Re: Adobe rant resumes...

These were the last ones I've deployed: http://www.espinola.net/wiki/.MSI_redistributables On Dec 31, 2007 9:37 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings! > > For the past month or so, I've been reading about vulnerabilites in > "Flash". I went to the Adobe sites (both HTTP and FTP) looking f

RE: Analog cell phones and OnStar

General Motors advises that they WILL NOT upgrade the older analog devices. You will lose your service. They have discontinued my Onstar as of December 31, 2007. They will monitor the analog until it goes away, and will respond until analog goes away. They take no responsibility for the analog

Google Toolbar remote uninstall

I usually consider google a smart company with smart people, but their google toolbar is almost like spyware. It's bundled in everything, all my users seem to be 'infected' with it. I can't find an easy way to get rid of it short of wasting thousands of dollars in manhours manually uninstalling it

RE: Happy new year

What? No greetings for those of NOT from the Netherlands? From: René de Haas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 5:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Happy new year Happy new year everyone from the Netherlands. From: John Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Google Toolbar remote uninstall

How did they get it in the first place? If they are local admin's then they will re-infect themselves again shortly. Jon On Jan 2, 2008 8:20 AM, Jon D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I usually consider google a smart company with smart people, but their > google toolbar is almost like spyware. > I

RE: Google Toolbar remote uninstall

Other than possibly blocking its Cslid from being loaded in IE, or not giving your users admin rights to install anything. Or using an HIDS to block installation, these are about the only suggestions I have on this. Z -Original Message- From: Jon D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednes

RE: Google Toolbar remote uninstall

http://www.spywareinfo.com/toolbars/ Which will give you the information on toolbars and there Cslids. Also take a look at blacklisting of Active X addons with Microsoft kb555235 Z From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, Januar

RE: Google Toolbar remote uninstall

That goes to show just how smart Google is if they can dupe so many folks into using their spyware. -Original Message- From: Jon D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 8:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Google Toolbar remote uninstall I usually consider g

RE: Happy new year

LOL, to clarify just in case, I meant greetings coming from the Netherlands to everyone on the list. From: Steve Kelsay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 2:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Happy new year What? No greetings for those of NOT from th

RE: Happy new year

No offense, but can I laugh at how long the sig line is vs the actual message? Pretty low “data/packet” ratio :-P Happy new year to everyone! Will the old one be on sale somewhere soon, it was a pretty good one and I would love to pocket it J Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Google Toolbar remote uninstall

Well, Dell (among others) puts it on new machines. What's worse on the Dells, there's this big EULA window (bigger than the actual screen) to get past when you're setting up the machine for the first time. -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowle

RE: Google Toolbar remote uninstall

I hate that too on the new Dell's, BTW. At my last job I had a script that looked for specific "uninstall" registry settings and, if found, would execute them (Yahoo! Chat comes to mind). Not a clean way since it's "after the fact", but proved better than nothing (At the time I had perms to do log

RE: Happy new year

Laugh all you want, I’ve been flamed numerous times for it. Reality is this is CMA for the ID10T users I have to deal with. I’ll try to make my paragraphs longer to balance things out next time. John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville,

Re: Google Toolbar remote uninstall

Yeah and they also install Google Desktop Search. Both are removed prior to doing anything else to the system. Jon On Jan 2, 2008 9:09 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, Dell (among others) puts it on new machines. What's worse on the > Dells, there's this big EULA window (bigger than the

Re: Google Toolbar remote uninstall

I would recommend against using the images installed by the OEMs.Ours come out of the box, to an isolated vlan to receive our image. Then it can go on our network. On Jan 2, 2008 9:09 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, Dell (among others) puts it on new machines. What's worse on the > D

WSUS and Laptops

How do you handle remote computers / laptops patch management? Our sales / regional managers may be in the field for two months before they come back to home office. I have a WSUS server and would like to start collecting stats on them and control what and when the get patched. The only way I c

RE: OT: Mac's and OSX

Michael Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/21/2007 08:38:17 AM: > Id never get a mac.. more vulnerable than a windows pc.. just > look at the stats > http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=758 I dunno, to me exploited vulnerabilities are a more interesting stat. Still waiting Eric Eskam =-=-

