RE: ( OT ) Convert mA to Watts
Am I the only one who remembers ELI the ICE man? Voltage (e) leads current (i) in an inductor (L) and current (i) leads voltage (e) in a capacitor (C). Must have been the old Navy guy teaching electronics in high school. http://www.electronicstheory.com/html/e101-31.htm Doug Hilderbrand | Systems Analyst, Information Technology | Crane Aerospace Electronics From: Ken Cornetet [mailto:ken.corne...@kimball.com] Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 1:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ( OT ) Convert mA to Watts Power factor is a bit difficult to explain, but here goes: Ohm's law: Volts = Amps * resistance Watts = Volts * Amps or substituting, Watts = Volts squared / resistance. Power factor is the ratio of real power divided by the apparent power. Under what circumstances do real and apparent power differ from each other? There are two reasons for this: 1. A nonlinear load (like something with rectifiers) will present a resistance that appears to vary with the instantaneous voltage. For a sinusoidal alternating voltage, this leads to a non-sinusoidal current, which creates a non-sinusoidal power. This non sinusoidal power will deliver less average power than the equivalent sinusoidal power. 2. A reactive load (capacitive and inductive) will have a sinusoidal current, but it will lead or lag the voltage. This means that any instantaneous power (voltage * current) will be less than the average voltage times the average current. This means that with a power factor, you get less work (power) for a given voltage and current. In other words, a load with a power factor less than 1 requires more push (current) to get the same amount of work done as a load with a power factor of one. A real world example: Let's say you have a UPS running on batteries that produces 120V AC. This feeds a reactive load that draws 60 Watts at a power factor of .5. This means that your battery is supply 60 Watts of power (assuming 100% UPS efficiency), BUT your UPS is delivering a current of 1 Amp (not 60/120 or .5 Amps) because of the power factor. This is why UPS are rated in VA instead of Watts. Ken Cornetet 812.482.8499 To err is human - to moo, bovine. From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 12:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ( OT ) Convert mA to Watts You lost me at factor. On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Stefan Jafs stefan.j...@gmail.com wrote: I guess the big unknown is the PF, I assumed 60% (based on Googeling), the is a power supply, would it not be higher for a transformer load? To continue the water analogy, power factor is like a big reserve tank right before the water tap. It can cause your water demand to be out-of-sync with the apparent water usage (coming out of the tap). You run the faucet for a bit, and the tank starts to drain, but the supply pipe isn't touched. Then the tank starts to fill, pulling from the supply pipe. Then you shut the faucet off, but the tank keeps filling. Or so I'm given to understand; the actual mechanism behind power factor is magic to me. I know a purely resistive load -- like a space heater -- has a power factor of 1.0. Inductive loads are reactive, whatever that means. :) Apparently AC motors are inductive. Rectifiers -- like in an AC-DC power supply, such as in a PC -- are also apparently reactive. Power factor correction helps turn equipment with a lower power factor into something with a higher power factor. The numbers I usually see pulled out of the air for PC power supply units are 0.6 PF for a standard PSU, and 0.9 PF for a PFC PSU. I have no idea how much things vary in practice. -- 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 Check out the new Crane Aerospace Electronics Newsroom! http://newsroom.craneae.com Like us on Facebook!
RE: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords
Find and listen to Steve Gibson's explanation of his password haystacks concept which this cartoon was based on. I think he's spot on. Password length wins over complexity. Put both together and there's not enough petaflops in the universe to crack the password. My opinion, YMMV. Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte do a weekly podcast on security. The last couple have focused on how the internet works IP packets, tcp and udp protocols and such which is pretty old hat for us admin types, but I find the information Steve gives out to be fascinating. He gives blow-by-blow explanations of hacks in the news, recent patches (MS and Adobe keep being the top topics) plus other stuff creeps in too. Definitely look up his portable dog killer and Vitamin D episodes. SPCA note: no animals were harmed in the portable dog killer episode. Steve Gibson is one of my heroes. Sigh. Or would be if I actually had heroes. If the name is not familiar, he's the guy who wrote SpinRite. http://twit.tv/sn http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm Doug Hilderbrand | Systems Analyst, Information Technology | Crane Aerospace Electronics From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 2:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords http://xkcd.com/936/# http://xkcd.com/936/ Yet, very pertinent. ASB http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.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
RE: Why not failwords?
