RE: Cisco VLAN Questions
Thanks for that link! I was looking for it and couldn't find it. I'm working on getting something working as a test and am pricing out HP gear. I don't want to invest too much time into learning Cisco switching if the HP cost is doable. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] The following *may* help you, although it's somewhat HP-centric and doesn't touch Cisco much. But the VLAN protocol side of things is the same, at least. http://www.mail-archive.com/ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com/msg58753.h tml -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Cisco VLAN Questions
Getting into VLAN's here. Would like some direction. I have a campus of several buildings connected back to an office building with cat5. Each building has a switch providing network access to PC's, printers, appliances, etc. Currently all the switches in use are unmanaged. The goal is to allow guest wireless access to the internet, and deny any access to the staff network from the guest network in these buildings. What I have at my disposal: 1) Cisco (2) 2900XL (5) 2950 switches (in a test setup on my desk) 2) Access points that can be configured to use unique VLAN's for primary and guest SSID's I'm reading a lot of documentation but struggling to find the practical application in what I'm trying to do. I'm not experienced with Cisco at all, but am comfortable on the command line. I've reset the switches to default settings and assigned Vlan1 an ip I can get to via telnet and the Cisco Network Assistant. These are old switches I know. I'm pondering upgrading our network to gigabit, and if I do, the HP gear looks a lot better priced than Cisco. If in spite of the upgrade costs anyone thinks I would be better off to do that I would like to hear it. I need 48 ports in the office, three buildings with 16 ports and two with 8 ports. -- Mike ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Deploy MSI via SMS
Try this instead of Orca. http://www.instedit.com/ -- Mike From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 12:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Deploy MSI via SMS Should be easy right? When I run the MSI directly, is asks for two questions: Accept the agreement, and user name/organization. How can I package it so running the MSI accepts defaults? Do I need to use something like ORCA (an MSI tool), or are there switches I'm too dumb to figure out they infer use defaults? David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: An observation on moving users to new machines
No they didn't. Google for Stream_Autocomplete. The NK2 was just replaced with something else. -- Mike Gill From: Cynicalgeek [mailto:cynicalg...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 7:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: An observation on moving users to new machines I learned long ago to always copy the NK2 file. Users think it's their address book. BTW, Microsoft finally wised up and includes it in the PST file now. There is no NK2 file with current versions of Outlook. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Acrobat X Std upgrade via customization wizard. GRRR
If your command line was cutpaste, you had some extra spaces around your Z:\'s -- Mike Gill From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 3:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Acrobat X Std upgrade via customization wizard. GRRR Weird. Dunno what I was doing wrong but I did finally get it to work. Dave From: James Hill [mailto:falc...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 3:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Acrobat X Std upgrade via customization wizard. GRRR I just set all the options in the wizard and then run the exe(or is it an msi, I forget) it creates without any cmd line switches. Works every time. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, 16 December 2011 4:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Acrobat X Std upgrade via customization wizard. GRRR Since Acrobat 8 is no longer being patched I am trying to get version X rolled out. I have used the customization wizard but can't seem to get it to apply. The tool creates an .MST (Transforms) file, but I can't get it to work - it acts as if the MST file doesn't exist. In fact when I specify the transforms file it asks more questions than when I don't use it. My command line: msiexec /i Z:\ Adobe Acrobat X Pro\AdminInstallPoint\AcroPro.msi TRANSFORMS= Z:\ Adobe Acrobat X Pro\AdminInstallPoint\AcroPro.mst It asks all sorts of Q's like do you want to remove the previous version?. If I don't specify a transforms file I can get it to install and it removes the old version fine, but it doesn't take any of the settings I used in the customization wizard. If I open that .MSI with Adobe's Customization Wizard it shows the options I've selected (the tools title even shows AcroPro.msi transformed by AcroPro.mst). Surely it's something very simple. Anyone? David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Google, What Happened To 'Do No Evil'?
True. And by that logic no phone is safe, smart or otherwise. -- Mike Gill From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 10:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Google, What Happened To 'Do No Evil'? Except for two things. You'll never know if someone turns it on, and this information can be raked by anyone with physical access. e.g. See: Law enforcement f [1].e.g. See: Insurance agencies. 1. Future -- Espi On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Mike Gill lis...@canbyfoursquare.com wrote: On iPhone, you can see the diagnostics data that is sent. It's in the same place you go to turn on the feature, as it's off by default. As long as you trust nothing more is going on, then at least Apple's implementation seems far less nefarious. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 10:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Google, What Happened To 'Do No Evil'? On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:35 PM, John Hornbuckle john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us wrote: Makes me extra glad to have Windows Phone. Do we have any reason to believe the carriers aren't tracking that somehow, too? Some people said, Glad I'm on Verizon!. Then the apparent Verizon reporting was discovered. Other people were saying, Glad I don't use Android!. Then Symbian and RIM reporting was discovered. Other people said, Hah hah! Apple would *never* let this happen! Then the iOS reporting was discovered. There appears to be a trend here. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Google, What Happened To 'Do No Evil'?
On iPhone, you can see the diagnostics data that is sent. It's in the same place you go to turn on the feature, as it's off by default. As long as you trust nothing more is going on, then at least Apple's implementation seems far less nefarious. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 10:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Google, What Happened To 'Do No Evil'? On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:35 PM, John Hornbuckle john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us wrote: Makes me extra glad to have Windows Phone. Do we have any reason to believe the carriers aren't tracking that somehow, too? Some people said, Glad I'm on Verizon!. Then the apparent Verizon reporting was discovered. Other people were saying, Glad I don't use Android!. Then Symbian and RIM reporting was discovered. Other people said, Hah hah! Apple would *never* let this happen! Then the iOS reporting was discovered. There appears to be a trend here. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Google, What Happened To 'Do No Evil'?
This. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 5:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Google, What Happened To 'Do No Evil'? snip Meanwhile, I have to wonder why you're so determined to blame Google for what appear to be the actions and products of others. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Uninstall Adobe 8 standard and professional, install Adobe X
The Adobe Customization Wizard X works for Acrobat the same way it works for Reader. Open the MSI after creating the admin install point, make desired changes, save the changes as an MST, deploy via GPO. One of the options is to uninstall earlier versions of Acrobat and it also has options for what to open PDF's with if Reader is installed as well as to use the browser plugin or not. -- Mike Gill From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 11:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Uninstall Adobe 8 standard and professional, install Adobe X Oh nice..does it give the option to open PDF's with the Reader or full version? From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:jt...@teachtci.com] Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 10:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Uninstall Adobe 8 standard and professional, install Adobe X If you install the Adobe X enterprise deployment toolkit, there will be an option to upgrade. That will take care all of your v8 installs. You can then package it up and deploy via script, GPO, or however you like. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 10:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Uninstall Adobe 8 standard and professional, install Adobe X As indicated in the subject line, I'd like to be able to uninstall v8 and install version X, all via script if possible. Has anyone done this? This page has some tips on it.I'm wondering if I will get screwed for each minor version and have to create something different for say 8.0.0 and then 8.0.1, etc. David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: AV and malware protection?
I have seen exploits on systems with just about every (fully updated) AV product heard of. There is no product that will win every time playing this cat and mouse game. I run MSE on my personal systems. Vipre and Nod32 on client computers. I encourage users not to use IE. -- Mike From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 11:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AV and malware protection? Yep, the current version. From what I have seen done to it by web-based exploit infections, I would classify the product as a joke. I thought it was decent before, but I currently have no faith in it. This being part of the scenario of users, using IE, getting hit with drive-by's, those drive-by's pulling down more crap, and ultimately owning the system with rootkits. IMO, MSE has been worthless in these situations. -- Espi On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 10:57 AM, John Hornbuckle john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us wrote: The current version of MSE? I think its on v2.0 now. Of course, theres no substitute for careful behavior, as others have mentioned. Im extremely cautious, and honestly cant recall a single time that my antimalware (MSE or the stuff I used before that) software has protected from a threat over the past few years. Maybe MSE works well for me because it never has to do anything. :) John From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 1:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AV and malware protection? I would trust Malwarebytes over a traditional a product. I wouldnt trust MSE what-so-ever. I've seen web-based drive by exploits absolutely destroy it. If I was going to couple with an AV product, I'd use Kaspersky primarily, with ESET as a secondary choice. -- Espi On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 6:34 AM, John Hornbuckle john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us wrote: I just use Microsoft Security Essentials. Seems to work well enough for me. Or am I naïve? John Hornbuckle, MSMIS, PMP MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us -Original Message- From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:ithelp.e...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 9:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: AV and malware protection? If you had to secure your own personal computer at home (Windows 7), what AV, firewall, malware protection would you install? Thanks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Long Distance Wireless
Call and ask for Rick. Do whatever he says: http://www.invictuswireless.com/Articles.asp?ID=132 I dont see kits on his site right now, but hes had them in the past that would have miles of range for ~400 or so. -- Mike From: Chris Blair [mailto:chris_bl...@identisys.com] Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 9:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Long Distance Wireless Anyone have experience setting up a wireless network over a long distance? We need to connect two construction trailers, over wireless preferably, if possible. Neither side has an internet connection and is about ½ mile apart, with a newly constructed building blocking line of site. They need to be connected for an Access Control system and do not require Internet access. If wireless is not feasible, I am thinking the best route maybe cellular cards on each side, and cheap routers to setup a site to site vpn. Any other thoughts? Thanks, Chris Blair ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Action Pack License Question
You would need to use the proper licensing qty's for each, but for the issue of not being able to deploy, the Office Customization Tool isn't included in all media. So just download it from MS and then you can deploy. Explained here: http://blog.stealthpuppy.com/deployment/customising-office-2010-before-deplo yment/ -- Mike Gill From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 11:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Action Pack License Question So, with MAPS, a company gets 10 licenses for Office 2010 (For example). However, the media they give you is retail, and cannot be installed silently through the normal deployment methods we have grown used to and learned to love. I would have to walk to each workstation and do a GUI install. Say I have 20 users; own 10 VL licenses, and 10 MAPs. Can I use VL Media to install office for all 20 users? Is a license a license in this sense? I have asked a MAPs specialist and they said they don't answer licensing questions. Um, ok. What would you guys do? Trying to keep things legit here. Thanks, Sam ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Install fonts w/out admin on Vista; bypass UAC on a DLL?
I was just having this discussion today. I wish Windows would allow for a separate user folder specified to look for fonts. This way you could allow users to dump fonts into a folder they had persmission to or a network location for a group of people. Anyway, here is a command line option that you could probably modify to suite your needs: http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/installation2/how-can-i-install-a-font-f rom-the-command-line-batch-file- -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 10:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Install fonts w/out admin on Vista; bypass UAC on a DLL? Win Vista with current SP/updates. No domain. We want to be able to have non-admin users install fonts. Have removed the Hidden and ReadOnly attributes on C:\Windows\Fonts\. Have granted Modify permission to BUILTIN\Userspermission on: C:\Windows\Fonts\ C:\Windows\System32\FNTCACHE.DAT HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\Fonts Right-click a TTF and choose Install, and we still get a UAC elevation prompt (asking for a password for the admin account). Consensus on the Internet seems to be this is because the bits and pieces of Windows that do font installation are explicitly configured to require admin/elevation. Checking into that as the problem, I did find the Windows Application Compatibility Toolkit, which will supposedly let me create a shim database (.SDB) which might be able to tell UAC to run a given program as the invoker, and not to request elevation. (No guarantees this would work, but it's all I got.) Digging through the registry -- specifically, the shell menu stuff for ttffile -- it would appear font installation is kicked off by Explorer invoking FONTEXT.DLL. I presume I can't apply a shim to just a DLL. Anyone have any clues on the above? The only other idea I've found was to use a third-party utility to register the font with Windows, wrapped in a script, and I may have to go that route, but I'd prefer to just get the regular Windows font installer to do the right thing. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Install fonts w/out admin on Vista; bypass UAC on a DLL?
