment or pilot deployment. But again, that's my opinion for this particular vendor, which in my environment is the mothership. Notwithstanding the urging of some external forces and considering the update release frequency of this vendor, I wonder why would anyone touch a GA release, especially if you're primarily a VMware shop, but different strokes for different folks i suppose. Harry. On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: While there are some vendors that I might be inclined to wait for an update from before tackling a major release, this is not some universally true rule -- at least not for me.I'm not suggesting that major software needs to be downloaded and installed before the wet paint sign is taken down, but if you have a lab environment and proper test procedures, and the vendor's recent history does not lend itself to waiting six months before implementation, then there is no reason not to pursue a test or pilot deployment as soon as you are able. No crime or negligence is being committed. * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Harry Singh hbo...@gmail.com wrote: There must be an extremely urgent business reason why you have to go to a GA release of a major platform upgrade (vSphere 5) instead of waiting for update 1 of said release. On Thursday, August 18, 2011, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.com wrote: It sounds to me like they are talking about the reporting features and they will offer a standalone reporting tool for now. From: Ben N [mailto: bennordlan...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 5:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMware vSphere 5 Licensing and Pricing Update So... what does this mean? we have to wait for an update to v5 before this new vRAM entitlement is out? [i] http://blogs.vmware.com/rethinkit/2011/08/changes-to-the-vram-licensing-model-introduced-on-july-12-2011.html#_ednref1 Note: this change will NOT be reflected in the native vCenter Server 5 vRAM reporting capability at GA time; it will be included in a future vCenter Server 5 update release. However, before such update release is available, customers will be able to use a stand-alone free utility for tracking vRAM usage that will reflect this change. from http://blogs.vmware.com/rethinkit/2011/08/changes-to-the-vram-licensing-model-introduced-on-july-12-2011.html -Ben On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote:Indeed. ASBhttp://about.me/Andrew.S.BakerHarnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Free, Bob r...@pge.com wrote:AKA- The “Let’s throw this up against the wall and see if it sticks mentality” J ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: VMware vSphere 5 Licensing and Pricing Update
My post didn't mean to suggest or infer any deficiencies in VMware's QA process. And VMware doesn't necessarily need to be deficient when releasing an update after GA which may address added functionality that was either left off or not exactly ready for RTM. Because I won't deploy a GA release has everything to do with my past experience with vSphere 4.0 GA and the breadth of updates/changes/fixes/enhancements available when U1 became available. I speak from my own standards and will, more oft than not, wait for Update 1 before I seriously plan for vSphere 5. This doesn't apply to just installing vSphere 5 and getting familiar with some core nuances and functionality. This also doesn't apply or need to make sense to everyone, it's just my own perspective based on my own technical experiences with VMware. There was also nothing specifically stated that they wouldn't go straight to production either. [?] Semantics really, but my inference was guided towards the the time it sometimes take to deploy a fully prepared lab environment (in some cases) vs the time it would take for VMware to release update 1. I would imagine most deployment approaches will always be governed by the organizations you're dealing with. And if org X wants to make the move, then the better business practice would behoove you to move forward while preparing the org with as much information as possible. If after the knowledge exchange is done and you and the org are comfortable with a GA release of vSphere 5, well then rock-n-roll. And for the record, I'm pretty sure the GA of vSphere 5 is more than production ready. I just apply my own standard, based on my own experiences. On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Even accounting for the number of changes that might be found in a GA release, do you have any specific experiences you can cite that would lead you to believe that VMWare will have been that much more deficient in the QA processes of 5.0 vs 5.0.1? Or, are you simply adhering to some standard process that you feel works for you? Like I suggested earlier, I prefer to tailor my deployment approach to the specific of the products and organizations that I'm dealing with. Given that there was nothing in Martin's post which specifically suggested a production deployment sans testing, I'm rather intrigued that you would infer such. * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Harry Singh hbo...@gmail.com wrote: No crime of negligence would be committed if you apply this process to a lab environment or pilot deployment, absolutely. But, there are some cases, in my experience, where either preparing your lab environment for the right amount of compatibility prerequisites or allocating enough resources and time to a lab environment become time consuming or considerably drawn out. That being said, considering VMware isn't considerably slow to release their first update to their GA products, in my opinion, it would take a strong business (read: financial, compliance) requirement not to wait and deploy their updated product in my lab environment or pilot deployment. But again, that's my opinion for this particular vendor, which in my environment is the mothership. Notwithstanding the urging of some external forces and considering the update release frequency of this vendor, I wonder why would anyone touch a GA release, especially if you're primarily a VMware shop, but different strokes for different folks i suppose. Harry. On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.comwrote: While there are some vendors that I might be inclined to wait for an update from before tackling a major release, this is not some universally true rule -- at least not for me.I'm not suggesting that major software needs to be downloaded and installed before the wet paint sign is taken down, but if you have a lab environment and proper test procedures, and the vendor's recent history does not lend itself to waiting six months before implementation, then there is no reason not to pursue a test or pilot deployment as soon as you are able. No crime or negligence is being committed. * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Harry Singh hbo...@gmail.com wrote: There must be an extremely urgent business reason why you have to go to a GA release of a major platform upgrade (vSphere 5) instead of waiting for update 1 of said release. On Thursday, August 18, 2011, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.com wrote: It sounds to me like they are talking about the reporting features and they will offer a standalone reporting tool for now. From: Ben N [mailto: bennordlan...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 5:11 PM To: NT System Admin
