Re: Disgruntled Sysadmin

2008-07-17 Thread Jon Harris
You rarely get more than you pay for at government offices. Those that are better than they are paid to be generally tend to be much better than they need to be and actually care to do a good job. The others tend to be jokes waiting to happen. This I have seen having worked for various State age

RE: Peak10 as a co-lo?

2008-07-17 Thread Andy Shook
Dude, Just looking for a customer's prospective and experiences, so shut your cake hole... :) Shook -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 4:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Peak10 as a co-lo? Coolio... So if you hav

RE: Peak10 as a co-lo?

2008-07-17 Thread Erik Goldoff
Don't know the Charlotte location, but I do know Matt Searfoss from the local site here, seems to be a well run organization, with properly engineered facilities. _ From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 3:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Peak1

RE: Disconnected on a schedule???

2008-07-17 Thread Stephen Wimberly
Scheduled tasks was our first thought, once we identified the pattern. All servers have been checked repeatedly by different admins and the only scheduled tasks are 1. Backup at midnight and 2. Antivirus updates at 2 AM and 6 PM. And 3. Symantec antivirus corp ed ver 10.1.0.5010 scans at 4 AM. N

RE: Peak10 as a co-lo?

2008-07-17 Thread Andy Shook
And that local site would be?? Shook From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 7:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Peak10 as a co-lo? Don't know the Charlotte location, but I do know Matt Searfoss from the

RE: Disconnected on a schedule???

2008-07-17 Thread Stephen Wimberly
When we ping the file server and any server in the same network a 'normal' reply would be either =1 ms or =2 ms. At the time of these problems we are getting well over 100 ms for approximately two minutes! Our network department has looked at wireshark traces from both workstation and server and

Re: Peak10 as a co-lo?

2008-07-17 Thread jeff . wilhelm
I would not recommend them. All our talks with them were positive, they bill the site as highly-available and it does look nice. However we have two (or three) cabinets there now -- one with HP blades and the other(s) are an HP EVA 8000 -- and have had three outages in the last six months (I b

RE: Peak10 as a co-lo?

2008-07-17 Thread Erik Goldoff
sorry, here in Duluth, GA, just North of Atlanta _ From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 8:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Peak10 as a co-lo? And that local site would be?? Shook _ From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Peak10 as a co-lo?

2008-07-17 Thread Andy Shook
Thanks, Eric. Shook From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 8:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Peak10 as a co-lo? sorry, here in Duluth, GA, just North of Atlanta

RE: Peak10 as a co-lo?

2008-07-17 Thread Andy Shook
S... Are you moving out? Have things gotten better? Is this your production gear or DR\BC\replication setup? Who's your rep? Andy Shook Decision Support LLC Direct:704.844.1848 Fax:704.847.4875 www.decisionsupport.com ___

RE: Peak10 as a co-lo?

2008-07-17 Thread jeff . wilhelm
I purposefully didn't want to make public our plans is it could jeopardize our ongoing contract talks with them. :) I am not to point of contact on the account so I don't know the current rep, only one ones we talked to when the original contract was negotiated two years ago. The folks I rememb

My First 2008 Server

2008-07-17 Thread John Hornbuckle
Woohoo! My new server arrived yesterday, and it'll be my first 2008 server in a domain/forest that currently has all 2003 machines. I'll need to make it a DC, so I want to make sure I don't miss anything. Looking at a couple of TechNet articles, it looks like I need to run "adprep /forestprep" on

RE: My First 2008 Server

2008-07-17 Thread Michael B. Smith
Three steps actually: Adprep /forestprep Adprep /domainprep Adprep /domainprep /gpprep At least, that's what I do. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursda

Re: My First 2008 Server

2008-07-17 Thread Jon Harris
So far that is all I have done. I had mine come in back in May but was told to leave it off until 3rd week of June. I will be doing my DC in Hyper-V which is very nice. Jon On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 8:52 AM, John Hornbuckle < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Woohoo! My new server arrived yesterday, a

Re: My First 2008 Server

2008-07-17 Thread Jon Harris
>From TechNet you don't need the adprep /domainprep http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/library/7120ec57-ad86-4369-af22-773ed9b097fc1033.mspx?mfr=true Jon On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Michael B. Smith < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Three steps actually: > > Adprep /forestprep

