Re: Defrag servers

2008-07-30 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
+1, but use Raxco for Exchange defrags (very rarely). On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Michael B. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To answer your first question: JKDefrag. > > > > To answer the question you didn't ask: if you are going to defrag your > Exchange volume, stop Exchange first. I dou

RE: Backup DHCP server

2008-07-30 Thread Ken Schaefer
Huh? That's not how DHCP works at all All DHCP servers that see the initial request for an IP address, and have spare IP addresses, will respond with an offer. The client will then choose to accept one of the offers (it should be the first one received) Cheers Ken From: Benjamin Zachary - List

RE: DNS Vulnerability

2008-07-30 Thread Carl Houseman
OK It checks the *eventual* DNS server that actually resolves the query and is the vulnerable point in resolving DNS information for the machine whose keyboard you are using. The major point being, it doesn't check the public DNS servers for your own domains. From: Tim Evans [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: DNS Vulnerability

2008-07-30 Thread Joe Heaton
Actually, it seems to only check your primary forwarder. I have multiple forwarders, and in order to check them all, I have to move them to the top of the list, one at a time. Joe Heaton From: Tim Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 200

RE: DNS Vulnerability

2008-07-30 Thread Tim Evans
I don't think that's right. On my system here, IPCONFIG /ALL shows our internal DNS servers. When I run the test at DoxPara.com, it reports on the external forwarders that my DNS servers point to. Given that my DNS servers are NATted behind a firewall, I'm not sure how it could check them anyway. I

RE: Defrag servers

2008-07-30 Thread David Lum
Gotta poke around a little... "GetLicenseCode (you must have the .NET framework installed, for Windows NT 2000, XP, 2003) http://www.dirms.com/home/docs/downloads.asp They don't explicitly list 2003 anywhere else, but I can confirm I've had no problems whatsoever in 3 years on 2003 / 2003R2 ser

RE: DNS Vulnerability

2008-07-30 Thread Carl Houseman
It tests the DNS server(s) which appear(s) under IPCONFIG /ALL. It does not check the DNS server(s) that are identified in the whois information for your domain. Carl From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 4:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: Mount ISO on server

2008-07-30 Thread Sam Cayze
Many Servers have outofband management cards that support virtual CD Drivers, and allow you to connect to the ISO or CD over the network. Lifesaver when u need to boot of a CD remotely, when the CD is not onsite, and neither are you. Or, ISO mount it on a workstation, and share that drive. Then y

RE: Mount ISO on server

2008-07-30 Thread Carl Houseman
The latest free version is ad-sponsored IIRC - if you have the earlier versions they still work great. -Original Message- From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 3:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Mount ISO on server What happened with Daem

RE: DNS Vulnerability

2008-07-30 Thread Sam Cayze
I think it will only check your external Name Server. And I think it's the only test. From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 3:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DNS Vulnerability Is this a valid test for the recently disclosed DNS cache poisoni

DNS Vulnerability

2008-07-30 Thread Roger Wright
Is this a valid test for the recently disclosed DNS cache poisoning vulnerability? http://www.doxpara.com/ Do I understand correctly that this will test my internal and external DNS servers? Internal clients point to my internal DNS servers which then point to my ISP's (AT&T) name servers.

RE: Defrag servers

2008-07-30 Thread David Mazzaccaro
Indeed it is. thx From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 4:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Defrag servers As long as it is dedicated to Exchange - nope. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MC

RE: Sprint/Good Outage?

