RE: Virtualization

[Reimer, Mark]

Tool has been moved to:

http://h71019.www7.hp.com/ActiveAnswers/us/en/sizers/unified-sizer-server-virtulization.html

Mark


From: rodtr...@myitforum.com [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com]
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 5:19 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Virtualization

Hyper-V will be your best bet if you already have it bundled in your licensing. 
 Otherwise, if you choose to pay for a virt app, it might make sense to throw 
the VMs into Azure.

HP has a sizing tool:

http://www.virtualizationadmin.com/blogs/conger/news/download-sizing-and-configuration-tool-for-hyper-v-320.html

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Sent: ‎Friday‎, ‎April‎ ‎26‎, ‎2013 ‎7‎:‎10‎ ‎AM
To: NT System Admin Issues

Looking to virtualize 7 windows 2008 servers.
A couple of questions:
How do I size a Virtualized server and san?
Which virtual server software is best?
Hyper V, VMware, citrix
Any guidance in this area is appreciated…


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RE: MS site?

[Reimer, Mark]

Works for me (including signin), Alberta, Canada

Mark

From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com]
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 7:54 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: MS site?

Anyone else having trouble getting to this link?

http://support.microsoft.com
Christopher Bodnar
Enterprise Architect I, Corporate Office of Technology:Enterprise Architecture 
and Engineering Services

Tel 610-807-6459
3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017
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RE: subnetting question

[Reimer, Mark]

Yes. For a /22 mask, you need to be on a 4,8,12... boundary. As in your subnets 
below, the /23 all start with an even number and include the next number 
(16-17, 18-19, etc)

As you probably know, masks are based on binary math. I can't quickly find a 
tutorial for this, but many exist, as do subnet calculators.

For you Americans, have a great long weekend. Us Canucks had ours last weekend.

Mark

From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com]
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 2:58 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: subnetting question

I must not understand all I know about subnetting

Here's the deal:
I started out with these two subnets (I'm including the subnet and broadcast 
addresses):
172.16.8.0/22 = 172.16.8.0-172.16.11.255
172.16.12.0/22 = 172.16.12.0-172.16.15.255

I planned to segment my campus, so I planned to use the following subnets, 
which I wanted to have 512 addresses instead of 1024:
172.16.16.0-172.16.17.255/23   not in use yet
172.16.18.0-172.16.19.255/23   not in use yet
172.16.20.0-172.16.21.255/23   not in use yet
172.16.22.1-172.16.23.254/23   in use, working ok
172.16.24.1-172.16.25.254/23   not in use yet

However, when I tried to use this subnet, with a /22 for 1024 addresses, my 
router doesn't like it, and when creating a DHCP scope, it tries to make a 
superscope.
172.16.26.0/22 = 172.16.26.0-172.16.29.255

It seems to me I should be able to do what I've described, but apparently I'm 
misunderstanding things.
So one question is, why can't I do what I've outlined?

Another way to put it is, if I want a /22 subnet, I still have to make them on 
the 4,8,12,16,20,24,28. boundaries?


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RE: OTish VPN tunnel on the quick and cheap.

[Reimer, Mark]

Two Linux boxes with something like Freesco? I don't know if Freesco can do 
this, but I'm sure there is something that will make a point to point vpn.

Mark


From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 1:27 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OTish VPN tunnel on the quick and cheap.

Need two simple cheap devices to fire up a point to point VPN tunnel. Cable 
modem at a small remote office back to a cable modem at the main office that we 
will tap into our primary network. Low traffic and very temporary. Suggestions?



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RE: PC lifecycle?

[Reimer, Mark]

I'm sure many of us have some older. Until recently, I had a DOS only machine. 
My current oldest is still running Windows 98. But I digress.

Some people (power users) I try to swap out at 3 - 4 years. Most go 5 or 6, 
some go longer (occasional email check or very light surfer).

Mark

From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 1:13 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: PC lifecycle?


How long do you folks keep PCs and laptops in your organizations?

4? 5? 6 years?

My oldest are a few from 2006.

I am thinking I should start replacing after they hit 5 years (4 years if heavy 
user/issues).

I know it will depend on the business environment...I'm just trying to get some 
idea as to what others do.

Thx

.

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RE: Anyone using HP MSM 760 procurve wireless?

[Reimer, Mark]

Yes, we have mac clients and using MSM 760 controller with 422 WAP's. We are a 
school.

Having said all that, we do (primarily) mac address authentication (we are a 
small school). Students come by at the beginning of the year (or after 
Christmas with the new toy), and we take down the mac address of it. Students 
here like that (no web page), and for small devices (smart phones etc), it's 
much easier for them.

I know Mac address is not the best and are spoofable, but so far, that is not a 
real problem for us.

Other questions? Let me know.


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From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 3:18 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Anyone using HP MSM 760 procurve wireless?


Anyone out there on the list using HP Procurve MSM controllers and access
points?   Specifically either wiht schools or Apple clients?   

J



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RE: IOPS's calculations

[Reimer, Mark]

Thanks for all the ideas, helps, etc.

Mark

From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 7:00 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IOPS's calculations

When we were planning for our SAN and VM conversion/migration, the Microsoft 
engineer we worked with had us collect information on our servers about usage 
using the MAPs tool.  Looks like it's still around-not sure if it would do what 
you need:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=7826

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb977556.aspx

If you are a Dell shop, their new dpack tool is nice too, but was still in beta 
when we used it a few weeks ago-not sure if they've released yet.  If not, 
you'll have to work with your Dell engineer to get the reports generated that 
you would need.

-Bonnie


From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:mark.rei...@prairie.edu]
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 2:56 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IOPS's calculations

The question is: I want to know what my different servers (no san, each with 
their own direct attached disks storage) is using (not what they are capable 
of, but what they are actually using/doing).

Sorry if I was unclear to begin with.

Mark

From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com]
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 2:55 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IOPS's calculations

Your SAN should be able to produce these numbers.

Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com<mailto:br...@briandesmond.com>

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From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:mark.rei...@prairie.edu]
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 2:56 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: IOPS's calculations

Hi folks,

Thanks for all your help in the past.

Looking at setting up a SAN. From my research, I think one thing to be aware of 
is current IOPS (disk). There are a number of sites that will help you 
determine IOPS based on what hard drives (and RAID configuration). My question 
is: Many of my current servers are light use. The IOPS that these servers are 
capable of is much greater than what is actually being used.

So, in order to more properly size the SAN, is there a way to determine working 
IOPS? That is, what is actually being used? I assume Perfmon would help, and 
will need to log over a period of time (I think a week would be about right, to 
catch most scenarios). But what counters, and how to analyze those counters?

Servers are Windows 2003.

Thanks.


Mark Reimer, A+, MCSA
Servers & Networking Admin
Prairie Bible Institute
Box 4000
Three Hills, AB  T0M-2N0
Canada
Tel: 403-443-5511, Ext. 3476
Fax: 403-443-5540
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RE: IOPS's calculations

[Reimer, Mark]

The question is: I want to know what my different servers (no san, each with 
their own direct attached disks storage) is using (not what they are capable 
of, but what they are actually using/doing).

Sorry if I was unclear to begin with.

Mark

From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com]
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 2:55 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IOPS's calculations

Your SAN should be able to produce these numbers.

Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com<mailto:br...@briandesmond.com>

w - 312.625.1438 | c   - 312.731.3132

From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:mark.rei...@prairie.edu]
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 2:56 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: IOPS's calculations

Hi folks,

Thanks for all your help in the past.

Looking at setting up a SAN. From my research, I think one thing to be aware of 
is current IOPS (disk). There are a number of sites that will help you 
determine IOPS based on what hard drives (and RAID configuration). My question 
is: Many of my current servers are light use. The IOPS that these servers are 
capable of is much greater than what is actually being used.

So, in order to more properly size the SAN, is there a way to determine working 
IOPS? That is, what is actually being used? I assume Perfmon would help, and 
will need to log over a period of time (I think a week would be about right, to 
catch most scenarios). But what counters, and how to analyze those counters?

Servers are Windows 2003.

Thanks.


Mark Reimer, A+, MCSA
Servers & Networking Admin
Prairie Bible Institute
Box 4000
Three Hills, AB  T0M-2N0
Canada
Tel: 403-443-5511, Ext. 3476
Fax: 403-443-5540
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RE: Wireless bridge between buildings.

[Reimer, Mark]

Thanks for all the suggestions and advice. It really helped a lot.

Have a great day.

Mark

-Original Message-
From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 9:21 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Wireless bridge between buildings.

Another option is to bore new conduit. We are having that done now at 14 
buildings. Kinda cool, they basically dig a hole at each end and put a machine 
in one hole and it just tunnels all the way to the destination. Thing will go 
up and down around corners. Very cool to watch. It makes very tight turns. So 
they don't have to tear up parking lots..they just bore underneath.

-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 10:38 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Wireless bridge between buildings.

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Maglinger, Paul  wrote:
>> paved over all the manholes in the parking lot.  I've got a 600 foot 
>> utility service conduit with a junction... somewhere.
>
> There are services that will locate pipe and conduit 

  Yah, facilities says they're having that done.  We'll see.  :)

-- Ben

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RE: SpiceWorks -- Too good to be true?

[Reimer, Mark]

What numbers are we talking about ("becoming too large", or from Jim (below), 
"smaller sized org")?

Thanks.

Mark

-Original Message-
From: Ben M. Schorr [mailto:b...@rolandschorr.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 7:32 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SpiceWorks -- Too good to be true?

I've heard that as well. We've never tried to use SpiceWorks in a particularly 
large org, but one of my clients did and found that it started to stumble when 
they grew too large.

Ben M. Schorr
Chief Executive Officer
__
Roland Schorr & Tower
www.rolandschorr.com


-Original Message-
From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 7:12
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SpiceWorks -- Too good to be true?

We were a big fan of it but had to replace it. It just couldn't handle the size 
of our inventory and I threw a lot of hardware at it trying to get it to work. 
So if you are a smaller sized org or won't be using the inventory it is a 
wonderful product.

-Original Message-
From: Jay Kulsh [mailto:jayku...@csi.com]
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 3:49 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: SpiceWorks -- Too good to be true?

A few months ago, there was a discussion here about best monitoring tool. 
Longitude, from Heroix and Op5 were recommended, among others. 

However SpiceWorks seems to provide monitoring of all sorts for free. There 
must be some catch. I would appreciate if some of you can share your experience 
with SpiceWorks -- both good and bad. Thanks.

(Last mention of SpiceWorks in this list was, I think, 20 months ago.)

Jay Kulsh
So. Pasadena, CA
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RE: web filtering

[Reimer, Mark]

We have a Fortigate firewall, and use the built-in web filtering. Seems to be 
working good for us.

Mark

From: pdw1...@hotmail.com [mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 9:40 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: web filtering

I've finally gotten a budget to put in place a web filtering platform.  I've 
looked at three so far: Websense, iPrism and Barracuda.  Of those, I like 
Websense but it was too costly and no one liked Barracuda.  iPrism is looking 
good so far but I'd like to demo a few more.
I'm not opposed to a cloud-based service either.
If you are using a web-filtering product, can you tell me what it is and 
whether you feel it is worth the price you pay?
I've been reading some reviews on different products, but a review is secondary 
to what actual users experience.
Thanks!
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RE: Backup alternatives

[Reimer, Mark]

I do need "removable" storage for off site rotation.

Mark

-Original Message-
From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] 
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 11:04 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Backup alternatives

Do you just want a device to dump data to? (AKA, an external HD or array?) Or 
do you need something with removable storage so you can move data off site for 
disaster recovery?

I would recommend taking a look at http://tapesucks.com/ as I saw a demo of 
one, and it seems quite good for the price.


