Open and close multiple files on NFS share

[Travis Robinson]

Hello,

We are testing some new antivirus software and need to open and close multiple 
files. The software is configured to scan on read/write access, but we've only 
seen 20 reads/writes in the last day.

Does anyone know of a program I can use to connect to the share, open a file 
and then close it so we can ensure we're getting the correct scanning? We'd 
like to do more than a couple people randomly opening them. I'd like to be able 
to limit it to text and image files as we have some pearl and bash scripts as 
well.

Thanks

Travis

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RE: What is Vmware thinking?

[Travis Robinson]

It does seem that VMware is incorporating a lot of these things with releases. 
I do know there are a couple svmotion plugins for the GUI. It definitely makes 
it a lot nicer. We've used this one from Andrew Kutz for a good 6 or 7 months 
and have had no issues with it.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vip-svmotion/



-Original Message-
From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:g...@krystaltek.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 4:50 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: What is Vmware thinking?

Yeah.. snaphunter or even better powershell works a treat!. Svmotion would have 
been cool in the gui but you can do that with powershell as well!

-Original Message-
From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, 25 April 2009 6:43 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: What is Vmware thinking?

There was a mandated separation of companies between VMware and EMC
during the merger.  Non-compete, etc.  I believe this was in one of
the announcements at the time.

Well, vKernals looks interesting, I shall have to go look at it.
I currently use a PowerShell script to find snapshots.  If you are not
experimenting with PowerShell and you are managing ESX/Virtual Center,
you are seriously missing out.


Connect-VIServer -server  -protocol https;
$snap = Get-VM | Get-Snapshot
$snap | select VM, Created, Name, Description


Steven Peck

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Travis Robinson
 wrote:
> I've been using vKernels SearchMyVM
> (http://www.vkernel.com/products/SearchMyVM/) for finding things like this.
> It has a host of queries and it's FREE. It'll report on VMs with snapshots,
> free space on... etc.
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> They're also very good with feedback. I suggested a query that will show
> which VMs have moved due to user interactin or DRS and they put it in the
> release that came out about 2 weeks later.
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> From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org]
> Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 5:33 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: What is Vmware thinking?
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> Yeah I just want a simple thing in the giu where I can search on machines
> with snapshots, or have them marked with a flag if they di have a snap-shot
> because finding the snaps isn't intuitive right now.
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> Also S-Motion via GUI could be nice, and a way to backup the entire ESX host
> via Legato would be nice too, since EMC owns them, I would have already
> figured they gotten this hashed out... Naaa, that be too simple...
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> Network Engineer
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> MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network +
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> ezi...@lifespan.org
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> Phone:401-639-3505
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> From: RM [mailto:r...@richardmay.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 4:21 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: What is Vmware thinking?
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> I just want thin provisioned VMDK's via vCenter, S-VMotion via vCenter, and
> the fault tolerance active/passive VM hot spare thingy.   :-)
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> I'll let Wall Street and Main Street hash out the product strategy.
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> http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/
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> As an Avid Fan of Vmware and big user of the technology, it seems they are
> going the market, and mass confusion route to though something that is no
> further along than Vaporware. Eight different offers for ESX? Are they
> taking a licensing tip from M$ trying to generate more revenue under the
> guise of Cloud computing?
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> seeing it as first read?
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RE: Prevent Screen Saver in PowerPoint

[Travis Robinson]

We had the same situation, so I created a new OU and put a 1 hour screen saver 
lock out using GPOs. This seems long enough and I can move people in and out as 
needed.

-Original Message-
From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 9:53 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Prevent Screen Saver in PowerPoint

I'm leaning in that direction, but it would be easier on my users if they could 
use their regular accounts.

Windows Media Player disables the screen saver when playing DVDs so that it 
doesn't pop up in the middle of a movie. So it seems to me that a mechanism 
exists to do this. It's just a matter of getting PowerPoint to behave the same 
way...




-Original Message-
From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 11:50 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Prevent Screen Saver in PowerPoint

I created a special user account for using PP that has no screensaver
timeout or lock. It's also locked down from using network resources since
the computer could be left and an untrusted person could then sit down at
it.

-- 
Mike Gill

-Original Message-
From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 7:40 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Prevent Screen Saver in PowerPoint

An Earth-shattering suggestion. Truly.