Re: GOT IT! (RE: Citrix nightmare after changing ISPs)
In a similar vein, I have WI 5.2 and the latest CSG installed on the same Virtual machine. Has been running wonderfully even against a PS 4.0 farm. I'm getting the same error noted previously ( Unable to launch) when my primary ISP goes down temporarily. I have a load balancer that does some DNS trickery, so the main citrix.doman.com page loads fine after the primary ISP fails, but I can't open applications. I presume during app launch the ica file is trying to access the primary ISP's IP address of either CSG or WI and it fails since it's down. I surmise the load balancer may present the secondary link's IP during app launch while the primary ISP is down, but I haven't confirmed. Is there a way to add multiple entries inside WI to accommodate this type of scenario? Thanks! Harry. On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: BTW, did you know that by using AltAddr your user’s login credentials are being sent in plain text both internally and externally? You really should use the free Citrix Secure Gateway. ** ** ** ** Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com http://www.carlwebster.com/ ** ** ** ** *From:* richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] *Sent:* Sunday, August 14, 2011 3:26 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* GOT IT! (RE: Citrix nightmare after changing ISPs) ** ** OK, after changing the IP addresses for web access, it seems one must also change things via CLI. We got it fixed, and thanks again for your patience! -- richard Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote on 07/28/2011 12:40:11 PM: What is your Secure Access setting for your Web Interface site? Alternate Translated Direct Gateway Direct Gateway Alternate Gateway Translated How many XenApp servers? You used singular in your question, so I am assuming one? Go to a command prompt and type in altaddr, press enter and what does it show? Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 11:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Citrix nightmare after changing ISPs Greetings! We switched internet service providers early this morning. All appeared to be going well (that is, MIP'd services, mail flow, etc). We even logged into our Citrix server from a separate network. Then we got the call... It seems we can access our Citrix server, log in, and browse about through the assorted application folders (XenApp server). Unfortunately, when we try to actually launch an application... The little box pops up showing application load process. It gets to about 40%. Then, it tells us Unable to launch your application. There is no Citrix XenApp server configured on the specified address. Yes, all was well under the previous ISP, but not this one. Help? Thanks! -- richard ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software. com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software. com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: DHCP Server and multiple subnets
I think i remember reading a while back that cisco had a function like dhcp-helper on their routers to traverse multiple hops from one remote DHCP server. I could be making that up entirely since it's Friday and all i can think about is the upcoming wknd. =) On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Are you meaning that you need to forward a DHCP request over more than 1 router? That is, requestor is on subnet1, makes a request, router2 forwards it over subnet2 to router2, which then forwards it to the DHCP server on subnet3. I haven't done that, nor heard of anyone who does, but it might be possible. That would be interesting. If that's the situation, however, I'd use it to make a case to collapse those two routers into one, if circumstances permitted. Or do you mean that you have other routing issues? Kurt On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:38, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: Thanks all. I tried it, and it worked perfectly... except I can't get it to route beyond the first router. But to my original question, DHCP passes along as prescribed and I can ping between subnets. Thanks for the help. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:28:50 -0700 Subject: Re: DHCP Server and multiple subnets Not trickery. Assuming that there's a router in your environment, you need to put a helper address on the router for each subnet for which the DHCP server will be serving addresses. (You can run multiple subnets without a router, but it's really a bad idea.) For instance, on my HP 3400cl core switch, two of my vlans are set up as follows: vlan 111 name VLAN111 ip address 192.168.xx.xx 255.255.255.0 ip helper-address 192.168.xx.xx tagged 25-47 exit vlan 112 name VLAN112 ip address 192.168.xx.xx 255.255.255.0 ip helper-address 192.168.xx.xx tagged 25-47 exit It'll be very similar syntax on a Cisco switch for the helper address. The router then forwards the broadcast packet with to the DHCP server. Kurt On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 08:44, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: Hey list, quick question for ya as my googlefu is not coming up with concrete answers: Can a single DHCP server serve up two separate subnets? How does the DHCP server decide which subnet to place the client (besides reservations)? Does it just auto-magically figure it out based on where the broadcast is coming from, or is there other trickery involved? --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Cisco SmartNET
whatever works and is able to meet your personal/business requirements should be all that matters. cost has always been why I've been driven away from Cisco devices, excluding routers, but to each their own. On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:14 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Cool thanks everyone. Into the world of Cisco I go (hey I’m not going to get blacklisted ‘cuz I didn’t go Fortigate or Juniper am I)? This firewall choice was reasonably involved, not like buyin’ a $50 Linksys. I probably have 5-6 hours into researching these little boxes. ** ** Dave ** ** *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] *Sent:* Thursday, August 11, 2011 11:03 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Cisco SmartNET ** ** It’s supposed to be within 30 days or the device requires certification.** ** ** ** I don’t know that it is actually enforced though. ** ** Regards, ** ** Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com ** ** *From:* Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] *Sent:* Thursday, August 11, 2011 1:29 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Cisco SmartNET ** ** I bought the router, and then smartnet a week later. ** ** *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Thursday, August 11, 2011 12:22 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Cisco SmartNET ** ** Do you guys know if you can buy a Cisco router and then sometime (weeks) later buy their SmartNET subscription? I’m guessing they are probably happy to take your money at any time… *David Lum* Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 //* *Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Dell PowerConnect iSCSI
I just implemented some powerconnect 6224's and a PS4000XV today actually
and wondering what you're using to monitor read/write performance and just
speed of the array in general ? SANHQ or IOMeter ?
