RE: Mobile Device Management
When's Microsoft going to throw in some Tracking and Remote-Wipe capabilities on Direct Access connected devices? Should be able to kinda do what LoJack does easy enough? -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: 31 January 2013 01:22 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mobile Device Management I'm guessing (I haven't tried) that this is not a problem if you have Win7 Enterprise and BitLocker - it'll boot up without a password just fine, and still be protected. Might have to try it out on one of my lab machines, to see if it works. Kurt On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming angu...@geoapps.com wrote: On 30 Jan 2013 at 20:24, Cameron Cooper wrote: In light of one of our company laptops being stolen (from the user's car), we've been tasked to look for a mobile solution that would allow us to track, recover and remote wipe a laptop, tablet and smartphone and would like some recommendations on what some are currently using. So far we've looked at LoJack for Laptops and Prey (PreyProjects). Thanks, Cameron Whole-disk-encryption on laptops is an absolute must IMHO. That way you're only out hardware no matter what. The biggest problem with most tracking-and-wiping solutions like Prey is that the laptop has to be booted and the OS loaded for them to work. Since I use Truecrypt whole-disk-encryption and the password is required to boot or to awake after hibernation I don't use Prey. LoJack has a version which installs in the BIOS (installed at the factory on many bigger brands now, but you have to activate it $$$). This version phones home if there is an active network connection no matter how the computer is booted. But security flaws in the BIOS implementation of LoJack for Laptops were documented at a 2009 BlackHat session. Don't know if they're still there. This might be of interest: Intel® Anti-Theft Technology — What is Intel® Anti-Theft Technology? http://www.intel.com/support/services/antitheft/sb/CS-030335.htm More info: LoJack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoJack#for_Laptops At the Black Hat Briefings conference in 2009, researchers Anibal Sacco[15] and Alfredo Ortega showed that the implementation of the Computrace/LoJack agent embedded in the BIOS has vulnerabilities and that this available control of the anti-theft agent allows a highly dangerous form of BIOS-enhanced rootkit that can bypass all chipset or installation restrictions and reutilize many existing features offered in this kind of software.[16][17] Absolute Software rejected the claims made in the research, stating that the presence of the Computrace module in no way weakens the security of the BIOS. Another independent analyst confirmed the flaws, noted that a malware hijacking attack would be a highly exotic one, and suggested that the larger concern was that savvy thieves could disable the phone home feature.[18] Core Security Technologies http://www.coresecurity.com/content/Deactivate-the-Rootkit Deactivate the Rootkit - Black Hat USA 2009 Link to paper: http://www.coresecurity.com/files/attachments/Paper-Deactivate-the-Roo tkit-AOrtega-ASacco.pdf Share your findings back here please. HTH ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body:
RE: Window 8 on your PC
You can create a Shutdown/Restart/Logoff tile for the Start screen with a bit of PowerShell: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Create-a-ShutdownRestartLog-37c8111d -Original Message- From: Randal, Phil [mailto:phil.ran...@hoopleltd.co.uk] Sent: 21 November 2012 09:49 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Window 8 on your PC Correct me if I'm wrong, but the 'log out' 'button' being hidden the way it is in Windows 8 and Server 2012 will be a nightmare for terminal server admins. Ugh. Phil -- Phil Randal Infrastructure Engineer Hoople Ltd | Thorn Office Centre | Hereford HR2 6JT Tel: 01432 260415 | Email: phil.ran...@hoopleltd.co.uk -Original Message- From: James Hill [mailto:falc...@gmail.com] Sent: 21 November 2012 08:44 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Window 8 on your PC The location of log off and the shutdown menu are both a nuisance. I have a 6 year old and a 4 year old that were placed in front of Windows 8 and were installing apps from the store, playing games etc without any tuition. I showed them how to do a shutdown and that was about it. James. -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Wednesday, 21 November 2012 8:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Window 8 on your PC We won't be deploying it this school year, that's for sure. It's just too late and we would get a lot of negative feedback. Also we tend to hold off on such deployments until the product has a little shake-down time and we get a break to do upgrades. Personally, I'm not looking forward to 8 on the desktop in a lab environment. One nitpick of my own: It's very difficult to log off, which is something every 7-18 year old in our schools will have to do. While some know that you can quickly find a logout with Ctrl-Alt-Del, most don't. Last, most of the software run by our users aren't in the DCIM* interface. So really, there isn't a feature that is yet pushing us to Win8 yet. I have seen start-button replacements, like Start8, but we like to go with the Officially supported versions of things if we can. Thus, if Microsoft makes it an option to stick people to the Desktop and give them a way to launch programs/logoff, I'll give it another try. (* DCIM - Don't call it Metro) --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:07:38 -0800 Subject: Window 8 on your PC Are you guys changing your Windows 8 UI to be more like Win7 or leaving it as-is and learning new tricks? David Lum Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin “Any opinion expressed in this e-mail or any attached files are those of the individual and not necessarily those of Hoople Ltd. You should be aware that Hoople Ltd. monitors its email service. This e-mail and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the use of the addressee. This communication may contain material protected by law from being passed on. If you are not the intended recipient and have received this e-mail in error, you are advised that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error please contact the sender immediately and destroy all copies of it. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the
RE: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs
Whatever ya do, make sure you get the latest model available of the drive if you can, as they're coming on leaps and bounds with the read and write performances of these things with each new controller. For instance the original OCZ Vertex drives could do 230MB/s read 135MB/s writes, the Vertex 2 model for the same price can do 285MB/s read 275MB/s writes, and the Vertex 3 drive that's just been released with the latest Sandforce controller can now do up to 500MB/s read and 500MB/s writes. From: Ames Matthew B (REST) [mailto:mba...@qinetiq.com] Sent: 25 March 2011 10:27 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs I have ordered an SSD (I was greedy and went for the 128GB - thing future proofing!) for my slightly aging machine. My plan was to install the OS + Apps onto. I would then retain my current 750GB disk for data, temp, profiles, pagefiles, etc. This I should get fast boot/app load but not kill the SSD. As I run a few VMs I figured the vmdk files could reside on the SSD, and the pagefiles for them to be pointed to a mechanical disk. From: Miguel Gonzalez [mailto:miguel_3_gonza...@yahoo.es] Sent: 25 March 2011 09:53 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs Maybe I'm wrong (I haven't played with SSD yet) but my understanding from a talk I got from Netapp engineers is that the lifetime of a SSD can be easily 3-4 years for their appliances so I assume SSDs for commercial PCs probably endure less time. If you do intensive writings on it, you can extenuate its lifetime very quick (swap files do very intensive writings on disks). I'd recommend him to buy a small SSD (maybe 20-30 Gb) and I'd put *only* the OS and maybe some software in the SSD and the rest (data + swap file) in a regular HD. SSD is probably going to get less writes than regular files and the swap file and the real gain is to run the OS and the software much quicker. Miguel --- El vie, 25/3/11, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.commailto:kz2...@googlemail.com escribió: De: James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.commailto:kz2...@googlemail.com Asunto: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs Para: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Fecha: viernes, 25 de marzo, 2011 05:40 I have a friend who is a bit of a techno-philehe is looking to replace his PC, and was after something cool and unique (I talked him out of the idea of getting an iMac). He's also kind of set on the idea of getting a PC with solid state drives, as he thinks this would put him further along the cool wall also. I think his budget is around £1000-1500. Socan anyone a) recommend anywhere that sells PCs with SSDs, as I can't seem to find very many when browsing about, or would the SSDs generally have to be purchased separately and fitted to a PC, and b) where are the places that do the coolest, funkiest PCs? Alienware sprang to mind but I've heard a lot of conflicting stories about them, and I always thought they were generally aimed at gamers. For the record, my friend just wants his PC for web browsing, downloading, doing his accounts - nothing highly specialised. I'd also like to be able to just point him at a website where he could get something pre-built - I've got enough work to do chasing after my two two-year-olds and I'd rather not get involved in building him a system :-) As always, TIA JRR -- On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or no grammatical use and may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the kelpie next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint
RE: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs
Also a HP P4500 (Lefthand) user here, have just added our third node in to give us more disk space. Because that node acts as both controller and diskshelf, our overall I/O throughput capacity increases with each one we add. Have got our main SQL Servers virtualised on to vSphere, all running off the P4500's at the backend, have never seen any performance worries. If you're strapped for cash, have a look at the HP Renew program, especially if you're in the US where there's an abundance of HP P4000 series kit, can usually pick up a starter pack with 3-5 year 24x7 support contract for a good discount. http://www.hp.com/united-states/renew-worldwide/index.html -Original Message- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: 31 January 2011 19:49 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs I've spent most of this afternoon installing the second site in a three site (2 data, 1 FOM) P4000 setup. There's been a few WTF?! moments mostly around the CMC and reporting, but it's kind of neat to have your live data in two locations and be able to lose one and have it fail over damned near seamlessly (vsphere HA isn't great). I suspect Oliver's decision may be made when he sees how much even a pretty basic FC switch costs. Paul -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: 31 January 2011 18:44 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs I don't have any experience with FC, but I do love my LeftHand units - we started with two units and currently have three, with two-way replication between them. Not cheap, but cheaper than a lot of them, and they've been acquired by HP. Never had an ounce of trouble with them - a RAM stick went bad on one of them, and HP hotfooted a replacement to me with no issues. No downtime, either, because of the two way replication. I shut down the affected unit as soon as I got the RAM, replaced the stick, fired it back up, and nothing so much as hiccuped. Needed to seriously update the software when adding in the third unit, but a support rep held my hand over the phone, and that went smoothly, too. Awesome stuff. Kurt On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 08:13, Oliver Marshall oliver.marsh...@g2support.com wrote: Hi Chaps We’re buying some bits to build a basic VM platform so that we can get rid of some old rack servers here. Being new to decent SANs (we have some crappy iscsi hardware that we just use for dumping scrap data on) what are peoples thoughts of iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs? We are planning on having two physical hosts (probably Dell PE710s running either Hyper-V or ESXi) with a lump of shared storage on a SAN but we are at odds here as to whether we should go iSCSI or FC. Any comments or suggestions? Olly ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- MIRA Ltd Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 VAT Registration GB 100 1464 84 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is prohibited. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the
RE: Riverbed Steelhead
