re: SAV PatternFileDate conversion on Parent server

2009-05-04 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Never mind. I figured it out. It's the number of days since 1/1/1970. Chris ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

RE: Rackable 'lights' etc

2009-05-04 Thread N Parr
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Re: Rackable 'lights' etc

2009-05-04 Thread Daniel Rodriguez
The 5th Wave http://www.the5thwave.com/gallery/comp_hardware/625.html On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:25 AM, N Parr npar...@mortonwelding.com wrote: Don't forget the chrome, maybe some little spinners over the fan ports eh -- *From:* Daniel Rodriguez

Re: Rackable 'lights' etc

2009-05-04 Thread Daniel Rodriguez
Or this one http://www.the5thwave.com/gallery/comp_networking/318.html On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Daniel Rodriguez drod...@gmail.com wrote: The 5th Wave http://www.the5thwave.com/gallery/comp_hardware/625.html On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:25 AM, N Parr

RE: Frequent crashes on a virtual machine

2009-05-04 Thread RichardMcClary
Yes. The crashes do not necessarily coincide with VIPRE scans, etc. -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCA® 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richardmccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 www.aspca.org The

RE: Frequent crashes on a virtual machine

2009-05-04 Thread Richard Stovall
I am fighting this on various OS instances. If you follow the (now-defunct) Vipre group, there are many threads related to these stop errors. They are all the same except for parameter 2. My most problematic file server has AP completely disabled and even this has not helped. None of my

RE: Monitoring Remotely

2009-05-04 Thread John Hornbuckle
If you have a Unix machine to run it... John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 9:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE:

RE: Monitoring Remotely

2009-05-04 Thread Mayo, Bill
We use WhatsUp Gold. I believe it does all that you describe. From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: May-02-09 12:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Monitoring Remotely I have been using Servers Alive for a lot of my clients who I monitor their lan.

RE: Monitoring Remotely

2009-05-04 Thread Cameron
Check out Nagios You can't beat the price! (free!). www.nagios.org Cheers, Cameron From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: May-02-09 12:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Monitoring Remotely I have been using Servers Alive for a lot of my

Re: Monitoring Remotely

2009-05-04 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:06 AM, John Hornbuckle john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us wrote: Check out Nagios You can’t beat the price! (free!). If you have a Unix machine to run it… There are these things called Virtual Machines, you should check them out... ;-) FWIW, this Google search

RE: Frequent crashes on a virtual machine

2009-05-04 Thread mse...@ont.com
Did you do cleanup after you P2V'd your server? Open a command prompt on the Windows VM (Start -- Run -- cmd). set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 devmgmt.msc In the device management console (View -- Show Hidden Devices). Uninstall the devices that are no longer required. Such as old

RE: Office Live Workspace

2009-05-04 Thread Joe Heaton
I think y�re right TVK, lo Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 5:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Office Live Workspace It is not one of the updates that loads by default (critical,

Re: Monitoring Remotely

2009-05-04 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
I don't think you understood Shawn, I have two separate Nagios installations, on here on my internal network, and one at our colo facility. We do use service groups/host groups in those separate instances, but they are on two different servers in two different locations. I have the colo Nagios

Re: Monitoring Remotely

2009-05-04 Thread Shawn Everett
Haven't finished reading the rest of the thread... Sherry: Why not just set up seperate service/host groups for each client. I use client config directories with all the config for a given client stored in that directory. Separate websites are only needed if you want an easier screen to look at

Frequent crashes on a virtual machine

2009-05-04 Thread RichardMcClary
Greetings! Most of our user files are being moved to a VMWare VM. What is disturbing is, when I log in, I am frequently greeting with a notice that the machine re-booted from a crash... My users have never noticed anyting amiss as it reboots pretty quickly (so far). However, once it did

RE: Frequent crashes on a virtual machine

2009-05-04 Thread RichardMcClary
Thanks, but it doesn't apply here. This was a VM built from scratch from the VM console. It was never a physical machine. -- Richard mse...@ont.com mse...@ont.com wrote on 05/04/2009 10:14:14 AM: Did you do cleanup after you P2V'd your server? Open a command prompt on the Windows VM (Start

RE: Shadow Copy Management

2009-05-04 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
That is much harder. It sounds like it might be possible with the vssadmin delete shadows command but you would need to know the ShadowID to delete. You can get these by running the vssadmin list shadows command but that dumps them all and you would need some eleet scripting skills to parse

