L2TP Issue
Hi everyone I wonder if someone could help me solve this issue. A friend of mine is having issues when trying to connect to his office network using a vpn connection with L2TP. He is using Windows 7 Ultimate and the office server is running MS SBS 2010. He can't just get this vpn connection to work. All the required ports are opened on the Juniper firewall i.e. udp ports 4500, 500 and 1701. Any idea what could be wrong and where to check further? TIA Pierre ~ 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: R: L2TP Issue
Thanks for your reply. So which UDP and TCP Ports need to be opened at the firewall? Grazie Pierre ~ 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: R: R: L2TP Issue
He told me that he opened port 1701 both for udp and tcp. ~ 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: L2TP Issue
Sorry Kurt. I was meant to reply to your message. Does he have to open then tcp 6 and udp 17 re ESP? Thanks Pierre I believe you'll need to make sure that IP Protocol 50 is enabled as well, for ESP. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layer_2_Tunneling_Protocol On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 04:33, Pierre Camilleri pierre.camill...@fosterclark.com wrote: Hi everyone I wonder if someone could help me solve this issue. A friend of mine is having issues when trying to connect to his office network using a vpn connection with L2TP. He is using Windows 7 Ultimate and the office server is running MS SBS 2010. He can't just get this vpn connection to work. All the required ports are opened on the Juniper firewall i.e. udp ports 4500, 500 and 1701. Any idea what could be wrong and where to check further? TIA Pierre ~ 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
Annoying DNS issue
Hi All Our current AD domain is running under Windows Server 2008 R2 and our workstation clients are Windows XP Pro. At times (2/3 times a day) I am having to clear the DNS cache of our domain server because certain users would be unable to access certain websites such as for example HSBCNET.com. They can access other websites without any problems whatsover but somehow certain websites require the DNS cache to be cleared. Weird. Any idea what could be causing this to happen? TIA Pierre ~ 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
Using Skype in a corporate environment
Hi all Our director is very interested in introducing Skype in certain departments since most of our clients/suppliers use Skype already. However I am somewhat concerned about the following issues: 1. Lack of administration facilities such as locking down/disabling certain Skype functions. I know that Windows 2008 group policy administrative templates exist but read somewhere that these might not be compatible with future newer versions of Skype. In fact Skype no longer supplies such templates. 2. Network bandwidth hogging. How serious an issue is this? Each workstation is connected via a 100 MB link to our core switch. Our Internet broadband link speed is 4 Mbps for download and upload connections. 3. Security issues. How serious are these? Has anyone deployed and using Skype within a corporate environment? Any issues encountered? Things to watch out for? Thanks Pierre ~ 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: Query re Virtual CPUs
Thanks you all for your interesting responses and advice. Much appreciated. Thanks Pierre ~ 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
Enquiry re VPN Client Software
Hi all We currently have an IBM ISS MX3006 UTM appliance and we are trying to source a VPN client software which is compatible with this appliance. We once had purchased SafeNet SoftRemoteLT for Windows XP Pro but this does not seem to support domain logins from the client and I've been told that as a product it no longer exists. What we require is for the user to be able to log onto our Windows domain from a remote office via a VPN client. Does anyone use the IBM ISS MX3006? And what VPN client software are you using? Any help/comments on this would be much appreciated. Thanks Pierre ~ 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
Query re Virtual CPUs
Hi all We are planning to deploy Sharepoint 2010 on a virtual machine running under VMware ESXi 4.1 and we were going to allocate the following resouces to it: 16 GB RAM 2 vCPUs This Sharepoint 2010 installation will be running under Windows Server 2008 R2 and will be catering for circa 10-25 users. It would also be hosting the SQL Server 2008 Standard installation. Would 2 vCPUs be enough for running Sharepoint 2010? Thanks Pierre ~ 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
Synching workstation system clock with domain server
Hi all How can I get my users' workstations to synch their clock with our domain server's clock more frequently during the day? Thanks Pierre ~ 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: Synching workstation system clock with domain server
Sorry about this! Our domain is Windows 2008 R2 and our clients are running Windows XP Pro (SP3). Thanks for the links. Will take a look at them. Cheers Pierre ~ 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: Clean Pristine or Swing Migrations?