2008-07-30 Thread Sam Cayze
Thanks David. From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 2:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sprint/Good Outage? FYI - I got the following earlier today: ___ Bb-Outage mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: Defrag servers

2008-07-30 Thread Michael B. Smith
As long as it is dedicated to Exchange - nope. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 3:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Defrag servers s

RE: Server 2008 DNS / Firewall Problem

2008-07-30 Thread John Hornbuckle
Will do. I've also posted on a couple of TechNet forums. So far everyone is stumped, but I have to make this work, so I'll keep plugging away. I'm doing the same as you, decommissioning several end-of-life 2003 servers. I only have one 2008 server, though, and am running Hyper-V to have multipl

Re: Server 2008 DNS / Firewall Problem

2008-07-30 Thread Jon Harris
At the moment then I am out of ideas. I am having fun moving and decommissioning a 2003 web/ftp/print server and bringing up a replacement 2008 one in it's place. Trouble shooting has to wait until I have enough done to justify the time since not of these "problems" affect anyone but "me" at the

RE: Server room temp

2008-07-30 Thread Jacob
Yea.. nothing like being zapped when you touch a hard drive ;-) From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 9:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Server room temp "There is no doubt in my mind that a server kept in a cool, dry environment will gene

RE: Defrag servers

2008-07-30 Thread David Mazzaccaro
nope... humming along nicely. thx From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 3:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Defrag servers Is the server performing poorly? If so, is it due to fragmentation of the drive or C

RE: Sprint/Good Outage?

2008-07-30 Thread David Mazzaccaro
FYI - I got the following earlier today: ___ Bb-Outage mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dataoutages.com/mailman/listinfo/bb-outage http://www.dataoutages.com RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Bb-outage - Bb-Out

OT: Re: Hackers get hold of critical Internet flaw

2008-07-30 Thread Klint Price - ArizonaITPro
Matti, Was this a misprint in the article? Did they mean to say "Haack"-ers obtained the exploit :O) Cool domain name by the way. Klint Matti Haack wrote: >> The article is useless. >> >> Patch where? Who should be patching? >> > > Everyone with a (BIND) Nameserver: > http://www.caugh

RE: Server 2008 DNS / Firewall Problem

2008-07-30 Thread John Hornbuckle
Yeah, I forgot to mention that I had tried that. I shut down the firewall service completely, but these errors continued to be logged. Also, I have IPv6 disabled on the server. Crazy. From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 3:42 PM To: NT System A

RE: Defrag servers

2008-07-30 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
Is the server performing poorly? If so, is it due to fragmentation of the drive or CPU overload, low memory or paging to disk? If you have a server that is running slow due to the disk being fragmented, then you should be concerned, otherwise you shouldn't worry about it. Just my opinion, TVK Fr

Re: Server 2008 DNS / Firewall Problem

2008-07-30 Thread Jon Harris
John try shutting down the firewall and see if they go away. If so then you may have the same issue I had this morning with IIS v7. It appears that there is something in the internal firewall that does not like certain features, and no I have not had time to trouble shoot this yet. It might also

Server 2008 DNS / Firewall Problem

2008-07-30 Thread John Hornbuckle
I have a separate DNS server here for external queries. That server isn't AD-integrated, and only contains a handful of records for hosts that need to be reached from the outside world. This task has been handled by a Server 2003 server. I've shut down DNS on that server and moved its IP address t

RE: Defrag servers

2008-07-30 Thread David Mazzaccaro
so should I not be concerned that Windows Defrag shows my drive at 45% fragmentation? From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 2:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Defrag servers I've never defragged an Exchan

Sprint/Good Outage?

2008-07-30 Thread Sam Cayze
Anyone on Sprint, perhaps using GOOD? Good is telling me that Sprint is reporting nationwide outages. Anybody noticing anything? or are they just feeding me a line again to get me off the phone? Sam ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~

RE: Hyper-v

2008-07-30 Thread John Hornbuckle
I think an internal network only allows Hyper-V VMs to talk to each other plus the host machine (or "parent partition", as they call it): http://blogs.technet.com/jhoward/archive/2008/06/17/hyper-v-what-are-the -uses-for-different-types-of-virtual-networks.aspx So I think you should be safe. But

RE: Mount ISO on server

2008-07-30 Thread Don Guyer
Works fine here. 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] -Original Message- From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Se