A bit old? Have you looked at the Font install dialog from Vista? It's unchanged since Windows 3.1, maybe even older. Not saying the whole subsystem is that old but it's weird one part went for so long with little attention. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 2:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Install fonts w/out admin on Vista; bypass UAC on a DLL? Hmmm 1999, so a bit old, but if it still works, then this bat is a little more generic. You can just drag a font onto it and it will create the reg, copy the file, import the reg and then delete the reg. One problem is that it won't pull the actual name of the font, instead it will use Generic Font Description...or whatever you put there. You could replace that with %~n1 and it would use the actual filename as the desctription. Also note that I haven't tested this, so ymmv. ---snip--- echo REGEDIT4font.reg echo.font.reg echo [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts]font.reg echo Generic Font Description=%~n1%~x1font.reg copy %1 %systemroot%\fonts regedit /s font.reg del font.reg ---snip--- -Original Message- From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 4:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Install fonts w/out admin on Vista; bypass UAC on a DLL? I was just having this discussion today. I wish Windows would allow for a separate user folder specified to look for fonts. This way you could allow users to dump fonts into a folder they had persmission to or a network location for a group of people. Anyway, here is a command line option that you could probably modify to suite your needs: http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/installation2/how-can-i-install-a-font-f rom-the-command-line-batch-file- -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 10:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Install fonts w/out admin on Vista; bypass UAC on a DLL? Win Vista with current SP/updates. No domain. We want to be able to have non-admin users install fonts. Have removed the Hidden and ReadOnly attributes on C:\Windows\Fonts\. Have granted Modify permission to BUILTIN\Userspermission on: C:\Windows\Fonts\ C:\Windows\System32\FNTCACHE.DAT HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\Fonts Right-click a TTF and choose Install, and we still get a UAC elevation prompt (asking for a password for the admin account). Consensus on the Internet seems to be this is because the bits and pieces of Windows that do font installation are explicitly configured to require admin/elevation. Checking into that as the problem, I did find the Windows Application Compatibility Toolkit, which will supposedly let me create a shim database (.SDB) which might be able to tell UAC to run a given program as the invoker, and not to request elevation. (No guarantees this would work, but it's all I got.) Digging through the registry -- specifically, the shell menu stuff for ttffile -- it would appear font installation is kicked off by Explorer invoking FONTEXT.DLL. I presume I can't apply a shim to just a DLL. Anyone have any clues on the above? The only other idea I've found was to use a third-party utility to register the font with Windows, wrapped in a script, and I may have to go that route, but I'd prefer to just get the regular Windows font installer to do the right thing. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Barebones Server based on Sandy Bridge (LGA 1155)
You only add hard drives which are external via hotswap trays in many of the SM barebone units, processor and RAM. It's hardly building compared to a whitebox. To each their own. -- Mike Gill From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 3:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Barebones Server based on Sandy Bridge (LGA 1155) I did spec one out, but I'm really not interested in building it out. As it is, I've just ordered a few motherboards to replace some motherboard issues in other systems, so I'll have quite enough system building to go around. ASB http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market. On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Mike Gill lis...@canbyfoursquare.com wrote: It's a Supermicro. Plenty of those on Newegg. Hit them up and spec it yourself. -- Mike From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 4:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Barebones Server based on Sandy Bridge (LGA 1155) Getting closer: http://www.globalcomputer.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpN o=411709 http://www.globalcomputer.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?Edp No=411709csid=ITDbody=MAIN#productresources csid=ITDbody=MAIN#productresources ASB http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market. On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to put together a new server for the home network based on the Sandy Bridge processor (say, Xeon E3-12xx series). I'm feeling lazy and would prefer to go with a barebones systems, but I'm pretty much finding older combinations for the motherboards (LGA 1366 / 1156) Anyone still regularly putting together their own servers and have a recommendation for a vendor? Even SuperMicro has slim pickings right now. I'm building these primarily for virtualization, and will be putting 16GB RAM and a pair of mirrored SATA drives. The problem might be my insistence on a tower chassis... Or, I might have to build myself a server from desktop parts. Sigh. ASB http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Barebones Server based on Sandy Bridge (LGA 1155)
It's a Supermicro. Plenty of those on Newegg. Hit them up and spec it yourself. -- Mike From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 4:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Barebones Server based on Sandy Bridge (LGA 1155) Getting closer: http://www.globalcomputer.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpN o=411709 http://www.globalcomputer.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?Edp No=411709csid=ITDbody=MAIN#productresources csid=ITDbody=MAIN#productresources ASB http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market. On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to put together a new server for the home network based on the Sandy Bridge processor (say, Xeon E3-12xx series). I'm feeling lazy and would prefer to go with a barebones systems, but I'm pretty much finding older combinations for the motherboards (LGA 1366 / 1156) Anyone still regularly putting together their own servers and have a recommendation for a vendor? Even SuperMicro has slim pickings right now. I'm building these primarily for virtualization, and will be putting 16GB RAM and a pair of mirrored SATA drives. The problem might be my insistence on a tower chassis... Or, I might have to build myself a server from desktop parts. Sigh. ASB http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Sys Admin Day
I came in today and my office was totally decked out. Banners and gift cards everywhere. Little chat bubbles all over the place with things I apparently say and hear a lot. Sweet! -- Mike From: Matthew B Ames [mailto:matthew.a...@qinetiq.com] Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 8:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Sys Admin Day Happy Sys Admin day.. hope you all get some cakes, or something nice! http://www.sysadminday.com/ -- Matthew Ames Senior Software Engineer, IT Services MoD Boscombe Down Tel: 01980 662791, Mobile: 07799 828279 Fax: 01980 664012 Email: matthew.a...@qinetiq.com (work) matt...@ames.org (home) QinetiQ - The Global Defence and Security Experts. Delivering customer focused solutions. Many hands make a tall horse. 11 was a race horse, 22 was 12. race, 22112. To err is human - to moo, bovine. Macmillan Cancer Support Charity bike ride - donate now http://www.justgiving.com/mba-mac-2011 This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. QinetiQ may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security. QinetiQ Limited (Registered in England Wales: Company Number: 3796233) Registered office: Cody Technology Park, Ively Road, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 0LX http://www.qinetiq.com. http://www.qinetiq.com http://www.qinetiq.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Sys Admin Day
Nah. I knew it was coming up but didn't know it was today. -- Mike Gill From: Gary Whitten [mailto:li...@undiscoveredworlds.com] Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 2:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sys Admin Day Nice! Did you drop hints in advance? From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 1:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sys Admin Day I came in today and my office was totally decked out. Banners and gift cards everywhere. Little chat bubbles all over the place with things I apparently say and hear a lot. Sweet! -- Mike From: Matthew B Ames [mailto:matthew.a...@qinetiq.com] Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 8:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Sys Admin Day Happy Sys Admin day.. hope you all get some cakes, or something nice! http://www.sysadminday.com/ -- Matthew Ames Senior Software Engineer, IT Services MoD Boscombe Down Tel: 01980 662791, Mobile: 07799 828279 Fax: 01980 664012 Email: matthew.a...@qinetiq.com (work) matt...@ames.org (home) QinetiQ - The Global Defence and Security Experts. Delivering customer focused solutions. Many hands make a tall horse. 11 was a race horse, 22 was 12. race, 22112. To err is human - to moo, bovine. Macmillan Cancer Support Charity bike ride - donate now http://www.justgiving.com/mba-mac-2011 This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. QinetiQ may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security. QinetiQ Limited (Registered in England Wales: Company Number: 3796233) Registered office: Cody Technology Park, Ively Road, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 0LX http://www.qinetiq.com. http://www.qinetiq.com http://www.qinetiq.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Advanced Format Drives 512e
Don't know anything about this yet, but couldn't you just wipe it and install Win7 fresh or from a prepared image? Or is this a hardware issue? -- Mike Gill From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:jt...@teachtci.com] Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 1:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Advanced Format Drives 512e Windows SP1 or the patch here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982018 dont seem to fix the problem. I guess I'll just use the Linux option for now until these drives are more widely used and there is a solution for it. Jimmy From: Joe Tinney [mailto:jtin...@lastar.com] Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 11:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Advanced Format Drives 512e Are you running SP1 on the system you're talking about? I'm not familiar with this type of format but perhaps the improvements in SP1 for this may be what you need. http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/B/A/EBA55FE2-373A-4351-9346-6D762B7 9AA69/Notable%20Changes%20in%20Windows%207%20and%20Windows%20Server%202008%2 0R2%20Service%20Pack%201.doc Good luck, Joe From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:jt...@teachtci.com] Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 1:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Advanced Format Drives 512e Yes, I did read through that doc. Maybe I missed something but lets say the OS is corrupt and I need to pull user data off that drive. How in the world do I do it if my W7 box shows the disk partition as raw? From: William Robbins [mailto:dangerw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 9:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Advanced Format Drives 512e According to Dell Win7 is *supposed* to be able to read it. There are some tools and steps for formatting here: http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/kcs/document?doci d=408172 - WJR On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:43, Jimmy Tran jt...@teachtci.com wrote: So I just purchased a Dell Latitude E6520 laptop. In the package I found a yellow notice about 512e drives. So I read about this and it looks like the partitioning of the drive is different. My W7 box doesn't recognize the partition. Does anyone know how I can access the data on this drive from an external box? Jimmy ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Dell Lock Code Resource
For the Inspiron I have on the desk this section simply doesn't exist. http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins1721/en/sm/index.htm It's fine. There is some commonality it seems between older and newer models with the code I'm seeing. It appears to be a failed video chip or related. As it's not replaceable on this laptop it means a new mobo. -- Mike Gill From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 9:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell Lock Code Resource Seems to me these are still quite public. Found the ones for my Latitude System right on their site within 30 seconds: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/late6400/en/sm/html/trouble.ht m#wp1092170 DellManualsEnter your model numberTroubleshooting. There they are. Sam From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 1:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Dell Lock Code Resource It used to be more standard/published, but there does seem to be a divergence from standardization here within the past 10 years. Oh I agree I think it should be public - my lack of surprise is from Dell specifically. I love 'em, but they are getting tighter and tighter regarding their support. -- Espi On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Mike Gill lis...@canbyfoursquare.com wrote: As do I. The results of your search indicate the site I listed. The other sites are other people asking the same question or are for beep codes and desktops. It surprises me that this information isn't public. They provide documentation for all their computers to allow users to disassemble them down to the components without voiding the warranty. Why not this? Who knows. Seems to be it would be a few less support phone calls at least. -- Mike From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 3:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Dell Lock Code Resource I always just search online, e.g.: http://www.google.com/search?q=dell+post+codes It doesnt surprise me that Dell has taken a position to keep details like this. They are getting more and more uptight about what they consider free support. -- Espi On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Mike Gill lis...@canbyfoursquare.com wrote: Does anyone have a resource for the LED Lock codes on Dell's laptops? For example, when a laptop doesn't start up and you get the num and caps lock LED's flashing but the scroll lock LED is solid. Dell says they don't publish this, and I have found on older document on their website that shows the codes, and one resource online, I would like an up to date resource that includes Latitude's, Inspiron's and Vostro's rather than calling Dell up every time. For example: http://www.bay-wolf.com/portpostcodes.htm FYI, this info isn't provided in the manual's online either. -- Mike Gill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE
RE: Dell Lock Code Resource
As do I. The results of your search indicate the site I listed. The other sites are other people asking the same question or are for beep codes and desktops. It surprises me that this information isn't public. They provide documentation for all their computers to allow users to disassemble them down to the components without voiding the warranty. Why not this? Who knows. Seems to be it would be a few less support phone calls at least. -- Mike From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 3:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Dell Lock Code Resource I always just search online, e.g.: http://www.google.com/search?q=dell+post+codes It doesnt surprise me that Dell has taken a position to keep details like this. They are getting more and more uptight about what they consider free support. -- Espi On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Mike Gill lis...@canbyfoursquare.com wrote: Does anyone have a resource for the LED Lock codes on Dell's laptops? For example, when a laptop doesn't start up and you get the num and caps lock LED's flashing but the scroll lock LED is solid. Dell says they don't publish this, and I have found on older document on their website that shows the codes, and one resource online, I would like an up to date resource that includes Latitude's, Inspiron's and Vostro's rather than calling Dell up every time. For example: http://www.bay-wolf.com/portpostcodes.htm FYI, this info isn't provided in the manual's online either. -- Mike Gill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: W7 print drivers on W2003 print server
These GPO settings need to be set from Win7 machine with RSAT installed, otherwise you won't see them. Computer config Policies Admin templates Printers Only use Package Point and Print - disabled Package Point and Print - Approved Servers - disabled Point and Print Restrictions - disabled Once I did that, printers deployed properly in Win7. -- Mike Gill From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:jt...@teachtci.com] Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 3:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: W7 print drivers on W2003 print server I'm not sure if this has been discussed in the past but here goes nothing. I'm trying to get my W7 x64 boxes to map my printers via GPO. I get errors in the event viewer saying the group policy object did not apply because the print driver is unknown. So I followed this to add the W7 in-box drivers to my W2k3 print server http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2028992. After following method one, I'm still not able to map the drive. I can't see to add additional drivers for the W7 box either. Can someone help? Thanks, Jimmy ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Wireless for SMB - recommendations?
You can pick this up in Lake-O, Dave. http://www.invictuswireless.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=PowerAPN Ubiquity gear is solid. -- Mike Gill From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 2:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Wireless for SMB - recommendations? Do you guys have recommendations for a wireless access point for a SMB? 17 employees all on the same floor. It will be to provide Internet access for visitors and no access to the local LAN (so I know I will be configuring the switch it plugs in to). David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: question about OEM Windows License Keys
Any OEM media will work, even generic OEM media from Newegg. -- Mike From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:jt...@teachtci.com] Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 11:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: question about OEM Windows License Keys Ok, good enough. I'll just wait for the cd's from Dell. Thanks for clarifying that OEM key requires OEM media. Jimmy From: Tammy Stewart [mailto:copper...@personainternet.com] Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 11:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: question about OEM Windows License Keys I had a machine a couple years ago Jimmy, Dell as well. Customer did not have the recovery CDs the machine needed a new hard drive. I just called Dell, provided them with the model, serial, customer info etc asked for a recovery CD set. Took me a couple attempts as the person who I talked to obviously did not put my request and such on record so delivery never happened. However after a few attempts - finally got the CDs. No charge even though warranty was up. Install went w/o a hitch. I figure they must have a recovery CD set for your make/model available. In my case they did not charge for the CDs but if they do charge now I can't see it being that expensive for the customer. Cheers Tammy _ From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 1:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: question about OEM Windows License Keys So far all you've told us is that you have an OEM key, not a retail key. So having an OEM key means there is no point in downloading or trying to use retail media from any source. If you have an OEM media from another machine it *may* work with your Dell OEM key. From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:jt...@teachtci.com] Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 1:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: question about OEM Windows License Keys Ok, with that being said, is there a way to download retail media from MS if I already have a key? From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 10:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: question about OEM Windows License Keys OEM media requires OEM key. Retail media requires Retail key. Etc. And I wouldn't trust any downloaded media unless it came directly from MS. Carl From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:jt...@teachtci.com] Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 1:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: question about OEM Windows License Keys So I have a Dell XPS laptop that needs the Vista reinstalled. The original OS version is Vista Home Premium. Since I don't have the OEM install disc from Dell, I decided to download a Vista Retail ISO (I think it was retail) So I ran the installer and it comes to the license key window. I put in the key from the COA label under the laptop but it doesn't like the key. So my real question is, does the OEM key on the Microsoft COA label work with any media type as long as it is not Volume Licensing Media and same OS version? Any clarification would be awesome! Thanks, Jimmy ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Large format printers (plotters)
I've not used any recent models, but the 1055CM and the 800PS are solid. I would buy another DesignJet if it were me. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 8:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Large format printers (plotters) Hey all, Anyone have any recent experience with large-format printers (plotters)? It looks like our venerable DesignJet 750 may finally have given up for good. [removes hat; Taps plays] We're printing engineering drawings, mainly 2D line drawings. Usually fairly simple stuff. Mainly black-and-white only. Maybe simple color for line differentiation. The only hard part is that we do large drawings, so we need something that can handle 36-inch wide roll media, and can render drawings 10+ feet in length. It seems like most products on the market in that size are targeted at high-quality production (for posters, signs, etc.), and that's more than we need -- and thus more than we want to pay for. Our software environment is all MS Win, currently mostly XP, moving to Vista/7 over the next year or two. No funky software requirements, so long as it can print from Windows. That said, it'd be nice if it could do something standardish, like HP-GL/2. HP's current replacement for the DJ750 would be the DesignJet 510 CH337A ($2900 list). Anyone have recent experience with HP plotters, either the product itself, or the customer service? I know their printers aren't what they used to be, but their plotters come from a different group. The Canon imagePROGRAF iPF710 seems comparable to the DJ 510, and street price looks a bit cheaper; anyone have experience with that? Suggestions, ideas, horror stories, etc., welcomed. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: * Dramatic Overhaul of Windows GUI: Video
Hmm, looks familiar: http://www.mosaicbytribune.com/ Not at sophisticated as what's in that video, but it sure looks inspired by. -- Mike Gill From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 12:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: * Dramatic Overhaul of Windows GUI: Video * Dramatic Overhaul of Windows GUI: Video At a press event in Taipei this week, Redmond showed the next version of Windows, unveiling a dramatically overhauled tiles-based interface that they hope will be competitive in the tablet world. Microsoft marketing people must have gotten their fingers in this pie, because it's called a reimagining of Windows. Win8 will run on all types of devices from small, touch-sensitive smart phone screens to traditional large-screen PCs, and Win8 can be used with or without a keyboard and mouse. Basically, the screen looks just like the new Windows smart phone screen. The application comes quickly to life as Windows fades to the background, said Michael Angiulo, Windows Planning VP. The tiles on the start screen are live -- they represent your people, your applications, your contacts, the information you care the most about, he said. You can group them, arrange them and name them as you like, so that first start screen experience is really personal. Win 8 still also provides the normal Windows desktop and backward compatibility with existing Windows apps. Microsoft President Steve Sinofsky stated: Windows 8 is example of coloring outside the lines. We have an approach that is different, but builds on the value of an OS that sells 400 million or so units a year. Laptops, slates, desktops can all run one operating system. I will be reporting about this a lot more in the future. Stay tuned. Here's how it looks! 4:34 Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92QfWOw88I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92QfWOw88I Warm regards, Stu ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: System Restore and Scareware
