Re: GPO Printers always showing as default

[Oliver Marshall]

Already set to Replace :(


On 4 January 2013 07:34, James Hill  wrote:

> Is the GPP set to create, update or replace?
>
> ** **
>
> If it isn’t already set it to replace and see if that helps.
>
> ** **
>
> James.
>
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>
> *From:* Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, 3 January 2013 8:52 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* GPO Printers always showing as default
>
> ** **
>
> Hi
>
> We have a windows 2008 server with a group policy object that installs a
> network printer for people. This is set to *not* make this printer the
> default.
>
> However several users are reporting that each time they log on this
> network printer is configured as the default over their local printer. Not
> all users by any means. The users can set their local printers back to
> default but when they next log on the network printer is default again.
>
> Interestingly, at least one of the affected users has only started having
> this problem since moving to a new Windows 7 workstation. They used to have
> a Windows XP machine using Group Policy Client Side Preferences addin and
> the printer worked fine. Since Windows 7 they have had this issue.
>
> Is there anything anyone can think of that may be causing this?
>
> The server is windows 2008 r2 64 bit. The printer is applied in the User >
> Preferences > Control Panel Settings > Printers section of the GPO object.
>
> Olly
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Re: Two servers on two different domains on the same network

[Oliver Marshall]

The VPN won't be reliable. Their line is due to be replaced by a
super-duper site-to-site connection but not within the time scale of the
merge, so we need something onsite to allow their machines to connect.

It's a shame as, with having a decent VPN, it would be easier.

Also they need constant access to their files. Their current local server
is also an SBS server so we need to level that and add it to the other
companies domain. At which point we'll copy all the files back to the new
server and demote the temp server.

Clear as mud :)

Olly

On 7 March 2012 14:12, Christopher Bodnar wrote:

> Not sure of your overall environment, but as long as there are no
> overlapping IP addresses and your IP scheme is OK,  you shouldn't have a
> problem with 2 domains on the same wire. Ideally you should segregate by
> VLAN, but that may not be an option in  your situation. What I'm not
> following is this:
>
>
> put in a temp server at one of the
> sites, add it to the others domain and use this as an onsite server
> which we will use to allow us to add the workstations to the domain
>
> Can you provide some more detail surrounding this? If the goal is to add
> the workstations from the new site/domain to your existing domain, then a
> server at that site is not necessarily required. Were  you planning on this
> being a domain controller? Once the VPN is in place you should be able to
> migrate the workstations from the new site/domain to your existing domain.
> What volume of machines are we talking about? How many sites?
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> From:Oliver Marshall 
> To:"NT System Admin Issues"  >
> Date:03/07/2012 08:58 AM
> Subject:Two servers on two different domains on the same network
> --
>
>
>
> We need to merge two companies together. Our plan is to put in a VPN
> between the two networks and then put in a temp server at one of the
> sites, add it to the others domain and use this as an onsite server
> which we will use to allow us to add the workstations to the domain.
>
> My concern is that the current server at that site is an SBS 2008 box
> and I'm not sure how that will handle having another server, running
> as part of another domain, on the same network. Does anyone know?
>
> Olly
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[OT] Stats about IT

[Oliver Marshall]

Does anyone know of a good source of statistics about IT? I'm thinking of the 
kind of thing we can use in reports or to bring up on topics like "80% of 
companies see a return on investment from an increase in IT spend, 20% of 
companies without backup fail in a year, 40% of IT Managers go mad in the first 
year" that kind of thing.

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RE: Wireless switch and access points

[Oliver Marshall]

Am after more the integration that comes with them all being managed from one 
place rather than lots of little units.

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RE: event id 428 (ESENT) Low disk space

[Oliver Marshall]

Ntfrs error apparently


From: kz2...@googlemail.com [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: 14 October 2011 08:58
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: event id 428 (ESENT) Low disk space

Isn't that an Exchange error message? Or am I losing the plot?

Sent from my POS BlackBerry wireless device, which may wipe itself at any moment


From: Oliver Marshall 
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 08:55:12 +0100
To: NT System Admin Issues
ReplyTo: "NT System Admin Issues" 
Subject: event id 428 (ESENT) Low disk space

We have a VM server here that acts as an AD server for our hosted rack of 
servers in the data centre. It does nothing but AD duties and local DNS. It's a 
small VM with 50GB of disk space and a few GB of ram with windows 2008 R1.

Last night on two occasions we got Event ID 428 errors stating that the 
database engine rejected update operations due to low disk space.

The odd thing is that the VM has about 28GB free and our monitoring software 
shows that the server has dropped below 50GB of disk space for the last week or 
mo.

Anyone seen this before or know why we would get such weird false alarms?

Olly


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2003 TS CAL upgrades to 2008 RDS CALs

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi chaps,

Is it possible to upgrade 2003 TS CALs to 2008 RDS CALs? We have a 2003 server 
here with 30 or so User CALs and we need to replace it with a 2008 server.

Olly

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RE: Outlook, forwarding and the missing attachments

[Oliver Marshall]

For the sake of google I think that this has solved it for us;

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrclients/thread/5ee6b1d2-865f-4c81-bb3e-b72d30d1845f/


From: Oliver Marshall
Sent: 17 August 2011 10:46
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook, forwarding and the missing attachments

Just to add to that, if one of the original recipients forwards the email to 
themselves, they DON'T see the attachment. If they forward it to someone else 
then that someone DOES see the attachments.

From: Oliver Marshall
Sent: 17 August 2011 10:42
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Outlook, forwarding and the missing attachments

I've got a machine here that has an odd issue. Emails from a certain group of 
senders (all users at the same client firm) are showing in Outlook 2007 as 
having no attachments, despite them actually having attachments.

There's nothing to show that there are any attachments included, no paperclips 
anywhere, no bar at the top of the email saying that attachments were blocked.

However if you forward the email using the Forward button, the recipient of 
that forwarded email CAN see the attachments. To make it stranger, if you add 
the original email as an attachment to another email, that attached email shows 
no attachments itself, despite having attachments.does that make sense?

I'm guessing that the orginal sender has some odd querky set up which is using 
a malformed MIME header or something odd, and Outlook doesn't handle it. When 
you forward it, Outlook changes the MIME headers to something that makes sense 
and you can then see the attachments.

The question is, is it possible to handle it?

Olly



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RE: Outlook, forwarding and the missing attachments

[Oliver Marshall]

Just to add to that, if one of the original recipients forwards the email to 
themselves, they DON'T see the attachment. If they forward it to someone else 
then that someone DOES see the attachments.

From: Oliver Marshall
Sent: 17 August 2011 10:42
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Outlook, forwarding and the missing attachments

I've got a machine here that has an odd issue. Emails from a certain group of 
senders (all users at the same client firm) are showing in Outlook 2007 as 
having no attachments, despite them actually having attachments.

There's nothing to show that there are any attachments included, no paperclips 
anywhere, no bar at the top of the email saying that attachments were blocked.

However if you forward the email using the Forward button, the recipient of 
that forwarded email CAN see the attachments. To make it stranger, if you add 
the original email as an attachment to another email, that attached email shows 
no attachments itself, despite having attachments.does that make sense?

I'm guessing that the orginal sender has some odd querky set up which is using 
a malformed MIME header or something odd, and Outlook doesn't handle it. When 
you forward it, Outlook changes the MIME headers to something that makes sense 
and you can then see the attachments.

The question is, is it possible to handle it?

Olly



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Batch file syntax question

[Oliver Marshall]

Does anyone know what this does to this variable?

set Var1=%1#
set Var1=%Var1:"=%
set Var1=%Var1:\#=%
set Var1=%Var1:#=%

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Audit who changed folder permissions

[Oliver Marshall]

Someone has been buggering about the permissions on folders on a server. 
Nothing critical but annoying.

Is there a way we can audit who makes changes to folder/file permissions? 
Ideally posthumously, but certainly going forward.

Thanks

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Re: Small utility to run command line

[Oliver Marshall]

But that requires the end user to know the password doesnt it?

Sent from my iPhone though please don't tell my friends, I'll never live it 
down.

On 27 Jul 2011, at 16:49, "Ben Scott"  wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Oliver Marshall
>  wrote:
>> Sounds like a batch file but I can't use a batch file for this as there is a
>> password involved which a batch file will make easily accessible.
>
> @ECHO OFF
> SETLOCAL
> SET PASSWORD=
> SET /P PASSWORD=Password?
> IF NOT DEFINED PASSWORD (
>ECHO You did not enter a password!
>EXIT /B
>)
> C:\foo\bar.exe /baz /pass %PASSWORD%
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Small utility to run command line

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi

I need a small utility that will sit in the systray and when I click on it will 
ask me for a parameter then run a command line program with that parameter.