Thanks for the information Steven...those SSD drives must fly.
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote:
He was the lost 6th half-brother.
** **
And as an update: it appears that as Enterasys switches and Dell switches
don’t play nicely together under some circumstances. Taking the Dell
PowerConnect off their uplinks to the Enterasys S4’s improved thruput on the
SSD-based EqualLogic’s we are testing by better than 25x …
** **
-sc
** **
*From:* Doug Hampshire [mailto:dhampsh...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Tuesday, August 09, 2011 9:42 AM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* Re: Dell PowerConnect iSCSI
** **
Isn't germane one of the Jackson 5?
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com
wrote:
Gotta give me points for at least trying to make it germane…
-sc
*From:* Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com]
*Sent:* Monday, August 08, 2011 6:06 PM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: Dell PowerConnect iSCSI
That’s a stretch there Steve for not being way OT: J
Wow do let us know how it goes. I don’t use power connect switches anymore
but I have plenty of equallogics.
Good luck.
dave
*From:* Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
*Sent:* Monday, August 08, 2011 3:44 PM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* Dell PowerConnect iSCSI
Just to advise the list:
Dell has pulled their 4.x.x.x versions of firmware for their 10Gb
PowerConnect switches. There are known issues with flow control, and they
can fail under high load after having been in service for extended periods
of time.
This is particularly triggered in iSCSI environments. In our case it was
Dell’s own EqualLogic SAN’s that killed them for us. For some time the
EqualLogic and PowerConnect groups disagreed on which firmware was “good”.
We finally got them to talk and v3.1.4.16 has their blessing.
Of course, the syntax was changed significantly between v3.x.x.x and
4.x.x.x, thus if you are already at 4 you cannot export your current
configuration and re-import on the downgraded v3 chassis. You must manually
reconfigure.
Here’s pulling for a successful downgrade tonight…
-sc
PS- I claim this is NT related because we have NT boxen mounting iSCSI
LUN’s via these switches J
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Re: Dell PowerConnect iSCSI
That's odd. My first guess is Jumbo Frames...which I'm sure you and your
team have addressed.
I presume you're running IOMeter from inside a Windows VM?
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote:
At the moment just IOmeter. We were scratching our heads wondering why we
were seeing ~9MB/sec on the SSD’s. The last test ran at 267MB/sec.
** **
Not sure if the 6224’s are affected… but flow control is broken on all
firmware for the 8024’s. Dell has pulled it form the website and is urging
customers to downgrade.
** **
-sc
** **
*From:* Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Wednesday, August 10, 2011 4:36 PM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* Re: Dell PowerConnect iSCSI
** **
I just implemented some powerconnect 6224's and a PS4000XV today actually
and wondering what you're using to monitor read/write performance and just
speed of the array in general ? SANHQ or IOMeter ?
** **
Thanks for the information Steven...those SSD drives must fly.
** **
** **
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com
wrote:
He was the lost 6th half-brother.
And as an update: it appears that as Enterasys switches and Dell switches
don’t play nicely together under some circumstances. Taking the Dell
PowerConnect off their uplinks to the Enterasys S4’s improved thruput on the
SSD-based EqualLogic’s we are testing by better than 25x …
-sc
*From:* Doug Hampshire [mailto:dhampsh...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Tuesday, August 09, 2011 9:42 AM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* Re: Dell PowerConnect iSCSI
Isn't germane one of the Jackson 5?
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com
wrote:
Gotta give me points for at least trying to make it germane…
-sc
*From:* Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com]
*Sent:* Monday, August 08, 2011 6:06 PM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: Dell PowerConnect iSCSI
That’s a stretch there Steve for not being way OT: J
Wow do let us know how it goes. I don’t use power connect switches anymore
but I have plenty of equallogics.
Good luck.
dave
*From:* Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
*Sent:* Monday, August 08, 2011 3:44 PM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* Dell PowerConnect iSCSI
Just to advise the list:
Dell has pulled their 4.x.x.x versions of firmware for their 10Gb
PowerConnect switches. There are known issues with flow control, and they
can fail under high load after having been in service for extended periods
of time.
This is particularly triggered in iSCSI environments. In our case it was
Dell’s own EqualLogic SAN’s that killed them for us. For some time the
EqualLogic and PowerConnect groups disagreed on which firmware was “good”.
We finally got them to talk and v3.1.4.16 has their blessing.
Of course, the syntax was changed significantly between v3.x.x.x and
4.x.x.x, thus if you are already at 4 you cannot export your current
configuration and re-import on the downgraded v3 chassis. You must manually
reconfigure.
