RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5
With the huge sizes hard drives can reach, is RAID5 still better than, say, mirrored drives? Or some other way. Our consultants want RAID5 for every server... From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 6:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 I opt for the green MM's. -- ME2 On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Steve Ens stevey...@gmail.commailto:stevey...@gmail.com wrote: You choose the red pill, or the blue pill...sometimes I opt for the green one. On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.commailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world? On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Joseph Heaton jhea...@dfg.ca.govmailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov wrote: Sometimes I feel a part of this community, and others, I feel like such an outsider... John Cook john.c...@pfsf.orgmailto:john.c...@pfsf.org 4/8/2011 12:48 PM (Jedi hand wave) You don't need to see our credentials, we're free to go... John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families - Original Message - From: Bill Humphries nt...@hedgedigger.commailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Fri Apr 08 15:40:48 2011 Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 crap. should i really know what AM you are talking about? bill Steven M. Caesare wrote: **Ahem.** -sc *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.commailto:asbz...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, April 08, 2011 1:52 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 Yes, you're the Um, no, it's currently down for everyone. **ASB **(Professional Bio http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) **Technology Services that Maximize Business Results...*** * ** ** On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:45 PM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.orgmailto:john.c...@pfsf.org mailto:john.c...@pfsf.orgmailto:john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: Speaking of softballs, am I the only one not getting AM emails *John W. Cook* *System Administrator* *Partnership For Strong Families* *5950 NW 1st Place* *Gainesville, Fl 32607* *Office (352) 244-1610tel:%28352%29%20244-1610 tel:%28352%29%20244-1610* *Cell (352) 215-6944tel:%28352%29%20215-6944 tel:%28352%29%20215-6944* *MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4* *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.commailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.commailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, April 08, 2011 1:44 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 There's only so much of your day that can be taken up by softball. On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Don Ely don@gmail.commailto:don@gmail.com mailto:don@gmail.commailto:don@gmail.com wrote: Why are you trying to ruin my retirement? On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.commailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.commailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: I thought we'd disabused you of the notion that you need a [high end] SAN? Granted the high end ones are nice and they have their uses, but your just looking to store files on it. Are you going to virtualize all your servers, rely on Vmotion or some other tool to ensure high availability, or do you need to provide data access to a large number of disparate servers? Consider looking at some of the lower end offerings from Synology and Qnap (heard good things), and avoid Drobo (heard not so good things) and stay away from Buffalo (don't touch that, it's pure evil). This project has been on your dockett for over a year now, hasn't it? Awaiting funding? The Synology and Qnap offerings are pretty affordable, and get you into iSCSI access realm. Also, whatever happened to your project about setting up your own storage server? With Windows Server 2008 R2 having access to the iSCSI target software MS recently released, that becomes an option now, too. On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:55 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.commailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.commailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Yeah I was keeping that in mind... Very good points to consider, too. :-) Mostly just going to be storing stuff that is primarily used for reference and things like that. At least that's how we're using our file server now. Very little writing going on, but a lot of reading of files. -Original Message- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.ukmailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.ukmailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 If you're using Exchange 2010
Android phones
Anyone seen any good answers for hooking Androids up to Exchange 2007 servers? IPhones are easy. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Android phones
Got it. She had put the server name in wrong, (watch for commas, instead of periods), and we got her on board. Brought everything on board. It was a new phone, so it had the latest… From: Ben Schorr [mailto:b...@rolandschorr.com] Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 11:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Android phones I use the native apps to connect my DroidX to an Exchange 2003 server – no issues (now that Motorola fixed the initial problems). Touchdown is good, but I don’t like having redundant apps on my device and the hassle of having Touchdown sync to the native Contact app (for example) for caller ID and dialer integration. I *DO* like that Touchdown syncs Tasks though, wish the native apps would do that. Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer __ Roland Schorr Tower www.rolandschorr.comhttp://www.rolandschorr.com b...@rolandschorr.commailto:b...@rolandschorr.com From: Scott Wilhelm [mailto:swilh...@mcs.k12.ny.us] Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 7:41 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Android phones I have 2 exchange accounts running on my Droid 2 and I'm not having issues with those. I have those running along side my gmail account a pop account as well. What sort of issues are you having with your Exchange account? Regards Scott On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Holstrom, Don dholst...@nbm.orgmailto:dholst...@nbm.org wrote: Anyone seen any good answers for hooking Androids up to Exchange 2007 servers? IPhones are easy. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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 -- __ Scott Wilhelm SLL BOCES Central Office (Tue): 315.386.4504 x 10134 Massena Central (Mon, Wed-Fri): 315.764.3700 x3046 “The harder I work, the luckier I get. “ -Samuel Goldwyn Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. -Vince Lombardi ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Getting Rid of CAT5?
I work in an old Museum here in the District. My runs are very long, one is over 700 feet and gives me a problem every now and then. Is it worthwhile to switch out our CAT45 and go to CAT6a (there is something above 6a?) All our servers are gig but most of the workstations are not. All my switches (we have way too many) are gig, but... From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 5:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Getting Rid of CAT5? Typical for a state agency, at least here in Florida. I got some stuff from an Office of the Attorney General's office that was moving to new space. The System Admin was sent an email followed by a printed signed memo telling him he was to remove EVERYTHING the state had paid to be installed in the space. When asked about damage to the walls due to removal of copper wire he was told in writing they did not care just get it out. It took him and two others two days to pull all the copper wire out move it to the new space and then he was told to pitch it in the dumpster. He told me the space was a mess holes in the walls from removal of jacks some broken roof tiles. The end result was he had a lot of networking stuff to get rid of and copper wire to dump in a dumpster. I got all but the copper wire. Jon On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.commailto:sca...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, and why did you pull out the Cat-5? Turning our old server room and a bunch of offices back over to the building to lease out. We moved into some new space. -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.orgmailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 4:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Getting Rid of CAT5? Some of these small offices had 22 CAT5 runs in them! 22? That's half a lab! Sm:)e. Sorry, I couldn't resist. It seems like I wire a new lab, or re-wire an old one, every year here. It's not uncommon for us to pull 16 lines at a time, and do that 2 or three times. Oh, and why did you pull out the Cat-5? Did you need gigabit to each desktop? I hope you pulled Cat6A or better for the future. --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.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: How do I get to a Microsoft tech bulletin
Same. Don't know why Firefox would work and not IE8 or IE9. Thanks to all who helped, I went to another machine and got on fine... From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 4:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How do I get to a Microsoft tech bulletin Does your not getting to it match my description of not getting to it, exactly? does your problem affect any/all KB articles? From: Tobie Fysh [mailto:tobie.f...@freebridge.org.uk] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 2:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How do I get to a Microsoft tech bulletin Not getting to it on Win7 X86 IE8 but same machine on Firefox its fine... the Web monkeys must be tinkering. From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: 26 January 2011 18:32 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How do I get to a Microsoft tech bulletin I'm getting blank pages on all KB articles when using IE8 under Win7 x64 on one machine only. The Microsoft Support menu is displayed, but inside that box only blankness except - Get Help Now link in the center - Get Help Now link in the upper right, with last review date below it - Buttons - Facebook, Twitter, Print, E-mail etc. 3 other machines here work OK - Win7 x86 IE8, XP IE8, and 2003 IE6. 7 x64 machine was working OK 12 hours ago, and I don't have another 7 x64 to test with. Don't think I picked up any pestilence in the last 12 hours. Most all other websites working OK. Carl From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 12:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: How do I get to a Microsoft tech bulletin I am trying, even using TechNet to get to Microsoft technical bulletin #977695. Coming up on a blank page. What am I doing wrong? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin This message has been scanned by MimeCast on behalf of Freebridge Community Housing and found to be free of viruses and not SPAM. If you have any concerns about the message contents please contact the ICT ServiceDesk. [cid:image001.gif@01CBBE05.3257F450]http://www.freebridge.org.uk [cid:image002.gif@01CBBE05.3257F450]http://twitter.com/Freebridge [cid:image003.gif@01CBBE05.3257F450]http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kings-Lynn-United-Kingdom/Freebridge-Community-Housing/192690183387?v=box_3 This e-mail (including any attachments), is confidential and intended only for the use of the addressee(s). It may contain information covered by legal, professional or other privilege. If you are not an addressee, please inform the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Do not copy, use or disclose this e-mail. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error free. The sender does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard copy version. Freebridge Community Housing Ltd is a Charitable Industrial and Provident Society - Reg No IP29744R Registered with the Housing Corporation - No L4463. VAT Registration Number 860762121 Freebridge Community Housing, Juniper House, Austin Street, Kings Lynn, Norfolk PE30 1DZ This email message has been scanned for viruses by Mimecast. Mimecast delivers a complete managed email solution from a single web based platform. For more information please visit http://www.mimecast.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.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmininline: image001.gifinline: image002
RE: Windows SysInternals: ListDLLs v3.0 Handle v3.43
And live, too. I have seen most of his presentations at Tech-Ed, I have been going for 10 years... -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 5:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows SysInternals: ListDLLs v3.0 Handle v3.43 I've learned a huge amount from his books and blogs. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 4:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows SysInternals: ListDLLs v3.0 Handle v3.43 Their blog is excellent reading too. These guys do some awesome problem solving. Typed frustratingly slowly on my BlackBerry(r) wireless device -Original Message- From: Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:53:32 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.comSubject: RE: Windows SysInternals: ListDLLs v3.0 Handle v3.43 My Mark R. story. I attended a Mark R. David S. pre TechEd event back in 2004. At TechEd 2006 I met Mark R. waiting for a shuttle bus. I mentioned that I had attended his mind dumbing 6 hour long crash dump analysis class at TechEd 2004. Mark asked a lot of questions about what I thought about the class, him, David, their presentation style, class materials, what I thought, what did I learn, etc, etc. Instead of a umm, thanks for attending response, I got to spend probably close to 10 minutes with him because, I felt, he was deeply interested in seeing if he/they could have done a better job. Nice. Webster -Original Message- From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Subject: RE: Windows SysInternals: ListDLLs v3.0 Handle v3.43 +1 I don't know Mark Russinovich, nor have I ever met him, but he strikes me as the kind of guy who really cares and would take the time to help if he can. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Windows 7 Printers and Faxes loss
Whole section missing, along with printers and faxes. Should I just put in the Win 7 disk and fix? -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 7:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 Printers and Faxes loss More info requested. Does the section just disappear, but the printers and faxes are still there? Or the section is still there, but the printers and faxes are no longer displayed? If the latter, are the printers still available from within applications? Any other hardware missing? Anything in the Windows Event Log? Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] Sent: Thursday, 16 December 2010 10:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 7 Printers and Faxes loss I was hoping one of the Windows 7 fixes would take care of this. But a couple of my Windows 7 machines have lost the Printers and Faxes selections when you open Devices and Printers. A reboot used to fix it, but not lately. Has anyone else run into this? I cannot find anything through Google. We have a couple of dozen printers here, and we run a script to get them up and running on all our workstations. I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction to get this fixed... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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
Windows 7 Printers and Faxes loss
I was hoping one of the Windows 7 fixes would take care of this. But a couple of my Windows 7 machines have lost the Printers and Faxes selections when you open Devices and Printers. A reboot used to fix it, but not lately. Has anyone else run into this? I cannot find anything through Google. We have a couple of dozen printers here, and we run a script to get them up and running on all our workstations. I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction to get this fixed... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: document sprawl
Me too. When I arrived here eight years ago, we had 32 gigs of data. Now we have over 2 TBs... Just buy larger servers... -Original Message- From: Stephen Wimberly [mailto:swimbe...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 12:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: document sprawl I have attempted to tackle this issue before, I like to call it encourage spring cleaning! but my words always seem to fall on deaf ears. Lately every time I bring it up we end up buying more hard drives for the server! I give up. Maybe I'm just too cheap? On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Jeff Brown 2jbr...@gmail.com wrote: In regards to email, we were able to establish a retention policy that messages in the Inbox, Sent Items, and Deleted Items folders are all deleted after 90 days. Exchange mailbox manager allowed to do that weekly. Don't manage other folders. Not perfect, but it helped. On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.com wrote: I'd be interested in a solution to this. Been fighting it for years to no avail, other than running a data inventory program (such as TreeSize) and doing a manual compare. Don't forget all of the email attachments saved along with the original email. J Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com From: S Powell [mailto:powe...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 11:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: document sprawl Hello Everybody /Dr. Nick I'd like to pick your brains about how you deal with document sprawl, I was reading in another thread about how users would use their Recycle Bin as their archive. shudder we have users that will keep tens of copies of the same document in various locations around their My Documents; as well as in tens of locations within our shared folders on the network ... User education only goes so far when it comes to please don't do that as they nod and then keep doing it. I think we've moved beyond being nice and we've found ourselves mired in needing a sledgehammer. I'd just like to wrap it in a bit of velvet. Thoughts, Policies, procedures etc, would be helpful in this. TIA ./s Google.com Learn it. Live it. Love it. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Software Auditing/Inventory?
