Hope everyone had a nice weekend.
I am looking for some advice from the list regarding posts on a wiki.
Apparently someone is not very happy with me (not sure why, don't even
know who) and has engaged in some character-assassination of me on a
public wiki. I don't really want to post the link
I'd email the site admin and discuss it with them.
Depending on how damaging it is, you may have a suit. The 1st Amendment only
protects the freedom of speech to such an extent. Once it crosses the line
into damaging, it ends there. If you want, send the link to me off-list and
I'll give you
I emailed you offline Jeff, hit me back and well discuss, you might have
some legal options to find out who is doing this, and get it cease and
desist. There are legal precedents for cyber bullying, that have come
down, and some pretty tough fines and sentences ( including jail time)
that have
Yeah the console is a little tough, at first I was very confused and
didn't think I was going to get it, once I figured out the power of the
XML config files and the filtering to create groups and apply configs to
them I was very pleased, plus the speed is outstanding on the console,
With SEP 11 I
Yep if there is slander, or personally defamnation ( which it looks like
there is, from what you have said) then Free Speech 1St Amendment isn't
applicable, they had the right free speech, but ultimately there words,
or postings can be used against them in a court of law, to include
lawful search
I'm a little baffled by this test. We're trying to figure out the
methodology ourselves.
Note that the top rankings include Ikaraus, BitDefender and WebWasher.
They have good engines but these three have a very high rate of false
positives.
NOD32 has outstanding detection, but in this test
I use a 2040 with the Enhanced OS. It has been rock solid and I have
better luck with support, but I have only called twice and both with
system down issues (over 3 years use and one call was my fault). Their
response was good on those issues.
Thanks,
Krishna Reddy
IT Manager
Nucomm, Inc.
I use the 2040 enhanced. It's been fine since i have been running it. No
major problems. Have had mixed results with support.
Regards,
David
- Original Message
From: Krishna Reddy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Sent: Monday,
We have a bunch of Sonicwalls out there and are happy with them. We
have mostly 2040s at sites. We have one 4060. The standard OS is super
easy to manage. The enhanced OS takes a little time to get.
Bill
Krishna Reddy wrote:
I use a 2040 with the Enhanced OS. It has been rock solid and I
CO got a new toy, blah blah... You know the story :)
So, IIUC you either email yourself the cert or use the enterprise config util?
I cant get the device here, so how the h_ll does he email it to himself when it
wont get email without the cert? Why would I make him email it to himself if
email
Ive used this method in the past
https://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/01/28/making_a_root_cert_c
ab_file.aspx
From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 8:39 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: MS CA's and iPhones
CO got a new toy,
Supposedly there is no file explorer for him to browse?
Never used one but I just forced him to return it to the office so I could the
Ent Config Util...
jlc
From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:52 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: MS CA's
I will add one little thing:
The samples used in this test where collected over many many months.
Some go back to earlier December last year. If they scanned these
samples when they were collected, we'd certainly show terrible results,
since they would have likely been using an earlier beta of
It is better to get a fully trusted cert.
Our iPhones work well with our Go Daddy Cert on the Exchange Server
Cheers
GRaeme
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Supposedly there is no file explorer for him to browse?
Never used one but I just forced
Install ActiveSync
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/help/synchronize/device-synch.m
spx
Then you can cable up!
From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 8:56 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: MS CA's and iPhones
Supposedly
What's weird here, is that I have a cert created from my Active
Directory CA, so obviously not a trusted cert.
The iPhone worked with it great, with no special config or cert import.
And I checked, it's using SSL.
Does the iPhone trust all certs by default?
Sam
U, I believe activesync desktop wont work with an iphone, I think you have
to sync that **($ with itunes.
-troy
-Original Message-
From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:20 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: MS CA's and iPhones
I heard reports of this, looks like Apple may have botched the SSL concept
slightly in lieu of an easier user experience, lol.
If this is the case, I wouldn't doubt it, but my CO says he tried to do it w/o
the internal cert and it puked on an SSL error?
jlc
From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL
I cant believe I missed the iPhone part.
Im going to bed.