Re: Google Toolbar remote uninstall

> How did they get it in the first place? If they are local admin's then they > will re-infect themselves again shortly. Unfortunatally local admin access is required for many of the apps they need to run. We've done tons of research and yelled at the vendors, but to no avail. The main app that e

RE: OT: Mac's and OSX

"Rod Trent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/21/2007 10:55:41 AM: > Plus, security really doesn't matter to home users. The Mac is > a home-based PC. Security is really only important to those who > have to support Mac's within a business environment. The percentage > is low. What percentage

Re: Google Toolbar remote uninstall

Have you analyzed exactly what file/registry access is needed, so you could grant just that instead of full Admin rights? It sounds as though that'd be time well spent. Steve - Original Message - From: "Jon D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Wednesday, Januar

Re: My IP Range is listed as "Reserved by IANA.org"

"David Mazzaccaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/21/2007 11:05:13 AM: > So my ISP recently gave me 5 new static IP addresses. > As soon as they did this, we couldn?t get to a few websites. > So I went to SamSpade.org and did a whois on our new range?. > Samspade comes back w/ > ?ERROR: IP Ran

Re: WSUS and Laptops

Microsoft's System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM 2007) supports WSUS over the Internet with good security controls. See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb694182.aspx Steve - Original Message - From: "Matt Plahtinsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" S

RE: Google Toolbar remote uninstall

I have that same issue as well, but the workstations came preloaded with the toolbar and desktop item from google. So I wrote a script to remove the apps: ' '*** **' '* PostInstallation Script ' '* Removal of Google Apps '

RE: WSUS and Laptops

ConfigMgr 2007 allows patching over the Internet. Microsoft is also building a Live service for the System Center group of apps so that users rarely have to connect to the corporate network but can still be completely managed by you. -Original Message- From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:[EMAIL

Recommendation of a firewall with these features ?

Hi chaps, Can anyone recommend a firewall that supports a primary and a secondary wan interface and supports fail over from the primary to the secondary as well as being able to route certain kinds of traffic over the secondary line during normal usage. Ie. If the primary goes down, use the

Sig lines & disclaimers (was RE: Happy new year)

Flamed? Damn…I see no reason for flames as I understand the need for such disclaimers, I’m just glad I don’t have to do that….yet. If I had to do a CMA disclaimer I’d just have a link that points to one. Takes Internet to get e-mail, takes Internet to read the disclaimer…in effect it takes HTTP

RE: My IP Range is listed as "Reserved by IANA.org"

"David Mazzaccaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/21/2007 01:30:23 PM: > Except that I can get to the site from home, others on this > list can get to it, other business associates can get to it. > I really can?t find anyone else that CAN?T get to it. It's that sites router. Their network eng

RE: My IP Range is listed as "Reserved by IANA.org"

Thanks. I am in contact with the web hosting company for this particular website, and they tell me they are looking into this. I did explain to them the whole bogon list thing, and how our new address range was previously listed as "reserved". However, couldn't any number of routers between me a

Re: Google Toolbar remote uninstall

I agree. I've got close to 400 engineers, 200 of them doing development and a ton of unique applications. Many claimed they needed admin. We've found a solution for all of them. All my users are normal AD users. On Jan 2, 2008 10:14 AM, Steve Pruitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you analy

RE: OT: Mac's and OSX

I think it's definitely hard to say the percentage of home versus corporate use for either Mac or Windows, but even the Mac commercials (Mac vs. PC) really relay the idea. Apple's marketing engine is centered around the idea. Maybe as time goes on, we'll see a difference in the market share.

Re: WSUS and Laptops

Thanks guys for the info. I'll look into System Center. Matt On Jan 2, 2008 10:23 AM, Rod Trent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ConfigMgr 2007 allows patching over the Internet. Microsoft is also > building a Live service for the System Center group of apps so that users > rarely have to connect t

RE: WM5 or WM6 ?

I hacked my PPC6700 to run WM6, I like the interface better, but damn, like most new versions of Windows, it runs slower than the previous version some VERY noticable interface delays. _ From: HELP_PC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 3:07 AM To: NT System Ad

Monitoring services

Is there an app (MOM?) that scans a servers running services and then automatically monitors those services to ensure they're running? Surely there are a few apps with this capability... Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 http://disclaimerpages.com - if you can't

Re: WM5 or WM6 ?