I've been using NEWT for a few years, not cheap, but works very well... From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 11:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Software Auditing/Inventory? What do you all use for this please? We're looking for something and of course you have lots of products all of which promise a lot. The sort of things we're looking to do is run regular scans of PC's to capture installed software, recognised, unrecognised software, keep track of how many instances of Package X we have installed vs. how many we have licensed. Thanks, Paul MIRA Ltd Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 VAT Registration GB 114 5409 96 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.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Vipre and deployment
We still use Symantec on all our workstations. Would love to move over to Vipre. We have about a hundred workstations. Would I still have to go to all the workstations to change from Symantec to Vipre or is there now a way to do this from the server? From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 11:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vipre and deployment Yea, if I do it with the Console, I need to enable file and print services on the wkst etc... If I use a GPO, I don't. From: Eric Wittersheim [mailto:eric.wittersh...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 9:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Vipre and deployment You can deploy Vipre as an MSI from the console. I suppose that you can push the MSI with GP if you like. On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.commailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: For you guys with experience using Vipre (I presume it's come a long way by now...) I am curious about a couple things. I gave up on Avira, my first point of support was the var in Canada who proved beyond a shadow of a doubt to be useless. Sophos required far too much reconfiguration of the wkst's and didn't offer their agent as an MSI so I could roll it out myself. Awaiting info from Kasperksy... Can the agents for Vipre be provided by MSI's so I don't have to change anything on the wkst's except maybe a port rule between it and the mgmt host after I push it via GP's? Thanks! jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Remote Desktop slowing down
I have RDC on a Server 03, Exchange on an 08 machine. It appears that my RDC has been slowing. Many of those complaining have an excessive (to me) amount of items in their InBox: 8-15,000. I am using Office 10 on the 03 server. Anything I can look out for to speed things up? I re-built RDC recently, to make sure only those eligible are on the list. Still appears a bit slow... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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 Desktop slowing down
They are not cached. I cache their workstations here, but Remote Desktop Outlook is not cached... I had Office 07 on for years, all seemed OK. Office 10 seemed OK at first too. Then it has slowed. They foolishly let another company in our server room while I WAS AWAY. And this is when the slowdowns began. Could they easily have slowed this all down? From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 9:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote Desktop slowing down Excessive items in the inbox will certainly cause Outlook to be sluggish, although I have not seen Outlook 2010 exhibit this as bad as previous versions. Are these Outlook clients cached? Another thing to look at on a 2003 server with slow networking is the TCP chimney issue from a couple years ago. I have run across this a few times. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/91 From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 9:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Remote Desktop slowing down I have RDC on a Server 03, Exchange on an 08 machine. It appears that my RDC has been slowing. Many of those complaining have an excessive (to me) amount of items in their InBox: 8-15,000. I am using Office 10 on the 03 server. Anything I can look out for to speed things up? I re-built RDC recently, to make sure only those eligible are on the list. Still appears a bit slow... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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
Anyone used the Sonicwall NSA 2400?
It seems like a good firewall to use. I always liked external computers... It's only about $1,000 if you look around. Anyone had better use of any others? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Leader in Encrypted FTP?
I keep hearing good things about FileZilla, both as a server and as a client. It's free. Is it better than the free FTP offered with Server 08? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Outlook 2010 searches are different/wrong
I upgraded one of our users from Office 07 to Office 10. In Outlook 10, searches come up with different answers. Very light answers. Can this be changed? All my other Office upgrades have been fine and users have been generally pleased. Not this user... I have Exchange server 07, both this workstation and server are updated. This does not happen in other users. For example, in one folder on my workstation I have 2,000 e-mails and searches are just about immediate. He has over 6,000 in his Inbox and searches are just wrong, certainly not hitting every e-mail. Are there settings that can be changed to fix this? He has a laptop, with XP and only about 512 RAM. I am using 64-bit W7 with 8 gigs of RAM, so this may not be a fair comparison. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Outlook 2010 searches are different/wrong
Gotcha. I will add more RAM to his laptop as soon as I can... And many thanks, Michael... -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 12:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook 2010 searches are different/wrong I gotta share - 512 MB with inbox counts that high is probably insufficient, assuming he's doing anything else whatsoever. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 12:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook 2010 searches are different/wrong I hadn't, but I am now. With 8,000 in his InBox, and over 60,000 elsewhere, this may take all weekend... -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 11:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook 2010 searches are different/wrong Have you tried regenerating the Index? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 10:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Outlook 2010 searches are different/wrong I upgraded one of our users from Office 07 to Office 10. In Outlook 10, searches come up with different answers. Very light answers. Can this be changed? All my other Office upgrades have been fine and users have been generally pleased. Not this user... I have Exchange server 07, both this workstation and server are updated. This does not happen in other users. For example, in one folder on my workstation I have 2,000 e-mails and searches are just about immediate. He has over 6,000 in his Inbox and searches are just wrong, certainly not hitting every e-mail. Are there settings that can be changed to fix this? He has a laptop, with XP and only about 512 RAM. I am using 64-bit W7 with 8 gigs of RAM, so this may not be a fair comparison. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: SuperMicro
There are many companies that do so, most of them are out west, but if you look up particular parts, several companies sell them and you can get them overnight. AS for re-selling, check out Craigslist or others. We just had a company overlook our entire computer system here at the Museum and one of the main things they said was that SuperMicro was not the way to go. They called those servers junk. I have 7 SuperMicro servers and I love them. I go back to when Dell became a joke because of their failing support. I keep extra SuperMicro servers around to use to replace servers that may die. But the new company now recommends Dell, they want to replace all our servers. Anyone else agree or disagree? From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 7:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SuperMicro Isn't there someone on this list that resells SuperMicro equipment? Would you mind contacting me off list? Thanks Webster webs...@carlwebster.commailto:webs...@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.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Mac and Windows mix
I don't... From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 2:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mac and Windows mix Please pardon the semi-hijack. What solution do you use to give the Mac people remote access to their machines? Thanks, RS On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Holstrom, Don dholst...@nbm.orgmailto:dholst...@nbm.org wrote: We have about a dozen Macs here at the Museum. I give them each dual monitor set-ups, with Parallels and Windows with Microsoft Office so they can Outlook to their e-mail. So far, Mac doesn't really have a good Rendezvous/Outlook set-up, although OWA is very good and getting better. As I stroll by, I see that each Mac user keeps Office up on one monitor, so that Outlook is always open. Each of the Macs can already connect to our PC servers where they keep all their files. I give Remote Desktop access to those who either PC or Mac from the outside. Way too many security openings for Macs, this would not be good with a very secure network... From: Jeff Steward [mailto:jstew...@gmail.commailto:jstew...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 2:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mac and Windows mix Don't knock yourself out here Matt, I'm just curious how one manages these issues in a mixed environment. I have one Mac user who works part time so we set him up with a Remote Desktop client and he works in a Terminal Server session. Regards, Jeff Steward On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.orgmailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: Apple Remote Desktop is more akin to the Windows Management MMC, MS Remote Desktop and the SysInternals Power Tools rolled into one package. Open Directory is more akin to Group Policy. I will see what I can find out about those regulations. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District On Sep 7, 2010, at 11:21 AM, Jeff Steward jstew...@gmail.commailto:jstew...@gmail.com wrote: HIPAA SOX MA 201 CMR 17.00 To varying degrees they all boil down to: We define a security policy that meets the regulatory requirements and base configurations to meet that policy and then report regularly on performance to standards. I see from one of your follow-up posts that Apple Remote Desktop is akin to Group Policy. -Jeff Steward On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.orgmailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: Can you be more specific? What standards are you needing to be compliant to? An example regulation would help me answer your question. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District On Sep 7, 2010, at 10:26 AM, Jeff Steward jstew...@gmail.commailto:jstew...@gmail.com wrote: A school environment is not the same as a public company environment. Compliance to insert your favorite standard here and reporting on said compliance or non-trivial issues for public companies or private companies subject to other regulations. There are a wealth of tools for managing these issues in a Windows environment, can the same be said of the Mac environment? -Jeff Steward On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.orgmailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: Macs are not the burden you make them sound to be. Integrating a Mac into a windows network is never going to be painless; the two systems are inherently different. If what you want is a Windows experience from your Mac, install Windows. Now not everybody likes MacOS X, but the same can be said for Windows. Insert the problem of subjective preference here. Personally, I love working on my iMac, and managing the other Macs in our district is very easy if you use the provided Apple tools: Mac OS X server, Open Directory, and Apple Remote Desktop. Then again, I hate how a Mac _can_ cost 2x as much as a comparable PC. I do like that software upgrades are cheaper for Mac, but I don't like how apple drops support for anything that is not the current generation or the previous one. If you're 2 generations back, you're out of luck. What can a Mac do that a PC Can't? Nothing. But I would argue that competition is one of the pillars of innovation. Without Mac OS X competing against Windows, what would Windows look like today? --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: James Hill [mailto:james.h...@superamart.com.aumailto:james.h...@superamart.com.au] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:28:49 -0700 Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix We have pretty much eliminated all of the Mac's here. We didn't have 3rd party products to manage them so they always required so much manual interaction. Any global change we made we could easily automate with PC's thanks to group policy etc but it was always a manual change for the Mac's. They really aren't a corporate product imo. You only have to look to Apple for a corporate grade
RE: Mac and Windows mix
We have about a dozen Macs here at the Museum. I give them each dual monitor set-ups, with Parallels and Windows with Microsoft Office so they can Outlook to their e-mail. So far, Mac doesn't really have a good Rendezvous/Outlook set-up, although OWA is very good and getting better. As I stroll by, I see that each Mac user keeps Office up on one monitor, so that Outlook is always open. Each of the Macs can already connect to our PC servers where they keep all their files. I give Remote Desktop access to those who either PC or Mac from the outside. Way too many security openings for Macs, this would not be good with a very secure network... From: Jeff Steward [mailto:jstew...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 2:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mac and Windows mix Don't knock yourself out here Matt, I'm just curious how one manages these issues in a mixed environment. I have one Mac user who works part time so we set him up with a Remote Desktop client and he works in a Terminal Server session. Regards, Jeff Steward On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.orgmailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: Apple Remote Desktop is more akin to the Windows Management MMC, MS Remote Desktop and the SysInternals Power Tools rolled into one package. Open Directory is more akin to Group Policy. I will see what I can find out about those regulations. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District On Sep 7, 2010, at 11:21 AM, Jeff Steward jstew...@gmail.commailto:jstew...@gmail.com wrote: HIPAA SOX MA 201 CMR 17.00 To varying degrees they all boil down to: We define a security policy that meets the regulatory requirements and base configurations to meet that policy and then report regularly on performance to standards. I see from one of your follow-up posts that Apple Remote Desktop is akin to Group Policy. -Jeff Steward On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.orgmailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: Can you be more specific? What standards are you needing to be compliant to? An example regulation would help me answer your question. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District On Sep 7, 2010, at 10:26 AM, Jeff Steward jstew...@gmail.commailto:jstew...@gmail.com wrote: A school environment is not the same as a public company environment. Compliance to insert your favorite standard here and reporting on said compliance or non-trivial issues for public companies or private companies subject to other regulations. There are a wealth of tools for managing these issues in a Windows environment, can the same be said of the Mac environment? -Jeff Steward On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.orgmailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: Macs are not the burden you make them sound to be. Integrating a Mac into a windows network is never going to be painless; the two systems are inherently different. If what you want is a Windows experience from your Mac, install Windows. Now not everybody likes MacOS X, but the same can be said for Windows. Insert the problem of subjective preference here. Personally, I love working on my iMac, and managing the other Macs in our district is very easy if you use the provided Apple tools: Mac OS X server, Open Directory, and Apple Remote Desktop. Then again, I hate how a Mac _can_ cost 2x as much as a comparable PC. I do like that software upgrades are cheaper for Mac, but I don't like how apple drops support for anything that is not the current generation or the previous one. If you're 2 generations back, you're out of luck. What can a Mac do that a PC Can't? Nothing. But I would argue that competition is one of the pillars of innovation. Without Mac OS X competing against Windows, what would Windows look like today? --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: James Hill [mailto:james.h...@superamart.com.aumailto:james.h...@superamart.com.au] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:28:49 -0700 Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix We have pretty much eliminated all of the Mac's here. We didn't have 3rd party products to manage them so they always required so much manual interaction. Any global change we made we could easily automate with PC's thanks to group policy etc but it was always a manual change for the Mac's. They really aren't a corporate product imo. You only have to look to Apple for a corporate grade management solution to realise that it doesn't exist. They do indeed need patching (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222) and there is AV products for them. Symantec has one for example. Personally I think the day is coming when someone will write a decent bit of malware/virus for them and 99% plus will get caught out by it. There is a very misguided opinion amongst the Apple community that they
RE: Windows 95.