-Original Message-
From: Troy Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:23 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: MS CA's and iPhones
U, I believe activesync desktop wont work with an iphone, I think
My Setup
My Documents redirected to server \\server\share\UserName\mydocs Folder
synchronization is turned on for laptops.
I'm new to working with Offline Files. I have a user that works remotely
and came into our home office today. Synced his offline files and poof
All files are gone
I've seen a number of issues with them honestly. Performance issues aside...
1) Their support is absolutely useless. If your production S500 goes down
on a Saturday morning, you may not get it back up until Monday as they do not
employ Tier 3 support on the weekends.
2) The filer
I've had the same positive experience with interoperability. Their support can
be less than exceptional though.
Thanks,
Jeremy Phillips
-Original Message-
From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 4:26 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re:
Restore the server folder from backups or retrieve from shadow copied
versions. This meets your anyway requirement.
2GB limit shouldn't cause this behavior. Versions of Window (client-side)
might be useful information to somebody as Vista and XP do offline files
very differently.
Carl
Windows XP SP2.
Restoring the server is not going to help me out b/c they were changes made
in between syncs. The changes would only have been in the offline files of
the Windows XP Laptop.
I'll looking offline files reading materials to try and understand this
more.
Matt
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008
Errr, the rebooting part sold me :) Wow...
From: Jeremy Phillips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use
I've seen a number of issues with them honestly. Performance issues aside...
1) Their
I have always been a Watchguard guy myself but I am configuring my first
Sonicwall at this very moment and so far so good, though I am not even close to
being done. The sonicwall is a 2040 and while it is different from Watchguard,
it hasn't been that difficult to setup it seems pretty straight
The limit is a percentage of his hardrive space by default I believe.
Make sure the User is at Sp3 and he has KB944898 installed. This DOES help
with this issue.. Ive had it before.
From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 11:57 AM
To: NT System Admin
Sorry, I mis-read, thought newer files on server were deleted by the
syncing.
Carl
From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 1:06 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Offline Files
Windows XP SP2.
Restoring the server is not going to help
List,
Friend of mine is implementing ESX 3.5 on a filer and he is asking me if he
should follow NetApp's advice on separating out the swap files on a different
LUN to better manage snapshots. Now, I'm not a NetApp dude but I don't by
this for the following reasons:
1. Another layer of
I spoke too soon. It seems I will have to RMA this unit as it keeps becoming
unresponsive requiring a hard reboot to get it back again. Why me man!! I
already registered the darn thing already!
- Original Message -
From: James Kerr
To: NT System Admin Issues
Sent: Monday,
Anyone jumped aboard the 2008 AD already? Currently I have three domain
controllers. I'm planning on demoting a DC, removing it from the domain,
wiping the box, installing 2008, then run the necessary adpreps... anything
else to take into consideration? I can keep the other two domain
Netapp didn't mean OS swap :)
They aren't aware of what OS is inside of your vm's or if it has a swap. BTW,
if the swap disappears under windows it will BSOD for sure.
They were referring to the host swap, heh...
jlc
From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008
Did our seven DC's over the course of a month. I started the same way you are
going to, demote/remove one and bring it up. It was a non-event, while I like
many of the things in 2008 it feels more like a feature pack than an new server
OS. The only issue we had were some WINS oddities with our
So no issues leaving the 03 DC's running alongside the 08 DC?
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Kennedy, Jim
[EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Did our seven DC's over the course of a month. I started the same way you
are going to, demote/remove one and bring it up. It was a non-event, while I
like many
None, and there was a good 30 days between the first 2008 DC and the last 2003
DC.
From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 2:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Win 2008 domain
So no issues leaving the 03 DC's running alongside the 08 DC?
On Mon, Aug
Here is an excerpt from page 52 of NetApp's TR3428 version 4.1 (NetApp
and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Storage Best Practices) from July
2008. This makes me think they are talking about the OS's swap as well
as the host ESX.
When you are implementing either NetApp Snapshot copies or
i think what you are getting at is the swapfile policy for virtual
machines. The default is in the same directory as the virtual machines. The
second option is to store the
swapfile in a datstore specified by host. A big black warning tells you
that a host specified datastore may degrade vmotion
Well I'm thinking of leaving the 03 Dc's for more than a month...probably a
year or so before I go fully 2008.
