RE: VMWare vs Hyper-V
Maybe I am naïve, but I am the type who spreads my eggs into multiple baskets. I would rather deal with a Windows exploit in an isolated manner between my host and my guest, than have to worry if my host was compromised as well by the same exploit. -Original Message- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 9:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare vs Hyper-V Fair point too, I just know the hassle we had with one Windows server which would semi-freeze where we were pretty sure the culprit was either EMC Powerpath or the Broadcom NIC teaming drivers but (admittedly perhaps due to lack of time/skill on my part), I would have killed for a install this lot and you know all the versions will play nice together ISO image - in the end we actually gave up on it and stuck it in a VM. Personally I see it as just use what fits your situation best, but to me the two reasons I listed were important. -Original Message- From: Malcolm Reitz [mailto:malcolm.re...@live.com] Sent: 26 October 2010 17:03 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare vs Hyper-V I get what you are saying, but I'm not really seeing that as an issue, though. Downloading the VMware ISO with the drivers isn't much different than downloading the Dell PowerEdge driver package for Windows. -Malcolm -Original Message- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 10:52 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare vs Hyper-V That's exactly my point though, you can end up so dependent upon the right combination of third party drivers on the box running hyper-v vs. download vsphere ISO, put in drive, boot, install, done. -Original Message- From: Malcolm Reitz [mailto:malcolm.re...@live.com] Sent: 26 October 2010 16:30 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare vs Hyper-V 1) Hyper-V is Windows - whatever drivers you need to run Windows on that hardware is what you need for Hyper-V; no different than any other Windows implementation. If you have a major name server, you'll have the drivers you need from the vendor. 2) I can't speak to paid support from non-EA Microsoft customers, but there's a large and growing amount of Hyper-V knowledge available in the community. -Malcolm -Original Message- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 09:24 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: re: VMWare vs Hyper-V Personally I'd go with vsphere and look at one of the Essentials bundles as that will give you cluster capability as well as central control from vCenter. I don't have anything against Hyper-V as I've never actually used it, but my reservations and reasons for not doing so are two-fold: 1) Hardware compatibility - with vsphere you have a HCL and if it's on that, vmware will supply everything, you just download and insert the media when necessary. With Hyper-V the hardware may be supported but you may still have to go download drivers from Broadcom or whoever before you have a working Hyper-V server. 2) Support - with vsphere you can pay vmware for support, or you can use their forums for free. With Hyper-V unless you have some sort of enterprise agreement my understanding (and it is just an understanding, I could be dead wrong) is that you can't purchase support cheaply just on Hyper-V. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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 -- 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.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To
RE: Kace software deployment
I have a client using it with 2000 licensed nodes and am intimately aware of their product, rollout (both pre-and post acquisition), support, features, etc. What do you want to know other than I love the box? Klint -Original Message- From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 11:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Kace software deployment Anyone want to share any experiences with these guys? John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and other Federal and Florida laws. Improper or unauthorized use or disclosure of this information could result in civil and/or criminal penalties. Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Need System/Application Security Advice
My off-hour job is consulting for various companies. One such small company puts out a product that I feel needs to be fixed. Company sells two products; ProductA integrates with ProductB which both manage sensitive data and are exposed to the public Internet Windows Forms Authentication is tied to LDAP to authenticate users prior to allowing them into the inner-workings of the system. ProductA and ProductB are configured so that IIS allows a domain account to run the entire website for anonymous users (the equivalent of running an app pool with a domain account). Because the entire site runs under the domain account, there are inherent security risks which Company fails to disclose. I am about to send off an e-mail to the higher ups detailing why this is a bad idea without instructing the customer on the possible security risks, and associated steps to mitigate, let alone re-architect the application to reduce this exposure. Why is it a bad idea to configure a site in this way out-of-the-box, and what articles can you point me to? Any security articles would also be appreciated. At minimum I think the domain user should be removed from the domain users group, with additional GPO's applied to lock down the account. What say ye? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Need System/Application Security Advice
Internal corporate, yes. Directly exposed to the internet? I would hope not. From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 10:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Need System/Application Security Advice Ermm what you describe (as I understand it) is probably how 75-90 percent of apps run on IIS in a corporate environment. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Klint Price [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 7:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Need System/Application Security Advice My off-hour job is consulting for various companies. One such small company puts out a product that I feel needs to be fixed. Company sells two products; ProductA integrates with ProductB which both manage sensitive data and are exposed to the public Internet Windows Forms Authentication is tied to LDAP to authenticate users prior to allowing them into the inner-workings of the system. ProductA and ProductB are configured so that IIS allows a domain account to run the entire website for anonymous users (the equivalent of running an app pool with a domain account). Because the entire site runs under the domain account, there are inherent security risks which Company fails to disclose. I am about to send off an e-mail to the higher ups detailing why this is a bad idea without instructing the customer on the possible security risks, and associated steps to mitigate, let alone re-architect the application to reduce this exposure. Why is it a bad idea to configure a site in this way out-of-the-box, and what articles can you point me to? Any security articles would also be appreciated. At minimum I think the domain user should be removed from the domain users group, with additional GPO's applied to lock down the account. What say ye? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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: Need System/Application Security Advice
So what steps should be taken to secure it since no instructions are provided to do so? Because IIS knows the password for the xyzweb account. If someone can get IIS to execute arbitrary code (e.g. by uploading some of their own webpages) then IIS can connect to serverB using the domain\xyzweb account, and that account has privileges on serverB. By running your website as a domain user it is basically giving permission to your web server to access anything that the user has access to on the entire domain. Wouldn't that mean that if someone manages to take advantage of one of the many IIS vulnerabilities they very well may have access to information all over your network instead of just the one machine? A workaround or possible solution would be to instruct the customer that if they are going to use a domain account (which by architecture they are forcing them to do), that they should use a non-privileged account, and remove it from the domain users group. That way the account can be considered authenticated, but has no other default rights on the domain. Additional settings should be implemented to prevent the password from expiring, and locking out. From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 10:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Need System/Application Security Advice It's very common. There are many things you simply cannot do if you run in a local security context. FYI if you run the app pool as Network Service on a domain joined machine that provides it the domain rights of the server's computer account. If an internet facing app even not in a corp environment runs on a web farm and is anything other than static content you're almost guaranteed to have a domain and shared domain accounts running it too. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Klint Price [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 7:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Need System/Application Security Advice Internal corporate, yes. Directly exposed to the internet? I would hope not. From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 10:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Need System/Application Security Advice Ermm what you describe (as I understand it) is probably how 75-90 percent of apps run on IIS in a corporate environment. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Klint Price [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 7:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Need System/Application Security Advice My off-hour job is consulting for various companies. One such small company puts out a product that I feel needs to be fixed. Company sells two products; ProductA integrates with ProductB which both manage sensitive data and are exposed to the public Internet Windows Forms Authentication is tied to LDAP to authenticate users prior to allowing them into the inner-workings of the system. ProductA and ProductB are configured so that IIS allows a domain account to run the entire website for anonymous users (the equivalent of running an app pool with a domain account). Because the entire site runs under the domain account, there are inherent security risks which Company fails to disclose. I am about to send off an e-mail to the higher ups detailing why this is a bad idea without instructing the customer on the possible security risks, and associated steps to mitigate, let alone re-architect the application to reduce this exposure. Why is it a bad idea to configure a site in this way out-of-the-box, and what articles can you point me to? Any security articles would also be appreciated. At minimum I think the domain user should be removed from the domain users group, with additional GPO's applied to lock down the account. What say ye? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/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
RE: OT: Completely off topic
When in San Diego I always try to take a trip to Julian for some of the best apple pie you will ever have. There are 12 or so places to buy apple pie in this quiet very small township. Bring your own cheese. When I lived up north in Ontario for a few years I learned An apple pie without the cheese, is like a kiss without the squeeze. Cheddar is best. You don't taste the cheese, and it brings out the flavor in the apple. La Jolla shores has some great areas to go cliff jumping if you so desire, and La Jolla shores has some nice beaches with decent waves and long declines into the ocean. If you have little kids in tow, my favorite beach is at the Hotel Del Coronado because they go through with a beachcomber every night and clean out the seaweed and debris from the sand. Old Town (in San Diego) is fun to roam around and has some good eateries too for some good southwest food. From: Doug Hampshire [mailto:dhampsh...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 5:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Completely off topic No, don't go to the San Diego Zoo. If you're going to be in the San Diego area, go the the WIld Animal Park instead. It's run by the San Diego Zoo, but the animals are in very large open spaces and (mostly) live together. They do keep the lions out of the gazelle areas for obvious reasons. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com wrote: Add Hoover Dam to your Vegas list. Do you like good (like really good) food? That's probably my favorite thing to do (and spend money on) in both of these places. If you want some food recommendations in LA let me know. I'd also look up when the Food Trucks are all out in Venice (it's a couple days a month I think) as they're a unique experience. In LA, I'd add The Getty, Venice, Santa Monica, possibly drive down to San Diego (spend a night or two there it's really nice and totally different - only like 90 mins away). The USS Midway is fun in San Diego, you can actually take light rail to Tijuana also. Drive through like La Jolla and such along the coast. In general driving along the coast (PCH) is generally very pretty. Topanga Canyon north of LA is a fun drive. The San Diego Zoo is one of the top zoos out there (though I haven't yet been). Legoland and Disneyland are nearby to both if you're in to either of those things. Hollywood walk of fame of course. Personally I think you have too much time in both of these places. Are you open to customizing a bit? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: James Hill [mailto:james.h...@superamart.com.aumailto:james.h...@superamart.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 6:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: Completely off topic Haha.. ok on list it is. I'll be on the West Coast. Mainly after things to do in LA and Vegas. Have 4-6 days in LA and 5 in Vegas so not a lot of time. Will have a car though. After that I'm on a boat for 7 days down to Mexico and back. So far for LA:- *Tar Pits *Long Beach *Universal Studios *Eat something with cheese on it (I've heard it's really hard to find in the U.S. :)) Vegas:- *Grand Canyon (of course) *cirque du soleil *Obvious stuff like walking the strip and checking out each of the big casinos *Crazy as it sounds I'm more interested in the shows etc rather than the gambling. I'll be sure to bring some koala toys (after I remove the made in china label). I've heard I'll have to talk slow so that you Yanks can understand me. As for the crikey! comment I actually don't live that far from Australia Zoo which was built by Steve Irwin (which is one of the few people that ever uses that word these days) Wouldn't mind jumping around like a fool in front of a Microsoft Kinect if I can find one. James. From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.commailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 9 September 2010 11:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Completely off topic Crikey, mate! If you want some tips from some of the locals on this list, just ask. We're already here! And since you asked, here are a few: 1) North America is really, really large. (Maybe even larger than Australia!) The farther north you go, the heavier clothing you'll need. 2) Always buy Americans a beer first. After that they'll fall all over themselves to return the kindness for the rest of the night. And to hear your funny accent. Seriously. You'll come out way ahead on this one, and save a tonne of money. 3) 2) Does not work on people from Canada or Mexico. 4) Tell them your great grandfather was a hardened, unrepentant criminal from England. They expect to hear it anyway, even if he was a priest, or an Aborigine, or a Prime Minister. 5) Bring your a Koala with you as an ice breaker. Everyone has one, right?
RE: Officially Unemployed
salary.com also seems to have jobs not listed on dice, monster, or CL. Can you send me your resume offline? I work for a company that has a decent sized office in Boston. Klint From: Charlie Kaiser [charl...@golden-eagle.org] Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 11:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Officially Unemployed +1. All my gigs the past 7 years or so have come from Craigslist. There's also a metasearch site for CL called searchtempest.com that lets you search multiple locations with various criteria and display the results all on one page... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 10:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Officially Unemployed Definitely open your eyes to CL. You'd be surprised at what gets posted there. -- 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: Officially Unemployed
whoops, missed that you were in TX. A good friend of mine is the branch manager at Robert Half. I can see if he has any offline lists for the TX/DFW area. From: Klint Price Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 6:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Officially Unemployed salary.com also seems to have jobs not listed on dice, monster, or CL. Can you send me your resume offline? I work for a company that has a decent sized office in Boston. Klint From: Charlie Kaiser [charl...@golden-eagle.org] Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 11:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Officially Unemployed +1. All my gigs the past 7 years or so have come from Craigslist. There's also a metasearch site for CL called searchtempest.com that lets you search multiple locations with various criteria and display the results all on one page... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 10:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Officially Unemployed Definitely open your eyes to CL. You'd be surprised at what gets posted there. -- 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: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot
As long as there is a DR solution in place, one can work around various issues with lack of support. Management has to look at the fact that support costs X, and if event Y happens, resolution could cost Z. In this case he was without some non-critical servers for a few hours. Shoot, I used to call Veritas for support, and it would be 8-12 hours before they would call back just to assign an engineer. -Original Message- From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 9:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Maybe you should recalculate that ROI after this incident. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 11:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Correct - no support. Budget cuts ate that. On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 06:34, N Parr npar...@mortonind.com wrote: Yes in the olden days when we were on 3.5 and DAS I would get the pink screen of death and new Perc firmware fixed that. Just a stupid question but I assume you don't have a maint contract with VMWare or you would have opened a case with them right? In the past when I've has similar issues as this they've been able to resolve it for me over a webex very quickly. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 9:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot You are reading my mind... On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 17:01, Klint Price kpr...@arizonaitpro.com wrote: No problem I have had some 2950's on ESX go haywire with DAS when there was high IO going on, requiring a reboot. You may want to check for newer firmware for the card and related hardware. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot BTW... Damian and Klint and Karl: Thanks for your help on this. I really appreciate it. Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 15:39, Klint Price kpr...@arizonaitpro.com wrote: Remember to power off all guests, and put in maintenance mode in case you need to reboot several times. You may also want to shut off auto power-on so you can bring them back online one at a time. -Original Message- From: Klint Price [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Ok, a 2950 has dual core Xeons. Don't worry about the 90% on Proc 0 as your average load is coming in around 60%. Let me know the results of your reboot process. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Dual proc, dual core. Proc 0 = 90.72% avg Proc 1 = 50.18% avg Proc 2 = 49.49% avg Proc 4 = 49.74% avg Total is 59.74% avg But it's been higher than that all the time I've been troubleshooting this problem. Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 15:12, Klint Price kpr...@arizonaitpro.com wrote: 90% utilization after downing two servers? Is that 90% on a single core, or 90% total? How many other VMs do you have on the LUN(s) that are still powered on? Any more than the two referenced below? What is the output / top CPU utilization pct for the processes found by running: #top (from SSH) (exit with CTRL-C) -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot In line... On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 14:40, Klint Price kpr...@arizonaitpro.com wrote: 1) I wouldn't expect a power on to work until you can get this command to work: vmkfstools -P /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1/sus/sus.vmdk The host needs to be able to read from the disk. Reasonable. 2) Do you have an additional non-production server on the same LUN that can be powered off, with an attempt to restart your current down server? Result? Will the 2nd non-production server power back on? Yes. It's acting in a similar way - I logged in, and it shut down fine, but it won't power up now. Nor will a machine that I had powered 3) All things DR considered, can you schedule a reboot tonight? If so, you may want to consider re-seating the HBA and drives, clear dust (which can cause cards to overheat), and reboot. Gotcha. One last thing for the moment: I've been looking at the performance chart for this box, and see that CPU utilization is hovering around 90%. I've got one VM that seems pretty far out of line from its normal CPU utilization (our Win2k TS server), and another that's a bit higher than normal (our Win2k3 file/print server). I'm thinking of kicking the one person using
RDP Printing from Remote XP Host to Local Win 7 x86
I have a user wanting to print from QB on a remote XP x86 RDP session to a printer connected to his Windows 7 x86 machine locally. The remote XP machine has a usb attached HP printer. The Windows 7 machine has a locally attached USB printer of the same make and model. When connecting using the latest RDP client from his Win7 machine, and selecting the option to connect local printers, the remote XP sees both printers; Laserjet USB and LaserJet on Win7MachineName, so it appears the drivers are successfully creating the printer object. From the RDP session, if the user prints to the LaserJet on Win7MachineName, the document spools on the XP machine, the LED flashes for a second on the local printer attached to the Windows 7 machine, but nothing prints. The document is flushed from the remote spool queue, and no trace of the event is logged in the event viewer. Any ideas? Klint ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot
Post the status as requested, and we'll help get you a solution. I too have seen this error with disk space issues. Since you have a WSUS server, the vdk's may have grown over time to exceed the free space necessary to handle the swap. Sometimes it can be due to a hung shutdown. There are graceful ways to manually power down the host, and if that fails, you can kill or kill -9 the process, but I would use these as a last resort. I wouldn't worry too much about the log you posted. I have seen these occasionally when a disk was very active. They are grouped 4 - 8 hours apart, so I don't think that is the issue. Klint -Original Message- From: Karl Bickmore [mailto:k...@ccnsconsulting.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 1:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot This seems like a longshot, but the last time I came across something like this, the datastore had free space but not enough to accommodate swap. Karl Bickmore MSCE NT4/2k/2k3, MCP, MCP+I, MCSA 2k/2k3 LPI-1, CCNA, CCDA, Net+,Security+,Linux+ DataCore SANmelody Certified 6613 N Scottsdale Road, Suite 101 Scottsdale AZ, 85250 480-553-9967 X100 k...@ccnsconsulting.com Please remember CCNS is a referral based business. If you have a friend or colleague in need, we are happy to help. Feel free to pass along our contact information to anyone you think we can help. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 1:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Some are on the SAN, some are direct attached, I haven't seen issues with any of the other VMs yet. Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:57, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote: Do you have other guests on the same storage as the misbehaving guest? Are they working ok? -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot I'm googling like mad, and not finding a lot. Our ESX infrastructure is primitive - it's two purely standard (not enterprise, so no vmotion, etc.) ESX boxes running a number of guests, some of which are on a SAN, some of which are on direct attached (internal) disk. ESX is Version 3.5.0 Build 133630 - the VI client is 2.5.0 103672 The guest that's misbehaving is our Win2k3 R2 SP2 WSUS server (also running our VIPRE enterprise console), and it's on direct attached disk. It started hanging, so I initiated a shutdown. After 15 minutes at the 'shutting down' dialog box without any movement, I asked ESX to power the box down. I then tried to start it, and got a popup from the VI client saying Error: Could not power on VM : Metadata write error. Failed to power on VM. I also tried starting it from the command line, and got the following error: VMControl error -999: Unknown error: The poweron operation failed unexpectedly. The ESX host contains a number of production machines, so I can't simply reboot in the middle of the day. I've cruised through /var/log/messages, and found messages like this: Apr 7 15:16:35 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 1 Apr 7 15:16:35 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 1 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-GetLDList-ProcessLibCommandCall failed; rval = 0x8017 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: Volume Cannot get logical disk data from controller 0 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 1 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 1 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 2 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 2 Apr 8 07:03:00 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Read config failed 0 Apr 8 07:03:00 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 2 Apr 8 07:03:00 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 1 Apr 8 07:03:00 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 1 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 0 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 logical device 0 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 2 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 2 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 1 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 1 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 2 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 2 Any thoughts and pointers much
RE: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot
Do you have any files or folders on the datastore with a .lck appended to the end -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 1:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot [r...@esx2 root]# vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1/sus/sus.vmx getstate getstate() = off Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 13:10, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote: From the ESX host run vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/VOLNAME/VMNAME/VMNAME.vmx getstate and reply with the result. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Some are on the SAN, some are direct attached, I haven't seen issues with any of the other VMs yet. Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:57, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote: Do you have other guests on the same storage as the misbehaving guest? Are they working ok? -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot I'm googling like mad, and not finding a lot. Our ESX infrastructure is primitive - it's two purely standard (not enterprise, so no vmotion, etc.) ESX boxes running a number of guests, some of which are on a SAN, some of which are on direct attached (internal) disk. ESX is Version 3.5.0 Build 133630 - the VI client is 2.5.0 103672 The guest that's misbehaving is our Win2k3 R2 SP2 WSUS server (also running our VIPRE enterprise console), and it's on direct attached disk. It started hanging, so I initiated a shutdown. After 15 minutes at the 'shutting down' dialog box without any movement, I asked ESX to power the box down. I then tried to start it, and got a popup from the VI client saying Error: Could not power on VM : Metadata write error. Failed to power on VM. I also tried starting it from the command line, and got the following error: VMControl error -999: Unknown error: The poweron operation failed unexpectedly. The ESX host contains a number of production machines, so I can't simply reboot in the middle of the day. I've cruised through /var/log/messages, and found messages like this: Apr 7 15:16:35 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 1 Apr 7 15:16:35 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 1 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-GetLDList-ProcessLibCommandCall failed; rval = 0x8017 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: Volume Cannot get logical disk data from controller 0 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 1 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 1 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 2 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 2 Apr 8 07:03:00 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Read config failed 0 Apr 8 07:03:00 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 2 Apr 8 07:03:00 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 1 Apr 8 07:03:00 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 1 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 0 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 logical device 0 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 2 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 2 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 1 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 1 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 2 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 2 Any thoughts and pointers much appreciated. Thanks, Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ 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: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot
What model controller is this disk attached to? Disk type? Server model? -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 1:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Yuck: [r...@zesx2 root]# vmkfstools -P /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1/sus/sus.vmdk Could not get volume attributes (rv -1) Error: Connection timed out On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 13:28, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote: That's a positive sign. Try this: vmkfstools -P /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1\sus\sus.vmdk This will query the disk information. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot [r...@esx2 root]# vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1/sus/sus.vmx getstate getstate() = off Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 13:10, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote: From the ESX host run vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/VOLNAME/VMNAME/VMNAME.vmx getstate and reply with the result. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Some are on the SAN, some are direct attached, I haven't seen issues with any of the other VMs yet. Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:57, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote: Do you have other guests on the same storage as the misbehaving guest? Are they working ok? -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot I'm googling like mad, and not finding a lot. Our ESX infrastructure is primitive - it's two purely standard (not enterprise, so no vmotion, etc.) ESX boxes running a number of guests, some of which are on a SAN, some of which are on direct attached (internal) disk. ESX is Version 3.5.0 Build 133630 - the VI client is 2.5.0 103672 The guest that's misbehaving is our Win2k3 R2 SP2 WSUS server (also running our VIPRE enterprise console), and it's on direct attached disk. It started hanging, so I initiated a shutdown. After 15 minutes at the 'shutting down' dialog box without any movement, I asked ESX to power the box down. I then tried to start it, and got a popup from the VI client saying Error: Could not power on VM : Metadata write error. Failed to power on VM. I also tried starting it from the command line, and got the following error: VMControl error -999: Unknown error: The poweron operation failed unexpectedly. The ESX host contains a number of production machines, so I can't simply reboot in the middle of the day. I've cruised through /var/log/messages, and found messages like this: Apr 7 15:16:35 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 1 Apr 7 15:16:35 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 1 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-GetLDList-ProcessLibCommandCall failed; rval = 0x8017 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: Volume Cannot get logical disk data from controller 0 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 1 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 1 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 2 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 2 Apr 8 07:03:00 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Read config failed 0 Apr 8 07:03:00 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 2 Apr 8 07:03:00 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 1 Apr 8 07:03:00 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 1 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 0 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 logical device 0 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 2 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 2 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 1 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 1 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 2 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 2 Any thoughts and pointers much appreciated. Thanks, Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~
RE: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot
Can you run this command and tell me what the results are: ps -lf -C cimserver -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 1:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot It's a Dell 2950, with a pair of 500gb SATA drives in a RAID1 array. According to the Dell site it's a CR679 Assembly, Card, SAS6IR, Integrated, Sled Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 13:36, Klint Price kpr...@arizonaitpro.com wrote: What model controller is this disk attached to? Disk type? Server model? -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 1:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Yuck: [r...@zesx2 root]# vmkfstools -P /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1/sus/sus.vmdk Could not get volume attributes (rv -1) Error: Connection timed out On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 13:28, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote: That's a positive sign. Try this: vmkfstools -P /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1\sus\sus.vmdk This will query the disk information. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot [r...@esx2 root]# vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1/sus/sus.vmx getstate getstate() = off Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 13:10, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote: From the ESX host run vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/VOLNAME/VMNAME/VMNAME.vmx getstate and reply with the result. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Some are on the SAN, some are direct attached, I haven't seen issues with any of the other VMs yet. Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:57, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote: Do you have other guests on the same storage as the misbehaving guest? Are they working ok? -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot I'm googling like mad, and not finding a lot. Our ESX infrastructure is primitive - it's two purely standard (not enterprise, so no vmotion, etc.) ESX boxes running a number of guests, some of which are on a SAN, some of which are on direct attached (internal) disk. ESX is Version 3.5.0 Build 133630 - the VI client is 2.5.0 103672 The guest that's misbehaving is our Win2k3 R2 SP2 WSUS server (also running our VIPRE enterprise console), and it's on direct attached disk. It started hanging, so I initiated a shutdown. After 15 minutes at the 'shutting down' dialog box without any movement, I asked ESX to power the box down. I then tried to start it, and got a popup from the VI client saying Error: Could not power on VM : Metadata write error. Failed to power on VM. I also tried starting it from the command line, and got the following error: VMControl error -999: Unknown error: The poweron operation failed unexpectedly. The ESX host contains a number of production machines, so I can't simply reboot in the middle of the day. I've cruised through /var/log/messages, and found messages like this: Apr 7 15:16:35 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 1 Apr 7 15:16:35 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 1 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-GetLDList-ProcessLibCommandCall failed; rval = 0x8017 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: Volume Cannot get logical disk data from controller 0 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 1 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 1 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 2 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 2 Apr 8 07:03:00 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Read config failed 0 Apr 8 07:03:00 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 2 Apr 8 07:03:00 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 1 Apr 8 07:03:00 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 1 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 0 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 logical device 0 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 2 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 2 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 1 Apr 8 11:22:04 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0
RE: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot
Because there is some cimserver errors in your logs you posted, and there is a known bug in ESX 3.5 U2 through U4 regarding a memory leak in cimserver which can consume your swap, can you restart the cimserver process, and try powering on your VM again? -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 1:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot [r...@esx2 root]# ps -lf -C cimserver F S UIDPID PPID C PRI NI ADDRSZ WCHAN STIME TTY TIME CMD 0 S root 1991 1984 99 75 0- 80493 schedu Apr07 ? 3-11:31:10 /var/pegasus/bin/cimserver daemon=false Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 13:55, Klint Price kpr...@arizonaitpro.com wrote: Can you run this command and tell me what the results are: ps -lf -C cimserver -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 1:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot It's a Dell 2950, with a pair of 500gb SATA drives in a RAID1 array. According to the Dell site it's a CR679 Assembly, Card, SAS6IR, Integrated, Sled Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 13:36, Klint Price kpr...@arizonaitpro.com wrote: What model controller is this disk attached to? Disk type? Server model? -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 1:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Yuck: [r...@zesx2 root]# vmkfstools -P /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1/sus/sus.vmdk Could not get volume attributes (rv -1) Error: Connection timed out On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 13:28, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote: That's a positive sign. Try this: vmkfstools -P /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1\sus\sus.vmdk This will query the disk information. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot [r...@esx2 root]# vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1/sus/sus.vmx getstate getstate() = off Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 13:10, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote: From the ESX host run vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/VOLNAME/VMNAME/VMNAME.vmx getstate and reply with the result. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Some are on the SAN, some are direct attached, I haven't seen issues with any of the other VMs yet. Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:57, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote: Do you have other guests on the same storage as the misbehaving guest? Are they working ok? -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot I'm googling like mad, and not finding a lot. Our ESX infrastructure is primitive - it's two purely standard (not enterprise, so no vmotion, etc.) ESX boxes running a number of guests, some of which are on a SAN, some of which are on direct attached (internal) disk. ESX is Version 3.5.0 Build 133630 - the VI client is 2.5.0 103672 The guest that's misbehaving is our Win2k3 R2 SP2 WSUS server (also running our VIPRE enterprise console), and it's on direct attached disk. It started hanging, so I initiated a shutdown. After 15 minutes at the 'shutting down' dialog box without any movement, I asked ESX to power the box down. I then tried to start it, and got a popup from the VI client saying Error: Could not power on VM : Metadata write error. Failed to power on VM. I also tried starting it from the command line, and got the following error: VMControl error -999: Unknown error: The poweron operation failed unexpectedly. The ESX host contains a number of production machines, so I can't simply reboot in the middle of the day. I've cruised through /var/log/messages, and found messages like this: Apr 7 15:16:35 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 1 Apr 7 15:16:35 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 1 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-GetLDList-ProcessLibCommandCall failed; rval = 0x8017 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: Volume Cannot get logical disk data from controller 0 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 1 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 1 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 2 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 2 Apr 8 07:03:00 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Read config failed 0 Apr 8 07:03
RE: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot
Are there additional errors displayed on the console (not from SSH)? -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 2:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot First: [r...@esx2 sus]# cat sus.vmdk # Disk DescriptorFile version=1 CID=ca1171d8 parentCID= createType=vmfs # Extent description RW 31489448 VMFS sus-flat.vmdk # The Disk Data Base #DDB ddb.toolsVersion = 7302 ddb.virtualHWVersion = 4 ddb.uuid = 60 00 C2 90 76 de 74 6d-d5 c9 5d 1f 6c 5c 1f 27 ddb.geometry.cylinders = 1960 ddb.geometry.heads = 255 ddb.geometry.sectors = 63 ddb.adapterType = lsilogic Second: [r...@esx2 sus]# cat sus_1.vmdk # Disk DescriptorFile version=1 CID=fcc50a37 parentCID= createType=vmfs # Extent description RW 157294464 VMFS sus_1-flat.vmdk # The Disk Data Base #DDB ddb.toolsVersion = 7302 ddb.virtualHWVersion = 4 ddb.uuid = 60 00 C2 95 f0 7e 33 75-19 80 28 57 24 5e 27 59 ddb.geometry.cylinders = 9791 ddb.geometry.heads = 255 ddb.geometry.sectors = 63 ddb.adapterType = lsilogic On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 13:52, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote: Can you post the contents of the sus.vmdk and sus_1.vmdk files? They are just text but provide config info for the -flat.vmdk files. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Same error for each of the 4 vmdk files in the directory. On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 13:38, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote: Try running it for sus1.vmdk and see what you get. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Yuck: [r...@zesx2 root]# vmkfstools -P /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1/sus/sus.vmdk Could not get volume attributes (rv -1) Error: Connection timed out On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 13:28, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote: That's a positive sign. Try this: vmkfstools -P /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1\sus\sus.vmdk This will query the disk information. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot [r...@esx2 root]# vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1/sus/sus.vmx getstate getstate() = off Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 13:10, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote: From the ESX host run vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/VOLNAME/VMNAME/VMNAME.vmx getstate and reply with the result. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Some are on the SAN, some are direct attached, I haven't seen issues with any of the other VMs yet. Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:57, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote: Do you have other guests on the same storage as the misbehaving guest? Are they working ok? -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot I'm googling like mad, and not finding a lot. Our ESX infrastructure is primitive - it's two purely standard (not enterprise, so no vmotion, etc.) ESX boxes running a number of guests, some of which are on a SAN, some of which are on direct attached (internal) disk. ESX is Version 3.5.0 Build 133630 - the VI client is 2.5.0 103672 The guest that's misbehaving is our Win2k3 R2 SP2 WSUS server (also running our VIPRE enterprise console), and it's on direct attached disk. It started hanging, so I initiated a shutdown. After 15 minutes at the 'shutting down' dialog box without any movement, I asked ESX to power the box down. I then tried to start it, and got a popup from the VI client saying Error: Could not power on VM : Metadata write error. Failed to power on VM. I also tried starting it from the command line, and got the following error: VMControl error -999: Unknown error: The poweron operation failed unexpectedly. The ESX host contains a number of production machines, so I can't simply reboot in the middle of the day. I've cruised through /var/log/messages, and found messages like this: Apr 7 15:16:35 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 1 Apr 7
RE: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot
No, I mean the events on the ESX console (KVM), not SSH or the VI client. Sometimes you will see a different I/O error there And yes, restart Pegasus, and try powering the VM back on. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 2:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Do you mean in the Events display on the VI client? If so, then what I see isn't much. Just the following couplet several times: Message on sus on esx2.mycompany.com in ha-datacenter: Could not power on VM: Metadata write error. Failed to power on VM and Failed to power on sus on esx2.mycompany.com in ha-datacenter: A general system error occurred. Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 14:01, Klint Price kpr...@arizonaitpro.com wrote: Because there is some cimserver errors in your logs you posted, and there is a known bug in ESX 3.5 U2 through U4 regarding a memory leak in cimserver which can consume your swap, can you restart the cimserver process, and try powering on your VM again? -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 1:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot [r...@esx2 root]# ps -lf -C cimserver F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN STIME TTY TIME CMD 0 S root 1991 1984 99 75 0 - 80493 schedu Apr07 ? 3-11:31:10 /var/pegasus/bin/cimserver daemon=false Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 13:55, Klint Price kpr...@arizonaitpro.com wrote: Can you run this command and tell me what the results are: ps -lf -C cimserver -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 1:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot It's a Dell 2950, with a pair of 500gb SATA drives in a RAID1 array. According to the Dell site it's a CR679 Assembly, Card, SAS6IR, Integrated, Sled Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 13:36, Klint Price kpr...@arizonaitpro.com wrote: What model controller is this disk attached to? Disk type? Server model? -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 1:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Yuck: [r...@zesx2 root]# vmkfstools -P /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1/sus/sus.vmdk Could not get volume attributes (rv -1) Error: Connection timed out On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 13:28, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote: That's a positive sign. Try this: vmkfstools -P /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1\sus\sus.vmdk This will query the disk information. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot [r...@esx2 root]# vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1/sus/sus.vmx getstate getstate() = off Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 13:10, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote: From the ESX host run vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/VOLNAME/VMNAME/VMNAME.vmx getstate and reply with the result. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Some are on the SAN, some are direct attached, I haven't seen issues with any of the other VMs yet. Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:57, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote: Do you have other guests on the same storage as the misbehaving guest? Are they working ok? -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot I'm googling like mad, and not finding a lot. Our ESX infrastructure is primitive - it's two purely standard (not enterprise, so no vmotion, etc.) ESX boxes running a number of guests, some of which are on a SAN, some of which are on direct attached (internal) disk. ESX is Version 3.5.0 Build 133630 - the VI client is 2.5.0 103672 The guest that's misbehaving is our Win2k3 R2 SP2 WSUS server (also running our VIPRE enterprise console), and it's on direct attached disk. It started hanging, so I initiated a shutdown. After 15 minutes at the 'shutting down' dialog box without any movement, I asked ESX to power the box down. I then tried to start it, and got a popup from the VI client saying Error: Could not power on VM : Metadata write error. Failed to power on VM. I also tried starting it from the command line, and got the following error: VMControl error -999: Unknown error: The poweron operation failed unexpectedly. The ESX host contains a number of production machines, so I can't simply reboot in the middle of the day. I've cruised
RE: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot
1) I wouldn't expect a power on to work until you can get this command to work: vmkfstools -P /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1/sus/sus.vmdk The host needs to be able to read from the disk. 2) Do you have an additional non-production server on the same LUN that can be powered off, with an attempt to restart your current down server? Result? Will the 2nd non-production server power back on? 3) All things DR considered, can you schedule a reboot tonight? If so, you may want to consider re-seating the HBA and drives, clear dust (which can cause cards to overheat), and reboot. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 2:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot [r...@zesx2 zsus]# vmware-cmd zsus.vmx start VMControl error -999: Unknown error: The poweron operation failed unexpectedly. I don't believe we have support. I think that got lost in the budget shuffle recently. Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 14:14, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote: Try powering it on from the console: vmware-cmd sus.vmx start Assuming it fails, paste in the last few lines from vmware.log in that directory. I'm assuming you don't have support on your Vmware licenses? Otherwise opening a case with technical support may get you a faster result.. Yuck: [r...@zesx2 root]# vmkfstools -P /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1/sus/sus.vmdk Could not get volume attributes (rv -1) Error: Connection timed out On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 13:28, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote: That's a positive sign. Try this: vmkfstools -P /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1\sus\sus.vmdk This will query the disk information. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot [r...@esx2 root]# vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1/sus/sus.vmx getstate getstate() = off Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 13:10, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote: From the ESX host run vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/VOLNAME/VMNAME/VMNAME.vmx getstate and reply with the result. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Some are on the SAN, some are direct attached, I haven't seen issues with any of the other VMs yet. Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:57, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote: Do you have other guests on the same storage as the misbehaving guest? Are they working ok? -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot I'm googling like mad, and not finding a lot. Our ESX infrastructure is primitive - it's two purely standard (not enterprise, so no vmotion, etc.) ESX boxes running a number of guests, some of which are on a SAN, some of which are on direct attached (internal) disk. ESX is Version 3.5.0 Build 133630 - the VI client is 2.5.0 103672 The guest that's misbehaving is our Win2k3 R2 SP2 WSUS server (also running our VIPRE enterprise console), and it's on direct attached disk. It started hanging, so I initiated a shutdown. After 15 minutes at the 'shutting down' dialog box without any movement, I asked ESX to power the box down. I then tried to start it, and got a popup from the VI client saying Error: Could not power on VM : Metadata write error. Failed to power on VM. I also tried starting it from the command line, and got the following error: VMControl error -999: Unknown error: The poweron operation failed unexpectedly. The ESX host contains a number of production machines, so I can't simply reboot in the middle of the day. I've cruised through /var/log/messages, and found messages like this: Apr 7 15:16:35 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 1 Apr 7 15:16:35 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 1 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-GetLDList-ProcessLibCommandCall failed; rval = 0x8017 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: Volume Cannot get logical disk data from controller 0 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 1 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 1 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 2 Apr 7 21:03:01 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 2 Apr 8 07:03:00 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Read config failed 0 Apr 8 07:03:00 zesx2 cimserver: Cannot get information from controller 0 phy device 2 Apr 8 07:03:00 zesx2 cimserver: storelib-Failed to get pd infor for ctrl 0, dev 1
RE: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot
90% utilization after downing two servers? Is that 90% on a single core, or 90% total? How many other VMs do you have on the LUN(s) that are still powered on? Any more than the two referenced below? What is the output / top CPU utilization pct for the processes found by running: #top (from SSH) (exit with CTRL-C) -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot In line... On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 14:40, Klint Price kpr...@arizonaitpro.com wrote: 1) I wouldn't expect a power on to work until you can get this command to work: vmkfstools -P /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1/sus/sus.vmdk The host needs to be able to read from the disk. Reasonable. 2) Do you have an additional non-production server on the same LUN that can be powered off, with an attempt to restart your current down server? Result? Will the 2nd non-production server power back on? Yes. It's acting in a similar way - I logged in, and it shut down fine, but it won't power up now. Nor will a machine that I had powered 3) All things DR considered, can you schedule a reboot tonight? If so, you may want to consider re-seating the HBA and drives, clear dust (which can cause cards to overheat), and reboot. Gotcha. One last thing for the moment: I've been looking at the performance chart for this box, and see that CPU utilization is hovering around 90%. I've got one VM that seems pretty far out of line from its normal CPU utilization (our Win2k TS server), and another that's a bit higher than normal (our Win2k3 file/print server). I'm thinking of kicking the one person using the TS server off and rebooting, and seeing what that does to the situation, before downing the other machine. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot
Ok, a 2950 has dual core Xeons. Don't worry about the 90% on Proc 0 as your average load is coming in around 60%. Let me know the results of your reboot process. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Dual proc, dual core. Proc 0 = 90.72% avg Proc 1 = 50.18% avg Proc 2 = 49.49% avg Proc 4 = 49.74% avg Total is 59.74% avg But it's been higher than that all the time I've been troubleshooting this problem. Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 15:12, Klint Price kpr...@arizonaitpro.com wrote: 90% utilization after downing two servers? Is that 90% on a single core, or 90% total? How many other VMs do you have on the LUN(s) that are still powered on? Any more than the two referenced below? What is the output / top CPU utilization pct for the processes found by running: #top (from SSH) (exit with CTRL-C) -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot In line... On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 14:40, Klint Price kpr...@arizonaitpro.com wrote: 1) I wouldn't expect a power on to work until you can get this command to work: vmkfstools -P /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1/sus/sus.vmdk The host needs to be able to read from the disk. Reasonable. 2) Do you have an additional non-production server on the same LUN that can be powered off, with an attempt to restart your current down server? Result? Will the 2nd non-production server power back on? Yes. It's acting in a similar way - I logged in, and it shut down fine, but it won't power up now. Nor will a machine that I had powered 3) All things DR considered, can you schedule a reboot tonight? If so, you may want to consider re-seating the HBA and drives, clear dust (which can cause cards to overheat), and reboot. Gotcha. One last thing for the moment: I've been looking at the performance chart for this box, and see that CPU utilization is hovering around 90%. I've got one VM that seems pretty far out of line from its normal CPU utilization (our Win2k TS server), and another that's a bit higher than normal (our Win2k3 file/print server). I'm thinking of kicking the one person using the TS server off and rebooting, and seeing what that does to the situation, before downing the other machine. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot
Remember to power off all guests, and put in maintenance mode in case you need to reboot several times. You may also want to shut off auto power-on so you can bring them back online one at a time. -Original Message- From: Klint Price [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Ok, a 2950 has dual core Xeons. Don't worry about the 90% on Proc 0 as your average load is coming in around 60%. Let me know the results of your reboot process. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Dual proc, dual core. Proc 0 = 90.72% avg Proc 1 = 50.18% avg Proc 2 = 49.49% avg Proc 4 = 49.74% avg Total is 59.74% avg But it's been higher than that all the time I've been troubleshooting this problem. Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 15:12, Klint Price kpr...@arizonaitpro.com wrote: 90% utilization after downing two servers? Is that 90% on a single core, or 90% total? How many other VMs do you have on the LUN(s) that are still powered on? Any more than the two referenced below? What is the output / top CPU utilization pct for the processes found by running: #top (from SSH) (exit with CTRL-C) -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot In line... On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 14:40, Klint Price kpr...@arizonaitpro.com wrote: 1) I wouldn't expect a power on to work until you can get this command to work: vmkfstools -P /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1/sus/sus.vmdk The host needs to be able to read from the disk. Reasonable. 2) Do you have an additional non-production server on the same LUN that can be powered off, with an attempt to restart your current down server? Result? Will the 2nd non-production server power back on? Yes. It's acting in a similar way - I logged in, and it shut down fine, but it won't power up now. Nor will a machine that I had powered 3) All things DR considered, can you schedule a reboot tonight? If so, you may want to consider re-seating the HBA and drives, clear dust (which can cause cards to overheat), and reboot. Gotcha. One last thing for the moment: I've been looking at the performance chart for this box, and see that CPU utilization is hovering around 90%. I've got one VM that seems pretty far out of line from its normal CPU utilization (our Win2k TS server), and another that's a bit higher than normal (our Win2k3 file/print server). I'm thinking of kicking the one person using the TS server off and rebooting, and seeing what that does to the situation, before downing the other machine. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ 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: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot
No problem I have had some 2950's on ESX go haywire with DAS when there was high IO going on, requiring a reboot. You may want to check for newer firmware for the card and related hardware. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot BTW... Damian and Klint and Karl: Thanks for your help on this. I really appreciate it. Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 15:39, Klint Price kpr...@arizonaitpro.com wrote: Remember to power off all guests, and put in maintenance mode in case you need to reboot several times. You may also want to shut off auto power-on so you can bring them back online one at a time. -Original Message- From: Klint Price [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Ok, a 2950 has dual core Xeons. Don't worry about the 90% on Proc 0 as your average load is coming in around 60%. Let me know the results of your reboot process. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot Dual proc, dual core. Proc 0 = 90.72% avg Proc 1 = 50.18% avg Proc 2 = 49.49% avg Proc 4 = 49.74% avg Total is 59.74% avg But it's been higher than that all the time I've been troubleshooting this problem. Kurt On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 15:12, Klint Price kpr...@arizonaitpro.com wrote: 90% utilization after downing two servers? Is that 90% on a single core, or 90% total? How many other VMs do you have on the LUN(s) that are still powered on? Any more than the two referenced below? What is the output / top CPU utilization pct for the processes found by running: #top (from SSH) (exit with CTRL-C) -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot In line... On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 14:40, Klint Price kpr...@arizonaitpro.com wrote: 1) I wouldn't expect a power on to work until you can get this command to work: vmkfstools -P /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1/sus/sus.vmdk The host needs to be able to read from the disk. Reasonable. 2) Do you have an additional non-production server on the same LUN that can be powered off, with an attempt to restart your current down server? Result? Will the 2nd non-production server power back on? Yes. It's acting in a similar way - I logged in, and it shut down fine, but it won't power up now. Nor will a machine that I had powered 3) All things DR considered, can you schedule a reboot tonight? If so, you may want to consider re-seating the HBA and drives, clear dust (which can cause cards to overheat), and reboot. Gotcha. One last thing for the moment: I've been looking at the performance chart for this box, and see that CPU utilization is hovering around 90%. I've got one VM that seems pretty far out of line from its normal CPU utilization (our Win2k TS server), and another that's a bit higher than normal (our Win2k3 file/print server). I'm thinking of kicking the one person using the TS server off and rebooting, and seeing what that does to the situation, before downing the other machine. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ 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: Outlook 2003 strangeness
Have him create it in word, and then copy/paste into the signature box. When it comes to line breaks, don't press [enter] but press [shift+enter] for a single-line break. Klint From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 10:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook 2003 strangeness You can also just package the htm file and have him drop it in the right place on his box. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 5:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook 2003 strangeness Well, if he's not able to follow the instructions, I'll get his graphics and do it for him. :) [cid:image001.jpg@01CAD194.A480CD30][cid:image002@01cad194.a480cd30] From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 12:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook 2003 strangeness That's what I would do (quick easy), assuming he knows how to copy/paste. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 12:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook 2003 strangeness Ok. Thanks. I figured it was something like that. :) I have a nice graphical how-to for 2003. I don't have the files he wants (similar to my sig) for his signature... I suppose I could get 'em [cid:image001.jpg@01CAD194.A480CD30][cid:image002@01cad194.a480cd30] From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 12:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook 2003 strangeness He probably f'd up making his sig. 1) Create the desired sig on your Outlook (exactly how he wants it) 2) Then send him an email (including the sig) so he can copy/paste it in a new sig. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 11:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Outlook 2003 strangeness One of my remote users (who's machine I have no access to, but which I have to help support! :)) is having problems with his Outlook 2003 ever since he updated his graphical signature. He's having two problems: 1) his graphical signature is always at the top and he would like to have the text *above* the graphical sig, and 2) his email text is always double-spaced. Any idea how to fix these two problems? I've created a how-to document for Outlook 2003, complete with pictures that I sent him, and hopefully it's just something he did when re-doing his graphical signature and it'll magically fix itself, but I'm not holding my breath! :( Any suggestions? [cid:image001.jpg@01CAD194.A480CD30][cid:image002@01cad194.a480cd30] . . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~inline: image001.jpginline: image002.jpg
RE: WAN over ethernet?
I've had Metro Ethernet through Qwest at a site for two years now, which replaced their DS3. The cost was a lot cheaper than the fractional DS3, and in a phone call I can boost the bandwidth on the fly up to 100mbps. It's helpful the handoff is about 6 ft from a SHNS cabinet, but I have been very happy with it. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 6:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: WAN over ethernet? We have Metro Ethernet here for internet. I guess we could do without routers, but we would still need a firewall. Unfortunately, since we didn't want to change our IP, and our ISP ran out of IPs in the same range, we couldn't keep it without a router. Point is, Metro-E works for us, at least for two of our three internet connections. We don't have any point-to-point connections, but it's something I've looked at. It doesn't make sense for us at this time as we don't have a unified phone system and our email is hosted by our ISP. I have plans to change that, so maybe we'll want to go the PTP route ourselves. :) [cid:image001.jpg@01CAD0DF.57414460][cid:image002@01cad0df.57414460] From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 9:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: WAN over ethernet? Yesterday I had a discussion with our Internet/point-to-point provider. I am considering increasing my point-to-point bandwidth connections at all of my sites. Cox, my provider, has a new product called Metro Ethernet which essentially brings ethernet to the WAN, and this would be an option. My PTP connections would be replaced with ethernet. I could plug the ethernet cable into my router or for small sites just right into the office switch (and vlan do whatever as I would please). Cox tells me this is the next generation of WAN routing. It would be up to me to tag traffic that I consider critical (voice, ICA, etc) which would receive priority. Easy enough. Here is some info: http://www.coxbusiness.com/products/data/metroethernet.html This could simplify things here and I would not have to purchase routers for all of my remote sites if I didn't want to do so. And for my core switches here I wouldn't need those expensive PRI/T1 cards that I currently use. Anyone using this? I'm not a routing expert (I do enough to get the sites connected but spend most of my time on other things) so opinions/comments appreciated. Cost-wise it's a little more per month but with less hardware it would probably be a wash. If it matters my Cox point-to-point circuits are very reliable and rarely go down. Only the type-2 circuits have issues (Verizon issues usually). Thanks, 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/ ~inline: image001.jpginline: image002.jpg
RE: Detect Rogue WSUS Server
Considering the several hundred servers, I wound up doing a port scan on the network for port 80, and then removed the known web servers. It wound up being on one of the domain controllers for one of the many domains we manage, and has been removed. The GPOs will reset those users who were configured incorrectly. Klint From: Richard Stovall [rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 3:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Detect Rogue WSUS Server Or that, but that's just waa too easy. On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 6:01 PM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: Can't you look in the registry under HKLM\software\policies\microsoft\windows\windowsupdate\wuserver ? From: Jonathan Link To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Thu Mar 25 17:50:32 2010 Subject: Re: Detect Rogue WSUS Server Or, if it's serving updates, wouldn't it be in a GPO? In Group Policy Object Editor, expand Computer Configuration, expand Administrative Templates, expand Windows Components, and then click Windows Update. In the details pane, click Specify Intranet Microsoft update service location. Click Enabled and type the HTTP(S) URL of the same WSUS server in the Set the intranet update service for detecting updates box and in the Set the intranet statistics server box. For example, type http(s)://servername in both boxes. Click OK. On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Steve Ens stevey...@gmail.com wrote: There is a log file that you can find on your machine (if you are on the group policy that gets updated)... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/902093 On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Klint Price kpr...@arizonaitpro.com wrote: A co-worker installed WSUS on a server in our environment, but never documented where it was installed to. What are my options to detect where it is located if I do not have access to the LAN or FW (managed by another team in another office). CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and other Federal and Florida laws. Improper or unauthorized use or disclosure of this information could result in civil and/or criminal penalties. Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. This email and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the author and do not represent those of the company. Warning: Although precautions have been taken to make sure no viruses are present in this email, the company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage that arise from the use of this email or attachments. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Detect Rogue WSUS Server
A co-worker installed WSUS on a server in our environment, but never documented where it was installed to. What are my options to detect where it is located if I do not have access to the LAN or FW (managed by another team in another office). ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Anyone know how to generate a list of random dates in Excel?