RE: Mount ISO on server

2008-07-30 Thread Roger Wright
MagicISO wurks grate! It creates a virtual drive that can open/play your ISO files without extraction. http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-magicdisc-overview.htm Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ -Original Message- From: Ara Avvali [m

RE: Defrag servers

2008-07-30 Thread Sam Cayze
Hum, DIRMS supported systems = Windows2000 and Windows XP on their website. No mention of server support. From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Defrag servers PerfectDisk from Raxco (www.raxco.com). Centra

Re: Mount ISO on server

2008-07-30 Thread James Kerr
What happened with Daemon tools? - Original Message - From: "Ara Avvali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 2:51 PM Subject: Mount ISO on server Hello everyone, What application would you recommend for mounting ISO on a 2003 server? I use

RE: Mount ISO on server

2008-07-30 Thread Jon B. Lewis
I've used this with great luck. http://weblogs.asp.net/pleloup/archive/2004/01/15/58918.aspx or http://tinyurl.com/63udp Jon Lewis -Original Message- From: Ara Avvali [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 1:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Mount ISO on serve

Hyper-v

2008-07-30 Thread Ara Avvali
Hello I want to be sure on something if someone would help me please. I only have one network attached to hype-v as internal Is it safe to assume to capture an image from a domain controller, restore it to the virtual machine which is only connected to internal network and leave the host connecte

Mount ISO on server

2008-07-30 Thread Ara Avvali
Hello everyone, What application would you recommend for mounting ISO on a 2003 server? I used to be a fan daemon tools but not anymore :( Thanks ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ ~

Re: Server room temp

2008-07-30 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 9:13 AM, David Lum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have someone telling me as long as their server room is below 95 degrees > then they're OK. They point to Dell's server specs which say their operating > temperature is listed as 50 - 95deg F. > > > > A recent thread here tal

RE: Defrag servers

2008-07-30 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
I've never defragged an Exchange server (been running it since 4.0) and have never heard of a good argument for trying it. Since Exchange is, in essence, a database (or multiple databases) the benefits of doing a defrag would be minimal IMHO. Although MBS would be better able to tell you than an

RE: Dell NVidia GPU problem

2008-07-30 Thread David Lum
THANKS! We are a Dell shop and have D630's etc. Thank you thank you. Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 "..remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside" - JFK From: René de Haas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

RE: Defrag servers

2008-07-30 Thread David Mazzaccaro
oh yeah? Can anyone else comment on the +/- effects of defragging Exchange disks? thx From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 1:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Defrag servers To answer your first questi

Re: Server room temp

2008-07-30 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 9:13 AM, David Lum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have someone telling me as long as their server room is below 95 degrees > then they're OK. They point to Dell's server specs which say their operating > temperature is listed as 50 - 95deg F. > > > > A recent thread here tal

Re: Automating Account Creation

2008-07-30 Thread Jonathan Link
Care to share? On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Dennis Rogov < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found a VB script which should do the job. Thanks for the > feedbacks. > > > > Dr > > > > > > Dennis Rogov > > Senior Network Analyst > THE *P**eer* GROUP *an informed medical communications

RE: Cisco content filtering comments needed

2008-07-30 Thread Thomas Mullins
Thanks Phil, Shane -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Cisco content filtering comments needed Cisco doesn't provide content filtering with any of their firewall products, regar

Re: R: Server room temp

2008-07-30 Thread Albert L
You might want to take into consider that the temperature inside and near the rack are hotter compare to the room temperature. On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:14 AM, HELP_PC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and humidity not below 25% > > *GuidoElia* > *HELPPC* > > > -- > *Da

Re: Defrag servers

2008-07-30 Thread Klint Price - ArizonaITPro
what? It's not sequel? Webster wrote: > > > > > > *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Subject:* RE: Defrag servers > > > > ... what do I know? > > > > U, quite a lot about a lot. You even know how to spell SQL. J > > > > > > Webster > > ~ Upgrade to Next Gene