RE: calcs and system cannot find the file specified

2008-07-17 Thread Michael B. Smith
Sorry, I haven't been paying attention to this thread. Have you looked at XCACLS and ICACLS /setowner? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Miguel Gonzalez CastaƱos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, J

RE: My First 2008 Server

2008-07-17 Thread Michael B. Smith
It's not required as a separate step - I just like to separate them. 'Cuz they are separate operations. But that's just me. J Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 1

Re: Disgruntled Sysadmin

2008-07-17 Thread James Kerr
One is enough!! - Original Message - From: "Salvador Manzo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 7:50 PM Subject: Re: Disgruntled Sysadmin Have many of those, do we? ;) On 7/16/08 3:16 PM, "James Kerr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not if

RE: FTP alternatives

2008-07-17 Thread EricB
Has anyone tried FileRun? http://www.filerun.com/ It's touted as an HTTP based FTP alternative. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 6:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: FTP alternatives http://www.freesshd.com/ On Wed,

RE: My First 2008 Server

2008-07-17 Thread NTSysAdmin
Yes you do...same article. To prepare a Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 domain for Windows Server 2008 1. Identify the domain infrastructure operations master role holder as follows: * In the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in, right-click the domain object, click Operations Mas

Comments on the recent DNS Cache poisoning hoopla

2008-07-17 Thread David Lum
DNS flaws called overblown by researcher http://security.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/07/14/dns-flaws-called-overblo wn-by-researcher/ Anyone care to comment? I've read a lot about this DNS stuff and Dan Kaminsky's work...and of course, his comments here: http://www.doxpara.com/ Anyone here

RE: Comments on the recent DNS Cache poisoning hoopla

2008-07-17 Thread Ziots, Edward
I don't think they are overblown at all, he found a flaw made sure it got reported correctly to a lot of vendors, got it coordinated for patches and then the details was released. There has been a rash of DNS exploits lately so it seems like a good target given its criticality to the Internet as a

While on the DNS kick

2008-07-17 Thread David Lum
Is there a compelling reason NOT to use OpenDNS as forwarders for DNS servers that are currently just using the root servers to route DNS currently? Dave Lum Systems Engineer " When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands." ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antiviru

Re: Disgruntled Sysadmin

2008-07-17 Thread Mike Sullivan
I am in Sacramento as well. Do you or Joe go to the local VMware User Group meetings? I'm there almost every month. 2008/7/16 Steven Peck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You're in Sacramento? Maybe we should see how many of us are here. I > know at least 2 others on the list are somewhat local. > > St

RE: My First 2008 Server

2008-07-17 Thread Jacob
Yea... pretty much it. Ran those in on my 2003 DC. Joined the 2008 DC to the domain. That was it. Painless. You can do this on the 2003 DC live, but it did take a while to run all the scripts. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17

RE: My First 2008 Server

2008-07-17 Thread John Hornbuckle
I thought I had heard somewhere that it wasn't a best practice to run a DC in a VM. I had tried to get confirmation on that a while back, but didn't have much luck. I don't see why running a DC in a Hyper-V VM would be a problem, though-I never really got a good answer on that. John

RE: My First 2008 Server

2008-07-17 Thread John Hornbuckle
Let me make sure I'm clear on one other thing... Adprep comes on the Server 2008 disk, but I don't actually run it on the Server 2008 machine, right? Do I put that disk in my Server 2003 DC and run it from there? -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: Comments on the recent DNS Cache poisoning hoopla

2008-07-17 Thread James Rankin
Don't think they are anything to start performing any panic-patching on - but even the Blaster vulnerability, which was the worst I can remember in recent times, had a nice long window for check-and-test before the virus hit. I seem to remember our clients at the time umming and aaahing about apply

RE: My First 2008 Server

2008-07-17 Thread David Lum
Per MS it's OK as long as they don't hold any FSMO roles. We recommend that you locate critical server roles on domain controllers that are installed directly on physical hardware. Critical server roles include the following: * Global catalog servers * Domain Name System (DNS) servers * O

RE: My First 2008 Server

2008-07-17 Thread Michael B. Smith
You shouldn't use VM DR techniques to restore a DC, that's what it comes down to. You can search at support.microsoft.com for a KB that discusses "USN Rollback" for the technical details why not to do that. There is also a white-paper at Microsoft.com/downloads named something like "Best Practi