Half the stuff I do now every day *was* in the realm of science fiction. insert sound of Kirk flipping open his communicator Doug Hilderbrand | Systems Analyst, Information Technology | Crane Aerospace Electronics Work: 425-743-8172 | Mobile: 425-835-DOUG(3684) From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 10:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Why not failwords? Until now, this concept has been the realm of science fiction and spy movies. Off-hand, I can't think of any reason not to do it either. I would love to see it implemented in modern OSes, and critical business apps. ASB http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Hilderbrand, Doug doug.hilderbr...@craneaerospace.com wrote: I was just reading all those emails about making hard to crack passwords (Almost but not quite OT: Passwords). I like Steve Gibson's analysis of why long passwords are harder to brute force crack than shorter complex ones. But, I wonder... Why hasn't anyone implemented fail words? Two or more passwords associated with your account or whatever. One you use for normal access and is as hard to crack as you can make it and still be memorable. Then another password that would be easy(er) to crack that triggers some event? Here are a few scenarios I can think of off the top of my head: [] Bank manager forced to open the vault at gunpoint. Use the failword. Opens the vault and rings the silent alarm. [] Someone tries to login to your PayPal or bank account and tries your failword. They get the usual bad password result, but you get a text message on your cell phone. [] Someone tries to unlock your iPhone. They try the failword and it gets locked until you send it a special email or text or 24 hours expire, etc. Is there some reason this is a bad idea? I can't think of any... Doug Hilderbrand | Systems Analyst, Information Technology | Crane Aerospace Electronics ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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
RE: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords
My perhaps misguided praise of SG aside, I still think he nailed the short and complex versus long password issue. I use long teens and twenties long character passwords at work with upper/lower case, numbers and punctuation. They're based on phrases, but look like gibberish. Though as Steve suggests with his password haystack idea, I'm starting to pad some of my older shorter passwords with extra characters. Not always the same character and not always at the end. If guessing a password doesn't work, brute force is all that's left. And I like LastPass. I know they were in the news. They responded to the *possibility* of a hack exactly as a security company should have. Doug Hilderbrand | Systems Analyst, Information Technology | Crane Aerospace Electronics From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 10:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords I was waiting for someone else to step up. Glad to see I'm not disappointed. On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:39 PM, William Robbins dangerw...@gmail.com wrote: Steve Gibson? Seriously? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/21/wmf_fud_from_grc/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/25/steve_gibson_really_is_off/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/12/security_geek_developing_winxp_r aw/ http://www.myharddrivedied.com/blog/why-spinrite-not-my-data-recovery-so ftware-list http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/ http://allthatiswrong.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/steve-gibson-is-a-fraud/ - WJR On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:05, Hilderbrand, Doug doug.hilderbr...@craneaerospace.com wrote: Find and listen to Steve Gibson's explanation of his password haystacks concept which this cartoon was based on. I think he's spot on. Password length wins over complexity. Put both together and there's not enough petaflops in the universe to crack the password. My opinion, YMMV. Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte do a weekly podcast on security. The last couple have focused on how the internet works IP packets, tcp and udp protocols and such which is pretty old hat for us admin types, but I find the information Steve gives out to be fascinating. He gives blow-by-blow explanations of hacks in the news, recent patches (MS and Adobe keep being the top topics) plus other stuff creeps in too. Definitely look up his portable dog killer and Vitamin D episodes. SPCA note: no animals were harmed in the portable dog killer episode. Steve Gibson is one of my heroes. Sigh. Or would be if I actually had heroes. If the name is not familiar, he's the guy who wrote SpinRite. http://twit.tv/sn http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm Doug Hilderbrand | Systems Analyst, Information Technology | Crane Aerospace Electronics From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 2:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords http://xkcd.com/936/# http://xkcd.com/936/ Yet, very pertinent. ASB http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.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/1 63305413682908 ! We value your opinion! http://www.craneae.com/surveys/satisfaction.htm How may we serve you better? Please click the survey link to tell us how we are doing: http://www.craneae.com/surveys/satisfaction.htm http://www.craneae.com/surveys/satisfaction.htm 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
RE: Why not failwords?