Might well be slow because of the version of ROM you're running... Of course, I didn't have to hack my phone to run WM6. I simply upgraded it... On Jan 2, 2008 7:44 AM, Erik Goldoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I hacked my PPC6700 to run WM6, I like the interface better, but damn, > like most

RE: WM5 or WM6 ?

How did you hack it? BTW: It's a given that you will experience a slowness if it was hacked. WM is just given to the phone provider and then they make modifications based on the hardware to optimize it. From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:44 A

RE: Monitoring services

Yeah.MOM 2005 and now OpsMgr 2007 will do that. You can set it up to restart the services automatically, and also alert you through various methods when the service is having trouble. From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issu

RE: WM5 or WM6 ?

Where would you find that kind of upgrade? We’re going to be eval’ing a couple of Treo 700wx, and the literature says they come with WM5. So if we do end up going with that model of phone, I’d be wanting to upgrade to WM6 if possible… Joe Heaton From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recommendation of a firewall with these features ?

BSD with PF + ALTQ? On 1/2/08, Oliver Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi chaps, > > > > Can anyone recommend a firewall that supports a primary and a secondary wan > interface and supports fail over from the primary to the secondary as well > as being able to route certain kinds of tra

Re: Monitoring services

Speaking of OpsMgr, I hear there are a number of flavours, such as the essentials, etc. Anyone testing this out yet? On Jan 2, 2008 10:01 AM, Rod Trent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Yeah…MOM 2005 and now OpsMgr 2007 will do that. You can set it up to > restart the services automatically

Re: WM5 or WM6 ?

And you would likely be unsupported by your phone vendor... I haven't looked for the WM6 ROM for a Treo because I don't have one, but I presume with a little google-fu, it should be as easy to find as it was for the 6700... On Jan 2, 2008 8:03 AM, Joe Heaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Where

Re: WM5 or WM6 ?

It also depends on the ROM version. The newest version out there isn't as slow... On Jan 2, 2008 8:00 AM, Rod Trent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How did you hack it? > > > > BTW: It's a given that you will experience a slowness if it was hacked. > WM is just given to the phone provider and th

RE: WM5 or WM6 ?

You're also going to miss out on the phone provider's specific apps they add. From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: WM5 or WM6 ? It also depends on the ROM version. The newest version out there isn't as

Re: WM5 or WM6 ?

He might, I don't miss them... :P On Jan 2, 2008 8:13 AM, Rod Trent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You're also going to miss out on the phone provider's specific apps they > add. > > > > *From:* Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:08 AM > *To:* NT System A

RE: Audit recommendation

"Martin Blackstone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/25/2007 05:56:13 PM: > With all you can use Post-It notes for the duration of said password. Ah, but if users were actually encouraged to write down their passwords *securely*, many would have no problem doing so. People have been securing p

RE: Analog cell phones and OnStar

I dumped my Chevrolet Equinox LT with On*Star in November when I found out about this. My new Acura has 24 hour roadside assistance, but no auto-unlock feature. So I have to be responsible with my keys. This is really a huge misstep for GM, one that should be a public relations nightmare if t

Posting to this list from OWA

Every time I try to post (or reply) to this list via OWA, I get a message back saying Lyris doesn't allow attachments. I would like to be able to post/reply from OWA... Is there any way around this? E2003 SP2 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~

RE: WM5 or WM6 ?

