RE: Service Pack Blocker Expiration Announcement

Cheers for that! From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 4:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Service Pack Blocker Expiration Announcement The expiration date (that is, that date at which the blo

RE: Scripting question

Unfortunately the script needs to be run from a network path which CPAU can't deal with. It's beginning to look as the though I'm going to have to go with the ugly solution of using the script myself to create a bunch of empty templates that can be renamed later, then when they run out of those do

RE: dcdiag results?... Looking for some input here.

+1 Great to see you here Brian. Hope to see you in Vegas in a few weeks... -Original Message- From: Jake Gardner [mailto:jgard...@ttcdas.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 7:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: dcdiag results?... Looking for some input here. Welcome to the

RE: Malware and USB flash drives (was: Bookmark management programs)

Thanks, that one came later than the SANS one I posted and is definitely more comprehensive and has better footnotes :-) I missed a couple of the other posts because I was on the road using owa and my threading was messed up... -Original Message- From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colo

Way, Way OT: Not for vegetarians, a Friday (ok, Thursday night) funny.

http://www.bbqaddicts.com/blog/recipes/bacon-explosion/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

RE: agobot in the wild???

135 is the RPC Port Mapper. RPC services use random port numbers > 1024. There is nothing special about 1025 except that it's the first port above 1024 Cheers Ken From: Jake Gardner [mailto:jgard...@ttcdas.com] Sent: Friday, 30 January 2009 2:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: agobot

Any MRTG guru's in the house?

Hi, Im setting up MRTG to monitor the public string of a 3COM switch, and so far its working well. I want however to have a front index.html page that shows ALL the ports on the switch at the same time, rather than the default of having to go into each port, and I assumed that indexmaker would be

Re: Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server

I have used the Echo desktop and server products and both have worked well for what we needed to do. No problems at all. G. On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Mark Milo wrote: > I have used the echo service product for restores to same and dissimilar > hardware and it worked well. I have tried i

testing - I haven't received an email since 544p yesterday

testing - I haven't received an email since 544p yesterday Thanks, Jake Gardner TTC Network Administrator Ext. 246 ***Teletronics Technology Corporation*** This e-mail is confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the addressee or authorized by the addressee to receive this e

pop/smtp mail program

What is a free/cheap pop/smtp program? I set up Windows 2003 pop/smtp and it seems to be ok but I want some more options. My googling keeps coming up expensive or stupid. What would anyone recommend to sit behind and ironport and just relay to outlook express clients? This e-mail and any fil

Re: Need help making sense out of odd network performance

The sage continues... They benchmark and test with UDP-only, but with that is that the problem is with *TCP* traffic. They refused to even acknowledge anything until I showed it to someone *in person*. Until then it was, "theoretically, that's not possible". My response, "I don't care about the

Firewall Recommendations

Hi all, for the past few years we have used Watchguard Firewalls quite happily, but over the past few months the machines seem to be getting more problematic, and the problems mount with each successive firmware release. Some of the key functions that we require, over and above being a good fir

RE: Weird DNS issue

I sent this earlier but had a technical issue so it may not have gone out. Here it is again. Let's see if I can answer everyone's questions. I should have given all this info in my original post but was rushed while trying to send it. The DNS entry does actually disappear from the zone on t

re: testing - I haven't received an email since 544p yesterday

Neither have I. Looks like the listserver may be down. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

List down?

NT ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

re: List down?

The list is not down, but Sunbelt is blacklisted again. TVK ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

re: testing - I haven't received an email since 544p yesterday

Sunbelt's been blacklisted again so if you are using RBLs you won't be receiving email at this time. TVK ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

RE: how to unsubscribe

Did you manage to unsubscribe *EVERYONE* from the list? I haven't seen a message for nearly an entire day... From any of the Sunbelt lists for that matter... -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 8:56 AM To: NT S

RE: BACKUP DEVICES

We recommend High-Rely. www.high-rely.com From: Murray Freeman [mailto:mfree...@alanet.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 2:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: BACKUP DEVICES We currently backup our data to tape drives. We are considering the use of hard disk drive based devices

OT: Google killed Bambi

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New and Free: VIPRE Rescue Program

ore here with links: http://www.wservernews.com/ or http://www.wservernews.com/archives/wservernews-20090130.html after the next issue appears In freedom, Angus W. S-F ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN&#x

Test Message

 Please disregard this test message - Donald Bittenbender IT Developer/DBA Sunbelt Software

RE: testing - I haven't received an email since 544p yesterday

Not even the one you just sent. :) -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 12:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: re: testing - I haven't received an email since 544p yesterday Sunbelt's been blacklisted again so if you

Multiple engineering offices and sharing large files

Anybody here running a small-business network with multiple geographically- remote (e.g. Arizona, Wyoming, Maine, Florida) offices for which the main office and the remote office both need access to the same large files (e.g. CAD drawings, large scientific datasets, GIS data)? The files are way

Re: Bookmark management programs

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Re: Speaking of page file

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RE: Firewall Recommendations

How about ISA 2006 or Forefront Intelligent Application Gateway? With some plug-ins/add-ins, you'll be able to get all of that reporting you're looking for. You can learn about both products at http://www.microsoft.com/forefront/en/us/default.aspx Sean Rector, MCSE From: Doige, Clayton

