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
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
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,
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 head:
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
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
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 Heaton
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
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
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
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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
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
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
Great, thanks for the advice Ben and Andy.
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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,
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
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:
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
I keep my customers' server rooms at 20-22 Celsius degrees (68-71.5 F)
GuidoElia
HELPPC
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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
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:
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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...
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From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:31 PM
To: NT
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
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
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.
PerfectDisk from Raxco (www.raxco.comhttp://www.raxco.com). Centrally managed
defrag.
For smaller shops I just use the free tool DIRMS
(www.dirms.comhttp://www.dirms.com) and throw it in the scheduler.
Dave Lum - Systems Engineer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025
..remember that, in the
Diskeeper
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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
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
+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
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
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
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From: Bob Fronk
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. (Some
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]mailto:[EMAIL
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
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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
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From: David L Herrick
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
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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*
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*Da:* Erik
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,
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 company*
379
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 talked
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
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
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
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 talked
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
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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
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
What happened with Daemon tools?
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From: Ara Avvali [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 2:51 PM
Subject: Mount ISO on server
Hello everyone,
What application would you recommend for
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).
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
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-Original Message-
From: Ara Avvali
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]
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From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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:
FYI - I got the following earlier today:
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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
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
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
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
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
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:
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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
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 (ATT) name servers.
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
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
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
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
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.
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,
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
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 -
+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 doubt
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