If this has been posted I apologize. I've been reading a lot on this lately and I'm starting to forget where I got which links. http://www.symantec.com/connect/fr/blogs/trojan-feigns-failures-increase-rog ue-defragger-sales?API1=100 http://www.symantec.com/connect/fr/blogs/trojan-feigns-failures-increase-ro gue-defragger-sales?API1=100API2=4176444 API2=4176444 System Restore won't fix that. This is a mess really as variants pop up and the location for the stored files get more random or better yet, encrypted. -- Mike Gill From: Bob Hartung [mailto:bhart...@wiscoind.com] Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 5:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: System Restore and Scareware Sound like the malware we got. Re-emphasizing my original post, System Restore made the removal easy. -- Bob Hartung Wisco Industries, Inc. 736 Janesville St. Oregon, WI 53575 Tel: (608) 835-3106 x215 Fax: (608) 835-7399 e-mail: bhartung(at)wiscoind.com _ From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Thu, 26 May 2011 06:53:25 -0500 Subject: RE: System Restore and Scareware Yep already seen that one in action here, a bugger to clean up. Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 7:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: System Restore and Scareware Saw this the other day: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/20/2334259/New-Malware-Simulates-Hard-D rive-Failure -- Mike Gill From: Bob Hartung [mailto:bhart...@wiscoind.com] Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 12:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: System Restore and Scareware I've had a couple of recent cases of scareware infecting some Windows XP Pro systems here. One reported lots of virus infestations and prevented the user from accessing the internet and, for a low price, would fix all. The other reported that the hard drive had tons of errors and the boot sector was gone, etc. And for a small fee, their utility could fix it. This system was unusable. Maybe this is pretty basic but I haven't seen mention of it but in both cases, Window's System Restore easily removed both. I've seen descriptions of fixing infected systems involving fairly complex procedures and multiple utilities. I guess I just wanted to recommend giving System Restore a try first before resorting to the heavy artillery. On the system that had the failed hard drive scareware, it was impossible to access System Restore in normal windows. I figured Safe Mode was the way to go but I discovered System Restore is not available in Safe Mode. I did learn that you can run System Restore in Safe Mode with Command Prompt. Just enter %systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe at the command prompt and you're in System Restore. Not sure why regular Safe Mode wouldn't have that command available. Hope that's of help to someone else. -- Bob Hartung Wisco Industries, Inc. 736 Janesville St. Oregon, WI 53575 Tel: (608) 835-3106 x215 Fax: (608) 835-7399 e-mail: bhartung(at)wiscoind.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: backing up user's data
And if they are, assign those users for offline use of the folder. -- Mike Gill From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 11:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: backing up user's data If user's aren't mobile this works great. On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Jacob ja...@excaliburfilms.com wrote: +1 What we do here. Works perfect. -Original Message- From: techconnect [mailto:techconn...@bellsouth.net] Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 10:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: re: backing up user's data Group policy to redirect their mydocs to a location on the server, then msbackup on the server. Jason We have a file server where users SHOULD be storing their data. However, users still continue to store their data in My Document and their Desktop. I am being told to come up with a solution to backup THAT data. We do NOT have BackupExec or any other paid-for backup program. We backup data on the file server to a USB drive using the built in MS Backup tool that is part of SBS2003. Any ideas on the best automated way to backup 10 or so user machines with their Desktop and My Documents data to a single shared location (we have a large NAS device which has plenty of space and is shared out). Thanks ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: System Restore and Scareware
Saw this the other day: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/20/2334259/New-Malware-Simulates-Hard-D rive-Failure -- Mike Gill From: Bob Hartung [mailto:bhart...@wiscoind.com] Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 12:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: System Restore and Scareware I've had a couple of recent cases of scareware infecting some Windows XP Pro systems here. One reported lots of virus infestations and prevented the user from accessing the internet and, for a low price, would fix all. The other reported that the hard drive had tons of errors and the boot sector was gone, etc. And for a small fee, their utility could fix it. This system was unusable. Maybe this is pretty basic but I haven't seen mention of it but in both cases, Window's System Restore easily removed both. I've seen descriptions of fixing infected systems involving fairly complex procedures and multiple utilities. I guess I just wanted to recommend giving System Restore a try first before resorting to the heavy artillery. On the system that had the failed hard drive scareware, it was impossible to access System Restore in normal windows. I figured Safe Mode was the way to go but I discovered System Restore is not available in Safe Mode. I did learn that you can run System Restore in Safe Mode with Command Prompt. Just enter %systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe at the command prompt and you're in System Restore. Not sure why regular Safe Mode wouldn't have that command available. Hope that's of help to someone else. -- Bob Hartung Wisco Industries, Inc. 736 Janesville St. Oregon, WI 53575 Tel: (608) 835-3106 x215 Fax: (608) 835-7399 e-mail: bhartung(at)wiscoind.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: [OT] Sony is down again
That's OK. We agreed to it when we bought the media. It's in the EULA. http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2005/11/now-legalese-rootkit-sony-bmgs-eula Item #5. Old news. Sony hasn't seen a dime of my money from any direct purchase since that whole rootkit fiasco story broke. And I tell everyone I can when their name comes up. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 10:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT] Sony is down again They did that when they put a rootkit on consumer DVDs. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 1:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [OT] Sony is down again This is too good not to pass on. So, we all know about the massive breach in Sony's security. Millions of customers had their personal info stolen. As a result, Sony voluntarily shut down most of their online entertainment operations, including the PlayStation Network, and Qriocity (their streaming media Netflix-wannabe service). It's been down going on five weeks now, but Sony has been turning things back on this week. Until now -- they've pulled the plug again. Sony was asking people to reset their account passwords, and authenticating them with their email address and date-of-birth. Email and DOB was among the information stolen. http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/05/18/151211/PSN-Up-And-Then-Down-Again Great job Sony! You really set a standard for corporate responsibility and security planning! -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: HP DV8000 laptop
Just get some small screw drivers and go for it. You could have it done in a couple hours at your worst. Just follow the manual. If you have a couple screws left over at the end of the project it's no biggie. Each time you take a panel or part off, set it aside with the screws next to it or even in the holes where they go when you put it back together. Items a through f in the service manual for this task are nothing. A walk in the park. Item g is just some careful prying after the screws are out. The system board isn't going to be that difficult once you get everything else off. You can do this. Go find a vacant office where no one will bug you for an hour or two and get to it! Oh, but get a replacement fan off of eBay first before you start. ;) -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 8:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: HP DV8000 laptop Yeah... I've been replacing old machines with newer ones as people leave and their position isn't filled. Most of my desktops have been refreshed with relatively new Optiplex machines. I do have some extra equipment, so it's not that big a deal, just that the user in question (claims manager) probably won't be happy about having to switch machines for a few days. :D ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Antivirus Center
Because none of the AV/antimalware companies can keep up. I have had quite of few of these fake AV infections show up on my desk lately on peoples home laptops. A couple of them involved rootkits running from the MBR. Unless the AV software checks the MBR, and has def's that could see it anyway, you're not going to detect it. In those cases re-writing the MBR from a Windows recovery environment got rid of the symptoms. In my last two cases The last symptom was searching for something using Google/Bing/etc., seeing the results, but clicking the links took you to a rogue site. Copy link location and paste in URL bar worked fine, but don't click the links! The users opted not to have me reinstall the OS despite me recommending it mostly due to installed software they no longer have the install source for. What I'm seeing lately: 1) malware using the task scheduler instead of more common startup methods (e.g. Registry) for executing the malware 2) always check the hosts file and DNS 3) delete temp and temp internet folder contents, reset browsers to defaults 4) empty recycle bin (seen the malware live from in there a couple times lately) 5) just go ahead and rewrite the MBR just because 6) use msconfig, process explorer, listdlls and other sysinternals tools 7) hitman pro works well as second opinion AV (free one time use, but not for domain joined machines) This is just the short list and changes from machine to machine depending on what I see. There's more that needs to be done most of the time. Google image searches seem to be what is getting people a lot lately and they're not looking for porn either. The domains some of these images are on have just been hijacked, or bought and repurposed to deliver the bad wares now. I suspect ads on Facebook too. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 12:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Center I've never had luck with Viper detecting, let alone stopping, any of these fake AV's over the years. It's really my only big issue with the product. Probably had a dozen or so home and work users get a variation and Viper's failed every time. Most of the time I can do a system restore back to point in time where Virus wasn't installed and scan with other products to get rid of infected files. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 1:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Center Richard, this is an end-user we're talking about. :D I found instructions on bleeping computer on how to get rid of it, but the end user is barely computer literate and he's in Texas, while I'm in Georgia. He decided he'd rather ship me his computer than take it to a local tech. I was just curious as to why Vipre Rescue didn't find it and whack it... From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 2:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Antivirus Center Can you run the task manager w/o the bug blocking it? How about cmd? Windows Explorer (NOT IE!)? Although a bug whacked the registry, we had one where we could see what process was starting when something triggered the fake AV window. We noted the name of the process, then killed that process. We went into Explorer and were actually able to delete the process file. We have been able to open the registy, go looking for (in HKLM, HKCurrentUser, and HKUsers.Default) .\windows\CurrentVersion\Run something that obviously does not belong there. We whack that value and reboot. THEN we can find things with VIPRE and MBytes scans. John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote on 05/04/2011 01:21:55 PM: I just had a remote user infected with Antivirus Center fake antivirus. I had him try to run Vipre Rescue, but it didn't find anything. Any idea why VR didn't find it? [image removed] [image removed] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software. com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint
RE: Touch screen tablets
I just played with the ASUS and a couple others at a tech show yesterday in Portland. Navigating Windows via touch is cumbersome. The video performance is subpar when scrolling web pages and more like a slide show, and rotating the display turns it off then back on. Just a couple things I hadn't thought about until using one. I do really want one of the new Samsung Series 9 notebooks though. Not a touchscreen, but it's thinner than that ASUS tablet. ;) -- Mike Gill From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 9:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Touch screen tablets Sure but you get Windows 7. It's really nice. On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Crazy.that's twice the price of a Xoom. From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 12:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Touch screen tablets http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/en_US/pd/productID.228299800/par entCategoryID.44066900/categoryID.54536100/list.true A friend of mine has that. It's pretty darn nice. On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Full-size laptop? Or would a mini (like the Dell) or even a netbook do? What OS? From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 12:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Touch screen tablets Folks, I'm in the market for a touch screen laptop tablet. We want to test e-signatures using the touch screen instead of an add-on USB signature card. Any suggestions? I see several vendors have these. Since this is just testing, nothing high-end is needed. Thanks, Tom Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Trend Micro Internet Security 14
This may be solved by now, but another option would be to call Dell on it. I'm sure they log the support calls and if they have a lot of people calling in on this, they might be inclined not to be such dorks about how software is installed on their systems. To this day I have a special batch file I keep on hand for their My Way Web Search bar, as some older versions can't be uninstalled either unless you know the proper path and command line. Another reason why I wipe a new system before using it. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 6:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Trend Micro Internet Security 14 Nope...didn't think of that. Thanks. I think I'll try a combination of safe mode, plus the onboard PCCCTOOL.exe that is in the internet security 14 directory. From: Mike Sullivan [mailto:neog...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 5:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Trend Micro Internet Security 14 Did you try booting to safe mode and then use the diagnostic utility? On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 2:47 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Well, I suppose if Trend can't provide a way to remove their junk, I might have to resort to hacking the registry... dont really like it, but I might have to. :-( From: Shauna Hensala [mailto:she...@msn.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 5:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Trend Micro Internet Security 14 doesn't matter whether you want to or not - sometimes the answer is not appealing. Shauna Hensala From: jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Trend Micro Internet Security 14 Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:43:27 -0400 Gary, thank you for your concern. I *did* Google the answer and I did try the Diagnostic utility that Trend provides. No luck with either. The only other option Trend offers on their website is to hack the registry. I don't want to, nor do I feel I should have to hack the registry to uninstall something. -Original Message- From: Gary Slinger [mailto:gary.slin...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 5:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Trend Micro Internet Security 14 Do you actually do any friggin' work, or is this your posted support procedure -- receive problem | forward problem to mailing list | wait for someone else to resolve problem ? --Original Message-- From: John Aldrich To: NT System Admin Issues ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Trend Micro Internet Security 14 Sent: Apr 19, 2011 17:03 I've got a client (daughter-in-law to be of one of our managers) who's got a laptop with Trend Micro Internet Security 14 for Dell on it. I'm trying to load Vipre Home Premium on it, but I want to get rid of Trend first. The uninstall utility from Trend's website doesn't do squat. Any ideas on how to get rid of Trend? It refuses to uninstall from the add/remove programs and as I say the uninstall utility doesn't do a thing! :( Thanks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- Thank you, Mike Sullivan ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send
RE: 3rd Party laptop batteries
I would be surprised if it lasted a week. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 2:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: 3rd Party laptop batteries My cheap 3rd party battery gave good runtime when it was first installed too, but that didn't last a year. Your jury is still out. Carl -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 12:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: 3rd Party laptop batteries Ok... I probably should have listened to you guys when you griped about me jumping on the first thing that I came up with, but it seems to have turned out OK. The first battery I got from the Amazon vendor was apparently bad as it didn't even last 5 minutes, but the replacement battery is working over 2 hours according to the user. I think that in the future, I'll go with the OEM on batteries. :-) Thanks, all! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: http://ninite.com/
I keep a copy of the admin installs for GPO deployments on my thumb drives. It's very little extra work since I have to do this anyway. Then I have a batch file that runs the silent installs. The only part that needs updating is the script now and then if file or folder names change due to the versions of the software. -- Mike Gill From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 11:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: http://ninite.com/ All the time. I have downloaded all the groupings that I want and keep them on a thumbdrive. It is super easy to go to an Internet connected computer and run it. The installers are quite small, but make it extremely easy to batch install a number of products sequencialy, without prompts for anything in between. For instance, its a great way to patch one-off adobe web-product updates, java, or silverlight. The caveat as I understand it, is that what you download will be for a particular version. So if the product is updated, you will have to update the installer. I run a script that does this for me daily for all my wanted ninite packages. -- ME2 On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:11 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: This link was suggested to the Patch Management list to someone wanting Java without the BS.any here use it? http://ninite.com/ David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 503.548.5229 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Dell battery replacement still giving warning
You just need to know what you can and can't get away with for OEM. When it comes to batteries for me, they're always OEM. If it was a keyboard, I would buy one off of eBay without hesitation. As long as the keyboard membrane is intact, and you don't suspect anything else is wrong, I will just buy the individually keys. Make sure they come with the two plastic parts that connect the key to the base. With a little patience you can pop keys back in in a few seconds once you've done a few. Most electronics I always try to get OEM, but if your choices are limited and no new parts are sold anymore, you have to go with what's available. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 5:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell battery replacement still giving warning Thanks, I think it might be better to replace the whole keyboard as at least one of the keys no longer has the post where the original key was. Besides... lots of people on here were bashing me about not getting OEM partsso, I thought Id get an OEM keyboard, if it's available. :-) From: Jeff Steward [mailto:jstew...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 8:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Dell battery replacement still giving warning http://lmgtfy.com/?q=dell+inspiron+6400+replacement+key -Jeff Steward On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:31 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Good idea. Next time I think I will buy an OEM replacement battery and do as you suggest. On a related note, I've got an Inspiron 6400 laptop that just came back from the field and it needs a new keyboard as several keys are broken off. Anyone know how to find out the part number for that? I can't find it on Dell's website. From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 5:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Dell battery replacement still giving warning Check to see if you can get a warranty on the battery. It has been a while but for the Latitude line I seem to remember that Dell would add something like $25 to the bill and you would get a replacement battery after 2 years of service on the one you just purchased. Jon On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 3:04 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Actually it's supposed to be an actual Dell battery that's been refurbed by someone other than Dell, so it doesn't have the Dell sticker price. :-) Still, it may be better if we can't get this working, to go ahead and pay the $80 or so that Dell wants for a new battery.. -Original Message- From: Kramer, Jack [mailto:jack.kra...@ur.msu.edu] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 2:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Dell battery replacement still giving warning Off-brand battery? I've used them before when I need something cheap and immediate but with batteries, you really get what you pay for. Also you run the risk of off-brands being made with defective cells and there's nothing more fun than a lithium fire in your lap! Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 On 2/21/11 1:39 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Well, we didn't go through Dell... they wanted about 3 times what we paid for it on Amazon. :-) I've contacted the vendor and we'll see...but I thought maybe there might be a way to reset the counter or something. -Original Message- From: Kramer, Jack [mailto:jack.kra...@ur.msu.edu] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 1:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Dell battery replacement still giving warning Isn't there a standard 1-year warranty on the D-series batteries? We usually go through the battery's life every year and a half to two years. If it's already failing I'd call Dell and have them get you a new one. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 On 2/21/11 1:04 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: My Google-Fu is failing me today. One of my users told me late last year that he was getting a warning on his laptop that his battery was reaching the end of it's useable life, so I bought him a replacement. His new battery is saying the same thing and is only lasting about 45 minutes at most, even after several full discharge and recharge cycles. Is there a trick to resetting the lifetime counter on these things? I think he's got a Latitude D-series. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog
RE: Dell battery replacement still giving warning
What you bought was a cheap counterfeit. You're going to need to go through Dell. IMO, there is no point in trying your luck at getting a good 3rd party battery. If they do exist, it takes too much time to find one. I've bought a few 3rd party batteries, and now I just by direct from the OEM's. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 10:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell battery replacement still giving warning Well, we didn't go through Dell... they wanted about 3 times what we paid for it on Amazon. :-) I've contacted the vendor and we'll see...but I thought maybe there might be a way to reset the counter or something. -Original Message- From: Kramer, Jack [mailto:jack.kra...@ur.msu.edu] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 1:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Dell battery replacement still giving warning Isn't there a standard 1-year warranty on the D-series batteries? We usually go through the battery's life every year and a half to two years. If it's already failing I'd call Dell and have them get you a new one. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 On 2/21/11 1:04 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: My Google-Fu is failing me today. One of my users told me late last year that he was getting a warning on his laptop that his battery was reaching the end of it's useable life, so I bought him a replacement. His new battery is saying the same thing and is only lasting about 45 minutes at most, even after several full discharge and recharge cycles. Is there a trick to resetting the lifetime counter on these things? I think he's got a Latitude D-series. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Thoughts on this pitch from Trend
Bla bla, our def files are I the cloud, bla bla, something about virtualization density, bla bla cloud, bla bla bla. Of the different AV product I have worked with, all of them allow for an alternate server location for def updates if a local store isn't available. I'm not sure what they're trying to sell, but they like saying cloud over and over. J -- Mike Gill From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 7:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Thoughts on this pitch from Trend It's 3:43 long. Their WorryFree product does this as well and seems to work OK at the client of 55 machines that has it (it gives you the option to update from the local Trend machine or from Trend's servers). Seems to me they're using cloud to mean clients update from us and not your local server. Does anyone get a different read? http://us.trendmicro.com/us/products/enterprise/officescan/ Click Watch OfficeScan video David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 503.548.5229 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Windows 7 Licensing Question
Possible stupid question. Couldn't he just prep one of the machines with the OEM OS/key that came with it, and clone/deploy that image/license to the other machines? -- Mike Gill From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 6:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 Licensing Question Check out www.microsoft.com/licensing. Long story short though, you'll probably want to use KMS. It's a small service that you'll install on a Windows Server box and you'll provide it your key and activate it. Than the Win7 PCs will auto-discover it and license themselves and activate. DAMIEN SOLODOW Systems Engineer 317.447.6033 (office) 317.217.6851 (fax) HARRISON COLLEGE From: Bret Hanson [mailto:bhan...@yunker.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 9:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 7 Licensing Question I am getting ready to purchase 35 new PCs with Windows 7 Professional. I also have 15 PCs with XP covered by Software Assurance (SA) and another 10 for which I will purchase Windows 7. I want to use a common Windows 7 image on the machines but I don't understand how to deal with licensing and software keys. Can someone point me to some resources and or shed some light on the topic? Thank you! Bret Hanson Systems Administrator Yunker Industries, Inc. 262 249 5220 x 300 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Forcing Adobe Reader and Java updates
Since jre 1.6 r10, old versions are now automatically removed upon installing the current version. Unfortunately, versions older than that are still left. -- Mike Gill From: Terry Dickson [mailto:te...@treasurer.state.ks.us] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 4:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Forcing Adobe Reader and Java updates I like your solution, however last year during a security audit we were written up for Java. Specifically before a certain level of Java the installer would not remove the older versions. They show up in add and remove programs, and that is what I was written up for. Then older versions have security flaws and unless removed are still there to potentially cause problems. Now I am not sure if what I was being told was correct, and since a certain level the older versions are removed so it is no longer a problem for me as far as the security audit is concerned. However we all know that Java is not totally secure, and probably will never be, but that is like everything else an ongoing process. _ From: Mike Gill [lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 6:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Forcing Adobe Reader and Java updates For Adobe Flash/Reader, Java Firefox, just remove the previous install from the policy and then deploy the updated version. None of these are upgrades in the sense of an upgrade. They are all full installs. The updates are ready icons should be disabled if possible. You can do this with Reader (customization wizard) and Java (http://www.appdeploy.com/messageboards/tm.asp?m=33488 http://www.appdeploy.com/messageboards/tm.asp?m=33488mpage=1key=#33534 mpage=1key=#33534). Users shouldn't be burdened with updating software on their company computers. This is your job to stay on top of. -- Mike Gill From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 11:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Forcing Adobe Reader and Java updates Greetings! One of the biggest issues regarding patching Adobe products and Java is, the users tend to ignore the Update icons when they appear on their screen System tray. Consequently, we are now looking for a way to force these machines to update. First, a quick GPO question... I know we can build a GPO to install a piece of software from an .MSI files at its next reboot. Is it possible to recycle GPOs? That is, we make one with the msi for AdobeReader9.4.5 and reboot all the systems in the OUs to which it is applied. Can we then unlink that GPO from those OUs, and then when AdobeReader9.4.6 is relased, edit the GPO to point to the newer .MSI file, link the OUs, then reboot those machines? -OR- Is it necessary to write a new GPO for each update of a particular product? I think I'll start a new thread for my next question - thanks! -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCAR 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richardmccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org/ www.aspca.org The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AnimalsR (ASPCAR) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin _ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you do not have permission to disclose, copy, distribute, or open any attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by returning it to the sender and delete this copy from your system. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http
RE: Forcing Adobe Reader and Java updates
For Adobe Flash/Reader, Java Firefox, just remove the previous install from the policy and then deploy the updated version. None of these are upgrades in the sense of an upgrade. They are all full installs. The updates are ready icons should be disabled if possible. You can do this with Reader (customization wizard) and Java (http://www.appdeploy.com/messageboards/tm.asp?m=33488 http://www.appdeploy.com/messageboards/tm.asp?m=33488mpage=1key=#33534 mpage=1key=#33534). Users shouldn't be burdened with updating software on their company computers. This is your job to stay on top of. -- Mike Gill From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 11:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Forcing Adobe Reader and Java updates Greetings! One of the biggest issues regarding patching Adobe products and Java is, the users tend to ignore the Update icons when they appear on their screen System tray. Consequently, we are now looking for a way to force these machines to update. First, a quick GPO question... I know we can build a GPO to install a piece of software from an .MSI files at its next reboot. Is it possible to recycle GPOs? That is, we make one with the msi for AdobeReader9.4.5 and reboot all the systems in the OUs to which it is applied. Can we then unlink that GPO from those OUs, and then when AdobeReader9.4.6 is relased, edit the GPO to point to the newer .MSI file, link the OUs, then reboot those machines? -OR- Is it necessary to write a new GPO for each update of a particular product? I think I'll start a new thread for my next question - thanks! -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCAR 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richardmccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org/ www.aspca.org The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AnimalsR (ASPCAR) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Java JRE update MSI
Run the installer to the first screen. Don't choose next. Go to the folder and get the .msi file and the data1.cab, you don't need anything else and copy them to wherever your deploying from. Now cancel/exit the installer. The .msi doesn't install any toolbar either, even though the exe has it in it. -- Mike Gill From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 11:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Java JRE update MSI Greetings! Wishing to force Java JRE updates on my users (they sort-of update automatically, but the user must click the icon to get the update to run), I've been looking up how to get an .MSI file for the latest JRE version. Unfortunately, the Java web site does not seem to work... http://www.java.com/en/download/help/msi_install.xml This tells you to download and run the .EXE file. It then says where the .MSI has been extracted. This much is true. However, if I finish the install, then the .MSI file gets deleted. If I abort the process, the .MSI files gets deleted. If I pause the process, then the .MSI file is either locked so it can't be copied elsewhere, or if it copies it becomes non-functional. The referenced web site has a Get Help Now! button. That brings one to a pay-to-play chat session, Most problems cost about $50 to fix. Nice... Anyway, the version to which we currently wish to force our systems is Java 6 Update 23. Any successful methods to extract the .MSI for that version? Thanks! -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCAR 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richardmccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org/ www.aspca.org The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AnimalsR (ASPCAR) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: OTish? - Building a home lab from scratch
Just got one of these: http://ubnt.com/powerapn from here: http://www.invictuswireless.com/Ubiquiti_PowerAPN_PAPN_PowerAP_N_Power_AP_N_ p/powerapn.htm Has a 2.4GHz spectrum analyzer built in. No GigE ports, but if you're just using it for an AP/gateway you shouldn't notice. Runs SSH out of the box and has an easy web GUI. Invictus is local to me but the owner is very knowledgeable. -- Mike Gill From: Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 3:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OTish? - Building a home lab from scratch Alright ladies and gents, I'm looking for suggestions and pitfalls to avoid (aren't we all?). I'm a little ashamed to admit it, but I'm probably one of the few tech heads out there that doesn't have a home lab setup, and I think it's about time that I change that. We've had numerous discussions on this list about home vmware setups and personal SANs etc, and I'd like to hear some suggestions on what I should start with, mistakes to avoid, etc. I'm on a budget - I don't have thousands to spend, but I've got to start somewhere. Here's what I've got right now that is potentially useable (I'm not set on using this stuff, but right now it is just collecting dust): * 3 or 4 old Dell Optiplex desktops (one MT form factor, and 2 desktop form factor) with P4 procs and a couple Gigs of RAM * Broadband Cable connection @ 10 Mbps * (my wireless router just recently died) * 2 free standing two post 7 foot racks (that I was thinking about tying together to make a 4 post rack) I'd like to focus on Windows Server 2003/2008 Powershell. Exchange, Sharepoint, and SCCM are of particular interest, and so is vmware (I will probably want to play with Hyper-V, but don't have much need for it.) Ultimately, I'd like to include some Cisco as well, as I have a good (albeit basic) Cisco background with PIXes, ASAs, and Catalyst switches. Oh yeah, and Linux too... Finally, I'd also be interested in suggestions for how to [legally] obtain MS licensing on the cheap if that's possible - 120 day evals aren't really going to cut it. Action Pack? MSDN? Thanks, Jonathan A+, MCSA, MCSE ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: OTish? - Building a home lab from scratch
Yep, removable. They are rated 6dbi though and aren't too shabby for factory. -- Mike Gill From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 1:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish? - Building a home lab from scratch Are those antenna's removable? I have a point to point bridge with some old Linksys WAP54g's that need replacing and would rather keep my existing external antenna's. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Mike Gill lis...@canbyfoursquare.com wrote: Just got one of these: http://ubnt.com/powerapn from here: http://www.invictuswireless.com/Ubiquiti_PowerAPN_PAPN_PowerAP_N_Power_AP_N_ p/powerapn.htm Has a 2.4GHz spectrum analyzer built in. No GigE ports, but if you're just using it for an AP/gateway you shouldn't notice. Runs SSH out of the box and has an easy web GUI. Invictus is local to me but the owner is very knowledgeable. -- Mike Gill From: Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 3:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OTish? - Building a home lab from scratch Alright ladies and gents, I'm looking for suggestions and pitfalls to avoid (aren't we all?). I'm a little ashamed to admit it, but I'm probably one of the few tech heads out there that doesn't have a home lab setup, and I think it's about time that I change that. We've had numerous discussions on this list about home vmware setups and personal SANs etc, and I'd like to hear some suggestions on what I should start with, mistakes to avoid, etc. I'm on a budget - I don't have thousands to spend, but I've got to start somewhere. Here's what I've got right now that is potentially useable (I'm not set on using this stuff, but right now it is just collecting dust): * 3 or 4 old Dell Optiplex desktops (one MT form factor, and 2 desktop form factor) with P4 procs and a couple Gigs of RAM * Broadband Cable connection @ 10 Mbps * (my wireless router just recently died) * 2 free standing two post 7 foot racks (that I was thinking about tying together to make a 4 post rack) I'd like to focus on Windows Server 2003/2008 Powershell. Exchange, Sharepoint, and SCCM are of particular interest, and so is vmware (I will probably want to play with Hyper-V, but don't have much need for it.) Ultimately, I'd like to include some Cisco as well, as I have a good (albeit basic) Cisco background with PIXes, ASAs, and Catalyst switches. Oh yeah, and Linux too... Finally, I'd also be interested in suggestions for how to [legally] obtain MS licensing on the cheap if that's possible - 120 day evals aren't really going to cut it. Action Pack? MSDN? Thanks, Jonathan A+, MCSA, MCSE ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: domain controller in the cloud???
Google App's does have central management for its services. Whether it's good enough to meet your needs, you'll just have to try it out. Also it may make sense to only have certain services be internet based, but others local. Print and file services for example seem obvious. For as many users as you have, you would need a pretty hefty pipe to come close to local network performance. What's your internet connection now? Let's say it's 40/10Mbs FiOS. Your network internally is most likely 100Mbs full duplex, and possibly 1Gbs. Would your users like the new speed? If some faculty or students in a media class start downloading large files, is it going to affect teachers opening Office docs? What about peak usage hours? I guess the network performance is what sticks out to me at first. It sounds like the board member just wants to move everything online and has no concept of availability, QoS or just reads mainstream news headlines about Cloud services with no real technical understanding. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: techconnect [mailto:techconn...@bellsouth.net] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 8:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: domain controller in the cloud??? We are a private k-8 school and we have a board member who is telling us that we should not buy any new servers to replace the current ones, he says everything is moving to the cloud and so should our stuff(user folders, authenication AD win 2003 R2 and Exchange 2003 is what we're using, they want to move to gmail but there's no central management there I know of,and offsite backups only.) We have about 350-400 students and faculty and they want to be on the bandwagon to the cloud I think without understanding everything about it(I'm not entirely clear either) and was looking for thoughts and opinions or resources. Thanks, Jason ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Redirect folders to network
But not offline. -- Mike Gill From: Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 6:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Redirect folders to network Another option for laptop users would be a Sharepoint site. This would allow them to access the documents they would need while offsite. _ Cameron Cooper Network Administrator | CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Phone: 847-890-4021 | Fax: 847-255-1896 ccoo...@aurico.com | www.aurico.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: iMedia Converter - FREE through 12/27/2010
If you're on Facebook and you don't want to Like it, just set the Page Style to No Style (Firefox) and get rid of the CSS. They are only using a semi-transparent image to cover the ability to enter your info press the Submit button. -- Mike Gill From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 10:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: iMedia Converter - FREE through 12/27/2010 http://news.cnet.com/8301-13845_3-20026495-58.html Roger Wright ___ Never make hard what you can make easy. - Fred W. Frailey ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Weird One, Can't see folder, WIndows 2008 after a robocopy
Crazy! I just set up a simple Robocopy script for a very small office I service and had the same thing happen. After the copy is complete, the root folder of the destination is set to hidden. I use this script elsewhere, and am not sure why this instance is different. -- Mike Gill From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 11:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Weird One, Can't see folder, WIndows 2008 after a robocopy Nevermind solved the question, it set the folder and sub folders as read-only system and Hidden by default, which is very weird. I reset the directory with the attrib -s -h. Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 2:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Weird One, Can't see folder, WIndows 2008 after a robocopy I just did a robocopy from my new Windows 2008 Server from an Older Windows NT 4.0 server with the following switches. Robocopy /S /COPYALL /R:1 /W:10 /Log+:c:\path.log I look at the log and the files copied, the problem is that I can't see the folder I just copied in Windows Explorer, but I can go to a command promot and cd to the directory, so its basically hidden from my sight in windows. But I did see the directories being created when I did the robocopy of the directory over from the server. Anyone ever see this type of behavior. Already looked at hidden files and folders. Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Weird One, Can't see folder, WIndows 2008 after a robocopy
Hmm, that's exactly what I am doing here. Other places I use my script doesn't copy the drive starting at root level. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 3:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Weird One, Can't see folder, WIndows 2008 after a robocopy I see it most frequently when robocopy-ing the root of one drive into a subfolder of another, ie robocopy /s /e d:\ c:\subfolder In the most recent case (a Windows 7 machines), specifiying /COPY:DT didn't make a difference. On 12/27/2010 5:04 PM, Mike Gill wrote: Crazy! I just set up a simple Robocopy script for a very small office I service and had the same thing happen. After the copy is complete, the root folder of the destination is set to hidden. I use this script elsewhere, and am not sure why this instance is different. -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: EXTERNAL:Re: psexec wont' accept login/password to execute locally
http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/cpau/index.htm -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Mike Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 12:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: EXTERNAL:Re: psexec wont' accept login/password to execute locally On 12/15/2010 2:39 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr wrote: Is The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. a result from all attempts at PSEXEC use on that system? How about locally? It could be an issue with the service itself. I am (or was - I've given up on it, for the moment) getting that when trying to use PSEXEC locally. I am not trying to run a command on a remote server at all. I wanted to use PSEXEC to run a program on the local server as a different user which had elevated privileges (local domain admin). I wanted to do this from a simple CMD script. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: psexec wont' accept login/password to execute locally
Your syntax u...@domain isn't correct. Should be domain\user. So psexec -u domain\user path\to\MyBatchFile.cmd -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Mike Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 9:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: psexec wont' accept login/password to execute locally I have a Win2003 Std, SP2 server. I have a need to run a batch file that executes a VBscript as an elevated user. (I didn't write the script). This batch file gets executed by EMC Networker, as a ore-command before backing up this server. It turns off services (SourceOne mail archiving). I have a similar script to re-enable services after backup. The problem is that Networker executes as a nobody user, according to EMC. So what I need to do is have this script call the VBscript with elevated privileges, so it can stop the services. But psexec v1.98 is not working for me, always complaining of an invalid ID and password, even when I triple-check that everything is entered fine. Note that runas works, but won't allow me to save the password. Here's a test I just did. psexec did not work, but runas did ... -- V:\utils\PS Toolspsexec -u u...@domain cmd /c 'type psversion.txt' PsExec v1.98 - Execute processes remotely Copyright (C) 2001-2010 Mark Russinovich Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com Password: PsExec could not start cmd /c 'type psversion.txt': Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password. V:\utils\PS Toolsrunas /user:u...@domain cmd /c 'type psversion.txt' Enter the password for u...@domain: Attempting to start cmd /c 'type psversion.txt' as user u...@domain ... -- I'm not a VBscripter, so I don't know how to modify the VBscripts themselves. Nor am I comfortable changing a script from the vendor, for fearing of screwing something else up. So: any idea why psexec complains of a login failure, even when I use the exact same username and password as the runas command (which works fine)? Is there a setting somewhere that is blocking me? I know psexec is designed more for working on a remote system, but it should work to do what I need it to do locally, shouldn't it? Thanks ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Laptop Bios Upgrade Fiasco