From RiOS 6.0 or 6.1, the Riverbed's can now accelerate ICA traffic, and you can apply some QoS to give priority to screen refreshes and keyboard strokes, and downgrade printing and other traffic that's in the ICA tunnel. We're seeing about a 50-60% reduction in the amount of data the Citrix XenApp clients are needing to send over the WAN, mostly from the print traffic. If you split the print traffic out to be separate from the ICA tunnel (ie. Get your XenApp server to print direct to the printer rather than have the client print it) we're getting around 88% WAN reduction for that traffic. HTTP traffic is showing around 80% reduction. Doesn't always work though, we have some cheapo thin clients (Axel) that only have a partially implemented/hacked up version of the ICA protocol onboard (they don't support Session Reliability on port 2598 and the Riverbed's don't get a valid response back when trying to negotiate with them on the port 1494 traffic) so can't do any acceleration for them. Thick clients are fine. The Riverbeds can't do RDP acceleration straight out the box like it can with the ICA traffic. You need to be able to disable the compression/encryption on the RDP sessions (which you can't do on some thin clients, we've got some Wyse S-10's I think which use WinCE which you can't modify the settings on) so that it can apply it's default compression to the traffic. Interestingly the Expand Networks boxes CAN do RDP acceleration without having to modify anything on the client or server, yet they can't do ICA acceleration without having to disable the encryption/compression on the XenApp server. I believe Riverbed will be able to do both and RDP and ICA without needing to do anything on client or server from the next RiOS version due in a few months. We had a hard look at Expand Networks and Riverbed's (and Cisco WAAS) and while the Expand Networks guys were really really helpful in supporting our Proof of Concept, their boxes were by far the easiest of the three to get up and running, and gave good results on what it did, we felt the company didn't have the funding/future vision/RD compared to Riverbed. We started looking at Expand after seeing their stall at a trade show back in October 2009 where they were hyping up their ICA acceleration abilities and their new mobile client for laptop users etc which was in beta at the time. It's end of January 2011 and they've yet to release this mobile client, with their website still saying 'Available 2010'. This kinda started ringing alarm bells for us about the company and where they're going. Gartner have dropped them from their latest Magic Quadrant due to not meeting the revenues criteria? Pricewise, Riverbed were more expensive, but, when we started playing hardball with them (via a Riverbed Partner/reseller) we found they could heavily discount the prices down to not a whole lot more then what Expand Networks would do. Still wasn't the cheapest IT product we've bought though! Also factor in the Central Management Console prices in on your quotes, it's another coupe of grand for the software but makes managing multiple boxes a lot easier. If you're trying to accelerate video and have thick clients at the remote ends, you might see more of a benefit from upgrading up towards XenApp 6.0 with its HDX support. You might be interested in watching a session by Bernhard Tritsch at last year's TechEd Eurrope 2010 comparing the response of the HDX protocol with RDP,RemoteFX,PCoIP etc by running side by side video's over varying bandwidth and latency WAN links. Kinda interesting: RDP, RemoteFX, ICA/HDX, EOP and PCoIP - VDI Remoting Protocols Turned Inside Out http://www.msteched.com/2010/Europe/VIR401 Hope that lot helps! Steve. From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] Sent: 25 January 2011 21:15 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Riverbed Steelhead Since your primary application at the remote sites is Citrix, look at the Citrix WanScalers (or Branch repeaters). They're much less expensive than most of the other contenders, especially Riverbed, and have the extra added benefit that no other optimizer can offer, true Citrix ICA optimization. We did evals of Riverbed, and while it worked great, it didn't accelerate ICA directly, and it costs out the wazzu. Also, if you're providing internet access through the user's Citrix sessions, I don't understand why they'd see latency because of the wan links between headquarters and remote site. Same goes for streaming video. If your users are doing those things in their Citrix sessions, the browsing and streaming are taking place at headquarters, and the remote users are just seeing the results in their Citrix windows. From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 2:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Riverbed Steelhead Hi all, I am looking to optimize my WAN. I have 8
RE: Windows SysInternals: ListDLLs v3.0 Handle v3.43
In case you haven't stumbled across them, video's from most of the Technet Europe 2010 sessions are online, including Mark R's The Case of the Unexplained 2010... session where he guides you through how he uses the main Sysinternals tools to troubleshoot some problems on users PC's: http://www.msteched.com/2010/Europe/WCL301 He also has some sessions up on Windows Memory Management and the like. Rest of vid's at: http://www.msteched.com/2010/Europe/ Something to download to your Blackberry and watch on the train ride home this evening... -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: 20 January 2011 23:28 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows SysInternals: ListDLLs v3.0 Handle v3.43 I've been to one of his speeches as well... no one on one time with him, but great dude. Good books too... I've read all the Inside NT/Win books since Helen Custer's original, and then when he and Solomon continued the series. -sc -Original Message- From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 4:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows SysInternals: ListDLLs v3.0 Handle v3.43 My Mark R. story. I attended a Mark R. David S. pre TechEd event back in 2004. At TechEd 2006 I met Mark R. waiting for a shuttle bus. I mentioned that I had attended his mind dumbing 6 hour long crash dump analysis class at TechEd 2004. Mark asked a lot of questions about what I thought about the class, him, David, their presentation style, class materials, what I thought, what did I learn, etc, etc. Instead of a umm, thanks for attending response, I got to spend probably close to 10 minutes with him because, I felt, he was deeply interested in seeing if he/they could have done a better job. Nice. Webster -Original Message- From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Subject: RE: Windows SysInternals: ListDLLs v3.0 Handle v3.43 +1 I don't know Mark Russinovich, nor have I ever met him, but he strikes me as the kind of guy who really cares and would take the time to help if he can. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Deploying Riverbed Appliances
If you've got more than say 5 to do, then you'd use the Riverbed Central Management Console to control and deploy policies and settings to all the connected Steelhead boxes. Is licensed on how many devices you want to manage using it so will cost you at least another couple of grand. Comes in a virtual appliance or hardware appliance form. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: 10 January 2011 20:04 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Deploying Riverbed Appliances I saw in an earlier thread that many of you seemed familiar with and recommended Riverbed Appliances. What's the process to deploy these? Can an image/configuration be deployed to multiple units quickly? How long to load a premade configuration? They seem to really highlight ease of deployment on their website, curious about the specifics. TIA, Sam ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: FEP 2010
Indeed it is, 74MB ISO, go get it! -Original Message- From: Anders Blomgren [mailto:chanks...@gmail.com] Sent: 30 December 2010 15:27 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: FEP 2010 According to http://blogs.technet.com/b/forefront/archive/2010/12/16/announcing-foref ront-endpoint-protection-2010.aspx it'll be on VLSC on saturday. -Anders Sent from my iPhone On 29 dec 2010, at 19:56, Joseph Heaton jhea...@dfg.ca.gov wrote: The EA part is what I meant. Saw that it was RTM, and went to look for it on our EA. Anders Blomgren chanks...@gmail.com 12/29/2010 10:09 AM What do you mean by production release? It RTM'd a bit over a week ago. Still not on EA though. -Anders Sent from my iPhone On 29 dec 2010, at 18:46, Joseph Heaton jhea...@dfg.ca.gov wrote: Anyone know when the production release is going to be? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
RE: Repost: AMI SAN
Hi John, We've been doing the whole SAN thing here over the last year and a bit, having a look at all the usual suspects (HP, NetApp, Compellent, Falconstor, EMC, 3Par etc etc) and I never came across an offering from AMI (American Megatrends). I think that kinda says it really, they're just not well known for their SANs. Not to say they're bad, just that they probably won't have much of a customer base. Perhaps they only really market in the US? Or perhaps they're more on the disk storage system side then the full blown SAN side. I'd hazard a guess their snapshot/volume cloning software isn't up to the big boys either. Have a look at the Gartner Magic Quadrant for 2008 diagram (near the bottom of this page) as it pretty much covers the main players in the SAN world. (Lefthand has of course been bought out by HP since then): http://equallogicversuslefthand.blogspot.com/2009/07/checking-out-what-g artner-thinks.html I'd be hesitant about using someone that doesn't appear in that diagram for enterprisey grade storage in a business environment. Steve. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: 24 November 2009 15:10 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Repost: AMI SAN Anyone here know anything about AMI SANs? I got someone trying to sell me on AMI as a SAN provider. I got a webinar / demo on them yesterday and I have to say the UI looked pretty nice. Had most of the bells / whistles that everyone else has, of course. J Anyway, I'd like to hear if anyone has anything, good or bad, to say about AMI SANs. === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg
RE: ADSL Line Switching
Xrio do some fancy devices for bonding multiple links together, which adapts its weighting depending on the line quality at the time. Also do a virtual version now it seems... : http://www.xrio.com/Home.aspx -Original Message- From: Robert Jackson [mailto:r...@walkermartyn.co.uk] Sent: 23 October 2009 14:18 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: ADSL Line Switching Anyone know of a device that would sit on a LAN and be able to route internet traffic through one of a number of ADSL lines automatically? Regards, Rab. === Robert Jackson Phone: +44 (0) 141 332 7999 Software Engineer Fax: +44 (0) 141 331 2820 Walker Martyn Ltd 1 Park Circus PlaceEmail: r...@walkermartyn.co.uk Glasgow G3 6AH, Scotland Web: http://www.walkermartyn.co.uk === The information in this internet E-mail is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee. Access, copying or re-use of information in it by anyone else is unauthorised. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Walker Martyn Ltd or any of its affiliates. If you are not the intended recipient please contact administra...@walkermartyn.co.uk Walker Martyn Ltd, company number SC197533. Company is registered in Scotland and has its registered office at 1 Park Circus Place, Glasgow G3 6AH, UK. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: dyndns for webservers
You might get better results with a more 'business-grade' offering from DNS Providers such as DNSMadeEasy.com. They will monitor you website availability and auto switch the DNS entries to your failover IP's when required. http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/s0306/prod/dnsfosm.html Not too bad for decent hosted DNS and failover for $35 - $60 a year. -Original Message- From: Adam Greene [mailto:maill...@webjogger.net] Sent: 06 October 2009 22:59 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: dyndns for webservers Hi, I have a customer who runs a public-facing webserver on his network and wants to have Internet provider redundancy, without getting a /24 and doing BGP. We can set him up so that if his primary connection fails, he will go out through his backup link, but his public IP addresses will change when it fails over, in that scenario. We are considering suggesting dynamic DNS to associate his webserver domain name with the changing IP addresses. Is anyone doing this, and have you found it to be a reliable solution? Thanks, adam ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: OT Antivirus
Yup. Kaspersky does 2 different versions of AV for Servers: Kaspersky Antivirus for Windows File Servers and the newer Kaspersky Antivirus for Windows Server Enterprise Edition. If you buy the Business Space pack or above, you can use either the Enterprise Edition or the standard Windows File Servers edition. Server licenses are no longer differentiated from Client licenses. Ie. If you have 10 servers and 100 workstations, you need 110 licenses. One welcome bonus is you can get 1 free license for the consumer version (Kaspersky Internet Security) for each business license you purchase*, this is intended to protect your employee's home PC. Enterprise Edition 'is designed specifically for high-performance corporate servers that experience heavy loads'. In reality, it's the edition that supports Windows Server 2008 and Terminal Services. There is a service pack (MP4) coming out soon for the (older) KAV for Windows File Servers (v6) that will give it Windows Server 2008 (and R2) compatibility. Management is done via the Kaspersky Administration Kit, this works ok, you can define group policies etc and push out new installs from here. It's ok, the way they've done 'slave' servers for your remote sites is kinda clunky , but the admin kit is soon to be revamped along with the MP4 release. Enterprise Edition was kinda wedged in to the Admin Kit though, and is installed remotely in a different manner to the Windows File Server version. Again it's kinda clunky but is doable. Performance is fine on both editions, no real issues with sluggish response etc. Was some mention that they could affect VSS backups until you excluded the relevant processes. Have maybe had 3 issues with bad module updates/virus defs over the last 4 years. Frequency of def updates is impressive, and response time for Kaspersky UK business support is equally impressive. But the big problem is the RAM usage. Kaspersky are supposedly one of the lighter resource intensive AV's on the market and I'd agree to a point. On my workstation at the moment the KAV processes are using about 12MB of ram. Windows File Servers version uses around 25MB of ram (again, that's not bad) whereas Enterprise Edition uses around 250MB (!). I kid you not. This is apparently normal according the KAV team, who knows what they've done to balloon it out so much. They've even given you the option of not installing the GUI on server machines (and admin entirely from the Admin Kit) with Enterprise Edition but still the ram usage is 10x what the previous version used. When they bring out MP4 for the Windows File Server version we'll most likely be switching back to that from Enterprise Edition for our 2008 boxes because of this discrepancy in ram usage. We were ummming and aahhing about VIPRE Enterprise when we had to renew our Kaspersky subscription last January but we deemed it just a little too new to go for at the time and we knew that Kaspersky had been a sold performer for us over the last few years. That and the price per unit was pretty darned good, so we stuck with it. Will reevaluate next January. * Not available in all areas apparently, but Kaspersky UK was happy to oblige. From: Jonathan Kadoo [mailto:jka...@gmail.com] Sent: 19 September 2009 02:52 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT Antivirus Hello all, just a quick question. Is anyone using Kapersky on their Windows 2008 production server? Do you like it? Pros and Cons? If not what other antivirus do you use excluding SAV. thanks Joanthan === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: OT Antivirus
