OT: E-discovery Windows Tools
We need a tool to search through Windows file shares and local Windows PC hard drives for E-Discovery. It needs to search all the basic Office documents along with PDFs and PSTs. We are a SMB with no budget for this tool, so we need something that is free or inexpensive. Something that works with Macintosh computers would be a plus. -- Kevin Kelly Director, Network Technology Whitman College ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage 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: E-discovery Windows Tools
Windows Desktop search doesn't seem like a good fit for E-discovery needs. Depending on the number files searched, there may be thousands or more matching documents and email messages/attachments. The search results and matching documents must be exacted and then turned over as part of the E-Discovery process. There must be tools specifically created to satisfy the requirements of E-Discovery. Kevin On 12/21/2010 1:07 PM, VIPCS wrote: Windows Desktop search is a free add-in that works with Windows XP and higher. Sincerely, Jeffrey and Mary Jane Harris VIPCS -Original Message- From: System Manager [mailto:mgr...@whitman.edu] Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 4:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: E-discovery Windows Tools We need a tool to search through Windows file shares and local Windows PC hard drives for E-Discovery. It needs to search all the basic Office documents along with PDFs and PSTs. We are a SMB with no budget for this tool, so we need something that is free or inexpensive. Something that works with Macintosh computers would be a plus. -- Kevin Kelly Director, Network Technology Whitman College ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: Domain controllers, what is supposed to happen.
We ran into the same issue. We ended putting a load balancer in front of our two DCs, which are also our private DNS servers, to solve this problem. Now we can take down either DC with causing DNS problems with the XP workstations. Kevin On 4/21/2010 6:40 AM, Gavin Wilby wrote: Fair enough - if correct though, your right XP is stupid. Gavin. On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com mailto:mich...@smithcons.com wrote: That’s the way it works in Vista/Win7. I’m not sure that’s the way it works in XP. I think that XP is stupid – if it gets a response from a server, it uses that one server throughout an entire boot cycle. This is just a vague memory though. I’ve not supported XP in several years. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com http://theessentialexchange.com/ *From:* Gavin Wilby [mailto:gavin.wi...@gmail.com mailto:gavin.wi...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, April 21, 2010 9:30 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Domain controllers, what is supposed to happen. Surely though if you have a pri and secondary DNS server, that after DNS1 times out on resolution then DNS2 will then be queried? On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Carol Fee c...@massbar.org mailto:c...@massbar.org wrote: +1 on that. I think if the XP workstation had been rebooted, it would have been just fine. /_CFee_/ *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, April 21, 2010 9:24 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Domain controllers, what is supposed to happen. It’s possible that XP may require a reboot before it retires an unreachable DNS server. I dunno. But it should work just fine. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com http://theessentialexchange.com/ *From:* Reimer, Mark [mailto:mark.rei...@prairie.edu mailto:mark.rei...@prairie.edu] *Sent:* Wednesday, April 21, 2010 9:15 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Domain controllers, what is supposed to happen. Sorry, long email. Windows 2003 Native Domain, two domain controllers, server1 and server2. Workstations are primarily XP, some Windows 7. Other servers (file server, email etc) are all Windows 2003. We have about 150 workstations. We have AD DNS, and WINS. Server1 has FSMO roles Infrastructure Master, PDC Emulator, RID Master. Server2 has FSMO roles Domain Naming Master, Schema Master. Both are GC’s. In the DHCP settings workstations get both server’s IP’s as DNS. Server2 is listed first, then server1. Primary WINS server is server1, secondary is Server2. Last night Server1 went down. It was off hours, but I got a call from some late night worker (using XP), saying they couldn’t do anything. Couldn’t reach any of the servers, or internet. I was able to get the server going again (bad memory chip, so I just took it out). I thought that if one server went down, the DNS/WINS look up would go to the other server. But it might be slower (note, I didn’t try any of this, just going on what the user said). Comments? If I didn’t get Server1 running again, what should I have done? I assume I should do the following. 1. Seize the FSMO roles from server1, and put them on server2. 2. Change DHCP so Primary WINS server is server2. Maybe even take out Server1 as DNS/WINS possibilities. Then work on getting Server1 running again, or replacing it. Did I miss anything? Thanks for any help and insight you can give. Mark -- Gavin Wilby, Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby GSXR Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk http://www.stoof.co.uk/ -- Gavin Wilby, Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby GSXR Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk -- -- Kevin Kelly Director, Network Technology Whitman College ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Domain controllers, what is supposed to happen.