What's the model number of the laptop? -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Jim Reis [mailto:soastc.m...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 8:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Laptop Bios Upgrade Fiasco I finally got some help from the HP Parts Store. They are sending me a new system board. I have a day before the new system board gets here, so I'll have some time to try some of your suggestions. Thanks for the input. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Laptop Bios Upgrade Fiasco
The My Digital Life BIOS mod forum is a treasure trove for this sort of thing. I did a quick search on their forum, but now keep running into more questions. Is your system EFI? I'm not familiar with newer HP laptops. It looks like your firmware is made by Insyde, which is also new to me. http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/13095-Undocumented-INSYDE-BIOS-recovery-method.-Use-andy-s-tool-to-obtain-possible-names. It looks as if you only need to put the firmware on a USB stick or CD and follow a power-on sequence. The trick appears to be in naming the file correctly. You can extract the 3045F25.fd image file from the sp46499 .exe firmware you downloaded using WinRAR (and others I assume) and go from there with the info in that link. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Jim Reis [mailto:soastc.m...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 8:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Laptop Bios Upgrade Fiasco HP TouchSmart tx2 1020cm ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: *solved for me* RE: 2008 R2 printing 32-bit driver on 64-bit R2 OS
You can't just install 32bit drivers the same way you install 64bit drivers on a 32bit server? You can't say Have Disk and point it to a location where you have the drivers extracted? All my clients are small org and still 32bit so I haven't gone down this path yet on the server level. -- Mike Gill From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 12:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: *solved for me* RE: 2008 R2 printing 32-bit driver on 64-bit R2 OS http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverprint/thread/59c1d 8e4-76f4-415a-9ec1-7046c9d417a2 First you need to download install the 32-bit drivers on the OS of the client you need (in my case a WinXP 32-bit machine). Then connect to said printer queue and it will ask for the drivers you downloaded. This one client will now work. From this client, do the below (must be acct with perms to manage printers on said print server). Also, the print drives must be te same type - if the server has PS drivers and the client and PCL drivers it won't work 1.Access the print server \\PrintserverName\Printers file:///\\PrintserverName\Printers 2.Open the printer required to add the 32-bit driver 3.Go to properties 4.Sharing Tab 5.Additional drivers 6.check the box for x86 for windows 2000,windows XP and windows 2003 7.click ok Microsoft's documentation says almost the same thing but didn't spell it out far enough for me to figure it out. If you go to the print server it should now have 32-bit and 64-bit drivers selected. In hindsight I could probably point the 64-bit server to the C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86 on the client, but you still need those drivers extracted somehow. Dave From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 1:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: 2008 R2 printing Did the same, R2 for X64 and Windows 2008 SP2 for x32. Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 11:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: 2008 R2 printing I ended up going with two print servers, one for x86 (2008 x86) and one for x64 (2008 R2). It made everything simpler, from my point of view anyway. YMMV On 13 December 2010 16:24, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Is it me, or does it take more than trivial effort to load 32-bit XP drivers on a 2008 R2 print server? 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/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: *solved for me* RE: 2008 R2 printing 32-bit driver on 64-bit R2 OS
Right. The issue I usually run into (on the 32bit server end) has to do with something you said. They need to be the same version number. -- Mike Gill From: Anders Blomgren [mailto:chanks...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 2:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: *solved for me* RE: 2008 R2 printing 32-bit driver on 64-bit R2 OS I havent had any issues at all. My process: Use the Print Management ui. Add 64bit driver. Add 32bit driver with exactly the same version. Add printer, select recently added driver. Works for me... -Anders Sent from my iPhone On 13 dec 2010, at 22:35, Mike Gill lis...@canbyfoursquare.com wrote: You can't just install 32bit drivers the same way you install 64bit drivers on a 32bit server? You can't say Have Disk and point it to a location where you have the drivers extracted? All my clients are small org and still 32bit so I haven't gone down this path yet on the server level. -- Mike Gill From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 12:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: *solved for me* RE: 2008 R2 printing 32-bit driver on 64-bit R2 OS http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverprint/thread/59c1d 8e4-76f4-415a-9ec1-7046c9d417a2 First you need to download install the 32-bit drivers on the OS of the client you need (in my case a WinXP 32-bit machine). Then connect to said printer queue and it will ask for the drivers you downloaded. This one client will now work. From this client, do the below (must be acct with perms to manage printers on said print server). Also, the print drives must be te same type - if the server has PS drivers and the client and PCL drivers it won't work 1.Access the print server \\PrintserverName\Printers file:///\\PrintserverName\Printers 2.Open the printer required to add the 32-bit driver 3.Go to properties 4.Sharing Tab 5.Additional drivers 6.check the box for x86 for windows 2000,windows XP and windows 2003 7.click ok Microsoft's documentation says almost the same thing but didn't spell it out far enough for me to figure it out. If you go to the print server it should now have 32-bit and 64-bit drivers selected. In hindsight I could probably point the 64-bit server to the C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86 on the client, but you still need those drivers extracted somehow. Dave From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 1:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: 2008 R2 printing Did the same, R2 for X64 and Windows 2008 SP2 for x32. Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org mailto:email%3aezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 11:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: 2008 R2 printing I ended up going with two print servers, one for x86 (2008 x86) and one for x64 (2008 R2). It made everything simpler, from my point of view anyway. YMMV On 13 December 2010 16:24, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Is it me, or does it take more than trivial effort to load 32-bit XP drivers on a 2008 R2 print server? 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/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http
RE: Distributing TV over IP
The second video has a lot better audio quality and description over the service: http://justaddpower.com/ I've called them up twice when I was working on a video project and both times got the guy in the video. I think he's the brains behind the outfit too. It ended up not being a good solution for me at the time, but he was happy to listen to me and answer question. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 4:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Distributing TV over IP I have an interesting one for the list... Our school district has cable television available to each school through the local cable company. We have a new(er) school which we are now looking at providing television services. In our older schools, the cable company ran coax to each classroom with a centralized industrial splitter... giving many channels a grainy, less than ideal image. Hey, it's the 21's century... can I push the video over IP? Here's what I'm envisioning: Cable comes into our MDF, and we have some kind of encoder that takes the signal. Then, throughout a building we have some decoders which happily take the feed from the encoder and play it to whatever kind of TV it's plugged into. The decoder would be able to control which channel the encoder is sending... and for extra points the decoder's remote can control the TV's power and volume. Does such a solution exist? Some more details: The cable company only provides basic cable for free, which does _not_ require one of their own decoding boxes. I know that the signal that the basic cable provides is ye-old-analogue signaling, plus a few of the new digital channels. My expertise in TV signaling is extremely limited, so I don't know much more than that. Has anybody had experience with this kind of TV distribution over IP? (Not to be confused with IPTV.) I know this could go crazy... Multicasting, Recording/DVRs, user security, PC clients, etc... but let's start with what would be very basic (Live TV only) and cheap. Thanks for any input! --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: CAD Workstation Spec
You need to look at some of the more complex models your users are working with and see where the bottle necks are. Read through the link Joseph sent to get better acquainted with what you need to look for in terms of specific brands and models of the different graphics cards. Depending on budget, my preference would be Xeon. You can get a dual socket motherboard and have a flexible base for starting with one CPU and adding a second in the near future. If CPU power isn't likely to be an issue before the next hardware refresh then an i7/i5 system may be fine. If you want the 6 core i7, you will want to get a board that has a LGA 1366 socket. You should be able to judge RAM by what the users are currently doing, then add an appropriate amount for growth. I would also use a fast SSD drive for the OS. And any CAD guy wall want a nice new pair of 24 or larger displays looking back at them. ;) And they do all have one of these http://www.3dconnexion.com/products/what-is-a-3d-mouse.html right? Right? -- Mike Gill From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 8:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: CAD Workstation Spec I need to upgrade a few PC's running AutoDesk Inventor to Workstations, question is how much horsepower is economically / practically needed? How do I compare i5, i7 or Xenon processors in CAD situations? RAM is pretty simple, Windows 7 64 bit probably 8 Gb should be ok. A video card with 1 Gb of DDR3 ram should be ok I Think. Any recommendations? -- SJ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: CAD Workstation Spec
Fast hard drives only help. A pair of Velociraptors or better yet, SAS drives would be great. The SSD is just more modern tech. Bet hey, why not stipe a pair of those right? But even that would be lame. This is where you need to be: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs -- Mike Gill From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 11:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec Nice timing on the thread, I just today was asked to spec our a CAD system. Surprised I haven't seen RAID 0 as part of the equation mentioned.. Dave From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 11:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec That 3D mouse looks pretty cool - and for the $ it's not bad at all. I used to do a ton of CAD work in previous positions, and I would have given my left pinky for something like that. Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA BLOCKED::mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com jra...@eaglemds.com BLOCKED::http://www.eaglemds.com/ www.eaglemds.com _ From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec You need to look at some of the more complex models your users are working with and see where the bottle necks are. Read through the link Joseph sent to get better acquainted with what you need to look for in terms of specific brands and models of the different graphics cards. Depending on budget, my preference would be Xeon. You can get a dual socket motherboard and have a flexible base for starting with one CPU and adding a second in the near future. If CPU power isn't likely to be an issue before the next hardware refresh then an i7/i5 system may be fine. If you want the 6 core i7, you will want to get a board that has a LGA 1366 socket. You should be able to judge RAM by what the users are currently doing, then add an appropriate amount for growth. I would also use a fast SSD drive for the OS. And any CAD guy wall want a nice new pair of 24 or larger displays looking back at them. ;) And they do all have one of these http://www.3dconnexion.com/products/what-is-a-3d-mouse.html right? Right? -- Mike Gill From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 8:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: CAD Workstation Spec I need to upgrade a few PC's running AutoDesk Inventor to Workstations, question is how much horsepower is economically / practically needed? How do I compare i5, i7 or Xenon processors in CAD situations? RAM is pretty simple, Windows 7 64 bit probably 8 Gb should be ok. A video card with 1 Gb of DDR3 ram should be ok I Think. Any recommendations? -- SJ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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 _ Any medical information contained in this electronic message is CONFIDENTIAL and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to view, copy, disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This electronic message may contain information that is confidential and/or legally privileged. It is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and/or entity named as recipients in the message. If you are not an intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete this material from your computer. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this message, and do not disclose its contents or take any action in reliance on the information that it contains. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE
RE: CAD Workstation Spec
Not to be outdone: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Patriot-SSD-Intel-Xeon-LSI,9791.html -- Mike Gill From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 5:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec Fast hard drives only help. A pair of Velociraptors or better yet, SAS drives would be great. The SSD is just more modern tech. Bet hey, why not stipe a pair of those right? But even that would be lame. This is where you need to be: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs -- Mike Gill From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 11:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec Nice timing on the thread, I just today was asked to spec our a CAD system. Surprised I haven't seen RAID 0 as part of the equation mentioned.. Dave From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 11:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec That 3D mouse looks pretty cool - and for the $ it's not bad at all. I used to do a ton of CAD work in previous positions, and I would have given my left pinky for something like that. Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA BLOCKED::mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com jra...@eaglemds.com BLOCKED::http://www.eaglemds.com/ www.eaglemds.com _ From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CAD Workstation Spec You need to look at some of the more complex models your users are working with and see where the bottle necks are. Read through the link Joseph sent to get better acquainted with what you need to look for in terms of specific brands and models of the different graphics cards. Depending on budget, my preference would be Xeon. You can get a dual socket motherboard and have a flexible base for starting with one CPU and adding a second in the near future. If CPU power isn't likely to be an issue before the next hardware refresh then an i7/i5 system may be fine. If you want the 6 core i7, you will want to get a board that has a LGA 1366 socket. You should be able to judge RAM by what the users are currently doing, then add an appropriate amount for growth. I would also use a fast SSD drive for the OS. And any CAD guy wall want a nice new pair of 24 or larger displays looking back at them. ;) And they do all have one of these http://www.3dconnexion.com/products/what-is-a-3d-mouse.html right? Right? -- Mike Gill From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 8:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: CAD Workstation Spec I need to upgrade a few PC's running AutoDesk Inventor to Workstations, question is how much horsepower is economically / practically needed? How do I compare i5, i7 or Xenon processors in CAD situations? RAM is pretty simple, Windows 7 64 bit probably 8 Gb should be ok. A video card with 1 Gb of DDR3 ram should be ok I Think. Any recommendations? -- SJ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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 _ Any medical information contained in this electronic message is CONFIDENTIAL and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to view, copy, disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This electronic message may contain information that is confidential and/or legally privileged. It is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and/or entity named as recipients in the message. If you are not an intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete this material from your computer. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this message, and do not disclose its contents or take any action in reliance on the information that it contains. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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
RE: IPAD vs Android tablets
Really take a close look and spend some time with the Android devices. As someone else mentioned, they may not have the official Android Market Place available on that device. I purchase a smaller screen Cruz Micro reader from Borders (Android 2.2) and it was a complete joke. Not even Beta quality. The Cruz market only had hundreds of apps, and many that I downloaded didn't work or told me they worked best using the roller ball of the phone. Search of the market was non-functional, alarms could not be unset once set, the resistive touch screen worked 2/3rd the time. I could go on. At least they took it back. This is a good read: http://liliputing.com/2010/09/google-android-isnt-designed-for-tablets-yet.h tml So there are a couple tablets out there that may have potential, but my guess is most will leave people shaking their heads. -- Mike Gill From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 8:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: IPAD vs Android tablets We are being asked to look for a tablet that is close to an IPAD. 10 inch screen, 6 to 8 hours of battery, 3G/Wifi, decent speed, 2.2 OS, mainly being used for remote desktop to servers for Dr's in hospitals and clinics. The keyboard on the IPAD is really good, and the Bluetooth add on KB works pretty decent. The Doctors like the IPAD, but the practice does not want to spend 800 a device.Swappable battery would be HUGE! Anyone have comparisons or used alternatives that might meet this application. The Verizon tablet may be a good fit, but the smaller screen is not high up there with the DOCS. Thx Greg Sweers CEO http://www.acts360.com/ ACTS360.com P.O. Box 1193 Brandon, FL 33509 813-657-0849 Office 813-758-6850 Cell 813-341-1270 Fax ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Stupid User Tricks
It's on the Mac too. -- Mike Gill From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 7:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Stupid User Tricks Isn't Facetime an iPhone app? On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Steve Ens stevey...@gmail.com wrote: That is a problem. i make a point to meet and greet all new staff. It is a good time to layout IT policies and let them know your expectations. Also FaceTime is always important on a strictly social basis as it gives you an opportunity to determine whether the staff member might come in handy at some point for exactly these reasons. On Thursday, December 2, 2010, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Nope. :-) Most of the sales reps / agents probably have very little idea who I am. :-) From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 5:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Stupid User Tricks BUT, if I say John is my listserv buddy, he/she might? On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 3:57 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: www.blueridgecarpet.com http://www.blueridgecarpet.com/ :-) And I have nothing to do with the pricing... that's between you and the sales rep. :-) From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 4:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Stupid User Tricks have you got a link to your website John? BTW, there are discounts available am I right? On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:38 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Great! :-) We'd love to have your business... If you'll email me *off-list* with your contact info, I'll put you in touch with our sales rep for your area. :-) From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 3:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Stupid User Tricks Actually I am reno'ing my basement (actually new house, so not actually renovating). I need good carpet. That stuff looks good! On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:21 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Well, probably. I've got a gentleman's agreement with some folks out of Atlanta to use them for our SAN solution. Unfortunately, it's most likely going to be *at least* middle of 2011 before we can do it. Have to wait for the economy to pick up and orders to come back to normal. As for the carpet in my sig... well, you like that, just check out what's on our website. ;-) I try to remember to send plain-text emails to the list, but I don't always remember. :-) From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 3:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Stupid User Tricks Blows my mind sometime...i like that new carpet on your sig by the way. hey John, have you found your SAN yet? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http
RE: Server cloning
I don't know if this will run on a server OS or not, but when I need to install a new or larger hard drive into a machine I use Acronis Migrate Easy. It's free to use for 15 days which is plenty of time for a clone. It installs in Windows then does the work pre-boot after restarting. It's very fast. Clonezilla works well too and is ISO based. Not the most intuitive piece of software if you haven't used it before, but the prompts are too bad. -- Mike Gill From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 5:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Server cloning I need to do a one-time clone to new hardware. The current server is 2008 member server and the new server will be the same. The server houses SQL and Great Plains, something that would be easier to clone than copy over. Looking around, I see quite a few options: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_disk_cloning_software I don't mind paying for it as long as it works well, is pretty fast, and I don't have to spend lots of time getting it to work. Anyone have any favorites? Never having cloned servers before, suggestions appreciated. Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: vipre: SVCHOST.EXE virus.