I re-ran DCpromo and then DNS worked well. Prefer the Swing migration. I have a further query if you don't mind. I now have two domain controllers, one is the current source domain controller and the other one is the target domain controller. I now wish to promote the target domain controller to be the main domain controller. The source domain controller will be decomissioned. How best should I go about it? Are the following steps correct and in the right order? 1. Rename the target domain controller using the same server name and same ip address. 2. Demote the old domain server by running DCpromo on it. This will then become a member server. Rename it as otherwise there would be two servers with the same computer name. Thanks Pierre ~ 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: Clean Pristine or Swing Migrations?
Thanks for your advice. Then if I go ahead by demoting the old domain controller, switch it off and have only the new domain controller up and running then users should be able to log in as per usual without any issues. The swing migration has migrated across everything including OUs, Machine and User accounts, Group Policies as well as the system login script. Thanks Pierre ~ 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: Clean Pristine or Swing Migrations?
How can I transfer the FSMO roles? ~ 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: Clean Pristine or Swing Migrations?
Should I transfer RID, PDC and Infrastructure? ~ 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
Clean Pristine or Swing Migrations?
Hello all I am currently working on the migration project of our Windows Server 2003 domain to a Windows R2 2008 domain. Our single domain is small with about 160 user acounts. I've tried doing a swing migration but somehow could not get the DNS server to work on the R2 server. I am currently looking at the CP migration option. With the CP migration I know that users would have to re-create their passwords again, but this isn't an issue for me. What concerns me is whether user and machine accounts will get migrated across correctly. Also would I have to re-join the users' workstations to the new domain? Would Group Policies and Security Permissions be migrated across? I was thinking of keeping the same domain name and server name (including IP address), obviously the original domain server would be switched off. Any comments/advice would be greately appreciated. TIA Pierre ~ 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
Straight-through or Cross-Over cable?
Hi all We currently have a Siemens router installed and wish to connect it to our internal LAN. We have a network outlet point nearby. My question is this. Should we use a straight-through cable? I have a hunch that the engineer in charge of the router installation connected it to the network outlet point using a cross-over cable. And at the network switch the connection has been patched with a straight-through cable. Hence our inability to ping it. Any comments welcome. TIA Peter ~ 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: Straight-through or Cross-Over cable?
Thanks! ~ 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: Some advice re Servers Virtualization
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Some advice re Servers Virtualization
Hi all I am currently planning on having some of our ageing rack servers virtualized and am currently looking at the following hardware to do this: Dell PE R510 which will be hosting the Virtual servers (circa 7-10) and VMware vSphere 4.1 Dell PV MD3200i iSCSI SAN which will be hosting our Oracle SQL Server DBs, Users' data, etc. Could someone please provide any feedback/comments on the above hardware? I have read some comments on Dell forums about poor system performance of the Dell MD3200i when using it in a virtualized enviornment. TIA Pierre ~ 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
Windows Task Manager not seeing full 8GB RAM
Hi all! I have a Windows Server 2008 SP2 standard (32-bit) with 8 GB of RAM installed. I enabled the setting /set pae ForceEnable and it seems the setting was successful. When I view basic information about the server it does report 8GB RAM installed. So why is Task Manager only recognising 4 GB RAM? Is this normal? When I click About Windows it also reports 4 GB of RAM. Any further clarification about this would be much appreciated. Thanks Pierre ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: Windows Task Manager not seeing full 8GB RAM
The server is a DELL PE R710. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Office 2007 Rollouts
Hello all I am planning to rollout MS Office 2007 to our users, circa 120. These already have MS Office 2000 installed on their Windows XP Pro workstations. What I would like to do is the following: 1. Uninstall MS Office 2000 2. Install Office 2007 3. Install Office 2007 SP2 Can the above steps be done via a single script i.e. by configuring the Config.xml? Any help/comments would be much appreciated. Thanks Pierre ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Realtek NIC issues
Hi all I thought of posting this here just in case someone has encountered this issue before. We have a number of Fujitsu R570 workstations with onboard RealTek NICs. These are RTL 8168DP/8111DP Family PCI-E GBE type. We've been having intermittent issues with some of them. Sometimes they initialise, sometimes they don't. Meaning that when powering up the workstation and logging into Windows XP we get no network connectivity. When powering down the workstations and powering them up again after some time then the issue gets resolved. We also tried forcing the network speed on our HP switch and the NIC card i.e. we set them to 100 FDx. We're finding these issues very strange. By any chance does high humidty affect NICs? We've noted that Fujitsu in the past used to use Broadcom for their on-board NICs. Now it seems they're using Realtek. I think that Realtek are inferior in quality. Would appreciate any comments on this. Thanks Pierre ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
The remote connection has timed out.