Our old phone system still runs on DOS. I've been sweating this for years... -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 10:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 95. On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: I still have one dinosaur running an app on W9x that won't run on NT-or-newer. Can this be virtualized somehow or other, or are you scavenging eBay even now for parts? Until a few months ago, we had a measurement system in production that was still running Win 3.x. It had some custom interface card and software, the origin of which had been lost in the mists of time. Card was ISA; system didn't work under anything newer than 3.x. Years ago I saw what was coming and started squirreling away spare parts for that system, as we retried old computers. It got to the point where I had literally replaced every single part (mobo, PSU, VGA, HDD) at least once due to failures. Then a few months ago the interface board died. I can't say I was sad. (We're now running a new system with new software and COTS hardware.) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Kudos to Michael B Smith!
Truly... -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 3:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Kudos to Michael B Smith! If MBS got all of the beers we owe him at one time, he'd drown... On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 07:59, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: I just wanted to publicly thank Michael B Smith for helping me out with the “password about to expire” .VBS script that he blogged about here: http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/sending-an-e-mail-to-users-whose-password-is-about-to-expire.aspx It needed a minor tweak to work in my environment and he took the time to help me out, now it works perfectly and saved us from spending $700 for a tool that we had budgeted for (I found the request in process and said “I think I can get this done with a script”). Instead of spending $700 + time to learn the new tool, we spent zero for purchase and took maybe an hour of my time. Thank you Michael! That MVP was well earned in my book!!! David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
backing up too much data
I have been backing up all our data to tape drives. A vice president of the Museum likes to take a copy home regularly in case our machines blow up... But now we have nearly two terabytes of data. Tape drives go up to 1.7 T's, but I can only find libraries going higher. What other options do I have, so the VP can still take home a copy of the data? Extra HDs take so much time. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Agentless hardware inventory tool
+1, been using it for years... From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:cbusitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 9:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Agentless hardware inventory tool NEWT is very cool and it's fast. It's free for up to 25 computers. http://www.komodolabs.com/ On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:10 PM, IS Technical ist...@intsolcan.commailto:ist...@intsolcan.com wrote: Can anyone recommend an agentless tool (freeware or not) which will inventory system on a network and generate a hardware report of systems on the network. All systems run Windows (various versions). A scriptable tool is preferred but tools with GUIs are OK. Many thanks. Regards, Charles --- Charles Figueiredo PhD Integrated Solutions - Enhancing Small Business Systems --- ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Do you all like fewer or more servers?
I only have a hundred users. Been doing this for about 12 years. I always thought it was better to have more or less one major server per service. That way, if one of our services came down or needed work, I wouldn't be taking down the entire system. I have a buddy with fewer users than me and he has 20+ servers. Some in the air (virtual), some on the ground. I have seven servers running. Both of us host our web services at an outside firm. Both of us use Exchange. An outside firm says we should go with only a couple of servers. That sure would make things easier, but... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Do you all like fewer or more servers?
I have liked SuperMicro blades for the past six or seven years but I am being told to go with Dell for the warrantees and the like. I know Dell is two or three times more expensive, is this worth it? From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 11:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Do you all like fewer or more servers? Maybe get rid of the CISCO apps. We are using blades with ESX and its working quite nicely... Actually the blades are performing as good if not better than the stand alone DL 580's we have for other ESX servers. Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 11:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Do you all like fewer or more servers? We tried to go with server consolidation years ago (before VM was popular) and kept running into issues with applications fighting with each other on the same machines (particularly Cisco products). Now that we're playing with VM and looking into blade servers, we're looking at it again. Not a surprise, we find that there are yet Cisco applications that they recommend stay on their own blade. *sigh* From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 8:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Do you all like fewer or more servers? I only have a hundred users. Been doing this for about 12 years. I always thought it was better to have more or less one major server per service. That way, if one of our services came down or needed work, I wouldn't be taking down the entire system. I have a buddy with fewer users than me and he has 20+ servers. Some in the air (virtual), some on the ground. I have seven servers running. Both of us host our web services at an outside firm. Both of us use Exchange. An outside firm says we should go with only a couple of servers. That sure would make things easier, but... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: ninite.com in use out there?
I didn't think they hosted the items, just went and downloaded them. SCCM has been advised for the Museum, but you are right, it isn't for me, though I may still have to implement it... From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 3:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ninite.com in use out there? Aside from the somewhat dubious legality of them hosting other vendor's applications, I've always heard good things about them. In an mid-size enterprise environment, I'd recommend you use group policy to roll-out the applications you want installed and uninstalled. (In a larger environment, something like SCCM would be appropriate, but I know it isn't for you!) :) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 3:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: ninite.com in use out there? I have used this on a couple of boxes for other people and had good results. But I wanted to check with any of you who have used it. I don't/wouldn't mind paying for something like that here at the Museum, but they want $20-30/month. Adds up to some nice change over a year. Anyone used anything similar? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
ninite.com in use out there?
I have used this on a couple of boxes for other people and had good results. But I wanted to check with any of you who have used it. I don't/wouldn't mind paying for something like that here at the Museum, but they want $20-30/month. Adds up to some nice change over a year. Anyone used anything similar? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
64-bit anti virus
Which anti-virus programs (64-bit) do you-all use on Windows' latest servers? We are a non-profit. I use Sunbelt on my Exchange server, but would like a freebie or cheapie for my new file server. I have anti-virus software if I bring the new file server back to 32-bit, but not 64-bit. Any ideas? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Spiceworks?
For the entire network I have always used NEWT Pro... From: Bill Lambert [mailto:blamb...@concuity.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Spiceworks? Hello all... I'm looking at Spiceworks for a pc inventory tool. Can anyone comment on it or make other recommendations? Thanks! Bill Lambert Windows System Administrator Concuity Phone 847-941-9206 Fax 847-465-9147 [cid:image001.png@01CAE6CA.BCA1E7F0] The information contained in this e-mail message, including any attached files, is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the recipient) you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~inline: image001.png
open-mesh has been suggested to me
Our museum has huge pillars and it's hard to get wireless through them. Anyone had good/bad luck using open-mesh wireless repeaters? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: How would you go about this?
You get five years out of a server? I think you need the help. I was just looking for some help in picking up a file server. I replace all my workstations and servers every three years. But I only have 130 workstations and servers. Your growth estimate is OK as it increases here at the Museum. That is why I am splitting the data onto several HDs. Thanks for your help... From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 4:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: How would you go about this? I'm not going to answer your question, instead I'm going to pick apart your request. We really don't have any idea of what your rate of data growth is. There are two estimates we can make from the data supplied, linear growth or geometric growth. With linear, you're adding about 125 GB of data per year. With geometric you're doubling your data every ~19 months. So, if you expect the same growth rate, in 5 years (assumed life of a server) you're at either +625 GB of data or over 8 TB of data. Just taking a step back and looking at it from 30,000 feet, a server is the least of your storage concerns if you're doubling your data every 19 months or so. On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Holstrom, Don dholst...@nbm.orgmailto:dholst...@nbm.org wrote: I have a file server that has gone above 1 TB. When I first came here to the museum a few years ago (8), they had 33 gigs of data on one server. I brought in file tape backups until last year when the backup went out of that range. I always used SCSI RAIDs but even now that is a bit high. So I have ordered a new file server with six HD openings. I am figuring a pair of 10,000-rpm 150 or 300 gig HDs for the OS, I can go Server 03 or 08, figuring on 08. I would back up one with the other. Then for data, two 2TBS backed up for the main data and two 1.5 or less for other data, also backed up. Then I could/would backup to external 2TB drives for longevity. What thinkist thee? Is there another way I should go? Data here will continue to increase at the same rate... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Which Tech.Ed Give-away Item would you like?
I want the bike... -Original Message- From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 2:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Which Tech.Ed Give-away Item would you like? Which Tech.Ed Give-away Item would you like? As you know, Tech.Ed is a big deal for Sunbelt. This year, we are going to give away a 'VIPRE theme' Ducati high-performance bike. We'll also give away items with each 15-minute product presentation. Which of these 'presentation' give-away items would you like to get? http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/techedswag Warm regards, Stu Sjouwerman Co-Founder, Publisher, Sunbelt Media P: +1-727-562-0101 ext 218 F: +1-727-562-5199 s...@sunbelt-software.com .. ~ 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/ ~
How would you go about this?
I have a file server that has gone above 1 TB. When I first came here to the museum a few years ago (8), they had 33 gigs of data on one server. I brought in file tape backups until last year when the backup went out of that range. I always used SCSI RAIDs but even now that is a bit high. So I have ordered a new file server with six HD openings. I am figuring a pair of 10,000-rpm 150 or 300 gig HDs for the OS, I can go Server 03 or 08, figuring on 08. I would back up one with the other. Then for data, two 2TBS backed up for the main data and two 1.5 or less for other data, also backed up. Then I could/would backup to external 2TB drives for longevity. What thinkist thee? Is there another way I should go? Data here will continue to increase at the same rate... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: OT:,Happy St. Patricks Day
True here at the Museum, with me in front... From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 12:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT:,Happy St. Patricks Day For a lot of companies... Hungover employees from yesterday watching college bb playoffs in the afternoon. On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Don Ely don@gmail.commailto:don@gmail.com wrote: Didn't drink any green beer, but had lots of Guinness and too many car bombs... Today is NOT going to be productive... On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.commailto:egold...@gmail.com wrote: +1 It's Guiness for me ( but frosty cold ) On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:51 PM, James Kerr cluster...@gmail.commailto:cluster...@gmail.com wrote: As a person born and raised in Ireland I must ask, please dont drink any green bear. The Irish gravitate towards the dark stuff and would NEVER drink green beer. James - Original Message - From: Jon Harrismailto:jk.har...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issuesmailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 2:46 PM Subject: OT:,Happy St. Patricks Day I know this is OT and not a big deal with most people but Happy St. Patricks day and enjoy the green beer after work tonight. Jon ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
remote desktop questions
We are a non-profit museum. We have been using remote desktop on a 2003 server for a couple of years. We have a couple of dozen who use it regularly when offsite. I use it all the time from outside the museum and also to connect to other servers. I only have eight servers, half 08 and half 03. No problem for me connecting to these. I have 10 server 2008 licenses but if I add remote desktop I have to get licenses for this, in addition, right? Or does server 2008 include this for free like 2003? I have been thinking about this for awhile and need to find out before I make the move. Additionally, are there actually any advantages to going to the new remote desktop? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Migration from Mac Mail to Entourage
This being a museum, we have lots of those on Macs. I have tried and tried, but even the latest Macs with the latest Mac and Office don't hook up to Exchange in the best, most full way. So I put Parallels on each Mac, give them a second screen and run Office Outlook that way so they have full e-mail. I think the latest Office for Mac, due sooner or later, will help, but... -Original Message- From: Juma, Lumumba [mailto:lcj...@icipe.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 2:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Migration from Mac Mail to Entourage Hi All, My boss has finally agreed to move to Entourage from Mac Mail. I find Entourage a lot more easier having worked with Outlook in terms of sharing Calendar, contacts and inbox folder and access to public folder resources with Exchnage 2007. However, the third party tools to export his large inbox to import into Entourage seem to have hitches. Anybody who has done this successfully? Will appreciate your help. I also want to change his iphone to Exchange ActiveSync. Thanks, Lumumba. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: CompTIA certs
I miss the Heath kits. I built a couple of Dynaco amps and such back then too. Oh, well... -Original Message- From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 12:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CompTIA certs Remember Heathkit? Those were the days. Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA www.eaglemds.com jra...@eaglemds.com From: Steven M. Caesare [scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 12:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CompTIA certs My Dad had a tube tester from his Dad (who had a radio then TV repair shop way back when), and used to fix TV’s for friends. Back when they were tubes and discrete components. Transistors, diodes, capacitors (of different flavors), resistors. Soldering irons. Transformers. Voltmeters. O-scopes. I’d sit on his workbench and watch. Then digital came along. TTL circuitry. 555 timer projects. Boolean logic. Flip-flops and oscillators. Now everything is on a chip, and disposable. Not to sound crotchety, because of course the density makes individual component troubleshooting near impossible, but it was a fun time to be able to read a schematic of a television, etc… and be able to determine what an individual component did. -sc From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 11:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CompTIA certs +1 To take it a step further…It seems that most people in this business these days don’t have a clue what a transistor or a P-N Junction is. My father played with some of the first transistors ever available to the public. Practically everything I know (or at least the technical foundation thereof), I learned from him. I learned how to count by counting electronic components for him…transistors, LEDs, ICs…and no, the cadmium, lead, nickel, etc that I handled as a young child didn’t affect me in the leas…le…leas…least. insert vision of my head twitching as I type… And of course, don’t forget about vacuum tubes… Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.comBLOCKED::mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.comBLOCKED::http://www.eaglemds.com/ From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 8:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CompTIA certs I know. It’s probably how the previous generation felt about punch cards and mag tape reels. -sc From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 7:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: CompTIA certs We're all much better off for having had to learn that stuff back in the day. The younguns today are cheated by comparison, and don't even know it. -ASB: http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Verizon Smartphone From: Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 19:10:44 -0500 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: CompTIA certs Ahh yes… Helix. And the LIM* spec that allowed precious memory above the 1MB expanded memory area to be used. -sc *Lotus –Intel-Microsoft From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 5:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: CompTIA certs Helix Netroom was my favorite! They had a nice high memory mouse driver. -ASB: http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Verizon Smartphone From: Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 15:55:20 -0500 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: CompTIA certs Snob… EMM386 and DoubleSpace not good enuff for you huh? Let me guess you ran QuarterDesk or GEM too? ☺ -sc From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 2:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CompTIA certs I have to go tweak my QEMM settings again, and see if I can get DiskDoubler to squeeze a few more bytes of storage out of my ST-225 HD, which by the way, shakes the whole desk as the heads seek. After that, I have to work on getting Win 3.0 to work better in my DeskPro window. From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 1:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CompTIA certs Excuse me, I have to go install my math coprocessor. -sc From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 2:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CompTIA certs Ok, I’m not very old (at least I don’t consider myself to be), but thanks for making me feel even older now! ☺ And how about the nifty LED displays that showed at what speed the CPU was operating, along with the “Turbo” button? I
mailer for regular or non-profit orgs
One of our people has asked about this. They have lists that go over 10,000 and although we run Exchange 2007, I think that is too large for us. Not sure, though. I am looking for a good (but cheap) mailer. They would be fairly simple e-mails. Any ideas? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7?