Well, some of them enhance the OS for ease of connectivity, etc. I rarely use the one's on my WM5 phone, too, but you never know how many hooks the vendor has into the OS by the time they release it. From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:16 AM To: NT Sys

RE: Google Toolbar remote uninstall

Yep, But the majority of admins wont take the time to find out what permissions the applications need to make them work but be safe at the same time. They just grant admin privileges because its easier or they are just to damn lazy and that is what causes the headaches. Either that or the darn

RE: Posting to this list from OWA

Send in plain text? From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Posting to this list from OWA Every time I try to post (or reply) to this list via OWA, I get a message back saying Lyris doesn't allow at

Re: Way OT: Digital to Analog Converter Boxes - US Only

On 31 Dec 2007 at 17:34, James Kerr wrote: > Your right, its changed since the last time I was reading up on how to > apply, which was like 2 weeks ago. You were supposed to self certify that > you didn't have cable or satellite, now anyone can apply. Perhaps I will > order a coupon for me as

RE: Analog cell phones and OnStar

Just a quick comment on Auto-Unlock Service/OnStar. Many, many years ago, when I was attending college in the late 50's, I locked myself out of my car. I had to wait for my mother to drive more than an hour to bring me a set of keys. Since that time, I have ALWAYS carried with me a backup key to AL

RE: Recommendation of a firewall with these features ?

You might be better off shedding the routing/failover portion of your scenario to an upstream router. Just let the firewall do what it does best (filter and forward) - instead of forcing it to do Policy Routing. Cable/DSL Internet->RouterFirewall T1 Internet--^ HT

RE: Posting to this list from OWA

How do you do that via OWA? From: Rod Trent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Posting to this list from OWA Send in plain text? From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Google Toolbar remote uninstall

I know one off the top of my head, quickbooks, actually looks are what type of user you are. It's not a matter of it not being able to write to a reg key or folder, it actually checks that you're at least a power user. On Jan 2, 2008 11:29 AM, Ziots, Edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Yep

Re: Google Toolbar remote uninstall

That rocks. Thanks On Jan 2, 2008 10:23 AM, Thomas Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have that same issue as well, but the workstations came preloaded with > the toolbar and desktop item from google. So I wrote a script to remove > the apps: > > ' > '

RE: Posting to this list from OWA

You don't. In ESM you add lyris.sunbelt-software.com as a new domain under Internet Message Formats and force plain text there. _ From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Posting to this list fr

Re: Sig lines & disclaimers (was RE: Happy new year)

On 1/2/08, David Lum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Flamed? Damn…I see no reason for flames as I understand the need for such > disclaimers, I'm just glad I don't have to do that….yet. If I had to do a > CMA disclaimer I'd just have a link that points to one. Takes Internet to > get e-mail, takes Int

RE: Posting to this list from OWA

Ah. thx From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 12:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Posting to this list from OWA You don't. In ESM you add lyris.sunbelt-software.com as a new domain under Internet

RE: Google Toolbar remote uninstall

Kevin, I'd love to get some details of your solution, as I'm supporting a large pool of developers and I have yet to find an acceptable solution to local admin rights for the coders. Shook http://www.linkedin.com/in/andyshook From: Kevin Lundy [mailto:[E

Re: SAN Gig Switch Recommendation

"Mike French" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/28/2007 07:03:27 PM: > We will be implementing a SAN in 2008; we are mainly a Cisco Shop. We > will be deploying to a SAN Network Isolated from our core network > switches. I believe a 24 Port Gig switch will fit the bill, but I'm > unsure if Cisco is

RE: Google Toolbar remote uninstall

Vmware lab or workstation would be acceptable. You can lock down the machine and make them work within the vm, plus it isolates the environment and you could always roll back changes if needed within the vm. The other way is through the company policy. If the program is found then it is to b

RE: Google Toolbar remote uninstall

You need to check out Aaron Margosis' blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis. He has some great tools there for figuring out this kind of stuff, including LUA Buglight http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/archive/2006/08/07/LuaBuglight.aspx ...Tim From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PR

OT: anyone out there w/HP ProCurve Manager and NAV?

I know this is very off-topic for this list, but I'm hoping someone out there can keep me from having to do research/work :-) Our Central office just informed us they are not renewing our McCrappy contract and are instead forcing us to go to even crappier Symantec. The only server I've got th

Mac Server Login Issue

I got a Mac OS 10.4 server login dilemma here. I don't know if the server has been hacked or not. I cannot logon to the server. I can connect to the shares fine from another computer. I have booted off a DVD and reset all 3 admin passwords. I know the password reset was okay because I can connect

RE: Sig lines & disclaimers (was RE: Happy new year)

