Re: Its 89 degrees in our server room!!!

2008-05-01 Thread Jon Harris
Good luck finding work up there I have been looking for a while and not seeing anything I would even nibble at, and I work for the state! Jon On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 3:22 PM, James Kerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SOUTH FL is Yankee territory! FL is still the Gunshine State ya know! I plan on

Cheap off-site storage

2008-05-01 Thread Dennis Melahn
I had a request to find a cheap storage site to backup a small municipal building (approx 10 workstations). Anyone know of a good, cheap and easy one? Thought I saw someone talking about it a couple weeks ago but I couldn't find it in the archives. Thanks, Dennis ~ Upgrade to Next

RE: Salary Advice

2008-05-01 Thread Ziots, Edward
Depending on where you are at in the country, I hope you are getting over 6 figures for all that work. Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 -Original Message- From: Christos Ruci [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: New SQL Attack

2008-05-01 Thread Ziots, Edward
SQL Injection usually is always a code-related issue, so it's the Programmers fault. Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 -Original Message- From: Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

Time out issue

2008-05-01 Thread Tom Strader
Guys and Ladies, I've got a problem that we cannot seem to resolve and need the knowledge of you fine folks. We provide application access to a remote site through a dedicated VPN. The application itself on OUR side is provided to US through another dedicated VPN to the California vendor

RE: Time out issue

2008-05-01 Thread Andy Shook
Do you have keep alives setup on the tunnel to the left coast? In other words, when the app dies, is the VPN still up? Shook From: Tom Strader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 8:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Time out issue

RE: Cheap off-site storage

2008-05-01 Thread Martin Blackstone
Amazon S3 may fit the bill. http://www.amazon.com/S3 -Original Message- From: Dennis Melahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 5:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Cheap off-site storage I had a request to find a cheap storage site to backup a small municipal

RE: Time out issue

2008-05-01 Thread Tom Strader
Yes, VPN stays up. We even started a ping to an IP on the same subnet. Ping never blinked but at 4 minutes the Telnet session dies. I just spoke to TGA (Shook you know who I'm referencing) Jim stated: /QUOTE There is a timeout value for NAT translations and packet streams.. Here are

Pri Question...

2008-05-01 Thread Chyka, Robert
Hi All, I have a quick PRI question. At one of our remote sites we have (2) Verizon PRIs for our Cisco Call Manager VOIP phone system. It was a new service build for Verizon (no oold circuits, fiber in the building etc.) and they have had some issues where both PRIs have gone down for 2, 10,

RE: Pri Question...

2008-05-01 Thread David Mazzaccaro
I have PRIs (with Paetec Communications) and they offer something called DTO (Direct Trunk Overflow). What this does is in the event that our PRI is down (or if all 24 channels are being utilized), Paetec forwards all incoming calls on that PRI to another number. Calls can be forwarded to ANY

RE: Pri Question...

2008-05-01 Thread Chyka, Robert
Great.. thanks for the info..im calling them now. I assume there is a charge for that? From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 8:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Pri Question... I have PRIs (with Paetec

RE: Pri Question...

2008-05-01 Thread David Mazzaccaro
Yes. $20/month IIRC From: Chyka, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 8:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Pri Question... Great.. thanks for the info..im calling them now. I assume there is a charge for that?

Dilbert Virus?

2008-05-01 Thread Christopher J. Bosak
Anyone get this today? NOD32 went nuts when my Dilbert Widget loaded on iGoogle today. 5/1/2008 8:13:59 AM HTTP filter File: http://widgets.dilbert.com/o/478bf9182f409c7e/47b1abd4b866e47b/478cca4a3b6a0 51d/c17bbf56/-MAX/1/-PUR/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com probably unknown

RE: Salary Advice

2008-05-01 Thread Christos R
Thanks Everyone! Well the thing is I started off as a network technician and only a network admin above me. The company was small then only about 60-70 employees and 2 offices. A few weeks after the network admin quit and I took over and here we are 3 years later and grew to 9 offices and over

RE: Salary Advice

2008-05-01 Thread John Cook
You can always go to Dice.com and look at comparable salaries if you need it on paper. John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+

RE: Salary Advice

2008-05-01 Thread gsweers
My suggestion is to get some salary surveys of equivalent positions in the area and take that with you. Be a few thousand underneath and you can tell them that you appreciate the opportunity to grow into this position and you want to continue to help grow the business. Greg -Original

RE: Salary Advice

2008-05-01 Thread Vue, Za
Christos, I believe you are very passion about your job and took up all the responsibilities, I don't think management will turn a blind eye. I would prepare a good progress report of what you have done for the past years and identify your future goal for the company, from an IT point of view.

