Re: Symantec NetBackup vs Iron Mountain's Connected Backup/PC

2008-10-03 Thread Hitesh Wadhwani
NetBackup does offer similar deduplication features as the Iron Mountain solution. Has anyone here compared the two products or used either? Just looking to know about your feedback 2008/10/3 Benjamin Zachary - Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] Haha, actually I thought the netbackup was decent as a

Re: Symantec NetBackup vs Iron Mountain's Connected Backup/PC

2008-10-03 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Well, my problem is with the company itself; and what they do to perfectly good pieces of software over time. In that respect I no longer consider them trustworthy. But, I know you've heard this all before. On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Benjamin Zachary - Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Haha,

Virtual Center query

2008-10-03 Thread James Rankin
Does anybody have any idea why sometimes some of my ESX servers show as not responding in VirtualCenter, and the guests running on it show as disconnected? The guests themselves are still up and running fine, but they won't respond to VirtualCenter commands (all the options are greyed out). The

RE: Virtual Center query

2008-10-03 Thread NTSysAdmin
What version of ESX.. Quick fix is to restart the management service on the esx server. S From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 6:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Virtual Center query Does anybody have any idea why sometimes some of my ESX

Re: Virtual Center query

2008-10-03 Thread James Rankin
ESX 3.5. Tried *service mgmt-vmware restart* and made no difference. 2008/10/3 NTSysAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] What version of ESX.. Quick fix is to restart the management service on the esx server. S *From:* James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Friday, October 03, 2008

RE: Virtual Center query

2008-10-03 Thread Philip Lindsey
Maybe the host is running low on resources? From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 7:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Virtual Center query ESX 3.5. Tried service mgmt-vmware restart and made no difference. 2008/10/3 NTSysAdmin [EMAIL

RE: Virtual Center query

2008-10-03 Thread NTSysAdmin
Try: 1. Log in to the ESX Server service console as root. 2. Type service vmware-vpxa stop and press Enter. 3. Type /opt/vmware/vpxa/vpx/init_vpxa.sh and press Enter S From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 8:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: Virtual Center query

2008-10-03 Thread Greg Mulholland
What versions are you running.. I have seen this when the host agent dies. I think it was a 3.02 box from memory i think i had to kill the vpxa service and restart it from within the host (using ssh). I think there was a kb article about it, but i cant remember where right now I'd be

Re: Virtual Center query

2008-10-03 Thread James Rankin
Bingo! VPXA appears to be the issue. Thanks very much guys 2008/10/3 NTSysAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try: 1. Log in to the ESX Server service console as root. 2. Type service vmware-vpxa stop and press Enter. 3. Type /opt/vmware/vpxa/vpx/init_vpxa.sh and press Enter S *From:*

Re: Good text editor

2008-10-03 Thread Joe Fox
+1 for vim Joe Fox Systems/Network Administrator Mobile# (716) 846-9308 http://www.linkedin.com/in/josephfoxjr On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Stu Sjouwerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Use UltraEdit all day... Stu -- *From:* mqcarp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cisco ASA with bad console port?

2008-10-03 Thread Jon Harris
I just had this issue yesterday and could not get putty to work. I switched over to a virtual XP box with hyperterm running and it came right up. YMMV, but give that a try. Jon On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Andy Shook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope no idea what is happening config-wise, so

RE: Off most blacklists, now looking for hardware firewall

2008-10-03 Thread Andy Ognenoff
I guess we're lucky then...I've never experienced a functional issue with any of our SonicWall products. The comment about support, however, I can definitely concur with. Late with responses and all English-as-a-second-language techs. - Andy O. -Original Message- From: Erik Goldoff

RE: SysInternals Updates

2008-10-03 Thread Ziots, Edward
Watch when I hit that Swallow with a Baseball Bat at 40-50mph,. and you wont be able to recognize what it is afterwards :) Happy FRIDAY! Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 -Original Message- From: Michael B.

RE: IT Conferences left this year??