RE: Disgruntled Sysadmin

2008-07-17 Thread Joe Heaton
I don't Mike. We haven't implemented VM yet. I'm supposed to go to the class for it this next fiscal year, but that will depend on the state actually passing a budget. At this point, I'm just hoping that I continue to get paid... Joe Heaton From: Mike Sulli

RE: Disgruntled Sysadmin

2008-07-17 Thread Joe Heaton
That link is giving me a 404 error. Tried searching for it from the home site, with the same results... odd. Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 3:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disgruntled Sysadmin He

RE: My First 2008 Server

2008-07-17 Thread Michael B. Smith
Correct and correct. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: My First 2008 Server Let me m

RE: Comments on the recent DNS Cache poisoning hoopla

2008-07-17 Thread Ziots, Edward
If you think there isnt going to be a exploit for this latest DNS patch, then you don't listen in the underground much, they are already reverse engineering the patch M$ put out and I don't doubt that you will be seeing an exploit before or after Black Hat this year. Z Edward E. Ziots Net

Re: My First 2008 Server

2008-07-17 Thread Jon Harris
I have no choice in the matter by year end I have to migrate both of my physical DC's to the virtual environment. One of the machines has been having hardware issues for the last 6 months the other has not. Of the 6 boxes I have up at the moment 2 are setup to be virtual hosts. One of the machin

Re: Comments on the recent DNS Cache poisoning hoopla

2008-07-17 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:31 AM, David Lum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DNS flaws called overblown by researcher > http://security.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/07/14/dns-flaws-called-overblown-by-researcher/ (1) Paul Vixie, who understands DNS as well as anyone alive, has been given details of the

Re: Comments on the recent DNS Cache poisoning hoopla

2008-07-17 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Ziots, Edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you think there isnt going to be a exploit for this latest DNS patch ... All these patches do is introduce randomization of the UDP source port used by DNS resolvers to send queries. That is simply implementing some

Re: Comments on the recent DNS Cache poisoning hoopla

2008-07-17 Thread James Rankin
I don't doubt there will be an exploit, even tho they claimed it couldn't be reverse engineered. However our normal patch cycle already has it covered. VMWare Update Manager makes it miles easier, it even converts your templates, patches them, then converts them back. Sweet. 2008/7/17 Ziots, Edwar

RE: Peak10 as a co-lo?

2008-07-17 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
Mmmm...Cake!!! -Original Message- From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 6:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Peak10 as a co-lo? Dude, Just looking for a customer's prospective and experiences, so shut your cake hole... :) Shook -Origi

Re: Comments on the recent DNS Cache poisoning hoopla

2008-07-17 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:42 AM, James Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't doubt there will be an exploit ... The details of the exploit are supposedly going to be publiclly disclosed next month by Dan K. at a conference, so that seems like a safe bet. :-) -- Ben ~ Upgrade to Next Ge

Re: Peak10 as a co-lo?

2008-07-17 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Tim Vander Kooi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mmmm...Cake!!! The cake is a lie. -- Ben ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ ~

WSUS Slowness

2008-07-17 Thread James Kerr
I have a new install of WSUS on the server that had it before. I wiped the drive and reinstalled everything. This time round I am finding that WSUS is running very slow listing and approving updates and just very slow in general. The only difference is that now the machine is a DC. I saw some i

Re: Disgruntled Sysadmin

2008-07-17 Thread Mike Sullivan
Can we just drop all of the politicians in the Pacific and start over? At the very least they should all lose one months pay for every day we don't have a budget. You can still go to the meetings, it is a great learning experience and a chance to win some nice stuff. http://communities.vmware.com

RE: Peak10 as a co-lo?