A couple of years ago, I disabled IPv6 on a server and one part (sorry, I forgot which one) stopped working. It took a long call with Microsoft to figure it all out. Re-enabled IPv6 and all worked fine. Haven't disabled that on a server since... From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 9:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7? I just had a problem a month or two back which seemed very much tied to IPv6 being disabled on the server. It was SBS server, and it did NOT behave properly at all (where Exchange was concerned, in particular) with IPv6 disabled. Once I re-enabled it, life got much better. I've actually started working on building up the IPv6 infrastructure, if I'm going to have to run it anyway. -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Free, Bob r...@pge.commailto:r...@pge.com wrote: I think that's expected as it's the party line from a Microsoft Techwriter. I believe it gets the point across. With what I heard from the PFE that I can't elaborate on, what Michael alluded and a few other cases I've heard of I'm not going to risk disabling it on my servers. It's not worth it. From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.commailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 4:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7? That's unfortunately nebulous. -sc From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.commailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 4:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7? The Argument against Disabling IPv6 It is unfortunate that some organizations disable IPv6 on their computers running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, where it is installed and enabled by default. Many disable IPv6-based on the assumption that they are not running any applications or services that use it. Others might disable it because of a misperception that having both IPv4 and IPv6 enabled effectively doubles their DNS and Web traffic. This is not true. From Microsoft's perspective, IPv6 is a mandatory part of the Windows operating system and it is enabled and included in standard Windows service and application testing during the operating system development process. Because Windows was designed specifically with IPv6 present, Microsoft does not perform any testing to determine the effects of disabling IPv6. If IPv6 is disabled on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, or later versions, some components will not function. Moreover, applications that you might not think are using IPv6-such as Remote Assistance, HomeGroup, DirectAccess, and Windows Mail-could be. Therefore, Microsoft recommends that you leave IPv6 enabled, even if you do not have an IPv6-enabled network, either native or tunneled. By leaving IPv6 enabled, you do not disable IPv6-only applications and services (for example, HomeGroup in Windows 7 and DirectAccess in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are IPv6-only) and your hosts can take advantage of IPv6-enhanced connectivity. http://207.46.16.252/en-us/magazine/2009.07.cableguy.aspx From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.commailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 1:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7? I've had IPv6 disabled on several Win2K8 servers as well without problem as far as I can tell also. -sc From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.commailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 3:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7? I've had IPV6 disabled on Vista since forever and have never had any issues talking to my WSUS server. More than likely they had something else going on and accidentally fixed it at the same time they re-enabled IPV6. Carl From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.commailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 3:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7? I would add Vista and 7 as well but I have not done a lot of testing on that issue. I know some of the products like WSUS were having an issue with Vista clients not having IP6 turned on. I don't remember what the issue was but they had problems connecting reliably to the server. Jon On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Free, Bob r...@pge.commailto:r...@pge.com wrote: Yes bad on any 2008 server From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.commailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 6:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7? Can you answer this: Is it bad to do it on any 2008 machine, or just a 2008 machine that will host Exchange? From: Michael B. Smith
RE: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7?
No. I think when we discovered the problem, the tech was as surprised as me. It was my fault, I had disabled the IPv6. Just something else to look out for... From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 10:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7? As part of the support call, were you directed to any public documentation on the IPv6 dependency? -sc From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 10:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7? A couple of years ago, I disabled IPv6 on a server and one part (sorry, I forgot which one) stopped working. It took a long call with Microsoft to figure it all out. Re-enabled IPv6 and all worked fine. Haven't disabled that on a server since... From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 9:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7? I just had a problem a month or two back which seemed very much tied to IPv6 being disabled on the server. It was SBS server, and it did NOT behave properly at all (where Exchange was concerned, in particular) with IPv6 disabled. Once I re-enabled it, life got much better. I've actually started working on building up the IPv6 infrastructure, if I'm going to have to run it anyway. -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Free, Bob r...@pge.commailto:r...@pge.com wrote: I think that's expected as it's the party line from a Microsoft Techwriter. I believe it gets the point across. With what I heard from the PFE that I can't elaborate on, what Michael alluded and a few other cases I've heard of I'm not going to risk disabling it on my servers. It's not worth it. From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.commailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 4:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7? That's unfortunately nebulous. -sc From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.commailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 4:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7? The Argument against Disabling IPv6 It is unfortunate that some organizations disable IPv6 on their computers running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, where it is installed and enabled by default. Many disable IPv6-based on the assumption that they are not running any applications or services that use it. Others might disable it because of a misperception that having both IPv4 and IPv6 enabled effectively doubles their DNS and Web traffic. This is not true. From Microsoft's perspective, IPv6 is a mandatory part of the Windows operating system and it is enabled and included in standard Windows service and application testing during the operating system development process. Because Windows was designed specifically with IPv6 present, Microsoft does not perform any testing to determine the effects of disabling IPv6. If IPv6 is disabled on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, or later versions, some components will not function. Moreover, applications that you might not think are using IPv6-such as Remote Assistance, HomeGroup, DirectAccess, and Windows Mail-could be. Therefore, Microsoft recommends that you leave IPv6 enabled, even if you do not have an IPv6-enabled network, either native or tunneled. By leaving IPv6 enabled, you do not disable IPv6-only applications and services (for example, HomeGroup in Windows 7 and DirectAccess in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are IPv6-only) and your hosts can take advantage of IPv6-enhanced connectivity. http://207.46.16.252/en-us/magazine/2009.07.cableguy.aspx From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.commailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 1:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7? I've had IPv6 disabled on several Win2K8 servers as well without problem as far as I can tell also. -sc From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.commailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 3:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7? I've had IPV6 disabled on Vista since forever and have never had any issues talking to my WSUS server. More than likely they had something else going on and accidentally fixed it at the same time they re-enabled IPV6. Carl From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.commailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 3:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: What is the latest version of RDP client for Win7? I would add Vista and 7 as well but I have not done a lot of testing on that issue. I know some of the products like WSUS were having an issue
setting up a website
When I switched from Cox to Fios here in Northern Virginia I lost the website I hosted and played around with. It took 10 calls, but someone finally told me they blocked that port. So I hosted the site out. It's only a hundred bucks a year or so. My 16-year-old son likes all this speed we now have, I am finding out that youngsters only vaguely use websites like this. Our Fios speed is 25 up down Is web-closing standard so I don't have too much traffic? I own my last name domain, and it's time to switch and I just wondered if there was a way around this. I know I can set up sites using direct site numbers and such. But I wanted to make it so I could set it up so the seeker wouldn't have to know anything different than the last name. I get e-mail with no problem. Just curious. I have hosted many sites, but never had this to deal with... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Print Servers
I usually add them on request. Remember, we only have less than a hundred users here... -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 12:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Print Servers How do users add new printers? Adding a TCP/IP printer port usually requires admin rights. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] Sent: Thursday, 14 January 2010 7:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Print Servers I have over 30 printers here. For the last few I have not run them through a server, just give them a static IP address. When/if our print server goes down, I lose all the printers hooked up to that. I can hook up a printer to the network without the print server, I just have to keep a list for that. Don't need to count sheets here at the museum. I don't know if this is the best way, but I only need the drivers. I have XP, Vista, and Windows 7 on the workstations. Is this an OK way? Is the best way still through a server? -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 3:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Print Servers Unfortunately USB-attached HP JetDirects are the only ones I've used that don't: a) require software to be installed b) don't have stupid printer compatibility problems c) don't have stupid reliability problems I don't know if eBay is an acceptable source for this situation but you should be able to get a used USB JetDirect 175X (HP part # J6035G) quite cheaply. James Kerr wrote: Can anyone recommend inexpensive print servers that do not require proprietary software. Basically looking for something like a Jetdirect for USB printers that I can setup standard TCP/IP ports on workstations that want to print to it. Jet directs are too expensive for this application (company). ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Print Servers
I have over 30 printers here. For the last few I have not run them through a server, just give them a static IP address. When/if our print server goes down, I lose all the printers hooked up to that. I can hook up a printer to the network without the print server, I just have to keep a list for that. Don't need to count sheets here at the museum. I don't know if this is the best way, but I only need the drivers. I have XP, Vista, and Windows 7 on the workstations. Is this an OK way? Is the best way still through a server? -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 3:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Print Servers Unfortunately USB-attached HP JetDirects are the only ones I've used that don't: a) require software to be installed b) don't have stupid printer compatibility problems c) don't have stupid reliability problems I don't know if eBay is an acceptable source for this situation but you should be able to get a used USB JetDirect 175X (HP part # J6035G) quite cheaply. James Kerr wrote: Can anyone recommend inexpensive print servers that do not require proprietary software. Basically looking for something like a Jetdirect for USB printers that I can setup standard TCP/IP ports on workstations that want to print to it. Jet directs are too expensive for this application (company). -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: On another front - social networking killing e-mail...
My kids are both teenagers, one in college, one in high school. My youngest goes days without checking e-mail, and he spends at least five hours on his computer each and every day. My daughter reads hers, but on her cell phone, and mostly her college e-mail account. I own my last name account on the web for Internet and e-mail, they don't care... We have two land lines at our house, but my son uses Skype to talk to friends over the computer while he games. My daughter lives on her cell phone, that costs me about $100 month... Now I am older than most of you on this e-mail service, but I remember for the longest time that growing up we had one phone at our house. Now I pay for six lines, four mobile and two in the house. We have 10 extensions on the two phone lines going to our house. From phone to e-mail to Skype to other online services. Thank goodness I have cable TV at home, I can hide from the rest of them in front of that... From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 10:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: On another front - social networking killing e-mail... Very interesting article indeed. On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 9:44 AM, David Lum david@nwea.orgmailto:david@nwea.org wrote: http://blog.pgp.com/index.php/2009/12/will-facebook-kill-email/ I laughed hahah no way at the title, but then I read this line: I have to admit I didn't see his point until I read a headline recently indicating that 92% of global email traffic is now spam. The fact that most email is junk isn't news as the percent of measured spam has been hovering around 90% for quite some time. The fact that spam has dominated the email landscape for so long is helping to drive some interesting user behaviors, however. We're starting to see reports that some users (mostly young) are giving up email entirely in favor of social media. While I think many email users will have problems doing this, it makes a certain amount of sense.. At my IT Garage clients SPAM hovers around 95-96% and if you think about it, using social networking messaging is very much like having a deny all except specifically whitelisted senders. Thoughts and comments welcome! David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke Sent from Keller, TX, United States ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: OT, heads up free wifi
I have heard of some who refuse to put any security on their wireless so if anyone were to accuse them of anything nefarious they could say that someone must have borrowed it. From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 5:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT, heads up free wifi Yes, you *might* be liable for anything done over a connection that's contracted in your name. Another good reason for setting up security (WPA2, WPA, even WEP ) just to keep random war-drivers off your network. Otherwise you need to have a disclaimer banner that everyone is forced to accept, like the free wifi at hotels use. Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security From: C.E. Gene Connor [mailto:cege...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 3:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT, heads up free wifi I came across this bit of what I see as a use less use of a court system. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10405824-83.html?tag=nl.e757 Or why something like this would even make it in front of a judge in the first place. A law may have been broken and I support any laws that keep anyone from stealing something that doesn't belong to them!! But, I'm really worried about where all this is going. I have a out of work friend that lives next to me. I let him from time to time log into my wireless network to job hunt and check his mail. Am I going to be put in jail if he downloads something? Maybe I need to stop before they come knocking on my door. Either way I just wanted you all to have a read over this. And maybe your company and legal dept. could prevent something as this. In the event you all might need to put into affect a user policy for you all wireless network. For if I read it right and understand it? It could happen to any one on this list or any of your users etc. And yes, I know this happened across the other side of the world. But, you never know where it might go next. -- Gene C. In Memory of my little brother http://genec-lori.com/ PackRat GarageSale http://genec-lori.biz/ Genes-Computers Inc. Yulee ,Fl Established 1981, Microsoft OEM Registered member, system builder Active registered Microsoft Partner Active Charter Partner of The Association of System Builders and Integrators If you think you're beaten, Then you are! If you give up the fight, Accept it !! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Exchange 2007
I have switched from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 and can't quite get the job finished. Does anyone know of a good person I can use in the Washington, DC area to help me get it set up right? Specifics: Backup not the same, use Backup Exec? Security in OWA and with phones One person's e-mail is way not right - President's, of course At the end of my tether here... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Exchange 10 or 7?