2008-10-03 Thread Ziots, Edward
SANS, Wish I could go, love to do the hacking track with Skoudis which I hear was killer. Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 From: John Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: SysInternals Updates

2008-10-03 Thread Ziots, Edward
I agree it be way stupid of M$ to not let Marc Publish and update the tools accordingly, hell even M$ Support was using these tools to solve problems, before Wininternals was bought by M$ Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone:

RE: SysInternals Updates

2008-10-03 Thread Ziots, Edward
Dam its Killer, running it now... Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 5:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: SysInternals Updates

2008-10-03 Thread James Rankin
Happy Friday indeed, and 20 mins till it's time to hit the pub for a few beers. Woo-hoo! 2008/10/3 Ziots, Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Watch when I hit that Swallow with a Baseball Bat at 40-50mph,. and you wont be able to recognize what it is afterwards :) Happy FRIDAY! Z Edward E. Ziots

Re: Off most blacklists, now looking for hardware firewall

2008-10-03 Thread Phil Brutsche
I guess we're lucky to... the only time I've needed their support is when a unit has truly gone bad... a very very rare occurance. We have a dozen TZ 170s in service... Andy Ognenoff wrote: I guess we're lucky then...I've never experienced a functional issue with any of our SonicWall products.

Re: SysInternals Updates

2008-10-03 Thread Jon Harris
20 minutes, I have been on OT for the last hour or two. Jon On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:48 AM, James Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Happy Friday indeed, and 20 mins till it's time to hit the pub for a few beers. Woo-hoo! 2008/10/3 Ziots, Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Watch when I hit that

RE: Virtual Center query

2008-10-03 Thread Webb, Brian (Corp)
We saw this on 3.5 U1 - since we updated to U2 we haven't seen this issue. VPXA was the problem in our case as well. -Brian From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 6:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Virtual

RE: HP printer reset.

2008-10-03 Thread Glen Johnson
Thanks all for the suggestions. Someone sent me the instruction off list and the printer has been reset. Steps were. Hold Cancel and Select while powering on. While display is blank and 3 lights on, release buttons. Press and release cancel. Press and release select. Display shows NVRAM INIT and

Re: Off most blacklists, now looking for hardware firewall

2008-10-03 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 2 Oct 2008 at 15:05, Holstrom, Don wrote: Many thanks to this list. Sent me in the right direction, right away. I truly wish I could return the favor, but as a Master of None... I would like to set up a hardware firewall outside of my router and its firewall. I'd like to keep the cost

Perform an Offline Files Sync from command line?

2008-10-03 Thread Michael . Leone
Anybody know how to do an Offline Files Cache Synchronization from a command line? Or - via a program? What I want to do: Run a script to remotely sync a user. Remotely add reg key to delete Offline Folders cache: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\NetCache]

RE: Perform an Offline Files Sync from command line?

2008-10-03 Thread René de Haas
Cscmd doesn't do exactly what you want, but maybe it helps. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884739 Hth René From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 5:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Perform an Offline Files Sync from command line?

RegEX

2008-10-03 Thread Mike French
Anybody use a Regex (prce) builder for windows? I've not played with Regex much (doing my leg work on the context) and would like to find a utility that would give me some debugging output and correct syntax on expressions. I played with a few but, I'm such a noob that I don't know if I'm looking

RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! a random Friday Q

2008-10-03 Thread David Lum
Perhaps not immediately, but surely many of you remember when Novell had a seemingly untouchable hold on the networking OS market? Dead horse Q of the week: If Microsoft suddenly made several poor choices and was about to go under, would the government bail it out? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER

RE: Perform an Offline Files Sync from command line?

2008-10-03 Thread Michael . Leone
René de Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/03/2008 11:33:42 AM: Cscmd doesn?t do exactly what you want, but maybe it helps. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884739 Yeah, I saw that (after posting here). However, I still have v1 of this tool, which only has limited options. I'm looking at the

RE: Perform an Offline Files Sync from command line?