2008-07-17 Thread Krishna Reddy
Cake or death? Krishna Reddy IT Manager Nucomm, Inc. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Peak10 as a co-lo? On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Tim Vander Kooi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

RE: Comments on the recent DNS Cache poisoning hoopla

2008-07-17 Thread Ziots, Edward
Funny part is I found the VMware Update Manager for the patches to be sum what cloogy at best, I want all my VM's to be uniform on patches, and it doesn't seem, to know what patches or arent applied to the ESX guests already. So its Still Shavlik to the rescue. Z Edward E. Ziots Network E

Increase in Viruses

2008-07-17 Thread Stefan Jafs
I don't like this trend, this is what Ninja has found: April = 0 May = 1 June = 65 July MTD = 213 They are: HTML/Bankphish.HY and JA Anyone else seen this kind of increase? __ Stefan Jafs This email and any attached files a

Forced Computer Naming Convention

2008-07-17 Thread Don Guyer
Good Morning, The field techs have not been diligent with sticking to a systematic naming convention in the past. Is it possible to somehow force a naming convention onto computers joining the domain, using a GPO or something along those lines? We would like to force the name to

RE: Comments on the recent DNS Cache poisoning hoopla

2008-07-17 Thread Kent, Larry CTR USA IMCOM
Z cloogy? At first I thought this was Rhode Island slang, but it is listed in the Urban dictionary. We proper Bostonians spell it 'kludgey' :) - Larry From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:57 AM To: NT System Admin Is

RE: Comments on the recent DNS Cache poisoning hoopla

2008-07-17 Thread David Lum
+1 here in Oregon too From: Kent, Larry CTR USA IMCOM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 8:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Comments on the recent DNS Cache poisoning hoopla Z cloogy? At first I thought this was Rhode Island slang, but it is listed in

[OT] Thursday funny

2008-07-17 Thread Phillip Partipilo
If this isn't a photoshop, and the sign has been up for any appreciable amount of time, this restaurant has to be using this as some kind of PR gig. http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/07/17/Chinese_restaurant_takes_the_ cake_for_naming_error If it wraps, http://tinyurl.com/5pcme4 Philli

RE: My First 2008 Server

2008-07-17 Thread Ken Schaefer
There is a really good whitepaper on this on the Microsoft website. I posted the link a few weeks ago - check the archives. The main issue is USN rollback. That is just a fact of reverting to a previous snapshot - no matter what the virtualisation product Cheers Ken From: John Hornbuckle [mail

RE: My First 2008 Server

2008-07-17 Thread John Hornbuckle
So if I don't do that with the VM that acts as a DC, I should be okay? Could I think have that VM DC handle FSMO roles? From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 11:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: My First 2008 Server There is a reall

RE: Comments on the recent DNS Cache poisoning hoopla

2008-07-17 Thread Michael Ross
No, Cloogy .. he makes those Ocean's 13 movies.. :P From: Kent, Larry CTR USA IMCOM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Comments on the recent DNS Cache poisoning hoopla Z cloogy? At first I thought this was Rhode I

Re: Disgruntled Sysadmin

2008-07-17 Thread Steven Peck
I had a conflict for the last one but will be at the next on the 31st. Maybe we can lure Bob Free down as well :) Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Mike Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can we just drop all of the politicians in the Pacific and start over? A

RE: Forced Computer Naming Convention

2008-07-17 Thread Free, Bob
Not possible via GPO. 3 solutions come to mind, you can either roll your own provisioning system that enforces your rules and require the techs to use it, pre-create the accounts centrally with compliant names and just let them join them or buy a 3rd party solution that has logic/rules baked in

RE: Peak10 as a co-lo?

2008-07-17 Thread Andy Ognenoff
Death...oooh...cake, cake. Ah ah, you said death first...oh, alright. I was waiting for someone to quote that! - Andy O. >-Original Message- >From: Krishna Reddy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 9:56 AM >To: NT System Admin Issues >Subject: RE: Peak10 as a co-l

RE: My First 2008 Server

2008-07-17 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
Be aware that the kb article that you referenced deals with Server 2000 and Server 2003, NOT Server 2008 (check the Applies To section at the bottom). The DC role is one of the built in adds for Hyper-V so I would think that Microsoft would have a hard time selling "Don't put DC's on Hyper-V" wh

RE: Peak10 as a co-lo?