--Matt Ross
Ephrata School District


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From: Reimer, Mark
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To: NT System Admin Issues
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Sent: Mon, 07 Nov 2011
07:46:43 -0800
Subject: Backup alternatives


> In September (20-23), there was a question about backup devices. My 
> issue is related, but more open.
> 
> My tape drive died late last week. We back up about 1.5 TB per week 
> (full and incrementals combined), so external HD is a very real 
> option. The file server is older (Dell 2950). I don't think there is a 
> eSata port on it. Our internet connection isn't very fast (20 Mb up 
> and down), and quite busy, so a cloud type solution may not work well.
> 
> I'm open to any ideas you might have.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mark
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RE: Backup alternatives

[Reimer, Mark]

Sorry,

OS is Win2K3, 64 bit. But that might change if/when I update the file server.

I'm not too worried about software at this point, more of a hardware question.

I think there might be an open slot in the 2950. I was also looking into a 
simple NAS unit (one or two drive, with easy swappable (hopefully hot) hard 
drives).

Mark

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 8:52 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Backup alternatives

What OS? Any open slots in the 2950? (I can't remember how many slots it has, 
but I'm pretty sure it has at least one.)

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
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From: Reimer, Mark 
[mailto:mark.rei...@prairie.edu]<mailto:[mailto:mark.rei...@prairie.edu]>
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 10:47 AM
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Subject: Backup alternatives

In September (20-23), there was a question about backup devices. My issue is 
related, but more open.

My tape drive died late last week. We back up about 1.5 TB per week (full and 
incrementals combined), so external HD is a very real option. The file server 
is older (Dell 2950). I don't think there is a eSata port on it. Our internet 
connection isn't very fast (20 Mb up and down), and quite busy, so a cloud type 
solution may not work well.

I'm open to any ideas you might have.

Thanks

Mark

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RE: Lab Computer / Server at Home + Vmware

[Reimer, Mark]

If you are planning more than just 1 or 2 hard drives, I'd be tempted to look 
at a bigger power supply. Otherwise, for a home use, lab machine, I think it 
would work nicely.

My two cents worth. Others on the list are more qualified than I to comment.

Mark

From: justino garcia [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 8:08 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Lab Computer / Server at Home + Vmware

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101377
Do  you think this is a good start, to start as a home lab Machine with VMWARE 
EXSI.

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RE: OT:Age Discrimination in IT

[Reimer, Mark]

If I was a hiring person, I'd be much more wary of the 10 years absence. If you 
can convince the employer that your skills are current/adequate for today's 
needs/wants (or for their needs/wants), then I don't think age will be a 
problem.

I'm in the same age bracket as Daniel.

Mark

On 20 September 2011 13:22, Daniel Evensen 
mailto:dane...@att.net>> wrote:

Age Discrimination in IT: I have read several articles online that states that 
age Discrimination in IT is more prevalent than in other fields. Question, do 
you find this true or false? If you find it true how do you handle it?

I am a former NT System Administrator that was semi-retired and that wants to 
return to the IT field after a 10 year absence. Financially, I do not need to 
work but want to. I feel that the fact my health at 52 is excellent, am at the 
right weight etc, will be a plus in my favor.



Daniel Evensen

Former NT System Administrator

EDS

Belltech.logix

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RE: Hex viewer?

[Reimer, Mark]

WnBrowse

http://www.ngthomas.co.uk/wnbrowse.html

Works better with Hex than Text, IMO.

Mark

-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 10:05 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Hex viewer?

Hey all,

  Can anyone recommend a good hex viewer that can handle files of
arbitrary size (i.e., doesn't read the whole file into memory at
once)?

  All I'm looking for is a table of byte values with offsets on the
left and ASCII interpretation on the right.  If anyone remembers the
"hex view" mode of Vern Buerg's venerable LIST.COM program from the
days of DOS, that's exactly what I'm looking for, except for Win32.

  (I've got a 166 MB text file extracted from an ancient database
table.  All the utilities I've thrown at it appear to think it
consists of one line roughly 170 million characters wide.  There must
be some kind of record separator, but I can't figure out what it is.
Or maybe it's fixed-length, but then I need to view it to determine
the length.)

  I've done the Google, but there are a great many possibilities,
hence my desire for a recommendation from people I know.  :)

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RE: Laptop confusion

[Reimer, Mark]

Agree with others comments about the Vostros. They have caused me
issues, but the Latitudes are rock solid.

Mark

 

From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 9:38 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Laptop confusion

 

Hi Folks,

 

We are purchasing a number of laptops are part of a project here.  Most
of these laptops will be replacing current desktops.  Some will be for
our "nomadic" users who work in schools, hospitals, and so on.

 

Up to now we've purchased ThinkPad laptops, but I'm looking around.
We've been satisfied with our Dell desktops, so I'm looking at Dell
laptops.  My Dell rep suggested a Latitude with docking station for my
staff with desks, and a Vostro for the remote users.   Remote users
access our systems via XenApp, so I don't need anything powerful on
their end.  I'm having a bit of trouble comparing these to the Lenovo
units, though.  I think the Vostro would be about the same as a SL510
series or around that.  The Latitude would be like a T series Lenovo.  I
can match memory and screen size and most features, but processor core
isn't always a direct match.

 

Suggestions?  Really for us, best price wins, but I want to compare
apples to apples, as it were.  Anyone compare these two brands?  Am I
off on the models here?  

 

Thanks,

Tom

 

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RE: Rogue AV kills XP box

[Reimer, Mark]

Cleaned up a couple of machines that had this. As mentioned before,
registry entries needed to be fixed. In my case, it was only on the one
user profile. I could log in as a different user. Once logged in as
another user (admin rights), I just ran Anti-Malware bytes. That got the
executable. Then I had to get to the affected profile. In my case, it
was easy, since all my users are in one location. Got them to log in,
then I took over the machine. Go to the run box, and type "command.com"
(exe files are messed up and won't work). That got the dos box. Then
copied regedit.exe to regedit.com (could rename as well, same effect),
and ran the com file. Then it was just a matter of cleaning the entries,
which are documented (I found the list on another site).

 

Mark

 

From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] 
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 1:00 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Cc: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Rogue AV kills XP box

 


Follow the thread and look for a follow-up from "Tammy Stewart".  Most
likely, she is the person who got it cleaned off the first time (at
VIPRE Support).  It has a link to a tool and to a page in the GFI
discussion lists with another tool for fixing the damage done to the
registry. 

As my original posting mentioned, I believe I had found the actual
executable.  However, I posted looking for help in trying to get the
registry fixed.  (Again, the big problem was, the nasty whacked registry
keys, so apps simply would not run.) 
-- 
richard 

"Angus Scott-Fleming"  wrote on 04/04/2011 01:55:24
PM:

> On 4 Apr 2011 at 10:45, Eric Wittersheim wrote:
> 
> > I had a user that got this one. Vipre didn't catch it either. 
> Vipre tech support was able to clean it 
> > quickly.
> 
> Got any details on how they managed to clean it up?
> 
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RE: Network Messaging (primarily for emergency)

[Reimer, Mark]

We do have speaker phones, and can broadcast that way (which would be
primary). This is in addition to.

 

Thanks for the input. I'll pass it on to the person who was asking.

 

Mark

 

From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 1:54 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Network Messaging (primarily for emergency)

 

My past experience with relying on a computer to send time sensitive
notifications is hit and miss.  We find paging via intercom systems and
office speakers to be the most effective.

 

Is this not a possibility for you?

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Reimer, Mark 
wrote:

Back in the day, "net send" was used to send messages to
users/computers. I tried msg.exe (Windows 7), but didn't have much luck.
I understand I need to change a registry setting on all Windows 7
machines for this to work. I also understand that Net Send doesn't work
on Windows (and needs message service turn on which is turned off by
default), and msg.exe doesn't work for XP (unless there is a download
for it)

 

We support XP and Windows 7, with a couple of Vista machines (all pro
versions, i.e. no home versions). There are also a few Macs on the
network. 

 

What can we do to support an emergency message to all
"turned-on/connected to the lan" computers? Price will be a factor, so
free is best J.

 

Ideas?

 

Thanks.


Mark

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RE: Yosemite backup

[Reimer, Mark]

I'm using it now. We do a 1 TB weekend backup, and 150MB incremental
(twice a week). It's controlling a Dell PV124T from our file server.

It works good for us. I haven't tried anything else, so I can't comment
on comparisons. Restoring a file is fairly quick. It seems to know which
tape to grab.

I find the interface a bit non intuitive. But once it's set, it goes
without a hitch.

Reporting, good enough for me. Not a lot, but I'm more concerned if the
backup worked or not, not too granular information.

HTH.

Mark

-Original Message-
From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] 
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 4:17 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Yosemite backup

Anyone have any experience with this product?  Doing some research now,
but thought I'd ask for personal experiences.

Good?  Bad?  Reporting?

Thanks guys!



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RE: Alternative VoIP Solutions

[Reimer, Mark]

Lumumba,

How many phones are you looking at? I did some research when we were
looking into VOIP (about 6 months ago). The most common is Asterix, or
one of its many variants, including Trixbox. I also came across sipXecs,
which looked very interesting. From what I could learn, Asterix (or
variant) was good for 50, maybe 75 phones (although some people had it
working with 200). I can't say what support is like, but the
peer-to-peer groups seemed quite active. The cost of the phones could be
expensive, and possible network upgrades.

Of course, there are companies that offer the above with support, which
should be a lot cheaper than the companies you mentioned in your email.
I haven't dealt with any of them.

Hope this helps.

Mark

 
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From: Juma, Lumumba [mailto:lcj...@icipe.org] 
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 5:27 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Alternative VoIP Solutions


Hi All,

We are exploring the market for VoIP solutions. However, known market
products like CISCO, Siemens, Alcatel are proving rather expensive for
us as a non-profit. Open source seems the way to go for us. Has any of
you deployed an open source VoIP solution? Support is a crucial factor
for us, we are based in Kenya East Africa. I will appreciate reference
companies.

Thanks,

Lumumba.
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OT: Happy Canada Day and Independence Day

[Reimer, Mark]

To my fellow Canadians, Happy Canada day tomorrow (July 1st). I hope
some of you get a long weekend out of it.

 

To my American friends, Happy Independence day (July 4th). Hopefully
some/most/all of you get a long weekend as well.

 

 

Mark Reimer,  A+, MCSA

Windows Servers & Networking

Prairie Bible Institute

Box 4000

Three Hills, AB  T0M-2N0

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Tel: 403-443-5511, Ext. 3476

Fax: 403-443-5540

Email: mark.rei...@prairie.edu  

www.prairie.edu  

 

 


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RE: Just wondering

[Reimer, Mark]

You are correct, I was thinking of the iPod Touch.

Mark

-Original Message-
From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] 
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 10:54 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Just wondering

Normal iPods -> no

The device you're thinking of is the iPod Touch.

On 5/21/2010 11:42 AM, Reimer, Mark wrote:
> The IPod is (if my information is correct), an IPhone without the
phone.
> Is there an equivalent for Android devices? I have an old Windows
mobile
> based PDA (yes, it still uses a stylus), and it's still working great,
> but I think it will come to the end of its life before too long.

-- 

Phil Brutsche
p...@optimumdata.com

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Just wondering

[Reimer, Mark]

The IPod is (if my information is correct), an IPhone without the phone.
Is there an equivalent for Android devices? I have an old Windows mobile
based PDA (yes, it still uses a stylus), and it's still working great,
but I think it will come to the end of its life before too long.

 

Know of anything?

 

TIA.

 

Mark


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RE: Speaking of copiers...

[Reimer, Mark]

We are using Ricoh's. Great support, and they work quite well.

 

Mark

 

From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 12:51 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Speaking of copiers...

 

+1  I'm hardware neutral on copiers\MFDs...it will ALWAYS come down to
local support for me.

 

Shook

 

From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 1:49 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Speaking of copiers...

 

CANON, tried them all and always come back Canon's.  Really it depends
as much on the quality of your Vendor and their support as the quality
of the machine.

 



From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 12:47 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Speaking of copiers...

What brand of copier/MFP do you guys like? We currently have two Kyocera
KM-5050 MFP/copiers that we are leasing, but we've had issues with
scanning locking the machines up. Fortunately, it seems to be resolved
at this time, but I'm thinking of changing copier folks when the lease
runs out. One that has caught my eye is Sharp. The "local" Sharp dealer
told me that their machines can scan AND copy at the same time, which
would be a nice feature. Not something we'd use a lot, but there are
times when it would save an extra minute or two. J

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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RE: Domain controllers, what is supposed to happen.