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
RE: Why not failwords?
I'd say pretty much everything is becoming a computing environment. I guess I'm saying that whether implemented or not maybe failwords need to be built in from the ground up. To enable the user who has access to the multi-million dollar stock account to use a failword, the infrastructure would need to be there for the little guy like me. At the local hardware/ big box store 5 tries and you're out is fine. Maybe not at the bank. Are we so fixated on low hanging fruit that we can't set our sights any higher? I've never found that we've always done it that way was a good reason for anything. By itself. I do realize that inertia is a force of nature. Doug Hilderbrand | Systems Analyst, Information Technology | Crane Aerospace Electronics Work: 425-743-8172 | Mobile: 425-835-DOUG(3684) -Original Message- From: Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 11:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: 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
RE: non-local admin revisited
I am a local admin on my Win7 pc with UAC in default state. Admin tasks cause the UAC popup but all I have to do is acknowledge it, not supply a password every time. I have a homespun launcher app that I start with a runas /user:%mydomainadminaccount% to launch remote admin tools. When there is something I use so often that even one click to acknowledge is annoying, I create a scheduled task (with no trigger) for it that has the Run-with-highest-privileges set, then launch a shortcut to the task. This is the most convenient yet reasonably secure setup that I have found. Oh, I have found one or two things (like conflicting security tokens when accessing shares on a server) that require a Win7 ctrl-alt-delete switch user to get around. Doug Hilderbrand | Systems Analyst, Information Technology | Crane Aerospace Electronics From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 2:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: non-local admin revisited I run with a non-privileged account on my Win7 workstation and have an admin account that I supply to UAC whenever I need to run anything with higher-level privileges. This works great for me, I am happy that I can't be tricked into anything without seeing the prompt. It's a little annoying when I have to launch a Citrix Delivery Services Console, a custom MMC and a PowerShell window with Run as administrator every time I log in, but that's the trade-off for higher security. I also like the way Restricted Groups GPOs blat the whole group down rather than appending and we use this in addition to dual accounts and UAC. It certainly ensures the only people with local admin access to our workstations or servers are the accounts that we have deigned shall have it. On 20 July 2011 10:19, Paul Hutchings paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk wrote: Yeah, I wasn't too clear from David's post though if it hat was the intention or if it was to try and stop people throwing on whatever they want. I'd either go with UAC or have a local account on each machine and use it for Run As when needed - I've not played too much with restricted groups but AFAIK it overwrites the local admins group rather than appending it which I'd find a little (pardon the pun) restrictive. Paul From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: 20 July 2011 01:08 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: non-local admin revisited Reduce risks related to system infection... ASB http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Paul Hutchings paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk wrote: What's your reason for wanting to do it? From: David Lum [david@nwea.org] Sent: 19 July 2011 6:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: non-local admin revisited How do you bigger org's handle IT staff (DBA's and the like) not being local admins on their systems? Invariably they are used to throwing on whatever they want and in some ways this helps the Help desk so they're not called to install stuff the user can install. As we move to Windows 7 my recommendation is to yank local admin perms at the same time (yes everyone is local admin on their XP systems currently), but I foresee pushback from Service Desk and IT folks... 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 -- 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
RE: Seizing ownership changes modification date, and that is bad ...
My 2 cents: Use a backup and restore program so it uses Backup Admins group to back up all files in question regardless of access rights. Restore twice to 2 different disks; one to vault and preserve pristine and one for them to play with. Doug Hilderbrand | Systems Analyst, Information Technology | Crane Aerospace Electronics -Original Message- From: Mike Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 6:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Seizing ownership changes modification date, and that is bad ... In the course of a lawsuit, I need to provide copies of some user home folders. These folders are set so that the user in question is the owner, and no one else has access on the NTFS permissions. (it's a home folder, after all). So the problem comes in when I do a restore of these folders to a new location for the lawyers. They want to copy the files onto a portable hard drive they bring with them. Of course, in order to do this, I have to seize ownership and put my account on the security, else I can't read the files at all (the folders are set to not inherit permissions). This changes the modification date to the date I do the seizing, and that upsets the lawyers. And I can't really think of a way around that. I can't change the original folder security, and my backup program (EMC Networker) doesn't have an option to restore without Windows security. And the lawyers don't want the tape with the backup on it - they have to have it on their external drive. I can't think of a way they can copy the folders to their external drive that doesn't include me seizing ownership and therefore screwing up the modification date. Anyone? 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 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
RE: Win7 UAC - is your on or off?