Re: IGMP\Multicasting

2009-05-04 Thread Tom Miller
No experience on the HP side, but on our 3COM switches I have user vlans members of server vlans. Otherwise PCs won't be able to get to our resources. I think the vlan type on the 3com side is called hybrid, as that allows multiple vlans to be a member of a single port. Tom Miller Engineer,

RE: Frequent crashes on a virtual machine

2009-05-04 Thread mse...@ont.com
Is there anything in under events for that VM? Also, check under /var/log for that ESX host to see if you have any errors. Original Message: - From: richardmccl...@aspca.org Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 10:27:27 -0500 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Frequent

BES Server v5

2009-05-04 Thread Stefan Jafs
Looks like BlackBerry Enterprise server v5 is now available. ___ Stefan Jafs This email and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute, copy or alter

Re: Rackable 'lights' etc

2009-05-04 Thread Rob Bonfiglio
Not what you're looking for, but this thread BEGGED of a Google search for Pimp my rack http://convictus.blogspot.com/2005/10/pimp-my-rack.html http://blogs.sun.com/MartinHardee/entry/pimp_my_rack On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Benjamin Zachary - Lists li...@levelfive.us wrote: I have a

RE: Office Live Workspace

2009-05-04 Thread Joe Heaton
Yep, that's exactly what it was. He was logged into the machine as the user he's setting it up for, so the remove option wasn't showing... Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel From: Dean Cunningham [mailto:dean.cunning...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 9:40 PM To: NT System Admin

RE: Monitoring Remotely

2009-05-04 Thread John Hornbuckle
Finding a machine (physical or virtual) isn't the issue. The issue is that we're not a Unix shop. We have no Unix systems here, and no one has any experience with Unix. Learning a new OS to run a single app isn't in the cards for us. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott

RE: Shadow Copy Management

2009-05-04 Thread Michael B. Smith
You didn't say what server OS version - but the diskshadow tool in Server 2008 can help you with this. From: Steph Balog [validemai...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 10:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Shadow Copy Management Is there any

IGMP\Multicasting

2009-05-04 Thread Michael Ross
This may be OT, but I have a procurve 4108 switch. I have my servers and my clients on separate VLANS on the switch. I boot with a network boot disk, but cannot map any drives from the client im booting up to the server. I also cannot connect to any multicast sessions from the client. Each

Re: Monitoring Remotely

2009-05-04 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
+1 for Nagios. And you can use just about any old server/workstation you have sitting around for linux, you could even use a virtual server for it if you needed to. We use Nagios for monitoring our internal network, numerous web-sites, vpn tunnels and a bunch of servers at our colo facility. We

RE: Frequent crashes on a virtual machine

2009-05-04 Thread Richard Stovall
Do you have Vipre on these VMs? From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 9:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Frequent crashes on a virtual machine Greetings! Most of our user files are being moved to a VMWare VM. What is

RE: IGMP\Multicasting

2009-05-04 Thread Joe Heaton
Michael, I have a 4108 myself, with multiple VLANs. If you'd like to contact me offline, I can try to help. Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel -Original Message- From: Michael Ross [mailto:mr...@itwif.com] Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 6:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: Remote access options

2009-05-04 Thread Jim Dandy
Bummer From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 11:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote access options Yeah, I was kinda bummed when I dug into it and found out. At least TS CALs aret too expensiv You dont need a TS CAL

RE: BES Server v5

2009-05-04 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Anecdotally, my friend just did a 4.1.3 to 4.1.6 migration and it was a nightmare. The mdss_dis database would crash with a SQL statement error. Spent 14 hours with RIM support to get it resolved. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel

TechNet site software

2009-05-04 Thread Jon Harris
I have run into a problem and need to ask the group to see if this can be done. I know I can download from the TechNet Plus site a software package that I have a pre-existing license key for. The question is can I use my key to activate the software or do I need to use the license key from

Re: Monitoring Remotely

2009-05-04 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:33 AM, John Hornbuckle john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us wrote: Finding a machine (physical or virtual) isn't the issue. The issue is that we're not a Unix shop. We have no Unix systems here, and no one has any experience with Unix. The point of the virtual

RE: BES Server v5

2009-05-04 Thread RichardMcClary
Glad to know we weren't alone! Actually, ours muffed up after 4.1.5. No additional issues going from 4.1.5 to 4.1.6... -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCA® 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richardmccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C:

RE: Remote access options

2009-05-04 Thread Joe Heaton
TS licenses are concurrent connection licenses, right? So when one connection drops, another can happen? Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel From: Jim Dandy [mailto:jda...@asmail.ucdavis.edu] Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 9:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote access

RE: Remote access options

2009-05-04 Thread Richard Stovall
Nope. TS CALs are either user or device CALs. You pick what type you want when you purchase them. Remote desktop for administration (formerly remote administration mode in 2000) doe�t require CALs and maxes out at 2 simultaneous remote sessions. Maybe th�s what you were thinking of?

