Re: FYI the IE Patch has been released and posted

2008-12-18 Thread James Rankin
A patch-tastic Xmas for everyone then. Where's my WSUS console? 2008/12/17 Roger Wright rwri...@evatone.com Got 'em! Thanks! Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ *From:* Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] *Sent:* Wednesday,

Odd exchange email delay

2008-12-18 Thread Gavin Wilby
Hi, I have a SBS2003 with Exchange 2003 SP2. A really odd thing hsappened yesterday that I can neither see a reason for nor explain. An external person sent an email to the domain to two users internally. both the users have external email addresses. The email was delivered instantly to one of

RE: Odd exchange email delay

2008-12-18 Thread Ames Matthew B
Did both messages hit your SMTP gateway at the same time? I would have imagined for what ever reason the delay would have been outside. ie. when the person sends the message, would their mail server not have generate two emails (one for each of your users). These messages then travel over the

Re: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC?

2008-12-18 Thread Eric Brouwer
I was a COMPLETE anti-Mac zealot up to June of this year. Then I was forced to work on them at my new job. Now I'm begging for one of my own. I admit, there still seems to be a lot of voodoo and black magic going on in the Macs, but they run amazingly well. I can run far more apps with

RE: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC?

2008-12-18 Thread Ken Schaefer
OK - let's get back to basics here. Unless you believe in the Jobs RDF, then Macs still obey basic laws of physics. They don't move 1s and 0s around any faster than other electronic devices. They use the same graphics cards, hard drives, memory, LCD displays, CPUs and chipsets and so on that

Re: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC?

2008-12-18 Thread TJ
*It's been like this for 20 years. It apparently hasn't slowed them down too much. J* It hasnt done much for their market share either. They seem to be content with near total control of the entire hardware/software thing - and thats fine. I am gald no one puts a gun to my head and forces

Re: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC?

2008-12-18 Thread Eric Brouwer
The fact that I can run Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, and Illustrator at the same time makes ME feel like it's more optimized. I can also run Firefox with 15-20 tabs open at all times, plus my mail client, my FTP client, some utility apps, a chat program, etc. All at the same time.

RE: 0-day IE Exploit in the wild

2008-12-18 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Incidentally, there's still a zero day out there with Wordpad. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10120546-83.html Doesn't affect Wserver 2008, Vista or XP SP3 but still worth keeping in mind if you have machines that aren't up to the latest grade. Alex

Allow the Computer to turn off this device to save power registry setting for USB

2008-12-18 Thread Michael Ross
Does anyone know a registry key to employ to turn OFF this setting for USB root hubs? Its causing some of my workstations to hang at windows is shutting down after a WSUS reboot request late at night, and thus not getting all patches they should be getting. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security

Re: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC?

2008-12-18 Thread TJ
* The fact that I can run Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, and Illustrator at the same time makes ME feel like it's more optimized. I can also run Firefox with 15-20 tabs open at all times, plus my mail client, my FTP client, some utility apps, a chat program, etc * What are you talking

security message when moving folders

2008-12-18 Thread Bambi . J . Saastad
Hi I have several users who get this message when moving files and folders This page has an unspecified potential security flaw. Would you like to continue? They click yes and everything works, but how can I get it to stop giving the message? I believe it has something to do with IE TIA . . SAVE

Re: 0-day IE Exploit in the wild

2008-12-18 Thread James Rankin
I think I will bash the workaround straight onto my Citrix farm then 2008/12/18 Alex Eckelberry al...@sunbelt-software.com Incidentally, there's still a zero day out there with Wordpad. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10120546-83.html Doesn't affect Wserver 2008, Vista or XP SP3 but

Re: security message when moving folders

2008-12-18 Thread James Rankin
Does this have something to do with the settings for the local intranet zone - are they moving from network locations that Explorer thinks are outside the local intranet zone, or not added to the Trusted Sites list? If they are on a location that is mapped via IP, then Windows tends to think they

Re: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC?

2008-12-18 Thread James Rankin
Guess we are all Mac or PC then. kinda like Elvis or Beatles. Schwarzenegger or Stallone. Newcastle or Sunderland. On and on it can go. Or it's like girlfriends. I think mine is great, but only because I have had time to explore her feature set and ignore all her little foibles. other people's

RE: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC?