Here’s pulling for a successful downgrade tonight…
-sc
PS- I claim this is NT related because we have NT boxen mounting iSCSI
LUN’s via these switches J
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Re: Cloud Based AV
Which PN product(s) are you guys specifically using? On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: Also using Palo-alto to catch things talking outbound that the AV and other controls should have found inbound. Like I have said before AV is about next to worthless these days. ** ** Z ** ** Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 [image: CISSP_logo] ** ** *From:* Kevin Lundy [mailto:klu...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, August 05, 2011 11:41 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Cloud Based AV ** ** +100. Our Palo Alto's are finding things (laptops returning to the office) that should be easily detectable by Trend. Not zero day, but old virus that they claim to have signatures for. On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.com wrote: You know, I’m so sick of Trend I could scream. I don’t think their products are half of what they used to be and they haven’t really brought much to the table of late. We seem to be suffering more and more malware infections that Trend just skips over. We have Intune in a small 10 unit deployment right now and it finds things that Trend just glossed over. *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Friday, August 05, 2011 7:50 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Cloud Based AV Have you contacted Trend or checked their KB? I know I once had to reset something on the Trend server to make sure they still reported into the console even though they were set to get updates from Trend (Smart scan) instead of the local server. Dave *From:* Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, August 05, 2011 7:24 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Cloud Based AV Right. That’s what we use today. The problem is that reporting gets all messed up over time because nobody is phoning home. *From:* Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, August 05, 2011 7:20 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Cloud Based AV Trend does this too... On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.com wrote:* *** Vipre? If I'm not mistaken you can set it so that the device will look to the cloud if it can't connect to the mother ship! On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.com wrote: Other than MS with Intune, who else is offering a cloud based corporate AV solution. With so many remote users that rarely report back to the mother ship, I want something out in the cloud to keep them up to date. Thoughts? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
Re: SMB firewall (was RE: VLAN N00b)
I believe the SSG's are now discontinued as Juniper moved away from ScreenOS to their SRX platform which is, to my understanding, a combination of JUNOS and some remnants of ScreenOS. Either way Juniper and Fortinet boxes are rock solid in my experience. On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:38 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: And now I need to choose a firewall. Holy crap there are a multitude of options, not the least of which are the various UTM (Unified Threat Management) options and reporting options. What kind of features do you guys find are key and are there any features you thought you'd use but really don't? Dave -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 6:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SMB firewall (was RE: VLAN N00b) Yep, what you describe is exactly what I was envisioning, thanks! (BTW Dell also calls it tagging). Now to decide on a firewall. I called my client last night and she was already onboard with my thinking go ahead and buy it or send me a link and I'll order it. I love clients that trust you enough that all you need to do is explain the concept and benefits and they're ready to pull the trigger, weird telling them uh, I'm not ready to buy anything as I need to decide on the exact product... :-). It's also nice is knowing steering them to a managed switch 3 years ago is going to pay off with this little project. Dave -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 5:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SMB firewall (was RE: VLAN N00b) On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:42 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: So ideally in your opinion the firewall would effectively give each VLAN (each VLAN defined by 802.1Q tags) it's own DHCP scope and thus their own IP settings, correct? More or less. I would separate your desired access groups into separate networks. Conceptually, start with the idea that you have each group on a different physical switch, each with its own DHCP server, and its own snip So upgrade the concept to a firewall that understands 802.1Q VLAN tags. Only one cable from the switch to the firewall. Each separate VLAN gets associated with that single cable, and the switch and firewall use 802.1Q VLAN tags to know which isolated network a given frame is for. Only the switch port connected to the firewall emits or expects frames with VLAN tags. (I believe Cisco calls this a VLAN trunk port; HP calls it tagged; I dunno what Dell calls it.) All the other switch ports are on a single VLAN (untagged in HP-speak), and just act like separate switches for the nodes which aren't aware of the other networks. Make sense? -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: VLAN N00b
Does your switch have a DHCP server? If yes, then when you create that second vlan you can then assign a DHCP scope just for VLAN interface. Create a rule on your FW for outbound DNS, either internally or to something externally like OPENDns. Since this would be a separate network and if you want to define it on your firewall (anti-spoofing beware) you can then create policies to block/allow certain traffic. Separately and probably a simpler route is to create ACL rules on the switchport configured for this AP to prevent/lockdown or allow activity to and from that port. I'm unfamiliar with the Dell switches, but I'm guess this is a possibility, if not with a firmware update. Cheers, Harry. On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 1:21 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: I thought of that, but this AP doesn’t have the capability to be a DHCP server. ** ** Dave ** ** *From:* Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] *Sent:* Wednesday, August 03, 2011 9:57 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: VLAN N00b ** ** Are only non-company assets going to use this AP? If yes read on, otherwise hit delete. ** ** Since it is a small environment with only one AP, set the AP up as it’s own DHCP server….put it on it’s own physical and logical network and drop another port in the Sonic Firewall and just route them straight out to the internets…. * * ** ** ** ** *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Wednesday, August 03, 2011 10:27 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* VLAN N00b ** ** So…I bought a wireless AP and it looks like I get to delve into learning a little VLANing. ** ** Environment: DNS,DHCP server (2003 SBS server, Domain controller) Second DC (2003 R2 Server) SonicWall Firewall Dell PowerConnect 3448 17 Domain PC’s HP M110 Wireless AP with non-domain PC’s using this to get to the Internet. ** ** Desired result for WLAN clients: **· **Able to get to the Internet, but not be able to see any domain systems. **· **DNS