[Reimer, Mark]

Thanks for the help and articles. Everything is working just fine when both 
DC’s are up and running.

 

I talked with the user who couldn’t connect. He had trouble shutting down 
(unrelated issue). Others who had troubles were going again a few minutes later 
(not sure if they rebooted, or if things just started working). So it appears 
all was working as it should have been.

 

Thanks again for clarification, help, advice, etc.

 

Mark

 

From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 8:28 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Domain controllers, what is supposed to happen.

 

I could ask you the same question. The article does not specifically say to 
keep the FSMO roles on one DC, in fact it makes recommendations on how to 
separate them.  This article is a guide, not an absolute. It makes 
recommendations based on different factors. My suggestion based on this 
guideline and Mark's infrastructure would be the following: 

Server1 
RID 
PDC 

Server2 
schema master 
domain naming master 
infrastructure master 


Chris Bodnar, MCSE
Systems Engineer
Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services
Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com
Phone: 610-807-6459
Fax: 610-807-6003 



From:Andrew Levicki  
To:"NT System Admin Issues"  
Date:04/21/2010 10:18 AM 
Subject:Re: Domain controllers, what is supposed to happen. 






Where does it say that?

2010/4/21 Christopher Bodnar mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com> > 
Sorry but I have to disagree with you. I believe the recommendation of the 
article is to divide the FSMO roles, giving guidance on how to do that. 


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Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
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From:Andrew Levicki mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk> 
> 
To:"NT System Admin Issues" mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> > 
Date:04/21/2010 10:06 AM 
Subject:Re: Domain controllers, what is supposed to happen. 






Hi Mark, 

Have a read of this and see what you think: 
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223346 <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223346> 
 

You're not the first person I've encountered who thinks that about FSMO roles 
but I think Microsoft are pretty clear on this one. 

I'd probably rip WINS out if it's not needed, by the way. 

Cheers, 

Andrew 

2010/4/21 Reimer, Mark mailto:mark.rei...@prairie.edu> > 
I thought I read somewhere (this is years ago), that FSMO roles should be 
split, with some qualifications (some FSMO roles had to be connected together 
on the same machine). 

  

DHCP is from server2 (yes, one of the DC’s). 

  

WINS. Not sure if there is a real requirement. 

  

Not sure if a reboot was done. I’ll check with the user today. 

  

Thanks for the advice/comments. 

  

Mark 

  

From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk <mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk> 
] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 7:40 AM 


To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Domain controllers, what is supposed to happen. 

  

Hi Mark, 

  

I have a couple of questions if you don't mind. Firstly why have you split the 
FSMO roles out on to two different domain controllers? It's not that it's wrong 
or anything, it's just simpler (and Microsoft's recommendation) to keep them 
all on one domain controller unless there is a specific need to do otherwise. 

  

Secondly, which server(s) is/are your DHCP server? Another server right? Not 
one of the domain controllers? 

  

Thirdly, what is your requirement for WINS, out of interest? 

  

To answer your questions, yes the DNS/WINS services on the remaining domain 
controller should have fulfilled client requests, so I would certainly look 
into why that didn't happen. Did anyone try rebooting their PCs, as that may 
have helped? 

  

If you had been unable to get Server1 running again then yes you would have had 
to seize the domain-wide FSMO roles (RIP) from Server1 on to Server2 and modify 
your DNS/WINS. But don't try and bring Server1 back up at this point ("Then 
work on getting Server1 running again, or replacing it."), you must rebuild or 
replace it. 

  

Regards, 

  

Andrew 

  

  

On 21 April 2010 22:14, Reimer, Mark mailto:mark.rei...@prairie.edu> > wrote: 

Sorry, long email. 

  

Windows 2003 Native Domain, two domain controllers, server1 and server2. 
Workstations are primarily XP, some Windows 7. Other servers (file server, 
email etc) are all Windows 2003. We have about 150 workstations. 

  

We have AD DNS, and WINS. Server1 has FSMO roles Infrastructure

RE: Domain controllers, what is supposed to happen.

[Reimer, Mark]

I thought I read somewhere (this is years ago), that FSMO roles should be 
split, with some qualifications (some FSMO roles had to be connected together 
on the same machine).

 

DHCP is from server2 (yes, one of the DC’s).

 

WINS. Not sure if there is a real requirement.

 

Not sure if a reboot was done. I’ll check with the user today.

 

Thanks for the advice/comments.

 

Mark

 

From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 7:40 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Domain controllers, what is supposed to happen.

 

Hi Mark,

 

I have a couple of questions if you don't mind. Firstly why have you split the 
FSMO roles out on to two different domain controllers? It's not that it's wrong 
or anything, it's just simpler (and Microsoft's recommendation) to keep them 
all on one domain controller unless there is a specific need to do otherwise.

 

Secondly, which server(s) is/are your DHCP server? Another server right? Not 
one of the domain controllers?

 

Thirdly, what is your requirement for WINS, out of interest?

 

To answer your questions, yes the DNS/WINS services on the remaining domain 
controller should have fulfilled client requests, so I would certainly look 
into why that didn't happen. Did anyone try rebooting their PCs, as that may 
have helped?

 

If you had been unable to get Server1 running again then yes you would have had 
to seize the domain-wide FSMO roles (RIP) from Server1 on to Server2 and modify 
your DNS/WINS. But don't try and bring Server1 back up at this point ("Then 
work on getting Server1 running again, or replacing it."), you must rebuild or 
replace it.

 

Regards,

 

Andrew

 

 

On 21 April 2010 22:14, Reimer, Mark  wrote:

Sorry, long email.

 

Windows 2003 Native Domain, two domain controllers, server1 and server2. 
Workstations are primarily XP, some Windows 7. Other servers (file server, 
email etc) are all Windows 2003. We have about 150 workstations.

 

We have AD DNS, and WINS. Server1 has FSMO roles Infrastructure Master, PDC 
Emulator, RID Master. Server2 has FSMO roles Domain Naming Master, Schema 
Master. Both are GC’s.

 

In the DHCP settings workstations get both server’s IP’s as DNS. Server2 is 
listed first, then server1. Primary WINS server is server1, secondary is 
Server2.

 

Last night Server1 went down. It was off hours, but I got a call from some late 
night worker (using XP), saying they couldn’t do anything. Couldn’t reach any 
of the servers, or internet. I was able to get the server going again (bad 
memory chip, so I just took it out).

 

I thought that if one server went down, the DNS/WINS look up would go to the 
other server. But it might be slower (note, I didn’t try any of this, just 
going on what the user said). Comments?

 

If I didn’t get Server1 running again, what should I have done? I assume I 
should do the following.

 

1.   Seize the FSMO roles from server1, and put them on server2.

2.   Change DHCP so Primary WINS server is server2. Maybe even take out 
Server1 as DNS/WINS possibilities.

 

Then work on getting Server1 running again, or replacing it.

 

Did I miss anything?

 

Thanks for any help and insight you can give.

 

Mark

 

 

 

 




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Kind regards,

Andrew Levicki
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MCITP Enterprise Administrator on Windows Server 2008
MCITP Enterprise Messaging Administrator on Exchange Server 2007
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) on Windows Server 2003
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
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Domain controllers, what is supposed to happen.

[Reimer, Mark]

Sorry, long email.

 

Windows 2003 Native Domain, two domain controllers, server1 and server2.
Workstations are primarily XP, some Windows 7. Other servers (file
server, email etc) are all Windows 2003. We have about 150 workstations.

 

We have AD DNS, and WINS. Server1 has FSMO roles Infrastructure Master,
PDC Emulator, RID Master. Server2 has FSMO roles Domain Naming Master,
Schema Master. Both are GC's.

 

In the DHCP settings workstations get both server's IP's as DNS. Server2
is listed first, then server1. Primary WINS server is server1, secondary
is Server2.

 

Last night Server1 went down. It was off hours, but I got a call from
some late night worker (using XP), saying they couldn't do anything.
Couldn't reach any of the servers, or internet. I was able to get the
server going again (bad memory chip, so I just took it out).

 

I thought that if one server went down, the DNS/WINS look up would go to
the other server. But it might be slower (note, I didn't try any of
this, just going on what the user said). Comments?

 

If I didn't get Server1 running again, what should I have done? I assume
I should do the following.

 

1.   Seize the FSMO roles from server1, and put them on server2.

2.   Change DHCP so Primary WINS server is server2. Maybe even take
out Server1 as DNS/WINS possibilities.

 

Then work on getting Server1 running again, or replacing it.

 

Did I miss anything?

 

Thanks for any help and insight you can give.

 

Mark

 

 


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UPS's

[Reimer, Mark]

Hi folks,

 

I've done some (or tried to) research on the differences between APC Backups vs 
Smart-UPS, or Tripp Lite SmartPro vs OmniSmart. One set (Backups and OmniSmart) 
seem to be almost ½ price of the other set (Smart-UPS and SmartPro) for the 
same rated VA/wattage. The only real difference I can find is manageability.

 

These will be for POE switches in wiring closets.

 

Any help/experience will be most appreciated.

 

Thanks.





Mark Reimer,  A+, MCSA

Windows Servers & Networking

Prairie Bible Institute

Box 4000

Three Hills, AB  T0M-2N0

Canada

Tel: 403-443-5511, Ext. 3476

Fax: 403-443-5540

Email: mark.rei...@prairie.edu  

www.prairie.edu  

 

 


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Open source phone systems

[Reimer, Mark]

Hi folks,

 

Has anyone implemented sipXecs as their main phone system? It looks
interesting.

 

I'm tasked with looking at alternatives for a VOIP system, and I'm
looking at commercial solutions as well as open source. We will be
having about 150 phones, including 50 analog devices (faxes, public
phones that seem to get a lot of abuse, etc). I'm looking at Asterix
(and derivatives like Trixbox, etc).

 

Side question. Is somebody successfully running Asterix/Trixbox with 150
users, say 40 simultaneous calls?

 

We don't need anything very fancy, just the regular functions. I'm
redoing our networking equipment as well, but that's another issue.

 

Thoughts? Comments? Insights?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

 

Mark Reimer,  A+, MCSA

Windows Servers & Networking

Prairie Bible Institute

Box 4000

Three Hills, AB  T0M-2N0

Canada

Tel: 403-443-5511, Ext. 3476

Fax: 403-443-5540

Email: mark.rei...@prairie.edu  

www.prairie.edu  

 

 


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RE: What are my options, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 or...

[Reimer, Mark]

You are correct. My question was more if 2008 or 2008 R2 was required
for Exchange 2010. Since only 2003 is required, and since my current
DC's are on 32 bit architecture, I would either move them up to 2008, or
get 64 bit architecture (which I need for Exchange 2010 anyway) and put
2008 R2 on it. A quick bit of googling indicates that both Hyper-V, and
ESXi will support 64 bit clients.

 

Looks like putting a DC (2008 R2) and Exchange server 2010 on the same
physical box (setting up the clients/guests as 64 bits) will work just
fine, and will probably be the way I'll go.

 

Thanks for all the help/input.

 

Mark

 

From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 8:54 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: What are my options, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server
2008 R2 or...

 

Indeed it does.

 

Don Guyer

Systems Engineer - Information Services

Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group

431 W. Lancaster Avenue

Devon, PA 19333

Direct: (610) 993-3299

Fax: (610) 650-5306

don.gu...@prufoxroach.com

 

From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 10:39 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: What are my options, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server
2008 R2 or...

 

I didn't see anyone else mention this, but my understanding is the
2008r2 *requires* x64 architecture, so if you only have 32 bit systems
in your environment, Windows 2008 would be your choice, *not* 2008r2 !

 



 

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Reimer, Mark 
wrote:

Here's my upcoming problem.

 

We currently have a Windows 2003 domain. All servers, including DC's are
Windows 2003 standard.

 

We will be replacing our Exchange server this summer, jumping from
Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. I'm planning on installing Windows 2008
R2 on it.

 

My current DC's are 32 bit, and almost 5 years old, and don't have 64
bit architecture. So ...