Thanks for the techy info Richard, wasn't aware of that change in reporting. Have got the behemoth 'Windows Internals 5' book by Russinovich sitting on my desk but have yet to read it! I had just grabbed the figures for each version from Taskmanager on the relevant platform: Kaspersky Antivirus for Windows Workstation : Windows XP Pro SP3 Kaspersky Antivirus for Windows File Servers : Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2 Kaspersky Antivirus for Windows Server Enterprise Edition : Windows Server 2008 Standard SP1 Looks like Process Explorer can split the Working Set total figure (which is what Task Manager shows for 'Mem Usage' under XP/2003) out into: WS Private (which is what 2008's Task Manager now shows for Memory by default) WS Shareable WS Shared On another of our 2008 servers I've currently got the following Kaspersky Antivirus Enterprise Edition related processes according to 2008's Task Manager: Kavfs.exe39MB Kavfsscs.exe 2MB Kavfswp.exe 159MB Kavfswp.exe 145MB Kavtray.exe1MB KLNagent.exe 2MB Ooh yeah! Nearly 350MB just to run your Server Antivirus client. Just to state again, this is for Kaspersky's Enterprise Edition version only, the standard Windows File Server version uses a tenth of that. It's like they've left loads of debugging code in there or something. They're up to Cumulative Fix Pack 7 on the Enterprise Edition so it's not a brand spankin' new product. From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] Sent: 21 September 2009 12:39 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT Antivirus Which reporting program, which metric, and what OS do the values for memory usage represent? MS made a significant change in the default way Task Manager reports memory usage in Vista and later OSes which essentially makes comparison with values obtained from earlier versions of Task Manager useless. Old versions of Task Manager's Mem Usage column report the total Working Set of a process. Newer versions report the Private Working Set which is a much more significant metric (from everything I've read, that is). If the Private Working Set of the Kaspersky Enterprise Edition really is running at 250 MB, I would agree that it's an extremely high value. If you're running this on Server 2003, I think you have to install a 3rd party tool such as Process Explorer to report the Private Working Set. You can't get it from Task Manager, and I can't find a counter for it in perfmon. Maybe from WMI, but I can't find anything there either. I just re-read the your post and it does seem that you're describing behavior seen on Server 2008, so I suppose it really is the Private Working Set that is so high. That's amazing. From: Steve Burkett [mailto:steve.burk...@stemcor.com] Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 4:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT Antivirus Yup. Kaspersky does 2 different versions of AV for Servers: Kaspersky Antivirus for Windows File Servers and the newer Kaspersky Antivirus for Windows Server Enterprise Edition. If you buy the Business Space pack or above, you can use either the Enterprise Edition or the standard Windows File Servers edition. Server licenses are no longer differentiated from Client licenses. Ie. If you have 10 servers and 100 workstations, you need 110 licenses. One welcome bonus is you can get 1 free license for the consumer version (Kaspersky Internet Security) for each business license you purchase*, this is intended to protect your employee's home PC. Enterprise Edition 'is designed specifically for high-performance corporate servers that experience heavy loads'. In reality, it's the edition that supports Windows Server 2008 and Terminal Services. There is a service pack (MP4) coming out soon for the (older) KAV for Windows File Servers (v6) that will give it Windows Server 2008 (and R2) compatibility. Management is done via the Kaspersky Administration Kit, this works ok, you can define group policies etc and push out new installs from here. It's ok, the way they've done 'slave' servers for your remote sites is kinda clunky , but the admin kit is soon to be revamped along with the MP4 release. Enterprise Edition was kinda wedged in to the Admin Kit though, and is installed remotely in a different manner to the Windows File Server version. Again it's kinda clunky but is doable. Performance is fine on both editions, no real issues with sluggish response etc. Was some mention that they could affect VSS backups until you excluded the relevant processes. Have maybe had 3 issues with bad module updates/virus defs over the last 4 years. Frequency of def updates is impressive, and response time for Kaspersky UK business support is equally impressive. But the big problem is the RAM usage. Kaspersky are supposedly one of the lighter
RE: troubleshooting website performance
Assuming it's IIS based, you could give IISPeak a look at it, is a pretty easy tool to see what IIS is currently working on and what's slowing it down: http://iispeek.com/ From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: 03 July 2009 01:35 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: troubleshooting website performance a) What type of application is it? b) Can you get a dump file of the w3wp.exe process when the problem is occuring? c) If you like, you can work through stuff like this: http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken/archive/2009/06/30/24910.aspx to figure out what is going on. Cheers Ken From: Andy Shook [andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Friday, 3 July 2009 6:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: troubleshooting website performance Server 2003 SP2 Newer IBM something or other 2.8Ghz dual core 1.5GB RAM 7 disk (2 in a RAID1 four in a RAID5 with a hot spare) Server is paging at 1.14GB continually and page file is set to 768MB in size. Performance issue on website response. Server literally takes 20-30 seconds to response to request sent by the firewall before firewall forwards response to user on the Interwebs. Mucho time spent with wireshark analyzing packet traces to show that the firewall is receiving the request from the WAN and promptly forwards http request to internal web server. Web server response takes forever to respond, troubleshooting now but wanted to throw this out to the collective... TIA, Shook === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: PIX/ASA Change Management
Something like SolarWinds Orion Network Configuration Manager would do the trick, but you're looking at $2500: http://www.solarwinds.com/products/orion/configuration_manager/ From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: 25 June 2009 09:42 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PIX/ASA Change Management Just about any source control system would probably fit the bill - just put the config files into the source control system. Cheers Ken From: Kelsay, Mark [mark.kel...@confused.com] Sent: Thursday, 25 June 2009 6:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: PIX/ASA Change Management I have recently taken over management of about 10 Firewalls. We have a mix of ASA and PIX's. I am currently using a text file to track changes I make to the firewalls. I would like to find a piece of software that is geared to doing this more efficiently. I have Googled and did not find anything that fits the bill. What are you using that you would recommend? Thanks, Mark === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: DPM-2007
There was a 'How to Manage Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 in Large Enterprises' webcast yesterday, and a 'Cheaper, Better Backups with Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007' one coming up Friday next week, perhaps get on there and pose the question Glen? DPM 2007 Webcasts: http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.aspx?tab=webcastsid=4 2555 From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: 11 June 2009 10:56 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DPM-2007 Including documentation... Been working with PSS for several weeks now trying to get this product working with SharePoint in a least privilege environment, where the backend data is on a shared enterprise SQL Server cluster. It's not really obvious what the requirements are permissions wise... Cheers Ken From: Brian Desmond [br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Thursday, 11 June 2009 4:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DPM-2007 It'd be all of the above from your list. It does some very slick stuff but unfortunately needs A LOT of polish still. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 4:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DPM-2007 Good luck finding much at all about DPM... Seems like either no one is using it, or there is just very little info on it anywhere. The way DPM uses tape is not very straight forward. Bob Fronk P Please print only as needed. From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 4:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DPM-2007 Just learning this thing and wondering if anyone has found a way to use removable/portable esata drives instead of tapes for long term storage. I can't believe that MS didn't think of this or at least considering it. I'm not finding much googling or binging now. === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Anyone using Citrix Access Gateway appliance
First I've heard about Citrix intending to ditch the Access Gateway line in favour of the NetScalar products, unless they bring out a low cost NetScalar product they'll be cutting out a large chunk of their market I would have thought. Anyhoo, Tom, it depends on what client licenses you bought with your Citrix Access Gateway as to whether you can use the AAC software. If you got the standard CAG client licenses, you'll need to upgrade them to Universal CAG client licenses in order to use the box in Advanced mode. Citrix are suggesting people transition off of Secure Access Gateways to Citrix Access Gateways as they're more robust and easier to maintain etc. http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/feature.asp?contentID=26145 From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: 13 April 2009 17:52 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone using Citrix Access Gateway appliance Yes, AAC runs on a server that you point the CAG too. With AAC you have a LOT of control over who connects and where they go once you allow them to connect. That component is tested very heavily for the Citrix certifications. Webster From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Subject: RE: Anyone using Citrix Access Gateway appliance Thanks. Does the Advanced Access Control software run in conjunction with the CAG? My CAGs are fairly new and despite what Citrix wants they need to last at least a few years. Citrix as a company seems to fail to understand that non-profits just don't have the funds that their big customers have. Off-topic, sorry. Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com 4/13/2009 10:02 AM Use the Advanced Access Control software from Citrix. The CAG appliances will be going away soon as will the AAC software. Citrix is moving everyone (or wants to) to the NetScaler line of appliances. The NetScaler has the AAC software functionality built-in. A NetScaler is also very expensive but has a lot more features and functionality. Webster From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Subject: Anyone using Citrix Access Gateway appliance Hi Folks, I have about 30 sites that connect to use via the Secure Access Gateway. These are broadband sites with maybe 2-5 users. There are no firewalls at these locations. User PCs connect to a low-end switch and that's it. At our LAN/WAN sites we enforce a number of content filtering policies via our firewall. I was planning to purchase a number of SOHO firewalls for these locations and have static VPNs set up for each. Someone mentioned I might be able to achieve the same goal via the Access Gateway, and requiring users to connect via the CAG client before users can do anything. I'd like to force users at these sites to logon to the domain if possible. Is this possible via the Access Gateway, and if so, how? === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Forefront?