I have a few apps that prompt me every time I run them. For the 2 apps that trip UAC every time I run them (for no discernable reason: I think it's because of a localmachine registry key), I: * created a scheduled task (with no trigger) * turned on the Run with highest privileges option * created shortcut to C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe /run /tn Taskname No UAC prompt. Doug Hilderbrand | Systems Analyst, Information Technology | Crane Aerospace Electronics -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 8:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Win7 UAC - is your on or off? I'm an admin on my own machine, but I still have UAC running. I have a few apps that prompt me everytime I run them. David Lum david@nwea.org 06/30/11 7:34 AM Do any of you turn this off? I had our Service Desk Manager look at me like I had two heads when I told him I don't turn mine off and I asked yours is off? and he answered It's me, I know when I am doing something to my system I swear I read somewhere there is good reason to keep UAC on and just throttle down the prompts (with Win7 I've left it at default), but I'll be damned if I can find it at the moment. I thought it was a Minasi or other level of author. Desmond? 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 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
RE: Social Engineering Survey - Win the new iPad II
Do I win the iPad if I reply to you directly and not click on an embedded link I’m not sure of? Doug Hilderbrand | Systems Analyst, Information Technology | Crane Aerospace Electronics Work: 425-743-8172 | Mobile: 425-835-DOUG(3684) From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 7:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Social Engineering Survey - Win the new iPad II Importance: High Hi Guys, I'd love to get your input about social engineering. Could you take a minute and give me your feedback? All participants will be entered in a draw for the new iPad II Thanks so much! http://www.knowbe4.com/social-engineering-survey-2/ Warm regards, Stu ... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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
RE: A real puzzler...
Try this trick from a previous ntsysadmin post. I bet you have a phantom nic on
that DC.
snip
I never heard of this before, and just read it on the NT Sys Admin news feed.
…To work around this behavior and display phantom devices when you use the Show
hidden devices command:
Click Start, click Run, type cmd.exe, and then press ENTER.
Type set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1, and then press ENTER.
Type Start DEVMGMT.MSC, and then press ENTER.
Click View, and then click Show Hidden Devices.
Expand the Network Adapters tree.
Right-click the dimmed network adapter, and then click Uninstall.
Definitely going into my bag o’ tricks.
snip
Doug Hilderbrand | Systems Analyst, Information Technology | Crane Aerospace
Electronics
-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 4:49 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: A real puzzler...
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 16:17, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
So, I'm away from the office in a VMWare class, and find that the
part time IT guy in the office did a test, and it seems to confirm
that the DC is holding onto 192.168.61.30.
Well, that narrows it down quite a bit, which is a good thing.
Did you ever try ipconfig /all and/or checking RRAS (Routing and
Remote Access) on the suspect DC? I remember RRAS holding on to an IP
address confused my minion once.