Wow! If I go to 10, no one will ever delete anything… From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 7:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 10 or 7? You are incorrect. It is 100K items per folder. From: chipsh...@comcast.net [chipsh...@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 6:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Exchange 10 or 7? I believe that it is 100,000 items total per account not per folder. - Original Message - From: Michael B. Smith mich...@owa.smithcons.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 4:38:31 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: Exchange 10 or 7? Yes, well, lots of executives don't seem to understand how to click an X or hit the delete key. But Outlook 2007 with service pack 2 will (should) perform as well as Outlook 2010 RTM. And replying to Andy Leedy's comment - yes, you can collocate CAS/HT on MB servers in HA situations using Exchange 2010; HOWEVER - that would also require you to have a redundant LB in front of that server for it to be HA. From: Brian Desmond [br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 10 or 7? Maybe? Th���s an insane number of items in one folder. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: chipsh...@comcast.net [mailto:chipsh...@comcast.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 5:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Exchange 10 or 7? I believe you need Outlook 2010 to support up to 100,000 mailbox items where as Outlook 2003 has a recommended limit of 5,000. - Original Message - From: Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 9:57:50 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: Exchange 10 or 7? Outlook 2007 (or 2003 or whatever) will work fine Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Devin Meade [mailto:devin.me...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 11:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Exchange 10 or 7? We plan on moving from Exchange 2003 to 2010. Possibly with two servers doing database replication. Question: I am budgeting Exchange Server CALS and Exchange server itself on new hardware. We currently have Outlook 2007 CALS, will those work with Exchange 2010? We don't plan on upgrading Outlook until probably 2011. Thanks, Devin On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com wrote: Since SBS follows the version of Windows, you might wish for SBS 2008 R2 to include E2010. But I wouldn't hold my breath. Carl From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 10:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 10 or 7? I wonder if there is going to be a SBS 2010 to include e2k10 Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 From: Sean Rector [mailto:sean.rec...@vaopera.org] Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 8:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 10 or 7? As my mailbox is the only one set up on our 2k7 setup, I'm definitely going to go to 2k10. Sean Rector, MCSE From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 5:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 10 or 7? Going to 2010 prolly here also, lots of good stuff in the new exchange... Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + ezi...@lifespan.org Phone:401-639-3505 From: Leedy, Andy [mailto:ale...@butlerahs.com] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 11:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 10 or 7? +1 From what I've heard CAS/HUBS can be on the same box as MB servers. Less hardware. J From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 11:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 10 or 7? You're going to be doing the work twice to go from 2007 to 2010. There's no in place upgrade or anything like that. If you're just running one box then it seems logical to me that going straight to 2010 would be A LOT easier and cheaper in the long run. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 9:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 10 or 7? I have been using Exchange 03 here at the Museum for a few years. I have Exchange 07 software, we are a non-profit so licenses are cheap. But I was wondering if I should skip over 07 and go right
RE: Sunbelt Tech.Ed Bike Give Away Survey
BMW is NOT a rice-burner. I've been riding BMW motorcycles for 40 years. I'll be signing up at Tech-Ed for a chance at any bike. I have test-ridden Harleys every couple of years. No comparison. But if I could afford a second bike, I'd have a Fat Boy... -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 10:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Sunbelt Tech.Ed Bike Give Away Survey On 25 Oct 2009 at 13:53, Stu Sjouwerman wrote: Hi All, [quibble] Shouldn't this have an OT: prefix? [/quibble] [g,d,rlh] Sunbelt is considering giving away a VIPRE-themed motorcycle at Tech.Ed this year. Which motorcycle brand first comes to mind when you hear the words 'high-performance'? http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=VY10nJC7fD_2bZ_2frYAaSCiVA_3d_3d This is a 10 second, two-click survey ! Forget the rice-grinders, offer me a Hawg. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Ammo for apple mac sales pitch
We have a few Macs here at the museum. Our PR art department uses them. There is always a problem going back and forth with Apple Microsoft. Both sides complain, they come to me. I'm old and would rather take a nap... From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 11:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Ammo for apple mac sales pitch I will add something that no one else has mentioned yet. If the Apple users expect to have 100% compatablity with the Windows systems using all of the Apple features be prepared to have a member of your staff dedicated to fixing issues of files not working as expected. I had to support a mixed enviornment and Apple is NOT 100% by any stretch of the imagination comptable. Powerpoint was the biggest issue that we had. Another was the demands for things like iTunes and the storage that the users used for their important files that generated, sorry but unless there is a real business reason for the machines I would say NO to adding them. Jon On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:22 AM, MarvinC marv...@gmail.com wrote: Why limit yourself to only working on Windows? . More work with the same budget. -- Ben ~ 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/ ~
Exchange 10 or 7?
I have been using Exchange 03 here at the Museum for a few years. I have Exchange 07 software, we are a non-profit so licenses are cheap. But I was wondering if I should skip over 07 and go right to 10. Is this a harder upgrade? Impossible? Anyone done it? Either way, I would use another server, faster with 6 times the RAM of our 03 machine and run either over Server 08, 64-bit. And then transfer over a couple of weeks. One of my admin buddies from another firm says best to go with 7, impress everyone, and then go with 10 in a year or two. I also have a problem mentioned earlier with too many of the employees saving too much in their Inboxes, so I would give them an increase to save even more ridiculous stuff. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: It hurts when I stick a fork in my eye!
So which one is the idiot? From: Jay Dale [mailto:jd...@xpresstel.com] Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 2:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: It hurts when I stick a fork in my eye! We were interviewing for a consultant position and had a ton of applicants. One guy was really outgoing and had a great resume, but during the interview he started slinging the words around and that turned us right off. We even commented afterwards that he was probably the right guy for the job if he hadn't had cursed during the interview. Jay From: Jim Slattery [mailto:jslatt...@medexassist.com] Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 1:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: It hurts when I stick a fork in my eye! I swear like a sailor, but wouldn't even consider doing it in an interview. From: Rob Bonfiglio [mailto:robbonfig...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 11:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: It hurts when I stick a fork in my eye! IMO using that sort of language during an interview is unaccetable. If it can't be said on tv at 8pm, then it shouldn't be said in an interview. You want to put your best foot forward, and f this or f that during an interview is completely out of line. I don't have a problem with cursing, and I do it quite often. But there are settings in which it is not appropriate. A job interview is one of them. On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Steve Kelsay kels...@sctax.org wrote: I agree with the content, just the presentation that has tweaked me, since a lot of our new applicants are using that sort of language in interviews, it seems to be the standard English of the day, and I guess I can accept it, even use it myself. It is the context that seem to be getting to me. Just ignore me. I'll get over it. (G) -Original Message- From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 10:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: It hurts when I stick a fork in my eye! I didn't actually notice that, but he did describe the hell we call IT to the tee. Dead on accurate. I just about fell out of my chair. Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 -Original Message- From: Steve Kelsay [mailto:kels...@sctax.org] Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 8:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: It hurts when I stick a fork in my eye! Perhaps it is my ancient generation, but I am long since impressed by low level street language. YMMV. -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 5:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: It hurts when I stick a fork in my eye! LOL! I like the statement after the copyright notice. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 4:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: It hurts when I stick a fork in my eye! I just came across this: http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2009/01/for_new_sysadminsit_types.html Dead on, I say. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- If this email is spam, report it here: http://www.onlymyemail.com/view/?action=reportSpamId=ODEzNjQ6OTcyODkyNj M1On http://www.onlymyemail.com/view/?action=reportSpamId=ODEzNjQ6OTcyODkyN jM1On BqcEBwc25ldC5jb20%3D THIS ELECTRONIC MESSAGE AND ANY ATTACHMENTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY PROPERTY OF THE SENDER. THE INFORMATION IS INTENDED FOR USE BY THE ADDRESSEE ONLY. ANY OTHER INTERCEPTION, COPYING, ACCESSING, OR DISCLOSURE OF THIS MESSAGE IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE SENDER AND DELETE THIS MAIL AND ALL ATTACHMENTS. DO NOT FORWARD THIS MESSAGE WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE SENDER. THIS ELECTRONIC MESSAGE AND ANY ATTACHMENTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY PROPERTY OF THE SENDER. THE INFORMATION IS INTENDED FOR USE BY THE ADDRESSEE ONLY. ANY OTHER INTERCEPTION, COPYING, ACCESSING, OR DISCLOSURE OF THIS MESSAGE IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE SENDER AND DELETE THIS MAIL AND ALL ATTACHMENTS. DO NOT FORWARD THIS MESSAGE WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE SENDER. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
RE: [OT] Farewell to Mary Travers
I'm 61, I'm crying too. I met her and was able to spend time with her a few years ago, very likeable and outgoing woman. Apologies for succumbing to this, please don't tell my wife, unrelated to computers... From: G.Waleed Kavalec [mailto:kava...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 8:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [OT] Farewell to Mary Travers Mary Travers - of Peter, Paul, and Mary - succumbed to leukemia at the age of 72 yesterday. Dragons live forever, but not so little girls. 55 years old, why am I crying like a baby? -- -- 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 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Star Trek Science Fiction?