How does 1) someone sign up to Facebook without an email account and 2) expect to be taken seriously AT ALL telling someone FB is the only way they communicate with people? -- Mike Gill From: Ralph Smith [mailto:m...@gatewayindustries.org] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 1:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: vipre: SVCHOST.EXE virus. Wouldn't bother me, but the last time I did it the HR department complained because they use Facebook for recruiting, and a lot of our vocational counselors complained. We are a non-profit that provides various services for people with physical and mental disabilities, or have difficulty gaining employment and or housing due to other disadvantages. Many clients don't have email but do all of their electronic communication through sites like Facebook (which seems to be the trend now especially among our younger clients). So Facebook is the means by which a lot of our staff keep in contact with their clients. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Hide PSSHUTDOWN output
I've used this before: http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/cpau/index.htm Command line tool for starting process in alternate security context. Basically this is a runas replacement. Also allows you to create job files and encode the id, password, and command line in a file so it can be used by normal users. -- Mike Gill From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 8:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hide PSSHUTDOWN output Anyone know how to hide PSSHUTDOWN output? I have a .CMD file that calls it and sends username and password that I don't want the person who invokes it to see. I have tried the NUL at the end but that doesn't work, and I combed the switches for the tool and came up empty. 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/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Freeware PDF creator?
The feature was included in Office 2007 SP2. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Dennis Hoefer [mailto:dhoe...@ufcoop.com] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 9:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Freeware PDF creator? Office 2007 was the first with native support for PDF, available in Word, Excel, PP and Publisher, not sure about others. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 10:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Freeware PDF creator? What's the earliest version of Word that does this? Also, what about Excel spreadsheets? :-) Not meaning to be a contrarian or anything, but sometimes you need files other than Word documents as a PDF. :-) -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 11:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Freeware PDF creator? Dude that's way too easy, what you mean to say is get a Mac. -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 7:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Freeware PDF creator? Save As...PDF... -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 10:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Freeware PDF creator? Yep. -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 10:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Freeware PDF creator? Do you have MS Word installed? -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 9:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Freeware PDF creator? Is there a freeware app that can create PDFs, similar to the way one does with Adobe Acrobat, but with fewer bugs? :-) I like SumatraPDF that someone suggested on this list awhile back, and I got to wondering if there were something similar for creating PDF documents. Of course, I know OpenOffice can do it, but I'd rather not install a complete office suite just to create a PDF. :-) Thanks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Freeware PDF creator?
Then don't get that version: http://www.adobe.com/go/full_flashplayer_win_msi http://www.adobe.com/go/full_flashplayer_win_pl_msi -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Charlie Kaiser [mailto:charl...@golden-eagle.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 9:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Freeware PDF creator? Unlike the latest flash upgrade that installs Mcafee without asking... Grrr *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 9:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Freeware PDF creator? On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:59 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Is there a freeware app that can create PDFs, similar to the way one does with Adobe Acrobat, but with fewer bugs? :-) PDFCreator is the one we've been using. Works great for us. Lots of customization options if you want them, but the defaults are good, too. I guess some releases offer to install a browser toolbar, but you can exclude that. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Juniper compatible VPN client
Didn't follow the previous discussion, but won't the Shrewsoft client work? http://www.shrew.net/support/wiki/HowtoJuniperSsg -- Mike Gill From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 6:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Juniper compatible VPN client OK, given the recent thread on the Cisco VPN client and the ShrewSoft version available, Does anyone have a Juniper Netscreen Remote compatible VPN client recommendation ? I have a client with the NetScreen 5GT VPN Firewall and the NetScreen Remote client they use is not friendly with Windows 7, and of course they have no support contract. Thanks Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Personal USB drives
I think you're going to have a hard time with the power and size requirement. The only drives I'm aware of that can be powered via USB are 2.5 drives which are only offered up to 750GB in size. There are 1TB drives, but they are 12.5mm thick and most laptops and enclosures won't accept that. I would also recommend getting the drive and chassis separately. The Western Digital My Book 2.5 drives for example are proprietary. If you remove the drive from the chassis, the SATA controller has been replaced by a USB controller directly on the PCB. So you won't be able to use the drive for anything else, or buy a bare drive for that chassis in the future should you want to. Many also include impossible-to-get-rid-ofT virtual CD bundle-ware that you have to put up with each time you insert it. It's burned into the firmware of the drive, not on a partition so you can't get rid of it. Buying the drive and the chassis separate gets you a clean setup. This chassis supports USB eSATA: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817392016 So you get great speed when eSATA is available and can use the USB just for powering it. For hard drives I would get Western Digital Blue to be a little easier on your battery, or Black for performance. -- Mike Gill From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 9:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Personal USB drives Sorry for the cross post but it has been a long time since I was in the market to get a personal USB drive. Anyone want to offer up a recommendation, please? Size would be either 1 or 1.5 TB preferred without needing an extra power cable to run it but I would find it acceptable for it to use two USB cables. Small enough to fit in a briefcase or pocket would be best. I have several older systems here at home that need to be wiped and rebuilt and would like to back them up without needing to push all the files through a wireless network. Thanks a lot for the recommendations, Jon ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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 Volume License Reseller
My current reseller isn't working out. I deal mainly with small shops under 50 as well as several churches so they need to be familiar with discounted non-profit licensing. Tech Soup is out as they don't service religious institutions. I would like someone who deals with more than just MS, like Adobe and Autodesk as well. That's not a requirement I just like to deal with one person if I can. Any recommendations based on excellent service? -- Mike Gill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: PC Memory
You plug them into a system where SIW/Everest/$whatever tells you information on the memory that you can then research on Google? You’re going to have to do some work for not keeping track of stuff. Or, give it to an intern to do. J -- Mike Gill From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 6:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PC Memory And this helps me identify memory in my parts drawer how ? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Daniel Rodriguez [mailto:drod...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 9:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PC Memory What about SIW? I just ran it and it shows the type of memory and where it is located on the motherboard. On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote: Yep, but doesn't help with my parts drawer memory collection to know what systems I can or cannot install them in. Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: User last login info
You mean like: Usrstat.exe:Displays user name, full name, and last logon date and time for each user account across all domain controllers. It's in the NT4 resource kit. Works fine on Server '03 for me. I think this is it: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=3E972E9A-E08A-49 A2-9D3A-C0519479E85A -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 11:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: User last login info I have a Server 2003 DC, and a Server 2008 DC (not R2) I've found some Powershell stuff that uses the AD module, but all I can find references R2. Is there a way to get that module for 2008, not R2? Or is there another way of getting the info I'm looking for easily? What I'm trying to find is the last login time for a user, to find out if the account is needed anymore. Doing it one-by-one would be fine, as that's how I'm doing the first step of this process. I am a Powershell noob, but very willing, and desiring to learn more. Thanks. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Adobe acrobat reader updates
Just to be extra helpful the tool he's referring to is here: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3993 Among to tweaks you can do to Reader, one of them is to remove previous versions if they are found automatically. This will extract the MSI needed for an administrative install to the folder Reader9.4 w/o running setup.exe: AdbeRdr940_en_US.exe -nos_oReader9.4 -nos_ne Now you can create an administrative install point for deployment and customize (create the MST) using the tool above. -- Mike Gill From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 5:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Adobe acrobat reader updates You should find you can deploy the MSI via Group Policy and it'll take care of everything for you. Take a look at the Adobe Customization Tool as well as you can disable things like checking for updates. From: Brumbaugh, Luke [mailto:luke.brumba...@butlerschein.com] Sent: 28 October 2010 13:01 To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: Miller, Bob Subject: Adobe acrobat reader updates I have been tasks by the head company to update adobe reader etc. I am reading remove all old versions, then install new. Updates are by default downloaded. And that this is one big headache, Any tips, tricks, words of wisdom? I do not have sms, just wsus (windows updates). Luke L. Brumbaugh Network Engineer Butler Animal Health Supply Ph:(614) 659-1736 ** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE - The information transmitted in this message is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this document. Thank you. Butler Schein Animal Health ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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 manage subscriptions 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: Adobe acrobat reader updates
Oh, and know that PDF viewing in browsers is broken if you install or deploy Reader or Acrobat by MSI. You can disable this feature in the customization tool, or apply the following registry tweaks to the transform file you create. Windows 64bit will require a separate MST due to the path for Program Files being different: Reader x86: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\acrobat\DefaultIcon] @=C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Reader 9.0\\Reader\\AcroRd32.exe\ [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\acrobat\shell\open\command] @=\c:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Reader 9.0\\Reader\\AcroRd32.exe\ /u \%1\ [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat\Exe] @=\C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Reader 9.0\\Reader\\AcroRd32.exe\ Reader x64: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\acrobat\DefaultIcon] @=C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Adobe\\Reader 9.0\\Reader\\AcroRd32.exe\ [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\acrobat\shell\open\command] @=\c:\\Program Files (x86)\\Adobe\\Reader 9.0\\Reader\\AcroRd32.exe\ /u \%1\ [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat\Exe] @=\C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Adobe\\Reader 9.0\\Reader\\AcroRd32.exe\ Acrobat x86: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\acrobat\DefaultIcon] @=C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Acrobat 9.0\\Acrobat\\Acrobat.exe\ [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\acrobat\shell\open\command] @=\c:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Acrobat 9.0\\Acrobat\\Acrobat.exe\ /u \%1\ [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat\Exe] @=\C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Acrobat 9.0\\Acrobat\\Acrobat.exe\ Acrobat x64: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\acrobat\DefaultIcon] @=C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Adobe\\Acrobat 9.0\\Acrobat\\Acrobat.exe\ [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\acrobat\shell\open\command] @=\c:\\Program Files (x86)\\Adobe\\Acrobat 9.0\\Acrobat\\Acrobat.exe\ /u \%1\ [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat\Exe] @=\C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Adobe\\Acrobat 9.0\\Acrobat\\Acrobat.exe\ If you want my MST ping me offlist. I just removed what most people here would complain about and applied the above registry tweaks. You can open it in the customization tool and make adjustments still. -- Mike Gill From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 12:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Adobe acrobat reader updates Just to be extra helpful the tool he's referring to is here: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3993 Among to tweaks you can do to Reader, one of them is to remove previous versions if they are found automatically. This will extract the MSI needed for an administrative install to the folder Reader9.4 w/o running setup.exe: AdbeRdr940_en_US.exe -nos_oReader9.4 -nos_ne Now you can create an administrative install point for deployment and customize (create the MST) using the tool above. -- Mike Gill From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 5:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Adobe acrobat reader updates You should find you can deploy the MSI via Group Policy and it'll take care of everything for you. Take a look at the Adobe Customization Tool as well as you can disable things like checking for updates. From: Brumbaugh, Luke [mailto:luke.brumba...@butlerschein.com] Sent: 28 October 2010 13:01 To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: Miller, Bob Subject: Adobe acrobat reader updates I have been tasks by the head company to update adobe reader etc. I am reading remove all old versions, then install new. Updates are by default downloaded. And that this is one big headache, Any tips, tricks, words of wisdom? I do not have sms, just wsus (windows updates). Luke L. Brumbaugh Network Engineer Butler Animal Health Supply Ph:(614) 659-1736 ** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE - The information transmitted in this message is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this document. Thank you. Butler Schein Animal Health ** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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
RE: Win 7 file replication
I would say Dropbox. I suppose you could change the location of My Doc's on machine A and point it to the location of My Doc's on machine B. Then make the folder available offline on machine A. That's pretty much how folder redirection in group policy works. -- Mike Gill From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 12:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Win 7 file replication He has a large number of files under my \my documents folder and wants to synchronize them to his secondary PC. Tom Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org 10/28/2010 2:57 PM He just wants to sync two folders between two computers? Funny, I think robocopy and synctoy will be your 1st and 2nd choice. Other ideas: DFS-R (on 2 servers) something like Dropbox What is he trying to accomplish? --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:54:03 -0700 Subject: Win 7 file replication Folks, A colleague here asked if there was some built-in way to replicate files from one of his Win 7 PCs to his other PC (laptop to desktop for example). Aside from robocopy or synctoy, is there a built-in program for this in Win 7? 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/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Office Printers
+1. Our Xerox 7665 is two years into our lease and I wouldn't change a thing. Our office users love this machine. No special software required on the clients for scanning and the AD integration brings in the email addresses automatically. All sorts of accounting and quota options available, permissions for color, etc. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Graeme Carstairs [mailto:loonyto...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 1:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Office Printers We've had no probes with xerox drivers. Scan to e-mail just works Scan to folder also Scan to sharepoint is awesome ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: Airlink Wireless N USB dongle
If you have a laptop that is so modern as to not have PCMCIA slots then 1) why doesn't it have wireless already, and 2) get the newer Express Card adapter that most modern laptops do have. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Airlink Wireless N USB dongle Well, I'm thinking USB for notebook computers. Kinda hard to put a PCI card in a notebook. :D I suppose you could find a PCMCIA card, but those slots seem to be disappearing in favor of USB or other connection options. -Original Message- From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 1:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Airlink Wireless N USB dongle IMO...avoid ANYTHING USB for 802.11, but that's just my opinion. If you can, get a real PCI card for the laptop, and skip the cheap stuff. I recommend Intel 5300/6200 (leveraging the Intel PROSet supplicant) or Atheros chipsets. YMMV. Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com www.eaglemds.com -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 1:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Airlink Wireless N USB dongle Anyone have any experience with the above? I just saw an ad for one of these things for $16 and thought if they are any good, I might get a couple of them for a traveling user or two. Here's a link to where it's available: http://shop.retrevo.com/m/dailydeal?prodid=rd-s13;RVO-20101005-1 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin Any medical information contained in this electronic message is CONFIDENTIAL and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to view, copy, disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This electronic message may contain information that is confidential and/or legally privileged. It is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and/or entity named as recipients in the message. If you are not an intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete this material from your computer. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this message, and do not disclose its contents or take any action in reliance on the information that it contains. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless
I was of the understanding that you have to use 802.1x machine based authentication for application deployment (and some other group policy settings) with wireless connected computers, due to the network not being available until after logon. Oddly, this option is not available if I use the Win7 RSAT to connect to my Win2K3 DC. -- Mike Gill From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 11:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless I'm 99.9% sure this is a wireless issue, but will get that additional .01% assurance shortly. I have a technician plugging one of the lab machines in to see if the problem goes away. I'd bet money it does. From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 2:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless All things considered, you appear to have a group policy problem unrelated to the wireless, something easily proven by taking a problem machine and connecting it wired. The info you've posted about the event ID's was insufficient for me to research them further. Googling the event ID description text may also be useful. Good luck. Carl From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 1:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless Yeah, I've done the force. Half a dozen times. Been to that website, too, but have come up empty in terms of resolving this specific issue. I'm just stumped. Oddly, the deployment worked fine on one of the machines in the lab-and they're all ostensibly the same. I say ostensibly because clearly there's something different between the one that worked and the ones that didn't, but I have no clue what. From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 1:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless gpupdate /force Also eventid.net is your friend. Carl From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 12:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless Gpresult /v shows something odd. Below is an edited version of the results. The TCHS SMART Sync 2010 Student Computer Assignment Policy is the policy that pushes down the app. But it only does so to machines that are members of a group called TCHS SMART Sync 2010 Student Computers. Now, the computer in question (TCHS-115-S02) *is* a member of that group, as confirmed by looking in ADUC. Yet gpresult says it's not. So if the machine doesn't know it's a member of the group, why is it trying to apply the software assignment policy at all? I don't get that. And the assignment is failing with event IDs 101, 102, and 108. Applied Group Policy Objects - TCHS SMART Sync 2010 Student Computer Assignment Policy The following GPOs were not applied because they were filtered out --- The computer is a part of the following security groups --- BUILTIN\Administrators Everyone BUILTIN\Users NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users This Organization TCHS-115-S02$ FCS Computers TCHS Admin Policy Computers Domain Computers System Mandatory Level From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 11:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless What are you using for a wireless supplicant (program that configures the SSID etc.)? Windows WZC or something specific to the wireless? Whichever one you are using, turn it off and try the other. Also download and install the latest wireless NIC drivers. All else being OK, generally the trick is to use WZC, but as some have indicated, sometimes the vendor utility, assuming it runs as a service, might be OK. I would also disable any wired adapter that may be present. Also make sure your group policies are in effect using gpresult /v - especially the one about always waiting for network. Carl From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 10:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless Short version: Is there a trick to improving group policy processing when accessing the network wirelessly? Long version: We have a lab with machines that have Broadcom wireless NICs in them. Vista OS, connecting to Server 2008 R2 DC. I'm trying to deploy a piece of software to these machines via Group Policy. I
RE: Adobe Reader
I just deploy the MSI over the previous version after removing the old from the deploy policy. Haven't had any trouble with doing it that way. The MST for 9.3.4 worked fine on it for me BTW. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 11:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Adobe Reader Nevermind. Found the .MSP file. It was in the MISC folder on the FTP site. -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 10:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Adobe Reader So, MSPs avail for Standard and Pro but only a full installer MSI for Reader? Is this what others are finding too? Sam -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 2:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Adobe Reader Cool, let me know if you successfully disable/remove the services and update with the Adobe Customization Wizard and whatever else you use. The last deployment I did on 9.3.4 I think left them in, I was going to wait until the next package to trouble shoot this... Thanks! jlc -Original Message- From: Terry Dickson [mailto:te...@treasurer.state.ks.us] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 12:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Adobe Reader For those of you that care, Adobe Reader 9.4 is now available for download. I have not checked on the new version of Flash yet. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Wifi discovery tool for Broadcom wifi nics
This is very basic, but you didn't list any requirements: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wireless_network_view.html For more features I like WirelessMon. http://www.passmark.com/products/wirelessmonitor.htm -- Mike Gill From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 8:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Wifi discovery tool for Broadcom wifi nics Can anyone recommend a wifi discovery tool similar to my favourite NetStumbler but that works with Broadcom wireless network cards? All our laptops here have broadcoms and netstumbler refuses to work with them. Olly Network Support Online Backups Server Management Tel: 0845 307 3443 Email: oliver.marsh...@g2support.com Web: http://www.g2support.com/ http://www.g2support.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/home?stat...@g2support g2support Newsletter: http://www.g2support.com/newsletter http://www.g2support.com/newsletter Mail: 2 Roundhill Road, Brighton, Sussex, BN2 3RF Have you said something nice about us to a friend or colleague ? Let us say thanks. Find out more at www.g2support.com/referral G2 Support LLP is registered at Mill House, 103 Holmes Avenue, HOVE BN3 7LE. Our registered company number is OC316341. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadminimage001.jpgimage003.png
RE: Opinions on Netbooks...