Hello all! I am encountering a problem when trying to connect to a remote server using the Windows XP Pro (SP2) Remote Desktop. The domain user keeps getting the following error: The remote connection has timed out. Please try connecting to the remote computer again. Now when I log on using an account with admin rights this does not happen which means that there seems to be a Group Policy setting being applied thus preventing normal users from connecting remotely. We have a Domain Group Policy in place but when checking the settings I cannot seem to find what particular GP setting/s is causing this. Could someone please help me troubleshoot this problem? Many thanks Pierre ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: The remote connection has timed out.
Hi Richard I've checked the GPO settings and there is nothing configured for Terminal Services so no settings should be applied. The remote server belongs to a third party. It's a demo server which we need to connect to via Remote Desktop in order to view a demo of a software application. Thanks P. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: The remote connection has timed out.
But my account allows me to connect because I have admin rights. It is when normal users try to connect that they are getting the error message hence my suspicions falling on some GPO settings. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Re: The remote connection has timed out.
This server does not belong to us. We were given temporary access to it in order to view a demo on it via Remote Desktop. The problem cropped up when one of our users tried to access it via Remote Desktop. However when I tried accessing it using my normal account because I am a system admin, I could access it without any issues. This is very strange because I cannot find anything in the GPO that seems to be causing this. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Preventing user from changing login name
Hi all! I would like to prevent one of my users from changing his assigned Windows login name. All I want him to do is enter the password only in order to log on to our domain. Is this possible? The OS is Windows XP Pro and we have an Windows 2003 Active Directory domain. TIA Pierre ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Preventing user from changing login name
No. The user is restricted from logging onto other workstations. What I would like to do is prevent the user from changing his login name. In other words I do not wish him to use another login name. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
RE: Preventing user from changing login name
They are using someone else's login name. That is why I wish to prevent the user from changing his/her login name. I would like that he/she would only be able to enter the password. Possible? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
WebEx Meeting Center
Hi all! Thought of posting this here in order to obtain some feedback. Is anyone using this service? What I am concerned about are potential security issues that could be introduced by this service. Is it a secure service WebEx claim it to be? Any comments would be much appreciated. Thanks Pierre ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: WebEx Meeting Center
My concerns are related to issues such as hacking attempts during the WebEx session. They say that the connection is encrypted using 128 Bit SSL and AES. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: WebEx Meeting Center
Thanks to all for your comments. This WebEx service i.e. WebEx Meeting Center will be used only for our Sales guys to hold on-line meetings with their overseas clients. It was requested by our Sales and Marketing Dept, but before approving such a service I thought of obtaining some feedback about this service. Again my main worries are security related. Would the guys at the other end be able to steal information from our workstations when connected for example? Thanks Pierre ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
Regarding Trojan Infections!
Hi everyone! Thought of posting this here in the hope of getting some feedback regarding a problem we encountered with Trojan infections. Lately we had a number of workstations, about three, infected with a number of Trojans. Examples of these were Troj/Agent-GPK, Mal/Behav-112 and Spy-Agent.bv. Even though we were on the latest DAT and Scan Engine, McAfee VSE 8.5i (Patch 3) was unable to remove them completely. It used to say that they were deleted but they kept cropping up again. I even tried using another Anti-Virus product, but still no success. It seems that the only solution is to format the hard disk and install Windows XP Pro from scratch. Hardly an ideal solution! All this has led us to conclude that the McAfee AV does not offer adequate protection against Trojans and furthermore when these are detected they are not 100% removed from the workstation. What are your thoughts on this? Has anyone been through such experiences? Would appreciate any feedback on this. Thanks Pierre ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