2008-12-18 Thread Holstrom, Don
I took two Macs and ran them at home and at the office for a full year. Cool machines, ran both Mac and PC software on both. Still needed Outlook, no matter what I used, and I have/had full programs for both. Cute, but no cigar. Quit. Still have six Macs here at the Museum, but for those four

Re: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC?

2008-12-18 Thread TJ
There is definitely an image aspect to the machines. If you have a clunky boring PC, you'll likely hide it somewhere in your den or home office, but if you have a Mac, its possibly not unusual to place it in a location in your house where you don't mind if a visiting guest sees your

Re: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC?

2008-12-18 Thread Eric Brouwer
See, I am a PC and a Mac. I defend Microsoft constantly when people bash them for everything. I like all the PCs I've ever had. Never had a bad one, nor a bad Windows installation. Windows just works for me I guess. This is the first time I defended Mac. On Dec 18, 2008, at 9:16 AM,

Way OT: A Favor

2008-12-18 Thread Roger Wright
My nephew is teaching English in Wuhan, China and his school is having an online popularity contest. He has requested help elevating his vote count (currently in fourth place). If you get a chance, please click on the button below Jason's photo:

RE: security message when moving folders

2008-12-18 Thread David Lum
+1, my thoughts exactly. Dave From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 6:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: security message when moving folders Does this have something to do with the settings for the local intranet zone - are they moving

RE: Way OT: A Favor

2008-12-18 Thread Erik Goldoff
ok, because I've known you on the list for some time now ... so either I just helped your nephew, OR I just fell into a social engineering scam to get me to click on a button on a chinese web site where I cannot read nor understand the labels g Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks,

Re: Way OT: A Favor

2008-12-18 Thread Eric Brouwer
lol I thought the same thing, but I too voted. On Dec 18, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Erik Goldoff wrote: ok, because I've known you on the list for some time now ... so either I just helped your nephew, OR I just fell into a social engineering scam to get me to click on a button on a chinese web

RE: Way OT: A Favor

2008-12-18 Thread David Mazzaccaro
zero-day exploit... what? LOL +1 From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 9:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Way OT: A Favor You're in good company! I've been voting once a day for several days now.

Re: Way OT: A Favor

2008-12-18 Thread Phillip Partipilo
Or a rickroll :-) On Dec 18, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Erik Goldoff wrote: ok, because I've known you on the list for some time now ... so either I just helped your nephew, OR I just fell into a social engineering scam to get me to click on a button on a chinese web site where I cannot read

Re: Way OT: A Favor

2008-12-18 Thread James Rankin
You will probably have a party of ninjas from the CIA breaking your door down accusing you of involvement in cyber warfare, I'd give you about 20 minutes to escape 2008/12/18 David McSpadden dav...@imcu.org I think we have been root*canal*kitted. ;-) --

Re: Way OT: A Favor

2008-12-18 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
Yup, had the same thoughts as well, but because of the person requesting it, I voted. On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Brumbaugh, Luke luke.brumba...@butlerahs.com wrote: Translator said something about a mail order bride, thanks a lot! Should of translated before I clicked. *From:*

RE: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC?

2008-12-18 Thread David Lum
Ford vs. Chevy comes to mind too... From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 6:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC? Guess we are all Mac or PC then. kinda like Elvis or Beatles. Schwarzenegger or

Re: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC?

2008-12-18 Thread Phillip Partipilo
It's going to also be pretty interesting to see what happens when Jobs steps down (or dies). He is such a megalomaniac, and feels that need to control absolutely everything. CNBC talks about this all the time. When he goes down, we might start seeing stickers all over the computers like a

RE: Way OT: A Favor

2008-12-18 Thread Erik Goldoff
that's ok, I'm an ex-ninja, we'll just catch up on old times and have a few shots Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security _ From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 10:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Way

RE: Way OT: A Favor

2008-12-18 Thread David Lum
My translation skilz must be off, I read it as click here to vote Jason, he look for bride who love him long time.., and why did my anti-spyware just tell me an attempted rootkit was detected? Maybe if I vote again tomorrow the rootkit will actually work :) CNET reports: Roger Wright - Social

RE: Way OT: A Favor

2008-12-18 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
May the Force be with you! From: Brumbaugh, Luke [mailto:luke.brumba...@butlerahs.com] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 9:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Way OT: A Favor Brumbaugh's got a deal for you Schee Make Sushie, Qween house, long