 

Should I upgrade my DC's to Windows 2008 32 bit?

Should I try to get upgraded hardware, and install Windows 2008 R2?

Should I not worry about it, put in the new Exchange server on my
Windows 2003 domain, and upgrade the DC's later?

 

I'm planning on using the standard version (vs. enterprise or
datacenter), unless I can get some beefy server, then I'll virtualize
one DC and some other physical servers on it.

 

I'm NOT going to put both DC's virtualized on one physical box.

 

My googling on this hasn't turned up any useful information. Maybe it's
Friday afternoon...

 

Thanks for any advice.

 

 

Mark Reimer,  A+, MCSA

Windows Servers & Networking

Prairie Bible Institute

Box 4000

Three Hills, AB  T0M-2N0

Canada

Tel: 403-443-5511, Ext. 3476

Fax: 403-443-5540

Email: mark.rei...@prairie.edu

www.prairie.edu <http://www.prairie.edu/> 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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RE: What are my options, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 or...

[Reimer, Mark]

We have about 10 servers, including the 2 DC's. As noted below, our
Exchange box will be upgraded, and I'm thinking of putting Exchange and
one DC as virtual servers on the new physical box. Hyper-V will do 64
bit right? Up until now, I've just used ESXi on a couple of boxes and
put some very low traffic servers on them.

 

I don't have any SAN, just using disks that are on the boxes. I might be
able to get another box, and put some of the other servers on it,
virtualized, and free up some servers that are getting older.

 

Sorry for the delay in answering. 

 

Mark

 

From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 3:17 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: What are my options, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server
2008 R2 or...

 

How many servers do you have in your environment?

 

Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
Technology Coordinator
Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA
jra...@eaglemds.com mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com> 
www.eaglemds.com http://www.eaglemds.com/>  

________

From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:mark.rei...@prairie.edu] 
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 4:44 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: What are my options, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008
R2 or...

 

Here's my upcoming problem.

 

We currently have a Windows 2003 domain. All servers, including DC's are
Windows 2003 standard.

 

We will be replacing our Exchange server this summer, jumping from
Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. I'm planning on installing Windows 2008
R2 on it.

 

My current DC's are 32 bit, and almost 5 years old, and don't have 64
bit architecture. So ...

 

Should I upgrade my DC's to Windows 2008 32 bit?

Should I try to get upgraded hardware, and install Windows 2008 R2?

Should I not worry about it, put in the new Exchange server on my
Windows 2003 domain, and upgrade the DC's later?

 

I'm planning on using the standard version (vs. enterprise or
datacenter), unless I can get some beefy server, then I'll virtualize
one DC and some other physical servers on it.

 

I'm NOT going to put both DC's virtualized on one physical box.

 

My googling on this hasn't turned up any useful information. Maybe it's
Friday afternoon...

 

Thanks for any advice.

 

 

Mark Reimer,  A+, MCSA

Windows Servers & Networking

Prairie Bible Institute

Box 4000

Three Hills, AB  T0M-2N0

Canada

Tel: 403-443-5511, Ext. 3476

Fax: 403-443-5540

Email: mark.rei...@prairie.edu

www.prairie.edu

 

 

 

 

 



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What are my options, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 or...

[Reimer, Mark]

Here's my upcoming problem.

 

We currently have a Windows 2003 domain. All servers, including DC's are
Windows 2003 standard.

 

We will be replacing our Exchange server this summer, jumping from
Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. I'm planning on installing Windows 2008
R2 on it.

 

My current DC's are 32 bit, and almost 5 years old, and don't have 64
bit architecture. So ...

 

Should I upgrade my DC's to Windows 2008 32 bit?

Should I try to get upgraded hardware, and install Windows 2008 R2?

Should I not worry about it, put in the new Exchange server on my
Windows 2003 domain, and upgrade the DC's later?

 

I'm planning on using the standard version (vs. enterprise or
datacenter), unless I can get some beefy server, then I'll virtualize
one DC and some other physical servers on it.

 

I'm NOT going to put both DC's virtualized on one physical box.

 

My googling on this hasn't turned up any useful information. Maybe it's
Friday afternoon...

 

Thanks for any advice.

 

 

Mark Reimer,  A+, MCSA

Windows Servers & Networking

Prairie Bible Institute

Box 4000

Three Hills, AB  T0M-2N0

Canada

Tel: 403-443-5511, Ext. 3476

Fax: 403-443-5540

Email: mark.rei...@prairie.edu  

www.prairie.edu  

 

 


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RE: copying files and shares from one server to another server

[Reimer, Mark]

Thanks all. It's what I needed.

 

Mark

 

From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 2:45 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: copying files and shares from one server to another server

 

LOL!

 

I've started moving them to wiki format, but I haven't finished, and
it's not a high priority, so

 

 

 

The only thing NET SHARE doesn't help with is permissions (which I
always set).   Some people don't set them at the share level, so that's
one less problem for them.


-ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker



On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Kurt Buff  wrote:

Well there's a blast from the past.

Well played, sir.

Kurt


On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:36, Andrew S. Baker  wrote:
> Try digging up PERMCOPY from a 2000 resource kit.  :)
> The link that Chris provided will work from a manual point of view.
> http://KB.UltraTech-llc.com/Scripts/?File=CopyShares.BAT
> -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker
>
>

> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Reimer, Mark 

> wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>>
>>
>> I know this has been hashed out before, but I couldn't find it.
>>
>>
>>
>> To copy files, no problem. Robocopy, Richcopy, etc. are my friends.
>>
>> To copy  shares. I know shares are in the registry. What the simplest
way
>> to copy them (or where to find them in the registry)?
>>
>>
>>
>> Both source and destination servers are Windows Server 2003.
>>
>>
>>
>> My google-fu isn't working too good today, nor can I seem to search
this
>> forum on sunbelt's website (forgot how, and I couldn't find it by
snooping
>> around).
>>
>>
>>
>> I need to expand the array on the source server, and the copy is just
for
>> a backup, in case something goes wrong.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any and all pointers.
>>
>> Mark
>>

 

 

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copying files and shares from one server to another server

[Reimer, Mark]

Hi folks,

 

I know this has been hashed out before, but I couldn't find it.

 

To copy files, no problem. Robocopy, Richcopy, etc. are my friends.

To copy  shares. I know shares are in the registry. What the simplest
way to copy them (or where to find them in the registry)?

 

Both source and destination servers are Windows Server 2003.

 

My google-fu isn't working too good today, nor can I seem to search this
forum on sunbelt's website (forgot how, and I couldn't find it by
snooping around).

 

I need to expand the array on the source server, and the copy is just
for a backup, in case something goes wrong.

 

Thanks in advance for any and all pointers.


Mark


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Managed Switches...

[Reimer, Mark]

Hi folks,

 

I need some opinions.

 

Up until now (don't laugh), we have been using unmanaged switches, and
it's been working. But we hope to implement a VOIP system (probably
based on Asterix software), and there are other factors (VLAN's for one)
that will require us to install managed switches.

 

I know Cisco is the cream of the crop, and the most expensive. I've
heard that HP is quite good as well.

 

So, without starting too many flame wars, can people make a
recommendation, (or a "unrecommendation")?

 

This would be for one physical location, looking at 150-200 drops
scattered throughout campus (we are an educational institution). We are
planning to use the current Ethernet wiring (CAT 5 or better in all
places), with the phone and computer using the same physical wire.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

 

Mark Reimer,  A+, MCSA

Windows Servers & Networking

Prairie Bible Institute

Box 4000

Three Hills, AB  T0M-2N0

Canada

Tel: 403-443-5511, Ext. 3476

Fax: 403-443-5540

Email: mark.rei...@prairie.edu  

www.prairie.edu  

 

 


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Maybe OT: Capture Video/Audio from RCA to computer (preferably USB)

[Reimer, Mark]

HI folks,

 

Looking to capture video from RCA jacks to computer (put VHS to DVD,
plus other uses).

 

I've come across a few products that have simple hardware to "convert"
RCA Jacks video/audio to USB, using accompanying software. These units
are generally $40 - $60 (Cdn). I was wondering if anybody has used
something like this and can recommend one over the other?

 

Thanks.

 

Mark


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RE: Cisco SR224 24-port 10/100 Switch

[Reimer, Mark]

Haven't used it, but we have D-Link and LinkSys unmanaged, 24 port
10/100 with no fans. Cheap too.

 

Mark

 

From: Fergal O'Connell [mailto:foconn...@curamsoftware.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 4:06 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Cisco SR224 24-port 10/100 Switch

 

Hi Folks,

 

Anybody ever use this product?

What I really need to know does it make much noise.

 

I need a 24 port hub\unmanaged switch that is pretty much silent.

 

 

Regards 

Fergal O'Connell

ICT Support

 

 
 
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RE: Best way to extend system partition...

[Reimer, Mark]

Thanks for all the replies. I used ExtPart from Dell. Very easy, very fast, no 
reboot.

 

Mark

 

From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] 
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 8:11 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Best way to extend system partition...

 

Paragon partition manager 
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Partnership For Strong Families 
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From: Reimer, Mark 
To: NT System Admin Issues 
Sent: Thu Oct 29 10:05:09 2009
Subject: Best way to extend system partition... 

Hi folks,

 

I have a server (Windows 2003 std) running as a virtual machine under ESXi. 
Only one drive. I need to extend it. Diskpart comes up with the standard error 
(cannot extend this volume…).

 

I have allocated more disk space under ESXi, and under disk manager, it shows 
as unallocated disk space.

 

Any thoughts as to how I might do this?

 

Thanks.


Mark

 

 

 



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Best way to extend system partition...

[Reimer, Mark]

Hi folks,

 

I have a server (Windows 2003 std) running as a virtual machine under
ESXi. Only one drive. I need to extend it. Diskpart comes up with the
standard error (cannot extend this volume...).

 

I have allocated more disk space under ESXi, and under disk manager, it
shows as unallocated disk space.

 

Any thoughts as to how I might do this?

 

Thanks.


Mark


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OT - Happy Thanksgiving to our Canadian Friends

[Reimer, Mark]

Happy Thanksgiving (October 12th) to our Canadian Friends. Hopefully you
will get some/most/all of the weekend to enjoy with family and friends.

 

I understand the Americans have Columbus day on the 12th (don't know if
they get a long weekend out of it).

 

Remember our troops in Afghanistan, from both countries (and others who
are involved).

 

Mark Reimer


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Issues in using Tweetdeck or Seesmic (security mostly)

[Reimer, Mark]

Hi,

 

Just wondering what the general consensus (if there is one) is about
using Tweetdeck or Seesmic to keep track if Twitters (and probably
Facebook) followers/friends (versus using a web browser and occasionally
logging in and seeing what is happening).

 

Thoughts?

 

Thanks

 

Mark


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RE: Scan to Email

[Reimer, Mark]

Chris,

 

Can you make a little script to delete everything from the network share
that is over 7 (or whatever number you choose) days old, and then have
that run (daily, or whatever you choose) under a schedule on the server
that has the share? That would keep the share from getting too full. If
the user can't deal with it within seven (or whatever) days of scanning,
the worst that can happen is that they have to scan again.

 

Mark

 

From: Chris Blair [mailto:chris_bl...@identisys.com] 
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 9:06 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Scan to Email

 

I think I know the answer, but figured it would see if anyone has such
as device. We need to scan documents and then email them. The preferred
format would be PDF. We have a copier, but it does not email, it will
save to a network share. Saving to a network share present some issues
if the person scanning does not remove the document on the shared
location. A new copier is out of the question at this time
(politics...). 

 

So, does anyone know of a device that will scan and email the document
with a multi-feeder on it and is NOT a copier?

 

Thanks!

 

 

 

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RE: New IE zero day exploit in the wild

[Reimer, Mark]

I understand and can set up GP to push out the msi file. I think it is
best in the "Computer Configuration | Software Settings | Software
Installation" (correct?).

 

My understanding is that the msi file will be run every time the
computer is turned on. Is this correct, or a misunderstanding on my
part? If it is correct, how does one prevent that from happening (i.e.
have the msi (or reg file) execute only once)?