Re: SSH Server for Win2008 x64

2008-05-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RSH…not SSH. RSH (remote shell) is clear-text (unencrypted), for those who don't know. It's basically like Telnet, except RSH is somewhat Unix-centric, while Telnet is intended to be platform independent. -- Ben ~

RE: OT - IEEE Computer Society

2008-05-01 Thread Kent, Larry CTR USA IMCOM
been a = used my From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 5:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT - IEEE Computer Society I haven't been a member since college... From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Salary Advice

2008-05-01 Thread Kent, Larry CTR USA IMCOM
More makes you want to puke... -Original Message- From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 8:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Salary Advice I'm sort of semi retired. I Live in Bermuda...a Senior Tech here starts

Re: Time out issue

2008-05-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Tom Strader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We even started a ping to an IP on the same subnet. Ping never blinked but at 4 minutes the Telnet session dies. [...] There is a timeout value for NAT translations and packet streams.. ICMP is stateless; each Echo Request

RE: Pri Question...

2008-05-01 Thread Christos R
I agree. We also have Paetec and XO as redundant voice vendors. I have one as incoming and another as outbound calling. If one vendor goes down I go into our PBX and take out the trunk that is down so it will only utilize the trunk that is working. We also have it setup so that if the trunk

User gets married...

2008-05-01 Thread Bill Lambert
What are the best practices for handling a user name change in Exchange/AD? I must not be putting in the right search string in Google... Environment is W2K3 and Exchange 2K3. Thanks in advance for any links/advice! Bill Lambert Windows System Administrator Concuity A healthcare

RE: Pri Question...

2008-05-01 Thread Chyka, Robert
Do you know if Verizon is teamed with anyone to offer this service? -Original Message- From: Christos R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Pri Question... I agree. We also have Paetec and XO as redundant voice

Re: User gets married...

2008-05-01 Thread Steve Ens
right click the user, rename...it'll take you through the steps like magic. On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Bill Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are the best practices for handling a user name change in Exchange/AD? I must not be putting in the right search string in Google…

Re: User gets married...

2008-05-01 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
Change the display name etc, and add a new smtp alias to her account that reflects the new name and make it the primary. This will effectively change everything to reflect her new name without having to change her user id (assuming the user id is some form of her name). It's really fun when they

RE: Outlook 'anywhere' (aka nowhere) and Exchange 2007

2008-05-01 Thread Edwards, David
Oliver, When you try to connect, if you hold down the Ctrl key and right click the Outlook icon on the system tray, select Connection Status. There you will see what is connecting and what is not. You will need to make sure that you can connect to a GC server/DC and that the ports for both are

RE: User gets married...

2008-05-01 Thread Christopher J. Bosak
I seem to be in some kind of strange time paradox. Christopher J. Bosak Vector Company c. 847.603.4673 [EMAIL PROTECTED] You need to install an RTFM Interface, due to an LBNC issue. - B.O.F.H. (Merged 2 into 1) - Me From: Bill Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,

RE: User gets married...

2008-05-01 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
Welcome to the wonderful world of Lyris. Happens to me all the time. It's kind of cool actually...knowing the answer before the question ever gets asked. :) Tim From: Christopher J. Bosak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: User

Re: User gets married...

2008-05-01 Thread Steve Ens
So that was you that pulled up in that car with gull wing doors...Delorean? On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Christopher J. Bosak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to be in some kind of strange time paradox. Christopher J. Bosak Vector Company c. 847.603.4673 [EMAIL PROTECTED] *You

RE: User gets married...

2008-05-01 Thread Andy Shook
Yeah, he finally stabilized the flux capacitor he's been working on... Shook From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: User gets married... ~ Upgrade to Next Generation

RE: User gets married...