RE: Server 2003 DNS issue - Fixed

2009-05-04 Thread Art DeKneef
I got this working but not exactly sure what made it start working. Called Qwest and they tested the lines and said things were working fine from their perspective. I figured that. Had the office reboot the DSL modem. They did this while I was connected since I lost connectivity. Logged back in

RE: Server 2003 DNS issue - Fixed

2009-05-04 Thread John Aldrich
Sounds to me like they may have uploaded some changes to the DSL modem, and didn't want to admit they'd screwed things up originally. :-) Oh, well... all's well that ends well. :-) -Original Message- From: Art DeKneef [mailto:art.dekn...@cox.net] Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 1:51 PM To:

RE: Remote access options

2009-05-04 Thread Joe Heaton
No, I knew about that. Just trying to figure out how to minimize license purchase, lol. Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 10:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote access options

Re: Server 2003 DNS issue - Fixed

2009-05-04 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
+1 I've had Comcast screw me on at least three occasions that way. If you have to reboot your modem its because the provisioning isn't matching their equipment or security configs. End of story. -- ME2 On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:06 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote: Sounds to

RE: Server 2003 DNS issue - Fixed

2009-05-04 Thread Bob Fronk
I spent two days once trying to convince Insight communications that the problem was on their end. no, our equipment is fine, the issue is your server. My server was off and I was using their DHCP. Finally got someone on the line that knew more than reading que-cards. He fixed the DNS

Re: Remote access options

2009-05-04 Thread Jonathan Link
Thankfully, Microsoft has already done the hard part and figured out how you can maximize your license purchase. :-) On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Joe Heaton jhea...@etp.ca.gov wrote: No, I knew about that.ÿ Just trying to figure out how to minimize license purchase, lol. Joe Heaton

DMARC to Office Install

2009-05-04 Thread Sam Cayze
Is it normal practice of the ISP to have the customer hire and pay for a 3-party technician to run a feed from the DMARC (basement) to our office/rack area? Never seen it before with the few ISPs I have worked with... Just checking... -Sam ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that

RE: DMARC to Office Install

2009-05-04 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
I've seen it both ways. The carrier will usually install an extended DMARC if you request it, but will also usually charge out the wazzoo to do it. We normally hire a third party to extend the DMARC From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent:

RE: DMARC to Office Install

2009-05-04 Thread Roger Wright
All of the estimates I've seen in the last few months include running to the Dmarc only. We're responsible for getting it from there to the rack. Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent:

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RE: DMARC to Office Install

2009-05-04 Thread John Aldrich
*shrug* I can only tell you that we use our in-house guys to run all in-house wiring. I suppose if there were any wiring to be done, they'd be the ones to do it. So far, I've been lucky and haven't had to do much. I will say that when we upgraded our PBX recently to an IP-capable system, that the

Re: Rackable 'lights' etc

2009-05-04 Thread Pete Howard
I dont see anyone talking about committing fraudulent or dishonest activity in this thread. Just pimping out the server racks which is pretty interesting. Carry on... From: Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edu To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: DMARC to Office Install

2009-05-04 Thread Sam Cayze
Thanks guys. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 3:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DMARC to Office Install *shrug* I can only tell you that we use our in-house guys to run all in-house wiring. I

RE: DMARC to Office Install

2009-05-04 Thread Rohyans, Aaron
More often than not, the ISP wants *you* to do it. The carrier is always responsible for issues up to and including the DMARCation point (Smart Jack). They *do not* want to be responsible for in-house wiring/issues as you extend the DMARC to your equipment (hence the reason they charge so much

Server 2003

2009-05-04 Thread David L Herrick
Would like to make a minor annoyance go away Have an older windows 2003 server is running DHCP and DNS it evidently ran WSUS or Sharepoint at sometime in the past It insists that Windows Internal Database needs to be patched, it is not there so the patch fails. Any easy way to clean this box up?