 

Thanks.

 

Mark

 

From: Eric Wittersheim [mailto:eric.wittersh...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 9:41 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: New IE zero day exploit in the wild

 

I'm pushing out the .reg via GP.  So far so good.

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:38 AM, David Lum  wrote:

The "Microsoft fix-it" is an MSI that I am pushing via SMS and is
pushing fine (so far just a few test cases have it, but no issues).
Beats trying to push out a .REG or something...

 

David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER 
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764

 

 

 

From: J Kyo [mailto:jky...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 8:18 AM


To: NT System Admin Issues

Subject: Re: New IE zero day exploit in the wild

 

Curious if anyone has used the "Microsoft Fix It" from:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972890.

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Carl Houseman 
wrote:

Recommendation from MS is to set the killbits everywhere.

 

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/972890.mspx

 

Carl

 

From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] 
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 9:06 PM 


To: NT System Admin Issues

Subject: RE: New IE zero day exploit in the wild 

 

Seems to be XP / Windows Server 2003 only?

Cheers

Ken

 



From: Alex Eckelberry [al...@sunbelt-software.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 7 July 2009 5:56 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: New IE zero day exploit in the wild

Our labs have confirmed this and it is quite nasty.  Best bet for now is
to set the killbits. Or don't use IE. 

 

Some references:

 

Microsoft: 

 

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/972890.mspx

 

SANS: 

 

http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6733

 

I would take this one quite seriously.  

 

Alex

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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RE: Free Server Virtualization Options: VMware Server, ESXi, XenServer, Hyper-V, and others...

[Reimer, Mark]

I've only played with ESXi. My needs, so far, have been to consolidate
low usage servers to one box to save on energy costs, and to save
purchasing new servers. I don't have to worry about fail-over, or even
"off-server" storage.

ESXi installs very easily, and works just great for me.

Mark

-Original Message-
From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] 
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 3:16 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Free Server Virtualization Options: VMware Server, ESXi,
XenServer, Hyper-V, and others...

Greetings, List.

There are so many available Virtual Server solutions available now, and
it's time for us to look at moving from our current VMWare 1.0 server
solution. As our budget has been greatly reduced, we are currently
looking at the free products:

VMWare Server 2.0
ESXi
XenServer
Hyper-V
Any others I've missed.

I'm wondering if anybody can vouch for or against any of these products,
and express any useful experiences you've had.

Thanks all,


--Matt Ross
Ephrata School District

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RE: OT antique modem

[Reimer, Mark]

I also had a 300, but on a Toshiba T1000, first Toshiba laptop (I
think). I hit BB's with it, didn't do any surfing.

 

Still hook up to a phone system for log downloads etc, at 300 baud, but
using a 2400 to do it.

 

Mark

 

From: Daniel E. Rodriguez [mailto:drod...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 6:02 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT antique modem

 

Mine was a 300 but on a Vic-20.

Daniel E. Rodriguez 

 

 

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Slightly OT: Scanners, flat bed, low-cost

[Reimer, Mark]

Hi folks,

 

What do you recommend for a flat-bed scanner? It won't get high usage
(probably average < 1 page per day), might want to do some OCR, no need
for document feeder. A consumer based model would be sufficient, I would
think.

 

I'm thinking I should be able to find something in $50-$100 (US) range.

 

Thanks for any ideas in advance.

 

Mark


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Microsoft patches for March, specifically PowerShell 1.0

[Reimer, Mark]

Hi folks,

 

Does anyone have a good reason why I should install this "patch"
(Powershell) on my XP machines? Is there something coming down the pike
that will make use of PowerShell, or something currently that needs it?

 

I don't have anything needing it locally, and don't foresee any need for
it on a big majority of my machines. I don't think there is any harm in
installing it, but I don't see (from my vantage point) any need to
install it either.

 

Comments?

 

Mark


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RE: Windows does not recongize keyboard

[Reimer, Mark]

Jacob,

 

Two things:

 

1.   Is this a USB keyboard in a USB port? I've had issues where the
USB keyboard (and mice) doesn't recognize right away, but leave it for a
minute or so, then all is well. Only happens when the keyboard is used
in a computer for the first time.

2.   Is this a USB keyboard plugged into a PS/2 port (with a little
adapter)? I've also learned that the adapters for USB mice are not the
same as adapters for USB keyboards (even though they look alike). The
adapters I've seen are color coded (usually green for mice, and purple
for keyboard). If you have a USB keyboard plugged into the PS/2 port,
using a mouse adapter, it probably won't go.

 

Mark

 

From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 3:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Windows does not recongize keyboard

 

Other keyboard on this machine do not work.. tried four keyboards.  I
can get to BIOS on all 4, jut not windows.

 

I will try the UBCD4WIN.

 

I ran malware bytes... nothing.

 

From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 2:27 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Windows does not recongize keyboard

 

This keyboard works on other machines, what about other keyboards on
this machine?

 

Boot a BartPE or UBCD4WIN CD to verify there's not a software cause.  A
poorly written keylogger might interfere with the keyboard under
Windows.

 

Carl

 

From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 5:19 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Windows does not recongize keyboard

 

Okay... this has stumped me for two day.

 

XP machine.  Windows does not recognize the keyboard (PS2 or USB).

 

I can use the keyboard to access BIOS, but not safe mode or windows. The
keyboard does work in other workstations without any issues.  Both USB
and PS/2 mice work.  I can log on via remote desktop and device manager
lists the keyboard. I have uninstalled the driver and restart the
machine, but still no dice. When I log back on via remote desktop, I can
see that windows installed the driver again.

 

Event viewer is useless.

 

I copied over, from another XP machine, the i8042prt.sys and
kbdclass.sys.. still nothing

 

Any other ideas?

 

Jacob

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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sysprep question

[Reimer, Mark]

Hi folks,

 

In my research on sysprep, I've come across conflicting information. 

 

I will be cloning xp machines (identical hardware). These machines are
all on a domain. Do I need to sysprep before cloning? I'm just doing 6
computers.

 

I've read that I do need to sysprep, and I've read that I don't need to
sysprep because the machines are on a domain (Windows 2003 native in my
case).

 

Obviously after cloning, I need to go in and change the computer name,
so I don't get conflicts (unless, of course, I use sysprep to change the
names for me).

 

Thanks for your wisdom in this.

 

Mark


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RE: anyone know of a good web proxy software?

[Reimer, Mark]

We use ISA 2004 along with http://urlblacklist.com 

 

Quite inexpensive.

 

Mark

 

From: Jason Morris [mailto:jmor...@mjmc.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 11:58 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: anyone know of a good web proxy software?

 

Some users use Squid, others Websense, others use SAAS from providers
like Postini or Zscaler. I personally use ZScaler but that's a pay as
you go system. The cost is relatively inexpensive and is directly
related to how many users you have.

I can send you my sales contact info offline if you're interested.

Thanks,

Jason

 

From: Thomas Gonzalez [mailto:tgonza...@girlscouts-swtx.org] 
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:54 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: anyone know of a good web proxy software?

 

I'm trying to find a good / easy setup web proxy software, to prevent
our users from accessing some websites and I will be able to look at the
logs, any ideas?

 

 

Thanks,

 

Thomas Gonzalez

Technology Manager

Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas

210.349.2404 phone
210.403.1586 DID

210.349.2666 fax

www.girlscouts-swtx.org  

tgonza...@girlscouts-swtx.org

 

 

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Hyper-V and Windows Server 2008

[Reimer, Mark]

Hi folks,

 

Quick question that my googling hasn't answered for me.

 

I understand the theory of Hyper-V, and that the first VM is the
"parent".

 

My question is: Can/Should the parent be used as a regular VM (file
server, web server or whatever I want to do with it), or should it just
be the OS? 

 

I'm assuming it can/should be a VM (file server, web server whatever),
but being the first VM, will also help control the hardware/VM setup
etc. As such, the first VM should run Windows Server 2008. Other VM's
can run W2K8, but can run other OS's (in my case, I would only use W2K3)
as well. Correct?

 

Am I way off base, or is this basically it?

 

Thanks for any advice, and have a great Christmas.

 

Mark


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Hyper V vs VMWare ESXi

[Reimer, Mark]

Hi folks,

 

I know this has been discussed earlier, but it has been a few months,
and (iirc) VMWare ESXi has come out since then. Also I think/hope some
of the experts here have had a chance to try Hyper-V and/or ESXi a bit
more, and might have more comments.

 

I am under financial restraints, and thus the full ESX version, or other
paid products, will not be viable for me. At this point, I'm looking at
virtualizing a few web servers, using MS Server 2003. These are front
end machines that "hook" to a back end SQL servers. A couple of these
web servers get very little traffic, and some will have more. I'll look
into Enterprise and DataCenter versions because of the multiple copies
on a virtual server that are allowed.

 

I'm planning on using the local server for disk storage, no NAS/SAN
involved. I do have the hardware that can run the virtual software
necessary (maybe need some more RAM).

 

My question. Preference? Also any new links that might compare the two?
I might also look into Xen/Citrix free version, so if anybody has
comments on that, please let me know.

 

Thanks.


Mark


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RE: Wattage Calculation

[Reimer, Mark]

Ralph,

APC has a good article on Watts and Volt Amps (apparently not the same).
They also have wattage for many breeds of servers. I don't have the
links right handy, but I think you'll find them.

Mark

-Original Message-
From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 2:10 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Wattage Calculation

As I understand it, and I could be wrong  (as well as using incorrect
terminology), but I beleive what you have calculated is the maximum
possible draw in watts that could come from your system - but thats
not the same as the normal operational draw.

Many systems do not have a PSU that compensates for the maximum draw.


On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Ralph Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Can anyone help me out and educate me on something?
>
>
>
> We are having some work done, and I was asked if I could supply the
total
> wattage for all the equipment in our server room.
>
>
>
> I thought I could use the specs from the tag on each item, take the
total
> number of amps, and multiply by 110 to get watts.
>
>
>
> What is throwing me off is that if I look one of our typical desktop
PCs it
> is 6.3 A at 110 volts, so it would be 693 watts.  The power supply is
300W
> max, so something seems to be wrong with my thinking.
>
>
>
> What would be the correct way to do this?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Ralph
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RE: Magazine subscriptions

[Reimer, Mark]

I'm sure you will get a number of "I read it". I'll start.
 
It's the only print magazine/trade paper that comes across my desk that
I take time to read.
 
Mark



From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 3:16 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Magazine subscriptions



Anyone here subscribe to WindowsITPro?  Just got a subscription offer
and thought I'd ask.

 

Any others that you guys actually read, or are they pretty much like
newspapers these days, and just pile up?

 

Joe Heaton

AISA

Employment Training Panel

1100 J Street, 4th Floor

Sacramento, CA  95814

(916) 327-5276

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

 


 

 


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Windows Defender or some other antivirus/anti spyware solution?

[Reimer, Mark]

Hi folks,
 
We are doing the Vista thing on new machines, as XP is getting harder to
get a hold of. 
 
As a policy, should we use Windows Defender that comes with Vista, and
is upgraded frequently through our WSUS server, or should we remove it,
and use some other antivirus/antispyware solution(s)?
 
Just curious what others are thinking/doing about this.
 
Thanks.
 
Mark Reimer; MCSE, MCSA, A+
Windows Servers & Networking
Prairie Bible Institute
Box 4000
Three Hills, AB  T0M-2N0
Canada
403-443-5511
www.prairie.edu  

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RE: Scheduled Sys state backup on small DC

[Reimer, Mark]

I use NTBackup in a batch file (with the command line version of
ntbackup) to back up system state to a disk file. It just runs with
local system account. I just use the at command to schedule it. Seems to
work just fine on a number of servers.
 
Mark



From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 11:42 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Scheduled Sys state backup on small DC


I have one site with a small DC that does an NTBackup script to dump the
systate to a disc file that gets backed up later. It uses the Dom Admin
account to run and this throws up Userenv errors when its done.
 
What's the best Account to run such a script under? Is it even possible
to use Local System for example?
 