Don't wait on the next version coming out, they pushed the Client Security 2.0 back to first half of 2010 the other day, and the Forefront Server Security for Exchange back to the fourth quarter of 2009. http://blogs.technet.com/forefront/archive/2009/04/03/schedule-update-fo r-forefront-stirling.aspx Quite like how the ForeFront for Exchange and Sharepoint packages can run anti-virus engines from Kaspersky Labs, CA and Sophos so you could be quite covered by the different definitions from various manufacturers. Microsoft OneCare was the consumer product they're ditching. From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: 09 April 2009 10:11 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Forefront? Some if the things you need to watch out for are whether you are putting it on Windows 2008 or 2003, do you own SQL 2005 or 2008, are you using any of the System Center products. Like John the EDU discount just about kills any price competition. I use it here for that reason. I have had to touch it rarely, it works, it does seem to catch bugs, but it is not simple to setup if you have any of the mixture I mentioned to watch out for. There is a new version coming out that I hope will remove many of the issues I had. It does need a full SQL to install and function correctly but it can be installed without the management portion but why do that. Considering how hard NOD32 was to set up and get running Forefront could be done by a teenager. Considering just the install of the management portion NOD beat on the install but getting the configuration correct was much easier to do on Forefront. If you have any specific questions I will try to help but there are others using it that I know have more experience than me on the llist. Jon On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:40 PM, John Hornbuckle john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us wrote: We use it, but I'm hardly an expert on it. To be honest, I don't mess with it much. Which I guess could be viewed as a good thing! J I like that it's integrated with AD and WSUS-pushing it down to clients and keeping it updated is simple. I don't really know how to judge its efficacy. We've not had any known malware infections while using it, but we also keep our workstations locked pretty tight (e.g., users don't have admin rights and with many accounts we restrict executables using GPO). We like the pricing; as an educational entity, we get deep discounts from Microsoft. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us http://www.taylor.k12.fl.us/ From: Bill Lambert [mailto:blamb...@concuity.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 7:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Forefront? Hello all... I'm tired of using multiple products to protect desktops and email from spam, viruses and spyware. I've taken a look at the MS Forefront product line and it looks like a pretty good solution. I have Exchange 2003 and XP clients. Can anyone comment on its effectiveness, installation, management and use both at the admin and user levels? Any other recommendations are welcome as well. Thanks. Bill Lambert Windows System Administrator Concuity A healthcare division of Trintech, Inc. Phone 847-941-9206 Fax 847-465-9147 NASDAQ: TTPA The information contained in this e-mail message, including any attached files, is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the recipient) you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. Thank you. === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.gif
Level3.net New York routing issues?
Hi guys, Is everyone else seeing issues with reaching sites in New York this morning? We've got a branch office there on Interglobe Communications (www.nyigc.com) and we can't reach them or InterGlobes website. Tracert looks like: From London: ... 8 3 ms 2 ms13 ms ae-32-52.ebr2.London1.Level3.net [4.69.139.126] 973 ms73 ms73 ms ae-44-44.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.137.78] 1077 ms89 ms90 ms ae-3-3.ebr4.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.132.93] 1178 ms89 ms90 ms ae-64-64.csw1.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.134.178] 1278 ms78 ms79 ms ae-21-69.car1.Washington3.Level3.net [4.68.17.7] 1378 ms78 ms78 ms XO-COMMUNIC.car1.Washington3.Level3.net [4.71.204.26] 14 *** Request timed out. 15 *** Request timed out. 16 *** Request timed out. 17 *** Request timed out. 18 *** Request timed out. 19 *** Request timed out. 20 *** Request timed out. ... From Sinagpore via LA: ... 444 ms 3 ms 3 ms vlan911-ancat6ktl2.starhub.net.sg [203.118.5.1 554 ms30 ms13 ms 203.118.3.162 6 178 ms 186 ms 189 ms so-6-1-0.edge2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.71.1321] 7 211 ms 214 ms 223 ms ae-3-89.edge1.LosAngeles9.Level3.net [4.68.20.8] 8 192 ms 208 ms 224 ms xo-level3-xe.losangeles9.level3.net [4.53.228.] 9 ** * Request timed out. 10 *** Request timed out. 11 *** Request timed out. 12 *** Request timed out. 13 *** Request timed out. Looks like they've been down for 6 hours now? Are they still there? Steve. === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Ops Manager 2007 uninstall error
There's an Operations Manager 2007 Cleanup Tool available on the System Center Operations Manager 2007 Tools and Utilities page which is supposed to do a full cleanup when Add/Remove Programs doesn't work: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/bb625978.aspx From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: 19 January 2009 13:36 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Ops Manager 2007 uninstall error None of the options in Add/Remove Programs cut the mustard, I get the same error every time. It is almost as if there has been a patch applied that I don't know about. 2009/1/19 Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com Have you tried the Add/Remove Programs / Programs and Features control panel? Cheers Ken From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 20 January 2009 12:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Ops Manager 2007 uninstall error I am trying to remove a copy of Operations Manager 2007 from a server so I can do a clean install, as the server has stopped logging alerts for some reason. However every time I run setup I get the following error - a newer version of operations manager 2007 is already installed on this computer, Setup cannot continue. I have removed all the patches and management packs that were installed, yet still I get the same error. Can anyone shed any light on this? I feel kind of exposed without my Operations Manager alerting. TIA, JRR === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Gone way OT: Windows 7 On TechNet Now
Annnd the Microsoft servers are down http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/ http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/01/07/information -on-downloading-and-installing-windows-7-beta.aspx -Original Message- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: 09 January 2009 13:56 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Gone way OT: Windows 7 On TechNet Now Its basically Vista SP3.. and you expected something different? Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email: ezi...@lifespan.org Phone: 401-639-3505 MCSE, MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 8:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Gone way OT: Windows 7 On TechNet Now Windows 7 isn't revolutionary, from what I can tell; it's Vista, tweaked. And as you say, Vista isn't nearly as bad as the FUD-spreaders would have people believe. I've been using it every day for two years now on my home desktop, my work desktop, and my laptop. I just don't have problems with it. The kicker is that Win7 won't make much difference in regards to two of the biggest complaints people had about Vista: application compatibility and driver compatibility. It may be a little better on the app front, but I don't expect anything radical. And as for drivers, I'm not aware of any difference at all in Win7 that would make older devices work better with it. If your device didn't work with Vista, it ain't gonna work with Win7. What has really disappointed me in the Vista fiasco was that IT professionals were just as guilty--maybe even more so--of spreading FUD about Vista as laypeople were. I would expect ordinary consumers to get confused, or the media to jump on a bandwagon without really understanding the subject. But IT pros should know better. Many of the rants I've seen have come from IT people who clearly hadn't really spent much time using Vista, or didn't really understand enough about how it worked to see its advantages over XP, or were just plain unwilling to learn something new. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 5:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Gone way OT: Windows 7 On TechNet Now Ok, since we are on the subject... This has been irking me lately, I need to get it off my chest! I have been highly skeptical of all the rave reviews of 7 so far. There seems to be this wonderful wave of hope around 7 in the blogosphere, touting 7 is better than Vista. But Vista kinda of had terrible press, and everyone was convinced it was the next ME. In actually, it wasn't. Vista is great. It had it SP0 bumps for sure, but Vista in general was much better that I think the press made it out to be. Everyone is jumping in joy that 7 boots faster than Vista, more stable, etc, etc. Big Whoop. IMO, IT BETTER be faster and more stable! This is not a feature, this is a EXPECTATION. Better stability? Again, not a bonus feature, it's an expectation. New versions should NEVER be slower, especially with the crazy pace of hardware advancements. All in all, I think Vista's bad rep is just paving the way for good reviews of 7. It's like when Steve Jobs put the 'improved' Audio Jack in his slide show for the Gen 2 iPhone. No, Steve, you can't do that. You *^cked up with Gen1 with the audio port, and you fixed it in Gen2. You cannot market it as a new feature. The fact that he had to market that and throw it in his slid show, just goes to show that there weren't enough other new features introduced to talk about. I don't no much about 7, I haven't tried it, I'm sure I will download it on Friday, and buy a copy on release. I just hope MS knows what they are doing forcing an OS out the door so quickly. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 2:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 On TechNet Now Since the other beta's are out... I really like the new task bar. I'm not sold on the new Start button. Otherwise - it's very much like Vista sp2. Except that it uses less memory. At idle, my Vista system uses about 850 MB. At idle (pretty much the same startup applications), Win7 uses 500 MB. Speed-wise - I don't detect any appreciable difference. But I've got pretty fast machines already. I have found a couple of pretty obvious bugs, so I don't consider it production-ready. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009
RE: Memory Upgrade question
I believe he is mistaken. HP's blurb from the DL380 G5's Supplemental Information to Warranty Statement: (http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00383139lang=encc=ustaskId=prodSeriesId=1121516prodTypeId=15351) * It is possible to void the warranty on an HP product. Any failure caused by an unsupported or third-party component will not be covered by warranty. Opening a sealed component or sealed product will void the warranty. Examples of sealed components or sealed products include drives, monitors, and many handheld products. Opening the case will not void the warranty on products that are designed to be opened and upgraded, such as desktop or tower computers or servers. So the way I read that, Crucial memory is fine to be used in HP servers as long as you don't ring them up trying to get a replacement for your failed motherboard which has mysterious scorch marks encircling the memory sockets. From: Kelsay, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 December 2008 11:23 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Memory Upgrade question I have been told by our usual hardware vendor that if I use Crucial RAM to upgrade several HP ProLiant DL380 G5 servers that I will void my warranty with HP. He states that we can only use HP branded RAM. There is a £300 difference between the HP branded RAM they quoted us and the price we could get from Crucial. I just spoke with Crucial and they state that this is not true. Anyone else ever come across this issue? Thanks, Mark ** This email is sent for and on behalf of Inspop.com Limited ** Authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Registration no. 310635. Inspop.com Limited (also trading as Confused.com) is registered in England and Wales at 2nd Floor, Friary House, Greyfriars Road, Cardiff, CF10 3AE (Reg. No. 03857130 ). Any opinions expressed in this email are those of the individual and not necessarily the company. This email and any files transmitted with it, including replies and forwarded copies (which may contain alterations) subsequently transmitted from the Company, are confidential and solely for the use of the intended recipient. It may contain material protected by attorney-client privilege. If you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify the Information Security Officer by telephone on +44 (0) 29 2043 4252. Please then delete this email and destroy any copies of it. This email has been swept for viruses before leaving our system. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and accept this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and any attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. We may monitor the content of E-mails sent and received via our network for viruses or unauthorised use and for other lawful business purposes. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Messagelabs. The service is powered by MessageLabs. === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Group policy question
I think Joe was trying to stop the group policy that runs a login script from taking effect for these users to test out that there wasn't a conflict happening. Joe, this seems to be a long standing problem with Windows, and we've certainly had this problem for several years. Every now and then Windows will fail to map the users home drive correctly if its been specified on the profile tab. Our googling efforts showed quite a few others having the issue from way back in 2003, and it doesn't appear to have been fixed since then as someone reported that it still does it on 2008 (though with a 2003 domain level) . Check out this thread for starters: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-xp-support/923771.htm We resorted to using login scripts to map the drive, this seems to be more consistent. Would be interested to know what you find out, as we haven't revisited this one in a while. From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 November 2008 05:57 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group policy question FWIW, this isn't being done through Group Policy AFAIK - you are setting a property on the user's AD object, not creating a Group Policy Object that is downloaded and applied on the user's machine. Cheers Ken From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 26 November 2008 4:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Group policy question Is it possible to add exclusions to a group policy? I'm having an issue with some people getting their personal home drives mapped. When I started here, this was done with a login script to a manually created, shared folder. I've always believed that if the tool is provided, you should use it, so I would like these drives mapped through ADUC, using the Profile tab. However, when I do this, the user will intermittently not have their home drive mapped at all. I haven't changed all users over to the new way, as I need to unshared their home directory, copy the current contents to a temp location, delete the current folder and allow AD to recreate it with the proper rights. But I have been doing this for all the new employees. It just so happens that these new employees are the ones with the issues, so I would like to exclude them from the GPO that does the old login script, to see if the problem goes away. Joe Heaton === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Looking for packet shaping/viewer appliance/sotware