2008-07-17 Thread Krishna Reddy
I just saw him at Radio City Music Hall. As funny as ever. Krishna Reddy IT Manager Nucomm, Inc. -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 12:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Peak10 as a co-lo? Death...oooh...cake, ca

RE: Increase in Viruses

2008-07-17 Thread Bob Fronk
Do you use an RBL? I am not seeing much virus activity at all from Ninja, but I have a Barracuda in front of Exchange. Not seeing much virus activity on the 'cuda either, but I think the RBLs catch most of them and block it before processing. Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Stefa

RE: Increase in Viruses

2008-07-17 Thread David L Herrick
Sadly - yes From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 8:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Increase in Viruses I don't like this trend, this is what Ninja has found: April = 0 May = 1 June = 65 July MTD = 213 They are: HTML/Bankphish.HY an

RE: Increase in Viruses

2008-07-17 Thread Stefan Jafs
Yes, bl.spamcop.net and cbl.abuseat.org They deleted 215,440 messages the last 30 days. I have about 200 users. __ Stefan Jafs From: Bob Fronk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 12:33 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: Forced Computer Naming Convention

2008-07-17 Thread Free, Bob
Don- Looks like these guys want to help...they me sent this responseLOL I'll give them your number when they call :-) -- -Original Message- From: Web Stores America [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 9:09 AM To: Free,

RE: WSUS Slowness

2008-07-17 Thread Carl Houseman
Is there a directly connected drive which contains the AD database (sysvol)? Directly connected = SCSI, SAS, SATA, IDE, withOUT any RAID controller. If so the write caches on those directly connected drives are disabled when it's a DC. If you want to call that "added overhead of having AD", fee

Re: WSUS Slowness

2008-07-17 Thread James Kerr
No it has a RAID controller. - Original Message - From: "Carl Houseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 12:40 PM Subject: RE: WSUS Slowness Is there a directly connected drive which contains the AD database (sysvol)? Directly connect

RE: Forced Computer Naming Convention

2008-07-17 Thread Don Guyer
Bob, I appreciate your earlier response. *unplugging phone now* :) Don Guyer Systems Engineer Information Services Department Prudential Fox Roach/ Trident 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Ph: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 www.prufoxroach.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hyper-V RTM - available for standalone purchase and use?

2008-07-17 Thread Carl Houseman
I'm getting conflicting information trying to find out more about Hyper-V. Some talk suggests that it is or will be purchasable as a standalone product. I.e. you can buy, install, and use it without any Windows 2008 server license required. True/False? Supporting URLs if True? Secondly, I'm

Re: Hyper-V RTM - available for standalone purchase and use?

2008-07-17 Thread Jon Harris
The drives will mount under Virtual server but they will not load under Virtual Server. You can do the opposite as well take .VHD's from Virtual server and mount them under Hyper-V. You would still have the requirements of the needed hardware to run Hyper-V but it was my impression that you can p

Re: Hyper-V RTM - available for standalone purchase and use?

2008-07-17 Thread Steve Ens
Hyper V runs on Windows Server 2008...on a gui based install or on Core. You can buy Win2K8 without Hyper V, but I don't think it is worth it. With enterprise you get four free virtual licenses. At least this is how I have it running here. I think (don't quote me) you can only migrate to hyper v

Re: Hyper-V RTM - available for standalone purchase and use?

2008-07-17 Thread Steve Ens
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/virtualization-consolidation.aspx On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Carl Houseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm getting conflicting information trying to find out more about > Hyper-V. Some talk suggests that it is or will be purchasable as a

Re: Hyper-V RTM - available for standalone purchase and use?

2008-07-17 Thread Jon Harris
Here is the site with the purchasing information. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/pricing.aspx Jon On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Steve Ens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/virtualization-consolidation.aspx > > On Thu, Jul 17, 20

RE: WSUS Slowness

2008-07-17 Thread Carl Houseman
Hmm, I just noticed the grade of hardware you're talking about. Hard to believe you considered it acceptable before. Taskmgr.exe is your friend, check the memory load and CPU utilization while waiting for WSUS to do things, and also the CPU load when not asking WSUS to do things. That will revea

RE: Hyper-V RTM - available for standalone purchase and use?

2008-07-17 Thread Carl Houseman
So in reality, Hyper-V isn't competition for VMware-ESX unless you were buying Windows 2008 anyway? All that talk about $28 for unbundled Hyper-Vwas just to grab headlines, there's nothing you can get from MS for $28 that you could use to virtualize on bare metal a bunch of 2003 servers? Th

RE: Hyper-V RTM - available for standalone purchase and use?

2008-07-17 Thread Greg Olson
The $28.00 version is not for sale yet. It should be released this quarter. But yes, there will be a $28.00 version that only runs Hyper-V, it's just not out yet. From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hyper-V

Re: Hyper-V RTM - available for standalone purchase and use?