;-)

Mea culpa for not specifying that users can't change their screen saver
settings because Group Policy locks that down per requirements from the
Auditor General's office.




-Original Message-
From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 10:20 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Prevent Screen Saver in PowerPoint

Temporarily change your screen saver time delay via the control panel. 

Shook

-Original Message-
From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 10:13 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Prevent Screen Saver in PowerPoint

Does anyone have a trick for preventing the screen saver from kicking in
during a PowerPoint presentation? It seems like this should be possible in
theory, since other apps (Media Player comes to mind) can block the screen
saver...



John Hornbuckle
MIS Department
Taylor County School District
318 North Clark Street
Perry, FL 32347

www.taylor.k12.fl.us




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~   ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~


~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

OT: Selling servers

[Travis Robinson]

Hello,

We are looking at migrating to an all blade environment and have some 1yr old 
Dell 1950s with Gold support.

Has anyone sold off old servers that are still under warranty? Any 
recommendations on how to do it; eBay or reseller?

Any suggestions are appreciated

Thanks and Happy New Year

Travis

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RE: VMworld - Vegas!

[Travis Robinson]

I’m leaving in about 4 hours….

From: Robert Cato [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 6:24 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: VMworld - Vegas!


Anybody else headed out there this week?

Robert





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RE: Best duplicate-filefinder?

[Travis Robinson]

If you want just a regular program, TreeSize Pro works well. 
http://www.jam-software.com/treesize/. They have a full demo and the price is 
very reasonable.

-Original Message-
From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 6:51 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Best duplicate-filefinder?

I need a duplicate-file-finder for pruning some backups.
Recommendations sought ... freeware required as I will use it on client
systems as well as on my own.

TIA

Angus

--
Angus Scott-Fleming
http://www.geoapps.com/

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RE: Software Request

[Travis Robinson]

Thanks to all that offered their support. I'll contact you off line.



From: Travis Robinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 5:01 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Software Request

Hello,

I have a strange request for all. I've recently misplaced my only copy of 
Citrix Metaframe XP Feature Release 3 disk, and I'm in a bit of a hurry to 
install two new servers. I've contacted all my friends and no one has this 
version. I've called Citrix and they don't have the downloads anymore because 
it is end of life. We plan on phasing out Citrix within a year and need it for 
a final application until it can get re-written. I've called our VAR and they 
have FR1, but that will not work on 2003 server. I'm calling another VAR 
tomorrow, but I was hoping that someone may have a copy that I can borrow or 
steal. We have plenty of licenses, just no media.

If anyone would be willing to make this available if you still have it, I would 
appreciate it greatly.

I'm hitting up all three lists in desperation.

Thanks

Travis




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Software Request

[Travis Robinson]

Hello,

I have a strange request for all. I've recently misplaced my only copy of 
Citrix Metaframe XP Feature Release 3 disk, and I'm in a bit of a hurry to 
install two new servers. I've contacted all my friends and no one has this 
version. I've called Citrix and they don't have the downloads anymore because 
it is end of life. We plan on phasing out Citrix within a year and need it for 
a final application until it can get re-written. I've called our VAR and they 
have FR1, but that will not work on 2003 server. I'm calling another VAR 
tomorrow, but I was hoping that someone may have a copy that I can borrow or 
steal. We have plenty of licenses, just no media.

If anyone would be willing to make this available if you still have it, I would 
appreciate it greatly.

I'm hitting up all three lists in desperation.

Thanks

Travis

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RE: Annoying Vista Logon

[Travis Robinson]

I think the reason for the change is in a domain you can now do fast
user switching like the XP Home versions. I've tested logging in and
everything seems fine, but I haven't played with it enough to determine
the toll it takes. As for changing it back, here is a link. I haven't
read it all, so I hope it's correct.

http://jsbi.blogspot.com/2006/12/how-to-change-default-vista-logon.html


-Original Message-
From: Jim Dandy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 2:13 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Annoying Vista Logon

When a Vista machine is a member of a domain the logon screen gives you
the opportunity to log on as the last person that logged on.  If you
want to log on as a different user you have to click on "Switch User"
which bring up another screen on which you have to click "Other User"
before you can log on.  Is there a way to revert the logon screen back
to the old XP style screen where you don't have to bring up two
additional screens to log on?  Microsoft really went out of their way to
make logging on more complicated with Vista!

Curt Finley

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