RE: DMARC to Office Install

2009-05-04 Thread David L Herrick
IN our building that is all they are allowed to do. We have to use the Buildings designated company to pull from DMARC to RACK Great fun coordinating J From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 1:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DMARC to Office

RE: DMARC to Office Install

2009-05-04 Thread Jimmy Tran
Same here... We just got new T1's and the LEC terminated in the DMARC. Our building contracts out to a 3rd party to extend to our server room. We were charged $200 per line terminated. -Jimmy From: David L Herrick [mailto:davidherr...@nincal.com] Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 2:07 PM To: NT

Re: DMARC to Office Install

2009-05-04 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
The building wont let you terminate the DMARC in your server room? Outrageous... Sounds like a union shop to me. -- ME2 On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Jimmy Tran jt...@teachtci.com wrote: Same here… We just got new T1’s and the LEC terminated in the DMARC. Our building contracts out to

RE: DMARC to Office Install

2009-05-04 Thread Jimmy Tran
They don't give us access to the MPOE. The building management has to open up the room, but only to the LEC and the contractor -Jimmy From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 2:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DMARC to Office

RE: DMARC to Office Install

2009-05-04 Thread Louis, Joe
I won't put a DMARC in my server room(s). I refuse to let the telephone company even on the same floor. From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 5:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DMARC to Office Install The building wont let you

RE: BES Server v5

2009-05-04 Thread gsweers
Could it be.. yes it says so.. Public contacts sync... Advanced Mobile Management through a New administrative console Built-in High Availability and Reliability Enhanced Application Deployment and Management BlackBerry(r) Enterprise Transporter Tool And more great features

RE: DMARC to Office Install

2009-05-04 Thread Jacob
From my experience, the ISP/Local Loop stops at the DMARC. From the DMARC to my routers are my problem. Of course, the DMARC to the router is about three feet. :P From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 1:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DMARC

Disabling NETBIOS

2009-05-04 Thread Jeremy Anderson
I have investigated this a bit, and I just wondered if anyone had any opinions they would like to share. Should I disable NETBIOS? I have no legacy clients (but a lot of Mac's and Linux Machines) Are there security pros and cons? Group Policy cons? Will I have to ping machines by fqdn (i

Re: DMARC to Office Install

2009-05-04 Thread Jon Harris
I've never seen it but I have contracted a third party to do just that as I did not want the Phone company charging us any more and doing it their way instead of the way I wanted it done. Jon On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Sam Cayze sam.ca...@rollouts.com wrote: Is it normal practice of the

RE: Server 2003

2009-05-04 Thread Carl Houseman
How was WSUS or Sharepoint removed? Improperly? If so, re-install one and/or the other and then properly remove them. You can also try resetting automatic updates. http://www.amset.info/windows/auto-updates.asp Carl -Original Message- From: David L Herrick

RE: Frequent crashes on a virtual machine

2009-05-04 Thread Brian Desmond
Startrunverifier Custom Settings Enable Special Pool for all non Microsoft Drivers (you can sort on the vendor column when you get to the screen where you select drivers). Reboot Next time the box crashes let's look at the dump. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132

RE: Frequent crashes on a virtual machine

2009-05-04 Thread Ken Schaefer
0x4E is FPN_LIST_CORRUPT. This is unlikely to be caused by the host machine, especially if the VM is bluescreening with the same STOP code over and over. Usually 0x4E is a faulty kernel module of some kind (driver, file system filter or similar). Can we get access to a minidump file(s)?

RE: Frequent crashes on a virtual machine

2009-05-04 Thread Richard Stovall
I've got tons of minidumps from this issue. All I know how to do is run them through WinDbg, and I always come up with PFN_LIST_CORRUPT. Per the suggestions here, I will turn on verifier.exe on one of the affected servers. Should I have it create a minidump, kernel dump, or full memory dump?

RE: Frequent crashes on a virtual machine

2009-05-04 Thread Carl Houseman
I installed a Vipre trial on a server a couple days ago and so far so good. It's not a VM though. What happens if you uninstall Vipre? If the crashes stop, you have an issue for Sunbelt support to address. Carl -Original Message- From: Richard Stovall

Re: Disabling NETBIOS

2009-05-04 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Jeremy Anderson jer...@mapiadmin.net wrote: I have investigated this a bit, and I just wondered if anyone had any opinions they would like to share. Short version: Lots of things depend on NetBIOS. That including lots of things from Microsoft. Most notably,

RE: Frequent crashes on a virtual machine

2009-05-04 Thread Brian Desmond
A kernel dump is good enough. You'll get a mini for free. You should do this on one of the crashing guests. Sorry if that wasn't clear. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com]

RE: Frequent crashes on a virtual machine

2009-05-04 Thread Richard Stovall
Thanks for the help with this. It might take a week for the main server in question to bluescreen again. Or it might be tomorrow. That's one of the frustrating natures of the problem... In any case, I'll check in again when I have a new dump file. Thanks a lot, RS -Original Message-