When you say one day a week do you mean A1 = 1/1/2009 A2 = SUM(A1+7) A3 - ~ Drag the formula in A1 down. From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 4:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone know how to generate a list of random dates in Excel? Put Shookie down in front of the keyboard and feed him beers? On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 15:35, Marty Nelson mnel...@transdyn.commailto:mnel...@transdyn.com wrote: Greetings all. Random question. Does anyone know how to generate a huge list of dates in MS Excel? It need to cover one day a week from 09 – 10 and I don’t have enough Excel know-how to do it. You have no idea how helpful it would be. -Marty Marty Nelson | Systems Administrator Transdyn, Inc. | 4256 Hacienda Dr., Suite 100 | Pleasanton, CA 94588 T: 925.225.1600 | F: 925.225.1610 mnel...@transdyn.commailto:mnel...@transdyn.com | www.transdyn.comhttp://www.transdyn.com [cid:image001.jpg@01CACB6C.53F19C10] This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use by the addressee. If you received this email in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the email and attachments. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ inline: image001.jpg
setting up windows PC as thin client
I am pretty sure someone asked the question on this board on how to set up an old Windows XP machine as a thin client. IIRC people were directing him to Knoppix, or something similar. If you want to keep Windows, but ensure the user does not have access to the desktop, just the RDP client, do the following: There are a number of ways to do it, but you basically change the shell (explorer.exe) to mstsc.exe. Changing the Default Shell (All Users) Take the following steps to change the default shell for all users, including administrators: 1. Start the Windows Registry Editor by entering regedit at a command prompt. 2. Locate the following subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon 3. In the right pane, select Shell. 4. Select Edit Modify. 5. Change the value data from explorer.exe to the new shell path-for example, C:\Windows\System32\mstsc.exe 6. Click OK, and then exit Registry Editor, log out, and log back in. You can also change the default shell for just the Current User Another interesting thing you can do is use Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs Another approach is to use a Microsoft tool kit called Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs. Windows Fundamentals is derived from Windows XP Professional with SP2. It is software based and has enhanced write filter (EWF) functionality like that in XP Embedded. EWF allows all changes to be written to a disposable part of the drive so anything a user changes is lost when the client is rebooted. Windows Fundamentals strips out most of the standard Windows XP functionality, leaving a core operating system designed to run the RDP and ICA clients, a browser, management and security agents, document viewers, and the .NET framework. Because Windows Fundamentals is built on Windows XP Pro, you can add Windows Fundamentals machines to your domain and lock them down using group policies or manage them using SMS. To SMS, they appear as Windows XP Professional SP2 systems. You can also manage and patch them in the same way that you do standard Windows XP workstations Taken from http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/pc_to_thin_desktop.pdf ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Windows 2008 User Shares called Documents
I am having the same issue on a windows 2003 domain. I have not had time to troubleshoot, but am interested to know if one of my Jr's made a change to the AD. Klint From: Peter Schwarz [pschw...@syndeotech.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 5:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 2008 User Shares called Documents Hi, We just migrated a Client to Windows 2008 SBS from Windows 2003 SBS. AD is used to point home drive U: to \\servername\users\%username%file:///\\servername\users\%25username%25 Now when I look in the “users” folder I see this [cid:image001.jpg@01CA7FB2.30DB5FF0] Behind those folders that appear as “Documents” in the list are actually users’ folders. How can I make them appear with the actual user’s name? Thanks, Peter ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~inline: image001.jpg
RE: Internet Security and Web page entry
457-55-5462 -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 2:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Internet Security and Web page entry What's your social security number? Maybe I can help. -Original Message- From: Charlie Kaiser [mailto:charl...@golden-eagle.org] Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 4:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Internet Security and Web page entry Tell them you won't give them a SSN... Just because they do it all the time doesn't make it right... :-) Or give them all 9s... ;-) *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Daniel Rodriguez [mailto:drod...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 2:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Internet Security and Web page entry To all, This is an open question to all - What are the security risks of the following: I got a call from a recruiter and they wanted me to go to their website, to take a some type of proficiency test, and one of the fields asked for my Social Security Number. I looked at the page and could not find anything to signify that this was a secure website. No 'https://' or lock icon. I called them back and asked the recruiter if they were aware that they were asking for pertinent information on an unsecured website. They stated that they did this all the time. I pointed out that if I entered my Social Security Number on that page and submitted it that it would be sent over the Internet unencrypted and unsecure. What is your take and how should I go about to have them correct this? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: OT, Bad server room day
This actually happened to me a few years ago in Phoenix. We were moving into a new call center, had just moved the equipment into the server room (sans the racks as they were on order), and had a freak 100 year storm that collapsed the roof right over the datacenter. New employees always wondered why we called it the fishbowl. The water went half way up the glass. From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 12:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT, Bad server room day That's not paper those are floor/ceiling tiles and they are floating. Watching it all the way through it looks like the water gets about a foot and a half up the cages. From: Jon Harrismailto:jk.har...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 2:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issuesmailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: OT, Bad server room day Look again there was only a little paper on the floor and there was no damage to the top of the equipment. It looked more like smoke rolling in and back out to me. Jon On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 2:18 PM, David W. McSpadden dav...@imcu.commailto:dav...@imcu.com wrote: I think the ceiling collapsed. From: Jon Harrismailto:jk.har...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 1:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issuesmailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: OT, Bad server room day It looked like the fire suppressor went off in the server area so they must have fried something before all the power died. Jon On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.commailto:rhw...@gmail.com wrote: Exactly! And does most of Europe/Asia use 220/240 VAC? Roger Wright ___ Sent from Tampa, FL, United States On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.commailto:asbz...@gmail.com wrote: There is no way I was going to be walking about in any water with all that electrical equipment. -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBakerhttp://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:12 PM, C.E. Gene Connor cege...@gmail.commailto:cege...@gmail.com wrote: http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/09/16/1555252 Just had to share this. And hope it never happens to any of us? -- 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/ ~
RE: finding out what is causing disk to thrash?
Are your client PCs doing AV scans of the folder? -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: finding out what is causing disk to thrash? Looking for ideas here. I have a File server (windows 2003) that is connected to a SAN via the F: drive. The F: drive is used to store user data (home folders). The F: drive is showing bad performance. When viewing Windows Performance Monitoring, the counter Disk Read % for F: is constantly pegged at 100%. Disk Write% on F: seems okay at 10%. So, I'm trying to find out what is causing the constant reads. When I run Process Monitor (Filemon) on the server, I don't see anything that is hitting F: and causing the issue. I'm guessing that process monitor is NOT showing me the activity on F: from my networked PCs that are accessing the user share on the F: drive. So Is there a way to find out what/who is causing my disks to constantly be 100% Disk Read? I don't see anything outstanding under Open Files in Computer Management either... Ideas? myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft(r) Windows(r) and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting ~ 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: VLAN concepts and applications
From a call center perspective, we have a different VLAN for each business unit, partially for security, but more to limit a DoS from a broadcast storm caused by a bad NIC, bad wire, etc. That way it only affects a single business unit, and not the whole call center. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 6:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VLAN concepts and applications Someone was asking VLAN questions, so I decided to re-post this. I've also updated it to reflect our successful VoIP deployment. PROTOCOL CONCEPTS We have regular untagged Ethernet frames. (Frame is the data-link (layer 2) term for what some protocols calls a packet or datagram.) These are the same Ethernet frames from before VLANs were invented. Then we have tagged frames. These take a regular Ethernet frame and add a marker -- the tag. The tag itself contains the VLAN number (along with a priority code). Thus, a tagged frame is associated with a particular VLAN number. Inside the frame, the tag is basically just a reserved Ethernet frame type, followed by the tag information, followed by the rest of the original frame (complete with its original frame type). So to network nodes which are *not* VLAN aware, a tagged frame looks just like a regular Ethernet frame, but with an unknown frame type. For computers, a VLAN-aware network stack will usually turn each VLAN into a separate network interface, as if each VLAN was a different network card with a different cable. The stock network stack included with Win 2000/XP does *not* include VLAN capability, so they can only handle untagged frames. Tagged frames will generally be silently ignored. Third-party software (often included with high-end network cards) can add VLAN capability. I'm not sure about 2003/Vista/2008. Switches which are not VLAN-aware, along with any repeaters, will treat tagged frames exactly like they do any other frame. SWITCH CONCEPTS Switches which are VLAN-aware generally let you control which ports are associated with which VLAN(s). The terminology, commands, etc., will vary with manufacturer. I'm most familiar with the HP ProCruve managed witches, so I'll speak mostly to that. The concepts should carry over to other manufacturers. Hopefully others can chime in with specifics. With HP, you can tell the switch that each VLAN is tagged, untagged, or not available for each port. Internally, frames are *always* associated a VLAN number. The configuration just tells the switch which VLANs go with which ports, and which VLAN number to use for untagged frames. When the switch receives an untagged frame, it needs to know what VLAN to associate it with. If the port has an untagged VLAN associated it, the fame will go to that VLAN. If there is no untagged VLAN associated with the port, the frame is dropped. This is why a port can have (at most) one untagged VLAN associated with it -- how could the switch know which one to use otherwise? When the switch receives a tagged frame, it simply checks to see if that VLAN is associated with the port. If so, it accepts it; if not, it drops it. This is basically just an access control mechanism. When the switch has a frame to *transmit*, it only considers ports which are associated with the frame's VLAN. If a port is configured as tagged for the frame's VLAN, it transmits the frame with the VLAN tag. If a port is configured as untagged for the VLAN, the frame is transmitted on that port without a VLAN tag. APPLICATIONS Okay, enough conceptual stuff, how do we use it? At %DAYJOB%, we've got VLANs as follows: 1 - Reserved 2 - Main company private network 3 - Guest network 4 - ISP uplink 5 - IP telephony I am using separate VLANs for security, manageability, and robustness. I don't want guests to be able to probe/sniff/screw-up the corporate network. I don't want the cable modem link (which is full of garbage traffic from other subscribers) on the main LAN. I want the phones to have higher priority over regular data, and to have their own DHCP server, so if the data side of the house goes down, we still have phones. We don't use VLAN 1 because that's the default on most things, and to avoid confusion we avoid it. VLAN 2 is where most traffic is. Most ports are configured as untagged for VLAN 2. The computers, printers, etc., plugged into those ports aren't even aware they are on a VLAN. All the employee workstations are like this, as are most servers. The syntax to configure this is easy. For example, if I want port 1 to be untagged for VLAN 2 like this: vlan 2 untagged 1 VLAN 3 is for guests (visitors). For obvious reasons, we don't let them plug in to our main network. They get a separate IP subnet, a separate DHCP server, and bypass much of our network filtering. This is also where our wireless access points connect (employees use VPN-over-wireless). Again,
unattend.xml and bad sysprep
Used AIK for the first time on a machine with a bunch of 3rd party tools pre-installed, and on boot I get: Windows could not parse or process the unattend answer file for pass [specialize]. The settings specified in the answer file cannot be applied. The error was detected while processing settings for component Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup. I believe the error may be due to the fact that I am using a VLK key. I do not have a backup to roll back to. How can I take this VM, and modify the unattend.xml file, so I can get my machine back? Klint ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: unattend.xml and bad sysprep
To clarify: These are accessible via ESX Virtual Center. Can I just run a BartPE on the VM, and modify it by hand? Klint From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 12:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: unattend.xml and bad sysprep Do you mean modify to the contents of the VM hard drive? vmount.exe Or a GUI-ish equivalant. http://www.vmxbuilder.com/vmware-diskmount-gui/ From: Klint Price [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 2:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: unattend.xml and bad sysprep Used AIK for the first time on a machine with a bunch of 3rd party tools pre-installed, and on boot I get: Windows could not parse or process the unattend answer file for pass [specialize]. The settings specified in the answer file cannot be applied. The error was detected while processing settings for component Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup. I believe the error may be due to the fact that I am using a VLK key. I do not have a backup to roll back to. How can I take this VM, and modify the unattend.xml file, so I can get my machine back? Klint ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: unattend.xml and bad sysprep
Do I just modify the file, and try a reboot? After getting that error I am stuck with the computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 12:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: unattend.xml and bad sysprep Sure, I've got an BartPE Iso on my ESXi hosts. Comes in real handy. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Klint Price kpr...@arizonaitpro.commailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com wrote: To clarify: These are accessible via ESX Virtual Center. Can I just run a BartPE on the VM, and modify it by hand? Klint From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.commailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 12:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: unattend.xml and bad sysprep Do you mean modify to the contents of the VM hard drive? vmount.exe Or a GUI-ish equivalant. http://www.vmxbuilder.com/vmware-diskmount-gui/ From: Klint Price [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.commailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 2:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: unattend.xml and bad sysprep Used AIK for the first time on a machine with a bunch of 3rd party tools pre-installed, and on boot I get: Windows could not parse or process the unattend answer file for pass [specialize]. The settings specified in the answer file cannot be applied. The error was detected while processing settings for component Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup. I believe the error may be due to the fact that I am using a VLK key. I do not have a backup to roll back to. How can I take this VM, and modify the unattend.xml file, so I can get my machine back? Klint ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: unattend.xml and bad sysprep
What I have is a sysprepped VM that will not boot based on the errors below. By booting the disk with a VistaPE or similar, will I be able to modify the xml file to alleviate the error so I can get the bad sysprepped disk to boot? Klint From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 1:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: unattend.xml and bad sysprep Not sure if I understand what you're asking about, your original problem or the vm settings to boot from an ISO. Can't answer the first question... For the second question, you'll need to edit the settings for the CD Rom of course, either point it to an ISO or a BartPE cd you can put in the machine. After that click on the Options tab and click on Boot Options, check the box to Force it into BIOS, start the VM, then adjust the boot options as needed in BIOS, and restart the VM. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Klint Price kpr...@arizonaitpro.commailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com wrote: Do I just modify the file, and try a reboot? After getting that error I am stuck with the computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.commailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 12:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: unattend.xml and bad sysprep Sure, I've got an BartPE Iso on my ESXi hosts. Comes in real handy. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Klint Price kpr...@arizonaitpro.commailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com wrote: To clarify: These are accessible via ESX Virtual Center. Can I just run a BartPE on the VM, and modify it by hand? Klint From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.commailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 12:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: unattend.xml and bad sysprep Do you mean modify to the contents of the VM hard drive? vmount.exe Or a GUI-ish equivalant. http://www.vmxbuilder.com/vmware-diskmount-gui/ From: Klint Price [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.commailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 2:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: unattend.xml and bad sysprep Used AIK for the first time on a machine with a bunch of 3rd party tools pre-installed, and on boot I get: Windows could not parse or process the unattend answer file for pass [specialize]. The settings specified in the answer file cannot be applied. The error was detected while processing settings for component Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup. I believe the error may be due to the fact that I am using a VLK key. I do not have a backup to roll back to. How can I take this VM, and modify the unattend.xml file, so I can get my machine back? Klint ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: unattend.xml and bad sysprep
Thanks. I am downloading VistaPE right now and am crossing my fingers. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 1:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: unattend.xml and bad sysprep You should be able to. I used BartPE to boot a VM of our old SBS server to access some files I had neglected to backup before redeploying the SBS server. I adjusted the settings, made sure the ISO was loaded for the CD and connected, then adjusted the boot options and booted from my BartPE image, accessed the files, transferred them over the network, and was done. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Klint Price kpr...@arizonaitpro.commailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com wrote: What I have is a sysprepped VM that will not boot based on the errors below. By booting the disk with a VistaPE or similar, will I be able to modify the xml file to alleviate the error so I can get the bad sysprepped disk to boot? Klint From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.commailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 1:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: unattend.xml and bad sysprep Not sure if I understand what you're asking about, your original problem or the vm settings to boot from an ISO. Can't answer the first question... For the second question, you'll need to edit the settings for the CD Rom of course, either point it to an ISO or a BartPE cd you can put in the machine. After that click on the Options tab and click on Boot Options, check the box to Force it into BIOS, start the VM, then adjust the boot options as needed in BIOS, and restart the VM. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Klint Price kpr...@arizonaitpro.commailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com wrote: Do I just modify the file, and try a reboot? After getting that error I am stuck with the computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.commailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 12:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: unattend.xml and bad sysprep Sure, I've got an BartPE Iso on my ESXi hosts. Comes in real handy. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Klint Price kpr...@arizonaitpro.commailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com wrote: To clarify: These are accessible via ESX Virtual Center. Can I just run a BartPE on the VM, and modify it by hand? Klint From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.commailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 12:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: unattend.xml and bad sysprep Do you mean modify to the contents of the VM hard drive? vmount.exe Or a GUI-ish equivalant. http://www.vmxbuilder.com/vmware-diskmount-gui/ From: Klint Price [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.commailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 2:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: unattend.xml and bad sysprep Used AIK for the first time on a machine with a bunch of 3rd party tools pre-installed, and on boot I get: Windows could not parse or process the unattend answer file for pass [specialize]. The settings specified in the answer file cannot be applied. The error was detected while processing settings for component Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup. I believe the error may be due to the fact that I am using a VLK key. I do not have a backup to roll back to. How can I take this VM, and modify the unattend.xml file, so I can get my machine back? Klint ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: 128bit OS?