configured to non-domain server (SonicWall would be OK)* *** ** ** I can VLAN with the PowerConnect and make it so that AP can only get to the firewall, but my issue then is how will any clients get assigned an IP address. I can configure the Sonicwall to hand out IP’s but then I lose control of IP’s (reservations, etc) from the SBS system. ** ** It looks like I should divorce DHCP from the SBS server and put it on the 2 nd DC and allow the AP to see the one DC and the Sonicwall. ** ** Here’s a document I found helpful: http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pwcnt/en/howto_config_private_vlans.pdf ** ** From that, the SBS server and all domain PC’s would be in Community 10 The AP would be in Community 11 The firewall and 2nd DC (now doing DHCP) would be promiscuous. Is that too big of a risk? The HP110 can do RADIUS and I did install that capability on the 2nd DC but I don’t really know what I’m doing here. ** ** This would get me close to my desired result. Can RADIUS be used to conditionally hand out IP addresses? What would be nice is the ability to have it so VLAN1 (Community 10 in the diagram) gets some IP settings, VLAN2 (Community 11) gets others – namely a different DNS server. ** ** All thoughts and comments welcome. *David Lum* Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 //* *Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin This email and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the author and do not represent those of the company. Warning: Although precautions have been taken to make sure no viruses are present in this email, the company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage that arise from the use of this email or attachments. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to
Re: VLAN N00b
+1 I have zero experience with Sonicwall, but being a Juniper user for years, this is something you can accomodate should you have a spare interface on your Juniper FW. You assign it a zone to it, if you like, or simply make in an untrusted port and route out to and from it, assign DHCP and policies. On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Paul Hutchings paul.hutchi...@mira.co.ukwrote: Does the Sonicwall have the concept of “Zones” and can it act as a DHCP server with different scopes per interface? ** ** Using a Juniper as an example, you configure an interface as a Zone (called, say, “Guest”) and assign it an interface and run a DHCP server on that interface. ** ** Paul ** ** *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* 03 August 2011 15:27 *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* VLAN N00b ** ** So…I bought a wireless AP and it looks like I get to delve into learning a little VLANing. ** ** Environment: DNS,DHCP server (2003 SBS server, Domain controller) Second DC (2003 R2 Server) SonicWall Firewall Dell PowerConnect 3448 17 Domain PC’s HP M110 Wireless AP with non-domain PC’s using this to get to the Internet. ** ** Desired result for WLAN clients: **· **Able to get to the Internet, but not be able to see any domain systems. **· **DNS configured to non-domain server (SonicWall would be OK)* *** ** ** I can VLAN with the PowerConnect and make it so that AP can only get to the firewall, but my issue then is how will any clients get assigned an IP address. I can configure the Sonicwall to hand out IP’s but then I lose control of IP’s (reservations, etc) from the SBS system. ** ** It looks like I should divorce DHCP from the SBS server and put it on the 2 nd DC and allow the AP to see the one DC and the Sonicwall. ** ** Here’s a document I found helpful: http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pwcnt/en/howto_config_private_vlans.pdf ** ** From that, the SBS server and all domain PC’s would be in Community 10 The AP would be in Community 11 The firewall and 2nd DC (now doing DHCP) would be promiscuous. Is that too big of a risk? The HP110 can do RADIUS and I did install that capability on the 2nd DC but I don’t really know what I’m doing here. ** ** This would get me close to my desired result. Can RADIUS be used to conditionally hand out IP addresses? What would be nice is the ability to have it so VLAN1 (Community 10 in the diagram) gets some IP settings, VLAN2 (Community 11) gets others – namely a different DNS server. ** ** All thoughts and comments welcome. *David Lum* Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 //* *Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- *MIRA Ltd* Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 VAT Registration GB 100 1464 84 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is prohibited. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Error message in logs
I've been trying to use evernote recently as opposed to a whole bunch of txt files. Especially when I'm on a commute home and need to take some notes of an article i'm reading. So far so good. On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Gasper, Rick rickgas...@kings.edu wrote: John, Take a look at the TechNet subscription. IT will have working copies of most Microsoft software. The cost is $250 for the plus (I think). You will truly benefit by having it. That way if you want to **test** OneNote, you can. Also how does your company purchase it's Office licenses? YOU don't have to share that info, but you could update that to include OneNote. Another option would be to install a PDF writer on your system (there are free ones). Write out you notes with Word, WordPad or notepad then print to the PDF. Not as slick as OneNote, but it does the same thing. I'll often send solutions that I see here to my notebook for later review. The one thing I teach my IT classes is that you cannot know everything, but if you can find the answers you can look like you do. Rick Gasper Manager, Network Services King's College 133 N. River St Wilkes-Barre PA 18711 PH: 570-208-5845 Fax: 570-208-6072 Cell: 570-760-0335 *rickgas...@kings.edu* rickgas...@kings.edu *Don't become a phishing victim!!** * King's College and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, Social Security number or confidential personal information. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comjaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 9:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Error message in logs Ahh... I wondered what OneNote was for. :D Now I know. I don't have it on my system, but I know some of the systems with the more expensive versions of Office have it. -Original Message- From: Gasper, Rick [mailto:rickgas...@kings.edu rickgas...@kings.edu] Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 9:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Error message in logs Great suggestion. I use MS OneNote to do just that. Every time I run across an issue that I have not seen, I try to put it into an OneNote notebook. That way I can search. There is no effort learning how to use it, because you can print directly to OneNote. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comjaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com ] Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 5:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Error message in logs For the record, I found the error with a little more searching. It turns out that I appear to have had a corrupted Local GPO Database, and simply renaming the old one and creating a new one fixed it. Thanks. From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.commichealespin...