2008-05-01 Thread Christopher J. Bosak
And that was a P.I.T.A. to pull off, mind you. Christopher J. Bosak Vector Company c. 847.603.4673 [EMAIL PROTECTED] You need to install an RTFM Interface, due to an LBNC issue. - B.O.F.H. (Merged 2 into 1) - Me From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01,

RE: User gets married...

2008-05-01 Thread Tom Strader
SEE, SEE, it's happening to SHOOK too SO NAAH NAAH, it isn't MY fault!!! TVK you owe me an apology. ;-) From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: User gets married...

RE: Time out issue

2008-05-01 Thread Tom Strader
Packet trace shows the CLIENT is resetting the connection to the SERVER. My junior tech says he DID find a time-out setting within the application finally. He's set it for 24 but it does not state if that's seconds, minutes or hours. The application vendor had told him that there was no need to

Re: Salary Advice

2008-05-01 Thread Kurt Buff
I would join SAGE and get their latest salary survey - www.sage.org. I find it to be well worth the money. On 5/1/08, Christos R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Everyone! Well the thing is I started off as a network technician and only a network admin above me. The company was small then

Re: Salary Advice

2008-05-01 Thread Kevin Lundy
I'm in the Tampa area and if I had an opening, I'd hire someone with the skills you describe for about 80k. You said medical industry but I didn't see any mention of regulatory compliance. If you are responsible for that, maybe another 10k. On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Christos Ruci [EMAIL

RE: Eliminating Anonymous connections to DCs

2008-05-01 Thread Jim Dandy
It looks like an excerpt is available on the web http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/sampchap/5567b.aspx Thanks for looking at this for me. Curt -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 11:40 AM To: NT System Admin

RE: User gets married...

2008-05-01 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
No I don't...I simply said that you often mess with our heads. I stand behind that statement 100%. :) From: Tom Strader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: User gets married... SEE, SEE, it's happening to SHOOK too SO NAAH

RE: User gets married...

2008-05-01 Thread John Hornbuckle
I only change the names of married people once per year, over the summer. If they divorce, I'll do it more quickly. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us From: Sherry Abercrombie

RE: remote reset of local admin password-SOLVED

2008-05-01 Thread Andy Shook
For those of you playing along at home, I got this fixed. Nothing too glamorous though, I just (finally) hacked the local admin password. Yanked it out of the domain, rebooted, added back to domain, rebooted and I now feel pretty again. Now back to listening to White Lion's greatest

RE: Cheap off-site storage

2008-05-01 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 1 May 2008 at 5:32, Martin Blackstone wrote: Amazon S3 may fit the bill. http://www.amazon.com/S3 I use S3 and Jungledisk as off-site backup myself. Nice pair of products. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 +---+ ~ Upgrade to

RE: Network monitoring with SNMP

2008-05-01 Thread Joe Heaton
Should I be installing the WMI SNMP Provider as well as the SNMP service on my servers? Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Network monitoring with SNMP I think you're

RE: Network monitoring with SNMP

2008-05-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Do you have a Windows Management Instrumentation client that will be accessing snmp information on this server? From: Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Network monitoring with SNMP

Forcing a Dynamic disk to expand

2008-05-01 Thread Jonathan Gruber
Is it possible to force a dynamic disk in MS Virtual Server to expand? I have a virtual server that requires some software installed and the drive is only showing 7.4 MB free. Currently the drive is at 2.92GB and I have the limit set at 500GB. How can I force the drive to expand to enable the

RE: Network monitoring with SNMP

2008-05-01 Thread Joe Heaton
Haven't used WMI before...would it be beneficial? Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Network monitoring with SNMP Do you have a Windows Management Instrumentation

RE: Network monitoring with SNMP

2008-05-01 Thread Sam Cayze
It opens up the door for some flashier SNMP monitoring, but iirc, it's not as secure. I used nsclient to capture what vanilla SNMP misses... -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 1:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Network

RE: Network monitoring with SNMP

2008-05-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Heh, well thats kind of like saying do you need smtp on a server? If you need it, its rather helpfull:) My guess if you don't know about it, you arent in need of leveraging it. It allows you to do exactly what I asked if you were doing, poll snmp via wmi. I would assume you are not doing this.