2008-07-17 Thread Jon Harris
Not from what I have seen. That said Hyper-V is very nice to work on and since the drives were interchangable it was better and cheaper than purchase of the hardware + ESX for me. Jon On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Carl Houseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So in reality, Hyper-V isn't compe

Re: Hyper-V RTM - available for standalone purchase and use?

2008-07-17 Thread Jon Harris
There will be? Now that would be very nice and would make serveral things I am working on doable where now they are not. Jon On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Greg Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The $28.00 version is not for sale yet. It should be released this > quarter. > > But yes, there

Re: Rant: Incorrect quotes from vendors

2008-07-17 Thread Jonathan Link
I just gave up on our standard rep and have decided to go with our Premier Rep available through our association. I asked him a question about a encrypted usb memory keys, and I had 4 minutes of silence from him, no acknowledgement of my question, and then continued on as if I hadn't asked anything

Re: Hyper-V RTM - available for standalone purchase and use?

2008-07-17 Thread Jon Harris
Here is the FAQ for Hyper-V if it is of any use to you. https://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/hyperv-faq.aspx Jon On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Jon Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There will be? Now that would be very nice and would make serveral > things I am working on do

Re: SSL cert question

2008-07-17 Thread Gavin Wilby
"or RPC over HTTPS then those features will fail" Are you entirly sure about that - I only ask cos I have two sbs sites that use RPC over HTTPS in Outlook and they have *no* registered certs at all, and the connection still works. Or is it more of a case of a valid cert expiring that causes the f

Re: SSL cert question

2008-07-17 Thread Steven Peck
Your support phone calls will go up significantly. You may want to go through your authentication logs to identify your regular users and craft an email with pictures because IE7 has a big blank "don't go here" type screen. You could circle the appropriate places with red and explain what they me

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2008-07-17 Thread Carl Houseman
Can anyone tell me why or how I received this? Is Google doing now taking action based on subject/content of messages and sharing our E-mail with its partners or clients? Carl -Original Message- From: Web Stores America [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 1:52 PM To:

Re: ???: Case # 000xxxxx: RE: Hyper-V RTM - available for standalone purchase and use? ref:00D57Vhx.50054w2Ws:ref

2008-07-17 Thread Jon Harris
I think it was Bob Free that menitioned that he had just gotten something similar in another thread today. I guess there is a lurker wanting to sell stuff to us. Jon On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Carl Houseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone tell me why or how I received this? > > Is

Re: ???: Case # 000xxxxx: RE: Hyper-V RTM - available for standalone purchase and use? ref:00D57Vhx.50054w2Ws:ref

2008-07-17 Thread Jon Harris
Look at the thread on Forced Computer Naming Convention. Jon On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Jon Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it was Bob Free that menitioned that he had just gotten something > similar in another thread today. I guess there is a lurker wanting to sell > stuff t

RE: Case # 000xxxxx: RE: Hyper-V RTM - available for standalone purchase and use? ref:00D57Vhx.50054w2Ws:ref

2008-07-17 Thread Free, Bob
I got one too on a response in another thread, I just surmised that someone had subscribed some dorky auto responder to the list. I just looked and the headers have several references to salesforce.com "The Leader in On-Demand Customer Relationship Management" LOL -Original Message- Fr

RE: Case # 000xxxxx: RE: Hyper-V RTM - available for standalone purchase and use? ref:00D57Vhx.50054w2Ws:ref

2008-07-17 Thread Rod Trent
Google! -Original Message- From: Free, Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 2:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Case # 000x: RE: Hyper-V RTM - available for standalone purchase and use? ref:00D57Vhx.50054w2Ws:ref I got one too on a response in a

RE: Case # 000xxxxx: RE: Hyper-V RTM - available for standalone purchase and use? ref:00D57Vhx.50054w2Ws:ref

2008-07-17 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
I guessing that Stan may get a little PO'd if somebody is "farming" the mailing lists -Original Message- From: Free, Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 1:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Case # 000x: RE: Hyper-V RTM - available for standalone pur

RE: SSL cert question

2008-07-17 Thread Simon Butler
You must have made the changes to get the self generated certificate accepted by the clients. Even a self generated certificate will expire one day and that will cause the feature to fail. Personally speaking, I don't bother with self generated certificates for RPC over HTTPS. For the hassle whe