Thanks!
jlc





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RE: Microsoft Update Issues

[Reimer, Mark]

I just did a fresh xp install with SP3, and updates followed. They
installed just fine. I'm using a WSUS server, and my updates are from
that.
 
Mark



From: Cameron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 11:37 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Microsoft Update Issues



I don't know if anyone else has run across this yet, but after applying
XP SP3 it would download updates but not install them. This was a fresh
XP install with SP3 installed after. There were 10 updates and it kept
failing on the install.

 

I found this and using Method 1 did seem to fix the problem
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144)

 

Anyone come across this yet?

 

Cheers,

Cameron






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RE: Problems moving large files after XP SP3 installation

[Reimer, Mark]

I've only got a few machines with XP SP3 so far (more coming). But for
any major moves, I use robocopy. Do you have access to that?

Mark 

-Original Message-
From: Bryan Garmon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 6:43 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Problems moving large files after XP SP3 installation

Well thanks for the asides - I take it that means no one else has
actually seen this problem? 

-Original Message-
From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 12:03 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Problems moving large files after XP SP3 installation

LOL

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Sam Cayze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> And I thought MS wasn't going to be incorporating any Vista features 
> into XP SP3?!
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Bryan Garmon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 7:25 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Problems moving large files after XP SP3 installation
>
>  I installed XP SP3 on several desktops and laptops shortly after it 
> was released to Windows Update. I didn't have any issues on the 
> installation, but I thought it was odd when I tried to move a folder 
> that had more than 1GIG of data from one hard drive to another and it 
> failed with the error "cannot move file." I tried this using My 
> Computer and dragging the folder from its current location to a 
> different location.
>
> Today I'm transferring data from two different XP SP3 machines using a

> mapped network drive and I'm running into the same problem. The only 
> solution I've found is to move smaller sets of folders - which is a 
> real pain.
>
> Has anyone else had this problem after installing XP Sp3?
>
>
>
>
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RE: Ideas needed, maybe Radius server, maybe...

[Reimer, Mark]

Thanks for all the ideas. Now to sift through them and see what will
work for us.
 
Thanks again.
 
Mark



From: Ken Cornetet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:44 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Ideas needed, maybe Radius server, maybe...



Use the Squid proxy server (win32 port available)

 

See the section on authentication
http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/ProxyAuthentication

 

From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 1:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Ideas needed, maybe Radius server, maybe...

 

Hi folks,

 

Here's the situation, sorry for the long post.

 

There are a number of students using wireless in our dorms, about 350 of
them. This past year, I had a little Linux router (read old PC) that
could block by MAC address, and that was what I used to allow access to
the internet.

 

Now we want to have some sort of username/password. The students all get
accounts on our Windows 2003 domain, mostly for checking their email
which are on our servers. We would like to use these accounts for
authentication from their wireless connections.

 

If I read the docs correctly, Windows 2003 standard will allow for 50
Radius clients. I don't have any Windows 2003 Enterprise or DataCenter
licenses (which allow unlimited Radius clients), and getting an
Enterprise or Data Center license is out of the question.

 

I don't have any managed switches, and basically no routers (except for
the little one mentioned above, and our firewall). The current wireless
access points are a hodge podge of makes, most of which can talk with a
radius server, but I think I do have one or two that can not.

 

I'm not familiar with Linux, but I can learn it if that will solve my
problem.

 

Any other ideas I might be missing?

 

Thanks.

 

Mark

 

 

 

 






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Ideas needed, maybe Radius server, maybe...

[Reimer, Mark]

Hi folks,
 
Here's the situation, sorry for the long post.
 
There are a number of students using wireless in our dorms, about 350 of
them. This past year, I had a little Linux router (read old PC) that
could block by MAC address, and that was what I used to allow access to
the internet.
 
Now we want to have some sort of username/password. The students all get
accounts on our Windows 2003 domain, mostly for checking their email
which are on our servers. We would like to use these accounts for
authentication from their wireless connections.
 
If I read the docs correctly, Windows 2003 standard will allow for 50
Radius clients. I don't have any Windows 2003 Enterprise or DataCenter
licenses (which allow unlimited Radius clients), and getting an
Enterprise or Data Center license is out of the question.
 
I don't have any managed switches, and basically no routers (except for
the little one mentioned above, and our firewall). The current wireless
access points are a hodge podge of makes, most of which can talk with a
radius server, but I think I do have one or two that can not.
 
I'm not familiar with Linux, but I can learn it if that will solve my
problem.
 
Any other ideas I might be missing?
 
Thanks.
 
Mark
 
 

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RE: Who printed this?

[Reimer, Mark]

You had computers?
 
Mark



From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 2:23 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Who printed this?


Yup, me too Bob, good ole trash-80's.


On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Bob Fronk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


When I was in High School, we had a TRS-80.

Bob Fronk
[EMAIL PROTECTED]




> -Original Message-
> From: Christopher J. Bosak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 1:42 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Who printed this?
>

> Wow... when I was in HS we all had individual accounts.
>
> No computer name of who sent the print job in Event Viewer?
>
> Christopher J. Bosak
> Vector Company
> c. 847.603.4673
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> "You need to install an RTFM Interface, due to an LBNC issue."
> - B.O.F.H. (Merged 2 into 1) - Me
>

> -Original Message-
> From: John Hornbuckle
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 12:38 hrs
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Who printed this?
>
> Some of our students have just figured out that they can print
to any
> shared printer in their school (the printers are shared with
the
default
> permissions that allow everyone to print). We can stop this by
adjusting
> permissions, which we did for one printer this morning--which
just
> caused the students to find another one.
>
> Students share a common account, so knowing the account that's
sending
> the job won't help. I really need to know the name of the
machine
> sending the job.
>
> Is there a way to do this? Does that get logged?
>
>
>
>
> John Hornbuckle
> MIS Department
> Taylor County School District
> 318 North Clark Street
> Perry, FL 32347
>
> www.taylor.k12.fl.us
>
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RE: Server Inventory Software

[Reimer, Mark]

I've heard about LanSweeper (www.lansweeper.com), also free. Looks like
it would be a good inventory program.

Mark 

-Original Message-
From: Sauvigne, Craig M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 1:21 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Server Inventory Software

I am looking at SpiceWorks right now. It has extras (Helpdesk) that I
wouldn't use but the inventory looks great so far. Now I just need to
play a little more to make sure it will do what I want it to.

Craig

-Original Message-
From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 11:07 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Server Inventory Software

True...have you looked at SpiceWorks?

 - Andy O.

>-Original Message-
>From: Sauvigne, Craig M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 10:03 AM
>To: NT System Admin Issues
>Subject: RE: Server Inventory Software
>
>I am using notepad now. However, I would like to be able to search for
all
>DHCP server or all servers with failed hard drives in the last 6 months
or
>something similar. That is more complicated with text files.
>
>Craig


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RE: GB switches

[Reimer, Mark]

Also only good in the US, as usual, sigh...

Mark
Alberta, Canada 

-Original Message-
From: Tim Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:06 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: GB switches

Just ran across this:
http://www.dlink.com/business/test-drive/
Yes, I know it's D-Link, but you can't beat the price - free.


...Tim


> -Original Message-
> From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 11:04 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: GB switches
> 
> Another alternative would be Enterasys.  Used them for 5 years at my 
> last job, and loved them.  Hadn't heard of the Extreme switches until 
> you asked about it, so can't give you input there, but if the cli is 
> LESS intuitive than Cisco, which in my opinion isn't intuitive at all,

> then that could be a major downside...
> 
> 
> Joe Heaton
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 6:45 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: GB switches
> 
> At the risk of starting another of those religious debates about
switch
> vendors, I'd suggest you also look into the Nortel Enterprise Router 
> Switch offerings.  Their gear is very robust, they have great
technical
> support, and their switches have a variety of management options 
> including a web gui, a Java Device Manager that is very intuitive, and

> a command line option that is similar enough to Crisco that most 
> people can learn it quickly.
> And, their pricing is competitive.
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Adam Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 8:31 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: GB switches
> 
> 
> Richard,
> 
> Have not used the Extreme Black Diamond in particular, however, 4-5 
> years back, we did decide to try the Extreme Summit series as an 
> alternative to Cisco for some of our core infrastructure. We were 
> attracted by the
> price:
> at that time, Cisco didn't have an affordable layer 3 switch -- this 
> was
> 
> just before the 3550 was being released, if I remember correctly. We 
> found the Extreme OS to be less intuitive than the Cisco IOS, and we 
> experienced various minor issues with simple things like interface 
> speed / duplex negotiation. Sometimes the telnet CLI would freeze up 
> on the Extreme when making config changes. Here and there there were 
> features which
Extreme
> simply didn't support. We found ourselves saying, "If only this were a

> Cisco switch," and having to support and train engineers on both Cisco

> and Extreme didn't make sense for us.
> 
> As a result of the frustrations with Extreme, after deploying 3-4 of 
> them, we decided to take them all back out of production and replace 
> them with
> 
> Cisco 2960 / 3560 / 3750.
> 
> Good luck obtaining further feedback!!
> Adam
> 
> 
> - Original Message -
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "NT System Admin Issues" 
> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 8:24 AM
> Subject: RE: GB switches
> 
> 
> > FINALLY - I thought I'd have to hijack my own thread here!  Although
> I
> > appreciate knowing that cheap fast ethernet switches have worked for
> some
> > folks, it really doesn't answer my question...
> >
> > I forgot to mention that, yes, we shall be needing POE.
> >
> > So, back to my dilemma...  We do have a stack of 3 Cisco 10/100
> switches.
> > Although they are managable, it seems we have "lost that ability".
> They
> > are not POE, although we have a little gizmo that sends POE to my
> desk
> for
> > a little "outlet ethernet switch".  The thing about the Catalysts
is,
> > we've never needed to manage them, and they've been "hang 'em in the
> rack
> > and forget about them".
> >
> > We are an incoming call center which handles about 450 veteranary 
> > emergency toxicology cases PER DAY.  At the busy times, we do seem
to
> need
> > the additional through-put of the Gig switches.
> >
> > SO, our installers suggest Cisco.  Our IT folks at national
> headquarters
> > suggest Extreme Black Diamond.
> >
> > So, again please, does anyone have any personal experience with both
> Cisco
> > and Extreme and could make some recommendations?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > --
> > Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management
> > 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL  61802
> > 217-337-9761
> > http://www.aspca.org
> >
> >
> > "Cesare' A. Ramos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 04/17/2008 07:55:53
> PM:
> >
> >> Agreed with past posts with regards to the 1GB thought.
> >>
> >> We have rolled out Asterisk, 3Com NBX, 3Com VXC, Avaya, and Cisco.
> >> Never saw the need for 1GB switches at all end points.  But would
> >> highly recommend POE functionality.
> >>
> >> As per switch, I am on the same snob group as Phil.  I go ballistic
> >> whenever I see or hear an office running a DLink, Netgear, or
> >> Belkin.  We have had great success with 3Com (primarily 3Com 4500
>

RE: DOS to XP share

[Reimer, Mark]

Are the NIC cards in the Dos box older (like 10MB cards)? One thing to
try is to change the MaxMTU setting on the XP box. I used to do this
Windows 9x boxes, and it helped. However, then it was a registry change.
It appears not to be on XP, so try this:

http://www.dslreports.com/drtcp

I haven't tried this program, but it might help. On Windows 9X boxes
(and probably XP), the default is 1500 bytes. I've dropped this to as
low as 256. I'd try 512, and if there are still problems, try 256.

Hope this helps.

Mark 

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 11:20 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: DOS to XP share


Hope someone has an answer.
I have several DOS systems that now need to connect to XP systems to get
to the network. (Switching from Novell to MS 2003 Ent. so no easy
connecting to the server) The DOS systems are running tcpip.
They connect and map a drive on the XP box. I can access the directory
and create directories and copy files 1 or 2 at a time,  The problem is
that I start copying directories full of files from the DOS box to the
XP box, it will copy a file or 2 and then just sits on a file, the XP
box shows the file as 0KB.
I then have to reboot the DOS system to get it back. CTL&Break doesn't
work. The 0kb file is locked by the DOS box and can only be deleted by
it, even if I've rebooted.
Any ideas why I am having issues coping files?
TIA
B

.
.
Why didn't George Washington's father punish him for chopping down the
Cherry Tree?