PRTG Traffic Grapher Freeware is a good one if you're looking for something on Windows. http://www.paessler.com/prtg6 Easy to set up and get going as a packet sniffer, you might want to add some extra protocols for SQL,ICA, CIFS in to the Channel Library and Packet Sniffer Channel List. Hard part is setting your network switch to do the mirror/span/analyser on a port. -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 November 2008 15:30 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Looking for packet shaping/viewer appliance/sotware Kurt, I went to the ntop site, and they're saying you can actually use Win32 platform for this also. Is there a specific reason you suggest *nix, or is that just habit? Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 5:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Looking for packet shaping/viewer appliance/sotware If all you're looking to do is see bandwidth usage by protocol, and other monitoring tasks, such as who your top 3 talkers are, etc., I can heartily recommend putting up a *nix box on a mirror/span port on the switch to which your firewall is connected, and running ntop. ntop is really dang cool - http://www.ntop.org/overfview.html On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At one of my clients we have the need to try and determine how the internet is being utilized. The 10mb is constantly swamped and I have a hard time believing it's for work-related reasons. I'm looking at putting in some kind of software/device that analyzes the internet traffic and can tell me how much is being used for basic web surfing, streaming video, webcam usage, p2p programs, internet radio, or whatever else might be happening. I know packeteer has a product that does this, but we are NOT looking to shape the bandwidth at this time, merely view it so we can make a determination of what to do from there. They used to have a viewer product in the past long ago called PacketPup but I'm not sure if they do anymore... Any recommendations on how I can determine what the internet is being used for as it relates to Applications? Thanks JR myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft(R) Windows(R) and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: VIPRE - I like it
Is that the main reason people are dumping Trend? The support is rubbish? (Our Kaspersky renewal's coming up in January... ) -Original Message- From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 November 2008 14:44 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VIPRE - I like it I may pickup Vipre and Ninja when our Trend contract ends. Thats the plan anyway, Trend has got to go, their support is useless. I have two major problems with it and they are not able to help, other then have me send in files and respond to emails endlessly and then resend them all again. - Original Message - From: Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 1:01 AM Subject: VIPRE - I like it Stu, Alex, et al, We've cobbled together a brute force script that is ripping out McAfee for us, and it's working fairly well. I just wanted to say, publicly, that I'm so far, after rolling out VIPRE to approximately 90 workstations out of our nearly 400, very pleased with how it's working. It's caught 9 moderate to serious infestations of which McAfee was completely unaware (a keylogger and several trojans, among others), and allowed us to clean them. We're planning now for using this tool for quarantining IM clients, among other things - it's no substitute for removing administrator privileges, but until we achieve that it looks to be a good stopgap. Also, the control console is almost completely transparent in function and does its job well. I've got a junior admin who's worked through it easily, and is showing other junior admins how it works, and the whole team is stoked about the product. In all, an excellent product. Please convey my thanks to the VIPRE team. Well done. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: MS Big Easy Offer
And as usual, this is United States and/or Canada only. Pity as their Big Easy Calculator was showing we would be getting over $8k back if we lived in the US. From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 November 2008 10:44 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: MS Big Easy Offer FYI, Microsoft does all kinds of special offers but not all of the Partners participate in them, sometimes they forget them or don't qualify to get anything out of them so they don't keep track of them. Partners do the selling for Microsoft. Most of us would probably never see a Microsoft person but we would see Partners and they come on all sizes and kinds from the Dell/HPs to 'Johnny at the corner Computer store. Jon On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Andy Ognenoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kind of old news. This is the second running of The Big Easy Offer. Might be time to call your reseller and ask why they didn't tell you about this. I figured as much...just thought I'd pass it along in case someone out there like me hadn't heard about it. - Andy O. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Change management in W2k8
Interesting topic, our external Auditors would be very happy. Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management (For Software Assurance Customers only?) http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/4/f/64f5dc66-832a-4df3-baf4-3b4 e7fb9e500/Datasheet%20-%20AGPM.pdf From: Jake Gardner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 November 2008 14:24 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Change management in W2k8 http://www.netiq.com/products/cgad/default.asp There's a few other change control products in their lineup. Just Googled it, havn't used it. Thanks, Jake Gardner TTC Network Administrator Ext. 246 From: Brumbaugh, Luke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 9:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Change management in W2k8 It was in a MMC and you see the changes and a final approval button. i.e. Joe changed a GPO and it is sitting in awaiting approval, once approved it becomes active. From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 9:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Change management in W2k8 I've never heard of this feature. In what context did you see the changes/approvals etc (event log? Some kind of MMC? Etc) FWIW System Center is a brand, not a product, so it wouldn't have been System Center per se. Cheers Ken From: Brumbaugh, Luke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 13 November 2008 12:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Change management in W2k8 I went to a seminar about W2K8 and saw a piece about changes to AD that had to be approved by an administrator. It contained who changed what and approval. What exactly was that? System Center? I am planning budget and an upgrade to Windows 2008 and would like to get that piece in budget. TIA ** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information transmitted in this message is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this document. Thank you. Butler Animal Health Supply ** ***Teletronics Technology Corporation*** This e-mail is confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the addressee or authorized by the addressee to receive this e-mail, you may not disclose, copy, distribute, or use this e-mail. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail or by telephone at 267-352-2020 and destroy this message and any copies. Thank you. *** === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: SCOM Training
Grab a copy of System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed from Amazon as well for $37.79. It's a fat book with some good hints and tips on how things should be setup for the real world, not just how to next through the install wizard. And it has a section on upgrading from MOM2005 to SCOM2007 which would be helpful for you. From: Rod Trent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 October 2008 13:09 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SCOM Training InFront Consulting has some great OpsMgr training: http://www.infrontconsulting.com/events.htm Looks like they have a class in Cleveland in December. Also, if you don't mind online training, LearnITStuff's training is great: https://www.learnitstuff.com/t-learnmom2005.aspx From: Gardner, Wendell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 9:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SCOM Training Has anyone used ONLC for training opportunities? Am upgrading from MOM 2k5 to SCOM 2k7 in the (hopefully foreseeable future) and not finding any local offerings in central Ohio. Wendell Wendell Gardner Chemical Abstracts Service [EMAIL PROTECTED] === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Watchguard firewall question
Is that a typo? 1%?If you meant progress bar goes to 100% then back to 0%, then that's a known bug with pre 10.2.2 firmwares. 10.2.2 solves the issue (or indeed 10.2.3 now). If you haven't used them before, get on the Watchguard support forums. There are a couple of guys on there that REALLY know the Watchguard stuff well, are very active in the forum, and are much much more useful then the official Watchguard Tech Support. Hope it helps, Steve. From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 October 2008 15:38 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Watchguard firewall question Ok, I opened another session, and was able to cancel the original backup. Tried the straight backup, and got the same results. The Backup window comes up, progress bar goes to 1%, back to 0% and stayed there. Got out of it again, rebooted the firewall, tried a straight backup again, and same results. I am not comfortable upgrading without a good flash image backup, so I'm now trying to figure out why the backup won't work. Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel From: Mark Boersma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 7:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Watchguard firewall question Negative. It should zip through it in a few seconds. I would cancel the upgrade and try to do a manual backup first. File Backup in the policy manager. Mark - Two rules to success in life: 1. Never tell people everything you know. From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 10:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Watchguard firewall question Ok, quick question, may be paranoia. I'm having the box back up the image before upgrading, and it has been sitting at 0% for about 5 minutes now. Is that normal? Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 4:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Watchguard firewall question Well, then hopefully the upgrade will help. I'm running 10.0 at the moment, and plan to upgrade to 10.2.3 in the morning... Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 3:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Watchguard firewall question Just that getting a Firebox to actually search the right OU is a pain in the freaking ass. Of course, the two times I've configured such, I was using 9.1, so take that for what it's worth. It's suppose to just work in 10.2 and later, but I have not had to set that up from scratch, just updated the ones I did a year ago. From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 3:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Watchguard firewall question Ok, so I've gotten a successful connection using the Firebox DB for authentication. I'd like, however, to use AD authentication, but I keep getting a PAP/CHAP error of Wrong username or password. I've created a security group, named VPN, I've put myself in the group, and I've setup the authentication server within the firebox to go to the correct OU. Any ideas on this? I haven't upgraded the firebox yet, plan to do that in the morning, but any tips I can find in here to help point me would be appreciated. By the way, I ended up checking the IPsec passthru box to get to where I am now. Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel From: Mark Boersma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 5:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Watchguard firewall question Actually 10.2.3 is out now. Usually the IKE errors occur if the client can't see the server, as in no internet connection. Can you ping the IP of the Firebox you are trying to connect to? Mark - Two rules to success in life: 1. Never tell people everything you know. From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 4:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Watchguard firewall question If it's never worked before, I suggest contacting your support. You might try upgrading the firewall to 10.2.2. There were some issues with 10.0 and even 10.0.1 with certain types of MUVPNs. From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 1:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Watchguard firewall question Fireware v.10 on the box, Yes, using Watchguard Mobile VPN client v. 10.04. Using a laptop for the connection, at the moment directly connected to the network. I do have support, I just figured I'd post here, to see if anyone had any previous experience with this general error, before I called them. Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 10:49 AM
OCS 2007 infrastructure for remote offices
Okay, David's got me thinking of a real dumb question that I can't find a simple answer. I'm gonna take a look at OCS 2007 soon, but 'management' initially poo-poo'ed the idea as they said it required an OCS server at each location you wanted phones. I can't believe that fact to be true - we've got about 50 offices worldwide, 10-20 of those with 3-4 users in and there's no way we're putting in 50 OCS servers. What's the options with getting remote offices on the system, but without the need for having OCS servers at their locations? Some of these offices have existing IP PBX's, some have analog PBX's, some have no PBX. Any help appreciated! Steve. === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: firewall lifespan
Be aware that Watchguard stopped selling the X500 in October 2006, and are End of Life'ing it in October 2009. See URL: http://www.watchguard.com/products/endoflife.asp Think your best bet would be to troll ebay for a spare, but we've still got a Firebox III X700 running at one of our sites 24-7 from 2002, so your X500 still has a few years left in it hopefully. In fact of the 40 or so units we have (variety of SOHO, Edge, X Core and X Core e-series), I can't think of us having a single hardware failure in the last 3-4 years. From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 October 2008 20:03 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: firewall lifespan I have a perfectly functional firewall. A pretty red Watchguard X 500 Core. I've been running it 24-7 for 4 years now. I've been through a lot of hardware on my servers in that time. So I'm wondering is this thing looking at collecting social security or is it just going to be young and vital for as long as Watchguard supports it? I don't want lose my internet Access for 2 days while I wait for a replacement if it up and dies on me. Do firewall appliances like these have a predictable lifespan? Thanks for any insight, Bill === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Tools for auditing Windows security logs
Hi guys, Anyone got any recommendations for creating audit reports out of Windows 2003 security event logs? I know of GFI's Events Manager, and I might take a look at the offerings from Secure Vantage Technologies which wedge in to Operations Manager 2007. Anyone got any others? Thanks for any tips! Steve. === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: NetApp SAN For Virtualisation