Re: OT: Google killed Bambi

I hate when that happens... On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming wrote: > > SGFwcHkgRnJpZGF5ISAoYnV0IG5vdCBmb3IgdGhpcyBwb29yIHdpdHRsZSBkZWVyIDstKQ0KDQpT > > dHJlZXRWaWV3IHZlaGljbGUga2lsbHMgQmFtYmkgbyBUaGUgUmVnaXN0ZXINCiAgICBodHRwOi8v > > d3d3LnRoZXJlZ2lzdGVyLmNvLnVrLzIwMDkvMDEvMzA

RE: how to unsubscribe

I'm getting them just fine. Another user said the lists are blacklisted, so if you are using rbls you might not receive list mail. Pass it on. -Original Message- From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:jmajorow...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 1:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subje

RE: dcdiag results?... Looking for some input here.

I'd rather not even think about the three presentations that need to be written in the next few weeks. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 6:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issu

RE: Weird DNS issue

You might set some auditing on the DNS containers in AD such that events get logged when the entries get deleted and see where it's coming from. I'd venture to guess that your records aren't being refreshed for one reason or another and are thus being scavenged. Don't forget there are two scave

RE: Multiple engineering offices and sharing large files

SBS has a 75 user cap. EBS has a 300ish cap (you'd have to look). I think what you want is VPN + DFSR. DFSR is the new replication technology introduced in 2003 R2 that does differential block replication. In other words it only replicates the blocks that don't exist yet on the other end. It lo

RE: New and Free: VIPRE Rescue Program

a user cannot install VIPRE. It is at an easy to remember spot: live.sunbeltsoftware.com http://www.wservernews.com/090202-VIPRE-PC-Rescue - Included Stuff Ends - More here with links: http://www.wservernews.com/ or http://www.wservernews.com/archives/wservernews-200

Re: Multiple engineering offices and sharing large files

3 thoughts: a) You really really really don't want the "rsync" UNIX program. It was only ever intended for a one-way copy. Anything the home office did would be clobbered by work done by the remote office, and the remote office would never see any changes made by the home office. b) I believ

Re: List down?

Oh, ye gods. It took over 24 hours for my post last night to show up in my inbox. On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Tim Vander Kooi wrote: > The list is not down, but Sunbelt is blacklisted again. > TVK > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~

Re: how to unsubscribe

Sunbelt was blacklisted? I would like to know which blacklist that was. I see literally *nothing* from Sunbelt in the logs between 7:30p CST last night and 10:20p CST tonight. If the Sunbelt Lyris server was blacklisted by an RBL I use my email server would have logged it. Ain't it grand bei

Re: Any MRTG guru's in the house?

There's a small army of folks doing stuff to enhance mrtg. Take a look at this page: http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/3party.en.html On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:51 AM, Gavin Wilby wrote: > Hi, > > Im setting up MRTG to monitor the public string of a 3COM switch, and so far > its working well. > > I wan

RE: Any MRTG guru's in the house?

Might take a look at Cacti - it's got a strong UI wrapped around MRTG and is a lot easier to do a lot more stuff with... Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 10:58 PM

Re: Bookmark management programs

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Re: Any MRTG guru's in the house?

Cacti and MRTG are actually different programs. They have about as much in common as Firefox and IE. Brian Desmond wrote: Might take a look at Cacti - it's got a strong UI wrapped around MRTG and is a lot easier to do a lot more stuff with... -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ Finally,

RE: Multiple engineering offices and sharing large files

DFS wouldn't be a bad way to go, what about centralizing the data and using TS? Not sure how the cad drawing would respond, but might be something to look at too. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

RE: Any MRTG guru's in the house?

Yeah - I was looking for I think it's RRDTool or something to that tune is what they both wrap. Been a long time since I played with this stuff. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] Sent: Frid

RE: pop/smtp mail program

Mailenable From: David McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.org] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 9:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: pop/smtp mail program What is a free/cheap pop/smtp program? I set up Windows 2003 pop/smtp and it seems to be ok but I want some more options. My googl

Re: Bookmark management programs

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Re: Speaking of page file

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Re: pop/smtp mail program

On 30 Jan 2009 at 9:46, David McSpadden wrote: > What is a free/cheap pop/smtp program? > I set up Windows 2003 pop/smtp and it seems to be ok but I want some more > options. My googling keeps coming up expensive or stupid. What would anyone > recommend to sit behind and ironport and just relay t

Re: OT: Google killed Bambi

On 30 Jan 2009 at 23:18, Rob Bonfiglio wrote: > > I hate when that happens... > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming > wrote: > SGFwcHkgRnJpZGF5ISAoYnV0IG5vdCBmb3IgdGhpcyBwb29yIHdpdHRs Ouch. Original: Happy Friday! (but not for this poor wittle deer ;-) StreetV

Re: Way, Way OT: Not for vegetarians, a Friday (ok, Thursday night) funny.

On 29 Jan 2009 at 17:18, Kurt Buff wrote: > http://www.bbqaddicts.com/blog/recipes/bacon-explosion/ Good stuff. Ate breakfast at "Jethro's Little Cafe" a couple of days ago: --- Included Stuff Follows --- Blog: New Eats: Jethro strikes again "If you come here to eat three times a