We have dynamic DNS disabled. We ran into several cases were computers joined our domain and had the same workstation name as some of our servers, which caused all kinds of grief. Kevin On 4/23/2010 3:35 PM, Brian Desmond wrote: Is that not giving you a bunch of grief with secure updates or are you not using them? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: System Manager [mailto:mgr...@whitman.edu] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 5:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: Gavin Wilby Subject: Re: Domain controllers, what is supposed to happen. We ran into the same issue. We ended putting a load balancer in front of our two DCs, which are also our private DNS servers, to solve this problem. Now we can take down either DC with causing DNS problems with the XP workstations. Kevin On 4/21/2010 6:40 AM, Gavin Wilby wrote: Fair enough - if correct though, your right XP is stupid. Gavin. On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.commailto:mich...@smithcons.com wrote: That's the way it works in Vista/Win7. I'm not sure that's the way it works in XP. I think that XP is stupid - if it gets a response from a server, it uses that one server throughout an entire boot cycle. This is just a vague memory though. I've not supported XP in several years. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.comhttp://theessentialexchange.com/ *From:* Gavin Wilby [mailto:gavin.wi...@gmail.com mailto:gavin.wi...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, April 21, 2010 9:30 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Domain controllers, what is supposed to happen. Surely though if you have a pri and secondary DNS server, that after DNS1 times out on resolution then DNS2 will then be queried? On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Carol Feec...@massbar.org mailto:c...@massbar.org wrote: +1 on that. I think if the XP workstation had been rebooted, it would have been just fine. /_CFee_/ *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, April 21, 2010 9:24 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Domain controllers, what is supposed to happen. It's possible that XP may require a reboot before it retires an unreachable DNS server. I dunno. But it should work just fine. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.comhttp://theessentialexchange.com/ *From:* Reimer, Mark [mailto:mark.rei...@prairie.edu mailto:mark.rei...@prairie.edu] *Sent:* Wednesday, April 21, 2010 9:15 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Domain controllers, what is supposed to happen. Sorry, long email. Windows 2003 Native Domain, two domain controllers, server1 and server2. Workstations are primarily XP, some Windows 7. Other servers (file server, email etc) are all Windows 2003. We have about 150 workstations. We have AD DNS, and WINS. Server1 has FSMO roles Infrastructure Master, PDC Emulator, RID Master. Server2 has FSMO roles Domain Naming Master, Schema Master. Both are GC's. In the DHCP settings workstations get both server's IP's as DNS. Server2 is listed first, then server1. Primary WINS server is server1, secondary is Server2. Last night Server1 went down. It was off hours, but I got a call from some late night worker (using XP), saying they couldn't do anything. Couldn't reach any of the servers, or internet. I was able to get the server going again (bad memory chip, so I just took it out). I thought that if one server went down, the DNS/WINS look up would go to the other server. But it might be slower (note, I didn't try any of this, just going on what the user said). Comments? If I didn't get Server1 running again, what should I have done? I assume I should do the following. 1. Seize the FSMO roles from server1, and put them on server2. 2. Change DHCP so Primary WINS server is server2. Maybe even take out Server1 as DNS/WINS possibilities. Then work on getting Server1 running again, or replacing it. Did I miss anything? Thanks for any help and insight you can give. Mark -- Gavin Wilby, Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby GSXR Blog: http://www.stoof.co.ukhttp://www.stoof.co.uk/ -- Gavin Wilby, Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby GSXR Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk -- -- Kevin Kelly Director, Network Technology Whitman College ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Installing Patches on Windows 7 when logged in as user not administrator
We are planning on deploying Windows 7 64-bit on staff computers and having them log in as user not as an administrator. If they attempt to install Windows patches, they are prompted for the Administrator password, which they do not know. Is there a way I can allow users to install Windows patches? Do any of the patch management software packages solve this problem? -- Kevin Kelly Director, Network Technology Whitman College ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Reader, Acrobat, and Flash security updates
I am new to deploying applications via group policy. I assume the application should be assigned and not published? Should the application be deployed to the user or to the computer? Is the application only deployed once or will it be deployed each time the user logs in and the group policy is applied? Is there any way to track when the application is deployed. -- Kevin Kelly Director, Network Technology Whitman College On 2/12/2010 12:09 PM, Crawford, Scott wrote: To further expand, I'm quite impressed with Adobe's willingness to work within an MSI/Group Policy framework. I find it VERY refreshing to be able to download a working MSI that I can just slap into GP and deploy site-wide. Additionally, their customization wizard for Acrobat reader is excellent for making MSTs. While I'm less than enthused about their endless barrage of patches and security bugs, I'm very thankful that they've made the installation process so painless. Contrast this with QuickTime - blech. In light of that, if filling out their license form is helpful to them, I'm more than happy to oblige. -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 12:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Reader, Acrobat, and Flash security updates Just to expand, that process is painless. Fill out the form and in a few minutes you get the authorizaion via email. -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 1:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Reader, Acrobat, and Flash security updates For Flash you need to register to get a redistribution license. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: NAS/SAN