Ballpark pricing for the 'beginner' SAN package, you're looking at about: FAS2050 head £5k (2 needed for clustering/redundancy) Disk shelf with 14 x 300GB disks, £17k (Just need 1 disk shelf, but could for instance add) Disk shelf with 7TB SATA disks,£13k (... if you want more cheaper slower space) Software, per head (so x 2 if you've got clustered) SnapManager software for SQL backups £10k (sorry don't have a price for SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure yet) SnapMirror SnapVault £8k (for replicating/backing up to another NetApp over WAN) NFS enable £5k CIFS shares enable £3k (Sorry, I don't have iSCSI or Fibre Channel enable prices) 3yr Support Warranty package £25k Course we get well and truely ripped off here in the UK so US peeps can probably just change those £ signs to $ and get a good estimate these days. And NetApp seem quite 'flexible' with their pricing, so go in hard and bargain the heck out of them. Excellent site for some pricing in US $ is: http://storagemojo.com/storagemojos-pricing-guide/ . Hope it helps, Steve. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 September 2008 18:11 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: NetApp SAN For Virtualisation Model and $$'s? On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Steve Burkett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very incorrect. NetApp filers can be used as simple NAS devices if you wish, providing simple Windows network shares on an NFS based system if you wish. You see it as a server joined to your Active Directory domain, you browse to it and see the shares. .. or you can do the full bit level LUN thing to use it as a SAN type device. Enable Fibre Channel or iSCSI with a license key, partition up your disks, give your VMWare host server a chunk of disk to play with formatted with VMFS. Either way works. The deduplication features of the NetApp seem to work best with NFS however, and the killer feature on the NetApp's, their snapshot based backup and restore, likewise. With the Snapshots feature you can do a full backup or restore of 30GB+ databases or virtual machines in 3-5 seconds (!). Particularly if you use the new SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure product which is VMWare aware and plays nicely with it, you can do your backups of live enviroments in a very small backup window, and restore far far quicker then conventional methods. There was a Webcast from NetApp the other month where a customer (one of Europe's biggest health care providers) was converting over to using NFS from iSCSI based LUN's for their VMWare farm as it was proving just as quick performance wise, much quicker to backup, and much simpler to manage. They had gone from Fibre Channel to iSCSI previously. With VMWare offering more and more support towards NFS, it seems to be the way things are going. -Original Message- From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 September 2008 00:51 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NetApp SAN For Virtualisation Ok, let me ask a clarifying question ... Isn't NetApp a NAS (Network Attached Storage) and NOT a SAN. Their NetApp filer boxen run a proprietary file system, not the same as a SAN connected box running the native file system (NTFS) -Original Message- From: Robert Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 8:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: NetApp SAN For Virtualisation Just looking for some feedback. Is/has anyone used NetApp as their backend in a VMWare solution? We've had someone in this morning talking to us about going down the virtualisation road and their backend SAN solution is NetApp using NFS. I know lots of you (already virtualised people out there) are using an EMC solution with iSCSI (and or possibly FC) but I haven't heard much of NetApp. Pros/Cons? Steer well clear of etc etc would be a good starter for us. TIA. The information in this internet E-mail is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee. Access, copying or re-use of information in it by anyone else is unauthorised. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Walker Martyn Ltd or any of its affiliates. If you are not the intended recipient please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Walker Martyn Ltd, company number SC197533. Company is registered in Scotland and has its registered office at 1 Park Circus Place, Glasgow G3 6AH, UK. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business
RE: NetApp SAN For Virtualisation
We've got a 270c that we're looking at doing the same sort of thing with. From what I can tell they're pushing the 3100 series (64 bit?) and trying to phase out the 3000 line (32 bit?). Was told they're able to do comparable prices on the 3100's at the moment. We're currently paying around £15k a month for an Asigra based online backup solution, so replacing it with this replicating SAN setup would show a good ROI fairly quickly. From: Jason Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 September 2008 15:58 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NetApp SAN For Virtualisation We have a 2050 with 5TB total now...that would move to my DR site and we'd get a new 3x40 at corporate for the primary storage. Then sync+vault to the remote 2050. Thanks for that site! I can use that to help keep my vendor honest. J Jason From: Steve Burkett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 9:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NetApp SAN For Virtualisation Ballpark pricing for the 'beginner' SAN package, you're looking at about: FAS2050 head £5k (2 needed for clustering/redundancy) Disk shelf with 14 x 300GB disks, £17k (Just need 1 disk shelf, but could for instance add) Disk shelf with 7TB SATA disks,£13k (... if you want more cheaper slower space) Software, per head (so x 2 if you've got clustered) SnapManager software for SQL backups £10k (sorry don't have a price for SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure yet) SnapMirror SnapVault £8k (for replicating/backing up to another NetApp over WAN) NFS enable £5k CIFS shares enable £3k (Sorry, I don't have iSCSI or Fibre Channel enable prices) 3yr Support Warranty package £25k Course we get well and truely ripped off here in the UK so US peeps can probably just change those £ signs to $ and get a good estimate these days. And NetApp seem quite 'flexible' with their pricing, so go in hard and bargain the heck out of them. Excellent site for some pricing in US $ is: http://storagemojo.com/storagemojos-pricing-guide/ . Hope it helps, Steve. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 September 2008 18:11 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: NetApp SAN For Virtualisation Model and $$'s? On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Steve Burkett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very incorrect. NetApp filers can be used as simple NAS devices if you wish, providing simple Windows network shares on an NFS based system if you wish. You see it as a server joined to your Active Directory domain, you browse to it and see the shares. .. or you can do the full bit level LUN thing to use it as a SAN type device. Enable Fibre Channel or iSCSI with a license key, partition up your disks, give your VMWare host server a chunk of disk to play with formatted with VMFS. Either way works. The deduplication features of the NetApp seem to work best with NFS however, and the killer feature on the NetApp's, their snapshot based backup and restore, likewise. With the Snapshots feature you can do a full backup or restore of 30GB+ databases or virtual machines in 3-5 seconds (!). Particularly if you use the new SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure product which is VMWare aware and plays nicely with it, you can do your backups of live enviroments in a very small backup window, and restore far far quicker then conventional methods. There was a Webcast from NetApp the other month where a customer (one of Europe's biggest health care providers) was converting over to using NFS from iSCSI based LUN's for their VMWare farm as it was proving just as quick performance wise, much quicker to backup, and much simpler to manage. They had gone from Fibre Channel to iSCSI previously. With VMWare offering more and more support towards NFS, it seems to be the way things are going. -Original Message- From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 September 2008 00:51 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NetApp SAN For Virtualisation Ok, let me ask a clarifying question ... Isn't NetApp a NAS (Network Attached Storage) and NOT a SAN. Their NetApp filer boxen run a proprietary file system, not the same as a SAN connected box running the native file system (NTFS) -Original Message- From: Robert Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 8:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: NetApp SAN For Virtualisation Just looking for some feedback. Is/has anyone used NetApp as their backend in a VMWare solution? We've had someone in this morning talking to us about going down the virtualisation road and their backend SAN solution is NetApp using NFS. I know lots of you
RE: NetApp SAN For Virtualisation
Very incorrect. NetApp filers can be used as simple NAS devices if you wish, providing simple Windows network shares on an NFS based system if you wish. You see it as a server joined to your Active Directory domain, you browse to it and see the shares. .. or you can do the full bit level LUN thing to use it as a SAN type device. Enable Fibre Channel or iSCSI with a license key, partition up your disks, give your VMWare host server a chunk of disk to play with formatted with VMFS. Either way works. The deduplication features of the NetApp seem to work best with NFS however, and the killer feature on the NetApp's, their snapshot based backup and restore, likewise. With the Snapshots feature you can do a full backup or restore of 30GB+ databases or virtual machines in 3-5 seconds (!). Particularly if you use the new SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure product which is VMWare aware and plays nicely with it, you can do your backups of live enviroments in a very small backup window, and restore far far quicker then conventional methods. There was a Webcast from NetApp the other month where a customer (one of Europe's biggest health care providers) was converting over to using NFS from iSCSI based LUN's for their VMWare farm as it was proving just as quick performance wise, much quicker to backup, and much simpler to manage. They had gone from Fibre Channel to iSCSI previously. With VMWare offering more and more support towards NFS, it seems to be the way things are going. -Original Message- From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 September 2008 00:51 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NetApp SAN For Virtualisation Ok, let me ask a clarifying question ... Isn't NetApp a NAS (Network Attached Storage) and NOT a SAN. Their NetApp filer boxen run a proprietary file system, not the same as a SAN connected box running the native file system (NTFS) -Original Message- From: Robert Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 8:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: NetApp SAN For Virtualisation Just looking for some feedback. Is/has anyone used NetApp as their backend in a VMWare solution? We've had someone in this morning talking to us about going down the virtualisation road and their backend SAN solution is NetApp using NFS. I know lots of you (already virtualised people out there) are using an EMC solution with iSCSI (and or possibly FC) but I haven't heard much of NetApp. Pros/Cons? Steer well clear of etc etc would be a good starter for us. TIA. The information in this internet E-mail is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee. Access, copying or re-use of information in it by anyone else is unauthorised. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Walker Martyn Ltd or any of its affiliates. If you are not the intended recipient please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Walker Martyn Ltd, company number SC197533. Company is registered in Scotland and has its registered office at 1 Park Circus Place, Glasgow G3 6AH, UK. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.6.19/1662 - Release Date: 9/9/2008 10:47 AM ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: AV on an System Center Essentials server
Should be ok as long as you exclude certain directories and processes from scanning. Rod's got a good list here for Ops Manager 2007, but probably similar to SCE: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rtrent/archive/2008/07/18/recommended-ant ivirus-exclusions-for-opsmgr.aspx From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 August 2008 11:01 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: AV on an System Center Essentials server Okay I am not seeing anything about this but what about adding AntiVirus to a System Center Essentials machine, or for that matter any System Center machine? Is that bad or good? Thanks, Jon === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation
Aah good day to bring up Kaspersky. They've pushed an updated module to us over night and it's causing the Kaspersky process to crash on a lot of our workstations whenever they now try to update. We had a similar situation about 7 months ago where an application patch went out with a problem that caused quite a bit of chaos on machines that picked up the update. Other then that (!) its not been too bad for us. Running on about 600 machines, we've got most of the components turned off (we're not running Antihacker, Antispam , Antivirus for mail), so what's left is reasonably small in footprint. I think Kaspersky have one of the most frequent definition updates in the business? We have had a few false positives come through in the last year. New version coming out in December, along with a new Admin Kit, which I'm hoping is a good improvement over what we have at the moment. It doesn't handle Master/Slave configurations so well, with a fairly messy directory structure resulting from it. Has improved in the last year or so, but still not as clean as it should be. I got the impression that they first built the antivirus part, then started selling to enterprises, then had to come up with the management kit as an after thought wedged on the end. Having said that, pushing out to new clients is reasonably easy, just drop in to the right folder and it'll go away and do it, and invoke the right policy. We'll be evaluating Vipre when we get closer to our subscription renewal time though. From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 August 2008 16:51 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Corporate antivirus recommendation Hi folks, I know this is not an unusual request, but just thought I might get some updated opinions from people. I'm thinking of re-evaluating our allegiance to Trend Micro for desktop antivirus. Not that they've done anything wrong, just think it's time to take a look around and see if newer or better things are out there. My top three requirements would be: 1) Excellent threat detection record and frequent updates to threat definitions. 2) Good admin interface with easy and reliable remote installs. 3) Good deep scanning ability of clients with a real-time scan that doesn't hog resources. I've heard good things about Kaspersky. Anyone have thoughts about going in that direction? And yes, Stu, I know you will recommend Vipre... g. Just looking for some unbiased user opinions. Feel free to email me off-list if more comfortable. Thanks, Evan === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Citrix and VMWare pricing going up 1st September for non-US customers
Just a general warning for all us non-yanks who were needing some more licenses for these products soon, they're hiking the prices up by around 10% on September 1st, so might pay to get in now... http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Citrix-hikes-prices-worldwide/ 0,130061733,339291298,00.htm http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Price-rise-for-VMware-too/0,13 0061733,339291310,00.htm === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Will it *really* not work virtualized?