Everyone is entitled to their opinions. Said disclaimer was approved by a legal group on retainer (that's a group of board certified lawyers if it's not clear) that actually knows what they are talking about, which school of law did you graduate from? If you actually read it you would have reali

RE: Mac Server Login Issue

I wanted to get rid of it for the longest time, maybe it is time. Just need to find out if I can move the Xraid to a Windows server. -Z.V. From: Za Vue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 12:15 PM To: 'NT System Admin Issues' Subject: Mac Server Login Issue I got a M

Live Communication server - contact list

I am trying to "auto populate" contact lists for new users. We are using LCS 2005 and Office Communicator. I have installed the Address book service however new users still have blank contact lists and current users must manually add new contacts. In the "old" Windows Messenger, you coul

RE: Monitoring services

Yes there are and quit calling me Shirley. Check out Nagios. Shook http://www.linkedin.com/in/andyshook From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Monitoring services Is

Re: Google Toolbar remote uninstall

Andy, at my last employer we gave each developer a VM where they could do things that required admin rights. We gave them a second account that only had admin rights on that VM, not on their regular machine. Also, that admin account did not have internet access unless they got special approval.

RE: OT: Mac's and OSX

I personally think the numbers are hard to prove because you are trying to show market share in an expanding environment. At the end of the day I guess you can try to track o/s sales. Because buying a Mac and then installing fusion and putting windows on it should count as a sale for each. I i

RE: Simple GPO/Application Deployment Question

That's the way I've done it here Ken. The Security groups don't have to be users, you can make one with computers as the members. (Last two sentences for OP, not Ken...) Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 9:07 PM

RE: Monitoring services

Mmmm, I love nachos… Joe Heaton From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 8:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Monitoring services Yes there are and quit calling me Shirley. Check out Nagios. Shook HYPERLINK "http://www.linkedin.

RE: Monitoring services

Servers Alive (sAlive!) has that capability, as well as some scripting with PSTools can do that _ From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Monitoring services Is there an app (MOM?) that scans a servers

RE: Monitoring services

Ok Maribel, Nagios doesn't auto-populate running services...we have Nagios here actually J Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 "Except for our differences, we are identical" From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 8:

RE: WM5 or WM6 ?

Got the info on where to find the WM6 'upgrade' instructions right here on this list ... so it should be in the archives _ From: Rod Trent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: WM5 or WM6 ? How did you hack it?

RE: Monitoring services

And just like nachos, you can never have too much of Nagios. Andrew Greene Webmaster City of Anderson 120 E Main St., Anderson, IN 46018 765-648-5947 From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 12:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Monitoring servic

RE: WM5 or WM6 ?

yeah, my ppc 6700 is about three years old, not much support (sprint ain't too got at support anyhow) and I figured if it went fubar, I could go back to a phone that's a phone ! And my point exactly about the newer versions of windows being slower on EXISTING hardware ... I think Vista runs mu

RE: Way OT: Digital to Analog Converter Boxes - US Only

I placed my coupon request already and was told they would not be issued until the converters were available from retailers, sometime in February or March. Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 I want to be what I was when I started to be what I am now. -

Re: Google Toolbar remote uninstall

No real "solution". As EZ stated it is just putting forth the effort to figure it out. Tim's reference is a very good one as well. It creates more work for IT - we have to install everything, have to figure the admin issue, etc. The flip side is it saves time for IT - very stable images, no pro

RE: Silverlight?

As opposed to the flash sites that require flash player to be installed before viewing those movies??? Oh the horror! -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 11:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Silverlight? Bec

Re: WSUS and Laptops

"Matt Plahtinsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/02/2008 09:38:38 AM: > How do you handle remote computers / laptops patch management? > The only way I can think of doing this is open up my WSUS server to > the Internet. I'm not sure I like the idea of that though. Or, if you have a split DNS

Re: Live Communication server - contact list

The Address Book is for sync'ing with the GAL. It pulls from AD to reduce the hammering your GC may otherwise take. Contacts will be local to the account in LCS2005sp1 and not managed centrally which was something we found extremely annoying. We looked at customizing people's contact list but de

Re: Silverlight?