George still had the ax.
.


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RE: for old timers

[Reimer, Mark]

I still have a Toshiba T1000 Laptop, and it still works. It has one
floppy (720K), no HD and 512K RAM (IIRC), and Dos 2.11 on ROM (with
BASIC of some variety). On another note, I'm still using a 300 Baud
modem (actually a 2400 Baud modem downgraded to 300 Baud) to connect to
a fairly old PBX phone system to download logs.

But those were the days. We actually got quite a bit done on those old
machines, and I still prefer a command prompt over Windows Explorer for
many file functions. I'm sure I'm not the only one on this list like
this. Showing my age...

Mark


-Original Message-
From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:45 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: for old timers

On 8 Apr 2008 at 23:52, Benjamin Zachary  wrote:  

> You know I was right on that page and flipped through it real quick 
> and went on to look up the original ibm pc and a bunch of other
things.

FWIW I still have an IBM XT on the shelf, monochrome monitor, IBM
keyboard, and all.  One of these days I'll have to see if it still boots
--before I put it up for sale on eBay ;-)

My first personally-owned PC was a Zenith Z-152, 4.77 MHz, 320k of RAM
and dual 360k floppies (320k/360k ? memory fades with time).  It cost me
over $3,000, with Microsoft Word 1.0 for DOS and an Okidata MicroLine
9-pin dot-matrix printer (which I still have).  My
brother-the-computer-scientist was jealous -- he worked at the local
university and "only" had 64k of workspace on the CDC mainframe.  

On Dec. 31 one year (don't you love the income tax?) I upgraded the
Z-152 to 640k RAM and a 7-MHz NEC V20 chip and added a $399 20-megabyte
full-height hard drive.  Ended up giving it to my kid's pre-school
loaded with reading and other 
teaching programs, all pre-Windows, of course.

When I upgraded my 1200-baud modem to 2400-baud I had to find an
off-line Compuserve-forum-saving/reading program (OzCIS -- for the "old
timers" -- did anyone else here use it?) -- at 1200-baud I could read
the forums as they scrolled by, but at 2400-baud I could no longer keep
up.  Egad, I still remember my Compuserve ID: 75500,3223 and there's
even one Google "hit" on my CIS ID still remaining "out there":

http://www.google.com/search?q=%2275500%2C3223%22

Anybody here remember TeamB for dBASE?

Angus

P.S. Yes, I have a (partially) grey beard -- not quite Sid Dabster but
"one of these days" I'll get there ;-)


--
Angus Scott-Fleming
GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
1-520-290-5038
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RE: NTBackup using Dell PowerVault 124T, LTO2 tape loader/drive

[Reimer, Mark]

There comes a pop-up message saying:
 
"The device reported an error on a request to write data to media
Error Reported: Hardware Failure
There may be a hardware or media problem
Please check system event log for relevant failures"
 
In the system event log, there is only one item even closely related. It
is:
 
"Reset to device, \device\raidport2, was issued." Event ID: 129.  Source
Lsi_scsi.
 
As I mentioned below, the demo of Novabackup did just fine, without any
errors.
 
Any more ideas?
 
Mark



From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 3:48 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: NTBackup using Dell PowerVault 124T, LTO2 tape loader/drive



Host Bus Adapter, the scsi card. So what exactly do you get in your even
logs? Look for all the errors, some might be hardware related which
impact NTBackups ability to stream data out. Post those errors here.

 

Jlc

 

 

From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 2:46 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: NTBackup using Dell PowerVault 124T, LTO2 tape loader/drive

 

Joseph,

 

OK. HBA?? This was not a scheduled job, just starting it on the server
with NTBackup program.

 

Mark

 



From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:34 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: NTBackup using Dell PowerVault 124T, LTO2 tape loader/drive

Mark,
I am running an HP LTO-2 autoloader in a similar setup using NTBackup
and RSM and all I can say is what a pain. When you get your error, what
exactly does it report? Are there any HBA errors? You might want to look
at Symantec's site for some good reco's on the HBA setup. How do you
schedule your jobs? There was a known issue with NTBackup and RDP
sessions a while ago.

Elaborate a little more, after all my pain I am migrating the loader off
this server onto a CentOS box running Amanda shortly here...


jlc

 

From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 10:01 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: NTBackup using Dell PowerVault 124T, LTO2 tape loader/drive

 

Hi folks,

 

Running Windows 2003, 64 bit, fully patched, and I think, latest drivers
for tape loader, tape drive etc. Tapes are 200/400 GB LTO-2.

 

I try to run NTBackup, and it will say it has backed up anywhere from
30MB - 150MB, then it stops. Eventually I'll get a write error, to see
the event logs (which don't help). RSM works great, both GUI and command
line.

 

I've installed a demo of NovaStor Novabackup which works great, except
it doesn't see the tape loader, so tape switching is manual.

 

There is a terminator on the PV124T, and it (PV 124T) is the only item
on the SCSI chain.

 

Ideas???

 

Thanks for any help.

 

Mark

 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 






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RE: NTBackup using Dell PowerVault 124T, LTO2 tape loader/drive

[Reimer, Mark]

Joseph,
 
OK. HBA?? This was not a scheduled job, just starting it on the server
with NTBackup program.
 
Mark



From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:34 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: NTBackup using Dell PowerVault 124T, LTO2 tape loader/drive



Mark,
I am running an HP LTO-2 autoloader in a similar setup using NTBackup
and RSM and all I can say is what a pain. When you get your error, what
exactly does it report? Are there any HBA errors? You might want to look
at Symantec's site for some good reco's on the HBA setup. How do you
schedule your jobs? There was a known issue with NTBackup and RDP
sessions a while ago.



Elaborate a little more, after all my pain I am migrating the loader off
this server onto a CentOS box running Amanda shortly here...


jlc

 

From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 10:01 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: NTBackup using Dell PowerVault 124T, LTO2 tape loader/drive

 

Hi folks,

 

Running Windows 2003, 64 bit, fully patched, and I think, latest drivers
for tape loader, tape drive etc. Tapes are 200/400 GB LTO-2.

 

I try to run NTBackup, and it will say it has backed up anywhere from
30MB - 150MB, then it stops. Eventually I'll get a write error, to see
the event logs (which don't help). RSM works great, both GUI and command
line.

 

I've installed a demo of NovaStor Novabackup which works great, except
it doesn't see the tape loader, so tape switching is manual.

 

There is a terminator on the PV124T, and it (PV 124T) is the only item
on the SCSI chain.

 

Ideas???

 

Thanks for any help.

 

Mark

 

 






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NTBackup using Dell PowerVault 124T, LTO2 tape loader/drive

[Reimer, Mark]

Hi folks,
 
Running Windows 2003, 64 bit, fully patched, and I think, latest drivers
for tape loader, tape drive etc. Tapes are 200/400 GB LTO-2.
 
I try to run NTBackup, and it will say it has backed up anywhere from
30MB - 150MB, then it stops. Eventually I'll get a write error, to see
the event logs (which don't help). RSM works great, both GUI and command
line.
 
I've installed a demo of NovaStor Novabackup which works great, except
it doesn't see the tape loader, so tape switching is manual.
 
There is a terminator on the PV124T, and it (PV 124T) is the only item
on the SCSI chain.
 
Ideas???
 
Thanks for any help.
 
Mark

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Best practices in setting up a web site with IIS

[Reimer, Mark]

Hi folks,
 
Question in setting up a website. We will be using IIS (this has been
decided by others, and I can't change it).
 
Should subsites be: 
 
www.subsite.ourdomain.com 
 
or
 
www.ourdomain.com/subsite
 
Which is better practice? We will be spreading across multiple servers,
with each server hosting one or two subsites.
 
If the latter, what the preferred way of setting things up so the
subsite gets pointed to the right server?
 
I know it's Friday. If you want to wait until Monday, that's fine with
me. 
 
Have a great weekend.
 
Mark
 
Mark Reimer; MCSE, MCSA, A+
Windows Servers & Networking
Prairie Bible Institute
Box 4000
Three Hills, AB  T0M-2N0
Canada
403-443-5511
www.prairie.edu  

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RE: OK, I'm lost... Downloading files in IE 6 or 7.

[Reimer, Mark]

Hi guys,
 
Thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately it's not any of them. I've
done some more asking (and testing), and it seems that I can download
zip files (and others), just not exe and mp3 (and maybe others). I'm
dealing with our ISP (I think that is where the problem is now). As I
mentioned at first, I did try downloading on the outside of our
firewall, with the same issues.
 
I'll keep you informed.
 
Thanks again for all the suggestions.
 
Mark



From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:42 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OK, I'm lost... Downloading files in IE 6 or 7.


You bet, this is the one.  Can you download with Firefox?


On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:17 PM, John Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Internet options>security>custom level>enable downloads or
access data sources across domains maybe?

 

John W. Cook

System Administrator

Partnership For Strong Families

315 SE 2nd Ave

Gainesville, Fl 32601

Office (352) 393-2741 x320

Cell (352) 215-6944

Fax (352) 393-2746

MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+

 

From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 1:07 PM 

To: NT System Admin Issues

Subject: Re: OK, I'm lost... Downloading files in IE 6 or 7. 



 

There is a setting in tools, advanced that you can
checkability to download files.  Maybe someone turned yours off?

        On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Reimer, Mark
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi folks,

 

I've got two computers that won't download files. I've tried
multiple sites, all have the same problem (of downloading).

 

One runs IE6, the other IE7.

 

We have a corporate firewall, but others in the organization are
fine (running both IE6 or IE7, fully patched XP, SP2), and testing
outside the firewall doesn't help the situation.

 

Both can surf just fine, and when a file is clicked to download,
the save as dialog box comes up, and after it is filled, and OK is
pressed, it just stops.

 

Both computers are running XP, SP2, fully patched.

 

XP firewall can be on or off, doesn't matter.

 

Logging in as another user doesn't help. Both I and the other
user are domain admins.

 

I have blown away my profile (c:\documents and settings\my
username) on the IE6 machine, and that doesn't help.

 

I have uninstalled and reinstalled IE7 on the IE7 machine. That
doesn't help.

 

Spyware scan reveals nothing.

 

I don't think I have anything in GPO's (which would affect only
me).

 

Any ideas? I sure would appreciate them.

 

Thanks.

 

Mark 

Mark Reimer; MCSE, MCSA, A+

Windows Servers & Networking

Prairie Bible Institute

Box 4000

Three Hills, AB  T0M-2N0

Canada

403-443-5511

www.prairie.edu <http://www.prairie.edu/> 

 

 










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RE: OK, I'm lost... Downloading files in IE 6 or 7.

[Reimer, Mark]

Didn't see this setting, unless I missed something. I assume you mean
Tools | Internet options | advanced.
 
Mark



From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:07 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OK, I'm lost... Downloading files in IE 6 or 7.


There is a setting in tools, advanced that you can checkability to
download files.  Maybe someone turned yours off?


On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Reimer, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:


Hi folks,
 
I've got two computers that won't download files. I've tried
multiple sites, all have the same problem (of downloading).
 
One runs IE6, the other IE7.
 
We have a corporate firewall, but others in the organization are
fine (running both IE6 or IE7, fully patched XP, SP2), and testing
outside the firewall doesn't help the situation.
 
Both can surf just fine, and when a file is clicked to download,
the save as dialog box comes up, and after it is filled, and OK is
pressed, it just stops.
 
Both computers are running XP, SP2, fully patched.
 
XP firewall can be on or off, doesn't matter.
 
Logging in as another user doesn't help. Both I and the other
user are domain admins.
 
I have blown away my profile (c:\documents and settings\my
username) on the IE6 machine, and that doesn't help.
 
I have uninstalled and reinstalled IE7 on the IE7 machine. That
doesn't help.
 
Spyware scan reveals nothing.
 
I don't think I have anything in GPO's (which would affect only
me).
 
Any ideas? I sure would appreciate them.
 
Thanks.
 