RE: Forcing a Dynamic disk to expand

2008-05-01 Thread Andy Shook
Use diskpart from Support tools? Shook -Original Message- From: Jonathan Gruber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 2:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Forcing a Dynamic disk to expand Is it possible to force a dynamic disk in MS Virtual Server to expand? I

RE: Eliminating Anonymous connections to DCs

2008-05-01 Thread Michael B. Smith
Well, I learned something today. Localgroup on a DC refers to domain local. Amazing that in 13 years of Windows, I've never run into that before... Regardless, the contents of your Pre-Windows 2000 Compatible Access group is now correct. Insofar as anonymous access...Start the Administrative

RE: Forcing a Dynamic disk to expand

2008-05-01 Thread Michael B. Smith
Should be able to do it from within Computer Management - Disk Management. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 2:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: remote reset of local admin password-SOLVED

2008-05-01 Thread Jim Majorowicz
/sing are you feeling down are you all alone have your dreams been shattered have you lost all hope all you need is music it's your destiny, it sets you free whoh, ohh, ohh, ohh all you need is rock'n'roll /end-sing :P From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May

Re: remote reset of local admin password-SOLVED

2008-05-01 Thread Steve Ens
Wait! On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Andy Shook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those of you playing along at home, I got this fixed. Nothing too glamorous though, I just (finally) hacked the local admin password. Yanked it out of the domain, rebooted, added back to domain, rebooted and I

RE: Forcing a Dynamic disk to expand

2008-05-01 Thread Andy Shook
Yeah...Well...diskpart is cooler. Ptbb! Shook -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 2:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Forcing a Dynamic disk to expand Should be able to do it from within Computer

Re: remote reset of local admin password-SOLVED

2008-05-01 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
Nice 80's hair band. LOL On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Steve Ens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wait! On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Andy Shook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those of you playing along at home, I got this fixed. Nothing too glamorous though, I just (finally) hacked

Exchange 2003 dismounts due to log file in use

2008-05-01 Thread Oliver Marshall
Chaps, Is there a way that I can find out what file has tried to access E00.log and caused my db to dismount ? It's happened twice in two weeks now. After the first time we even turned off the file AV scanner (though the edb and mdb locations where excluded from the scan) but still it

XP SP3 pulled back?

2008-05-01 Thread David Mazzaccaro
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/05/software-glitch.html ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~

RE: XP SP3 pulled back?

2008-05-01 Thread Andy Ognenoff
Tom Strader reported that to the list on Tuesday.  - Andy O. From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 2:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: XP SP3 pulled back?

RE: XP SP3 pulled back?

2008-05-01 Thread David Mazzaccaro
Oh? I remember seeing that it was available - but not that it had been taken off. Thx -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 3:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: XP SP3 pulled back? Tom Strader reported that to the list

RE: XP SP3 pulled back?

2008-05-01 Thread Alex Eckelberry
It was pulled because it broke Dynamics. -Original Message- From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 3:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: XP SP3 pulled back? Oh? I remember seeing that it was available - but not that it had been taken

RE: XP SP3 pulled back?

2008-05-01 Thread Sam Cayze
I can't imagine how that got missed in testing... Especially being a MS product. -Original Message- From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 2:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: XP SP3 pulled back? It was pulled because it broke

Re: XP SP3 pulled back?

2008-05-01 Thread Steve Ens
I think it breaks Bob too. Not sure how they missed that either. I think it is obvious that Microsoft doesn't actually use Dynamics. ;-) On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Sam Cayze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't imagine how that got missed in testing... Especially being a MS product.

Re: Exchange 2003 dismounts due to log file in use

2008-05-01 Thread Steven Peck
Process explorer? file level auditing? We had an issue a few years ago, and more recently, where McAffee file level scanning did not properly honor wild card exclusions per their docs and it grabbed the edb a few times. We found this out by opening up and just watching the real time scanning in

Re: Exchange 2003 dismounts due to log file in use

2008-05-01 Thread Steven Peck
oh also, file level backups maybe? On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Steven Peck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Process explorer? file level auditing? We had an issue a few years ago, and more recently, where McAffee file level scanning did not properly honor wild card exclusions per their docs

RE: Eliminating Anonymous connections to DCs

2008-05-01 Thread Jim Dandy
So, it sounds like you are saying that the Pre-Windows 2000 Compatible Access group they refer to is the one I see in my ADUC domain\Builtin folder. That group only has Authenticated Users and Exchange Domain Servers as members. They recommend that the Everyone and Anonymous groups be removed.