Great. Now read the rest of the thread. On Jan 2, 2008 12:44 PM, Tim Vander Kooi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As opposed to the flash sites that require flash player to be installed > before viewing those movies??? Oh the horror! > > -Original Message- > From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:

RE: WSUS and Laptops

Depending on the size of your network, you might also want to look at System Center Essentials. The current version does not allow for this, but SP1 which is due early this year might. TVK -Original Message- From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008

RE: Live Communication server - contact list

I already own 2007 due to my licensing agreement. Is this feature in 2007? Bob Fronk -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 12:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Live Communication server - contact list The Address

RE: Silverlight?

I have. It still doesn't make it a viable complaint. -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Silverlight? Great. Now read the rest of the thread. On Jan 2, 2008 12:44 PM, T

Re: Silverlight?

Well, poo-poo on you. Installing flash = pita. Upgrading flash for security issues = huge pita. Thinking about having to do this for another product that I dont really "need" = pimb. On Jan 2, 2008 12:58 PM, Tim Vander Kooi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have. It still doesn't make it a viabl

RE: My IP Range is listed as "Reserved by IANA.org"

"David Mazzaccaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/02/2008 10:32:15 AM: > Thanks. > I am in contact with the web hosting company for this > particular website, and they tell me they are looking into this. > I did explain to them the whole bogon list thing, and how our > new address range was pr

RE: Silverlight?

Hopefully it will be added to WSUS to update -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Silverlight? Well, poo-poo on you. Installing flash = pita. Upgrading flash for securit

RE: Silverlight?

I just find it amusing how responses are different when Microsoft releases a product as opposed to Google or other online vendors with their toolbars and such which put you in the same boat. Except that they prefer less obvious ways of sneaking the software onto your machine in the first place. I s

Re: Silverlight?

yea yea.. :-) and I do agree that WSUS will more than likely be easier to manage. Its just bothers me that its another thing to test and deploy that I dont really need. On Jan 2, 2008 1:12 PM, Martin Blackstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hopefully it will be added to WSUS to update > > -Or

RE: Silverlight?

You don't really 'need' to see that stupid movie preview clip either, do you? Teehee :) -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 12:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Silverlight? yea yea.. :-) and I do agre

RE: Silverlight?

I wish Microsoft would come out with a conclusive list of what will and won't be covered by WSUS. I think it's way too confusing when they post some updates but not others. I'm still not happy that a bunch of the Vista updates that have been released never made it to WSUS (or the Microsoft Update s

Re: Silverlight?

I don't know what any of this has to do with Google, but you do have a point in there. However, I do find it annoying that a few sites I have recently visited kept prompting me to install something new that I don't want - regardless of who makes it. I hope its clear in this thread that any of my

Re: Silverlight?

No, and I havent... ;-) Although I really would have liked to have seen the clips of the new Jackass movie! On Jan 2, 2008 1:18 PM, Christopher Boggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You don't really 'need' to see that stupid movie preview clip either, do > you? > > Teehee :) > > > -Original

RE: Silverlight?

> -Original Message- > From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Silverlight? > > No, and I havent... ;-) Although I really would have liked to have > seen the clips of the new Jackass movie! Shook doing his webcam stuff again? Webster ~ Upgrade to Next Ge

RE: Silverlight?

Yeah, well, with Silverlight and the new 150" plasma/lcd displays due out this year, you will be able to watch your p0rn lifesize in full detail. Flash doesn't give you that. :-P Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Micheal

RE: OT: Mac's and OSX

"Rod Trent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/02/2008 10:40:44 AM: > I think it?s definitely hard to say the percentage of home > versus corporate use for either Mac or Windows, but even the > Mac commercials (Mac vs. PC) really relay the idea. Apple?s > marketing engine is centered around the i

RE: Silverlight?

I agree with your basic point, but MS is not totally white hatted in this regard. IE7 being released multiple times as a critical security update comes to mind. > -Original Message- > From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 1:16 PM > To: NT S

RE: WM5 or WM6 ?

"Joe Heaton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/02/2008 11:03:33 AM: > We?re going to be eval?ing a couple of Treo 700wx, Make sure you eval the HTC PPC6700 or whatever the latest version is too. I had a PPC6400 and broke the screen, and because of confluence of events Sprint replaced it with a Tr

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