RE: Defrag servers

2008-07-30 Thread Bob Fronk
How does this program handle open files, SQL and Exchange? I was thinking about something like this the other day. (I have received junk mail from the vendor, but have not looked at it, but seeing this thread makes me wonder) Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: David L Herrick [mailt

RE: Defrag servers

2008-07-30 Thread Webster
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Defrag servers . what do I know? U, quite a lot about a lot. You even know how to spell SQL. J Webster ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~

RE: Defrag servers

2008-07-30 Thread David Lum
I love this list...I'd never heard of this one, sweet! Dave From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 10:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Defrag servers JKDefrag On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Michael B. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Defrag servers

2008-07-30 Thread Matt Plahtinsky
JKDefrag On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Michael B. Smith < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To answer your first question: JKDefrag. > > > > To answer the question you didn't ask: if you are going to defrag your > Exchange volume, stop Exchange first. I doubt it'll provide you any benefit > though.

RE: Server room temp

2008-07-30 Thread Phillip Partipilo
Sucks when an A/C freezes up, we piped the output of two separate A/C units into our server room for redundancy; one of those pieces of junk is always freezing up every so often. Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 _ From: Bob Fronk [mailt

RE: Defrag servers

2008-07-30 Thread Michael B. Smith
To answer your first question: JKDefrag. To answer the question you didn't ask: if you are going to defrag your Exchange volume, stop Exchange first. I doubt it'll provide you any benefit though. (Some people claim it does, what do I know?) Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/E

RE: Defrag servers

2008-07-30 Thread David L Herrick
+1 From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 10:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Defrag servers PerfectDisk from Raxco (www.raxco.com). Centrally managed defrag. For smaller shops I just use the free tool DIRMS (www.dirms.com) and throw it in

Re: Server room temp

2008-07-30 Thread Kurt Buff
I haven't seen/read it, but have noticed a reference to "ASHRAE's TC 9.9" in this exchange: http://communities.intel.com/openport/blogs/server/2007/11/21/data-centre-efficiency-its-about-more-than-electrical-power which mentions "The current range is 20-25C and we do expect that to be broadened s

R: Server room temp

2008-07-30 Thread HELP_PC
and humidity not below 25% GuidoElia HELPPC _ Da: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: mercoledì 30 luglio 2008 18.46 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Server room temp "There is no doubt in my mind that a server kept in a cool, dry environment will generally last

RE: Defrag servers

2008-07-30 Thread Terry Dickson
Diskeeper -Original Message- From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Defrag servers What do you guys use to defrag your server's hard drives? I have RAID 1 and RAID 5 arrays and have used Windows Defrag

RE: Defrag servers

2008-07-30 Thread David Lum
PerfectDisk from Raxco (www.raxco.com). Centrally managed defrag. For smaller shops I just use the free tool DIRMS (www.dirms.com) and throw it in the scheduler. Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 "..remember that, in the

Re: Server room temp

2008-07-30 Thread James Kerr
If they don't have AC and those servers are in a closed room that room will get a lot hotter then the rest of the building due to the heat output of the servers. My Prolients are speced to 95 also. They will even keep running at 98, I know because its happened and not just for a few hours. You

Defrag servers

2008-07-30 Thread David Mazzaccaro
What do you guys use to defrag your server's hard drives? I have RAID 1 and RAID 5 arrays and have used Windows Defrag utility, but I am sure there is something better (and that can be scheduled to run after hours) I have an Exchange 2003 server that is showing 45% fragmented on D: (RAID 5 - also w

RE: Server room temp

2008-07-30 Thread Krishna Reddy
As others mentioned ambient temp is not server temp. We had power issues over a weekend and the AC did not power back on. When the ambient temp hit 85-90, all servers autoshutdown because the server temp was too high. Maybe you can get away with something in the 70's, but I would not even recomm