I am printing this out today , and saving it, so someday I can sound smart too (as opposed to being smart like you). :O) Klint -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 10:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: 128bit OS? On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:47 AM, David W. McSpadden dav...@imcu.com wrote: I have read two different articles. One says Windows 8 will be 128 bit and the other says there is no such thing?? *sigh* :-) The computers we have now aren't 32 bit or 64 bit in the first place. When we say Windows 64-bit , we really mean the OS kernel is running the processor in Long Mode. The virtual address word is 64 bits, but only 48 bits are actually implemented in the silicon; attempting to go outside that address space faults. With a 32-bit operating system, the OS is operating in i386 Enhanced Protected Mode. The virtual address word is indeed 32 bits wide. With modern processors, though, the physical address word can be 36 bits wide (PAE). Both i386 and x86-64 support integer and floating point math in 128 bit words (SSE, etc.). The I/O pathways in most modern systems are still only 32 bits wide, although some servers have 64-bit PCI slots. PCI-Express is fundamentally serial in nature and doesn't even work that way. The DEC Alpha used a 64 bit virtual address word and 64 bit physical address word, right from the start. There wasn't anything smaller. But the Windows NT code at the time wasn't 64-bit clean. Microsoft thus crafted NT to only use addresses below the 4 GB mark. So the OS ran on 64-bit only hardware, and was thus a 64-bit OS, but still couldn't address more than 4 GB of RAM. So a remark that an OS will be 128 bit is absolutely, totally worthless without further clarification. -- 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: TS Licensing
I believe you can have multiple license servers, and set the TS app server to specifically use one or the other. Klint From: Jeff Brown [mailto:2jbr...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 8:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: TS Licensing Thanks for all the input. In retrospect, i wish we had chosen user CAL's NOT device CAL's from the start. I would recommend that path to anyone in the future. On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com wrote: IIRC it's either/or. Also IIRC there's some sort of timer that kicsk in so you can't move user CALs from user A to B to C in three days. Whether the software implements this or it's just on paper I have no idea. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Jeff Brown [mailto:2jbr...@gmail.commailto:2jbr...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 4:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: TS Licensing We use TS extensively, we have less than 200 employees, 50+ that don't use computers at all. We have 70 TS CAL's and have had trouble running short on those. Up to this point we have purchased device CAL's and are thinking we might be better off adding user CAL's? Nothing fancy, all our servers are W2k3 SP2 and our clients are XP Pro. Everything works, we are just running out of licenses. Wondering if anyone out there has 2 licenses servers up so they can run both types and how does that work for you(if it is even possible to do on one network??) (yes, we have 25 temporary licenses, those are plumb full as well) thanks for any help. jeff ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Phone number to tell you your phone number.
That may work for POTS lines, but is not as reliable if calling from a PBX, or a line that is tied to a toll free number. You can't even rely on the number written on the wall jack at the DMARC (as I found out yesterday). If you happen to know a field technician at the local telecom, they have access to other tools: http://www.docdroppers.org/wiki/index.php?title=Qwest_Field_Accessed_Service_Tools or you could always http://www.ehow.com/how_941_determine-telephones-telephone.html Klint -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 10:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Phone number to tell you your phone number. On 11 Sep 2009 at 14:33, Phillip Partipilo wrote: In a previous life, I worked in telecom biz. There was this great phone number we used when we clipped a buttset up and you called this number, and a computer answered and told you the phone number you are calling from. That's all it did. We're in the process of going VoIP and our ancient phone system is a complete mess of spaghetti! Call your cell phone, read the caller ID. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 +---+ ~ 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: Phone number to tell you your phone number.
What you may want is an ANAC number which tells you the phone number for a particular line. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_announcement_circuit -Original Message- From: Klint Price [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 9:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Phone number to tell you your phone number. That may work for POTS lines, but is not as reliable if calling from a PBX, or a line that is tied to a toll free number. You can't even rely on the number written on the wall jack at the DMARC (as I found out yesterday). If you happen to know a field technician at the local telecom, they have access to other tools: http://www.docdroppers.org/wiki/index.php?title=Qwest_Field_Accessed_Service_Tools or you could always http://www.ehow.com/how_941_determine-telephones-telephone.html Klint -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 10:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Phone number to tell you your phone number. On 11 Sep 2009 at 14:33, Phillip Partipilo wrote: In a previous life, I worked in telecom biz. There was this great phone number we used when we clipped a buttset up and you called this number, and a computer answered and told you the phone number you are calling from. That's all it did. We're in the process of going VoIP and our ancient phone system is a complete mess of spaghetti! Call your cell phone, read the caller ID. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 +---+ ~ 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: Phone number to tell you your phone number.
To compound the problem, carriers are slow to update their ANI lists, so if you make a change to the CLID associated with a toll free number, it can take several months to propagate, and in many cases has to be done at the carrier level. For instance, my previous employer had a PBX which allowed you to modify the CLID, but if you wanted the PRI to pick up the CLID, you also had to make the change with the carrier. For the original poster, if you haven't seen this yet, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_announcement_circuit, and then check what the difference is between caller id, and ANI. Klint -Original Message- From: Klint Price [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 10:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Phone number to tell you your phone number. What you may want is an ANAC number which tells you the phone number for a particular line. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_announcement_circuit -Original Message- From: Klint Price [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 9:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Phone number to tell you your phone number. That may work for POTS lines, but is not as reliable if calling from a PBX, or a line that is tied to a toll free number. You can't even rely on the number written on the wall jack at the DMARC (as I found out yesterday). If you happen to know a field technician at the local telecom, they have access to other tools: http://www.docdroppers.org/wiki/index.php?title=Qwest_Field_Accessed_Service_Tools or you could always http://www.ehow.com/how_941_determine-telephones-telephone.html Klint -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 10:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Phone number to tell you your phone number. On 11 Sep 2009 at 14:33, Phillip Partipilo wrote: In a previous life, I worked in telecom biz. There was this great phone number we used when we clipped a buttset up and you called this number, and a computer answered and told you the phone number you are calling from. That's all it did. We're in the process of going VoIP and our ancient phone system is a complete mess of spaghetti! Call your cell phone, read the caller ID. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 +---+ ~ 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: Abandoning Cisco
I concur with what both Bill and Jon have said. In addition, if you are a smaller company, or have a smaller budget, I would consider purchasing from a grey-market retailer like Network Hardware (you can have Smartnet added to your order). Klint -Original Message- From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:bem...@pittcountync.gov] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 2:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Abandoning Cisco Expensive? Our Pix cost over $8000 in 2001, we bought *2* ASA's to replace it and still paid less than that in 2007. There are some differents in the OS between the Pix and ASA, but they are very similar. If you can manage a Pix, you can manage an ASA--at least in my experience. -Original Message- From: mqcarp [mailto:mqcarpen...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 4:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Abandoning Cisco Has anyone else looked at abandoning Cisco for their firewall? We have PIXs and they are trying to get us to move to ASA now that they are phasing out. The ASA is very expensive and from what I hear, very complicated to manage. We are a medium sized business and do not need this IMHO. Has anyone else left Cisco in this role for products like Sonicwall? ~ 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: Free Utility to Copy Share and NTFS Permissions from One SAN Disk to Another
Some of us still have entry level tech's. I would rather make it harder to get it to work, than have a oops, everyone now has full rights to the CEO's personal folder. On the rare occasion that a tech goofs on permissions, they have to goof twice if using shares. -Original Message- From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 12:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Free Utility to Copy Share and NTFS Permissions from One SAN Disk to Another Whoa! Someone uses share permissions? I thought share permissions were just a hangover from the Win9x days (or when people installed NT4 with FAT32 file system instead of NTFS) to provide some security for those systems that couldn't do it on a file level. I'd use this opportunity to knock the share permissions on the head and drop them to Everyone:Full Control. They generally end up as the reason you can't work out why someone can't access a file. 2009/9/3 Terri Esham terri.es...@noaa.gov: What is the best free tool to copy share and NTFS permissions from one SAN disk to another. I have already tried Robocopy and it did copy the NTFS permission but not the Share permissions. I need to move a large amount of folders from one SAN disk to another and I don't want to have to recreate all the shares. The file server is running Windows 2008 Standard Server, SP2, all critical updates installed. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Terri ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. http://raythestray.blogspot.com ~ 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: New Attack Cracks WPA in a Minute
with the rate of increase in identity theft, I would take it seriously. Why risk having someone hack the home network and try to install a keylogger remotely? What about at your parents home, or family members who may not be as computer savvy? Klint From: Jeff Brown [mailto:2jbr...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 9:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: New Attack Cracks WPA in a Minute Seriously, what are the odds someone in your neighborhood is lurking around with the technology/desire to break into your home network? I've seen guys post the my daughter could do it response, but really, where do you people live that you are that paranoid about your home network? I am NOT suggesting that you leave it open, but I'll be shocked if someone doesn't suggest that you run out and buy a new router so you'll be safe. I'm just wondering, safe from whom? On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Lee Douglas lee.doug...@gmail.commailto:lee.doug...@gmail.com wrote: My home network is on an old D-Link DIR-635 (latest firmware but it hit end of life in 2007!) which only supports WPA personal and WPA Enterprise - but it only supports WPA Enterprise via a Radius Server. It's fast enough and works fine so i'm reluctant to trash it unless I have to. I have Windows Home Server, and several XP Pro computers. My question - should I set up a radius server - does a radius server and WPA Enterprise offer enough additional protection to be worth the hassle of setting up a Radius Server - on my Windows Home Server box or go out an buy a newer router? If a newer router, any recommendations? TIA! On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Sam Cayze sam.ca...@rollouts.commailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com wrote: http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20090827/tc_pcworld/newattackcrackscommonwifiencryptioninaminute Summary: Use WPA2 and AES. Get off WPA and TKIP if you are still using them. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Locate Vista Business x64 .iso
We have a new guy in procurement, and he can't seem to find the .iso download for Vista Business x64 on the MVLS site. Can someone e-mail me a screenshot of what the page should look like, and the links followed to find it? MVLS, not MSDN. Thanks, Klint Note: he successfully downloaded the contents of the DVD, and tried making his own .iso for me to use, but alas, I have not figured out how he squeezed all that data into a single 34kb .iso file, let alone mysteriously created a boot sector on it. sigh ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: VM cloning advice
Not sure about Project, but for SQL, the syntax to rename the DB and instances
are:
Rename a SQL Server after Restoring Image
--run this first
-- get current SQL Server name\instance name
SELECT @@SERVERNAME
-- get current machine name and instance name
SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('MachineName'), SERVERPROPERTY ('InstanceName')
--get the values from the results of the above script, and then run these two
with the correct values.
sp_dropserver 'old_name'
go
sp_addserver 'new_name', 'local'
go
Restart the Server
From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 9:57 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VM cloning advice
Wanted to run this scenario past the list and see what you all think. We have
an MS Project 2007 Server and a separate SQL 2005 backend server being used in
production under VMWare. The developers want to create a test environment to
troubleshoot problems on the production system. I was thinking we could just
clone both VMs, run sysprep, and change the server names and IP addresses.
IIRC, renaming a SQL server isn't a big deal (I think you just have to modify
one of the system tables to reflect it), but I'm not familiar with Project
Server at all. Anyone see any potential pitfalls?
Thanks,
Jeff
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Weird white grid lines in RDP sessions
I have a user that logs into 2003/2008 servers via RDP. When moving windows around within the remote session, or when the screen is repainted, he sees these white grid-like lines about 1 square throughout portions of the remote screen. At first I reset his client refresh rate to 75 Hz, and that seemed to solve the problem for 1024x768 windows within his 1280x desktop, but when he switches his RDP sessions back to full screen, on a fresh login, the problem persists. Dying video card? Thoughts? Thanks, Klint ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Any WebSense Gurus?
Do you have users on multiple domains? In my websense, for 500 users, I have them going through a single DC. Klint -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Any WebSense Gurus? We had a vendor come in and install WebSense on a server for us. However, the vendor is stumped by a problem and I figured I'd see if any of the pros here had a solution. I'm brand new to WebSense myself, so I can't help much. The vendor has been working with WebSense tech support, but apparently they're stumped, too. The issue seems to be that the DC Agent utility isn't correctly getting users' usernames. Not 100% of the time, though--just most of the time. As best I can tell, the utility isn't correctly polling all of the DCs in the network. Here's some sample output from the TestLogServer utility: = time=Wed Jul 15 15:43:53 2009 version=3 server=10.0.0.1 source=150.176.37.70 dest=66.165.70.6 protocol=http url= http://www.woot.com/salerss.aspx; port=80 category=17 (SHOPPING) disposition= 1026 (Category Not Blocked) app type= keyword= user= bytes sent=0 bytes received=0 duration=0 time=Wed Jul 15 15:43:53 2009 version=3 server=10.0.0.1 source=10.11.7.106 dest=150.176.95.205 protocol=https url= https://150.176.95.205/; port=443 category=97 (EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS) disposition= 1026 (Category Not Blocked) app type= keyword= user=LDAP://10.11.1.2 OU=Users,OU=PPS,DC=taylor,DC=k12,DC=fl,DC=us/George Clayton bytes sent=0 bytes received=0 duration=0 = Notice that in the first entry, there's no username. There is in the second entry, though. The common thread is that every time a user is correctly identified, it's from the same DC: 10.11.1.2. So it appears that DC Agent is correctly polling that DC, but none of my others. All of them are listed in the dc_config.txt file, though. Any ideas what might be keeping it from talking to the other DCs? John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure. ~ 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: Virtualized Websense?
Because the database is loaded into memory to facilitate faster lookups, it isn't going to run very well in a VM unless you have a monster server it can run on. I think you can get around the port mirroring if you do not use a virtual switch, but I cant think of any situation that it would run well under because of the resource requirements, while providing the end user the performance they need. Klint From: Kelsey, John [mailto:jckel...@drmc.org] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 10:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Virtualized Websense? Sherry, Are you running on top of ISA, or do you have it installed on a standalone box and all users go out another way? *** John C. Kelsey DuBois Regional Medical Center *: 814.375.3073 *: jckel...@drmc.orgmailto:jckel...@drmc.org *** -Original Message- From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 12:10 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Virtualized Websense? Port mirroring, multiple nics and huge resource requirements. Like I said, we tried virtualization and it didn't work well, called their tech support and found out that it's not recommended for running in a virtual mode. Paul, words of wisdom for implementing: make sure you have clearly defined (by management) rules to setup prior to implementing (just saves you some headaches, we have changed our configuration multiple times, and actually rebuilt Websense a couple of times because of mgmt changing their minds.). Websense technical support is your friend, they are very helpful and in our experience response time has been excellent, (I think it's always been we got help on that call with little waiting. Have setup several webex sessions and have had really good results with them.) I'm not saying that the product is hard to use, or configure, we've just had mgmt changing their minds so many times that we couldn't undo what we had done to do what was requested without a complete rebuild or help from technical support. (It's a long story, we've had it in place almost a year now, and it's still not really in production and is in fact undergoing another rebuild.sigh). Oh and by rebuild, I don't mean a complete rebuild from the OS up, just a rebuild/clean install of the application. On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Kelsey, John jckel...@drmc.orgmailto:jckel...@drmc.org wrote: Just out of curiosity, why didn't it work? Because of the port mirroring? We're about to decommish our SurfControl and install Websense. *** John C. Kelsey DuBois Regional Medical Center *: 814.375.3073 *: jckel...@drmc.orgmailto:jckel...@drmc.org *** -Original Message- From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.commailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 11:48 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Virtualized Websense? Nope, Websense requires physical hardware, and yes, we tried to deploy it in VMWare and it no workee. On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Joe Heaton jhea...@etp.ca.govmailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov wrote: Has anyone tried this, or is running Websense virtualized? Looking at finally getting our feet wet with server virtualization, using ESXi, and trying to find out if it is possible/supported to run Websense in a virtual environment. Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 jhea...@etp.ca.govmailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Michael Jackson dead?