Absolutely! From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 3:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Star Trek Science Fiction? I'd like a food replicator. Especially if it can replicate beer. Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu] Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 2:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Star Trek Science Fiction? I'd rather have a phaser. From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 2:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Star Trek Science Fiction? Now for the transporters and cloaking devices! -sc From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 2:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Star Trek Science Fiction? http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,535252,00.html -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke If this email is spam, report it here: http://www.OnlyMyEmail.com/ReportSpam http://www.onlymyemail.com/view/?action=reportSpamId=ODEzNjQ6OTM4ODI1N DM1OnBqcEBwc25ldC5jb20%3D THIS ELECTRONIC MESSAGE AND ANY ATTACHMENTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY PROPERTY OF THE SENDER. THE INFORMATION IS INTENDED FOR USE BY THE ADDRESSEE ONLY. ANY OTHER INTERCEPTION, COPYING, ACCESSING, OR DISCLOSURE OF THIS MESSAGE IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE SENDER AND DELETE THIS MAIL AND ALL ATTACHMENTS. DO NOT FORWARD THIS MESSAGE WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE SENDER. THIS ELECTRONIC MESSAGE AND ANY ATTACHMENTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY PROPERTY OF THE SENDER. THE INFORMATION IS INTENDED FOR USE BY THE ADDRESSEE ONLY. ANY OTHER INTERCEPTION, COPYING, ACCESSING, OR DISCLOSURE OF THIS MESSAGE IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE SENDER AND DELETE THIS MAIL AND ALL ATTACHMENTS. DO NOT FORWARD THIS MESSAGE WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE SENDER. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Internet
We are having some sites come up, others not. Anyone else experiencing this? I heard that some government sites were down recently, today others are down. At least for us here at the Museum. Anyone else seeing this? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: GPO's and remote servers
I remember doing the same thing with a TV series named Sky King. The names of everyone and everything involved: Penny, The Jeep, the uncle, etc. But, I am over 60... From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 8:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: GPO's and remote servers Nope, Hugo was the abominable snowman that loved Daffy. On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.com wrote: That was the abombidable (?) snowman. -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 6:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: GPO's and remote servers Wasn't there big hairy thing that loved Daffy and called him George? -sc -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 4:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: GPO's and remote servers On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Sherry Abercrombiesaber...@gmail.com wrote: Commander K-9 was Marvin the Martian's dogs name. Ah. I kept thinking George but I knew that was wrong... ;) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
OT: Sky King
Unbelievable! I will watch them all, well, replacing two servers today first, SOON! Many thanks... -Original Message- From: Charlie Kaiser [mailto:charl...@golden-eagle.org] Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 10:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: GPO's and remote servers And don't forget his beautiful twin Cessna. But only a another pilot would say that. LOL. You can still watch all the Sky King episodes on the web. http://www.americanflyers.net/entertainment/skyking.asp *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 5:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: GPO's and remote servers I remember doing the same thing with a TV series named Sky King. The names of everyone and everything involved: Penny, The Jeep, the uncle, etc. But, I am over 60... From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 8:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: GPO's and remote servers Nope, Hugo was the abominable snowman that loved Daffy. On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.com wrote: That was the abombidable (?) snowman. -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 6:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: GPO's and remote servers Wasn't there big hairy thing that loved Daffy and called him George? -sc -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 4:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: GPO's and remote servers On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Sherry Abercrombiesaber...@gmail.com wrote: Commander K-9 was Marvin the Martian's dogs name. Ah. I kept thinking George but I knew that was wrong... ;) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: My OS is better than your OS (was: Mac Anti-Malware)
And lawyers too... From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 11:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: My OS is better than your OS (was: Mac Anti-Malware) Agreed or someone/group gets hit hard by for HIPPA violations. That is one reason I don't like and generally refuse to work on doctor's machines. Jon On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Ziots, Edwardezi...@lifespan.org wrote: I bet when there patient information is taken by a backdoor/Trojan/Malware/Spyware, rootkit, and sold on the open market, and they are nailed for HIPPA privacy and other security violations, said DR would have thought twice about letting those users be administrators ... I used to do work for some medical firms. In general, doctors are some of the worst when it comes to dealing with IT. Hopefully that will change as a younger generation enters the medical workforce. -- Ben ~ 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/ ~
Exchange 03
I just deleted a user, and shouldn't have. When I bring him back, the Exchange user account is reborn, empty. The old account is still on my Exchange server, I have that set for 30 days. But when I bring his account back, it makes a new e-mail account, empty. Having a fit with this, I know I have brought back accounts a long time ago, what am I doing wrong? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Exchange 03
That's grayed out... -Original Message- From: Stephan Barr [mailto:stephan.b...@bdtechnology.org] On Behalf Of lists Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 12:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 03 Is the mailbox still listed in the Information Store? Check if the reconnect option is available. If so reconnect to the user and good to go. Cheers. -Original Message- From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 11:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 03 I just deleted a user, and shouldn't have. When I bring him back, the Exchange user account is reborn, empty. The old account is still on my Exchange server, I have that set for 30 days. But when I bring his account back, it makes a new e-mail account, empty. Having a fit with this, I know I have brought back accounts a long time ago, what am I doing wrong? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Exchange 03
I'll take it either way, I would like to make it either live with the old e-mail, or I would be glad to import the old account into his new... -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 12:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 03 Define bring back his account. -sc -Original Message- From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 12:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 03 I just deleted a user, and shouldn't have. When I bring him back, the Exchange user account is reborn, empty. The old account is still on my Exchange server, I have that set for 30 days. But when I bring his account back, it makes a new e-mail account, empty. Having a fit with this, I know I have brought back accounts a long time ago, what am I doing wrong? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Exchange 03
I tried that once; but then how do I recreate his box? From within? -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 12:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 03 Recreate the account without an email box..skip that step. -Original Message- From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 12:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 03 I just deleted a user, and shouldn't have. When I bring him back, the Exchange user account is reborn, empty. The old account is still on my Exchange server, I have that set for 30 days. But when I bring his account back, it makes a new e-mail account, empty. Having a fit with this, I know I have brought back accounts a long time ago, what am I doing wrong? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Exchange 03
I'm not sure I'm spelling it out right, either... Sorry -Original Message- From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 12:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 03 Not sure I'm following this, but So you deleted the AD account but not the mailbox? Is that correct? If so, when you recreated the account (I'm guessing not a restore) you had the option to create a new mailbox. If you did that the user would have a new mailbox with no data. If you recreated the user with a new mailbox and you still have the old mailbox, you need to remove the mail attributes and delete the new mailbox. Then you can attach the old mailbox to the user account. HTH Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer 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 -Original Message- From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 12:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 03 I just deleted a user, and shouldn't have. When I bring him back, the Exchange user account is reborn, empty. The old account is still on my Exchange server, I have that set for 30 days. But when I bring his account back, it makes a new e-mail account, empty. Having a fit with this, I know I have brought back accounts a long time ago, what am I doing wrong? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ - 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/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Bridged T-1's
We own the block, so it would be very expensive to get Internet from a cable company, and Fios in DC is not yet available. I have been approached by a company offering to bridge two T-1's for our Internet. Anyone have this yet? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Bridged T-1's
Two lines with a choice of routers... -Original Message- From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 9:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bridged T-1's I have MPLS with sites that use 8 T1s bonded with MLPPP. (No fiber available). Works fine as long as you have a router with a backplane that can support that throughput. My main site Internet is a DS3, but many of my MPLS sites are T1s with MLPPP. How are they going to hand it off to you? Bob Fronk -Original Message- From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 9:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Bridged T-1's We own the block, so it would be very expensive to get Internet from a cable company, and Fios in DC is not yet available. I have been approached by a company offering to bridge two T-1's for our Internet. Anyone have this yet? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Bridged T-1's
about $700/month -Original Message- From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 9:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bridged T-1's Before jumping on board, check with other providers. I think you will find that almost any can provide the same thing (ATT, Sprint or even the LEC). What is this company making the offer wanting to charge for the service? Bob Fronk -Original Message- From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 9:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bridged T-1's Two lines with a choice of routers... -Original Message- From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 9:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bridged T-1's I have MPLS with sites that use 8 T1s bonded with MLPPP. (No fiber available). Works fine as long as you have a router with a backplane that can support that throughput. My main site Internet is a DS3, but many of my MPLS sites are T1s with MLPPP. How are they going to hand it off to you? Bob Fronk -Original Message- From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 9:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Bridged T-1's We own the block, so it would be very expensive to get Internet from a cable company, and Fios in DC is not yet available. I have been approached by a company offering to bridge two T-1's for our Internet. Anyone have this yet? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Bridged T-1's
Good. That is something I was counting on... -Original Message- From: Louis, Joe [mailto:jlo...@guardianalarm.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 9:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bridged T-1's MLPPP has worked great where we have used it. Each is a separate physical circuit so that if one drops, you still have partial connectivity. -Original Message- From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 9:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bridged T-1's Every carrier that we've used has multilink PPP circuits available, which essentially bonds 2 or more T-1s together. I'm not familiar with bridged T-1s, but I'm guessing that's their geek-speak for something similar. -Original Message- From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 8:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Bridged T-1's We own the block, so it would be very expensive to get Internet from a cable company, and Fios in DC is not yet available. I have been approached by a company offering to bridge two T-1's for our Internet. Anyone have this yet? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: USE OF MAC COMPUTERS IN WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT
The machines aren't any better, but it appears the graphics users like Macs more. When a Mac fails, they don't flinch, just look for me patiently. I have five Mac desktops and three Mac laptops here at the Museum. About eight or 10 have Macs at home too. For the in-house users, I give them an extra monitor and run Parallels with Microsoft Office (Outlook) running, as all the other apps don't have all that Outlook offers. And I run Exchange here. One likes to use OWA, but the rest like to use Office for Outlook. A year or so ago I used Macs with two monitors at home as well as at the office to see the difference. The Macs are sweet, but I just like PC's better, even withstanding the half or third better pricing. From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: USE OF MAC COMPUTERS IN WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT Not to my knowledge, but I'm open to correction. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 7:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: USE OF MAC COMPUTERS IN WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT I've heard in the past that Macs were superior for Graphic Design, Video editing, etc., but is that really the case anymore? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Password Policy - - how do you handle this?
At the last place I was at, a p .r. firm, an outside computer expert group
recommended that we set everyone's password to password. I couldn't stop
laughing, but the operating v.p. wasn't laughing, I recall. There are large
groups of companies who do this, apparently. I left soon, for other reasons,
don't know what they did...
Here at the Museum, when I showed up, seven years ago, everyone's password was
password. When I set them up with OWA, I made them all adopt a password. Many
complained. Our outside auditing firm made me give passwords a 50-day life. I
also added the three-of-four rule, they liked that.
Changing passwords each day would be a bit much for these folks. But I know
three people (one is my neighbor) who have one-minute-password key chains, so...
From: Sean Rector [mailto:sean.rec...@vaopera.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:54 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Password Policy - - how do you handle this?
I do it, and it 1) doesn't create heartburn for our folks and 2) it does prompt
my folks for the reset pwd upon next logon.
Sean Rector, MCSE
From: Jeremy Anderson [mailto:jer...@mapiadmin.net]
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:40 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Password Policy - - how do you handle this?
The security guy is insisting that we set the Min Password Age to 1 day. I
agree in theory that this is a swell idea, but in practice, I think it will be
a disaster.
We have users that forget their passwords every other day (Don't ask) and
company politics that are going to let this bad habit continue. Admins reset
the password, and set the flag that says Must change password on next logon
I say, that the user will never get prompted to reset the next time they login,
or that changing it will fail, because the password is now less than one day
old.
Security guy says Not having that set is a bad idea, other companies do it,
make it happen
How do you guys deal with this?
Thanks
Jeremy
Information Technology Manager
Virginia Opera Association
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RE: Is it possible to pinpoint a WIFI connection
Or a very small Canary Wireless.. -Original Message- From: Peter van Houten [mailto:peter...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 12:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Is it possible to pinpoint a WIFI connection I've used this successfully: http://www.freeantennas.com/projects/template2/index.html -- Peter van Houten On the 18/03/2009 18:44, Mark A. Ross wrote the following: Does anyone know of a piece of hardware or software that will allow you to pinpoint a WIFI connection? In other words, you are in a public location and your laptop detects 5 unsecure WIFI hosts. How do you know which house is using the network nam�Bong (Couldn���t think of a funnier name, sorry). Mark ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Internet connectivity
My museum is disconnected from any other blocks by cable TV, so I cannot hook up to that without a $15,000 fee. I have FIOS at home and am loving it, even though they lied to me about connectivity and I cannot run test web sites from home and I send them way too much dough every month... Would a T-1 be a better connection than a 768 up by 5 or 6 MB download or some other such DSL? I remember using a T-1 much earlier in my career and it was pretty good, but of course we didn't have the constant use the web gets by the youngsters now. I have about 60 serious web users and also run Exchange 2003. I don't need to host any websites but I do have a couple of dozen remote access users... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Internet connectivity
Comcast. -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Internet connectivity I was really under the impression that cable providers would wire anything for a customer, and absorb the costs. 1 Block, 15,000K? Yikes. Mind sharing the company name? -Original Message- From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Internet connectivity Just remember that a T1 normally is guaranteed 1.544mbps speed both ways and *most* DSL is rated as up to which starts at zero ... Check the Service Level Agreements of any DSL you'd be considering, as far as guaranteed bandwidth, and response time to trouble tickets Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security -Original Message- From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Internet connectivity My museum is disconnected from any other blocks by cable TV, so I cannot hook up to that without a $15,000 fee. I have FIOS at home and am loving it, even though they lied to me about connectivity and I cannot run test web sites from home and I send them way too much dough every month... Would a T-1 be a better connection than a 768 up by 5 or 6 MB download or some other such DSL? I remember using a T-1 much earlier in my career and it was pretty good, but of course we didn't have the constant use the web gets by the youngsters now. I have about 60 serious web users and also run Exchange 2003. I don't need to host any websites but I do have a couple of dozen remote access users... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Paging the parents.
And don't forget the consignor stores. The biggest one here in the D.C. area (only two sales a year) is Dani's Duds. www.danisduds.com From: Jake Gardner [mailto:jgard...@ttcdas.com] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 10:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Paging the parents. and don't get upset when she puts you in the doghouse for no apparent reason. Thanks, Jake Gardner TTC Network Administrator Ext. 246 From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 10:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Paging the parents. Way to go Kurt...that is awesome. Make sure mom gets a monthly massage, and buy some foot rub lotion...that'll keep you out of the doghouse no matter how badly you screw up otherwise. On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: I must say thanks to all of you, for both the humor and the tips. If we're lucky, our first will be delivered in September. We've got heartbeat, but won't be confident until some time after March... Kurt ***Teletronics Technology Corporation*** This e-mail is confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the addressee or authorized by the addressee to receive this e-mail, you may not disclose, copy, distribute, or use this e-mail. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail or by telephone at 267-352-2020 and destroy this message and any copies. Thank you. *** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC?