-- Ben
I did check those - RRAS has never been configured, and the results of your
suggested tests are below:
H:\ipconfig /all
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : auad1
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : example.com
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : example.com
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/1000 MT Network Connection
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-14-22-21-B2-87
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.61.31
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.61.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.61.31
192.168.10.191
Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 192.168.61.31
Secondary WINS Server . . . . . . : 192.168.10.191
H:\getmac
Physical AddressTransport Name
=== ==
00-14-22-21-B2-87 \Device\Tcpip_{872C9721-6C4B-41FB-9D0F-53C3F8FDB82E}
DisabledDisconnected
H:\netsh -c interface show interface
Admin StateState Type Interface Name
-
EnabledUnreachableDedicatedLocal Area Connection
EnabledUnreachableDedicatedLocal Area Connection 2
EnabledUnreachableInternal Internal
EnabledUnreachableLoopback Loopback
H:\netsh -c interface show alias
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RE: Speaking of Drobo ... (was: SAN question)
As I understand it, a Drobo will intelligently use a combination of raid5 and mirroring. If you have one 500 GB, one 2 TB and two 1 TB drives, You'll wind up with a 3 disk raid 5 across the two 1 TB and half of the 2 TB, plus a mirror of the 500 GB with half space the remaining on the 2 TB drive. 2 TB usable on raid 5 and 500 GB usable on mirror. 2.5 TB total. Pull the 500 GB and put in a 2 TB and it will do a 4 disk raid 5 and a mirror of the remaining 1 GB on each of the large drives. 3 TB usable on raid 5 and 1 TB usable on mirror. 4 TB total. I have no idea how it manages to push the bits around to accomplish that. Or how raid 6 fits into the picture. From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 8:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Speaking of Drobo ... (was: SAN question) Pretty sure raid on the Drobo defined by the smallest drive in the array. So if you have 3 2TB drive and 1 1TB drive you will only get around 3TB of storage. From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 10:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Speaking of Drobo ... (was: SAN question) Ok, so it SEEMS like a really cool device, but I honestly haven't looked at it seriously since the device first came out a couple of years ago. When I first looked at it, I was like, ok, now THAT's COOL. However, after thinking about it some, it just seemed like some black magic under the covers to get their BeyondRAID to work. When I originally looked at it, I couldn't find any technical detail on how the product *really* worked, as that was proprietary (understandably so, but still, how am I going to get comfortable with it as a sysadmin, especially at the price if I'm on a budget - it would be an expensive toy. Traditional RAID is just much more comforting to me. If you have a big issue with multiple drives of different sizes on a drobo unit, how is data recovery going to go for you? If the controller fails, and you don't have a support agreement, you can't just go on serversuply.com and get parts... Does anyone here have any experience with data recovery on a failed drobo, or for that matter, simply a failed drive within a drobo where you had drives of different sizes in the configuration? I know backup, backup, backup, but what if the backup doesn't work (or the customer/end user didn't heed your advice)? Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com BLOCKED::mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.com BLOCKED::http://www.eaglemds.com/ From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 11:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SAN question +1 Going back to a previous comment of mine in another thread you started. Have you messed with OpenFiler, yet? You'll learn a lot. Also, based on your pretty low requirements, have you looked at the DroboElite? If it had been available when I started looking, I very well could've gone in this direction. As it is, I'm seriously considering it for backup duty. Storage for a backup server, and the ability to use it in a pinch if my EqualLogic goes down. On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle jra...@eaglemds.com wrote: John - I do not believe that we can help you significantly with this question. In the end, it really doesn't matter what any of us think, because our environments are all different and unique. What works well and may be appropriate for any of us, may be a horrible fit for you and cause you nothing but heartburn and stress. However, I would tend to agree with Niles. If you're not ready for a SAN, don't spend the money on it now. You really need to have a serious sit-down with the vendors/sales engineers (notice I said ENGINEER, not REP) of the different hardware, learn as much as you can from THEM, and ask LOTS of questions. Then ask them why you should choose their product over x, y, or z product. Take lots of notes, and then do the same thing all over again, no more than a few days apart so everything is still fresh in your head. Many times, some of the best education I've gotten has been from the manufacturers themselves. I've actually been to the EMC manufacturing facility in North Carolina - I spent two days there, on THEIR DIME to learn about their products (I had to get there back, but after that, everything was on them). If you say to them, I'd like an education on how your product works and whether or not it would be suitable for my needs and my applications., you'll generally get plenty of intelligent people that will be happy to answer your questions. If they don't ask lots of questions about your environment and what your needs are, you're talking to the wrong people. I believe that the purpose of this list is really a, I'm having
RE: re: Scripting -- How to Echo Spaces???
Nah. The truly easiest approach is:
echo. filename
Echono-spaceplain-old-period space
From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 10:42 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: re: Scripting -- How to Echo Spaces???