I heard the Dr's tried to recessitate him using CPR to the rhythm of Beat it wow, that was bad. I think I am going to go throw HIStory on the player now. Klint From: Gene Giannamore [gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 4:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Michael Jackson dead? +1 I agree. What makes a celebrity more important than family, friend, or friend of friend? Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 4:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Michael Jackson dead? Think maybe they're worried about people taking souvenirs ... Check eBay for his nose in a jar ... ( yep, I'm callous, but there's way more tragedy in the world to worry about in my opinion ) Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security -Original Message- From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 7:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Michael Jackson dead? Why? Just because it's a celebrity? Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577Office (707) 935-9387Fax (707) 766-4185Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.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/ ~
RE: My First Firefox Extension
and here I was, all excited about a base64 encoding extension so I can read your e-mails. Klint From: Angus Scott-Fleming [angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 1:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: My First Firefox Extension Last week Jerry Pournelle, one of my all-time favorite authors, complained in his online colum Chaos Manor Reviews that there was a GoToGoogle extension for Firefox but no GoToBing extension. Well, I looked at the source for GTG and it was trivial to convert it to GTB, so I did. --- Included Stuff Follows --- Chaos Manor Reviews Column 347, June 11, 2009 ... Alas, when I wanted to experiment with Bing, I found there is no comparable Go to Bing extension. - Included Stuff Ends - http://www.chaosmanorreviews.com//oa/2009/20090611_col.php It puts a Bing icon in your status bar. Clicking the b opens a new tab at Bing. It's available for download here: Go To Bing :: Add-ons for Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12423 If you're paranoid (as I am ;-) about unapproved extensions, you can examine the contents by renaming the .xpi to .zip; this will allow you to look at the contents with any .zip archive manager. There's really nothing to this trivial extension. Rename it back to .xpi to install it. Enjoy! Angus ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Detect VMWare VM
It probably does 80% of what I want, but not in the way I want it. For example, I am going to write some hooks in my software to interface with VMWare Virtual Center, and some nice pretty charts and graphs for the Intranet. What would be really slick would be to include some similarity to Magic Jelly Bean so I can log what cd keys are used to ensure correct license utilization. Who knows, maybe I will offer it up to others interested in it. Klint From: Christopher Bodnar [christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 5:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Detect VMWare VM Have you taken a look at this? http://www.open-audit.org/ Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.commailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From: kpr...@arizonaitpro.com [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 8:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Detect VMWare VM I am writing an inventory application. Basically a windows service will run on each machine in the domain, and it will publish various variables to a web service that will write to a db. I have a 60 column or so spreadsheet to track my 400+ servers in a dev environment (think constant domain membership changes, renames, application upgrades, etc), but it is prone to human error, and I would rather the system tell me what is on it, than a tech tell me what they think is on it. That way I will easily be able to keep my ping monitors and patch management up to date, and can provide snapshots of how the enterprise looks at any given moment. Klint From: Eldridge, Dave [...@parkviewmc.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 5:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Detect VMWare VM Klint if you would why do you want to know this? I know we routinely put vendor applications on VM’s and of course they never know the difference. It just works for them. Just curious. From: Klint Price [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 6:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Detect VMWare VM Is there a script that will detect if the OS is running on a VM? Klint This e-mail contains the thoughts and opinions of the sender and does not represent official Parkview Medical Center policy. This communication is intended only for the recipient(s) named above, may be confidential and/or legally privileged: and, must be treated as such in accordance with state and federal laws. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use of this communication, or any of its contents, is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please return to sender and delete the message from your computer system. 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/ ~
Detect VMWare VM
Is there a script that will detect if the OS is running on a VM? Klint ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Detect VMWare VM
This would be perfect, but SRVINFO does not work in 2008 x64 From: Free, Bob [r...@pge.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 5:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Detect VMWare VM If I just want to do a QnD check with a tool I always have available I pipe srvinfo to findstr C:\admin\utilsrvinfo \\xwins02 | findstr /I vmw [Running]VMware Tools Service [Stopped]VMware Snapshot Provider [Running]VMware Physical Disk Helper Service Network Card [0]: VMware Accelerated AMD PCNet Adapter I can say fairly confidently that the system is running on VMware. :) From: Klint Price [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 5:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Detect VMWare VM Is there a script that will detect if the OS is running on a VM? Klint ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Detect VMWare VM
I am writing an inventory application. Basically a windows service will run on each machine in the domain, and it will publish various variables to a web service that will write to a db. I have a 60 column or so spreadsheet to track my 400+ servers in a dev environment (think constant domain membership changes, renames, application upgrades, etc), but it is prone to human error, and I would rather the system tell me what is on it, than a tech tell me what they think is on it. That way I will easily be able to keep my ping monitors and patch management up to date, and can provide snapshots of how the enterprise looks at any given moment. Klint From: Eldridge, Dave [...@parkviewmc.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 5:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Detect VMWare VM Klint if you would why do you want to know this? I know we routinely put vendor applications on VM’s and of course they never know the difference. It just works for them. Just curious. From: Klint Price [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 6:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Detect VMWare VM Is there a script that will detect if the OS is running on a VM? Klint This e-mail contains the thoughts and opinions of the sender and does not represent official Parkview Medical Center policy. This communication is intended only for the recipient(s) named above, may be confidential and/or legally privileged: and, must be treated as such in accordance with state and federal laws. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use of this communication, or any of its contents, is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please return to sender and delete the message from your computer system. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Detect VMWare VM
Brian, I am writing it in .NET, and already am doing some WMI queries to get the Physical RAM and OS Visible RAM. I will look into this further tomorrow for VMWare. Klint From: Brian Desmond [br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 6:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Detect VMWare VM WMI with the class someone posted earlier would be the correct way to do this. What are you writing your service in? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Klint Price [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 7:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Detect VMWare VM I am writing an inventory application. Basically a windows service will run on each machine in the domain, and it will publish various variables to a web service that will write to a db. I have a 60 column or so spreadsheet to track my 400+ servers in a dev environment (think constant domain membership changes, renames, application upgrades, etc), but it is prone to human error, and I would rather the system tell me what is on it, than a tech tell me what they think is on it. That way I will easily be able to keep my ping monitors and patch management up to date, and can provide snapshots of how the enterprise looks at any given moment. Klint From: Eldridge, Dave [...@parkviewmc.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 5:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Detect VMWare VM Klint if you would why do you want to know this? I know we routinely put vendor applications on VM’s and of course they never know the difference. It just works for them. Just curious. From: Klint Price [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 6:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Detect VMWare VM Is there a script that will detect if the OS is running on a VM? Klint This e-mail contains the thoughts and opinions of the sender and does not represent official Parkview Medical Center policy. This communication is intended only for the recipient(s) named above, may be confidential and/or legally privileged: and, must be treated as such in accordance with state and federal laws. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use of this communication, or any of its contents, is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please return to sender and delete the message from your computer system. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Please disregard
Gee, I guess it is working... lol Klint From: David Lum [david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 8:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Please disregard Yeah I picked ‘em up on sale – it was buy one get one, limit ten so I stocked up! “Sarcasm…get yer sarcasm here!” Dave From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 6:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Please disregard That’s that new thing called sarcasm isn’t it? Shook From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 9:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Please disregard What do you mean? I totally disregarded Klint's e-mail, it's yours I am replying to :-). Nobody on this list ever replies to anything except strict NT administrator business! 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/ ~
Please disregard
Just upgraded my MTA to E2K7, and making sure everything is routing correctly. Klint ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Script or Batch File to Restart a Windows Server after a set period of time
If it was on a network enabled APC switch, you could bounce the power circuit. Klint David Elebute wrote: i am looking to setup a remote reboot script or batch file to run a server restart, but only after the server has been down for a set timeframe like an hour or more. Does anyone know of the syntax or maybe a script/batch source that already has this? All help or nudge in the general direction is greatly appreciated. ~ 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: Script or Batch File to Restart a Windows Server after a set period of time
I would just keep a workstation around to probe the environment, gracefully shutdown the server via shutdown.exe, wait a few minutes, cut the power to the server, and then when the conditions are right, turn the power back on. Just have the server set to auto-power on when power resumes (a bios setting). David Elebute wrote: Well Klint, that is what we have, it is a power spectrum 8-outlet device that monitors voltage and temp, and we have thresholds setup for both and we wanted to try a stress test that lets say the server room goes to 72 degrees we want to shutdown the servers connected on the 8 outlets in a sequence that is preset. i thought i could run the batch script to shutdown and restart after lets say 1 hour or after the temp gets back to the preset level. And this device can cutoff the power to the outlets, but how to restart the Dell servers and our Mitel PBX. Just trying to get some answers. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: I want all new users to have a roaming profile - HOW?
Create a template user, and for the path put \\server\profile$\templateuser when you copy the account, it will rename the templateuser to the new account Klint Gavin Wilby wrote: Hi guys, In the old NT days you could create a template account and give it a roaming path such as \\server\profile$\%username% file://server/profile$/%25username%25 and if you then created a new user using that template it would always give them the same RP. 2003 server doesnt seem to do that AFAICS, and the TechNet article I have found states you must use ADSIEdit to do this. There *must* be an easier way. Isnt there? -- Gavin Wilby, Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Sorry for the simple question but I'm a developer not a Sys Admin Guru
Are the two shares on different servers, or the same server? Is the UID and PW the same for both shares, or different? Klint John P. Bonner wrote: Hello, Sorry for the lame question but I am trying to figure out exactly what is going on. We have a server in a central office and we connect to the corporate network via vpn. The server is not on a domain and 99% of the workstations are not in a domain of any sort either. Client ABC logs into local machine with some username Client ABC connects to the vpn. Client ABC accesses \\XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX\sharename file:///%5C%5CXXX.XXX.XXX.XXX%5Csharename Client ABC is challenged for a UID PWD Client ABC enters correct Network Resource UID PWD Client ABC sees files and folders on share Client ABC can work with files no problem Client ABC opens a program that is installed locally but accesses a database on \\XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX\sharename file:///%5C%5CXXX.XXX.XXX.XXX%5Csharename Client ABC program opens and asks for uid pwd to database Client ABC enters the UID PWD for database and access granted Client ABC program halts looking for \\XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX\sharename2 file:///%5C%5CXXX.XXX.XXX.XXX%5Csharename2 Client ABC has full access to this share as well but the locally executing program **MUST** (I am assuming here) use the credentials of the logged on user **NOT** the credentials Client ABC entered above to gain access to the resource. I make the above statement because if I create a local windows account with the Network Resource UID PWD from and log in under that account everything runs smoothly. So my questions for you professionals is how to best solve this problem. Creating hundreds of user accounts on the server would be maintenance H*%. Would creating the account on the local machine then giving the locally installed exe run as (Network Resource UID PWD) solve it? Thoughts or suggestions greatly appreciated. Thank You JB ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Sorry for the simple question but I'm a developer not a Sys Admin Guru
Is the program accessing the database via ODBC? Is it an application level uid/pw? John P. Bonner wrote: Both shares are on the same server. Both shares are shared out with everyone full control. We were trying to get it to work and we would tighten down from there. I honestly don't know where the network challenge comes from originally. Both shares are open to everyone full control. So I am **ASSUMMING** the network challenge is coming from the client server not knowing each other so there is a credentials challenge BEFORE even showing the shares. JB *From:* Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, May 05, 2009 4:37 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Sorry for the simple question but I'm a developer not a Sys Admin Guru Are the two shares on different servers, or the same server? Is the UID and PW the same for both shares, or different? Klint John P. Bonner wrote: Hello, Sorry for the lame question but I am trying to figure out exactly what is going on. We have a server in a central office and we connect to the corporate network via vpn. The server is not on a domain and 99% of the workstations are not in a domain of any sort either. Client ABC logs into local machine with some username Client ABC connects to the vpn. Client ABC accesses \\XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX\sharename file:///%5C%5C%5C%5CXXX.XXX.XXX.XXX%5Csharename Client ABC is challenged for a UID PWD Client ABC enters correct Network Resource UID PWD Client ABC sees files and folders on share Client ABC can work with files no problem Client ABC opens a program that is installed locally but accesses a database on \\XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX\sharename file:///%5C%5C%5C%5CXXX.XXX.XXX.XXX%5Csharename Client ABC program opens and asks for uid pwd to database Client ABC enters the UID PWD for database and access granted Client ABC program halts looking for \\XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX\sharename2 file:///%5C%5C%5C%5CXXX.XXX.XXX.XXX%5Csharename2 Client ABC has full access to this share as well but the locally executing program **MUST** (I am assuming here) use the credentials of the logged on user **NOT** the credentials Client ABC entered above to gain access to the resource. I make the above statement because if I create a local windows account with the Network Resource UID PWD from and log in under that account everything runs smoothly. So my questions for you professionals is how to best solve this problem. Creating hundreds of user accounts on the server would be maintenance H*%. Would creating the account on the local machine then giving the locally installed exe run as (Network Resource UID PWD) solve it? Thoughts or suggestions greatly appreciated. Thank You JB ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: NAC - Network Access Control
This may be a bit off topic, but what level of obscurity is removed by the general public knowing what NAC devices get installed at Liberty Bank. I would think you would want that to remain a black box to the good and bad on this list :O) Klint Burgess, Jeffrey wrote: Anyone here using a NAC solution? What are you using and how do you like it? I'm looking at a few but would like to see what others are using and how they like it. Specifically in how useful it is for out of band devices (Devices not owned by your company, I.E. Vendor laptops etc...) I like ForeScout so far and I'm also looking at Cisco and Symantec.What do you have? Jeffrey T. Burgess Sr. Systems Engineer Liberty Bank 315 Main St. Middletown CT, 06457 (860) 704-2196 jburg...@liberty-bank.com Ambition is the last refuge of failure. - Oscar Wilde ** Unless you have received this email through the Liberty Bank secure email system, before you respond, please consider that any unencrypted e-mail that is sent to us is not secure. If you send regular e-mail to Liberty Bank, please do not include any private or confidential information such as social security numbers, unlisted telephone numbers, bank account numbers, personal income information, user names, passwords, etc. If you need to provide us with such information, please telephone us at (888)570-0773 during business hours or write to us at 315 Main St. Middletown, CT 06457. The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer without disclosing it. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Bank. Thank you. ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
HP 6535b dual monitor dupport
My cousin, in another state, has a HP 6535b laptop with docking station. Is there a way to enable dual monitor support between an attached LCD hanging off the docking station, and the laptop LCD? I have remoted into his box, and tried enabling the 2nd monitor via ATI Catalyst software, but no luck so far Klint ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: HP 6535b dual monitor dupport
I was using VNC's PCHelpWare, and could not enable the second monitor in the video card. Klint Brian Desmond wrote: *If you're doing it over remote desktop I expect all the relevant UI for this is disabled. * * * *It should work fine though -- have to check the extend desktop button for the secondary monitor. * * * *Thanks,* *Brian Desmond* *br...@briandesmond.com* * * *c - 312.731.3132* * * *From:* Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] *Sent:* Thursday, April 23, 2009 6:24 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* HP 6535b dual monitor dupport My cousin, in another state, has a HP 6535b laptop with docking station. Is there a way to enable dual monitor support between an attached LCD hanging off the docking station, and the laptop LCD? I have remoted into his box, and tried enabling the 2nd monitor via ATI Catalyst software, but no luck so far Klint ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Upgrading Hard Drives on DL380 G3 Mirror
I need to upgrade a dl380 g3 from dual 146 drives to dual 300 drives. I have backups of the data and do not want to rebuild the server from scratch (unless I have to). Can I simply take the following steps: * remove a drive to break the mirror, put in the new drive, let it rebuild and complete * remove the second drive, put in the second new drive, and let it rebuild and complete * Use Acronis Disk Director to resize the partition to 300 GB Klint ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Anyone using Borderware?