Sounds like a batch file but I can't use a batch file for this as there is a 
password involved which a batch file will make easily accessible.

Anyone know of a windows exe that can do that or even a small piece of code I 
can use and compile ?

Olly

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Get external IP from command line

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi chaps

Does anyone know of a command line tool that can return the external IP of the 
machine it's run on? I need to run a script on some machines and need to note 
the external IP.

Olly

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RE: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs

[Oliver Marshall]

I think I just get stuck staring at the pretty line graphspretty 
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From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com]
Sent: 31 January 2011 17:02
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs

In my opinion, and my experience with ESXi, there's nothing to do in the 
console anywyay...

What things are you thinking about?
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Oliver Marshall 
mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com>> wrote:
Yeah I really like ESXi but somehow the lack of a.windows-like OS puts me 
off of it. Something about having a "real" desktop there to do things on in 
case we need it.

Is that mad (or a sign of impending madness)  ?


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From: Jim Holmgren 
[mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com<mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com>]
Sent: 31 January 2011 16:51

To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs

Bear in mind that Equalogic = Dell, so your source for the MD3220i should be 
the same as your source for EQL.

Re:  HyperV vs ESXi - can't say much for HyperV as I've no real experience with 
it, but I do know firsthand that EQL does work very nicely with ESXi.

Jim

From: Oliver Marshall 
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Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 11:48 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs

Thanks all. Good to know. I'll spec out the prices for the MD3220i (which 
appears to the be the UK model) and also speak to Equalogic too.

Next upHyperV or ESXi :)




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From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com<mailto:asbz...@gmail.com>]
Sent: 31 January 2011 16:44
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs

iSCSI will work just fine for hosting a VM environment, as well as some other 
workloads.

If you already have a FC infrastructure, then that's not a bad reason to go 
there, but iSCSI is very mature and stable and good performance if you don't 
purchase the cheapest equipment you can find.

First, as others have pointed out, you need to size up your needs...



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On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Oliver Marshall 
mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com>> wrote:
Well, there will be maybe 3 VMs running on each host, most likely VM will have 
a redundant 'spare' running on the other physical host. The largest will be 
about 400GB+ of space running Exchange 2010 for about 100 users. Then perhaps a 
DC and a file server, and the latter will just be acting as a witness server 
for the Exchange DAG servers.

I like the idea of iSCSI franky but experience of the s*** end of the market 
has put me off. Saying that the cost of the FC based setup puts me off even 
more :)

Olly


From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org<mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org>]
Sent: 31 January 2011 16:26

To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs

I have 3 MD3000/3200i SANs and they work wonderfully. That being said I found 
that while the fiber has better throughput (we also have an old 2Gb EMC AX150 
fiber SAN) It was a lot more expensive to set up (Fiber switches aren't cheap) 
and of course you need some marginal capability in configuring said switch.

 John W. Cook
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From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com<mailto:rich...@gmail.com>]
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 11:22 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs

Not a direct answer, but another shared storage option you could consider for 
that setup is an MD3XXX.
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Oliver Marshall 
mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com>> wrote:
Hi Chaps

We're buying some bits to build a basic VM platform so that we can get rid of 
some old rack servers here.
Being new to decent SANs (we have some crappy iscsi hardware that we just use 
for dumping scrap data on) what are peoples thoughts of iSCSI SANs vs 
FibreChannel SANs? We are planning on having two physical hosts (probab

iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi Chaps

We're buying some bits to build a basic VM platform so that we can get rid of 
some old rack servers here.
Being new to decent SANs (we have some crappy iscsi hardware that we just use 
for dumping scrap data on) what are peoples thoughts of iSCSI SANs vs 
FibreChannel SANs? We are planning on having two physical hosts (probably Dell 
PE710s running either Hyper-V or ESXi) with a lump of shared storage on a SAN 
but we are at odds here as to whether we should go iSCSI or FC.

Any comments or suggestions?

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A OneNote device

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi

I want a device on which to use OneNote in meetings. Only needs to do that and 
browsing the web. Nothing more. So clearly Windows is a must.

There's an iPad/iPhone app that allows you to read and make basic changes to a 
onenote file but it's early days so I'm ruling out that at the moment.

Other than a Tablet PC can anyone recommend any other solution? There's one or 
two Atom based tablet out that claim to run Windows but the reviews are 
shocking.

Anyone doing the same with something interesting and want to share their 
results and thoughts?

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RE: Organise feature in Outlook 2010

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For the sake of the googleness, it would appear that the feature is no longer 
in Outlook :(

Instead you need use the Conditional Formatting option. View tab > View 
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From: Oliver Marshall
Sent: 14 January 2011 11:38
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Organise feature in Outlook 2010

Anyone know where the Organise feature has gone in Outlook 2010? You used to be 
able (in 2003 and 2007) to organise emails by saying "all emails from 
a...@asd.com<mailto:a...@asd.com> colour red" or grey, or yellow etc.

This isn't done via a rule but rather via the Organise feature.

However I can't see it anywhere in Outlook 2010.

Anyone else see it anywhere?

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IBM/LSI MegaRaid and Raid10

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi chaps,

Does anyone know how the flippery you set up RAID 10 in the MegaRAID app 
supplied with IBM servers? We have a 2 disk striped array already and we've 
slapped in two additional drives so that we can move to a raid10 array. The 
raid card (an M5014) says it supports RAID10 but I'll be blowed if I can work 
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Anyone done this before?

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Export attachments from outlook folder

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Hi,

Slightly OT but does anyone know a way to export all the attachments within an 
Outlook folder to a folder on the hard disk? A utility perhaps or a script? We 
have a folder containing loads of CVs attached to emails and we want them in a 
folder on the network as just docs.

Any ideas?

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Wake on Lan....wassat all about then?

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Hi chaps,

I've never used WOL before, never ever had a need to think about it. However 
we've got to ensure some machines are on at a given time for a set update to be 
installed by a manufacturer and it occurs to me that WOL would be a good fall 
back solution.

Does anyone know what I need to do to wake a machine from the lan? All the 
machines (Dell Optiplex 7xx and Precisions) are within 12 months and all show 
that they support WOL, I just know nuffin about it.

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Terminal Services manager 2003 and end users

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Hi chaps

Does anyone know if it's possible to give an end user access to the TS manager 
tool on a TS 2003 box without giving them access administrator level access? 
They want to be able to disconnect or reset sessions and also end tasks 
belonging to other people if possible (don't ask).

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HyperV and USB storage devices

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Does anyone know off the top of their head whether a USB drive attached to a 
HyperV host can be made to show up as a drive in a HyperV guest? Or is it only 
available to the host?

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Embedding webcam in website

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Hi chaps,

Slightly off topic but has anyone come across a webcam that would allow us to 
embed a stream view of our office in our site? We have a security one at the 
moment that has a built in HTTP server which you can use to watch the office 
but it has its own branded site, 4 feeds per page etc. We want something more 
like an embedded youtube style live video on our site.

Any ideas which makes do this?

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Reporting on logon times

[Oliver Marshall]

Does anyone know a solution that would allow me to create a report to show when 
all the users here logged on to their machines and when they logged off? Rather 
than scripting something I'm after an off the shelf package.

I was going to have the logon script write to a text file the users name and 
logon time, and a similar one for log offs, but frankly I think I would rather 
shell out some cash and get pretty reports to boot.

Any suggestions? This is for Win2k8.

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OT: Global co-lo companies

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi chaps

Does anyone know of a global hosting company that can provide co-location 
services? That is has rack space available to rent in various countries around 
the world? At the moment we use lots of small providers here and there and we 
want to reduce the invoice count and contact point down to one ideally.

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RE: Remote management card for generic servers

[Oliver Marshall]

Windows. Has to be hardware based as we want boot time access incase we need to 
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From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: 13 October 2010 11:48
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Remote management card for generic servers

Are these Windows systems or UNIX? I remember some Unix bods at my last place 
using something called Network Console On Acid for remote management of some 
sortdon't know how many features it has up against DRAC / ILO etc. though
On 13 October 2010 11:40, Oliver Marshall 
mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com>> wrote:
Hi Chaps

We have some generic rack servers that we want to get set up with remote 
management cards that allow us remote viewing capability and remote virtual 
CD/floppy usage, ala Dell Remote Access Cards.