Easiest Approach
ECHO ALT-255 C:\Temp\FileName.TXT
{where ALT-255 is the actual character, not that whole text}
-ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Derrenbacker, L. Jonathan
jderrenbac...@kshgs.com wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Derrenbacker, L. Jonathan
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 1:17 PM
To: 'ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com'
Subject: re: Scripting -- How to Echo Spaces???
Thanks for everyones responses!
I gave a bad example of what I'm trying to do.
I'm trying to echo spaces on a line by itself, not after text.
Sorry about that.
Echoing spaces after text does work. Echoing spaces, by themselves,
doesn't see to.
Better example:
---
Echo line1 bla bla bla test.txt
Echotext.txt
Echo line3 bla bla bla test.txt
It needs to actually be spaces, not a line break.
I'm feeding the created .txt file into another program that needs spaces
sent to it.
Thanks again,
Jon
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com
wrote:
2.Set a variable that is longer, and only output a specific number of
Smart idea. I tried it, example below, but it outputs ECHO is on.
If I let it include the end 1's it echos out the spaces and 1's.
Weird
-
SET spaces=zz11
SET spaces=%spaces:~2,10%
echo %spaces% test.txt
-
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com
wrote:
Here are some options:
1. Make the last space character ALT-255
2. Set a variable that is longer, and only output a specific number
of
characters
The way you have written it should output the space to the file.
-ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Derrenbacker, L. Jonathan
jderrenbac...@kshgs.com wrote:
This seems so simple, but I'm stuck.
I'm writing a new bat file in windows and I need to echo spaces to a
file.
For example:
echo bla bla bla spacespacespacespace results.txt
Anyone know how to echo a space?
I've tried $S, I've tried putting around spaces, I've tried echo
#032;
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Jon
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RE: Scripting -- How to Echo Spaces???
Try: echo. junk.txt dir junk.txt 06/29/2010 05:35 PM13 junk.txt Typing junk.text shows no period. -Original Message- From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 10:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scripting -- How to Echo Spaces??? echo. abc.txt abc.txt now contains a line with one space and a newline. Tested on Windows 7 only so YMMV. Carl -Original Message- From: Derrenbacker, L. Jonathan [mailto:jderrenbac...@kshgs.com] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 1:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: re: Scripting -- How to Echo Spaces??? Thanks for everyones responses! I gave a bad example of what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to echo spaces on a line by itself, not after text. Sorry about that. Echoing spaces after text does work. Echoing spaces, by themselves, doesn't see to. Better example: --- Echo line1 bla bla bla test.txt Echotext.txt Echo line3 bla bla bla test.txt It needs to actually be spaces, not a line break. I'm feeding the created .txt file into another program that needs spaces sent to it. Thanks again, Jon On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Here are some options: 1. Make the last space character ALT-255 2. Set a variable that is longer, and only output a specific number of characters The way you have written it should output the space to the file. -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Derrenbacker, L. Jonathan jderrenbac...@kshgs.com wrote: This seems so simple, but I'm stuck. I'm writing a new bat file in windows and I need to echo spaces to a file. For example: echo bla bla bla spacespacespacespace results.txt Anyone know how to echo a space? I've tried $S, I've tried putting around spaces, I've tried echo #032; Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Jon ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ 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/ ~
Any suggestions for undeleting emails from a purged Outlook deleted items folder in a pst file?
I was working for an afterhours customer and instinctively emptied their Outlook deleted items folder. What a mistake. They needed some of the files, they just wanted them out of the inbox. I gotta watch that itchy delete finger. Any ideas? I know that a pst is really a little database file and stuff doesn't get deleted until you compact it. But how do you surface the deleted files again? 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/ ~
RE: Any suggestions for undeleting emails from a purged Outlook deleted items folder in a pst file?