VMWare's got an interesting white paper out on SQL Server 2005 performance, comparing running on 32 bit and 64 bit OS's, worth a quick flick through: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/SQLServerWorkloads.pdf From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 July 2008 14:00 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Will it *really* not work virtualized? I have one that is over 6GB with about 75-100 people hitting it, very heavy usage. This particular one has been virtualized for 5 years. We've had issues with it once on performance when we applied an update from the vendor, they determined that we needed to truncate the DB to get it smaller, funny thing was, it was really an issue with the way their update was programmed. Calls to the database were causing it to do a full query on all the tables to enumerate the next sequence number. So the performance issues were not because of virtualization, it was because of bad programming.Everything else is much smaller (~1GB) in size with a maximum of 12-20 people using them. On 7/22/08, David Lum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How big are your databases Sherry, and how many folks are hitting them? Dave From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 11:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Will it *really* not work virtualized? We've got about 14 SQL and/or other production database servers running in VMWare, plus 3 - 4 times that many for Dev/Test environments with no issues. We do have our main Siebel production servers running on physical servers, but all the periphery Siebel apps are virtual. Some of the production SQL apps that we have virtual are Project Server, SharePoint, a POS app etc. On 7/22/08, John Hornbuckle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a program to use in school libraries for checking books in and out. It uses an SQL database (http://www.fsc.follett.com/_files/fsc/secured/system_requirements/Dest% 20School%20sys%20reqs%2010685A%20PDF%20print%207_08a%20(2).pdf) http://www.fsc.follett.com/_files/fsc/secured/system_requirements/Dest% 20School%20sys%20reqs%2010685A%20PDF%20print%207_08a%20%282%29.pdf%29 . We're a small district with small schools, and no app we've ever run on a server has come anywhere close to fully utilizing the hardware. That's one of the reasons I want to virtualize more. If the app will run on an XP server with a Pentium 4 processor, I can't imagine that it would be overly demanding. But they do say they require RAID 1 or 5, so they must be counting on a fair amount of I/O activity. But I wonder, what exactly is high I/O when it comes to figuring out if something will run okay on a virtual server? From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 2:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Will it *really* not work virtualized? Why would a product not work on a virtual server, well, one that is high I/O, as in a database server would possibly not work. What application specifically are you looking at that says this? We've used virtual servers for probably 5 years now, and we've always taken the approach that we will try it on a virtual server and if it doesn't work, then go to physical. So far, we're doing really good with that approach. 99% of what we've tried on a virtual server has worked. Now to counter that, we have always looked at what the application will be doing, evaluated the requirements and load, and made the decision on whether or not it's a good candidate for virtualization or not a good candidate for virtualization. Now with that said, I do have a caveat, I've never used Hyper-V and probably will never use it, we've been VMWare since we started with virtual server, first GSX now the latest release of ESX. So, I can't say how Hyper-V utilizes system resources compared to ESX. On 7/22/08, John Hornbuckle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking over the system requirements for a particular piece of software we're looking at purchasing, and I noticed that it specifically says it has to be on a physical (non-virtual) machine. Now, this software doesn't have any special hardware requirements. Processor requirements are modest, as are requirements for RAM and storage space. And yet, the requirements explicitly say, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard or Enterprise without Hyper-V (if Server 2008 is the OS--it also supports Server 2003, XP, or Vista as the server OS). As I've mentioned before, I'm brand new to server virtualization. I'm playing with Hyper-V right now for the first time. So, I'm sure I'm missing something. Why, exactly, would a product like this not work on a virtual server? John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ -- Sherry
RE: Hyper V and VMWare Comparison
Might also want to take a look at Citrix XenServer. Citrix licensed the opensource Xen hypervisor, and have released as a commercial product with proper management console, virtual machine moving (ala vMotion) and so on. Aggressively priced at around $900 per server, they're trying to push in on the other two, placing themselves in between the other two in terms of features: http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=683148 -Original Message- From: Active Elk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 July 2008 07:03 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hyper V and VMWare Comparison Hi Ken, We just want to compared what can each VM solution do and what they cannot do. Basically it is like a feature to feature comparison. MS and VMWare will have their own marketing team to bash the other party up and we would like to have a more independent and fair comparison. Thanks. Best Regards, WY - Original Message From: Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Tuesday, 1 July 2008 12:32:58 Subject: RE: Hyper V and VMWare Comparison I have a fairly detailed comparison, but it's our internal IP. Do you have specific areas that you want compared? Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Active Elk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 1 July 2008 8:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hyper V and VMWare Comparison Hi, With Hyper V now officially shipping from MS. Does anyone know of any website that does a detailed comparison between Hyper V and VMWare ESX? Thanks. Best Regards, Wei Yu ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ Yahoo! Toolbar is now powered with Search Assist.Download it now! http://sg.toolbar.yahoo.com/ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Kaspersky AV
We've got about 600 PC's and 40 Servers covered by the Kaspersky Antivirus business suite at the moment, overall they're pretty good: - Very aggressive pricing - Fairly light on resources - Quick response from the KAV UK support team - The russian based developers often contribute in the Kaspersky Forums (and even might give 1-1 help) - Easy access to beta products, with feedback and new feature requests wanted via the Kaspersky Forums. - Really coming to market by giving away Consumer edition freebies to users through banks, newspapers etc. Could do better: -Admin console a bit clunky when using Slave admin servers (might be redone in the new version of the Admin Kit currently in beta) - Have had 2 'fatal' updates pushed out in the last 3 years or so requiring manual intervention From: vbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 June 2008 18:22 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Kaspersky AV Anyone using or familar with Kaspersky's AV business products suites? I am considering a shift for some of my customers from Trend or Symantec to there products as they support a managed environment on both peer to peer and Domain environments. They are very agressive in their upgrade pricing and the renewals are much less than Symantec. I hope someone on the list had some first hand knowledge with them and felt comfortable recommending the product and their support services. -- Thanks Dave Vantine === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Watchguard X55e log file analysis
Not sure if you're still searching for, but found Capra: Capra is a Open Source tool to quickly get some nice and useful reports out off your Watchguard Fireware log files. http://capra.sourceforge.net/ Might be useful. From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 June 2008 11:49 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Watchguard X55e log file analysis Does anyone know of a package that will report on the syslogs from an X55e ? I'm really after trying to determine bandwidth usage and site access. AdventNet doesn't seem to support the X range only the higher units. Anyone got any suggestions ? Olly === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: exchange book for newbie
I found 'Exchange 2000 Server 24seven' by Jim McBee was very good. Very thorough and written in a style that didn't put you to sleep. I'm sure the 2003 incarnation is just as good. From: Jim Raines [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 June 2008 17:09 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: exchange book for newbie I am looking for a good exchange book for a newbie. Any recommendations? I am specifically looking to learn a lot about user accounts , groups, and role-based access. Thanks! Earn cashback on your purchases with Live Search - the search that pays you back! Learn More http://search.live.com/cashback/?pkw=form=MIJAAF/publ=HMTGL/crea=earnc ashback === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Web blocking
This looks quite good, but can you add in exceptions to blocked sites? Eg. With our current SurfControl based system they occasionally get it wrong and block a site when it shouldn't have been. You can submit a request to get it unblocked, but this takes 2-3 days for them to review it, if indeed they get around to reviewing it at all. We can however manually add in exceptions to please the users. How does opendns.com handle this? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 June 2008 04:47 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Web blocking OpenDNS.com Its free..Works well and we have it running at about a dozen sites. Clients love it. We charge time to go through and set it all up for them, but then show them how to manage the lists etc.. Just point your Windows DNS Forwarders to look at their IP's and for real security block DNS outbound to everything but their IP's. Greg -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Web blocking On 17 Jun 2008 at 13:50, James Rankin wrote: Anyone know where there is a (not necessarily up-to-date) list of popular social networking sites, warez sites and other unproductive stuff that an employer might be advised to block? I have a small client who won't pay for filtering software and he wants to block off the usual rubbish such as MySpace, Facebook, etc. Just wondering if anyone knows where there is a list of the most popular such sites I could get hold of? You might advise him that the cost of keeping the list of blocked sites current will quickly exceed the cost of a subscription. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 +---+ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Watchguard X55e log file analysis
X55e's support SNMP, how about that with MRTG or your favourite network monitoring tool for monitoring the bandwidth usage? Do you not have access to the Watchguard Logging Server component? (Think you only get this with the Core products). From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 June 2008 11:49 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Watchguard X55e log file analysis Does anyone know of a package that will report on the syslogs from an X55e ? I'm really after trying to determine bandwidth usage and site access. AdventNet doesn't seem to support the X range only the higher units. Anyone got any suggestions ? Olly === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: 64 Bit Server Suggestions
And don't forget to enable the virtualization support (AMD-V or IVT) in the BIOS! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 May 2008 04:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; NT System Admin Issues; Steve Burkett Subject: Re: 64 Bit Server Suggestions That and 52GB of ram. Makes for awesome VMware servers :) On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Sam Cayze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And just call it a 4x4! -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 4:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: 64 Bit Server Suggestions Just go with 4 quad core. That way it's less confusing. On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Troy Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The new style chips are 32 bit chips with 64 bit instruction sets. In long mode (64-bit mode), any x86-64 processor (i.e., AMD64, EMT64/Intel 64) is as 64-bit as the IA-64 is. 64-bit registers, 64-bit math, 64-bit virtual address space, 64-bit physical address space. -- Ben ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Backup Exec 12
You also get the bonus of the Advanced Open File Option and Intelligent Disaster Recovery Options's being thrown in for free now. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 May 2008 20:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; NT System Admin Issues; Steve Burkett Subject: Re: Backup Exec 12 Yah...but it is easy to install. On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:07 PM, David Mazzaccaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have to get new agents? Exchange, Open file, Remote, etc? From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 2:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Backup Exec 12 === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Visio 2007 and AD