I use borderware and absolutely love it. I too use Ninja at some smaller shops, but for midsized environments (50+ users), I like to put my eggs in different baskets. I am running 2 MX-200's running as a cluster. I have had zero downtime, minuscule amounts of spam, and no complaints of false positives. Borderware had me up and running in about 30 minutes after we walked through each of the configuration options available. Klint Rob Bonfiglio wrote: We are looking at new anti-spam solutions. A vendor e-mailed us about Borderware (_http://www.borderware.com/_). I was curious if anyone had used this product, and what your experience was? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Trend Micro ImgSetup GUID
Background: I work for an employer that uses Trend OfficeScan throughout the enterprise. I utilize VMs extensively in my environment Company policy dictates that I have to use Trend, and I am not in the group that decided to go with other vendors That being said, Trend has a utility called ImgSetup.exe which creates a unique Trend GUID on boot from a sysprepped machine. It works well for what I need, however it only works in a x86 environment, and we are now pushing x64. If you run the utility on a x64 box, it states it only works in an x86 environment, and then errors out. I would like to know if anyone has any insight how the GUID is created. On a 32-bit box, when you run the utility, it creates an entry in the runonce section of the registry. The parameter created calls ImgSetup.exe, and passes in the MAC address of the machine the utility is being run on. After rebooting, you end up with a HEX formatted GUID in the registry that looks along the lines of: ---- Any ideas? Klint ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Xeon compile performance
Here are a few quick hits http://www.serverintellect.com/support/salesfaq/pentium-xeon-comparison.aspx http://www.finnix.org/Pentium_D_vs_Pentium_4 Kevin Lundy wrote: No, that is what I mean by it's a philosophical question, at an overall processor architecture level. On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com wrote: Do you have specific CPU model numbers you're comparing? Merely saying Xeon and Pentium doesn't help, as those are merely brand names. Kevin Lundy wrote: I admit that I will be showing my ignorance of low level computing with this question, but here goes: All other components being equal, would a large compile complete any faster on a Xeon processor with the base L2 cache compared to an otherwise equivalent Pentium processor (as equivalent as possible)? It's a somewhat philosophical debate here. My instinct is that a Xeon, by itself, is not going to help in a compile operation. But I can't back it up with anything. Yes, I understand there are multiple differences in Xeon and Pentium systems in general, which makes a live test a bit more difficult. -- 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/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Mystery Domains
Hopefully you really only need to worry about it if you have a single-label domain. Klint Scott Kaufman at HQ wrote: You don't need WINS to do hostname resolution. If DNS is correctly configured, hostname resolution will work just fine. Since 2000, the OS uses DNS first before WINS for name resolution * * *Scott Kaufman* Lead Network Analyst ITT ESI, Inc. *From:* David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:28 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Mystery Domains correct. No WINS. \\server\share file:///%5C%5Cserver%5Cshare works fine. What do you mean by a UNC that aren't FQDN? *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:16 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Mystery Domains Really? And I'll assume no WINS either? How do UNC's that aren't FQDN work then? I'm missing some knowledge here... */David Lum/*/ /*// *SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 *// *(Cell) 503.267.9764 *From:* David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, February 25, 2009 11:48 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Mystery Domains At least not for me - haven't used NetBIOS over TCP/IP in years. *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Wednesday, February 25, 2009 2:25 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Mystery Domains Won't that cause other issues? */David Lum/*/ /*// *SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 *// *(Cell) 503.267.9764 *From:* David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:58 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Mystery Domains disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP (WINS tab of your network connection's IP settings) *From:* Steven Calvanese [mailto:scalvan...@membersolutions.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, February 25, 2009 1:50 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Mystery Domains I just noticed all of these extra domains in my Microsoft Windows Network list. I have a user vpning to us from a hotel right now. I think that is where these could be coming from. Does anyone know how to stop this and how to flush this list? CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: This email and any attachments are confidential and intended for the sole use of the persons named in the email. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Backupexec and VMs
what does your disk layout and network connectivity look like? Jason Morris wrote: We use vRanger from www.vizioncore.com. It is dependent on running a VI server though. There are quite a few others that would depend on what your storage platform is as well. If you're looking for something that is storage agnostic, that's a good place to start. Good luck, Jason -Original Message- From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 8:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Backupexec and VMs Looking for some advice. It seems as if since we virtualized several of our file servers the backup speeds are ridiculously slow. Does anyone have any advice for backing up VM data? Craig Gauss, Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital Association Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ -- The pages accompanying this email transmission contain information from MJMC, Inc., which is confidential and/or privileged. The information is to be for the use of the individual or entity named on this cover sheet. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you received this transmission in error, please immediately notify us by telephone so that we can arrange for the retrieval of the original document. ~ 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: Force group membership
James, I use a very restrictive default policy, and then open it up for special AD groups to gain additional access exec managers sales floor reps IT etc, etc James Rankin wrote: Is there any way I can force all user accounts to be a member of a certain AD group? I have several levels of WebSense groups and I want to make sure that all user accounts always belong to at least one of them. Can this be done through Group Policy? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Now that Win7 is out , whos running it?
Minutes? David Lum wrote: VM'd a 64-bit one with VMWare Workstation on Friday from an ISO, took 18 minutes from ISO boot to desktop on a modern hardware w/ 8GB RAM. Vista R2 is a good way to describe initial impressions. */David Lum/*/ /*// *SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 *// *(Cell) 503.267.9764 *From:* Christopher J. Bosak [mailto:cbo...@vector-co.com] *Sent:* Monday, January 12, 2009 5:09 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Now that Win7 is out , whos running it? Been running smoothly here. Have it both on a test desktop, and threw it on my laptop. Both have been running smoothly for now. IE8 is too buggy for me, installed FireFox. Office 2007 works with no problems. So far, I have not come across any software that I use normally that does not run in Windows 7. *Much* quicker boot time than XP/Vista on the same machine. Getting in the lower teens for boot time on the desktop, low 20's on the laptop. So... so far, so good. Christopher J. Bosak Vector Company c. 847.603.4673 cbo...@vector-co.com /You need to install an RTFM Interface, due to an LBNC issue./ /- B.O.F.H. (Merged 2 into 1) - Me/ *From:* Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] *Sent:* Monday, January 12, 2009 07:00 hrs *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Now that Win7 is out , whos running it? We've had builds for about 4 months via TAP. Been running it on my main machine for several weeks now. The icon grouping thing takes a while getting used to (some ways it's faster, but if you had pet ways of using the older-style taskbar, some things are slower). Explorer doesn't lose folder column preferences anymore (thank goodness). IE8 has a bunch of bugs (and the IE task bar icon randomly doesn't display some tabs, which is really annoying). The positioning of the show desktop in the bottom right corner is great (you can drag your mouse there) unless you have a second monitor that extends your desktop to the right. Dunno if it's my chipset drivers but I have a heap of problems with USB power after a random number of sleep/resume cycles. Cheers Ken *From:* Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] *Sent:* Sunday, 11 January 2009 2:58 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Now that Win7 is out , whos running it? I loaded win7 in a vm the other day (I got my hands on it on Wed), and it took everything I pretty much **needed**. Quickbooks 9, Office 2007 etc etc. Sooo yesterday I dropped a new drive in and loaded it directly on my box (quad 9950, Geforce 9600, 3gb ram, 2x22' dvi screens, asus onboard audio/nic) System came right up, Nvidia already has a driver in Windows Update, MSN, Office, Quicbooks, Rocketdock, City of Heroes all work as expected. A few apps aren't running right (I am on the 64bit where my vista was 32bit) -- CutePDF, MagicDisc, MountISO (all 'driver' related stuff) doesn't seem to load correctly. IMGBurn works, haven't tried Nero 9 yet, but will look at that today. I don't know about faster/slower/benchmarks, however, I think the added desktop stuff while may take a little bit to get used to (grouping icons, disappearing windows when you select stuff in toolbar) seems much more efficient. The 'changing' desktop is pretty nice too. The UAC has a gradiant scale. IE8 seems pretty good, the new 'private' version of the browser looks promising. The 'home' sharing setup with the keycodes is pretty neat, but I haven't tried it yet. I would have to say overall, Im pretty impressed with the 'beta' so far. So for today, I am going to stick with it as my primary computer at the house and see how stable it remains. Just curious what other people like about it too. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Windows 7 On TechNet Now
Sweet, the link is working for me now.. Question: is this the x86 or x64 link? If it is *not* the x64 link, does anyone have it? Klint Jim Majorowicz wrote: I think they hit the 2.5 million mark. Going through the Partner Portal (I'm just a SBSC Registered Partner), I can't use the key or the download links. -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 12:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 On TechNet Now I did a URL scan of the download page, and it's down in 30 locations and 5 countries that I tested. Why don't they just embrace bit torrent and alleviate their network congestion? Put the saved money from hosting and bandwidth into developing a product activation system that doesn't get cracked in the first 5 minutes of their release. It amazes me that they can't even protect their own assets with security measures. Makes me wonder how their security products will protect me if they can't even protect their own assets. -Original Message- From: James Winzenz [mailto:james.winz...@pulte.com] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 12:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 On TechNet Now I get all the way to the end, then: Error The site is currently experiencing technical difficulties, please check back in the next business day. Lovely. Heh. Anyone else able to start the download? James Winzenz Infrastructure Systems Engineer II - Security Pulte Homes Information Services -Original Message- From: Christopher J. Bosak [mailto:cbo...@vector-co.com] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 11:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 On TechNet Now http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd353205.aspx Done Christopher J. Bosak Vector Company c. 847.603.4673 cbo...@vector-co.com You need to install an RTFM Interface, due to an LBNC issue. - B.O.F.H. (Merged 2 into 1) - Me -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 11:40 hrs To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 7 On TechNet Now On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Christopher J. Bosak cbo...@vector-co.com wrote: Really? I still don't see a download link. First one to find the download link for the general public beta release, please post it so we can avoid all the I still don't see it messages. P.S.: I still don't see it. ;-) -- 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/ ~ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by email and delete the message and any file attachments from your computer. 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/ ~ ~ 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: Windows 7 On TechNet Now
Thanks Klint Sam Cayze wrote: Here is 64 bit: http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/3/3/633118BD-6C3D-45A4-B985-F0FDFFE1B021/EN/7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULXFRE_EN_DVD.ISO Again in case: 32 bit: http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/3/3/633118BD-6C3D-45A4-B985-F0FDFFE1B021/EN/7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD.iso *From:* Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] *Sent:* Friday, January 09, 2009 3:36 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Windows 7 On TechNet Now X86. 64 bit is somewhere on lifehacker too. *From:* Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] *Sent:* Friday, January 09, 2009 3:31 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Windows 7 On TechNet Now Sweet, the link is working for me now.. Question: is this the x86 or x64 link? If it is *not* the x64 link, does anyone have it? Klint Jim Majorowicz wrote: I think they hit the 2.5 million mark. Going through the Partner Portal (I'm just a SBSC Registered Partner), I can't use the key or the download links. -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 12:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 On TechNet Now I did a URL scan of the download page, and it's down in 30 locations and 5 countries that I tested. Why don't they just embrace bit torrent and alleviate their network congestion? Put the saved money from hosting and bandwidth into developing a product activation system that doesn't get cracked in the first 5 minutes of their release. It amazes me that they can't even protect their own assets with security measures. Makes me wonder how their security products will protect me if they can't even protect their own assets. -Original Message- From: James Winzenz [mailto:james.winz...@pulte.com] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 12:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 On TechNet Now I get all the way to the end, then: Error The site is currently experiencing technical difficulties, please check back in the next business day. Lovely. Heh. Anyone else able to start the download? James Winzenz Infrastructure Systems Engineer II - Security Pulte Homes Information Services -Original Message- From: Christopher J. Bosak [mailto:cbo...@vector-co.com] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 11:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 On TechNet Now http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd353205.aspx Done Christopher J. Bosak Vector Company c. 847.603.4673 cbo...@vector-co.com mailto:cbo...@vector-co.com You need to install an RTFM Interface, due to an LBNC issue. - B.O.F.H. (Merged 2 into 1) - Me -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 11:40 hrs To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 7 On TechNet Now On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Christopher J. Bosak cbo...@vector-co.com mailto:cbo...@vector-co.com wrote: Really? I still don't see a download link. First one to find the download link for the general public beta release, please post it so we can avoid all the I still don't see it messages. P.S.: I still don't see it. ;-) -- 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/ ~ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by email and delete the message and any file attachments from your computer. 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/ ~ ~ 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: Windows 7 On TechNet Now
For a URL that wraps, I just copy the thing into notepad, remove the carriage returns, copy the url, and paste in my browser. Klint Murray Freeman wrote: I've been trying all day, and even typed in the link, but I couldn't get in. But your link got me in immediately. BTW, what is the trick to making wrap-around links work? I usually use tinyURL to solve that, but I'd prefer to use the wrap-around technique. *Murray* *From:* Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] *Sent:* Friday, January 09, 2009 3:38 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Windows 7 On TechNet Now Here is 64 bit: http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/3/3/633118BD-6C3D-45A4-B985-F0FDFFE1B021/EN/7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULXFRE_EN_DVD.ISO Again in case: 32 bit: http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/3/3/633118BD-6C3D-45A4-B985-F0FDFFE1B021/EN/7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD.iso *From:* Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] *Sent:* Friday, January 09, 2009 3:36 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Windows 7 On TechNet Now X86. 64 bit is somewhere on lifehacker too. *From:* Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] *Sent:* Friday, January 09, 2009 3:31 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Windows 7 On TechNet Now Sweet, the link is working for me now.. Question: is this the x86 or x64 link? If it is *not* the x64 link, does anyone have it? Klint Jim Majorowicz wrote: I think they hit the 2.5 million mark. Going through the Partner Portal (I'm just a SBSC Registered Partner), I can't use the key or the download links. -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 12:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 On TechNet Now I did a URL scan of the download page, and it's down in 30 locations and 5 countries that I tested. Why don't they just embrace bit torrent and alleviate their network congestion? Put the saved money from hosting and bandwidth into developing a product activation system that doesn't get cracked in the first 5 minutes of their release. It amazes me that they can't even protect their own assets with security measures. Makes me wonder how their security products will protect me if they can't even protect their own assets. -Original Message- From: James Winzenz [mailto:james.winz...@pulte.com] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 12:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 On TechNet Now I get all the way to the end, then: Error The site is currently experiencing technical difficulties, please check back in the next business day. Lovely. Heh. Anyone else able to start the download? James Winzenz Infrastructure Systems Engineer II - Security Pulte Homes Information Services -Original Message- From: Christopher J. Bosak [mailto:cbo...@vector-co.com] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 11:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 On TechNet Now http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd353205.aspx Done Christopher J. Bosak Vector Company c. 847.603.4673 cbo...@vector-co.com mailto:cbo...@vector-co.com You need to install an RTFM Interface, due to an LBNC issue. - B.O.F.H. (Merged 2 into 1) - Me -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 11:40 hrs To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 7 On TechNet Now On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Christopher J. Bosak cbo...@vector-co.com mailto:cbo...@vector-co.com wrote: Really? I still don't see a download link. First one to find the download link for the general public beta release, please post it so we can avoid all the I still don't see it messages. P.S.: I still don't see it. ;-) -- 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/ ~ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by email and delete the message and any file attachments from your computer. 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
Re: VMWare Product Confusion
1.x and 2.x run on top of Windows while ESXi has it's own OS, and runs independent of Windows. ESXi is a stripped down version of ESX. You will see huge increases in VM performance under ESXi. Klint Roger Wright wrote: So what are the primary differences between v1.x , and v2.0 and ESXi? Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ *From:* gswe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net] *Sent:* Monday, January 05, 2009 5:05 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: VMWare Product Confusion We have moved all of our clients to ESXi that were using Server 1.x or 2.0 unless there was some specific reason the Host OS had to stay online. Not many cases of those though. The only main issue was some NIC driver issues on some whitebox machines we have been begging to get rid of. *From:* Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] *Sent:* Monday, January 05, 2009 5:00 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: VMWare Product Confusion No, ESXi is free now, and I would use it in a heartbeat over server. jlc *From:* Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] *Sent:* Monday, January 05, 2009 2:55 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* VMWare Product Confusion I'm running with several VMs under VMware Server 1.0.8, primarily because it was free and gave us an opportunity to move into the virtual arena. Is VMware Server 2.0 also free to use? If so, any reason not to move to 2.0? Is this the highest level VMWare product which is available at no cost? Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
Now that is funny... Kamlesh Parmar wrote: LinkedIn NT, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Kamlesh Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/e/isd/441515905/_vdeiJjK/ What is LinkedIn and why should you join? http://learn.linkedin.com/what-is-linkedin/ © 2008, LinkedIn Corporation ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Win 2k8 Enterprise 240-day Eval Terminal Serivces licenses for 25 users.
as follow up, with the free trial from MS, will windows allow for 25 simultaneous users during the grace period? Klint Webster wrote: *From:* Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] *Subject:* Win 2k8 Enterprise 240-day Eval Terminal Serivces licenses for 25 users. I need to throw together a test server with 25 terminal services users. Does the 60 day eval (which can be increased to 240 days), allow for 25 simultaneous users via terminal services In either per-user or per-device mode the TS will issue temporary 120-day licenses. If the TS is in workgroup mode then per-user licenses are not tracked. [Windows Server 2008 TS Resource Kit pages 121 and 122] Webster ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Win 2k8 Enterprise 240-day Eval Terminal Serivces licenses for 25 users.
Backing up a little bit This is going to be utilized in a Windows 2003 domain environment. I have plenty of 2003 CALS, but no 2008 CALs. During the test time frame, do I not have to worry about 2008 CALs? Does 2008 ignore the fact they are missing until the trial period ends? Thanks, I think I am getting close. Klint and Enterprise comes with 25, and not just 5? I can't find it on the MS site, and have never dealt wi Damien Solodow wrote: Should. In my experience the trial versions are complete and full function, just time-bombed. *From:* Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, December 31, 2008 10:23 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Win 2k8 Enterprise 240-day Eval Terminal Serivces licenses for 25 users. as follow up, with the free trial from MS, will windows allow for 25 simultaneous users during the grace period? Klint Webster wrote: *From:* Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] *Subject:* Win 2k8 Enterprise 240-day Eval Terminal Serivces licenses for 25 users. I need to throw together a test server with 25 terminal services users. Does the 60 day eval (which can be increased to 240 days), allow for 25 simultaneous users via terminal services In either per-user or per-device mode the TS will issue temporary 120-day licenses. If the TS is in workgroup mode then per-user licenses are not tracked. [Windows Server 2008 TS Resource Kit pages 121 and 122] Webster ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Win 2k8 Enterprise 240-day Eval Terminal Serivces licenses for 25 users.
I need to throw together a test server with 25 terminal services users. Does the 60 day eval (which can be increased to 240 days), allow for 25 simultaneous users via terminal services Thanks, Klint ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Search Engine Optimization Companies -- Any good ones?
A client of mine has been with One Up Web for a long time, and has experienced sustained top rankings for some very competitive key words and phrases. http://www.oneupweb.com Klint Jon D wrote: Our compnay is looking to hire a Search Enghine Optimization firm to tweak our website. Does anyone have any experience with any of them? I know there are a ton out there, and most are probably not that great. Thanks in advance, Jon . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: DNS issue?
