Certificate Authentication with VPNs
We are currently looking to deploy an L2TP/IPSEC VPN server using RRAS in 2008 R2 with the following goals: * Two factor authentication * A protocol and Authentication method that is supported on apple products, particularly iPads (I know, *deep sigh*) * Some type of machine authentication I'm fairly new to RRAS. However, from my reading I understand that this will probably be configured to use IPSEC/L2TP using the certificate to do Machine Authentication and username/password to do user authentication. I have an XP machine setup and working in this scenario. However, how do you handle generating certificates for a machine that is not on the domain or even network for that matter? Such as a remote person's ipads or vendors that require VPN access? Thanks in advance for any thoughts, ideas, suggestion. Like I said, this is my first dive into this stuff at this level, and I'll take any advice I can get. Thanks, Todd ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a 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: Outlook 2007/Vista/ Exchange 2003/RPC Connection Issues
Thanks guys. At least we know we're not alone. I'd appreciate any updates! From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 4:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Outlook 2007/Vista/ Exchange 2003/RPC Connection Issues I'll try and let you know next week when I do the install on my office laptop. Jon On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.com wrote: I recently got a new quad-core notebook with 8GB of ram, which forced me to move to Vista 64bit. Outlook is horribly slow to open, but once it does open, there are no issues. I suspect a similar issue, but have not had a chance to really troubleshoot it. I do know that it does not seem to occur on Vista 32bit and XP. I installed Office SP2 which did not resolve the issue. Google shows many hits on similar issues. Sorry to not be able to give better input, but just chiming in that there is obviously an issue that needs to be fixed. Bob Fronk From: Todd Arnett [mailto:tarn...@lastar.com] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 11:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Outlook 2007/Vista/ Exchange 2003/RPC Connection Issues For the past few weeks, we've had a problem that the two of us in the office using Vista were unable to access Exchange over the VPN server. This was a new development we've been running vista for over a year now. Outlook would just hang for hours even. Occasionally I would get Microsoft exchange server is unavailable. After doing some troubleshooting we finally figured out the Outlook was trying to communicate on port 135 (RPC Endpoint Mapper) to our DCs. We had to make firewall changes to allow communication from our VPN server to our DCs on port 135.The thing that has left us scratching our head is why is it just these Vista clients? We have probably 30-40 other users running Office 2007 and they have no issues, and why did it work all that time before? It only seemed to be the vista clients. We do not use RPC over HTTP. Any thoughts? Thanks, Todd ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Outlook 2007/Vista/ Exchange 2003/RPC Connection Issues
For the past few weeks, we've had a problem that the two of us in the office using Vista were unable to access Exchange over the VPN server. This was a new development we've been running vista for over a year now. Outlook would just hang for hours even. Occasionally I would get Microsoft exchange server is unavailable. After doing some troubleshooting we finally figured out the Outlook was trying to communicate on port 135 (RPC Endpoint Mapper) to our DCs. We had to make firewall changes to allow communication from our VPN server to our DCs on port 135.The thing that has left us scratching our head is why is it just these Vista clients? We have probably 30-40 other users running Office 2007 and they have no issues, and why did it work all that time before? It only seemed to be the vista clients. We do not use RPC over HTTP. Any thoughts? Thanks, Todd ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Outlook 2007/Vista/ Exchange 2003/RPC Connection Issues
Sorry it was port 1025. From: Todd Arnett [mailto:tarn...@lastar.com] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 11:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Outlook 2007/Vista/ Exchange 2003/RPC Connection Issues For the past few weeks, we've had a problem that the two of us in the office using Vista were unable to access Exchange over the VPN server. This was a new development we've been running vista for over a year now. Outlook would just hang for hours even. Occasionally I would get Microsoft exchange server is unavailable. After doing some troubleshooting we finally figured out the Outlook was trying to communicate on port 135 (RPC Endpoint Mapper) to our DCs. We had to make firewall changes to allow communication from our VPN server to our DCs on port 135.The thing that has left us scratching our head is why is it just these Vista clients? We have probably 30-40 other users running Office 2007 and they have no issues, and why did it work all that time before? It only seemed to be the vista clients. We do not use RPC over HTTP. Any thoughts? Thanks, Todd ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
File Size Monitoring Software
I am in search of some type of file monitoring software. Ideally, this software would be able to journal file size and notify select recipients upon a certain percentage of growth, as well as do reporting. Any thoughts,/suggestions? Thanks, Todd Arnett IT System Administrator Lastar Inc. 937.224.0639 x338 www.lastar.com http://www.lastar.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Backup Exec 12.5 Mirror Backup
Does anyone know of a mirror backup option within Backup Exec 12.5? I swear I've seen this. We're just wanting to recreate file structure to another system for easy recovery. I know we could use something like Robocopy to do this, but I'd like to be able to manage the jobs from within a single interface. Thanks, Todd Arnett IT System Administrator Lastar Inc. 937.224.0639 x338 www.lastar.com http://www.lastar.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Help Desk Software
We are currently evaluating different help desk software. Just curious what everyone here is using or suggests? We are looking for something preferably free or low budget. Thanks in advance for any suggestions! Thanks, Todd Arnett IT System Administrator Lastar Inc. 937.224.0639 x338 www.lastar.com http://www.lastar.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Redirect Outlook Recover Deleted Items