Search Newegg for netbooks with the N550 processor. It's dual core with HT and review sites like it a lot over the N450 (playing with one of these now w/ Win7). When you say you won't be needing much power that's good because there isn't much to have. But the N550 is about as good as it gets for Netbooks and the Asus models on Newegg are under $400 still. You will want to flatten the Win7 Starter on it though I imagine. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 3:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Opinions on Netbooks... Hey list, I'm curious if any of you have experience with a variety of netbooks. I'm considering the purchase of one as my mobile troubleshooting workstation, such as IP-Camera configuration, Network Device configuration (over local serial port), etc. Here's my questions: I don't think I'll be needing much CPU power, but I'm curious if anybody noticed a speciffic level of processor that is too slow or start to feel functional. For example, will an old N230 work without unbearable sluggishness? What about the AMD Neo's? I plan on running Windows 7. Second, I'm weary of the 1024x600 screens that come on most netbooks. the 10 screen physical size isn't a problem, but do you often run out of screen real-estate with such a resolution? Maybe this one is in my head. If so, let me know. I know that you can pay extra for a 1366x768 screen, but those usually get the netbook near the $500 mark... which is what a cheap Notebook costs. Last, I dislike the Acer's flat keyboard. Any other brands have this style of keys? I want a little definition between the keys for myself, and would not want to end up with this. Thanks for the opinions. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Bink.nu | Free Microsoft Security Essentials Coming for Small Businesses - Bink.nu
On your past statement of; it's not adequate for reckless behavior. Nothing is. If you go looking for trouble, you're going to find it. The arguments here are strange. Some say, you shouldn't use it because MS makes both the OS and the AV. But couldn't that also make them the ideal org to make the AV software? Some say it doesn't compare to top tier AV products. Like what? Norton? McaFee? Seem like every malware infested home computer I get has a top tier commercial product protecting it. AV is voodoo. It's a dark art. No AV out there is 100%. But as the free ones go, for personal or SoHo, MSSE is as good as any. I don't have to deal with a bunch of people calling once a year to update their AVG that only mentions the commercial product when a new version comes out, or the full screen once a day banner ads Avira tosses at you. If none of that matters to you, use Comodo. It's free for personal or commercial use per it's license. -- Mike Gill From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 11:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Bink.nu | Free Microsoft Security Essentials Coming for Small Businesses - Bink.nu I don't follow what you mean here. My gripe is home-users using MSE with a sense of assurance of adequate protection. For the record, I don't hate Microsoft. But I have a couple of axes to grind against a couple of their product groups - just as I do with other companies. -- ME2 On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure how it does that unless you just hate Microsoft and all that it stands for. On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: Which goes back to my opinion of it for the residential/consumer. Its not adequate protection for the generally reckless and uninformed behavior of the general public. -- ME2 On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: MSE is not currently for Business PCs. Using it on them violates the license. While they have announced a version for small businesses, it is not yet licensed for that purpose so it's good that you are a responsibile engineer and not viloating the ToS and potentially exposing your company to a liability it shouldn't have. As for work, that's why Microsoft provides WSUS so you can remain responsible in testing your environment. Steven On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming angu...@geoapps.com wrote: On 23 Sep 2010 at 15:33, Micheal Espinola Jr wrote: Not trying to be terribly anal here, but there are a few things I don't trust to free products, and this is at the top of the list. MSE doesn't chart well comparatively imho, and from what I see in the San Diego area, it doesn't perform well IRL[1]. One other thing -- for MSE to work and update, Automatic Updates have to be completely enabled. I don't do this for work PCs as I don't want an entire company to go down when MS pushes out a bad update. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: iTunes
I can’t tell from the formatting if these are your words or not, but spend some time on just about anyone’s machine that uses Limewire as their primary means to obtain music and you will see malicious audio files. -- Mike Gill From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 8:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iTunes Music obtained from peer to peer networks is often infected. No music format that I am aware of has the capability of carrying executable code. All files – music or otherwise – are streams of 1’s and 0’s. I’s solely up to the application playing the files that determine what the bits mean. If there’s a security vulnerability in iTunes, then an MP3 file would be a likely vehicle for delivering it. A file doesn’t need to be overtly “code” to exploit a vulnerability. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: iTunes
There is nothing in this reply that doesn't apply to any other type of file or program. -- Mike Gill From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 5:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: iTunes I disagree, even though music files can be copied and shared without any 'software capable of playing them' there is also no reason to enable this behavior by providing (additional) tools to make the task easier, especially when there is no business case to support the tool. I have been in the situation in the past where even though there was an HR policy against personal files being stored on the network shares ( we did not back up workstations ) the backups were slowed by gigabyte after gigabyte after gigabyte of personal audio and video files that some end users collected. At best, it was less than 10% of the user population that added over 60 minutes to the backup/restore window, and cluttered the online shares intended for business use. Legal responsibility for copyright issues aside, I liken this to running a restaurant or grocery store, where the employees fill up the refridgerator space with their personal items, displacing space intended for official use, taking advantage of the operational expense ( power, maintenance, etc ) all the while making it harder to locate items intended for business ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions 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: iTunes
In spite of there being an MSI file inside the installer, I have never been able to get it to deploy. Appdeploy.com has a bunch of resources I believe with people getting it to work but it was no small task. Maybe there are some 3rd party deployment tools that work well. Aside from that, iTunes media is generally high bitrate. Meaning audio and video will take up a lot of space. Depending on if you backup or store your users My Docs folder on a server the space requirements may shoot up. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Dennis Melahn [mailto:den...@advancedav.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 3:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: iTunes I have a manager pushing to have iTunes allowed in the workplace. We have a few audio techs who require downloading hard to find music tracks occationally but other than that we have not allowed iTunes in the enterprise (proliferation of illegally obtained music, using valuable corp bandwidth, etc). I'm still against it. Anyone have any pros/cons? Thanks, Dennis ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Mac and Windows mix
A. Men. Brutha. I don't understand the fear here.*nix has been able to do this as far as I can remember. I guess MS just chose a different way to do things, but I'm with Ben. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 1:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mac and Windows mix On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Or, without editing the plist you can walk up to any Macs with password protected screensaver on, enter the admin pswd boom there's the user's desktop at your disposal. I wish Windows had that option. Windows 7 has the best of both worlds, IMO. The reason I want that is that in some offices people lock the session with something important open and then forget and leave, then someone else who is trusted wants to unlock it but cannot (without blowing away their logon session). This is often *the* reason why small offices don't want auto-screen-locking (or have to resort to writing down passwords). Even non-repudiation is not an excuse; I would fully expect this to show up in the logs, just just any number of other potentially compromising events show up now. I'm not saying it should be enabled by default, but the option would be useful in many small office environments. You or Ken don't have to use it. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Mac and Windows mix
You admin Windows clients with Windows servers, and Mac clients with Apple servers. Apple Remote Desktop is what you want, and is a very different product than MS RDP/Terminal services. Cheap server: http://www.apple.com/macmini/server/ Apple Remote Desktop: http://www.apple.com/remotedesktop/ Or go with one of the commercial products that work from Windows. Apple's licensing cost structure may make their own solution much cheaper though. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 10:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix I have come up with a list: Here's my concerns about bringing Mac into our Windows workplace: * Group Policy (specifically our Computer Use Policy banner, and we have browser favorites pushed as well) * Browser support (means IE is no longer the our only officially supported browser for internal w/ SharePoint, etc) * Login scripts * SMS reporting on hardware and software * Patching (Shockwave, Flash, etc). Can centrally manage these for Macs? Yes. Using only our current tools? Nope. I don't have a heartache with a mix of Mac and Windows, I have a heartache of people in my company thinking it adds no discernable management overhead or cost. Dave -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 9:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix Macs are not the burden you make them sound to be. Integrating a Mac into a windows network is never going to be painless; the two systems are inherently different. If what you want is a Windows experience from your Mac, install Windows. Now not everybody likes MacOS X, but the same can be said for Windows. Insert the problem of subjective preference here. Personally, I love working on my iMac, and managing the other Macs in our district is very easy if you use the provided Apple tools: Mac OS X server, Open Directory, and Apple Remote Desktop. Then again, I hate how a Mac _can_ cost 2x as much as a comparable PC. I do like that software upgrades are cheaper for Mac, but I don't like how apple drops support for anything that is not the current generation or the previous one. If you're 2 generations back, you're out of luck. What can a Mac do that a PC Can't? Nothing. But I would argue that competition is one of the pillars of innovation. Without Mac OS X competing against Windows, what would Windows look like today? --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: James Hill [mailto:james.h...@superamart.com.au] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:28:49 -0700 Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix We have pretty much eliminated all of the Mac's here. We didn't have 3rd party products to manage them so they always required so much manual interaction. Any global change we made we could easily automate with PC's thanks to group policy etc but it was always a manual change for the Mac's. They really aren't a corporate product imo. You only have to look to Apple for a corporate grade management solution to realise that it doesn't exist. They do indeed need patching (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222) and there is AV products for them. Symantec has one for example. Personally I think the day is coming when someone will write a decent bit of malware/virus for them and 99% plus will get caught out by it. There is a very misguided opinion amongst the Apple community that they are safe. Apple's false advertising only strengthens this. The facts are that Mac's are more vulnerable than the PC world http://www.crn.com/security/226200083 More importantly, what is the need for the Mac's in the first place? For us they were only sued for Adobe CS, which runs just fine on PC's. In fact these days Adobe is more behind the PC world than the Mac. For example, 64bit Photoshop was first on PC, had to wait for CS5 for Mac to get it. That's without going into the Flash debate :) From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Saturday, 4 September 2010 6:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Mac and Windows mix I would like to hear from those of you who have a mixed Windows/Mac environments: How do you handle management of the diverse environment? Presumably with Mac's there is no patching or AV. Can you use GPO's on them in any fashion (wondering if there's some add-in to allow equivalency). 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/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana
RE: Vipre Enterprise and Outlook 2000
FYI, Office 2000 is end of life as of a year ago. -- Mike Gill From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 8:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Vipre Enterprise and Outlook 2000 I have ONE user who's having problems with his Outlook 2000 today. He's not the only one with Outlook 2000, but he is the only one reporting problems. Basically Outlook is shutting down for some reason whenever Vipre is checking email. I resolved the problem for him by telling Vipre not to check his email, but I don't really like that. Theoretically I don't need to check email as our email is filtered/scanned before we get it, and then we have Vipre running in the background, but I like to be protected as much as possible. J Anyone here have any idea what might be causing this and how to fix it? Not a big deal, as I said, or I'd call support again, but I'd like to know what's causing it. Thanks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: New Attacks on Adobe Shockwave APSB10-020 has been released.