RE: Server room temp

2008-07-30 Thread Erik Goldoff
"There is no doubt in my mind that a server kept in a cool, dry environment will generally last longer ..." as long as that dry cool environment doesn't cause static discharge problems... _ From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:31 PM To: NT S

RE: Server room temp

2008-07-30 Thread David Lum
Thanks everyonefunny, I have already linked that exact page, as well as what Jacob sent, as well as Bob and Sherry's e-mails... I also recommended setting thermal shutdown temps in BIOS if possible, as well as a USB temp monitoring/notification device. They are notoriously low on money, but

RE: Server room temp

2008-07-30 Thread Derik Peek
Our Server room temp is set at 60 and it stays about 63-65 during the day. The cost of the Air running a little harder is a lot less than having to replace a server a lot sooner than expected. http://www.openxtra.co.uk/articles/recommended-server-room-temperature.php From: [EMAIL PROT

Re: Server room temp

2008-07-30 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
Your specs from server mfg should be your guideline. Whatever the ambient temp is in the room is NOT what the internal temps are on the servers, so whatever it takes for the ambient room temp to keep the internal server temps at acceptable operating ranges should be what you need to set your AC at

Re: Cisco content filtering comments needed

2008-07-30 Thread Phil Brutsche
Cisco doesn't provide content filtering with any of their firewall products, regardless of whether it's a PIX, ASA, FWSM (firewall service module for Catalyst 6500-series switches) or IOS router w/the firewall feature set (ie 85x and 87x series routers). All Cisco does is provide a way for the fir

RE: Server room temp

2008-07-30 Thread Sauvigne, Craig M
We have our server room set at 66F. If it rises above 76F, an alarm sounds and I get notified. As was mentioned, if the room is 90F, the internal temps will be above that. Also, what happens if the A/C goes out and the room temp is already at 90F? It is going to go up pretty darn quick. I h

RE: Server room temp

2008-07-30 Thread Bob Fronk
That is way too hot. Although I don't have any documentation. Just because the operating temp says 50-95, I wouldn't want to stay on the high side for long. The Liebert at one of my remote sites quit working the other day and the room went from 68 to 118 degrees within minutes. Servers shut

RE: Server room temp

2008-07-30 Thread Jacob
http://safari.ibmpressbooks.com/0130473936/ch08lev1sec2 A snippet from a "Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology" by Rob Snevely. Maybe find about 5 or 6 resources stating what the idea temp. should be. 95 degrees.wow. From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesda

R: Server room temp

2008-07-30 Thread HELP_PC
I keep my customers' server rooms at 20-22 Celsius degrees (68-71.5 F) GuidoElia HELPPC _ Da: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: mercoledì 30 luglio 2008 18.14 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: Server room temp I have someone telling me as long as their server room is b

RE: Server room temp

2008-07-30 Thread John Hornbuckle
We had this discussion internally at the start of summer vacation. As a cost-cutting plan, the intention was to turn off A/C units at all the schools over the weekends. My argument was that 95 degrees was the absolute max, but that since we didn't want to push our hardware to the max we should

RE: Server room temp

2008-07-30 Thread David Mazzaccaro
The general consensus was that if the room was at 90F, the internal temp of the equipment was MUCH too hot. Sorry, no official documentation. From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: S

Cisco content filtering comments needed

2008-07-30 Thread Thomas Mullins
Good afternoon all, Has anyone used the Cisco content filtering that is available for the 5500 series ASA Firewalls? If so, I welcome your comments. We are interested in how well the content filtering works, any reporting aspects, how well it blocks anonymous proxies and any other comments yo

Server room temp

2008-07-30 Thread David Lum
I have someone telling me as long as their server room is below 95 degrees then they're OK. They point to Dell's server specs which say their operating temperature is listed as 50 - 95deg F. A recent thread here talked about shutting down server rooms when the room becomes hot - does anyone hav