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Kennedy, Jim
[EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
None, and there was a good 30 days between the first 2008 DC and the last
2003 DC.
*From:* Steve Ens
None for me so far. I introduced our first 08 DC to the domain about a month
ago. All my other DCs are 03. No troubles.
John Hornbuckle
MIS Department
Taylor County School District
318 North Clark Street
Perry, FL 32347
www.taylor.k12.fl.ushttp://www.taylor.k12.fl.us
From: Steve Ens
Ok, so The Enterprise Deployment Config:
You install an app which sets up a webserver to connect to (lame). I assume
this is because they only developed one application and ported it to windows.
You create a config, then either email it out, or export it to be downloaded by
safari. It can
Anyone have any invites that they would like to share for GrandCentral
(www.grandcentral.com)
CAR
Office: 305-443-0331 xt. 1202
Mobile: 786-412-1746
Skype: 305-851-2606
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AIM: cramosMIA
MSN: [EMAIL
Top of their page.
DISCLAIMER: These detection rates represent the TRUE POSITIVE detection
rates of these various antivirus tools on the limited corpus of malware
binaries captures by our honeynet. The results do not take into
consideration the false positive rate of a given tool, and thus a
I echo the S500 comments, we have two of them. We do Full Disk
Replication to a DR site. The gui is slow, tends to crash. The console
is totally not supported, but when we do finally get a Tier 3 guy we can
understand they do it all through the console anyway... I see why its
unsupported
Ask about watchdog reboots. It took awhile for us to get confirmation of what
was causing the reboots in the first place.
Thanks,
Jeremy Phillips
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:51 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx
If this is a dell laptop, remove the Dell Trust Suite
software(Embassy...). We had the exact same issue last week with a
completely new network, reset perms on folders, and it was hit or miss.
Eventually though they would do work at home, come in to sync and could
not poof files go bye bye...
While safe computing says to split off your schema master while doing the
upgrade, I've not seen it be an issue anywhere, except folks that had the
old SFU schema changes and hadn't already applied the R2 schema fixes. Truly
a non-issue.
You can run a domain with 2000, 2003, and 2008 DCs and
BTW I should also mention this was happening on 10 Dell laptops,
D830C's. No word from Dell yet as to what the issue maybe, but laptops
we purchased 3 weeks ago don't have the issue but this is a newer
version of the Embassy Trust suite software. I also for tests rebuilt
the system from the
Anyone having any issues with burning images that contain XP SP3? We're
running version 11.01 of the Ghost client.
Joe Heaton
AISA
Employment Training Panel
1100 J Street, 4th Floor
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 327-5276
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that
What do you mean burning, writing out to a dvd when booted off the dos or pe
version?
jlc
From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 2:01 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Ghost question
Anyone having any issues with burning images that contain XP SP3? We're
Let us know where you would like a number in the form below and we
will invite you as soon as the service is publicly available.
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Cesare' A. Ramos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone have any invites that they would like to share for GrandCentral
The way we do it is to boot the PC we're going to burn to, install the
Ghost client, and burn through the Ghost Console.
Joe Heaton
-Original Message-
From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 1:07 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Ghost
You can do the same thing with Windows Mobile devices using cabinet files. The
cabinet file can contain everything but their username and password, including
any self generated certificate. Granted it isn't well known, but I have had it
documented for a while.
Settings:
Burn == dump image?
Odd choice of lingo, but no issues with SP3 here, but I don't use the
installable client. Just *casts with Server and console app.
jlc
-Original Message-
From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 2:12 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Darn,
I never looked at cabs even though I knew they existed, what a shame!
Another link from your site (rpc/http) I'll be keeping:)
Thanks!
jlc
From: Simon Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 2:35 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: MS CA's and iPhones
You
I have some users who connect from home using a VPN, and then use Remote
Desktop to connect to a Terminal Server. The problem they are having is
the Remote Desktop session disconnects after 5-20 minutes, and then they
can't reconnect for about 30 minutes.