I took two Macs and ran them at home and at the office for a full year. Cool machines, ran both Mac and PC software on both. Still needed Outlook, no matter what I used, and I have/had full programs for both. Cute, but no cigar. Quit. Still have six Macs here at the Museum, but for those four which can, I run Windows so they can get the full Outlook. The two others must use OWA... From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 9:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC? Guess we are all Mac or PC then. kinda like Elvis or Beatles. Schwarzenegger or Stallone. Newcastle or Sunderland. On and on it can go. Or it's like girlfriends. I think mine is great, but only because I have had time to explore her feature set and ignore all her little foibles. other people's mileage would probably vary :-) 2008/12/18 TJ iwebfor...@gmail.com The fact that I can run Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, and Illustrator at the same time makes ME feel like it's more optimized. I can also run Firefox with 15-20 tabs open at all times, plus my mail client, my FTP client, some utility apps, a chat program, etc What are you talking about? I do this NOW! On a PC, circa 2001, 2G of RAM and I see no major problems at all! Really. I am not understanding this. I'll tell you my experience with a friend at a Mac Store This is a mid-40's year old business man who runs a very successful business - he's no dope. He walks over to a Mac and begins going through the menus, the programs, opens up apps and clicks around a lot - keeps saying isnt this cool? and I just let him go on and on. I probably heard isnt this cool about 1/2 dozen times before I looked at him and asked isnt WHAT cool? What EXACTLY is cool John? and with that, he looked at me and said forget it. you're just dont understand. Well, he's right! I DO NOT understand. If I did that with my PC, he'd think I was psycho or something. This is what I dont get. The machines are the same. The hardware is the same. The components are the same. The MEMORY is the same. Ah, forget it. I've got work to do. On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Eric Brouwer er...@forestpost.com wrote: The fact that I can run Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, and Illustrator at the same time makes ME feel like it's more optimized. I can also run Firefox with 15-20 tabs open at all times, plus my mail client, my FTP client, some utility apps, a chat program, etc. All at the same time. Never even a slight hesitation in performance of any kind. I can barely run DW and PS together on my PC. I LIKE PCs. Like the majority of us here, I make my money ON and WITH PCs. For my network administration stuff, I use an IBM ThinkPad running Vista. I even defend Vista. I don't have a fraction of the problems the masses like to report. It's a decent OS, in MY opinion. BUT, I enjoy the Mac experience a great deal more. Physics aside, yes, I do think the Mac moves 1s and 0s around faster. If you want me to say it, I'll say it. I PREFER the Mac experience to my Windows experience because of it's performance. How is my defense of Macs, saying their optimized, less accurate than the statement that they're simply generic white boxes? And I didn't realize Mac was the only OS burdened with updates. I could have sworn I've had to run updates on my PC once or twice in the past. On Dec 18, 2008, at 8:30 AM, Ken Schaefer wrote: OK - let's get back to basics here. Unless you believe in the Jobs RDF, then Macs still obey basic laws of physics. They don't move 1s and 0s around any faster than other electronic devices. They use the same graphics cards, hard drives, memory, LCD displays, CPUs and chipsets and so on that are available in every other brand. The design might be good, but I don't see what they have over similarly priced competitors (even Dell's getting into decently looking hardware these days). So, please explain, in some more detail, what exactly you find optimised? I have two Macs here at home (just for my own use), and plenty of others I come into contact with. I can't say I've seen anything spectacular about them (except that I need to install 100MB of updates each month). There's one thing to say I prefer the way the OS works - it suits the way I think. It's another thing to say that an OS magically gets more Hz out of a CPU... Cheers Ken From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] Sent: Friday, 19 December 2008 12:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC? I was a COMPLETE anti-Mac zealot up to June of this year. Then I was forced to work on them at my new job. Now I'm begging for one of my own. I admit, there still seems to be a lot of voodoo and black magic going on in the Macs, but they run amazingly well. I can run far more apps with better response on a Mac of
RE: Resume Posting
craigslist From: mqcarp [mailto:mqcarpen...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 3:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Resume Posting This it OT, but where do you find or post your resumes these days? HR has an IT opening and Monster is just ridiculous expensive to look through. Years ago I know dice.com was a common tech job site, and so was careerbuilder. Are these common now? I use LinkedIn too, so that may even be an option. Just curious if any of you do any hiring and what your experience is these days. Thanks ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Kinda need a Mac,
I used an Intel Mac Pro here at the Museum and at home for a full year recently, two monitors, Parallels with Windows on one side, Mac OSX on the other. One with Vista, one with XP. Our graphics people all use Macs and I wanted to continue to be totally familiar with the Apple side of things. Pretty. But, to me, not as conducive to getting work done. I still have the Mac in my office, and use it for some things, but I switched over to a dual-screen XP machine. As an aside, one outcome is that I now prefer and use Apple laptops. I had set up Entourage for them. Over the years, several versions, still many problems, and not a full deal. And here's a known issue, or so I was told, and it did happen to me twice, you should not use Outlook if you are also using Entourage: lost e-mail. One solution is to give them Parallels, with Office 07. They keep it running and often always open on a window on their right side monitors and then they get the full Outlook experience. Even though Entourage is Microsoft's own, it is somewhat crippled. And most of the graphics artists need at some time to access FTP or other type sites that really only work via Windows, so they don't bug me about it. Another way is to let them access your terminal server from within, Remote Desktop for the Mac is, well, pretty, too. Then they can get Outlook, and other Windows advantages. For those users, I also save money by not buying Office for the Mac, they use and actually prefer iWork. I like it too... Ever since OSX came out, supporting Macs in a Windows environment is a breeze. From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 3:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Kinda need a Mac, Okay, so we're hiring a graphic artist. In a company of engineers and manufacturing people, Macs are not exactly commonplace (I have one in my office that I bought so I could better relate to customers when they send in art, and after using the darn thing for a while, I no longer felt it was as important to relate.) My issue is that this graphic artist would prefer to work on a Mac. That's fine, but part of what she will be doing is preflighting artwork, and we use Outlook as our way to, for example, set flags on items in public folders, etc... I have never used Entourage, but I'm assuming that's what would she would need to use. Does it have similar functionality to Outlook in that you can access Public Folders (using E2K3 server), set colored flags, open other user's folders, etc?? Anyone have a mixed environment like that that can comment on how well Entourage operates in it? Thanks, Evan ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: changing anti-virus, anti-spam, anti-spyware
Thanks to several of this group's suggestions I am off most blacklists, a hellish trip at best. But I still keep going back and forth with the SORBS lists. Mxtoolbox's test say I don't relay. But SORBS says I am. Off their list for awhile and then back on. Are there deeper tests I need to run? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: changing anti-virus, anti-spam, anti-spyware
Believe so. Will double check. -Original Message- From: Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 10:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: changing anti-virus, anti-spam, anti-spyware Have you set your firewall to only allow outgoing smtp traffic to originate from your mail server? Klint Holstrom, Don wrote: Thanks to several of this group's suggestions I am off most blacklists, a hellish trip at best. But I still keep going back and forth with the SORBS lists. Mxtoolbox's test say I don't relay. But SORBS says I am. Off their list for awhile and then back on. Are there deeper tests I need to run? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: changing anti-virus, anti-spam, anti-spyware
That utility does not work on a Vista machine we have. It's looking for 9.0, but it is actually 10.2. I think I got the newest version of the utility off their website. From: Tom Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 1:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: changing anti-virus, anti-spam, anti-spyware You can use the Symantec Clean wipe utility on PCs that removes anything SAV on a PC/server. I wrote a basic script which looks for SAV and does a silent removal then installs VIPRE (our new AV of choice). I have it look for several versions of 10.x and one older version of 9.x that we used several years ago. 9.x cannot be removed silently in that there is a prompt somewhere that must be answered and cannot be suppressed. I just told the script to say OK when that comes up. Tom Troy Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/6/2008 11:55 AM Stu, Keep us updated on that, it's a major selling point for mid-large installations. -troy -Original Message- From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 8:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: changing anti-virus, anti-spam, anti-spyware We are working on one too. Stu -Original Message- From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 4:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: changing anti-virus, anti-spam, anti-spyware Some AV vendors will create you a rip and replace tool. Trend is one such vendor. On 10/4/08, Holstrom, Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have been using Symantec products for servers workstations for a couple of years now. Bought Vipre for the family/test network, seems to work fine. Certainly runs faster, less overhead. However, cannot get rid of Symantec 10.1 or 10.2. Checked the Symantec site and their manual uninstallation appears to take as long as wiping the hard disk and rebuilding that. I inquired with Sunbelt and they sent me a link to a Symantec automatic uninstaller, but that doesn't work with 10.2 on Vista. Haven't tried it on XP. Does it? So, we are protected at the test network by Vipre but a Symantec 30 day outdated virus signature error message comes up all the time. Annoying. Anyone shifted away from Symantec without tearing out their hair? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ .. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ 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/ ~
changing anti-virus, anti-spam, anti-spyware
We have been using Symantec products for servers workstations for a couple of years now. Bought Vipre for the family/test network, seems to work fine. Certainly runs faster, less overhead. However, cannot get rid of Symantec 10.1 or 10.2. Checked the Symantec site and their manual uninstallation appears to take as long as wiping the hard disk and rebuilding that. I inquired with Sunbelt and they sent me a link to a Symantec automatic uninstaller, but that doesn't work with 10.2 on Vista. Haven't tried it on XP. Does it? So, we are protected at the test network by Vipre but a Symantec 30 day outdated virus signature error message comes up all the time. Annoying. Anyone shifted away from Symantec without tearing out their hair? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: TechNet Down?
This has been happening regularly to me too...
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Off most blacklists, now looking for hardware firewall
Many thanks to this list. Sent me in the right direction, right away. I truly wish I could return the favor, but as a Master of None... I would like to set up a hardware firewall outside of my router and its firewall. I'd like to keep the cost under $1,000. Way under if possible. I keep hearing about the Cisco PIX, but it seems costly. Is this Ironport I hear about also costly? Any other ideas? I really need to batten down the hatches... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Is the list down
Our IP address has also just made it onto these lists, at the same time. Is there something going around out there? Will this e-mail make it through? I haven't been on one of these lists in a couple of years. Via mxtoolbox we are listed on three: CBL, Lashback, and PSBL. Reason given for all three is Return codes were 127.0.0.2. When I test our e-mail server, also via mxtoolbox, it says we are not an open relay. All checks OK. Any clue on what a poor one man shop, jack of all trades, master of none derelict can do? From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 7:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Is the list down Apparently the list made it onto some spam blacklists... 2008/9/30 Ziots, Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is the list down? I havent seen a email from the list in a day... Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 -Original Message- From: Troy Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 6:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Powershell scheduled job You can redirect from within the script itself using out-file or echo (ghetto but I use it sometimes). Gci c:\badexample | sort-object name |out-file c:\filename.txt -troy -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 3:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Powershell scheduled job I have a job I schedule as follows: powershell.exe -PSConsoleFile C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\Bin\ExShell.psc1 -Command . 'C:\Scripts\job.ps1' How can I redirect the output of this job to a text file? Thanks! jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
blacklisted
PSBL says they have received spamtrap mail from our IP address. How do I check all my PCs to see which ones are responsible? I have anti-virus on all workstations and servers, anti-spam on the e-mail server, and anti-spyware on the workstations. All is updated regularly. What else do I need to do? Any places anyone can point me? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: MapPoint 2009
Excellent, I'm feeling less and less alone... From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 3:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MapPoint 2009 Does it still have a 10,000 limit? Yep, 10k limit is still there but here's some info on that: http://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth/archive/2008/07/28/overcoming-pushpin -limitations-in-mappoint-2009.aspx I found a workaround for the pushpins issue on new maps. You can add all the old pushpins to the template that is used to create the maps so then they are included in the file from the beginning but that doesn't help if you have old maps. And since MapPoint references pushpins by index number, your old pushpins may show up in 2009 but using a different image since the index numbers have all changed. Grrr. - Andy O. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: External RAID HDD Enclosure Recomendations
61 in a couple of months... From: Campbell, Dick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 8:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: External RAID HDD Enclosure Recomendations Is that all Kurt? Try 53rd in a few weeks. Jon On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh. 51st coming very soon... On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, there are a few people on this mailing list older than I am...I'm not the most senior by far. Right, Bob and Kurt? :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: External RAID HDD Enclosure Recomendations You know that dude was 182 yrs old when Noah was born... That was like prime of life since he lives to 777 years old. Man that must make you like 6200 yrs old. How does it feel MBS to be the most senior member of AARP? -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 10:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: External RAID HDD Enclosure Recomendations Well, it is true that my driver's license starts with 0. Beyond that, this deponent sayeth not. It was actually Lamech that signed my yearbook. Noah was not yet a glimmer in his father's eye. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange -Original Message- From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 9:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: External RAID HDD Enclosure Recomendations That doesn't matter to MBS, he's so old his driver's license number is 000--007 and Noah signed his year-book. :) This non-technical humor injection brought to you by Shook... From: Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 6:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: External RAID HDD Enclosure Recomendations Old, very old. We used them before there was such a thing as Newegg. Michael B. Smith wrote: Why have I never heard of mwave.com http://mwave.com/ ? Are they new? -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ You kids need to stay off my lawn! Waiting for the 54th... -Original Message- From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 5:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: External RAID HDD Enclosure Recomendations ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: MapPoint 2009
Does it still have a 10,000 limit? -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 12:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: MapPoint 2009 Anyone here using MapPoint and have upgraded to 2009? I just did - and I have to say, it sucks. They replaced the standard library of 335 pushpin icons with 45 and they're mostly the same color. All the olds maps have to be recreated. Oh, and they do offer the option to import custom symbols and they even offer the old icon set from the Download Center but you have to import them one by one and they are stored with the map file not the app so you have to do it for every single map. PITA... - Andy O. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: MapPoint 2009