Looks like they seperated it out, something like: Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=cb42fc06-50c7-47ed-a65c-862661742764displaylang=entm ? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 May 2008 13:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; NT System Admin Issues; Steve Burkett Subject: Visio 2007 and AD Older versions of Visio could import AD info and structure. They dropped this ability in Visio 2003. Did they add it back into Visio 2007? I don't see it anywhere in the literature so can I assume no? Thanks, Dennis ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ === STEMCOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Citrix help needed
Would be looking at where the Citrix XML Service, Citrix Datastore DB, Web Interface and your Citrix license server service is running, these might be only on your old server which become unavailable when powered off. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 10:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; NT System Admin Issues; Steve Burkett Subject: Citrix help needed We are running PS 4.0 with 2 servers in our development farm. All published apps have been updated to run on newserver and everything is working fine. Today I powered down oldserver to check for any issues before I reuse it. When oldserver is powered off, none of the published apps work, even though they are configured to run on newserver only. As soon as I powered up oldserver the apps began working. The message we get is resource is not available. The only thing I see in the event log is that newserver has become the farm metric server. Where do I begin looking? Jon Bjerke Systems Administrator Communications Data Group 102 S Duncan Road Champaign, IL 61822-2818 217-355-8400 x322 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] === CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Super OT - Wireless Projectors
So you just connect to its wireless network and it prompts you to install the client software straight from the device? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 7:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Steve Burkett Subject: RE: Super OT - Wireless Projectors Try this http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=1096654. I got it today and it works the same way as the Addlogix, but I would never put it on my LAN because you can't put any security other than a password on the WIFI connection. Though if you want to live dangerously you can connect the device via a LAN port. Krishna Reddy IT Manager Nucomm, Inc. From: Steve Burkett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 10:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Super OT - Wireless Projectors I know solid state disks are set to be the next big thing, but I didn't think they also doubled as a wireless connection for projectors! Ha ha! (Think the link got munged, takes me to a Transcend 2.5 Solid State Disk) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 3:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Steve Burkett Subject: RE: Super OT - Wireless Projectors I just ordered this http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=1258727 just yesterday. It seems to do the same thing as the Addlogix device, but says that you can attach it to your network to give internet access. Krishna Reddy IT Manager Nucomm, Inc. From: Steve Burkett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 9:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Super OT - Wireless Projectors We had a look in to these a while back. They all seemed to use an applet on the client side that basically takes a snapshot of the screen, jpeg's it or whatever, uploads to the projector for display. Don't expect to run full motion video. Some projectors run a PCMCIA type wireless card in them, but only work with specific cards, don't expect to use just any PCMCIA card you have lying around. The problem we found is that if someone comes in to the office and wants to use the projector, you'd have to go and install the applet on their laptop before they can use it. We wanted to find some way of autoloading the necessary software on to the laptop without requiring IT helpdesk being involved, so we had a look and came across the Addlogix Echoview, which is a neat device you attach to any projector's DVI or VGA port. You scan for available wireless networks from your laptop and find the Echoview wifi network, connect to it, fire up IE and it immediately prompts to download and install the necessary software. Quite smart, much easier for visitors. Unfortunately you can't browse the web on your laptop via WIFI when using the WIFI on the projector. There's also the new support with Vista for Microsoft certifed wireless projectors, but didn't find any available at the time we were looking, so we plumped for the NEC LT380 which works quite nicely and is fully featured. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 11:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; NT System Admin Issues; Steve Burkett Subject: Super OT - Wireless Projectors Anyone have any experience with wireless projectors? I need one and don't know crap about them. Recommendations rock. === CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === The information contained in this email and attachments to this email are the proprietary and confidential property of Nucomm, Inc. The information is provided in strict confidence and shall not be reproduced, copied, or used (partially or wholly) in any manner without prior, express written authorization of Nucomm, Inc. The information contained in this email and attachments to this email are the proprietary and confidential property of Nucomm, Inc. The information is provided in strict confidence and shall
RE: Super OT - Wireless Projectors
We had a look in to these a while back. They all seemed to use an applet on the client side that basically takes a snapshot of the screen, jpeg's it or whatever, uploads to the projector for display. Don't expect to run full motion video. Some projectors run a PCMCIA type wireless card in them, but only work with specific cards, don't expect to use just any PCMCIA card you have lying around. The problem we found is that if someone comes in to the office and wants to use the projector, you'd have to go and install the applet on their laptop before they can use it. We wanted to find some way of autoloading the necessary software on to the laptop without requiring IT helpdesk being involved, so we had a look and came across the Addlogix Echoview, which is a neat device you attach to any projector's DVI or VGA port. You scan for available wireless networks from your laptop and find the Echoview wifi network, connect to it, fire up IE and it immediately prompts to download and install the necessary software. Quite smart, much easier for visitors. Unfortunately you can't browse the web on your laptop via WIFI when using the WIFI on the projector. There's also the new support with Vista for Microsoft certifed wireless projectors, but didn't find any available at the time we were looking, so we plumped for the NEC LT380 which works quite nicely and is fully featured. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 11:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; NT System Admin Issues; Steve Burkett Subject: Super OT - Wireless Projectors Anyone have any experience with wireless projectors? I need one and don't know crap about them. Recommendations rock. === CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Super OT - Wireless Projectors
I know solid state disks are set to be the next big thing, but I didn't think they also doubled as a wireless connection for projectors! Ha ha! (Think the link got munged, takes me to a Transcend 2.5 Solid State Disk) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 3:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Steve Burkett Subject: RE: Super OT - Wireless Projectors I just ordered this http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=1258727 just yesterday. It seems to do the same thing as the Addlogix device, but says that you can attach it to your network to give internet access. Krishna Reddy IT Manager Nucomm, Inc. From: Steve Burkett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 9:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Super OT - Wireless Projectors We had a look in to these a while back. They all seemed to use an applet on the client side that basically takes a snapshot of the screen, jpeg's it or whatever, uploads to the projector for display. Don't expect to run full motion video. Some projectors run a PCMCIA type wireless card in them, but only work with specific cards, don't expect to use just any PCMCIA card you have lying around. The problem we found is that if someone comes in to the office and wants to use the projector, you'd have to go and install the applet on their laptop before they can use it. We wanted to find some way of autoloading the necessary software on to the laptop without requiring IT helpdesk being involved, so we had a look and came across the Addlogix Echoview, which is a neat device you attach to any projector's DVI or VGA port. You scan for available wireless networks from your laptop and find the Echoview wifi network, connect to it, fire up IE and it immediately prompts to download and install the necessary software. Quite smart, much easier for visitors. Unfortunately you can't browse the web on your laptop via WIFI when using the WIFI on the projector. There's also the new support with Vista for Microsoft certifed wireless projectors, but didn't find any available at the time we were looking, so we plumped for the NEC LT380 which works quite nicely and is fully featured. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 11:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; NT System Admin Issues; Steve Burkett Subject: Super OT - Wireless Projectors Anyone have any experience with wireless projectors? I need one and don't know crap about them. Recommendations rock. === CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === The information contained in this email and attachments to this email are the proprietary and confidential property of Nucomm, Inc. The information is provided in strict confidence and shall not be reproduced, copied, or used (partially or wholly) in any manner without prior, express written authorization of Nucomm, Inc. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: watchguard support
You're using an old version of the Watchguard System Manager on your workstation. You need to upgrade your software on your PC to whatever level the Firebox has loaded on it. Whenever the software on the PC and the firmware on the Firebox differs, it'll force you to 'upgrade' the firmware. If it's one of the new Firebox X's, you should be able to tell the firmware level via the LCD display on the front. If it's one of the old Firebox III's, you should still be able to connect to it using the Firebox System Manager software (as opposed to the Policy Manager) and checking the Status Report tab. Or if you have the VPN Manager server software, you could tell from that. The software can be obtained by logging in to the Watchguard Live Security site, latest versions are 9.1.2 for the Firebox X's, or 7.5 for the older Firebox III's. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 6:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; NT System Admin Issues; Steve Burkett Subject: watchguard support So I have a watchguard that needs some support (maybe the list can help James??) I have an account logon. I goto use it it lets me on, great, I click on Knowledge base and it tells me I must have an active or expired product registered. I goto register product and my product is already listed there. I try again as a test and it gives me an error. I go back to KB and I don't have a product that's registered for the kb. Anyhow, 2 days later same thing I thought maybe their site was down. Now the issue, I have access to a Watchguard device using the mgmt app. I can r/w the profile. When I goto write the profile it tells me that the file has to be updated (but it means downgraded) because the software doesn't match the device firmware. If I let it go, it downgrades my firmware, breaks all vpn traffic and deconfigures it and tells me the downgrade and changes were successful (real nice) Im able to put the files back, but all Im trying to do is open a port. Apparently the version was updated by the previous consulting firm and since I reloaded from the cd Im not able to make any changes because the app doesn't match up. Im sure its an easy fix for someone who regularly manages Watchguards. Thanks in advance for reading my rant J BTW!!! The newsweek editor at CES 2008 today said that the HD format war is all but over and Blueray won. Apparently Paramount inked a blue ray deal. Then he goes to mention how he was at some big dinner for Blue Ray and everyone was all excited because they won the format war. Im not a videophile by any sense but did I miss something? === CONFIDENTIALITY AND DISCLAIMER NOTICE This e-mail is intended only for the addressees named in it. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Stemcor unless otherwise specifically stated. Stemcor does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message nor responsibility for any change made to it after it was sent by the original sender. You are advised to carry out a virus check before opening any attachment as Stemcor does not accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of any software viruses. You should be aware that Stemcor reserves the right to read incoming and outgoing emails. === ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