Is there a GP setting that could be
Sorry, I've never heard it called dump image. I use burn to indicate
that I'm transferring the image from the server to a PC/laptop, thus
burning the image into the machine's hard drive... :)
Joe Heaton
-Original Message-
From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday,
I think the Ghost Cast Server calls them dump and load operations where:
Dump = pull image from client to .gho file on server
Load = push image from server (.gho image) to client
- Andy O.
-Original Message-
From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 4:18
I use DFolder already. Unfortunately, most of these 3rd party aps run under
the context of the user logged in, and since the admin is denied, I cant see
the size of the folder.
I need a system level utility I think, if such a thing exist.
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a
Anyone know why Terminal Services would give out Temporary per device
licenses instead of paid-for per user licenses? Is there somewhere in
the configuration that I need to tell it to use per user, or do we need
to go back and purchase per device? We're using them in conjunction
with Citrix
Has anyone tried solutions from Compellent? http://www.compellent.com/
Any thoughts/comments?
Matt
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:51 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: iSCSI SAN for esx and general use
I echo the S500
Its in the config
On 8/25/08, Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone know why Terminal Services would give out Temporary per device
licenses instead of paid-for per user licenses? Is there somewhere in
the configuration that I need to tell it to use per user, or do we need
to go back
Someone suggested windirstat - I second that.
However, there's also a console utility from long ago called
diruse.exe, from one of the older server RK's. It's pretty dang handy.
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way for me to list the folder sizes of
Thank you for that info, this tool made my day...(was pretty bad until
this tool was mentioned)
Thomas
-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 5:10 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: home Dir size question
Someone suggested
I went through all of the emails, and didn't see much on this ... what
A/V solutions work OK with distributed clients, meaning someone who's
never been inside the firewall or VPN'd so that Group Policy could
install it?
We have a lot of laptops that never set foot in our office, and I'd like
to
Terminal Server Licensing Config?
Joe Heaton
-Original Message-
From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 2:48 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Terminal Server licensing question
Its in the config
On 8/25/08, Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good question! I just sent this exact same question into sunbelts
support page this morning. Were in the same boat. Our laptop users
only connect to our network a few times a year but we still provide
remote support. We need an antivirus product that will check in with
us every time its
Vipre\CSE has the option to get update from the Internet if internal servers
are not availble. Works very well...
Shook
From: Matt Plahtinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 7:15 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Corporate
Does anyone here have recommendations for smartboard/interactive
whiteboards, particularly for young children? Our teachers use
Bluetooth tablets for the majority of their stuff but the administration
is wanting something like this for the smaller children to interact with
the computer/projector
I think yes, but I'm going to make sure and ask the lead dev !!
Stu
-Original Message-
From: Ralph Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 7:36 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Corporate antivirus recommendation - for external laptops
You mean you would
Another option maybe - if the AV product can be forced to check in
though a script(can VIPRE?), and you can set up a VPN with something
like OpenVPN or Cisco VPN client command line, you could create a script
to run once a day that connects the VPN, forces the AV to check in, then
disconnects the
What would be cool would be an AV agent that could generate an email
with it's data - could be encrypted - and send it to an email account
on your domain that is checked by the AV server. The server then reads
the email, updates the database and deletes the email. No open ports on
the firewall,
That would be sweet..Umm very sweet indeed.. Talk about a simplified
rock solid compliance tool for remote offices and at home/on the road
employees.
-Original Message-
From: Ralph Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 8:59 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject:
Many years ago --at least 5 -- a Michael in this group provided a custom web
page where one could search in Google, Google groups, EventID etc etc. by
selecting a radio button for them.
I would very much like to get code of such a webpage, especially since
search box in Google bar often
How about https, with both client and server certificates required?
Much simpler.
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Ralph Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What would be cool would be an AV agent that could generate an email
with it's data - could be encrypted - and send it to an email account
on
Um... Too tight of controls? This is an NT Admin list, we will share
many 'system commands'...
-Original Message-
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 11:19 PM
To: Sam Cayze
Subject: Re: RE: MS Outlook signature control
Sorry, your message was not sent out to 'exchangelist'
because the first
Anyway, Ajay Kulsh, read my response below. Hope it helps, Sam
-Original Message-
From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 11:21 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: FW: RE: MS Outlook signature control
Um... Too tight of controls? This is an NT Admin
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