@gmail.com ] Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 5:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Error message in logs You should verify that before making any assumptions. Are you familiar with the expressions that assumptions make an ass out of you and me? ( ass / u / me ) This is an expression that Systems Administrators live by. Learn it, live it, love it. Its bad ju-ju to come to a support list with unverified assumptions. Do your due diligence before posting questions and answers that aren't rooted in your own facts. -- Espi On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 5:43 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: I concur with that diagnosis. But that's the strange part. AFAIK there *are* no GPOs. At least none that I have created and installed. I suppose one of the supporting vendors could have done so. Guess I'll have to fire up GPEDIT and see what the heck is going on. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 8:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Error message in logs Sounds like a problem with Group Policy Objects. What sort of GPOs do you have applied to this server? On 1 August 2011 13:32, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: I'm getting an error message in my log files on Server 2003. The log entry is as follows: Security policies were propagated with warning. 0xb : An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. The error message says to search Microsoft for troubleshooing 1202 events. Well, apparently my search is f-ed up right now, because I can't FIND anything on Microsoft's websites about this error! The closest I can come is a KB article from Windows 2000 Server which includes commands that don't work in Windows 2003 (registry editing and then issuing a secpol /enforce... command, which is invalid in Windows 2003.) When I look at the security log file, I see the following error: Saturday, July 30, 2011 9:23:58 AM Error 11: An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. Error creating
Re: Dell BMC
What's the OS of the server? I had a similiar issue recently, although Dell has renamed the BMC to iDRAC, and needed to update the firmware via Service Console on my ESX 4.1 server. If it's windows, download the firmware update package for the BMC, apply it, reboot and see if that works out. On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Kim Longenbaugh k...@colonialsavings.comwrote: I'm not familiar with the device, so this may not apply, but here goes: Is there a place where you have to enable telnet and/or web access? -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 4:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Dell BMC Anyone have any experience with Dell's Baseboard Management Controller? I'm getting mixed information from Dell. I can't seem to get ahold of anyone in Tech Support via email. I may have to call them when I'm in front of the server so I can get them to help me set it up. I got instructions from my sales rep's Storage Specialist on how to set it up, and I thought I'd set it up right. I hit CTL+E when the prompt for configure remote access came up and gave it a static IP and enabled IPMI over LAN. Still can't telnet to that IP address. It responds to a PING on that IP address, but no telnet/web connection allowed. Just times out. If anyone has any experience with this, can you chime in? If not, I guess I'll give Dell a call eventually. Thanks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Dell BMC
My bad. I'm still getting up to speed with the Dell server management components, from the Lifecycle Controller to the USC and UEFi it's a bit blurry. I'm pretty certain the BMC has a different name since that acronym isn't on the R710 or R610's I have. PS. Gotta give credit where credit is due: if you're referring to the picture associated with my gmail account, that's Paul Newman from Road to Perdition. Love the movie, character, sartorial aesthitic and Era as a whole. On Tuesday, August 2, 2011, Joseph Heaton jhea...@dfg.ca.gov wrote: Don't think that's accurate. the DRAC has always been the DRAC (Dell Remote Access controller). The BMC is a monitoring tool, that collects motherboard info. Plus, That's some bad hat, Harry. Harry Singh hbo...@gmail.com 08/02/11 3:21 PM What's the OS of the server? I had a similiar issue recently, although Dell has renamed the BMC to iDRAC, and needed to update the firmware via Service Console on my ESX 4.1 server. If it's windows, download the firmware update package for the BMC, apply it, reboot and see if that works out. On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Kim Longenbaugh k...@colonialsavings.com wrote: I'm not familiar with the device, so this may not apply, but here goes: Is there a place where you have to enable telnet and/or web access? -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 4:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Dell BMC Anyone have any experience with Dell's Baseboard Management Controller? I'm getting mixed information from Dell. I can't seem to get ahold of anyone in Tech Support via email. I may have to call them when I'm in front of the server so I can get them to help me set it up. I got instructions from my sales rep's Storage Specialist on how to set it up, and I thought I'd set it up right. I hit CTL+E when the prompt for configure remote access came up and gave it a static IP and enabled IPMI over LAN. Still can't telnet to that IP address. It responds to a PING on that IP address, but no telnet/web connection allowed. Just times out. If anyone has any experience with this, can you chime in? If not, I guess I'll give Dell a call eventually. Thanks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: old cars (was RE: Vipre console hangs server on reboot)
That's sweet dude. good stuff. On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:51 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Like a car guy needs more prompting http://www.dragtimes.com/images/12786-1971-Datsun-510.jpg ** ** “Money shot” http://www.datsuns.com/red/2k5view8.jpg ** ** Videos – this was before my turbo upgrade (was 335 wheel HP / 315ft-lbs per Dynojet at the time). Street tires too, no slicks. http://www.datsuns.com/media/1278-edited.MPG A friend autocrossing it http://www.datsuns.com/media/Dustin-tt510-2k5.mpg ** ** And yes I drive this thing to work – it’s my driver, no garage queen! Think a dude in the Honda next to me on the street has any idea? Heck think a guy in the Corvette has any idea? MPG around town is a measly 18-19, but if I am behaved on all-highway I’ve seen as high as 29.3MPG. ** ** I am in the midst of upgrading the turbos and intercoolers (engine is back in the car, intercoolers arrive today) because being as quick as a Corvette or Viper or V8 M3 wasn’t enough. ** ** I love sleepers. ** ** Dave ** ** *From:* James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, July 29, 2011 5:43 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: old cars (was RE: Vipre console hangs server on reboot) ** ** Video please! On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 7:52 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Nope, a Datsun 510 with a twin turbo V6 from a ’93 300ZX….and the motor isn’t exactly stock J 2011/7/28 Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com Huh ? You have a 240Z with a Chevy 350 v-8 ? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: old cars (was RE: Vipre console hangs server on reboot) I have a 40yr old 400hp Datsun, also paid for :-). Our newest of 3 cars we own car is uh...14. Dave ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ** ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: I need a Landline! You read that right.