Can you get these kind of things for generic kit after they have been built? 
Anyone recommend a make/model?

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Remote management card for generic servers

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi Chaps

We have some generic rack servers that we want to get set up with remote 
management cards that allow us remote viewing capability and remote virtual 
CD/floppy usage, ala Dell Remote Access Cards.

Can you get these kind of things for generic kit after they have been built? 
Anyone recommend a make/model?

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Wifi discovery tool for Broadcom wifi nics

[Oliver Marshall]

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.

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RE: URL length in IE Favourite GPOs

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Alas it's a javascript link being used as a bookmarklet and doesn't seem to 
work well when redirected.

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From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com]
Sent: 04 October 2010 21:24
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: URL length in IE Favourite GPOs

Substitute a link from tinyurl.com, or create your own public facing page if it 
must be trusted with a list of links on that page.

You could also create a page for each link that auto redirects if you want to 
be slick...


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Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 4:02 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: URL length in IE Favourite GPOs

Hi,

Has anyone noticed that URLs inserted in to a favourite entry of an IE GPO 
appears to be cut off? It appears to have a limit of about 50 characters. After 
that the end user gets the favourite but the URL gets cut off.

Anyone know a way around it at all ?

Olly



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URL length in IE Favourite GPOs

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi,

Has anyone noticed that URLs inserted in to a favourite entry of an IE GPO 
appears to be cut off? It appears to have a limit of about 50 characters. After 
that the end user gets the favourite but the URL gets cut off.

Anyone know a way around it at all ?

Olly

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LDAP SSL using 3rd party certs

[Oliver Marshall]

Does anyone know if it's possible to secure LDAP without using a CA install on 
the network?

For various reasons (mainly down to the remote web servers of which we don't 
appear to have any control) we can't use a CA and install our own root certs, 
but need to find a way to secure LDAP authentication over the web without 
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RE: Powershell to get all users details from AD

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has to be powershell I'm afraid :S


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From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: 23 September 2010 11:47
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Subject: RE: Powershell to get all users details from AD

No PowerShell required.

Dsquery * forestroot -limit 0 -filter objectClass=user -attr *

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Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 5:57 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Powershell to get all users details from AD

Hi

Does anyone know of a powershell script/syntax that I can use to get a list of 
all the users from the AD, their OU location, name, phone details, address, 
profile, organisation details...basically as much as possible from the 
properties for each user account?

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Powershell to get all users details from AD

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi

Does anyone know of a powershell script/syntax that I can use to get a list of 
all the users from the AD, their OU location, name, phone details, address, 
profile, organisation details...basically as much as possible from the 
properties for each user account?

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GPMC scripts and requirements

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi chaps,

The scripts that come with the XP version of GPMC are great for documenting the 
GPOs, however they require the GPMC package to be installed. In Vista it 
requires the Remote Server Management option to be installed.

I'd like to push these scripts out via our management app and run them against 
our servers but we can't guarantee that an XP or Vista machine will be 
available or that it will have GPMC installed.

Does anyone know of either an alternative that we can use or what the specific 
requirements are so that we can remotely download/register a certain file and 
then use the scripts?

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sbs 2008 cd

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Anyone know if an sbs 2008  volume key will work with an sbs 2008 action pack 
cd?

Have to do an urgent reinstall of a server but they can't find the cd.

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Is Foundation Server suitable for use on a TS (remote desktop) server ?

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Documenting GPOs and AD structure

[Oliver Marshall]

Anyone know of a tool that will documents the settings within GPOs and also the 
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eventcreate with carriage returns

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Anyone got any idea whether it's possible to use eventcreate to create an event 
log entry that contains carriage returns in the description? If so, how?

Is there another tool I can use to achieve this?

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RE: Whining... (mysql)

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On that note, I'm always amazed that so much software still uses SQL server for 
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whatever software you are buying...when they could just use MySQL instead, save 
the client loads of initial outlay, resources, etc

We run loads of IT management software and the amount of software we use that 
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-Original Message-
From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org]
Sent: 15 July 2010 21:02
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Whining...

... and this is why I wonder why people don't develop for alternative SQL 
solutions ... (MySQL anyone?)

But, I am not a programmer. Nor do I know or understand the real differences 
between different flavors of SQL servers. To me, a database is a database. Data 
goes in, and you pull data out.


--Matt Ross
Ephrata School District


- Original Message -
From: Cameron Cooper
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Sent: Thu, 15 Jul 2010
12:46:01 -0700
Subject: RE: Whining...


> Here ya on this one... we are looking to update our DB servers (hardware and
> software)
>
> - hardware - roughly $12,000 for two new servers
> - software - SQL 2008 R2 enterprise - roughly $27,000 per processor (we need
> unlimited CALs for our clients) x 4 processors in the new servers = boss and
> ceo that pucker
>
> I just work here.
>
> _
> 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: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 2:33 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Whining...
>
> Have you thought about looking at a plan other than buying retail?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian Desmond
> br...@briandesmond.com
>
> c   – 312.731.3132
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 2:15 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: OT: Whining...
>
> We got a quote last week from Provantage for a single-proc license version
> of SQL Server 2008.
>
> I put in the PR on Tuesday, my purchasing person gets the PO to Provantage
> yesterday, and they kick it back today saying it's not available anymore.
>
> They're only selling R2, which, for this version, is $2000.00 more.
>
> Ouch.
>
> Worse, we're not under any kind of Open License agreement at the moment, nor
> an EA, so we're buying box retail.
>
> We're checking with another vendor to see if they have it in stock.
>
> They probably don't, so I'll have to go to our COO to ask him to pony up for
> the new version, and I'm sure he's not going to be happy.
>
> Sigh.
>
> Just venting.
>
> Don't mind me...
>
> Kurt
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Xen, Vmware or HyperV

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi,

We are looking at a new VM host here and I have to decide if we go for HyperV 
(our current option), VMWare (the cheaper version whatever that is) or Xen.

Any comments? I used to like HyperV but after some issues with snapshots I'm 
going off it and I feel it doesn't make best use of the hardware.

I don't really want to run another OS on my machine however that I have to 
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RE: Where's my disk space gone ?

[Oliver Marshall]

only 400mb being reported as being in use for C drive shadows


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From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com]
Sent: 30 June 2010 21:29
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Where's my disk space gone ?

But is shadow copy enabled on your volumes?  That can take up quite a bit of 
space...
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Oliver Marshall 
mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com>> wrote:
The backup software uses VSS and we do (did) previous versions.


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From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com<mailto:stevey...@gmail.com>]
Sent: 30 June 2010 21:09

To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Where's my disk space gone ?

Are you shadow copying?
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Oliver Marshall 
mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com>> wrote:
Hi,

I have a Windows 2008 server with a 100GB C partition. It has 8GB free, meaning 
92GB is in use. However every disk space tool I use shows that only 34GB of 
data is on the drive. I've tried clearing the shadow copies and that freed a 
few GB.

Any idea where the other 60'ish GB may be lurking ?

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RE: Where's my disk space gone ?

[Oliver Marshall]

It's an SBS box, so Exchange and SQL and WSUS. The DBs and Exchange logs and 
edbs etc are on different paritions.


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From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com]
Sent: 30 June 2010 21:11
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Where's my disk space gone ?

What else is installed to that drive?

Don Guyer
Systems Engineer - Information Services
Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group
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From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 4:09 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Where's my disk space gone ?

Are you shadow copying?
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Oliver Marshall 
mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com>> wrote:
Hi,

I have a Windows 2008 server with a 100GB C partition. It has 8GB free, meaning 
92GB is in use. However every disk space tool I use shows that only 34GB of 
data is on the drive. I've tried clearing the shadow copies and that freed a 
few GB.

Any idea where the other 60'ish GB may be lurking ?

Olly



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RE: Where's my disk space gone ?

[Oliver Marshall]

The backup software uses VSS and we do (did) previous versions.


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From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com]
Sent: 30 June 2010 21:09
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Where's my disk space gone ?

Are you shadow copying?
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Oliver Marshall 
mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com>> wrote:
Hi,

I have a Windows 2008 server with a 100GB C partition. It has 8GB free, meaning 
92GB is in use. However every disk space tool I use shows that only 34GB of 
data is on the drive. I've tried clearing the shadow copies and that freed a 
few GB.