RE: Printing issue

2008-12-18 Thread Dallas Burnworth
Right, but that is why you have to consider the time and cost of keeping them up and running, cost per page and replacement parts. In the case of the LaserJet 5, everything you buy is going to be refurbished or third party. That means you are at the mercy of the few people that provide that stuff

Re: Odd exchange email delay

2008-12-18 Thread Gavin Wilby
Hi, Its not two messages, its a single email addressed to 2 recipients, it came in at 15.47, one user got it straight away, the other 8 hours later. Gavin. On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Ames Matthew B mba...@qinetiq.com wrote: Did both messages hit your SMTP gateway at the same time? I

Change name of W2K3 TS

2008-12-18 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I've got a W2K3 server that's running terminal services and the Terminal Services licensing server is installed on it as well. I need to change the name of the server. Am I going to have to redo the licensing server or run into any issues? Thanks Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer

Re: Printing issue

2008-12-18 Thread Jon Harris
With the price of gas as high as it is I would but the owners don't seem to want to part with them. Jon On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Dallas Burnworth dallas.burnwo...@zones.com wrote: Right, but that is why you have to consider the time and cost of keeping them up and running, cost per

RE: Odd exchange email delay

2008-12-18 Thread Michael B. Smith
As Mr. Ames asked - did both messages hit your SMTP gateway at the same time? The message may have the same message-id, but each copy came in separately. That's why you see two entries of message submitted to advanced queuing . You need to check your SMTP logs. It doesn't appear to be an

RE: Disabling folder redirection on one machine

2008-12-18 Thread Oliver Marshall
Right, even with user loopback processing set to Replace it still doesn't work. I've got the folder redirection policy which works in itself, in that we are using folder redirection happily on all the machines. In its delegation tab is a group called External laptops which contains the laptop

Tool to report on old files.

2008-12-18 Thread Brumbaugh, Luke
I got to ask this, now that a full backup takes 3 days. I have users that save files and some are so old and useless, like the dinner menu for the new ceo party, that was 2 ceo's ago. How can I make a report by last accessed, owner, file, directory and created, all in one line. If this is

RE: Odd exchange email delay

2008-12-18 Thread Ames Matthew B
Phew, I was beginning to think my knowledge of SMTP was flawed! :-) Or just check the header in the message in Outlook (View | Options and then look in the Internet Headers box [Outlook 2k3]) Cheers, Matt From: Michael B. Smith

RE: Tool to report on old files.

2008-12-18 Thread Sam Cayze
Here is one that reports files by how new they are. I run it every week to keep an eye on a file share. So you would need to modify it, but it might give you a taste of how LogParser can read directory structures. Lots of options here. LogParser is insanely customizable. c:\Program Files\Log

RE: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC?

2008-12-18 Thread Gene Giannamore
Someday more people will realize, computers are just complicated tools, to help us get our work done, so we can spend more time outside playing, with our family and friends. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577

Certificate Authority move during Windows 2008 upgrade.

2008-12-18 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
I know I have seen that a number of folks on the list have started (or completed) their move to Server 2008. My question is if anyone has moved their CA from 2003 to 2008 yet, and if so, have there been any issues. It seems to be as simple as revoking my 2003 certs that are outstanding,

Re: Tool to report on old files.

2008-12-18 Thread Sean Martin
You didn't mention the OS If you're running Windows 2003 and upgrading to R2 is an option, there's some pretty decent reporting in the File Server Resource Manager. - Sean On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Sam Cayze sam.ca...@rollouts.com wrote: Here is one that reports files by how new

RE: Printing issue

2008-12-18 Thread Phillip Partipilo
Last years black friday (post-turkey day) I picked up a Samsung CLP-300 for $99 after rebate. Rarely print color. Probably about 100 pages daily run thru it (ebay/amazon business order printouts). On Ebay you can get generic black toner tubs for that thing under 20 bucks - no integrated drum.

RE: Tool to report on old files.

2008-12-18 Thread Brumbaugh, Luke
Sorry, 2003 NAS edition From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 1:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Tool to report on old files. You didn't mention the OS If you're running Windows 2003 and upgrading to R2 is an option, there's some

RE: Disabling folder redirection on one machine

2008-12-18 Thread Miller Bonnie L .
You have denied the loopback processing policy that way, as well as the folder redirection. By denying the loopback, it can't process it as user policy, right? I would think maybe you'll need a separate policy to apply the loopback processing before denying the second (existing) policy?