Or just agree to this: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/fp_distribution3.html Then download this: http://www.adobe.com/go/sw_msi_installer without any of the add-ons. Or better yet, don't install it at all. Do you need it? I stopped installing Shockwave over a year ago and have not had a need to go and get it since. What uses it any more anyway? -- Mike Gill From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 8:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: New Attacks on Adobe Shockwave APSB10-020 has been released. Eh? I just went to www.adobe.com, clicked get Adobe shockwave player, installed it, and I have nothing from Symantec on the computer. I only had to uncheck a free Google toolbar checkbox. Exactly what Symantec product are we talking about? Carl From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 9:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: New Attacks on Adobe Shockwave APSB10-020 has been released. When one goes to update Shockwave, the installer also tries to install some Symantec product via Piggyback. Some may consider this also to be an exploit - $#* piggy-backers! -- richard Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote on 08/26/2010 07:54:27 AM: Repost from BugTraq, ( There is multiple vulnerabilities in adobe that are fixed with the APSB10-020 not just this one. Also it seems they have found a .DLL hijack in Adobe Illustrator CS4 and Firefox 3.6.8 from some reports accordingly too., ZDI-10-164: Adobe Shockwave Player Director File FF88 Record Processing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-164 August 24, 2010 -- CVE ID: CVE-2010-2876 -- CVSS: 9, (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C) -- Affected Vendors: Adobe -- Affected Products: Adobe Shockwave Player -- TippingPoint(TM) IPS Customer Protection: TippingPoint IPS customers have been protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID 10285. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS, visit: http://www.tippingpoint.com -- Vulnerability Details: This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of the Adobe Shockwave Player. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the code responsible for parsing . dir and .dcr files. The director file format is RIFF based. While parsing an undocumented record of type 0xFFF8 the process trusts two user supplied word values when performing arithmetic to calculate a heap buffer size. By specifying large enough values an integer wrap can occur. The allocated heap buffer can later be overflowed with user supplied data. This can be leveraged by attackers to execute remote code under the context of the user running the browser. -- Vendor Response: Adobe has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-20.html -- Disclosure Timeline: 2010-07-20 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2010-08-24 - Coordinated public release of advisory -- Credit: This vulnerability was discovered by: * Anonymous -- About the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI): Established by TippingPoint, The Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) represents a best-of-breed model for rewarding security researchers for responsibly disclosing discovered vulnerabilities. Researchers interested in getting paid for their security research through the ZDI can find more information and sign-up at: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com The ZDI is unique in how the acquired vulnerability information is used. TippingPoint does not re-sell the vulnerability details or any exploit code. Instead, upon notifying the affected product vendor, TippingPoint provides its customers with zero day protection through its intrusion prevention technology. Explicit details regarding the specifics of the vulnerability are not exposed to any parties until an official vendor patch is publicly available. Furthermore, with the altruistic aim of helping to secure a broader user base, TippingPoint provides this vulnerability information confidentially to security vendors (including competitors) who have a vulnerability protection or mitigation product. Our vulnerability disclosure policy is available online at: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/disclosure_policy/ Follow the ZDI on Twitter: http://twitter.com/thezdi Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business
RE: Windows 95.
I just had a lady call me to fix her Win98 box. Apparently her $5000 embroidery machine came with software that doesn't run on anything newer. Of course they make newer embroidery machines she could buy that has newer software for another $5K. -- Mike Gill From: Bob Hartung [mailto:bhart...@wiscoind.com] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 8:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 95. Not as dead as you might think. We have (2) Mitsubishi Lasers we purchased within the last 3 years and guess what they use on the controls for these $800,000 machines? Windows 95 :-( -- Bob Hartung Wisco Industries, Inc. 736 Janesville St. Oregon, WI 53575 Tel: (608) 835-3106 x215 Fax: (608) 835-7399 e-mail: bhartung(at)wiscoind.com _ From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:15:47 -0500 Subject: Re: Windows 95. It's dead, Jim -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Motorola Droid On Aug 25, 2010 4:55 PM, Terry Dickson te...@treasurer.state.ks.us wrote: Hey for all of you who missed this like me, Happy Belated Birthday to Windows 95. It turned 15 yesterday. ~ 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: Calendar for resources
EMS might be worth looking into. It allows for booking reservations, an approval process, room configurations (seating, table types, multimedia capabilities, etc) so the person making the booking can choose the room that makes the most sense. I can vouch for their support being an example to all others. http://www.dea.com/ It it's a single building you can easily get away with EMS Lite. We have multiple and still make it work. -- Mike Gill From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 9:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Calendar for resources We are moving to a new building soon, and will have dozens of meeting rooms - do any of you have that many or more meeting rooms, and is so, do you use Exchange for managing their availability, SharePoint, or something different? Alternately, does anyone have an it would be really cool if you did. ideas? 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: Volume Licensing
Is KMS tied to SA in a way that if your agreement is not renewed, your key's will no longer activate? -- Mike Gill From: James Hill [mailto:james.h...@superamart.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 4:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Volume Licensing KMS is the way to go. Be aware that you'll need to configure KMS hosts for Windows and Office. You can run both on the same server (however for some reason Windows 2008 and Vista are not supported as an Office KMS Host but are supported as Windows KMS Hosts). Your KMS host also requires access to the internet as it checks in with the Microsoft every 180 days(?) or so. Office: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee624357.aspx Windows: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd772269.aspx James. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Volume Licensing
So, having only used MAK key's, my count at MS still shows 0 uses for a key I have used several times. Why is this? How can one reconcile MS records against my own? My qty's are low and this isn't an issue for me, but I wonder still. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 11:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Volume Licensing Also.. forgot to add... that when you have a KMS host and the key is stored there, MS is only sent the one key. When I looked at our VL on MS's site, it shows two different keys.. the KMS and MAK. The MAK is the only one with a number next to it like this 0/50. _ Cameron Cooper Network Administrator | CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Reports, Inc Phone: 847-890-4021 | Fax: 847-255-1896 ccoo...@aurico.com | www.aurico.com -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 12:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Volume Licensing Interesting, what a weird way for MS to do this. I wonder what the University that I used to work for will do. They re-imaged their machines every week. -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 12:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Volume Licensing Yes. But, Microsoft has given me a 500 activations license pool for windows 7. I don't have a count, but we may have 100 actual licenses. Also, their documentation states that it is possible to get more activations with a call to them and an explanation on why you need more (like our case, where we re-image our computers for each new school year). I believe KMS licenses are also counted by Microsoft on the Volume License page. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:08:42 -0700 Subject: RE: Volume Licensing From what I read, with MAK, once it activates on that computer with MS it counts towards your VL agreement. If that computer goes down and either needs to be re-formatted or replaced, and Windows 7 is reinstalled... does that make another count towards your VL agreement? _ Cameron Cooper Network Administrator | CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Reports, Inc Phone: 847-890-4021 | Fax: 847-255-1896 ccoo...@aurico.com | www.aurico.com -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 11:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Volume Licensing We're a MAK shop. And that's only because my first attempt at installing the KMS server was a dismal failure. It shouldn't have been difficult, but for whatever reason it wasn't happy with my Windows 2003 R2 server. Maybe I'll try again later. MAK requires that you use the Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT), which is currently version 2.0, and activate machines on your network remotely. The tool works well enough, especially since it can search for machines, install license keys and activate en-mass. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:22:02 -0700 Subject: RE: Volume Licensing What are the pros and cons of a KMS over MAK? _ Cameron Cooper Network Administrator | CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Reports, Inc Phone: 847-890-4021 | Fax: 847-255-1896 ccoo...@aurico.com | www.aurico.com From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Volume Licensing I'd just use a KMS assuming you are going to migrate to Win7 and/or Office 2010 relatively quickly. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 11:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Volume Licensing All, We are new to the Volume Licensing through Microsoft and would like to know which key (KMS or MAK) to use in our environment for migrating to Windows 7 and Office 2010? Environment: - Currently have 60 computers all running Windows XP Pro and a mixture of Office 2003/2007 - Currently have 5 Servers running Windows Server 2003 and 2003 R2 (which won't be migrated over to Server 2008 R2 yet) From what I understand is that KMS is hosted on one machine (server or computer) and the clients renew their activation
RE: Windows Downgrade Circus
The problem is, there IS NO KEY. If I build a computer to get the key I must buy XP along with Win7/Vista whether it's the $30 discounted version of full price. It must be bought. I typically think of rights as free. Some scenarios such as VL and large OEM's that provide the media and keys etc. at purchase make it a non-issue if you go that route. There is no additional cost. The MS page only say you need to use legitimately obtained media. You don't need a unique disc for this. Really they could provide an ISO and email a key like they already do on other products. I know XP is long in the tooth. I want everyone running Win7 too. But when I have to go back working in the real world, I still have some customers who require XP. The $30 isn't a cost issue. It's a why issue. Also, it's another order that you can't do until you have your Win7 key to give them. I hope they ship those discs out faster than some of their other offers that take weeks. I just think it's a broken system and for silly reasons that could be avoided. -- Mike Gill From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 10:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows Downgrade Circus What is wrong with pushing that button with Microsoft? Microsoft states clearly in their downgrade rights that the key/media can be OEM. I don't get the fear factor here. Q. Where do customers get the CD to install the downgrade software? A. End users must use a legally licensed version of the specified previous version of the Windows desktop operating system to install the downgrade software. The downgrade software may be from the retail, OEM/System Builder, or volume licensing channels. Carl From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 12:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows Downgrade Circus As a reminder, make sure if the buyer is giving you media and key to use that it is not an OEM product. You really don't want to push that button with Microsoft even if you did get a rep to tell you that you could do something that is very questionable. I am with you thinking WTF? Jon On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com wrote: The free DIY downgrade rules have always stipulated you must bring an existing product key and media to the party. Doesn't matter the source of the key or media - can be OEM, retail, upgrade, or volume. But when you build to sell to someone else, you are not a DIY builder. You are a DIFSE builder. Completely different scenario - and if you need a unique product key and original media to give to your customer, it's not free for Microsoft to stamp and distribute such things, so neither should you expect to be given them for free. Carl From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Thursday, 5 August 2010 11:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows Downgrade Circus I agree with you. I was just surprised I got the advice I did from MS, but more so that there is no free legitimate downgrade path for DIY builders. -- Mike Gill From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 7:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows Downgrade Circus I sure wouldn't want to re-use one of my XP product keys on a machine I'm building for a customer. Or the product key that I previously installed for some other customer. However, if your customer has an XP product key, re-using that would be OK. And more than likely, you won't have to call in for approval unless you're using the same key repeatedly on multiple machines - it will just activate online automatically. But if you are building a machine for a client who has no existing product key to re-use, then I'd say buy the media/key for $30 and pass along the cost. It is time, I think, that customers are forced to think about the decision they're making to stay with XP and if it causes them a little pain to do so, not such a terrible thing. Carl From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 9:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows Downgrade Circus Has anyone here downgraded their (qualifying) Vista or 7 license to XP? Meaning, you bought the parts for a new computer, of which consisted of a Windows 7 Pro or Ultimate license and media, with the purpose of installing XP. I've bought machines from larger OEM's with downgrade rights whereas the machine arrived with the media for both, and XP was installed. But for this machine, I'm the builder. I thought I would use my own media for XP and get the key from MS to activate it. After talking with three MS people, they said they would send me XP media with a key for $30. I said that wouldn't work, and he suggested I use the XP key from another machine and just call into the activation center and they would just override it. I said
RE: Windows Downgrade Circus
I wondered why they just didn't make the Win Vista/7 key's for qualifying downgrades useable for XP media as well. I tried this at first thinking this won't work. It didn't. :) -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] And again, if it's *not* a modern fulfillment system, they're doing something wrong. If they're losing money on media kits, somebody deserves to be fired. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Windows Downgrade Circus
Has anyone here downgraded their (qualifying) Vista or 7 license to XP? Meaning, you bought the parts for a new computer, of which consisted of a Windows 7 Pro or Ultimate license and media, with the purpose of installing XP. I've bought machines from larger OEM's with downgrade rights whereas the machine arrived with the media for both, and XP was installed. But for this machine, I'm the builder. I thought I would use my own media for XP and get the key from MS to activate it. After talking with three MS people, they said they would send me XP media with a key for $30. I said that wouldn't work, and he suggested I use the XP key from another machine and just call into the activation center and they would just override it. I said But the same product key would be in use on two machines. He said yeah. Wow. Nobody does this or what? -- Mike Gill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Windows Downgrade Circus
I agree with you. I was just surprised I got the advice I did from MS, but more so that there is no free legitimate downgrade path for DIY builders. -- Mike Gill From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 7:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows Downgrade Circus I sure wouldn't want to re-use one of my XP product keys on a machine I'm building for a customer. Or the product key that I previously installed for some other customer. However, if your customer has an XP product key, re-using that would be OK. And more than likely, you won't have to call in for approval unless you're using the same key repeatedly on multiple machines - it will just activate online automatically. But if you are building a machine for a client who has no existing product key to re-use, then I'd say buy the media/key for $30 and pass along the cost. It is time, I think, that customers are forced to think about the decision they're making to stay with XP and if it causes them a little pain to do so, not such a terrible thing. Carl From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 9:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows Downgrade Circus Has anyone here downgraded their (qualifying) Vista or 7 license to XP? Meaning, you bought the parts for a new computer, of which consisted of a Windows 7 Pro or Ultimate license and media, with the purpose of installing XP. I've bought machines from larger OEM's with downgrade rights whereas the machine arrived with the media for both, and XP was installed. But for this machine, I'm the builder. I thought I would use my own media for XP and get the key from MS to activate it. After talking with three MS people, they said they would send me XP media with a key for $30. I said that wouldn't work, and he suggested I use the XP key from another machine and just call into the activation center and they would just override it. I said But the same product key would be in use on two machines. He said yeah. Wow. Nobody does this or what? -- Mike Gill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Windows 7 - Libraries
Apparently in 7 the users folders are displayed sans My in the file system, but Explorer shows the My, ex. My Documents. All the 7 systems I have worked with are like that. However if you open a command window in a users home folder, you can CD into both Documents and My Documents. On the command line they are treated as distinct folders. Documents shows the actual contents but My Documents is empty. -- Mike Gill From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 7:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 7 - Libraries This is part of the lovely code that tries to manage legacy file paths. For instance, the move from My Documents in XP to Documents in Vista and beyond. Also, the move from C:\Documents and Settings to C:\Users just to name a few. See the following: * http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprogeneral/thread/1c3e 806a-0412-4591-b94a-ac2b71074b28 http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprogeneral/thread/1c3e8 06a-0412-4591-b94a-ac2b71074b28 * http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprogeneral/thread/4e3c 0e19-c767-412c-9111-44be87e25a92 http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprogeneral/thread/4e3c0 e19-c767-412c-9111-44be87e25a92 I'm not sure how you'll be able to get back to what you want... -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Windows 7 - Libraries
Personally I find the Vista/7 Control Panel to be convoluted. Especially in the Personalization properties area. For example, changing screen resolution in 7 is too many clicks (from right-click on the desktop) with no obvious path to get there and is different than Vista. The breadcrumb trail in Personalization is difficult to navigate with some screens requiring you to apply the settings before moving on and others not. I can do what I need to do here, I just see no simplification over the XP style control panel. Some things were improved, but mostly not IMO. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 10:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 - Libraries IMHO, although I didn't enjoy the re-learning process, it's a lot simpler. Just like the Office ribbon is much simpler - once you get used to it and are past cursing at it. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 - Libraries A: Because they can. :-) Seriously, it annoys me that Microsoft, in their INFINITE wisdom, chose to completely redesign the control panel and start menu and everything beginning in Vista. :-( Now, all those years of learning where everything was, are all for naught! :-( -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 11:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 7 - Libraries On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: This is part of the lovely code that tries to manage legacy file paths. curmudgeonWhy does Microsoft feel a need to change the profile path with every other major release?/curmudgeon -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Adobe/Java Updates
Whenever they are updated. In the case of Adobe it's almost always security related, but I keep - Java - Firefox (via Frontmotion) - Adobe Reader - Flash ActiveX - Flash Plugin updated all the time. The MSI versions of these products don't have the toolbars and security scanners you have to worry about excluding. Firfoxe comes fairly vanilla, and for Adobe Reader you just need the Adobe Customization Wizard 9 to configure and remove some extras you don't want as others have mentioned. Java will need the Java Quick Start service disabled or deployments can hang. -- Mike Gill From: Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 10:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Adobe/Java Updates How often do you download the MSI's and push them out? _ Cameron Cooper Network Administrator | CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Reports, Inc Phone: 847-890-4021 | Fax: 847-255-1896 ccoo...@aurico.com | www.aurico.com From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 11:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Adobe/Java Updates As the others have said, it's pretty straightforward once you get the hang of where to get the MSI's. You need a distribution license from Adobe. Piece of cake. Flash comes in nice MSI's too: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/fp_distribution3.html As for Java, make sure QuickStart is disabled as a service (It will hang the install!). How to get MSI's for Java: http://java.com/en/download/help/msi_install.xml Actually, IMO, Java and Adobe are probably the easiest pieces of software to update. Sam From: Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 10:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Adobe/Java Updates Is there a way to push out and install Adobe (I know. sour subject) and Java updates via Group Policy or any other way that doesn't involve purchasing management software to do this? _ Cameron Cooper Network Administrator | CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Reports, Inc Phone: 847-890-4021 | Fax: 847-255-1896 ccoo...@aurico.com | www.aurico.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