Any idea where the other 60'ish GB may be lurking ?

Olly



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Where's my disk space gone ?

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi,

I have a Windows 2008 server with a 100GB C partition. It has 8GB free, meaning 
92GB is in use. However every disk space tool I use shows that only 34GB of 
data is on the drive. I've tried clearing the shadow copies and that freed a 
few GB.

Any idea where the other 60'ish GB may be lurking ?

Olly

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RE: Low-budget SBS 2003 Exchange spam-filter?

[Oliver Marshall]

postini? cost about £1.50 per month per user. thats about £60 per year, and it 
will act as a store-and-forward if their ADSL goes down.


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-Original Message-
From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net]
Sent: 25 June 2010 02:57
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Low-budget SBS 2003 Exchange spam-filter?

5 pack of Vipre for Exchange?  With AV engines built in its like $203.45 
retail.  Not sure there is anything cheaper that you will get with the support 
from Sunbelt, group forum support and its a lot, and the recommendations you 
will get from this group.

Greg

-Original Message-
From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 9:50 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Low-budget SBS 2003 Exchange spam-filter?

All

I have a very small client (3 workstations, SBS 2003 Server running Exchange
with OWA) who is looking for a spam-prevention solution since they are using
Blackberries to access their OWA and deleting the spam is a PITA.  Their budget
is minimal as their industry is in the tank right now.  Looking for something
like Popfile for Exchange.  Ideas welcome.

Angus

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FTp scheduling with event logging

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi chaps

Can anyone recommend an FTP tool that I can use to schedule uploads on a 
Windows server and that will log to the event log when it succeeds or fails?

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Technet question

[Oliver Marshall]

A little bit OT I'm sure, but perhaps someone can tell me of their experiences.

The Technet Pro subscription comes with "12 E-learning courses" but the technet 
page doesn't tell me any more about the courses themselves. Anyone know what 
kind of courses they are ? Are they just the weird MS Partner style interactive 
courses which you have to sit to get the MS Action packs?

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RE: Virtualisation structural question

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I'd love to but we dont have enough licenses.


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From: Malcolm Reitz [mailto:malcolm.re...@live.com]
Sent: 14 June 2010 16:29
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Virtualisation structural question

I would prefer to run the host as VM host only. I would also create 3 VMs - DC, 
file, Exchange. I don't like to mix file services in to a domain controller as 
it creates security administration issues.

-Malcolm

From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com]
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 06:15
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Virtualisation structural question

Hi chaps.

Can I kick some thoughts around here and look for some comments?

We have a few old servers that we need to upgrade to new versions. Basically we 
will be upgrading several Windows 2003 servers running file services, AD and 
Exchange 2003. We will be replacing these with 2008 64bit R2 servers running 
Exchange 2010.

As running Exchange 2010 on a DC isn't recommended (though it appears that it 
isn't not-supported as such) we are looking at having two servers; one for AD 
and file roles and one for Exchange roles. Clearly this lends itself to 
virtualisation quite nicely with both 'servers' running on a parent host.

The question is really this: Should the AD/File roles run in a VM or on the 
parent host itself, with Exchange being a child VM on the parent host ?

So this;

Physical Host: VM-HOST1
Roles: Hyper-V Host
Domain: Workgroup

VM Name: AD-1
Role: DC/GC/FILE
Host: VM-HOST1
Domain: MYDOMAIN

VM Name: EX-1
Roles: Exchange 2010
Host: VM-HOST1
Domain: MYDOMAIN

Or this;

Physical Host: VM-HOST1
Roles: Hyper-V Host, DC/GC/FILE
Domain: MYDOMAIN

VM Name: EX-1
Roles: Exchange 2010
Host: VM-HOST1
Domain: MYDOMAIN

My feeling is that the former is neater, that is with both the AD server and 
the Exchange server being VMs on a parent host, than the latter.

Any suggestions? How are you chaps structuring things ?

Olly



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Virtualisation structural question

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi chaps.

Can I kick some thoughts around here and look for some comments?

We have a few old servers that we need to upgrade to new versions. Basically we 
will be upgrading several Windows 2003 servers running file services, AD and 
Exchange 2003. We will be replacing these with 2008 64bit R2 servers running 
Exchange 2010.

As running Exchange 2010 on a DC isn't recommended (though it appears that it 
isn't not-supported as such) we are looking at having two servers; one for AD 
and file roles and one for Exchange roles. Clearly this lends itself to 
virtualisation quite nicely with both 'servers' running on a parent host.

The question is really this: Should the AD/File roles run in a VM or on the 
parent host itself, with Exchange being a child VM on the parent host ?

So this;

Physical Host: VM-HOST1
Roles: Hyper-V Host
Domain: Workgroup

VM Name: AD-1
Role: DC/GC/FILE
Host: VM-HOST1
Domain: MYDOMAIN

VM Name: EX-1
Roles: Exchange 2010
Host: VM-HOST1
Domain: MYDOMAIN

Or this;

Physical Host: VM-HOST1
Roles: Hyper-V Host, DC/GC/FILE
Domain: MYDOMAIN

VM Name: EX-1
Roles: Exchange 2010
Host: VM-HOST1
Domain: MYDOMAIN

My feeling is that the former is neater, that is with both the AD server and 
the Exchange server being VMs on a parent host, than the latter.

Any suggestions? How are you chaps structuring things ?

Olly

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ISA 2004 in a 2008 network

[Oliver Marshall]

Does anyone know if ISA 2004 will work in a Windows 2008 based network? We are 
upgrading some old kit here and we want to keep ISA (rather than upgrade to 
Forefront) but it will need to work in a 100% 2008 network.

Anyone done this ?

Olly

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RE: Remotely scheduling chkdsk /f

[Oliver Marshall]

Actually James, ignore what I said, I tried it again and it does appear to work.

Thanks



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From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: 10 May 2010 10:05
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Remotely scheduling chkdsk /f

Have you tried using psexec to send the command, either with a /y on the end, 
or by using an echo command to send the y?

e.g. echo y|chkdsk c: /F /R
On 10 May 2010 09:31, Oliver Marshall 
mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com>> wrote:
Hi chaps,.

Does anyone know of a way that we can remotely force a workstation to run a 
full chkdsk on the next reboot? We have a variety of remote tools which can run 
scripts and edit this and that, but the issue we have is that we can't initiate 
"chkdsk c: /f" remotely as the script sits there wanting someone to press Y to 
tell it to run on the next reboot.

Is there a way we can, perhaps, edit the boot files directly to tell them run a 
chkdsk c: /f?

CHKDSK itself must be editing something to have it run at next reboot and I'm 
hoping we can edit this directly.

Olly



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RE: Remotely scheduling chkdsk /f

[Oliver Marshall]

Cheers chaps;


"echo y|chkdsk c: /f" just made the command prompt window sit there with a 
flashing cursor for ages while everything else around it stopped responding.

" c:\windows\system32\chkdsk /r |y" doesnt appear to work at all

Any others?



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From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: 10 May 2010 10:05
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Remotely scheduling chkdsk /f

Have you tried using psexec to send the command, either with a /y on the end, 
or by using an echo command to send the y?

e.g. echo y|chkdsk c: /F /R
On 10 May 2010 09:31, Oliver Marshall 
mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com>> wrote:
Hi chaps,.

Does anyone know of a way that we can remotely force a workstation to run a 
full chkdsk on the next reboot? We have a variety of remote tools which can run 
scripts and edit this and that, but the issue we have is that we can't initiate 
"chkdsk c: /f" remotely as the script sits there wanting someone to press Y to 
tell it to run on the next reboot.

Is there a way we can, perhaps, edit the boot files directly to tell them run a 
chkdsk c: /f?

CHKDSK itself must be editing something to have it run at next reboot and I'm 
hoping we can edit this directly.

Olly



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Remotely scheduling chkdsk /f

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi chaps,.

Does anyone know of a way that we can remotely force a workstation to run a 
full chkdsk on the next reboot? We have a variety of remote tools which can run 
scripts and edit this and that, but the issue we have is that we can't initiate 
"chkdsk c: /f" remotely as the script sits there wanting someone to press Y to 
tell it to run on the next reboot.

Is there a way we can, perhaps, edit the boot files directly to tell them run a 
chkdsk c: /f?

CHKDSK itself must be editing something to have it run at next reboot and I'm 
hoping we can edit this directly.