2008-10-03 Thread Michael . Leone
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/03/2008 11:46:42 AM: René de Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/03/2008 11:33:42 AM: Cscmd doesn?t do exactly what you want, but maybe it helps. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884739 Yeah, I saw that (after posting here). However, I still have v1 of

RE: RegEX

2008-10-03 Thread Andy Ognenoff
I've been using RegExBuddy to learn and to maintain a library of useful expressions. It comes with a standard set of expressions that are pretty useful too. It's got a really nice explain function that tells you what each part of the expression you're building does. http://www.regexbuddy.com/ -

RE: SysInternals Updates

2008-10-03 Thread Ziots, Edward
It must be nice being in Europe, its always 5:00 O clock there :-) Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October

RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! a random Friday Q

2008-10-03 Thread RichardMcClary
Don't see why... The government has made several poor choices and is about to go under, and what has Microsoft done to bail them out? (Just kidding, sort-of...) -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36,

RE: Virtual Center query

2008-10-03 Thread Ziots, Edward
There is a bug in SP2 on the Virtual Center, we have posted on with adding VMDK disks to other hosts for the sole purpose of extending them with Disk utilities, it gives an error in the console, if the adapter type ( BUSLOGIC or LSILOGIC is not correct in the VMDK file itself, if it says LEGACY,

RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! a random Friday Q

2008-10-03 Thread Christopher J. Bosak
Still worth a chuckle. The Government might try to bail out Microsoft if anything like that happened to them. They would still want their tech support. Christopher J. Bosak Vector Company c. 847.603.4673 [EMAIL PROTECTED] You need to install an RTFM Interface, due to an LBNC issue. - B.O.F.H.

RE: RegEX

2008-10-03 Thread Mike French
Thanks Andy, Looks like the road to Regex will be a little easier; I'm still doing some digging. Looks like a lot to learn but, once I get my brain wrapped around this, it might not be too bad. -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03,

Re: RegEX

2008-10-03 Thread Steven Peck
I am a fan of Regex Buddy. http://www.regexbuddy.com/ I used it when we had to build expressions for some telephony integration with LCS and a co-worker loved it for building expressions for testing incoming/outgoing email for PHI information to match HIPAA requirements. Steven On Fri, Oct 3,

Re: Good text editor

2008-10-03 Thread Kurt Buff
Bonus - master either one, and you can work in both Windows and *nix. VI is available by default on pretty much all platforms that are not Windows. On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 6:26 AM, Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VI or emacs. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange

Re: RegEX

2008-10-03 Thread Kurt Buff
http://www.bookpool.com/sm/0596528124 On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Mike French [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody use a Regex (prce) builder for windows? I've not played with Regex much (doing my leg work on the context) and would like to find a utility that would give me some debugging

TechNet Down?

2008-10-03 Thread Stefan Jafs
Is TechNet down or is it just me? Microsoft TechNet Help javascript:DoHelp('plehdievil','','1033','DH_PP,1033','','600','format =b1'); Windows Live ID Works with MSN, Office Live, and Microsoft Passport sites The Windows Live Network is unavailable from this site for one

RE: RegEX

2008-10-03 Thread Mike French
That's on my list - Thanks Kurt! -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 12:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RegEX http://www.bookpool.com/sm/0596528124 On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Mike French [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

RE: TechNet Down?

2008-10-03 Thread Stefan Jafs
Ok, it's working now! ___ Stefan Jafs From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 1:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: TechNet Down? Is TechNet down or is it just me? Microsoft TechNet Help

RE: TechNet Down?

2008-10-03 Thread Holstrom, Don
This has been happening regularly to me too... From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 1:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: TechNet Down? Ok, it's working now! ___ Stefan Jafs From: Stefan Jafs

RE: TechNet Down?

2008-10-03 Thread Rod Trent
I suspect it's a Live ID problem and not a TechNet problem. I see that regularly. From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 2:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: TechNet Down? makes you wonder if they just applied a service pack or security

RE: TechNet Down?