Re: Tool to report on old files.

2008-12-18 Thread Jon Harris
Perfect for me! Jon On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@theessentialexchange.com wrote: How about PowerShell? dir -recurse c:\temp | sort lastaccesstime -descending | ft lastaccesstime, name, directory, creationtime Regards, Michael B. Smith,

Re: Tool to report on old files.

2008-12-18 Thread Jon Harris
I keep meaning to get a book and start but it seems to me one thing after another to fix at work. Jon On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Joe Tinney jtin...@lastar.com wrote: That's great for viewing the results in the console, I might pipe that into more, though. dir -recurse c:\temp |

RE: Tool to report on old files.

2008-12-18 Thread Michael B. Smith
You might find that it saves you far more time than it costs you. It certainly has me. I can do things with PowerShell that would've been difficult or impossible with vbscript and just ugly with C#. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog:

Re: Odd exchange email delay

2008-12-18 Thread Gavin Wilby
Oh right, sorry guys. Ill have to look, but just to get it straight in my head, if I have a single email, and send it to multiple recipiants on the same domain, it actually splits the mail into however many recipients that there are and send 2 or 3 or whatever emails. So although the unique ID is

RE: Odd exchange email delay

2008-12-18 Thread Tim Evans
You need to check the SMTP headers on each email to know for sure. ...Tim From: Gavin Wilby [mailto:gavin.wi...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 2:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Odd exchange email delay Oh right, sorry guys. Ill have to look, but just to get it

RE: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC?

2008-12-18 Thread Ken Schaefer
From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] Sent: Friday, 19 December 2008 12:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC? The fact that I can run Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, and Illustrator at the same time makes ME feel like it's more

RE: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC?

2008-12-18 Thread Ken Schaefer
Let me just add - I have nothing against Macs. I forked out $3k out of my own pocket for the two machines I have at home (not including new versions of OSX etc). I like them. I just don't see why they are any faster than any other machine I have. And if they are - and someone can give me a

RE: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC?

2008-12-18 Thread Salvador Manzo
From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 3:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC? From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:er...@forestpost.com] Sent: Friday, 19 December

RE: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC?

2008-12-18 Thread Kennedy, Jim
In typical use, they are not faster imho. So there is no switch to flick. However if you use them professionally in areas that they shine they are faster. I did six years in a big advertising agency, and still do the support for my brother in-law's agency. And at the same time we have a big Mac

Re: Way OT: A Favor

2008-12-18 Thread Len Hammond
+1 Been here a long time and Roger has been an asset to the list for a good share of that time. I too followed Erik and Sherry in voting. On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Eric Brouwer er...@forestpost.com wrote: lol I thought the same thing, but I too voted. On Dec 18, 2008, at 9:52 AM,

RE: Way OT: A Favor

2008-12-18 Thread Jake Gardner
I havn't been here all that long, but I gave my click Thanks, Jake Gardner TTC Network Administrator Ext. 246 From: Len Hammond [mailto:lenhamm...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 7:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Way OT: A

RE: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC?

2008-12-18 Thread Ken Schaefer
Hi Jim, My wife is a SAD at Euro RSCG, which is one of the world's top 5 ad agencies. I know plenty about Macs in ad agencies But what I find surprising is all you guys that think that Photoshop is somehow faster on current Intel Macs, yet have no idea why it's so much better. Surely if you

RE: Printing issue

2008-12-18 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 18 Dec 2008 at 7:38, Dallas Burnworth wrote: I guess the point I am trying to make is that spending more than an 8 hour day to get a LaserJet 4 or 5 running is not worth it unless whoever owns it is paying someone minimum wage to fix it. If it were broken, I would agree, but mine at

RE: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC?

2008-12-18 Thread Ken Schaefer
Whilst the OS is different, there isn't that much difference in memory management algorithms and CPU schedulers. It's the same basic research and theory that goes into that fundamental level stuff. On top of that there are bigger differences - approaches to building OS functionality. But that

RE: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC?

2008-12-18 Thread Ken Schaefer
Also, whilst we can discuss the potential for OS differences, I don't see such differences in my personal experience - certainly not as much as what these guys are reporting. I have this much gear at home: http://www.adopenstatic.com/temp/homenetwork.jpg and I think that's a reasonably