Olly

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Icon to show process running

[Oliver Marshall]

Does anyone know of a small util that will show an icon in the systray if a 
process is running? We have a process running on our end user machines and we 
want the user to have some visible indication. The app itself doesnt show an 
icon so we need some little util that will check to see if it's running and 
then show an icon in the systray if it is.

Olly

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RE: Systemstate restore to Vmware VM

[Oliver Marshall]

No. We have leased a new server with another ISP.


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-Original Message-
From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] 
Sent: 16 February 2010 13:10
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Systemstate restore to Vmware VM

I'm confused here, the ISP won't give you enough space to P2V the old
server.   But they will give you enough space to set up a new server and
do a restore? 

-Original Message-----
From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 4:25 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Systemstate restore to Vmware VM

Thought about that but we dont have enough disk space on the old server
(it really is a 20GB hd) and the ISP wont attach any NAS space for us as
they no longer support that range of boxes (they really want to get rid
of it). 

-Original Message-
From: Straub, Patrick [mailto:patrick.str...@lanexpert.ch]
Sent: 16 February 2010 10:21
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Systemstate restore to Vmware VM

What about converting the win2k box with vmware converter? In this way
you will have a vm that is cloned from your physical box.

____
From: Oliver Marshall [oliver.marsh...@g2support.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:46
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Systemstate restore to Vmware VM

Hi chaps,

I'm having probs with a restore of an old win2k box to a vmware VM. The
box is an old web server which is veryerrr..old. Its a P3, 256Mb,
20GB HD, Win2k box. The disks are nearly max'd out completely and there
is no more space or the ability to add more (the ISP no longer supports
this range and wants to turn it off).

We've got a VM setup and have restored the data to it, but when we
restore the systemstate and then reboot, the VM stops responding to
input. We cant control the mouse or keyboard, or send it instructions
via the menu options in Vmware (ctl+alt+del etc). However the VM drive
light does occasionally flicker as though the VM itself is running and
eventually a screensaver appears in the VM window.

Any ideas how I can get the VM to continue to respond after the
systemstate restore ?

Olly

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RE: Systemstate restore to Vmware VM

[Oliver Marshall]

Thought about that but we dont have enough disk space on the old server (it 
really is a 20GB hd) and the ISP wont attach any NAS space for us as they no 
longer support that range of boxes (they really want to get rid of it). 

-Original Message-
From: Straub, Patrick [mailto:patrick.str...@lanexpert.ch] 
Sent: 16 February 2010 10:21
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Systemstate restore to Vmware VM

What about converting the win2k box with vmware converter? In this way you will 
have a vm that is cloned from your physical box.


From: Oliver Marshall [oliver.marsh...@g2support.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:46
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Systemstate restore to Vmware VM

Hi chaps,

I'm having probs with a restore of an old win2k box to a vmware VM. The box is 
an old web server which is veryerrr..old. Its a P3, 256Mb, 20GB HD, Win2k 
box. The disks are nearly max'd out completely and there is no more space or 
the ability to add more (the ISP no longer supports this range and wants to 
turn it off).

We've got a VM setup and have restored the data to it, but when we restore the 
systemstate and then reboot, the VM stops responding to input. We cant control 
the mouse or keyboard, or send it instructions via the menu options in Vmware 
(ctl+alt+del etc). However the VM drive light does occasionally flicker as 
though the VM itself is running and eventually a screensaver appears in the VM 
window.

Any ideas how I can get the VM to continue to respond after the systemstate 
restore ?

Olly

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Systemstate restore to Vmware VM

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi chaps,

I'm having probs with a restore of an old win2k box to a vmware VM. The box is 
an old web server which is veryerrr..old. Its a P3, 256Mb, 20GB HD, Win2k 
box. The disks are nearly max'd out completely and there is no more space or 
the ability to add more (the ISP no longer supports this range and wants to 
turn it off). 

We've got a VM setup and have restored the data to it, but when we restore the 
systemstate and then reboot, the VM stops responding to input. We cant control 
the mouse or keyboard, or send it instructions via the menu options in Vmware 
(ctl+alt+del etc). However the VM drive light does occasionally flicker as 
though the VM itself is running and eventually a screensaver appears in the VM 
window.

Any ideas how I can get the VM to continue to respond after the systemstate 
restore ?

Olly

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Can you try this for me? Outlook 2003

[Oliver Marshall]

Can someone help me test something? 

Can you create an invite in your calendar in Outlook 2003, set a reminder for 
it, and then invite a colleague, does the colleague get a pop up reminder at 
the time you specify, or only you ?

We have people here reporting that if they create an appointment, invite 
someone, only the sender sees the reminder, not the invitee. 

Olly


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Software raid and 2003

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi chaps,

I'm losing my mind with a software raid based 2003 server. I want to replace 
the disks with larger ones.

I've replaced the secondary, powered up, let it all sync and it's fine. When I 
replace the primary plex and boot I get a black screen and a flashing cursor. 
So I fire up the windows 2003 recovery console, do a fixmbr and reboot, only to 
see another flashing cursor on a black screen.

I've tried various disks and floppy workarounds, but as soon as I replace the 
primary plex, it wont boot.

Any idiot guides you can recommend to show me what Im  doing wrong?

Olly

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Software raid and booting from secondary plex

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi chaps,

I have an old 2003 server machine here with software raid. It's time to upgrade 
the disks to larger ones so I intend to swap each disk, waiting between swaps 
for the data to resync (prob a day or so) and then use the new spare space to 
create a larger partition in which to move our shared data.

However when it comes time to replace the primary plex drive I'm going to have 
to boot off of the secondary plex. As that wont have an MBR configured on the 
drive, the server will fail to boot, and I'll have to boot from the Windows 
2003 CD, run recovery mode, then run FIXMBR.

Is there something I can do to get the MBR sorted on the secondary plex BEFORE 
I reboot? Time is of the essence when the server is down and I'd like to do as 
much as I can while the server is still running.

Any ideas ?

Olly


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Software audit of OS X

[Oliver Marshall]

HI chaps

Does anyone know of a tool we can run on macs to audit the software installed 
and also get any available serial and license numbers ? We have to do a 
software audit of all the machines but while we have tools in place for 
Windows, we have nothing that will do macs but we do have a large number of 
them now. A tool that can be run by the techs would be great.

Doesnt have to be anything special as long as it can generate some kind of 
report on the software names, license numbers etc.

Olly

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Exchange email archiving

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi chaps,

We're after an email archiving solution for about 100 users which integrates 
with Exchange 2007 (Win 2k3) and Outlook 2007 so that users data is archived 
off of the Exchange server to some other (cheaper, larger) kind of storage but 
in a way that's as invisible as possible to the end user.

Clearly Sunbelt is up there but does anyone else have any other recommendations 
 ?

Olly

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RE: Whats thrashing my disks?

[Oliver Marshall]

Yep. Got 4GB only using around 1.8 when this kinda thing happens.


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From: Rene de Haas [mailto:rene.deh...@gmail.com]
Sent: 26 October 2009 12:45
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Whats thrashing my disks?

Does it have enough memory. Low memory can cause disk thrashing as well.

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Oliver Marshall 
mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com>> wrote:
Hi chaps,

Can anyone tell me how to go about finding out whats causing really high disk 
write queue lengths on our old SBS 2003 box ? It appears to grind to a halt and 
during which time perfmon shows that the write queue for the C drive goes sky 
high, easily reaching 200+ and it has gone over 4000+. During these times it 
effectively vanishes from the network with users not being able to access any 
of the shares or even RDP until the queue length settles back down to normal. 
This can take 20 seconds or 10 minutes with no real pattern.

Any ideas where I should start looking?

Olly










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RE: Whats thrashing my disks?

[Oliver Marshall]

Isn't one installed. Really I'm after a way to narrow down which process/driver 
is causing the disk thrashing as it has to be something on the system level as 
there isn't really much running on the server itself.


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From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com]
Sent: 26 October 2009 12:31
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Whats thrashing my disks?

Anti-virus would be the first thing I looked at.
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Oliver Marshall 
mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com>> wrote:
Hi chaps,

Can anyone tell me how to go about finding out whats causing really high disk 
write queue lengths on our old SBS 2003 box ? It appears to grind to a halt and 
during which time perfmon shows that the write queue for the C drive goes sky 
high, easily reaching 200+ and it has gone over 4000+. During these times it 
effectively vanishes from the network with users not being able to access any 
of the shares or even RDP until the queue length settles back down to normal. 
This can take 20 seconds or 10 minutes with no real pattern.