Thanks for the info Ben. When I have the time, I planned on looking for alternate solutions to Vonage. My call quality and stability hadn't been good since I made the switch over a year ago. Your options look compelling. On Friday, July 29, 2011, Ben Serebin b...@reefsolutions.com wrote: Hello All, I know this is old, but wanted to share in case it helps someone (I spent a few months determining my options and testing different solutions). I recently dropped Vonage after about 9 yrs for my home setup and switched to a significantly cheaper and more flexible solution. Vonage is too expensive (~$37/month) I didn’t need all their crazy features since it needed to be “wife friendly” (non-tech) support a standard 2 line Panasonic cordless phone. And more importantly their pricing over the last few years included double digit pricing increases for “taxes surcharges”. I also have a Google Voice I wanted to incorporate. 2 options… - Get a OBiTalk (hardware) which allows you to dial out/in via an analog or IP phone via a SIP provider or Google Voice (supports 2 SIP or phone line options or combination). Yes, your grandmother’s analog phone (needs touch tone, sorry no pulse) could be dialing out for FREE via Google Voice. http://www.obihai.com/ The folks behind OBiTalk use to work for Cisco, there hardware is rock solid stable. Very user friendly for non-VoIP people. - Use a SIP provider (I like voip.ms) since it’s very cheap and has EVERY feature you could dream of. Spoofed calling (my SPA has 6 caller ID profiles), Asterisk support, phone trees, e911 or no e911 to save the money. If you’re really smart thrifty, you get e911 on 1 line and none on line 2 and do call routing when someone dials 911. You can get almost unlimited national for $4.95 INCLUDING ALL TAXES SURCHARGES. And it’s 6 sec billing. E911 is $1.50 extra a month. You can port #’s over (adds $2 a month), etc. I love these guys. I have extra DIDs for $0.99 a month. It’s mind blowing. FYI: I have an OBi110 (it’s so popular – people scalp them) a Cisco SPA509G IP phone. Enjoy, -Ben From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 3:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: I need a Landline! You read that right. So… Thought I’d build a nice new home office in the basement. After layers of new insulation, soundproofing, and drywall, my cell phone no longer works down there! Oops :-\ Considering how much I telecommute, I need to get some sort of landline installed. VOIP/SIP/Digital through Comcast, I’m considering it all. But, I’m not too well versed on the options avail. I still support an old PBX at our office, and built a SIP fax service/server, but my telco experience is pretty limited outside of that. I’d like to avoid Comcast (Personal reasons and I often cancel it and go through our Municipal WiFi). Any suggestions you guys have off the top of your head? A good service that sticks out that you would like to plug? Something that incorporated with Google Voice would be a plus… (Not sure anything does). I do use the new Sprint/Google Voice offering, so I can mask the new number with my Sprint number, and I can easily have my Sprint number ring the new number too. Thanks. Open to ideas. -Sam ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: old cars (was RE: Vipre console hangs server on reboot)
Would love to see pics of the 47 Ford someone posted about earlier. The GTR is a monster. Congrats. On Thursday, July 28, 2011, Eric Wittersheim eric.wittersh...@gmail.com wrote: I meant to say that I pull. On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Eric Wittersheim eric.wittersh...@gmail.com wrote: Ha. I pulled a 300 MP Raptor 5er. Mine is a 35 foot. Just got it this year, love it. On Jul 28, 2011 8:37 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: I have the same exact rig. Use it to pull a 38ft Keystone Raptor 5th wheel. - Sean On Jul 28, 2011, at 12:20 PM, Eric Wittersheim eric.wittersh...@gmail.com wrote: 2008 GMC Sierra 3500 Duramax Dually On Jul 28, 2011 3:17 PM, Gary Slinger gary.slin...@gmail.com wrote: Neither am I now. B*stard. :) On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:13 PM, kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: I have just invested in a nissan GTR which means my wife is not talking to me :-( Sent from my POS BlackBerry wireless device, which may wipe itself at any moment -- *From: * Evan Brastow ebras...@automatedemblem.com *Date: *Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:12:52 + *To: *NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *ReplyTo: * NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Subject: *RE: old cars (was RE: Vipre console hangs server on reboot) Nice! 2010 Infiniti G37x here. ** ** (I didn't want to share in the bashing previously as I've asked my share of dumb questions on this list.) ** ** Evan ** ** ** ** *From:* Gary Slinger [mailto:gary.slin...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, July 28, 2011 2:30 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: old cars (was RE: Vipre console hangs server on reboot) ** ** 2011 Infiniti G37S, currently with no speeding tickets :) On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.com wrote: 18 year old Mazda 626, 10 year old Subaru Forester, and a 6 year old Dodge Dakota. -Paul -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 9:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: old cars (was RE: Vipre console hangs server on reboot) I have a 40yr old 400hp Datsun, also paid for :-). Our newest of 3 cars we own car is uh...14. Dave -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Serial-to-USB Kit
I believe the OP needs a USB termination on non-serial end in order to connect to a laptop that has no serial connections built-in. If you find a kit for all these connections, please let me know. I've had to buy each separately. On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote: Standard serial port is a db-9 male, db-9 female is usually a modem port. Sounds like either you simply need a serial extender cable (db-9m-db-9f) or a null modem cable ( with db-9m db-9f ends ) depending on your device's port configuration. On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:21 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote: Here we go again, but I'm looking (really am - at New Egg, Tiger Direct, and CDW) for a kit rather than an adapter. I am faced with an assortment of DB-9 male, DB-9 female, and RJ-45 console ports (assorted network and storage devices). All are expected to plug into a serial port on a console for configuration. (I am currently faced with needing a DB-9 female end, and what I've come across so far is all DB-9 male.) Anyone know (part number or catalog number especially welcome) of a kit with an assortment of modules so that one can plug one of its end pieces to the end of a cable terminating in a USB at the other end? This digging around gets to be really annoying! Thanks! -- richard ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: OT: 2-Post Rack Owners...