Re: User gets married...

2008-05-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Bill Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are the best practices for handling a user name change in Exchange/AD? BOFHHack in to their home PC and plant fabricated evidence that their spouse is cheating on them on, so they'll end up divorcing quickly and want

BSD?

2008-05-01 Thread Joe Heaton
Any particular version people are using? I was looking at FreeBSD, and was wondering if I needed the i386 version, or the AMD64 version. Initially I thought i386, but then read that the amd64 version was for Intel Core2 Duo chips also... Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street,

RE: BSD?

2008-05-01 Thread Jeremy Phillips
i386 = 32-bit, AMD64=64-bit. Last time I installed 64-bit FreeBSD, I had some issues with app compatibility and ended up reinstalling with the i386 version. That was a few years ago though, it may be better now. Thanks, Jeremy Phillips Senior Messaging Engineer Azaleos Corporation T:

Re: BSD?

2008-05-01 Thread Don Ely
You want 32 or 64bit? BSD skunks the Penguin!!! On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any particular version people are using? I was looking at FreeBSD, and was wondering if I needed the i386 version, or the AMD64 version. Initially I thought i386, but then

Re: BSD?

2008-05-01 Thread Kurt Buff
I'm fairly proficient in FreeBSD, and like it a lot. The AMD64 version is indeed good for advanced Intel multi-core chips, though I haven't implemented it yet - haven't been allowed a machine that good yet. OpenBSD is my next target platform, though - I figure between the two I'll have most

RE: User gets married...

2008-05-01 Thread Bill Lambert
Thanks, all for the tips! But I have to say that I like Ben's the best! Bill Lambert Concuity 847-941-9206 -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 3:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: User gets married... On Thu, May 1,

RE: Salary Advice

2008-05-01 Thread Greg Mulholland
The salary game is always a funny question to me. What some people would value as 100k others would value at 70k so you sometimes cant compare salaries. My theory is if i really think i am worth 150k and it wont be a pain to move then i will chase that money. However if i think i know i can get

Re: Salary Advice

2008-05-01 Thread James Kerr
Well, good luck at the new gig dude. - Original Message - From: Greg Mulholland To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 5:49 PM Subject: RE: Salary Advice The salary game is always a funny question to me. What some people would value as 100k others would

RE: Salary Advice

2008-05-01 Thread Greg Mulholland
Thanks .. i am really looking forward to it.. large dell shop and get some real hand on exp with ESX and just about everything else ive been doing for the last few years just on a larger scale. Plus there are some nice carrots for the next year, OCS, OPSmgr, Win2k8 etc.. oh and they money is a

Vista password re-set?

2008-05-01 Thread James Edwards
I have a user that has forgotten his Administrator password. Anyone know a way to reset it without a wipe and reinstall? THANKS!! Jim ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~

RE: Salary Advice

2008-05-01 Thread NTSysAdmin
OGC :) From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 7:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Salary Advice Thanks .. i am really looking forward to it.. large dell shop and get some real hand on exp with ESX and just about everything else ive been doing

RE: Salary Advice

2008-05-01 Thread Greg Mulholland
LOL -- you have to explain in-jokes... related article: http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/business_news/7806.cntns Besides aren't you supposed to be in hospital?? From: Steve Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 2 May

RE: BSD?

2008-05-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I'm actually interested in knowing what BSD offers today over Linux? What compels someone to use BSD now instead? Thanks! jlc From: Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 3:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: BSD? I'm fairly

Re: BSD?

2008-05-01 Thread Kurt Buff
IMHO - FreeBSD offers sanity, an engineered approach to computing, vs. Linux's chaos. It feels more like home to me. Here's one view of it, in what I consider a *very* nice essay: http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php On 5/1/08, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED]

.NET developer

2008-05-01 Thread Miguel Gonzalez Castaños
My company is a web based agency for NGOs and some companies in the DC area. If you are interested, have a look at www.threespot.com/jobs/ and forward me your resume so I can forward it to our HR department. Miguel ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~

RE: Salary Advice

2008-05-01 Thread NTSysAdmin
I am, waiting on medi-vac... From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 7:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Salary Advice LOL -- you have to explain in-jokes... related article: http://news.hereisthecity.com/news/business_news/7806.cntns Besides

RE: BSD?