I have a client with 18,000+ customers and they want to watch how their base is moving here around the D.C. area. It helps them decide where customers want them to be available. -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 2:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: MapPoint 2009 That sounds horrible. What do you use MP for? On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Holstrom, Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it still have a 10,000 limit? -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 12:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: MapPoint 2009 Anyone here using MapPoint and have upgraded to 2009? I just did - and I have to say, it sucks. They replaced the standard library of 335 pushpin icons with 45 and they're mostly the same color. All the olds maps have to be recreated. Oh, and they do offer the option to import custom symbols and they even offer the old icon set from the Download Center but you have to import them one by one and they are stored with the map file not the app so you have to do it for every single map. PITA... - Andy O. ~ 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/ ~ -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Magazine subscriptions
I get those, and skim them, not finding all that much. But I subscribe to three or four British magazines and hang on every work. Expensive, but well worth it. I also get three or four other US mags, but not as valuable as the British ones. -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 7:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Magazine subscriptions The TechNet web-based forums are watched by the MVPs in the specific product areas. Plus, if you are working with Microsoft products specifically, a lot of the PMs and devs frequent the larger communities. So, as for experts, I don't think you have to look far or pay a subscription fee to get good help. -Original Message- From: Ralph Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 6:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Magazine subscriptions Experts-exchange, however, can be pretty interactive if you have an specific problem. There are quite a number of 'experts' who will help you out on a wide range of topics. -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 6:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Magazine subscriptions I suspect those answers on experts-exchange are also already answered elsewhere. A targeted Google or Live search would probably get the same information. -Original Message- From: Ralph Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 6:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Magazine subscriptions I use experts-exchange. Sometimes it's great, sometimes not so much help, but overall worth it for me. I get a lot of solutions without having to ask 'cause someone else has almost always asked before. WinITPro I look forward to every month. The subscription is something like $50 per year, but you can get it for way less - $18 per year at magazines.com. Ralph Smith Gateway Community Industries 845-331-1261 x234 -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 5:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Magazine subscriptions Like experts-exchange.com. They are everywhere. Anyone use them? Are they worthwhile to have a sub for? Exactly, but I signed up with them when it was new and free and answered a couple questions so now I can view all answers to questions without paying anything. :) - Andy O. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ Confidentiality Notice: -- This communication, including any attachments, may contain confidential information and is intended only for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. Any review, dissemination, or copying of this communication by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email, delete 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/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ Confidentiality Notice: -- This communication, including any attachments, may contain confidential information and is intended only for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. Any review, dissemination, or copying of this communication by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email, delete 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/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: just plain old copying CDs
Very good chance. But I hate to use the original when I have to do a couple of machines. I am a oldie and remember that CloneCD circumvented all that... From: Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 1:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: just plain old copying CDs Any chance you are stumbling on anti-piracy measures built into many CD's these days. Klint Silvio L. Nisgoski wrote: Nero does the job well. Is that anything strange about the original cd that some program could not interpret correctly ? - Original Message - From: Holstrom, Don mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 1:51 PM Subject: just plain old copying CDs I just copied a CD and it won't work as it should. I used to use CloneCD, I may even have copy somewhere. I think they closed shop at the behest of some organization or another. I also have the latest Roxio and Nero laying around somewhere. I just want a perfectly copied CD, byte for byte, down dirty, easy, so it cannot be recognized as something other than the original. I have all sorts of machines with both XP Vista OSX so that is not a problem. Is there a consensus on CD duplication out there? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: just plain old copying CDs
Not audio CDs. Nor video DVDs. From: Ken Cornetet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 1:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: just plain old copying CDs Are you talking about audio CDs? If so, you need to understand that although the data on the CD is in fact ones and zeros, CDROMs cannot access that data as they would for a data CD. A special mode is used to read the bits of an audio CD, and not all CDROM drives are equally adept at doing so. To get a perfect rip of an audio CD is not a trivial task from a programming point of view. The gold standard for reading audio CDs and creating wav files is Exact Audio Copy (EAC). Another program which is easier to use and generally considered as good as EAC is CDex. From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 12:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: just plain old copying CDs I just copied a CD and it won't work as it should. I used to use CloneCD, I may even have copy somewhere. I think they closed shop at the behest of some organization or another. I also have the latest Roxio and Nero laying around somewhere. I just want a perfectly copied CD, byte for byte, down dirty, easy, so it cannot be recognized as something other than the original. I have all sorts of machines with both XP Vista OSX so that is not a problem. Is there a consensus on CD duplication out there? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: just plain old copying CDs
My apologies, CloneCd is still out there, sold by slysoft. Google is my friend, Google is my friend... From: Silvio L. Nisgoski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 1:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: just plain old copying CDs Nero does the job well. Is that anything strange about the original cd that some program could not interpret correctly ? - Original Message - From: Holstrom, Don mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 1:51 PM Subject: just plain old copying CDs I just copied a CD and it won't work as it should. I used to use CloneCD, I may even have copy somewhere. I think they closed shop at the behest of some organization or another. I also have the latest Roxio and Nero laying around somewhere. I just want a perfectly copied CD, byte for byte, down dirty, easy, so it cannot be recognized as something other than the original. I have all sorts of machines with both XP Vista OSX so that is not a problem. Is there a consensus on CD duplication out there? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: logging deleted files
I have tried this program in different versions in different iterations at different times over the last few years, and it has always brought down my file servers. Is there a new version that would work with Server 08? From: Geling, Jos HS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 2:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: logging deleted files The program Undelete Server can help 1. it put file in the recoverybin, so they can be recovered. 2. it logs, who did delete the file. Jos From: Paul Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 16:34 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: logging deleted files Is there anything that logs the event when files are deleted over the network? A user in one of our departments is deleting files, either unintentionally or not. The best I can do is check my daily backups to find out which day it happened, but we'd like to find out who it is. We don't need something to recover deleted network files, just something that logs the event that includes the username. Is there anything out there that can do this? We have a 2003 AD Domain. Thanks, Paul Everett IS Dept. Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any 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, including attachments. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: logging deleted files
Anyone using, used Undelete Server version 2009? From: Paul Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 3:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: logging deleted files There is a 2009 version that supports Server 08. From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 2:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: logging deleted files I have tried this program in different versions in different iterations at different times over the last few years, and it has always brought down my file servers. Is there a new version that would work with Server 08? From: Geling, Jos HS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 2:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: logging deleted files The program Undelete Server can help 1. it put file in the recoverybin, so they can be recovered. 2. it logs, who did delete the file. Jos From: Paul Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 16:34 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: logging deleted files Is there anything that logs the event when files are deleted over the network? A user in one of our departments is deleting files, either unintentionally or not. The best I can do is check my daily backups to find out which day it happened, but we'd like to find out who it is. We don't need something to recover deleted network files, just something that logs the event that includes the username. Is there anything out there that can do this? We have a 2003 AD Domain. Thanks, Paul Everett IS Dept. Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any 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, including attachments. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Inventory System
I use Newt Pro, but I don't think it covers all you need. From: Brumbaugh, Luke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Inventory System I ran a simple inventory using Spiceworks. Great report. Does anyone know of an Inventory Software like spiceworks but for a larger company? This is great for clients but I need for a couple thousand Items. Phones, printers, switch, routers, servers and PCs. Luke L. Brumbaugh Network Engineer Butler Animal Health Supply Ph:(614) 659-1736 ** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information transmitted in this message is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this document. Thank you. Butler Animal Health Supply ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: So, Why Do We Do It?
I do it for love and money and responsibility. This is a second career for me, retired as a speechwriter 10 years ago. I have been a sysadmin (one-man-shop) for two different organizations ever since. I am now 60. I consider this a blue collar job with white collar working conditions and pay. I was always told I was a good writer, easy to understand, eminently speakable/readable. I took that as complimentary. It was easy for me to write, made lots of dough, able to retire at 50. Always had gadgets as an interest, as a hobbyist. When the opportunity arose, I took the job to work with 'puters fulltime. I love the work, well, not every minute, but 99% of the time. Average 50 hours a week, year round. But can take off when I need or simply want. When you are 60, it's not often you will sleep through the night, so I check the Museum's servers all the time. Hey, better than 98% of what's on the idiot box at that hour. When I wrote, I usually had one boss. Now I consider every user at the Museum where I work as my boss. I never call them losers (well, except under my breath every so often, infrequently). I feel my job is to make sure all the systems are go and everyone has access. Full inclusion over exclusion. I want to make their jobs better. But I'm an old fart... From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 9:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: So, Why Do We Do It? To add my two cents worth to this subject - I find a lot of the time I do extra hours for no reward is to make sure things run correctly. Years ago when I worked for a large outsourcer I was continually cleaning up the messes of IT systems that had been designed and run very poorly. Now I find even when I take the morning off, the people I work with still don't follow best practises that I document thoroughly for them, even down to little things like ensuring servers are in the right OUs, putting descriptions on AD objects, ensuring resources have the right naming convention, etc. Which means I always spend an extra couple of hours putting everything right for no reward. Maybe I could just hope these colleagues eventually get sacked and replaced by ones who listen a little more, but my boss is one of the worst offenders (especially at following change control procedures - the bane of my life) and I doubt that the slapdash attitude will change anytime soon. At least as long as they all know I am there to clean things up for them. 2008/8/18 Jon Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] That was one of 2 different ones I thought was correct but I did not want to point a finger incorrectly. The other was New Mexico but I was not sure which one it was or even if my memory was right. Jon On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Steve Kelsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was Texas, where the definition of an Engineer is defined by law. Or that was the story USA Today printed. From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2008 23:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: So, Why Do We Do It? Is it my memory going bad or wasn't Network Engineer a few years back in some state not allowed as a title as the state in question did not have a test to Certify someone with that knowledge? Don't ask me the state but I think it was in the south west some place. I could be wrong I am getting old and forgetful. Jon On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 10:56 PM, John Hornbuckle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We certainly fall into the professionals category; it takes no fewer years to become a good technician as it does to become a good lawyer or accountant. I'm afraid that many of us put in white-collar hours for blue-collar pay, though. We've done informal surveys here asking what we all make. Perhaps just as interesting would be a survey asking what our BOSSES make. Part of the problem is a lack of official accreditation. Lawyers and accountants have to take certain actions in order to call themselves lawyers and accounts. But anyone can call themselves an IT guy. Sure, we have specialized certifications (Microsoft's, CompTIA's, etc.), but nothing at a higher level. Perhaps a more formalized definition of Systems Engineer ought to be codified. Maybe the issue is that this field is still in its infancy, and somewhere down the road things will change. I know there have been movements towards this in the past, but they don't seem to have picked up any steam. From: Durf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2008 10:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: So, Why Do We Do It? Jon, you raise a lot of great points here. I have to ask, aside from WHY we do it, what do we think we are? Are we more like lawyers or accountants - or more like electricians or plumbers? Are we white-collar professionals, or blue-collar hourly workers? If we are more like lawers, then what? I have a lawyer friend who regularly works 100+ hour
emaillists, semi-massive e-mails
I have a client, fairly small, 28 employees. I have their website hosted offsite for bandwidth, and use their offsite hosting for their e-mail as well. This host has a limit of 300-500 e-mails sent at once, and they offer a maillist service, but only for 1,000. My client has a list of opted-in clients of their own of nearly 10,000. Is there a service or software or way I can set them up for regular, monthly mostly, e-mails, preferably connected to the Access database they use, that won't cost an arm and a leg: they are non-profit. Should I find another hosting service? ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: PST Hell
Yes, this has been a given, I think, for some time. Most do not even have pst files, just ost's. But some want to add POP3 accounts. Too keep their data secure and them happy, I just have them work locally and save globally. I set up automatic back up to my backed-up file server once a week, using Microsoft's built-in tools. From: Simon Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 5:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PST Hell You are aware that PST files on a network location is not supported and the quickest way to corrupt those PST files? http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=297019 More on the same subject: http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/archive/2007/01/21/network-stored-pst-f iles-don-t-do-it.aspx Simon. From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 July 2008 21:51 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: PST Hell We're dealing with the prospect of moving approximately 200 PST files from several server locations to a new USERS share location. We could do this manually and reset each user's Outlook accordingly, but would prefer some type of automated process. Racking my brain but can't come up with a means to do this simply. Suggestions from anyone whose done something similar? Roger Wright Network Administrator 727.572.7076 x388 _ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
FTP alternatives
I have always been told that running an FTP site opens your network more than necessary. I recently converted my FTP server from 03 to 08 and my FTP setup has been sketchy, I must be doing something wrong. Instead of pursuing a fix for FTP, I wonder if there is a reasonable (cheap) alternative. This is a non-profit Museum, so not much money, but at least a dozen of our employees need to move large files back and forth. Locally hosted FTP has been fine, but with Server 08, I am missing something. Could someone point me in the right direction? ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