I'm looking into OutlookFix Repair and Undelete 1.01 right now, but the word demo is in the downloaded filename, so I have my doubts. http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Email_Tools/Misc__Mail_Tools/OutlookF IX_Repair_and_Undelete.html -Original Message- From: Hilderbrand, Doug [mailto:doug.hilderbr...@craneaerospace.com] Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 2:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Any suggestions for undeleting emails from a purged Outlook deleted items folder in a pst file? I was working for an afterhours customer and instinctively emptied their Outlook deleted items folder. What a mistake. They needed some of the files, they just wanted them out of the inbox. I gotta watch that itchy delete finger. Any ideas? I know that a pst is really a little database file and stuff doesn't get deleted until you compact it. But how do you surface the deleted files again? 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/ ~
RE: NTFS permissions issue
Make a batch file using xcacls.exe from the Microsoft resource kit. It dates back to NT4 days, but still works great. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: NTFS permissions issue On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:29, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:16 PM, jesse-r...@wi.rr.com jesse-r...@wi.rr.com wrote: Is there ANYWAY I can setup the subfolders so that when I create new department folders, I can copy another folder's subfolders into the newly created folder, and NOT have the subfolder's copied permissions get overwritten by the folder inheritence of the newly created departmental folder? ROBOCOPY /COPYALL will copy permissions to the target. That'll work, but if the two departments need the permissions to be in the same style but with different groups, that's not the way to fly. For instance, if directory1 needs permissions for managers and staff of department1, but directory2 needs permissions for managers and staff of department2, robocopy won't do the trick. Fileacl and others will allow you to export the permissions from old directory, search/replace for directories and groups, then apply the massaged permissions to the new directory. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ 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/ ~
RE: [OT] web - HDTV
I have Comcast and have been trying to figure this one out too. I think what is happening is that the analog TV spectrum has been sold to make $$ for our benevolent government. Terrestrial signals in that spectrum will now be cellular, emergency services etc, etc, etc. Those things are not going to be carried on TV cable systems of course, leaving a big unused spectrum not making any money for Comcast. So they decided to put digital TV (pay-per-view?) in the old analog spectrum which HDTV systems are not equipped to tune. To use it you need some kind of set-top box. Thank you Comcast From: Daniel Rodriguez [mailto:drod...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 5:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [OT] web - HDTV Why can't you get one of the Hauppage HDTV USB device. From what I read, they can received Analog and Digital. The one with the cable coax connection should work. And if you look around you can get one of those type devices for around $50. On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote: not sure about your area, but comcast where I live is going to transition their channels above channel 27 to digital transmission over cable on October 13th, requiring their digital box to view those stations. ( The digital channel transmission takes less cable bandwidth than the current analog channels, and they intend on using the newly re-gained bandwidth for on-demand and other pay based content. I currently have a WinXP based Media Center PC with tuner card and I'm gonna loose the ability to view stations above channel 27 when they make the switch. I don't know if there's a 'cable card' version of tuner available that would work for this now ... Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security From: G.Waleed Kavalec [mailto:kava...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 11:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [OT] web - HDTV My wife and I are looking at a Samsung 40 HDTV (UN40B7000 probably) and I'd like to be able to easily toggle into various web channels now available. Anyone already doing this? What is the easiest (and most spouse friendly) way to do it? I have Comcast for both TV and Internet, and I'm open to dedicating a PC to the job. -- -- Gregory Waleed Kavalec - What matters?... Only the flicker of light within the darkness, the feeling of warmth within the cold, the knowledge of love within the void. - Joan Walsh Anglund 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/ ~
RE: [OT] web - HDTV