Any ideas where I should start looking?

Olly







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Whats thrashing my disks?

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi chaps,

Can anyone tell me how to go about finding out whats causing really high disk 
write queue lengths on our old SBS 2003 box ? It appears to grind to a halt and 
during which time perfmon shows that the write queue for the C drive goes sky 
high, easily reaching 200+ and it has gone over 4000+. During these times it 
effectively vanishes from the network with users not being able to access any 
of the shares or even RDP until the queue length settles back down to normal. 
This can take 20 seconds or 10 minutes with no real pattern.

Any ideas where I should start looking?

Olly

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RE: License compliance tracking

[Oliver Marshall]

I think only for MS packages


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From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com]
Sent: 22 October 2009 15:26
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: License compliance tracking

Doesn't SCCM do this?

From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com]
Sent: Thursday, 22 October 2009 10:18 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: License compliance tracking

Hi chaps,

Does anyone know of a tool that we can use to track compliance of licenses? 
That is, to tell us how many of a given (non MS) license is available, how many 
are in use and so how many are available or are required?

We dont mind entering the info manually as licenses will move around fairly 
infrequently. We have tools which report the licenses in use on each machine 
but they dont know what licenses have been purchased or what licenses havent 
been applied to a machine yet.

Open source would be lovely of course. Anything has to be able to handle non-MS 
licenses like Adobe etc.

Thanks

Olly





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RE: License compliance tracking

[Oliver Marshall]

Fancy sharing that spreadsheet? :)

(without the license codes of course :) )


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From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com]
Sent: 22 October 2009 15:21
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: License compliance tracking

We use "the spreadsheet from hell" here to track licenses, both MS & non-MS 
products.
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Oliver Marshall 
mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com>> wrote:
Hi chaps,

Does anyone know of a tool that we can use to track compliance of licenses? 
That is, to tell us how many of a given (non MS) license is available, how many 
are in use and so how many are available or are required?

We dont mind entering the info manually as licenses will move around fairly 
infrequently. We have tools which report the licenses in use on each machine 
but they dont know what licenses have been purchased or what licenses havent 
been applied to a machine yet.

Open source would be lovely of course. Anything has to be able to handle non-MS 
licenses like Adobe etc.

Thanks

Olly


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License compliance tracking

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi chaps,

Does anyone know of a tool that we can use to track compliance of licenses? 
That is, to tell us how many of a given (non MS) license is available, how many 
are in use and so how many are available or are required?

We dont mind entering the info manually as licenses will move around fairly 
infrequently. We have tools which report the licenses in use on each machine 
but they dont know what licenses have been purchased or what licenses havent 
been applied to a machine yet.

Open source would be lovely of course. Anything has to be able to handle non-MS 
licenses like Adobe etc.

Thanks

Olly


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RE: OpenSource CRM?

[Oliver Marshall]

Sugar is the clear choice for opensource. Salesforce is superb and fairly 
reasonable.

Autotask has just released a stunning value package for their GO! service at 
$29 per month per user.

Connectwise is insanely expensive and flakey around the edge but it's very 
powerful.


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From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com]
Sent: 21 October 2009 20:08
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OpenSource CRM?

Anyone tried vTiger or SugarCRM?  The costs of our current CRM is killing us.  
We have very basic requirements, and about 6 users.

Any other CRM favorites out there?  Also looking into Cloud based products...

TIA,

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Blank values in perfmon graphs

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi,

We have a network with a few terminal services and an SBS box. The TS users 
have been reporting that things are 'sticky' today, so we fired up the perfmon 
set that we have saved for this kind of thing expecting that someone has a 
rogue process munching the CPU cycles or something.

However the server was 'sticky' and when this stickyness occurs the perfmon 
graphs just show no value. The last value field shows  and the actual graph 
line just vanishes.

Anyone know why that would be ? The values being measured are things like disk 
read queue, write queue, processor %, active sessions etc. They can all be 
affected, or just individual counters.

I'm assuming that if perfmon is getting probs reading values then it has to be 
something to do with WMI not responding in time on the machines being monitored.

Any ideas?

Olly

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Mail flow testing service

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi,

Can anyone recommend a mail flow testing service that will send emails to a 
mailbox, test that they are recieved, say every 30 mins or so, and then alert 
if one fails?

Olly

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Win7, MSBSA and Visio add-in

[Oliver Marshall]

Anyone noticed that the Visio add-in for the MS Baseline security analyzer 
doesn't appear to work in Windows 7?

Visio reports it as being loaded and enabled, but the MSBA menu doesnt appear 
and the scanning features don't work, as though it's just not enabled.

Olly

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Accessing sharepoint via OWA

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi chaps,

Does anyone here use OWA to allow users to access sharepoint via the Documents 
section of OWA?

If so, what URl are you entering for the sharepoint site ? 

I've set the Private Computer settings to allow access to sharepoint, and also 
added the sharepoint server internal and external hostnames to the Allow box as 
well as set the internal domain name in the Remote File Servers tab. I've also 
then done an iisreset /noforce as dictated by MS.

However, no matter what people enter to access sharepoint in the Documents 
section, it keeps saying that the location that you attempted to access cannot 
be shown in Outlook Web Access. 

Has anyone got this working ?

UNC file path access works a treat however. 

Olly

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RE: Dell SAS controllers

[Oliver Marshall]

Called Dell. The official response is that on the SAS controllers mixing SATA 
and SAS isn't supported. It will work with the PERC controllers but isn't 
recommended.

So i have to image the data off and replace the drives, then image the data 
back on.

H



From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com]
Sent: 28 August 2009 09:45
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Dell SAS controllers

SATA and SAS use different command sets, which is why I don't think you can 
mix/match.

From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com]
Sent: Friday, 28 August 2009 4:33 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Dell SAS controllers

Pooo. I thought that it would work but you wouldnt get the speed benefits until 
both disks were sas.

H

From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com]
Sent: 28 August 2009 09:25
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Dell SAS controllers

I believe you can only have SATA or SAS disks attached, not a mix.

Cheers
Ken

From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com]
Sent: Friday, 28 August 2009 4:05 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Dell SAS controllers

Chaps,

Should any Dell HD controller labelled as SAS be able to take SAS or SATA disks?

Particularly we have a SAS 5/ir controller that has SATA disks in it and we 
want to replace them, one at a time, with SAS disks (one at a time so that the 
raid can resync each time).

Anyone know if that should work?

Olly

















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RE: Dell SAS controllers

[Oliver Marshall]

Pooo. I thought that it would work but you wouldnt get the speed benefits until 
both disks were sas.

H

From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com]
Sent: 28 August 2009 09:25
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Dell SAS controllers

I believe you can only have SATA or SAS disks attached, not a mix.

Cheers
Ken

From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com]
Sent: Friday, 28 August 2009 4:05 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Dell SAS controllers

Chaps,

Should any Dell HD controller labelled as SAS be able to take SAS or SATA disks?

Particularly we have a SAS 5/ir controller that has SATA disks in it and we 
want to replace them, one at a time, with SAS disks (one at a time so that the 
raid can resync each time).

Anyone know if that should work?

Olly









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Dell SAS controllers

[Oliver Marshall]

Chaps,

Should any Dell HD controller labelled as SAS be able to take SAS or SATA disks?

Particularly we have a SAS 5/ir controller that has SATA disks in it and we 
want to replace them, one at a time, with SAS disks (one at a time so that the 
raid can resync each time).

Anyone know if that should work?

Olly

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RE: Checking whats using the disk

[Oliver Marshall]

Thanks. I feel that  this may be a pointless investigation really, as they 
can���t do without any applications that they are using, but hey-ho, I said we 
would look.

Thanks for the info.

Olly

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From: asbz...@gmail.com [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
Sent: 21 August 2009 11:49
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Checking whats using the disk

SysInternals.com can help.

How about Handle.exe?

It will get you some of the info.

Longer term, process monitor will let you see and record usage of memory and 
the registry and the file system.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry


From: Oliver Marshall
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:27:01 +0100
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Checking whats using the disk
I should also mention tha�ve used perfmon to check the average disk queue 
usage and when the hammering occurs this goes up to as much as 200 to 300. We 
just need to know whats causing the activity really.

Olly

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From: Oliver Marshall
Sent: 21 August 2009 09:22
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Checking whats using the disk

Hi chaps,

Can anyone recommend a tool that we can use to check which process/user is 
hammering the drive of a terminal services machine? Ideally one that logs 
results over time so that we can correlate things at the end of the day and see 
when the speed issue occurred (by liaising with users) and then check those 
times with the disk reporting app thingy.