Thanks for the visual James.The 2 post back to back is something new, how deep did you install the 2nd rack? for the server you have mounted, is that on rails ? 4 post rails i would assume? On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:26 AM, James Kerr cluster...@gmail.com wrote: 4 post open racks are connected to one another at the bottom, so there! On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:52 AM, James Kerr cluster...@gmail.com wrote: I use two post racks myself but I place one behind the other. Isn't that normally called a 4-post open rack? ;-) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
OT: 2-Post Rack Owners...
I have 2-post racks by CPI Chatsworth and have generally used shelves (sliding and static) to mount my equipment. My question(s) to all is: What kind of shelving and just general supplies are you using on for these? As one example, I'm finding it difficult to fasten the backside of the post when mounting a new server (even with an elongated phillips bit) Curious to know of what's in use out there, from cable management, cable identifiers, helpful tools, possible useful add-ons, etc? I'm sure some of you are leveraging these kind of racks in a certain and less-time consuming manner. Thanks, Harry. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes
The more I read into this the more you are right. vRAM entitlement based on license type AND CPU count. You're limited by the amount of RAM you provide to your VM's. If you have an Enterprise license and 2 hosts with dual CPU's, you'll have a total of 128GB of pooled vRAM available to all your VM's. Assign and Allocate at your own risk. Outside of the licensing piece -- the one real grey area for me is: What's the upgrade path to ESXi for those of us running 4.0/4.1? Apparently, there isn't a service console anymore, and that just doesn't seem like a clean downgrade (upgrade?) Guess I've just assigned myself some fun summer reading!! On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Kramer, Jack jack.kra...@ur.msu.eduwrote: Remember, there are downgrade rights – you can buy vSphere 5 licenses and downgrade to the 4.1 version. Jack Kramer Manager of Information Technology University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:12:52 -0400 To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes Actually, you have 30 days. You can’t buy any more 4.1 after 30 more days. ** ** Regards, ** ** Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com ** ** *From:* Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.ukpaul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] *Sent:* Wednesday, July 13, 2011 9:05 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes ** ** I expect that Xen/Hyper-V will soon decide they want a piece of the pie.** ** ** ** The kye point here is that 4.1 isn’t going to stop working and will be supported for a long time to come, so it’s not like we have to decide what to do now, as I understand it. ** ** It strikes me that as a small shop (in vSphere terms) we’re “better” off I suspect than a shop with Enterprise licenses and 250gb/ram per host – it suggests true big enterprise customers will be far more badly hit than SMB’s. *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. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- *MIRA Ltd* ** ** Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 VAT Registration GB 100 1464 84 ** ** The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is prohibited. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage
Re: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes
I could be missing something in the article entirely, but where are you guys reading that the vRAM requirement per CPU will be 24GB ? I have 3 hosts with DUAL CPU sockets (quad core each) and 72GB RAM on each. I'm really curious on how much that will cost in a vSphere 5 world. Especially more since I have up until 8/22 to purchase 4.1. On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Make that DUAL CPU (with quad core for older boxes, and six-core for newer boxes). Remember, SMB just refers to a level of revenue and/or employee size. And focus on the M rather than the S (although my current org is more S than M) * * *ASB* *http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.comwrote: Depends on how you define SMB I work for/with two that do. For most workloads, RAM is more of a bottleneck than CPU, and in a heavily virtualized environment, you're going to see lots of RAM. We have 4 VSphere hosts that we just upgraded to 120GB of RAM -- quad core boxes... Plus two new ones with 144GB, also quad core. * * *ASB* *http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: How many SMBs run more than 24GB per proc now? I honestly can't see that many that would. I'm licensed for 6 proc's, meaning in my environment I could run a total of 144GB . I don't see this being a big deal for us in the SMB space. My hosts have less memory than the processor limit, as it is. Will this increase overtime? Likely. On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com wrote: 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. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