Re: Backup DHCP server

2008-07-30 Thread James Kerr
Great, thanks for the advice Ben and Andy. - Original Message - From: Andy Shook To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 11:28 AM Subject: RE: Backup DHCP server James, That's the way to do, along with your ip helpers at the L3 interface, however

RE: Automating Account Creation

2008-07-30 Thread Dennis Rogov
I found a VB script which should do the job. Thanks for the feedbacks. Dr Dennis Rogov Senior Network Analyst THE Peer GROUP an informed medical communications company 379 thornall street, 12th floor | edison, nj 08837 usa Direct: 732-205-8376 | fax: 732.321.0636 |Cell:

RE: Backup DHCP server

2008-07-30 Thread Andy Shook
James, That's the way to do, along with your ip helpers at the L3 interface, however, one question. If you split the scope in half, will each DHCP server have enough addresses to handle all the nodes on the subnet in question? If so, you're golden... Shook ___

RE: Backup DHCP server

2008-07-30 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Keep in mind that the secondary dhcp only works when the first one is offline, so if you do a 60/40 you need to make sure the 60 has enough addresses. If you run out of ip's on the primary dhcp scope and a computer requests when it will simply get denied and it will keep trying, it doesn't goto

Backup DHCP server

2008-07-30 Thread James Kerr
I would like to have a backup DHCP server for one domain on one subnet for redundancy purposes. I was thinking about having each handle half of the scope or maybe 60/40 mix. Any thoughts? James ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~

RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection

2008-07-30 Thread Joe Heaton
Wow, I came here from a school district, as a classified employee, and we got step raises there too. Each year for the first five, then at the 10, 15 and 20 year points. Joe Heaton From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 7:4

Re: Mutliple Floor building

2008-07-30 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
My desires/reasons: 1. As close to center of building and/or telco feeds as possible. 2. Away from any wet-walls (walls that feed plumbing.) 3. Not on the ground floor or top floor because of potential flooding or leaking from external environments. 4. Try to avoid windowed rooms, or anything that

Re: Symantec Endpoint Protection

2008-07-30 Thread Jon Harris
We have never gotten step increases unless you are a teacher. Jon On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Joe Heaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jon, > > > > Luckily, I'm still at the point of step increases, as this is my first > year, but there's no raises for anyone here either. > > > > Joe Heato

RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection

2008-07-30 Thread Joe Heaton
Jon, Luckily, I'm still at the point of step increases, as this is my first year, but there's no raises for anyone here either. Joe Heaton From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 1:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject

Re: Remote Desktop of Death

2008-07-30 Thread RichardMcClary
Nope! As I've said, it's only happened about 4 times total, and it does not seem to be repeatable. I'm guessing a plugged-up local DNS cache. Thanks! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 618

Re: Outlook oddity: mysterious resolution changes

2008-07-30 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Outlook is running in "Compatibility Mode". Right-click your shortcut and check out the Compatibility Tab. Disable the check box. On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Edward B. DREGER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings all, > > > I have an Outlook 2002 problem that has left me scratching my hea

Re: Symantec Endpoint Protection

2008-07-30 Thread Jon Harris
Lucky you at 30 years Florida only pays 48% of your average best 3 years as retirement with a guarantee of a 3% pay increase each year. I have less than 2 years for retirement and just hope I can hold out that long. This will be the second year in a row with no pay increase for us. Jon On Tue,

Re: Symantec Endpoint Protection

2008-07-30 Thread Jon Harris
Come on Edward, government jobs are the pits! Good luck Joe. Jon On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Ziots, Edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wows that is a seriously wacked situation, I wish you the best of luck > with that. And maybe its time to head to a new vertical, because it looks > like

Re: Automating Account Creation

2008-07-30 Thread James Rankin
I am sure this could be done quite easily by using the net user, net group and dsquery commands in some sort of batch script. You can get the username provided by set /p If I wasn't in the middle of a migration to a completely new domain, I would see what I could come up with :-( 2008/7/29 Denni