Any suggestions ?

Olly













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RE: Checking whats using the disk

[Oliver Marshall]

I should also mention that �ve used perfmon to check the average disk queue 
usage and when the hammering occurs this goes up to as much as 200 to 300. We 
just need to know whats causing the activity really.

Olly

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From: Oliver Marshall
Sent: 21 August 2009 09:22
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Checking whats using the disk

Hi chaps,

Can anyone recommend a tool that we can use to check which process/user is 
hammering the drive of a terminal services machine? Ideally one that logs 
results over time so that we can correlate things at the end of the day and see 
when the speed issue occurred (by liaising with users) and then check those 
times with the disk reporting app thingy.

Any suggestions ?

Olly





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Checking whats using the disk

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi chaps,

Can anyone recommend a tool that we can use to check which process/user is 
hammering the drive of a terminal services machine? Ideally one that logs 
results over time so that we can correlate things at the end of the day and see 
when the speed issue occurred (by liaising with users) and then check those 
times with the disk reporting app thingy.

Any suggestions ?

Olly

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'Secure' mobile phones

[Oliver Marshall]

Is there such a thing as a secure mobile phone? I mean, one where the company 
who owns the phone can get access to things like call reports without going via 
the telco, where they can block calls to/from certain numbers or allow calls 
to/from certain numbers without the telco etc ?

I know that blackberry and Windows Phone/Mobile/CE/etc allow for remote wiping, 
which ticks some boxes, and iPhone to a lesser extent, but if I said i wanted 
the most secure mobile setup (using commercially available devices rather than 
some black-hat-nasa-nsa type thing), what would people suggest ?

Olly

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RE: Palm Pre recommendation ?

[Oliver Marshall]

Vincent,

Can i ask, what do you think of the keyboard? I hear it may be a touch small 
for those with larger fingers? Also, does it support Exchange ActiveSync do you 
know ?

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From: Vincent Medina [mailto:vmed...@apcn.net]
Sent: 22 July 2009 13:54
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Palm Pre recommendation ?

Same pre since day one release. There is  a learning curve since it is a new 
OS, but the best phone I have ever owned. I have owned iPhone(s), Touch Pro, 
All the Treos, BB, by far the pre beats them all.

From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 8:03 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Palm Pre recommendation ?

It seems like a lot of folks have had issues with that. I know a big phone guy 
and his broke in less than a week.

From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 4:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Palm Pre recommendation ?

Lo chaps.

Can anyone recommend the palm pre as a phone to wait for (due out Sept here in 
the UK) ? I'm a big phone lover and currently use the Nokia E71 after selling 
my iPhone after about 2 months. Previous phones include the Nokia E51 (great 
phone), all the HTC range practically, etc.

It's either that or wait for the Nokia E72 which looks ok, but I feel the need 
for a bit of wizzy-flash-slidy-social-ness in my life.

Olly













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Palm Pre recommendation ?

[Oliver Marshall]

Lo chaps.

Can anyone recommend the palm pre as a phone to wait for (due out Sept here in 
the UK) ? I'm a big phone lover and currently use the Nokia E71 after selling 
my iPhone after about 2 months. Previous phones include the Nokia E51 (great 
phone), all the HTC range practically, etc.

It's either that or wait for the Nokia E72 which looks ok, but I feel the need 
for a bit of wizzy-flash-slidy-social-ness in my life.

Olly

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RE: Palm Pre: The phone for suckers?

[Oliver Marshall]

So, given all the feedback about palm pre, would you all recommend one ?




-Original Message-
From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] 
Sent: 16 July 2009 15:35
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Palm Pre: The phone for suckers?

HotSync on the way:
http://www.precentral.net/palm-os-hotsync-coming-classic


 

-Original Message-
From: Vincent Medina [mailto:vmed...@apcn.net] 
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 9:30 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Palm Pre: The phone for suckers?

Pre WebOS v1 is still better than iphone v3..

-Original Message-
From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:27 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Palm Pre: The phone for suckers?

Remember the iPhone didn't have apps for over a year...  The pre already
has 30 

-Original Message-
From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 4:06 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Palm Pre: The phone for suckers?

But those are the most fun. (I'll admit I installed a few)
 
Phillip Partipilo
Parametric Solutions Inc.
Jupiter, Florida
(561) 747-6107


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From: Schwartz, Jim [mailto:jschwa...@bbandt.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 3:44 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Palm Pre: The phone for suckers?


App Catalogue is limited at this point but once the apps start growing
it will be nice. Hopefully they will limit the kiddie apps so there
aren't 600 fart simulators like the iPhone.



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RE: Internal Site link using SBS 2008

[Oliver Marshall]

Yeah, I'm looking to change the URL itself rather than the DNS.

I can change the favourite links that appear in IE but that doesn't have any 
impact on the desktop version.



-Original Message-
From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] 
Sent: 16 July 2009 15:10
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Internal Site link using SBS 2008

It doesn't sound like it's the name resolution that he needs to change
since these laptops will be used outside the firewall, though it could
work if his AD domain suffix is the same as one of the top level domains
(I know, I know...) and he sets up a split DNS structure.  This is
assuming of course that he wants the link to point to http://companyweb.
It sounds like he might actually want it to point to a different URI.  I
haven't worked with SBS 2008, but I assume this is possible.

 
-Original Message-
From: Jeremy Anderson [mailto:jer...@mapiadmin.net] 
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 9:18 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Internal Site link using SBS 2008

Companyweb is just a CNAME record in DNS - you can change it to point to
any A Record you want.

-Original Message-----
From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 2:31 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Internal Site link using SBS 2008

Hi chaps,

When attaching a workstation to an SBS 2008 based network a link appears
on the desktop called Internal Site. Is it possible to change the URL
that that link goes to while allowing the link to be auto-created ?

Currently it goes to http://companyweb, but we want it to go to the
external address instead as the laptops will be used outside as much as
inside.

Olly


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Internal Site link using SBS 2008

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi chaps,

When attaching a workstation to an SBS 2008 based network a link appears on the 
desktop called Internal Site. Is it possible to change the URL that that link 
goes to while allowing the link to be auto-created ?

Currently it goes to http://companyweb, but we want it to go to the external 
address instead as the laptops will be used outside as much as inside.

Olly


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RE: Import-mailbox duplicate behaviour

[Oliver Marshall]

Is there a parameter to determine what happens when a dupe is detected ?

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From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com]
Sent: 08 July 2009 00:34
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Import-mailbox duplicate behaviour

My advice to you (and all other readers) - don't depend on default behavior. 
Specify all available parameters.


From: Oliver Marshall [oliver.marsh...@g2support.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 4:16 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Import-mailbox duplicate behaviour
Hi gang,

Does anyone know what the default behaviour of the import-mailbox powershell 
command is when importing data in to an existing mailbox? Will duplicates occur 
if two emails are the same, or will it only import emails that don't already 
exist?

Olly









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Import-mailbox duplicate behaviour

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi gang,

Does anyone know what the default behaviour of the import-mailbox powershell 
command is when importing data in to an existing mailbox? Will duplicates occur 
if two emails are the same, or will it only import emails that don't already 
exist?

Olly

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RE: Server 2008 SP2

[Oliver Marshall]

Yeah, we're seeing it in WSUS on our SBS 2008 boxes as being required by those 
SBS 2008 boxes, but NOT in Windows Update on the same boxes.


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-Original Message-
From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] 
Sent: 30 June 2009 20:25
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Server 2008 SP2

Shouldn't SP2 for Server 2008 be showing up in Windows Update now?

I can't quite figure out why, but when I check for updates on some of my Server 
2008 machines WU offers SP2 as an option, but it doesn't offer it for some 
others. I can't seem to figure out the pattern, though...



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Scanning and storing PDFs

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi chaps,

Can anyone recommend an affordable (ie cheap) software option to allow me to 
scan documents in as PDFs, tag them somehow, and ideally also search for their 
contents? Vista can do almost all that alone except for tagging the PDFs.

Thinking about something like Omnipage or something similar.