RE: Comments on the recent DNS Cache poisoning hoopla

2008-07-17 Thread Ziots, Edward
LOL Bostonians and Proper, I hardly, think so... But maybe well let Larry slide, just this once ":-) Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

RE: Comments on the recent DNS Cache poisoning hoopla

2008-07-17 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
Proper = pervert From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 2:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Comments on the recent DNS Cache poisoning hoopla LOL Bostonians and Proper, I hardly, think so... But maybe well l

MSFT licensing: Multiple hard disks, single computer, single drive at once

2008-07-17 Thread Ben Scott
Hi everybody (Hi Dr. Nick!)... Scenario: One computer. Computer has a removable hard disk drive (like one of these: http://tinyurl.com/CRUDataPort3). Only one spot in the computer for the removable carrier, so only one hard disk at a time can be used. There will be several hard disks, each wi

RE: Case # 000xxxxx: RE: Hyper-V RTM - available for standalone purchase and use? ref:00D57Vhx.50054w2Ws:ref

2008-07-17 Thread Carl Houseman
Who's Stan? You mean Stu? Hey Stu, can you unsub anyone who joined in the last 24 hours? Carl -Original Message- From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 3:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Case # 000x: RE: Hyper-V RTM - available fo

Which domain server is being used

2008-07-17 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi chaps Can anyone tell me a quick way to find out which domain server a member server is trying to authenticate against ? Windows 2003 all round. Eeek Olly ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ ~

RE: Case # 000xxxxx: RE: Hyper-V RTM - available for standalone purchase and use? ref:00D57Vhx.50054w2Ws:ref

2008-07-17 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
Sorry, I was watching Laurel and Hardy moviesnot. Yeah, I meant Stu -Original Message- From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 2:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Case # 000x: RE: Hyper-V RTM - available for standalone purchase and

RE: Which domain server is being used

2008-07-17 Thread Ziots, Edward
Echo %LogonServer% from the command prompt. Or set lo will give it to you also. Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 -Original Message- From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17,

Single Sign On

2008-07-17 Thread Bill Lambert
Hello all... We have an extremely large customer that would like to be able to use SSO so their users can log into Active Directory and use the same credentials to an intranet site that is Linux based. The application currently uses LDAP authentication and the passwords are also stored in the

RE: MSFT licensing: Multiple hard disks, single computer, single drive at once

2008-07-17 Thread E. Peeters
Afraid I'm not going to help, but an OEM license states that a system is the sum of: -a CPU; -a motherboard; -a power supply; -a hard drive. Not a lawyer, but my guess is, change one of the components above and you have a different system. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: MSFT licensing: Multiple hard disks, single computer, single drive at once

2008-07-17 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
If you are dealing with an OEM license then I would say it would probably be within your rights to load multiple drives with one XP license. This is because an OEM XP license is sold based on the BIOS of the machine it is sold with. I.E. - If the original hard drive dies and you have to replace

Re: Screensaver

2008-07-17 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 15 Jul 2008 at 13:24, Glen Johnson wrote: > Got a request to configure all employees screensaver to display a message of > the day > or some such security tip, info, new, whatever. > Anyone have experience with some third party preferably freeware that might > do this? > Windows 2003 domain

Re: File Copy

2008-07-17 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 15 Jul 2008 at 13:27, Jeff Harris wrote: > I'm having a problem copying a file that is 116gb to a different server. The > strange thing is, I did it before, but now I can't. I have tried compressing > the file and copying it, but when I try to uncompress it, I get an error. > The file is a v

Re: Disgruntled Sysadmin

2008-07-17 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 17 Jul 2008 at 7:54, Mike Sullivan wrote: > Can we just drop all of the politicians in the Pacific and start over? > At the very least they should all lose one months pay for every day we > don't have a budget. I think the USA should require Japan, Korea, Germany, and France to take one US

RE: MSFT licensing: Multiple hard disks, single computer, single drive at once

2008-07-17 Thread Carl Houseman
Hard drive fails and your XP OEM license is toast? Power supply fails and your XP OEM license is toast? Fairly ridiculous you must agree. I think the point of that clause in the license is to reinforce that some subset of computer hardware parts are not sufficient to allow the sale of an OEM lice

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