2008-05-01 Thread Michael B. Smith
Also, SFU/SUA have a BSD installation option. :-) Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 7:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: BSD? IMHO - FreeBSD

RE: Exchange 2003 dismounts due to log file in use

2008-05-01 Thread Michael B. Smith
Process monitor and set it on the single file. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 3:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 2003 dismounts due to log file

Re: Vista password re-set?

2008-05-01 Thread Miguel Gonzalez Castaños
James Edwards wrote: I have a user that has forgotten his Administrator password. Anyone know a way to reset it without a wipe and reinstall? THANKS!! Jim ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~ There

Re: Vista password re-set?

2008-05-01 Thread Kurt Buff
http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/ On 5/1/08, James Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a user that has forgotten his Administrator password. Anyone know a way to reset it without a wipe and reinstall? THANKS!! Jim ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~

RE: Vista password re-set?

2008-05-01 Thread Mike Gill
ERD 2005 can do it. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: James Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 3:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Vista password re-set? I have a user that has forgotten his Administrator password. Anyone know a way to

Using 3rd-party LTO-3 tapes in HP autoloader

2008-05-01 Thread Bob Peitzke
I need to order more tapes for one of our HP StorageWorks 1x8 autoloaders with the Ultrium/LTO-3 drive. We've had these for a couple of years and love them, but have always used the tapes from HP. Now I see good deals on 20-packs of LTO-3 tapes from TDK. Anyone used these in HP LTO drives? Any

RE: Forcing a Dynamic disk to expand

2008-05-01 Thread Ken Schaefer
I think there's something wrong if it's only showing 7.4MB free - it should be showing whatever is left. You can just copy a file into the VM if you need to expand the actual VHD file on the disk (e.g. copy a service pack .exe or similar). And then delete it. Cheers Ken -Original

Desktop Backup

2008-05-01 Thread Active Elk
Hi, My client would like to have a desktop/laptop backup solution. They have about 1000 users. May I know for those who has done this before, what have you recommended and for those who have done it, how did you do it? Thanks. Best Regards, Wei Yu

RE: Desktop Backup

2008-05-01 Thread Vue, Za
What exactly do you want to back up from the clients? Z.V. -Original Message- From: Active Elk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 9:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Desktop Backup Hi, My client would like to have a desktop/laptop backup solution. They have

Re: Desktop Backup

2008-05-01 Thread Active Elk
The client is looking into 2 options. One is to backup everything and the other is to backup data only. Wei Yu - Original Message From: Vue, Za [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Friday, 2 May 2008 9:28:00 Subject: RE: Desktop

RE: Using 3rd-party LTO-3 tapes in HP autoloader

2008-05-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I rarely used HP tapes in my hp loader:) jlc From: Bob Peitzke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 6:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Using 3rd-party LTO-3 tapes in HP autoloader I need to order more tapes for one of our HP StorageWorks 1x8

Re: Using 3rd-party LTO-3 tapes in HP autoloader

2008-05-01 Thread Active Elk
I use Fuji, Dell, and HP tapes in my Dell loader. No problems. :) (Anyway, Dell OEM from Fuji for their tapes) WY - Original Message From: Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Friday, 2 May 2008 9:52:52 Subject: RE:

Re: Desktop Backup

2008-05-01 Thread Ski Kacoroski
I highly recommend backuppc. For the last 3 years I have been using it to back up over 1500 workstations (about 600 laptops). it is free and just plain works. ski On 5/1/08, Active Elk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, My client would like to have a desktop/laptop backup solution. They have

Any experience with Unicenter Patch Management Non Windows OS Support

2008-05-01 Thread McBride, Ryan
Hey all, Just evaluating patching solutions and one of them ones we are considering investigating is Unicenter Patch Management. Just curious if anyone out there is using this and can comment on its good and bad points. One of the primary points in interested in is wether is supports Patch

RE: Desktop Backup

2008-05-01 Thread Vue, Za
Personally I think it is an overkill backing up everything. What is it that the client want to accomplish? We are talking about 1000 machines with an average of 3-5GB disk space requirement min. What about the employee who loaded 5 GB of music files to his My Documents folder? Now you have