Olly

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APC Powersh*te v8.01 for Windows 2008

[Oliver Marshall]

Anyone got Powershute Business Single Node v8.01 for Windows 2008 to hand? ALL 
the download links for Powershute on the APC site point to the wrong folder in 
their FTP site, and scouring the FTP site it would seem that there aren't any 
Powershute Business installs on there.
We have an APC UPS (clearly) but have lost the CD in the week since it arrived 
here.
Any able to help ?
Olly
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RE: Blogging

[Oliver Marshall]

I use wordpress.com which does free wordpress based blogs. Very nice and easy 
to use. If you want more features as you get in to it you can host your own 
wordpress based blog and migrate your data over to it.

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From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com]
Sent: 25 June 2009 11:41
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Blogging

Since I am just beginning to learn Blogging I would prefer to not do it on your 
forum until I know more about blogging.  I will only be blogging technical 
information some for my garage clients and some for a program I am in.  I 
looked on Live Spaces and they appear to do a lot with WordPress but there are 
a number out there.  Consider me a rank amateur at this or below a newbie.

Jon
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Rod Trent 
mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com>> wrote:
Is the information you want to blog about technical?  myITforum.com can give 
you your own blogging space.

If its personal, Google's blogger is good.

https://www.blogger.com/



What is a good Blogging site/setup?  I know next to nothing about this  need to 
begin actually doing some blogging.

Thanks,

Jon

















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XP accessing Sharepoint document libraries via webdav

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi chaps,

I have a 2008 sharepoint server at siteA and at site B i have 10 XP machines. 
I'd like XP to be able to access the sharepoint doc libraries using webdav over 
the internet in the same way that Vista can, ideally even mounting a doc 
library as a mapped drive.

Is this doable in XP SP3 ?

Olly


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Windows 2003/Exchange 2003 to SBS 2008

[Oliver Marshall]

Anyone know of any guides on how to upgrade from Windows 2003 & Exchange 2003 
(Multiple servers) to SBS 2008 ?

Olly


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Opensource Windows FTP servers with AD support

[Oliver Marshall]

Can anyone recommend a windows FTP server that supports AD/LDAP authentication 
which isn't Filezilla (as that doesn't support LDAP) ?

Olly

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RE: Mac Anti-Malware

[Oliver Marshall]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure its scheduled only, at least it is in windows.

For commercial apps you can look at Sophos.

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From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com]
Sent: 05 June 2009 09:48
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Mac Anti-Malware

Does it do On-access scans and can it be setup to do scheduled scans.  I 
thought Clam was only a on-demand scanner.

Jon
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Mayo, Bill 
mailto:bem...@pittcountync.gov>> wrote:
+1


From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 12:57 PM

To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Mac Anti-Malware
Our Mac guru here recommends ClamAV, or actually for the Mac version I think 
it's ClamXAV.  Free, open source, certainly worth looking into.  It's what he 
uses at home on his personal Macs.
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Jon Harris 
mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Well the user in question has repeatly stated that he does not need AV but the 
Univeristy just said make it so (cutting out his argument that he does not need 
any).  That said we will not install anything from Symantec after the last time 
we used their stuff and had it NOT find viruses.  McAfee may be an option but 
not one I was hoping to see.

Jon
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:36 PM, John Aldrich 
mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>> wrote:

That's a good question. The most common answer you're going to find is "we 
don't need antivirus/anti-malware." For the most part that is true, as OS X is 
based on Unix (BSD to be exact, I think.) That being said, there has been some 
recently publicized (in this list even, I think :)) activity that warrants 
looking for anti-malware on the Mac.

My suggestion would be to check the "usual suspects": McAfee, AVG, Symantec 
(YUCK!), etc.

I just did a little bit of looking (not much, mind) and the ONLY thing I found 
was Avast! has a Mac version. Trend Micro (maker of PC-Cillin and host of the 
free on-line virus scanner "antivirus.com") makes a Mac 
version of their stuff, so it's available. You just have to look a lot harder 
to find it than with Windows anti-malware. :)



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From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 12:21 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Mac Anti-Malware



What is a good Mac OS X(?) Anti-Malware software?  I have zero experience with 
Mac's and was just instructed to begin looking for some software for one.  
Anyone got a good recommendation they will offer up?



Thanks and I am off to see what is out there.



Jon Harris





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RE: SAS5/iR multiple raid question

[Oliver Marshall]

Nuts :(

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-Original Message-
From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] 
Sent: 05 June 2009 09:33
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SAS5/iR multiple raid question

I'm pretty sure it supports multiple RAID1 arrays. But I recall creating them 
in the RAID controller BIOS...

Cheers
Ken


From: Oliver Marshall [oliver.marsh...@g2support.com]
Sent: Friday, 5 June 2009 6:25 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: SAS5/iR multiple raid question

Hi chaps,

Anyone know if a Dell SAS 5/iR card support multiple raid 1 arrays? The reason 
I ask is that we've just put in a couple more SAS drives in to our Dell 1900 
server and can't find an option to create a new raid1 array anywhere in the 
Server Management app. The drives show up and look fine, but there isn't a 
'create new virtual disk' option anywhere in the Storage node like I remember 
there being.

Does the SAS 5/iR only support one Raid1 or am I being dim (mer) ?

Olly

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SAS5/iR multiple raid question

[Oliver Marshall]

Hi chaps,

Anyone know if a Dell SAS 5/iR card support multiple raid 1 arrays? The reason 
I ask is that we've just put in a couple more SAS drives in to our Dell 1900 
server and can't find an option to create a new raid1 array anywhere in the 
Server Management app. The drives show up and look fine, but there isn't a 
'create new virtual disk' option anywhere in the Storage node like I remember 
there being. 

Does the SAS 5/iR only support one Raid1 or am I being dim (mer) ?

Olly

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RE: Internet based backup

[Oliver Marshall]

John,

We do hybrid solutions for a few clients with similar requirements. The size 
itself isn't an issue.

We install an onsite backup unit (basically a NAS box running an Intel 
processor and Windows) and a dedicated ADSL2+ line (24mb down and 2mb up). The 
first backup is then made and copied to a smaller NAS which we provide. It's 
picked up by a courier and brought back here where we copy the data to the 
servers. The offsite feature is then enabled on the onsite backup unit and the 
next backup happens over the internet. We charge a monthly fee, starting for 
this kind of service at £200 a month depending on storage requirements (I guess 
around $300 per month currently).

Using standard tech (compression and 'data delta') the actually data sent over 
the internet is reduced to a minimum.

I'm not sure where you are in the states, but I'm sure a company can do a 
similar service to this as it's all based on standard tech.

Olly

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From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
Sent: 20 May 2009 16:21
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Internet based backup


I'm looking at adding an internet based backup service as a way to have an 
off-site backup for DR purposes. I am afraid that the initial backup 
(approximately ½ terabyte) would kill our internet connection, though... :-/



What I need is something that is 1) low-cost (or at least not going to charge 
an arm and three legs) 2) secure and 3) redundant (both redundant servers and 
redundant internet connection.)



Anyone got any suggestions???




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RE: Monthly spam figures

[Oliver Marshall]

Ta. Seen those though they are all graphs rather than need figures.

Ideally I'm after a csv or xml feed of current stats.

I thought maybe spamhaus might do it but they don't.

Olly

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From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com]
Sent: 15 May 2009 14:45
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Monthly spam figures

http://www.spamcop.net/spamgraph.shtml?spamyear

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/03/spam-data-and-trends-q1-2009.html

http://www.messagelabs.com/intelligence.aspx




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Evatone, Inc.
727.572.7076  x388
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From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com]
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 5:26 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Monthly spam figures

Anyone know where I can find monthly spam figures for the last 18 months or so? 
Ideally as a % of estimated email totals, which in turn would imply from a 
large email filtering vendor or other such organisation. I've had a google but 
I can't find much, lots of graphs yes, but not actual numbers. I'm looking to 
integrate the figures in to a presentation and graphs themselves aren't 
suitable.

Any ideas ?

Olly










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RE: iPhone and battery life

[Oliver Marshall]

With wifi off on ours we get just under 2 days with minimal use (ie emails but 
not many calls). Hard use gives us a full day.

Make sure you have the latest firmware installed.

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From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com]
Sent: 15 May 2009 13:54
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: iPhone and battery life

Ok.. I have a Blackberry Bold.  The other day I was messing around with my 
son's iPhone and decided I would get one to see how it works.

So far, I like it very much... EXCEPT battery life SUCKS!

Took off full night charge this morning at 7am and already at 60%.

Those of you that have iPhones.. what are you doing to help this?  I have wifi 
off, Bluetooth off and just now set active sync to manual.


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