Re: So, I'm up late patching systems, and getting cranky...

2008-10-26 Thread Kurt Buff
Binding did the trick for me. I was in at work today with nobody else around, so I did the bind with the MSFT initiator, rebooted, and all my shares came back at reboot - didn't have to restart the server service. On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Andy Ognenoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the

Re: NOD32 - VIPRE

2008-10-26 Thread Jon Harris
Lucky me Sunbelt is just down the road and some of the other campuses are using their products. THEY are even closer than I am so Sunbelt is an easy sell to management when we have the money. At the moment the quote for Vipre they offerred and that Eset STILL will not quote for NOD32 is making

Re: Wattage Calculation

2008-10-26 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 25 Oct 2008 at 21:45, Jon Harris wrote: That ain't a warm place. You live in a warm place. Now I do ... at least I can golf year-round. Anyone else here golf? We ought to have a Sunbelt-sponsored annual golf tourney somewhere nice. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona

Re: Installing 958644 sec update on XP, not prompted to reboot.

2008-10-26 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 25 Oct 2008 at 20:24, Clubber Lang wrote: I've installed this patch on about 100 XP workstatioins now, and the final step of each installation shows the 'Do not restart now' checkbox, which I leave unchecked. Except one machine. It didn't prompt for a reboot, and it didn't reboot

Re: Out of Cycle Critical Windows Patch ?

2008-10-26 Thread Kurt Buff
This afternoon I got an email, too, probably because of my Technet subscription. On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Steve Ens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got a personal email from Microsoft, but not a voice mail. On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Taking this in

RE: VMware Server 2.0

2008-10-26 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Pretty much any dell poweredge will work, I have it running on 1750, 2500, 2900 series, all different configs, most importantly is the dell perc controller is supported so that gets you through a lot. Obviously load it up and if it works you will be all set. From: Joe Fox [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Out of Cycle Critical Windows Patch ?

2008-10-26 Thread Ziots, Edward
Got 2 emails, and 3 voicemails, and 2 other calls from my reps. I had some choice words for them and theree superiors about the timing of the patch. If they knew on Patch Tuesday about this flaw then they should have released the patch then, not 1.5 weeks laters. Z Edward E. Ziots

RE: Out of Cycle Critical Windows Patch ?

2008-10-26 Thread Ziots, Edward
Yeah someone lit a fire under MSFT arse and they got with the program on this one, but only after they detected systems getting exploited in the wild. Why they didn't determine this flaw back when they patched 06-040 for the same type of issue we probably will never know... Z Edward E. Ziots

RE: Out of Cycle Critical Windows Patch ?

2008-10-26 Thread Ziots, Edward
LOL I didn't leave early, but yes you are right TVK, and I figured the dinner I bought at Charleys would have gone a long way, but I digress. Joking HAPPY Patch SUNDAY! Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505

RE: Out of Cycle Critical Windows Patch ?

2008-10-26 Thread Martin Blackstone
I'm not sure I would agree with that. Developing a fix isn't a 15 minute job. The chances are they were already hard at work on it. There is a ton of compatibility and regression testing that goes into a fax. They probably got their hand forced because it was out in the wild, but I wouldn't go so

RE: Out of Cycle Critical Windows Patch ?

2008-10-26 Thread Martin Blackstone
Fax = fix -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 7:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Out of Cycle Critical Windows Patch ? I'm not sure I would agree with that. Developing a fix isn't a 15 minute job. The chances

RE: VMware Server 2.0

2008-10-26 Thread James Forbis
One issue that I have seen is that Vmware for Windows will support multiple CPU's but ESXi will only use the first CPU, ignoring the others in the box. From: Devin Meade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 5:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMware Server 2.0

RE: Wattage Calculation

2008-10-26 Thread Todd Lemmiksoo
Warm weather and Golf just go together! -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 3:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wattage Calculation On 25 Oct 2008 at 21:45, Jon Harris wrote: That ain't a warm place. You

RE: Enumerate GUIDs for all comps in an OU

2008-10-26 Thread Michael B. Smith
Not surprising at all. PXE reports the contents of the UUID array, while Win32_ComputerSystemProduct contains the Windows GUID. Here is how it maps: # # guidstr # # takes a 16-byte array and turns it into the standard # text guid format. # # try as i might, i couldn't get system.guid

RE: Checking what services are firing up and when.

2008-10-26 Thread Troy Meyer
Great Post Ken, Thanks From: Ken Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 5:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Checking what services are firing up and when. If you have IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL please see my blog: What is an

RE: Out of Cycle Critical Windows Patch ?

2008-10-26 Thread Phil Thompson
A hole that covers everyone of their OS's??? They need to hire more hackers. I think that 50 billion in cash would cover a few of them. From: Ziots, Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 5:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE:

RE: Out of Cycle Critical Windows Patch ?

2008-10-26 Thread Ken Schaefer
According to the SDL blog, this is why this particular issue is not easy to discover, especially using automated analysis: http://blogs.msdn.com/sdl/archive/2008/10/22/ms08-067.aspx Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 27 October

RE: Out of Cycle Critical Windows Patch ?

2008-10-26 Thread Ken Schaefer
Microsoft does have this... They also have a bunch of internal staff (ACE) that train developers, work on automated tools that analyse code, random code reviews, and creating prescriptive guidance on how to write better code. I know one of the guys (Rocky Heckman) on the ACE team out of CBR.

RE: Out of Cycle Critical Windows Patch ?

2008-10-26 Thread Ken Schaefer
Hmm - I check MS06-040 again, and I don't think they are the same type of issue. The current bug is in the NetCanonicalize API - not in the Server service. It's just that the server service is a route to get to that bug - because it calls that API. But it's entirely possible for /other/

RE: VMware Server 2.0

2008-10-26 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
I definitely haven't seen that, I have dual quad core boxes and I show 0-7 instances in the cpu and can assign manually any set of those cpu's or allow the system to allocate accordingly. From: James Forbis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 13:31 To: NT System Admin

Re: VMware Server 2.0

2008-10-26 Thread Phil Brutsche
+1, I've got a box with dual E5420 quad cores and all 8 cores show up in the VI console. Benjamin Zachary - Lists wrote: I definitely haven’t seen that, I have dual quad core boxes and I show 0-7 instances in the cpu and can assign manually any set of those cpu’s or allow the system to

RE: Out of Cycle Critical Windows Patch ?

2008-10-26 Thread Ziots, Edward
Yean pretty aware that netapi32.dll is called by a lot of items, which sends the attack vector up quite a bit, but the server service was the route into both if memory serves me right, so question is why did another unauthenticated RPC error attack with that service as the route happen again when

RE: Out of Cycle Critical Windows Patch ?

2008-10-26 Thread Ken Schaefer
Um, not sure what you are saying here... Are you saying that because there are unauthenticated ways of calling the Server service, then Microsoft needs to review all the pieces of code that the server service calls, even if they aren't part of the server service itself? (FWIW Windows Server

RE: Out of Cycle Critical Windows Patch ?

2008-10-26 Thread Ziots, Edward
Ken, Basically it's a juicy door for exploits, unauthenticated remote code execution, non-authenticated access is just that, unauthenticated, no trust, no authenticated before authorization and legitimate access. It basically a violate of AAA security principles. Honestly, I personally loathe

RE: Out of Cycle Critical Windows Patch ?

2008-10-26 Thread Ken Schaefer
Nothing you are saying is in dispute here. But I still don't see any argument as to why this is the same type of vulnerability in 06-040 that you previously stated, or why it should have been fixed as such. That you need to spend time patching things isn't different to anyone else here.