The FAS2020 couldn't handle the load from our 8 ESX servers with about 70+ virtual servers running on them. Worse than that was the fact the FAS2020 would go away for 3-4 minutes every Tuesday around noon. This would cause virtual servers to crash as their virtual hard drives would stop working. NetApp could never figure that one out, even after pointing out to them this aways seemed to happen at the same time a memory scrub was running on the Fas2020. Kevin Maglinger, Paul wrote: So why did you move away from the NetApp? -Original Message- From: System Manager [mailto:mgr...@whitman.edu] Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 6:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: NAS/SAN We just recently moved away from a NetAPP FAS2020 to an EqualLogic PS6000. Very happy with it so far. Kevin John Aldrich wrote: Thanks for the info. I think I'll stay away from HP at this point, especially after reading this! I'm leaning towards either a NetApp offering or an LSI offering, depending on which is less expensive. Unfortunately LSI doesn't do de-dupe. I've got two different acquaintances who work for two different local vendors, one of which is the LSI vendor and the other is the NetApp vendor. J Gonna be hard to figure out which one to diss. **sigh** Oh, well... John-AldrichTile-Tools *From:* Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] *Sent:* Monday, October 12, 2009 10:31 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: NAS/SAN I was at the vmware forum the other day and netapp did a decent demo on their new offerings with deduping backups, sql and exchange for storage recovery. Also their app has a plugin for vcenter so you could manage the SAN from the vi console which I thought was a nice little bonus. Up to this point we have been building SANS via basic servers using either Datacore or Starwind software controllers. For other areas we also use NFS for less required storage like file sharing etc. My client just purchased 2 PS 6000's and I have another client who has an HP-SAN and running 20 VM's on it ran it to a crawl so they are moving into LeftHand after demoing it out. The hp san was managed and I never laid eyes on it other than running vmware benchmarks on it and it didn't fare too well, it was their entry level product. Starwind reports 3250 IOPS which is okay, but its memory usage masks a lot of that if you get a server with a lot of ram then the disk i/o is pretty good. Datacore does similar at a higher level (and price) but still less than a hardware based SAN of similar size. Im just learning about benchmarking SAN's myself (any tips appreciated). I run DRBD/IET in my datacenter because I can babysit it. I also have a Starwind server that does snapshot backups of all 4 of my esx servers and it does it pretty well. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: NAS/SAN
We just recently moved away from a NetAPP FAS2020 to an EqualLogic PS6000. Very happy with it so far. Kevin John Aldrich wrote: Thanks for the info. I think I’ll stay away from HP at this point, especially after reading this! I’m leaning towards either a NetApp offering or an LSI offering, depending on which is less expensive. Unfortunately LSI doesn’t do de-dupe. I’ve got two different acquaintances who work for two different local vendors, one of which is the LSI vendor and the other is the NetApp vendor. J Gonna be hard to figure out which one to diss. **sigh** Oh, well… John-AldrichTile-Tools *From:* Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] *Sent:* Monday, October 12, 2009 10:31 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: NAS/SAN I was at the vmware forum the other day and netapp did a decent demo on their new offerings with deduping backups, sql and exchange for storage recovery. Also their app has a plugin for vcenter so you could manage the SAN from the vi console which I thought was a nice little bonus. Up to this point we have been building SANS via basic servers using either Datacore or Starwind software controllers. For other areas we also use NFS for less required storage like file sharing etc. My client just purchased 2 PS 6000’s and I have another client who has an HP-SAN and running 20 VM’s on it ran it to a crawl so they are moving into LeftHand after demoing it out. The hp san was managed and I never laid eyes on it other than running vmware benchmarks on it and it didn’t fare too well, it was their entry level product. Starwind reports 3250 IOPS which is okay, but its memory usage masks a lot of that if you get a server with a lot of ram then the disk i/o is pretty good. Datacore does similar at a higher level (and price) but still less than a hardware based SAN of similar size. Im just learning about benchmarking SAN’s myself (any tips appreciated). I run DRBD/IET in my datacenter because I can babysit it. I also have a Starwind server that does snapshot backups of all 4 of my esx servers and it does it pretty well. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Need to take away internet access for a user..
On my Cisco ASA5510, I do the following: object-group network no_internet_allowed network-object host 10.xx.xx.xx access-list 102 deny ip object-group no_internet_allowed any access-list 102 permit ip any any access-group 102 in interface inside -- Kevin Kelly Director, Network Technology Whitman College Chyka, Robert wrote: We have a windows 2003 domain and a Cisco infrastructure at a small site (Pix 515, Cisco 3560s). what is the easiest way to take away internet access for a workstation?Is there anything I can do at the pix. Ie.block port 80 traffic for a certain ip etc.? The user is savvy….at first I added a fake proxy setting in IE, but they found it. Management doesn’t want to tell them straight out yet…. Thanks for any help.. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