Hey, why don't newly manufactured HDTV's come not with dual analog/digital tuners, but with digital/analog-band-digital tuners? From: Hilderbrand, Doug [mailto:doug.hilderbr...@craneaerospace.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 5:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT] web - HDTV I have Comcast and have been trying to figure this one out too. I think what is happening is that the analog TV spectrum has been sold to make $$ for our benevolent government. Terrestrial signals in that spectrum will now be cellular, emergency services etc, etc, etc. Those things are not going to be carried on TV cable systems of course, leaving a big unused spectrum not making any money for Comcast. So they decided to put digital TV (pay-per-view?) in the old analog spectrum which HDTV systems are not equipped to tune. To use it you need some kind of set-top box. Thank you Comcast From: Daniel Rodriguez [mailto:drod...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 5:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: [OT] web - HDTV Why can't you get one of the Hauppage HDTV USB device. From what I read, they can received Analog and Digital. The one with the cable coax connection should work. And if you look around you can get one of those type devices for around $50. On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote: not sure about your area, but comcast where I live is going to transition their channels above channel 27 to digital transmission over cable on October 13th, requiring their digital box to view those stations. ( The digital channel transmission takes less cable bandwidth than the current analog channels, and they intend on using the newly re-gained bandwidth for on-demand and other pay based content. I currently have a WinXP based Media Center PC with tuner card and I'm gonna loose the ability to view stations above channel 27 when they make the switch. I don't know if there's a 'cable card' version of tuner available that would work for this now ... Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security From: G.Waleed Kavalec [mailto:kava...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 11:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [OT] web - HDTV My wife and I are looking at a Samsung 40 HDTV (UN40B7000 probably) and I'd like to be able to easily toggle into various web channels now available. Anyone already doing this? What is the easiest (and most spouse friendly) way to do it? I have Comcast for both TV and Internet, and I'm open to dedicating a PC to the job. -- -- Gregory Waleed Kavalec - What matters?... Only the flicker of light within the darkness, the feeling of warmth within the cold, the knowledge of love within the void. - Joan Walsh Anglund We value your opinion! http://www.craneae.com/surveys/satisfaction.htm How may we serve you better?Please click the survey link to tell us how we are doing: http://www.craneae.com/surveys/satisfaction.htm http://www.craneae.com/surveys/satisfaction.htm http://www.craneae.com/surveys/satisfaction.htm 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
RE: Detecting virtual machines
I use vbscript/WMI to remotely query server info including BIOS. My server BIOS info reads like VMware Virtual Platform 6.00. I put it into a for loop to query groups of computers. You can probably rewrite it for your purposes. type model.vbs On Error Resume Next set oArgs = wscript.Arguments strComputer = oArgs(0) if strComputer = then strComputer = . end if Set objWMIService = GetObject(winmgmts:\\ strComputer \root\cimv2) Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery(Select * from Win32_ComputerSystem,,48) For Each objItem in colItems StrDomain = objItem.Domain StrModel = objItem.Model strName = objItem.Name StrProcs = objItem.NumberOfProcessors Next Set colEnclosureItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery(Select * from Win32_SystemEnclosure,,48) For Each objItem in colEnclosureItems StrSerNo = objItem.SerialNumber StrAsset = objItem.SMBIOSAssetTag If StrSerNo = Then StrSerNo = VbTab If StrSerNo = Then StrSerNo = If StrAsset = Then StrAsset = If StrAsset = Then StrAsset = Next Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery(Select * from Win32_BIOS,,48) For Each objItem in colItems strBios2 = objItem.SMBIOSBIOSVersion strBios3 = objItem.Version Next strComputer = strComputer + strComputer = Left(strComputer,16) Wscript.Echo strComputer StrSerNo VbTab StrAsset VbTab StrProcs VbTab StrModel VbTab strBios2 VbTab strBios3 VbTab strBios1 cscript model.vbs //nologo electra electra NoneNo Asset Tag2 VMware Virtual Platform 6.00PTLTD - 604 Doug Hilderbrand | Systems Analyst, Engineering Applications | Crane Aerospace Electronics From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 9:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Detecting virtual machines Or installed... From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 10:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Detecting virtual machines That's a good idea...I was leaning towards the same sort of thing by checking for the VMWare Tools service, but I wasn't sure that it would be started when the startup script executed 2009/8/24 Kim Longenbaugh k...@colonialsavings.com If you use WMI in your script to show the nic type, you could sort for the nic types that show up for virtual machines. The names will reference VMWare in some fashion, as in VMware Accelerated AMD PCNet Adapter From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 10:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Detecting virtual machines Does anyone know of a good way to detect whether a server is virtual or physical through a script of some kind? I am currently filtering some of my GPOs via security group membership and I have one group for physical servers, another for virtual. I am wondering if there is some way I can run a startup script that will, when a machine is first joined to the domain, identify whether it is a virtual machine or not, and add it to the correct security group accordingly. This would save me the headache of trawling through new-build machines and adding them to the right groups. I am using VMWare ESX 3.5 for my virtual machines. All suggestions gratefully received... TIA, JRR -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. http://raythestray.blogspot.com -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. http://raythestray.blogspot.com 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
