RE: new computers

2008-09-18 Thread Joe Heaton
That's what I was thinking. Thanks Salvador. Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 12:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: new computers Underscored are not valid in DNS names. No FQDN for you.

Re: new computers

2008-09-18 Thread Jonathan Link
DNS lookups. Underscores are not valid in DNS names. On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second question. Anyone know what could break using underscores in PC naming? i.e. loc_pcname Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche

RE: new computers

2008-09-18 Thread Chinnery, Paul
It'll work, though. I don't want to get into the reasons or details why they still have an underscore as it's not germaine to the question. -Original Message- From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 3:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: new computers

2008-09-18 Thread Michael . Leone
Salvador Manzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/18/2008 03:18:24 PM: Underscored are not valid in DNS names. No FQDN for you. I have a few older servers with _ in the names. They work fine in DNS. Internally, of course. Win2K DNS, AD-integrated ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that

RE: new computers

2008-09-18 Thread Michael B. Smith
Actually, they are allowed in Windows DNS and BIND since 8.4 (at least) has had an option to support them. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange

Re: new computers

2008-09-18 Thread Michael . Leone
Jonathan Link [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/18/2008 03:25:05 PM: DNS lookups. Underscores are not valid in DNS names. But they will work .. Z:\nslookup admin_nt9 Server: admnwdc001.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov Address: 10.64.7.53 Name:admin_nt9.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov Address: 10.64.13.3 In

RE: GPO settings for power management?

2008-09-18 Thread David Mazzaccaro
Awesome! Thank you. From: Ralph Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 11:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: GPO settings for power management? Here is a link I saved a while ago but never followed up on. It is EZ GPO

RE: CREATING NEW 2K3 SERVER PROBLEM WITH LOADING FROM FLOPPY DR

2008-09-18 Thread Terry Dickson
Check your Bios again. Just because it recognizes the Drive in the Bios you will still need to change the appropriate setting in the Bios to allow it to use the USB Floppy. At least that is what we have had to do on some of ours. -Original Message- From: Murray Freeman

RE: CREATING NEW 2K3 SERVER PROBLEM WITH LOADING FROM FLOPPY DR

2008-09-18 Thread Mike Gill
Nlite does too much mojo. It's like doing html with frontpage. Mass storage drivers are pretty easy to integrate manually. If you need any help Murry email me offlist. -- Mike Gill From: MarvinC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 12:24 PM To: NT System Admin

RE: CREATING NEW 2K3 SERVER PROBLEM WITH LOADING FROM FLOPPY DR

2008-09-18 Thread Murray Freeman
Well, we have spent a lot of time on this, but we finally solved it, and I thought I'd share this with everyone. When we originally created the floppy disk with the drivers, we did it on a workstation with a standard floppy disk drive interface. We would then attach a USB floppy disk drive that we

Re: just plain old copying CDs

2008-09-18 Thread Lenny Bensman
UltraISO does a good job as well... On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Holstrom, Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My apologies, CloneCd is still out there, sold by slysoft. Google is my friend, Google is my friend… *From:* Silvio L. Nisgoski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Thursday,

RE: Remote Desktop Users

2008-09-18 Thread David Lum
Thanks everyone for your responses, this is EXACTLY what I was looking for! Dave From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 7:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote Desktop Users Restricted Groups Cheers Ken From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: logging deleted files

2008-09-18 Thread NTSysAdmin
If it's a DC then you should have both Domain Controller Security Policy and Domain Security Policy in Admin Tools, if not, it's not your DC. S From: Paul Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 3:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: logging deleted files

RE: logging deleted files

2008-09-18 Thread James Winzenz
Check the following Group Policy Objects to see if you have auditing enabled: 1. Default Domain Controllers Policy 2. Default Server Policy 3. Default Computer Policy Do you have auditing enabled for the Default Domain Policy? Which specific GPO do you have this setting

MS SQL Server Failover/Replication scenarios

2008-09-18 Thread Jonathan Link
We have a client that handles lots of data. I can't be more descriptive of that because of the environment we're in. I need a good primer on MS SQL Server failover and replication. Right now, their vendor is using log shipping to replicate data between their main site and their DR site. My

RE: new computers

2008-09-18 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
I do something similar, but I simply changed where new computers are put by default. My computers now go to an OU with GPOs applied by default instead of going to Computers, after that they can be further moved if necessary to receive additional GPOs and/or software which I install via SCE. The

RE: new computers

2008-09-18 Thread John Cook
Interesting, how do you change that? I really never thought about doing it that way since we do it so rarely. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE,

RE: logging deleted files

2008-09-18 Thread Paul Everett
I don't know if that would be a nightmare or a revelation to find out that my DC wasn't my DC, but alas it is. It just doesn't show either of the Domain Security Policy's in Admin Tools. I did however find the Domain Controller Security Policy in the GP of the Domain Controllers in Active

Continued Printer Driver Corruption

2008-09-18 Thread Mike Gill
We have an HP9065 MFP. I have the Postscript and PCL driver installed on our Win2K3 server and we've been using this printer for more than a couple years this way. Recently, when using the PS driver, you can't select Printer Preferences or the application (all of them) simply bombs out and

RE: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3

2008-09-18 Thread Michael B. Smith
I admit that my experience using WDS (Windows Deployment Services) with XP is limited. However, it is a constant that you can use an XML file for both instead of sysprep.inf and that winpe can inject drivers along the way. I've always used vista as my host, not winpe, so I'm not familiar with

RE: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3

2008-09-18 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Point I was trying to make was ImageX is merely an imaging application with the feature that it can mount a wim such that you can modify it later. BDD, SIM, WDS and all that jazz can drop in files that extend the functionality of a wim image. All I was saying was ImageX doesn't do the driver

RE: logging deleted files

2008-09-18 Thread James Winzenz
You shouldn't have to wait for the server to reboot for the GPO to be updated - if you want, you can force the group policy settings to be refreshed sooner than the default group policy refresh interval. Thanks, James Winzenz Infrastructure Engineer - Security Pulte Homes Information

Cached Credentials?