+1 keep the flash in a specific area, wrapped by content/html Personally I would change the site so each topic had its own page, non-flash navigation (coupled with flash navigation if you wish), and use flash to highlight media aspects of a page, not be the page. Each page should have an initial page load 70 kb Put the content of the site in HTML; use flash to pretty up diagrams, flow charts, photos, etc flash should be used to draw your eye to selling points, but the content of the site should still be in natural/seo-optimized form. Ben Scott wrote: On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Eric Brouwer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you mean? Should we just set up an options on a splash screen where visitors can choose Flash or HTML versions of the site? You can do it that way, but I think the better way to do it is to build your web site using HTML, and use Flash as *parts* of each page. With CSS, you can get fairly good control over how things appear. When Flash is needed for a cool effect, build in alternate HTML links on the same page. Your home page, for example, doesn't really need Flash. The carousel for staff (which I admit is neat) does, but you could run a strip of HTML names across the side/bottom and still have it look nice. Take a look at Yahoo's or Microsoft's home pages. Lots of layout, dynamic effects, menus, etc.. Very little Flash, other than for video. This does, of course, require web designers who have both artistic skill and technical skill. I personally think that would be a requirement to be called a web designer, but I guess most of the world doesn't agree with me. -- 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/ ~
VIPRE - Outlook HTTP/RPC
Since migrating a laptop to Vipre, Outlook via HTTP/RPC is running a lot slower than NOD32 did. Are there any tweaks I can try out to speed up performance? Klint ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: DNS issue?
DNS on the outside resolves the same for both www.forespost.com and forestpost.com Can you post the code that loads the xml? Klint It may not be Eric Brouwer wrote: Good afternoon, I've run into an issue at work related to our web site that I can't figure out. Our site was developed in house using Flash by another individual who can't explain the issue, either. When you go to www.forestpost.com, everything works fine. If you click on of the links on the left, you'll see a carousel featuring our staff. This data is XML driven. If you go to forestpost.com, the XML never loads, so you don't see the carousels. While we look at a long term solution, I'm trying to find a quick fix. Can I do anything through DNS? Some way to force all traffic destined for forestpost.com to redirect to www.forestpost.com? Thanks, Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 248.855.4333 ~ 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: DNS issue?
can you change that line of code so it loads from www.yoursite.com/editorialicons.xml ? Eric Brouwer wrote: It's a simple line of Actionscript in the Flash file: xml.load(editorialicons.xml); On Dec 2, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Klint Price - ArizonaITPro wrote: DNS on the outside resolves the same for both www.forespost.com and forestpost.com Can you post the code that loads the xml? Klint It may not be Eric Brouwer wrote: Good afternoon, I've run into an issue at work related to our web site that I can't figure out. Our site was developed in house using Flash by another individual who can't explain the issue, either. When you go to www.forestpost.com, everything works fine. If you click on of the links on the left, you'll see a carousel featuring our staff. This data is XML driven. If you go to forestpost.com, the XML never loads, so you don't see the carousels. While we look at a long term solution, I'm trying to find a quick fix. Can I do anything through DNS? Some way to force all traffic destined for forestpost.com to redirect to www.forestpost.com? Thanks, Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 248.855.4333 ~ 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/ ~ Eric Brouwer IT Manager www.forestpost.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 248.855.4333 ~ 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: DNS issue?
no, what you want it to have yoursite.com redirect via IIS to www.yoursite.com Although you could do it the way Jim suggested, many search engines will ding rankings for duplicate content. Klint Kennedy, Jim wrote: That should do it. -Original Message- From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 2:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DNS issue? We don't host the site internally. When I contact them, what do I tell them I need done? That I need the header requests for the two domains answered the same? ~ 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: Building a new instrastructure
Get a volume license for your desktops so you can do disk image deployments. It will save you a ton of time over the years supporting the environment. Klint Jon Harris wrote: Can you even get XP now? I thought that it was only available until the end of November or something like that. If this is truly a new setup why not just bite the bullet and get Vista and be done with it? Jon On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 6:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My suggestion, hire a consultant. With 2600 users there has to be a number of technologies being used which would require licensing of various types. Server, Exchange, SQL, just to name a few. Who was managing those stations prior to you? If you don't have any of that information you would do yourself good to contact MS or a MS Partner to have them lookup if there is any current licenses owned. You said start I have never seen a 2600 node network just start up before, but if that's the case you can negotiate one heck of a deal with your vendor. Dell, HP for the workstation and servers and a MS Partner could work up the licensing costs for you. When you purchase an computer from HP, Dell, IBM it comes with an OEM XP Pro license that is only to be used on that physical box. That license has nothing to do with Server licenses, Exchange licenses, or other products. Let us know. Sounds like fun. Thanks Greg -Original Message- From: Juned Shaikh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 11:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Building a new instrastructure Hi, I am sure many of you have been through this before. How to do you deal with licensing part (CALs purchase) if one has to start the following instrastructure: 2600 users 10 servers - mostly file and print 2600 workstations I was thinking in the following line - help me add / deduce some of the items: Order 2600 workstations with WinXP Pro licenses Order 10 server bare with no OS Get 10 licenses for Win2k3 STD server. How many CALs do I need to procure? and what type? I understand the WinXP Proalready contains Device CALs? So does that mean only Users CALs need to be procurred? How much is the street price for user CALs? any idea? Thanks ~ 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: Domain Controllers time sync software
If the default is not working, why do you think the additional software will do the trick? Both routes will most likely require FW modifications, whether you have the DC do time on its own, or point it to a different internal time server on the network. Klint Juned Shaikh wrote: What is the time-sync software hardware that the list uses? In our environment - for FW reasons the sync with default time sysnc are not working and we are in the process of buying some hardware appliacne with can provide time services. In the meantime, does anyone has use some software option which can be installed (safely) on Active directory DC's? Thanks, ~ 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: Domain Controllers time sync software
I think both Troy and Marvin are correct. It sounds like Juned does not have FW rules in place to allow time sync to work directly from his DC. Yes, he should use W32Time as Troy suggests, and should point to an edge device (or other device that has a time service running on it) as Marvin suggests, IMO. Klint Troy Meyer wrote: How are you setting time? Sorry but I disagree with Marvin, you shouldnt use net time for 2003 servers; its old and inconsistent. The new way to set time is with W32Time. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816042 that should get your time syncing to the time source with minimal issue. Make sure you are doing this on your PDC emulator at the top of the forest as that is where AD time should trickle down from. -Troy -Original Message- From: Juned Shaikh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Domain Controllers time sync software What is the time-sync software hardware that the list uses? In our environment - for FW reasons the sync with default time sysnc are not working and we are in the process of buying some hardware appliacne with can provide time services. In the meantime, does anyone has use some software option which can be installed (safely) on Active directory DC's? Thanks, ~ 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: Desktop security app
Shavlik Eisenberg, Wayne wrote: LANDesk Security Suite -- *Wayne Eisenberg* Server and PC Support Manager *Pepsi Bottling Ventures, LLC* *From:* David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, November 17, 2008 3:23 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Desktop security app I'm looking to move away from WSUS for patching our desktops because we have too many non MS applications to keep patched. The latest Adobe Reader update I was able to push via SMS, but it's too cumbersome to try to keep everything patched that way. Additionally, Secunia and GFI have tools that will not only patch but also look for additional vulnerabilities. I have used GFI's Languard tool before and really like it, anyone have other suggestions for vulnerability scanning tools that can also handle patching? */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/ ~
Re: VMWare, fencing, and SID's, oh my!
I saw a demo for this product a week ago, and the sales guy, fwiw, said to include a DC in the fenced area, with network rules on the router so the dc could only communicate with the fenced vm's. Sure looks like a slick product. Klint David Lum wrote: The context is VMWare and systems in a Lab Manager fenced environment... What is the danger of having multiple (cloned) systems on a domain w/out them having a unique SID? Will DC's eventually get bogged down with processing or anything? The NewSID page states Duplicate SIDs aren't an issue in a Domain-based environment since domain accounts have SID's based on the Domain SID. I have a development environment where users can check out VM'd servers..the problem is while the IP's are unique, the SID's will be the same. What happens if I have 5 systems on the domain with the same SID? The 5 machines do not need to talk to each other. */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/ ~
Re: VMWare, fencing, and SID's, oh my!
I don't think this is an issue with VMWare's fencing capabilities in Lab Manager. Klint Benjamin Zachary - Lists wrote: The last time I ghosted a handful of Dells and didn't newsid/sidewalk them they replaced each other on the domain and 'kicked' the other off, so when I was all done, I had one pc on the domain (the last one) and the other 4 had all sorts of weird issues, the pc thought it was on the domain but when you went to compmgmt.msc and tried to enumerate the local accounts it would resolve the domain accts as the sid DOMAIN\111-34-5-667-8-9 (you know the one). Just my .02 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Comparing NT Backup speeds
These registry settings are causing backup speed degradation in my environment, and I am curious if anyone could explain why. I have a HP StorageWorks DL380 g5, running Storage Server 2003 x64 with dual 2.3 Quad Core processors, and 5 GB RAM. I have a 2TB SAS connected array connected to a HP P800 controller, and then a HP Ultrium 920 SAS LTO-3 drive connected to a different controller (SAS LSI 3000) Using the original NTBackup registry values for the keys below (32,512,9), I was able to backup a 36GB file in 7 Min 13 seconds. I implemented these performance registry keys below (64,1024,16), ran the backup job again, and it took 11 min 47 seconds. What could be causing these performance changes to impact backup speeds so greatly? Klint Michael B. Smith wrote: *Registry Changes for Optimizing NTBackup* The first optimization to make for NTBackup performance is to change some registry keys that affect buffering. These changes can have a very positive impact on performance when writing to tape, and a smaller impact when writing to disk. They are as follows (in batch file syntax): reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Ntbackup\Backup Engine /v Logical Disk Buffer Size /t REG_SZ /d 64 /f reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Ntbackup\Backup Engine /v Max Buffer Size /t REG_SZ /d 1024 /f reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Ntbackup\Backup Engine /v Max Num Tape Buffers /t REG_SZ /d 16 /f These registry changes double the default values. Do note that they affect HKEY_CURRENT_USER, and not HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE as you might expect. Therefore, you should execute NTBackup under the desired user to create the registry key before you attempt to set the above registry values. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange *From:* Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 07, 2008 11:59 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Comparing NT Backup speeds Michael, What are these tweaks you speak of? jlc *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 07, 2008 6:26 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Comparing NT Backup speeds Well a local device will usually be faster than a remote device. Ntbackup, with the registry tweaks, gives me about 1 GB per minute locally. But I don't have a dat-72 to compare to. My home GB LAN with a cheap crappy switch copies about 50 MB/min. So I'm thinking that two hours seems more likely than 9 hours. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange *From:* HELP_PC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 07, 2008 7:28 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* R: Comparing NT Backup speeds Yes the DAT device is local. Not applied registry tweaks *GuidoElia* *HELPPC* *Da:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Inviato:* martedì 7 ottobre 2008 13.05 *A:* NT System Admin Issues *Oggetto:* RE: Comparing NT Backup speeds Have you applied the standard registry tweaks to increase the ntbackup buffer size? Is the dat-72 locally attached? Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange *From:* HELP_PC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 07, 2008 1:59 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Comparing NT Backup speeds In a network 10/100/1000 copper a NT backup of the complete server to a Qnap device RAID-1 takes about 9 hours with verify (about 50GB) versus DAT-72 with separate card that takes half the time . Should be considered normal ? TIA *GuidoElia* *HELPPC* ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Comparing NT Backup speeds
Michael, This is a test server in a test environment, and there is nothing else running on it, nor are there other servers connecting to it. I'm not sure what a third test would show. Klint Michael B. Smith wrote: I'm not sure I would jump to any conclusions after just two tests. I would start up Perfmon, add my disk and tape queues, and run it a couple more times to see what happens. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange *From:* Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Friday, November 07, 2008 1:30 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Comparing NT Backup speeds These registry settings are causing backup speed degradation in my environment, and I am curious if anyone could explain why. I have a HP StorageWorks DL380 g5, running Storage Server 2003 x64 with dual 2.3 Quad Core processors, and 5 GB RAM. I have a 2TB SAS connected array connected to a HP P800 controller, and then a HP Ultrium 920 SAS LTO-3 drive connected to a different controller (SAS LSI 3000) Using the original NTBackup registry values for the keys below (32,512,9), I was able to backup a 36GB file in 7 Min 13 seconds. I implemented these performance registry keys below (64,1024,16), ran the backup job again, and it took 11 min 47 seconds. What could be causing these performance changes to impact backup speeds so greatly? Klint Michael B. Smith wrote: *Registry Changes for Optimizing NTBackup* The first optimization to make for NTBackup performance is to change some registry keys that affect buffering. These changes can have a very positive impact on performance when writing to tape, and a smaller impact when writing to disk. They are as follows (in batch file syntax): reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Ntbackup\Backup Engine /v Logical Disk Buffer Size /t REG_SZ /d 64 /f reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Ntbackup\Backup Engine /v Max Buffer Size /t REG_SZ /d 1024 /f reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Ntbackup\Backup Engine /v Max Num Tape Buffers /t REG_SZ /d 16 /f These registry changes double the default values. Do note that they affect HKEY_CURRENT_USER, and not HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE as you might expect. Therefore, you should execute NTBackup under the desired user to create the registry key before you attempt to set the above registry values. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange *From:* Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 07, 2008 11:59 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Comparing NT Backup speeds Michael, What are these tweaks you speak of? jlc *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 07, 2008 6:26 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Comparing NT Backup speeds Well a local device will usually be faster than a remote device. Ntbackup, with the registry tweaks, gives me about 1 GB per minute locally. But I don't have a dat-72 to compare to. My home GB LAN with a cheap crappy switch copies about 50 MB/min. So I'm thinking that two hours seems more likely than 9 hours. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange *From:* HELP_PC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 07, 2008 7:28 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* R: Comparing NT Backup speeds Yes the DAT device is local. Not applied registry tweaks *GuidoElia* *HELPPC* *Da:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Inviato:* martedì 7 ottobre 2008 13.05 *A:* NT System Admin Issues *Oggetto:* RE: Comparing NT Backup speeds Have you applied the standard registry tweaks to increase the ntbackup buffer size? Is the dat-72 locally attached? Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange *From:* HELP_PC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 07, 2008 1:59 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Comparing NT Backup speeds In a network 10/100/1000 copper a NT backup of the complete server to a Qnap device RAID-1 takes about 9 hours with verify (about 50GB) versus DAT-72 with separate card that takes half the time . Should be considered normal ? TIA *GuidoElia* *HELPPC
Re: Strange Behavior
PowerToys setting the user to log in automatically? Robert Cato wrote: I have about six workstations (xp sp3 fully patches using SCE) that are behaving strange. W2K3 domain (native mode) User will log out at the end of day or lunch. Upon return to their PC they are logged in with screen locked (screen lock set by GPO). Have not had a chance to see what happens first hand. I am called because the user is unable to unlock/sign on. I am unable to force the user off by signing on as domain or local administrator. A hard boot will allow the user to sign in, but it returns. Anybody seen anything like this? I have been googling and searching around Sans with no luck. TIA, Robert ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: General hardware setup recommends for a SQL 2005 database server
It all depends on the database design, and the nature of the application. I have SQL servers that are running fine on Dual Xeons with 4 GB of RAM, that service 400 users, with a 35 GB database attached to a SAN. I also have a SQL box that craps out on the same hardware, even though the DB is only 2 GB in size due to the crappy programming (nested views). How much data are we talking here, and how does the application flow? Klint Ziots, Edward wrote: Few questions: 1) 30 Concurrent users correct, or just a max of 30 users. 2) Are the transactions OLAP or OLTP in nature. 3) Will you be doing reporting off this database server (not recommended) Here are some things to keep in mind. 1) Split your Disk into LUN's for the database and logs and temp DB ( not partitions but physical LUN's (RAID 1+) for Data, RAID 1+0 for Logs, RAID 5 for temp) 2) Use multiple controllers, with a high level of cache 512MB or higher if using local disk to help on transactions. 3) Consider having a temp DB for each physical processor in your system. Dual and Quad Core Processors with 8-16GB of RAM and Windows 2003/2008 Enterprise along with SQL 2000 Std/Enterprise would be a good starting point, but you can probably get away with less with your setup with Win2003 STD and SQL 2005 STD. HTH Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 401-639-3505 MCSE, MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + -Original Message- From: Chad Leeper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 11:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: General hardware setup recommends for a SQL 2005 database server Hi all, I am building a 2005 SQL database server that will be supporting 30 users. The front-end for this database will be on a separate box. Does anyone have any hardware recommendations. i.e. number drives, ram, etc? I prefer HP hardware but, I welcome any input. Thanks, /Chad Think green. Please consider the environment before printing * CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: The information contained in this transmission is privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, do not read it. Please immediately reply to the sender that you have received this communication in error and then delete it. 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/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