Mark 
Mark Reimer; MCSE, MCSA, A+
Windows Servers & Networking
Prairie Bible Institute
Box 4000
Three Hills, AB  T0M-2N0
Canada
403-443-5511
www.prairie.edu <http://www.prairie.edu/> 










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RE: OK, I'm lost... Downloading files in IE 6 or 7.

[Reimer, Mark]

This is only affecting me. Save As will save the HTML code, not the
file. FTP would affect others, but this is only me. The logs show this
is port 80 traffic.
 
Mark



From: Louis, Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:07 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OK, I'm lost... Downloading files in IE 6 or 7.


Perhaps right clicking on the link and choosing "save as" will yield
something different. This happen to all users to the same file/location
or just you?
 
FTP blocked perhaps? Some "downloads" come from FTP sites. We block ftp
access here which sounds like similar results to what you are seeing. 
 
________

From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 1:01 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OK, I'm lost... Downloading files in IE 6 or 7.


Hi folks,
 
I've got two computers that won't download files. I've tried multiple
sites, all have the same problem (of downloading).
 
One runs IE6, the other IE7.
 
We have a corporate firewall, but others in the organization are fine
(running both IE6 or IE7, fully patched XP, SP2), and testing outside
the firewall doesn't help the situation.
 
Both can surf just fine, and when a file is clicked to download, the
save as dialog box comes up, and after it is filled, and OK is pressed,
it just stops.
 
Both computers are running XP, SP2, fully patched.
 
XP firewall can be on or off, doesn't matter.
 
Logging in as another user doesn't help. Both I and the other user are
domain admins.
 
I have blown away my profile (c:\documents and settings\my username) on
the IE6 machine, and that doesn't help.
 
I have uninstalled and reinstalled IE7 on the IE7 machine. That doesn't
help.
 
Spyware scan reveals nothing.
 
I don't think I have anything in GPO's (which would affect only me).
 
Any ideas? I sure would appreciate them.
 
Thanks.
 
Mark 
Mark Reimer; MCSE, MCSA, A+
Windows Servers & Networking
Prairie Bible Institute
Box 4000
Three Hills, AB  T0M-2N0
Canada
403-443-5511
www.prairie.edu <http://www.prairie.edu/> 





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OK, I'm lost... Downloading files in IE 6 or 7.

[Reimer, Mark]

Hi folks,
 
I've got two computers that won't download files. I've tried multiple
sites, all have the same problem (of downloading).
 
One runs IE6, the other IE7.
 
We have a corporate firewall, but others in the organization are fine
(running both IE6 or IE7, fully patched XP, SP2), and testing outside
the firewall doesn't help the situation.
 
Both can surf just fine, and when a file is clicked to download, the
save as dialog box comes up, and after it is filled, and OK is pressed,
it just stops.
 
Both computers are running XP, SP2, fully patched.
 
XP firewall can be on or off, doesn't matter.
 
Logging in as another user doesn't help. Both I and the other user are
domain admins.
 
I have blown away my profile (c:\documents and settings\my username) on
the IE6 machine, and that doesn't help.
 
I have uninstalled and reinstalled IE7 on the IE7 machine. That doesn't
help.
 
Spyware scan reveals nothing.
 
I don't think I have anything in GPO's (which would affect only me).
 
Any ideas? I sure would appreciate them.
 
Thanks.
 
Mark 
Mark Reimer; MCSE, MCSA, A+
Windows Servers & Networking
Prairie Bible Institute
Box 4000
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Moving Files/shares to new server

[Reimer, Mark]

Hi folks,
 
This was brought up last November or so. But I have an opinion question.
 
I have a number of files and shares (I'm guessing 100 shares or so).
There seems to be two main ways.
 
1. Robocopy and some form of share moving, either with permcopy,
rmtshare, or registry export | import (if the drive letters match).
 
2. Use File Server Migration Tool from MS.
 
Which do you prefer?
 
I'm going from Win2K3 to Win2K3, and have about 200GB.
 
Thoughts?
 
Thanks.
 
Mark

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RE: 64 bit client, wsus 3.0 on 32 bit server

[Reimer, Mark]

Thanks for all the help. I found the problem (covers face with
embarrassment :).
 
Mark



From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 4:54 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: 64 bit client, wsus 3.0 on 32 bit server



I would look in the Windows Update.log file (note the space) on the
client (or the WindowsUpdate.log file - no space - if there's an older
WU client on the machine).

 

There's nothing special about x64 servers. I have several at home
updating from my x86 WSUS server.

 

Cheers

Ken

 

From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, 12 February 2008 9:49 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: 64 bit client, wsus 3.0 on 32 bit server

 

Hi folks,

 

I'm working on my first 64 bit machine. It's a Dell 2950, and I've
installed Windows 2003, R2, 64 bit. It's part of the same domain that my
WSUS 3.0 server is on. The WSUS server has recognized the 64 bit
machine, and says it has 41 updates for it. However, the 64 bit machine
doesn't appear to want to get them.

 

The 64 bit machine can see the other servers (ping both ways), so
networking is fine.

 

I've got the 64 bit machine in the same OU as my other servers, which
all work fine (and are 32 bit). 

 

I've tried "wuauclt /detectnow", and nothing has happened.

 

Is there something special about 64 bit machines and WSUS 3.0? I've
tried googling, but either my parameters aren't good, or there isn't
much information.

 

Thanks.

 

Mark






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64 bit client, wsus 3.0 on 32 bit server

[Reimer, Mark]

Hi folks,
 
I'm working on my first 64 bit machine. It's a Dell 2950, and I've
installed Windows 2003, R2, 64 bit. It's part of the same domain that my
WSUS 3.0 server is on. The WSUS server has recognized the 64 bit
machine, and says it has 41 updates for it. However, the 64 bit machine
doesn't appear to want to get them.
 
The 64 bit machine can see the other servers (ping both ways), so
networking is fine.
 
I've got the 64 bit machine in the same OU as my other servers, which
all work fine (and are 32 bit). 
 
I've tried "wuauclt /detectnow", and nothing has happened.
 
Is there something special about 64 bit machines and WSUS 3.0? I've
tried googling, but either my parameters aren't good, or there isn't
much information.
 
Thanks.
 
Mark
 
Mark Reimer; MCSE, MCSA, A+
Windows Servers & Networking
Prairie Bible Institute
Box 4000
Three Hills, AB  T0M-2N0
Canada
403-443-5511
www.prairie.edu  

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RE: Rack Servers and installing into Rack...

[Reimer, Mark]

Thanks for all the advice. It was about what I expected, but it's good to get 
some other opinions.
 
Mark



From: René de Haas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 9:44 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Rack Servers and installing into Rack...




Also if you intend to install a SAN someday. It's heavy and they suggest 
putting it low so you may want to reserve some space for it.

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 5:32 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Rack Servers and installing into Rack...

 

 

What are your power and cooling and network and redundancy requirements?

 

Typically, I've used a dual-PDU rack, one set on either side of the back rail; 
each wired for a separate power supply.

 

In the middle of the rack, I've put two 48-port switches (one a backup for the 
other) for a total of 2-U and taken 4-U between them for a CAT-5 block. On the 
OTHER side of those (since they are typically less than ½ depth, I'd put 
something like PIX/ASA or other small firewalls on an as needed basis.

 

Then I start at the bottom and in the middle, working up; preferentially 
putting heavier stuff on the bottom until I've used up all available power or 
network connections (generally I run out of one of those before the rack is 
100% full).

 

Regards,

 

Michael B. Smith

MCSE/Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 

From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 11:23 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Rack Servers and installing into Rack...

 

 

Hi folks,

 

Up until now, we have basically had tower servers. We are (slowly) replacing 
them with Rack Servers. Don't laugh at my question...:)

 

I have a full size (42U) Rack. I have about 6-7 servers (and related 
equipment), mostly 1-2 U, to install now, and more coming. 

 

Do you folks start at the bottom and work up (if so, do you leave any free 
space at the bottom)? Do you start in about the middle and work both ways? I 
doubt anybody starts at the top and works down, due to top heavy (tipping) 
issues, but I could be wrong.

 

Just looking for best practice, common ways of doing this.

 

I have non-rack UPS, which will be outside the rack. The monitor/keyboard/mouse 
for a KVM switch will also be outside the rack.

 

Thanks.

 

Mark

 

 

 

 










 
 


 

 





 




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Rack Servers and installing into Rack...

[Reimer, Mark]

Hi folks,
 
Up until now, we have basically had tower servers. We are (slowly)
replacing them with Rack Servers. Don't laugh at my question...:)
 
I have a full size (42U) Rack. I have about 6-7 servers (and related
equipment), mostly 1-2 U, to install now, and more coming. 
 
Do you folks start at the bottom and work up (if so, do you leave any
free space at the bottom)? Do you start in about the middle and work
both ways? I doubt anybody starts at the top and works down, due to top
heavy (tipping) issues, but I could be wrong.
 
Just looking for best practice, common ways of doing this.
 
I have non-rack UPS, which will be outside the rack. The
monitor/keyboard/mouse for a KVM switch will also be outside the rack.
 
Thanks.
 
Mark
 
 

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RE: OT - Now it's cold...

[Reimer, Mark]

This morning, here in Alberta, it's -31 C with a wind chill of -49 C.
For you folks that work in Fahrenheit, that's -24 F with a wind chill of
-56 F). Made for a nice brisk walk to work this morning (I'm only 1.1 Km
(about .7 Miles) from work). 

Mark 

-Original Message-
From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 6:26 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OT - Now it's cold...

Hey Jon
We'll bring some down when we come midFebruary...how cold do you want
it?  I can basically accomodate anything down to -40C with wind
We're bringing the kids down for Disney...got any good tips?

On Jan 26, 2008 11:54 AM, Jon Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> more please may be a month or so of it?  I would love to move up there

> but my wife hates it when the temps are below 80 and I hate it when it
is above 60.
> Sent from sunny Central Florida with a temperature of 63 outside.
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RE: Power requirements calculations?

[Reimer, Mark]

Go to "Configure by devices". It gives you the list there.
 
Mark



From: Steve Kelsay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 9:54 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Power requirements calculations?




That is awesome, but it does not tell me what the power consumption is,
just which APC unit will support them. I guess in a roundabout way, I
can back the power out of the specs for that unit.

 

Thanks for the help! The more tools, the better.

 

From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 10:33 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Power requirements calculations?

 

 

APC's website has an awesome power calculator that contains model
numbers of most every server room item you could buy.

 

http://www.apc.com/template/size/apc/index.cfm

 

 

 

From: Steve Kelsay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 10:29 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Power requirements calculations?

 

 

Sorry to be so under-educated, but I am trying to decipher the power
requirement for a Dell/EMC CX3-40 San.

The spec sheet says the power consumption is 300VA (288 W Max) and the
Disk Chassis has 440 VA and 425 w Max.

However, the power units are rated in amps. I searched Google, Dell, and
EMC sites and can't find anything else. 

Is there a way to convert these figures so I can size the power
correctly for the rack? Everything else has AMPS listed.

 

 










 
 


 

 





 











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RE: OT Humor - Marketing

[Reimer, Mark]

Somebody had time on their hands...

Mark 

-Original Message-
From: Devin Meade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:04 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT Humor - Marketing

This Is What Marketing Is All About

HEMA is a Dutch department store. The first store opened on November 4,
1926, in Amsterdam. Now there are 150 stores all over the Netherlands.
HEMA also has stores in Belgium, Luxemburg, and Germany.
In June of this year, HEMA was sold to British investment company Lion
Capital.

Take a look at HEMA's product page. You can't order anything and it's in
Dutch, but just wait a couple of seconds and watch what happens.

http://producten.hema.nl/

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RE: Xen

[Reimer, Mark]

 
Along the same vein, I'm on a tight budget, and in my cursory research
into virtual server programs, Xen was the only free one that ran on bare
metal. The other free programs ran on top of another OS. Is this
correct?
 
Mark



From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 8:01 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Xen




Anyone using the open source Xen package to virtualize Windows guests
with success here?
Just curious if it has gained any real enterprise use yet.

 

jlc










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