2008-09-18 Thread Roger Wright
Any utility available to be able to view or modify cached credentials on a PC to other network or users' resources? Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts

RE: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3

2008-09-18 Thread Michael B. Smith
Oh! Yessiree bob. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,

ESET Rant // ESET == The New CA

2008-09-18 Thread Joseph L. Casale
So, after the bad dat from ESET tried to ruin my life, today all my DVR systems stopped working. Today's dat decided the exe is probably a variant of some genetic virus. What a farking POS! They want to ruin my life, I am sure... jlc Ps. And no one would return my support messages since last

RE: ESET Rant // ESET == The New CA

2008-09-18 Thread Stefan Jafs
I'm also running ESET but have not had any problems! __ Stefan Jafs From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: September-18-08 17:49 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: ESET Rant // ESET == The New CA So, after the bad dat

RE: logging deleted files

2008-09-18 Thread Paul Everett
Thanks, it refreshed the policy already without the reboot. Looks like have what I need now. I appreciate the guidance. Paul From: James Winzenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 5:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE:

RE: ESET Rant // ESET == The New CA

2008-09-18 Thread Joseph L. Casale
When the bad dat got pushed out lastweek (and trust me, according to the forums, many were effected) there wasn't a trace of issues in the console. Today when it blew out my DVR's, there was not a trace in the console for any of the clients. All the clients were updating regularly and connecting

RE: ESET Rant // ESET == The New CA

2008-09-18 Thread Joseph L. Casale
ROTFLMAO, http://www.wilderssecurity.com/ is down. I wonder why :) From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 4:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ESET Rant // ESET == The New CA When the bad dat got pushed out lastweek (and trust me, according

RE: new computers

2008-09-18 Thread David Lum
Wouldn't applying said GPO's at the domain root accomplish the same thing? Having said that I like your idea much better.. Dave -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 1:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: new

Re: SNMP event server

2008-09-18 Thread Kurt Buff
While it's name implies that it only does something else, I beleive the Kiwisoft syslog server is capable of receiving SNMP traps. It also can parse received data with vbscript/jscript: http://www.kiwisyslog.com/kiwi-syslog-daemon-features-and-benefits/ On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Marc

Re: new computers

2008-09-18 Thread Kurt Buff
My desktop guys (and all of IT, actually) are admins on all of the desktops, but not domain admins, so I've delegated an OU for them to put the PCs into. I've written a little script that joins the machine to the domain and makes sure it goes into the correct OU at the same time. It also makes

Re: ESET Rant // ESET == The New CA

2008-09-18 Thread Durf
Nothing against Sunbelt, but try Kaspersky - we've been demoing it for the last few weeks at my office, and it seems very nice, flexible, well-designed, and has good management. Plus the engine and defs are fairly widely used in 3rd party products (GFI, etc), and I have yet to hear of their

RE: ESET Rant // ESET == The New CA

2008-09-18 Thread gsweers
Sorry we installed Kapersky and tried it in several environments. It does the job, but we saw a performance decrease across the board whether on XP, Vista or Server. Not bad enough to not use the pc, but a slowdown none the less. Vipre has had virtually zero impact in the dozen environments we

RE: SNMP event server

2008-09-18 Thread Kennedy, Jim
In addition to that, the paid verions (real cheap) can drop it into SQL or Access for reporting. From: Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 6:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SNMP event server While it's name

RE: new computers

2008-09-18 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Yes it would, but then you have to mess with blocking and filtering in some cases. Auto moving them to their own OU works best for us. From: David Lum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 6:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: new

RE: new computers

2008-09-18 Thread Ken Schaefer
Please note the following issue from 2002: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=319182 IE will not accept cookies from servers with invalid host names (e.g. they contain an underscore). So, you can use these names in the DNS, but if you are running a webserver at that address, you may have issues

NAV 2009 incredibly light

2008-09-18 Thread HELP_PC
Hoping catching malware will work as well, I installed NAV 2009 on several standalone Xp or Vista machines and I was really impressed by the no weight of the software. Also the install was not as usual Symantec . Quich and smooth. ?? GuidoElia HELPPC ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security

R: ESET Rant // ESET == The New CA

2008-09-18 Thread HELP_PC
Also Avira should be taken in consideration GuidoElia HELPPC _ Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: venerdì 19 settembre 2008 3.42 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: ESET Rant // ESET == The New CA Sorry we installed Kapersky and tried it in several

RE: NAV 2009 incredibly light

2008-09-18 Thread Sam Cayze
Interesting... Consumer or corporate edition? From: HELP_PC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 11:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: NAV 2009 incredibly light Hoping catching malware will work as well, I installed NAV 2009

R: NAV 2009 incredibly light

2008-09-18 Thread HELP_PC
NAV 2009 is consumer GuidoElia HELPPC _ Da: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: venerdì 19 settembre 2008 7.21 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: NAV 2009 incredibly light Interesting... Consumer or corporate edition? _ From: HELP_PC [mailto:[EMAIL

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