Does anyone know of away to redirect Recover deleted items to another folder, specifically a PST. I have a user who allowed her husband to work on her computer and he drug about 150mb of e-mail out into her deleted items. I am wanting to recover this for her to sift through. Thanks in advance for any help. Thanks, Todd ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Redirect Outlook Recover Deleted Items
Deleted items were emptied. We do backup mailboxes, BUT these e-mails were in the user's PST which is NOT backed up, since they put it on their local machine. From: Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 3:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Redirect Outlook Recover Deleted Items Was the Deleted Items deleted? Also do you backup the mailboxes? ---___ Cameron Cooper IT Director - CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Reports, Inc Phone: 847-890-4021Fax: 847-255-1896 ccoo...@aurico.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Disk to Disk Backup Solutions
Does anyone have any recommendations about Disk to Disk backup solutions. This is something we're looking into for the upcoming year's budget and I just wanted some input. We are currently using SDLT tapes. Thanks, Todd Arnett IT System Administrator Lastar Inc. 937.224.8646 x338 www.lastar.com http://www.lastar.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Disk to Disk Backup Solutions
I don't really have a hard and fast number. I'd have to throw it out there and see if it sinks. Does DPM have the ability to handle off site disaster recovery. For instance if our building burned down? I am looking for a replacement for our tape solution. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 4:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disk to Disk Backup Solutions How much money do you have to spend? Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Todd Arnett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 4:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Disk to Disk Backup Solutions Does anyone have any recommendations about Disk to Disk backup solutions. This is something we're looking into for the upcoming year's budget and I just wanted some input. We are currently using SDLT tapes. Thanks, Todd Arnett IT System Administrator Lastar Inc. 937.224.8646 x338 www.lastar.com http://www.lastar.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: OMG WSUS Just tanked *EVERY* Desktop in my org!
Try stopping the Windows Update service on the PC and deleting or renaming the c:\windows\softwaredistribution folder. Then start the service. From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 4:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OMG WSUS Just tanked *EVERY* Desktop in my org! What you using to redeploy? - Original Message - From: Joseph L. Casale mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 4:10 PM Subject: RE: OMG WSUS Just tanked *EVERY* Desktop in my org! Well, I am puzzled to, problem is I don't have time to figure it out, I have to redeploy. It seems a few PC's had issues with some .Net updates, some office updates and we have an ERP app that uses both of these. We also use Nod32. I saw issues with the updates for several days, but was busy and didn't hear anyone complain. I planned to investigate why WSUS was saying they were failing asap. Today, everything is busted. I hadn't approved anything in a couple weeks, and I do approve on a VM first? I don't know WTF happened, LOL... hkc From: Eisenberg, Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 12:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OMG WSUS Just tanked *EVERY* Desktop in my org! Can you give any more details? I want to stop our WSUS updates if there's a real problem with one of the updates. -- Wayne Eisenberg Server and PC Support Manager Pepsi Bottling Ventures, LLC From: Lee Douglas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 2:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OMG WSUS Just tanked *EVERY* Desktop in my org! Hey, that's why you get the big bucks, right? g On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lol, it looks like a .net issue or something but every PC just tanked after WSUS worked some magic... I am redeploying the whole company, lol. I'll pay ANYTHING for someone to kill me right now:P jlc ~ 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/ ~
Backup Tape Destruction
Just curious how everyone destroys their backup tapes? Thanks, Todd Arnett IT System Administrator Lastar Inc. 937.224.8646 x338 www.lastar.com http://www.lastar.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Visio alternative?
Dia (http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/) is a good open source diagramming package. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 6:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Visio alternative? Hello, Robert's question made me think of something I've been pondering recently. Are any of you using a free alternative to MS Visio? I just switched to Open Office instead of Office, and I want to see what other alternate packages I can find. Not sure if there is a Visio alternative, but I figured someone here would know! Thanks No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.101 / Virus Database: 270.4.6/1540 - Release Date: 7/8/2008 6:33 AM ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Any free sFTP servers for Windows?
Filezilla is also a good one. -Original Message- From: Christopher Boggs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 2:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Any free sFTP servers for Windows? http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/ It uses cygwin, but apparently it's all built into one installer, and a very minimal chunk of cygwin - so no headaches trying to get stuff installed separately. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 9:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Any free sFTP servers for Windows? Greetings! We have a DMZ with a database server in it. We are able to access it via MSTSC for management. So far, the only way we've discovered to move files onto it is via FTP. As FTP sends passwords, etc in plain text, we are wondering, are there any good sFTP servers out there? Lots of good clients (like WinSCP), but we need a server as well. Those I've found so far offer trials that blow up after a trial period, or are linux enhancements... -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org ~ 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 ~