2008-10-03 Thread Erik Goldoff
makes you wonder if they just applied a service pack or security patch EG _ From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 2:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: TechNet Down? This has been happening regularly to me too… From: Stefan

RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! a random Friday Q

2008-10-03 Thread Chris Alliey
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Triple boot

2008-10-03 Thread David Mazzaccaro
I would like to be able to triple boot my machine: Windows XP Professional Windows Vista Ultimate Ubuntu (latest version) What is the best way to do this? My hard drive is 80GB I assume Gparted is the best utility to create the the partions - and start from there? Any direction to get me

RE: Triple boot

2008-10-03 Thread John Cook
Run HyperV and virtualize them all! 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, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+ From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Triple boot

2008-10-03 Thread Christopher J. Bosak
Eh, personally, I'd install XP, then Vista, then Ubuntu. Ubuntu will then see the other OS's, and list them in its boot manager at startup. Christopher J. Bosak Vector Company c. 847.603.4673 [EMAIL PROTECTED] You need to install an RTFM Interface, due to an LBNC issue. - B.O.F.H.

RE: Triple boot

2008-10-03 Thread Christopher J. Bosak
Actually, I've found that Ubuntu doesn't like to be ran in a virtual machine. It was a pain to get it to do so. But after I did, I couldn't get any of the advanced features to work. I'd just install it directly to a computer. J Christopher J. Bosak Vector Company c. 847.603.4673 [EMAIL

RE: Triple boot

2008-10-03 Thread John Cook
Running on HyperV or ESX??? I'm still getting a handle on this but we're strictly VMWare right now. 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, MCTS,

RE: Triple boot

2008-10-03 Thread Sam Cayze
Check Lifehacker. I remember they had a good post on this a while back... From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 3:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Triple boot I would like to be able to triple boot my machine: Windows XP

RE: Triple boot

2008-10-03 Thread Christopher J. Bosak
ESX. Haven't given it a shot on HyperV. Eh, maybe something I'll kick on over the weekend, just to check. Christopher J. Bosak Vector Company c. 847.603.4673 [EMAIL PROTECTED] You need to install an RTFM Interface, due to an LBNC issue. - B.O.F.H. (Merged 2 into 1) - Me From: John

RE: Triple boot

2008-10-03 Thread David Mazzaccaro
Thx all This should keep me busy this weekend... From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 5:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Triple boot Check Lifehacker. I remember they had a good post on this a while

Re: Triple boot

2008-10-03 Thread Steve Ens
A quick google brought up a number of options...this being the one I would follow... Install XP, then Vista, then Linux... http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=220452 On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:55 PM, David Mazzaccaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to be able to triple boot my

RE: Triple boot

2008-10-03 Thread Sam Cayze
Agreed. Ubuntu on VMware doesn't streamline well with the system. You totally feel like you are in an emulator and nothing coordinates well with the hardware. Especially on a laptop, that's important. From: Christopher J. Bosak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 3:59

RE: Triple boot

2008-10-03 Thread tgonzalez
Very nice written procedure From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 4:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Triple boot A quick google brought up a number of options...this being the one I would follow... Install XP, then Vista, then Linux...

Re: Triple boot

2008-10-03 Thread Peter van Houten
David, I needed a laptop with multiple operating systems for portable support work and I experimented for about a week until I managed to get the configuration below to work. I initially tried every free route and almost gave up on the project even after resigning myself to using Acronis OS

RE: Microsoft's Free version of Hyper-V Ships! a random Friday Q

2008-10-03 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Network World FWIW, just did a month long test of HyperV vs ESX and said basically ESX wins hands down. *shrug* -Original Message- From: Christopher J. Bosak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 12:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Microsoft's Free version

RE: Symantec NetBackup vs Iron Mountain's Connected Backup/PC

2008-10-03 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Yeah I cant argue with you on it. -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 4:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Symantec NetBackup vs Iron Mountain's Connected Backup/PC Well, my problem is with the company itself;