Re: OT: SolarWinds Standard Tools Free for .EDU and .GOV

Be warned that this is not a permanent offer - they are giving away a limited # of licenses. Vicky Spelshaus wrote: > http://www.solarwinds.com/campaigns/sled_toolset.aspx?Program=426 -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Wan optimizer

I'll add to this as well, if anyone has any experience using Riverbed vs Cisco Waas, I'd appreciate hearing your experiences as well. From: Liu, David (G2DD) [mailto:da...@g2.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 7:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wan optimizer Anyone care to comment on

RE: Wan optimizer

Anyone care to comment on how riverbed handles afp ? I wasn't able to find much documentation on their site that talks about optimization for non-smb/http protocols & wonder if anyone has used it for filesharing between two remote offices, OsX server/clients. From: Jason Morris [mailto:jmor...

RE: OT-RE: Account Unknown profiles

> -Original Message- > From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] > Subject: OT-RE: Account Unknown profiles > > Still doing the sales engineer thing with Peak 10 but I've recently > added some Sr. mgmt responsibilities with staff and its working out > well. I really like it and its

OT: SolarWinds Standard Tools Free for .EDU and .GOV

http://www.solarwinds.com/campaigns/sled_toolset.aspx?Program=426 -- Organization and good planning are just crutches for people that can't handle stress and caffeine. - unknown ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: Vista and Server 08 SP2

I have it on my home desktop and a work laptop I carry with me everywhere I go. It runs more smoothly than the Vista SP1 desktop I have at work. I haven't tried it on any 2008 machines yet (the only one I have is a test box). Glen Johnson wrote: > Speaking of patches, anyone tested this yet. >

RE: Account Unknown profiles

Well yeah. There is that. ;-) -Original Message- From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 4:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Account Unknown profiles Too bad the Gators spoiled their fun last year! John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnersh

RE: Account Unknown profiles

Install the User Profile Hive Cleanup Service. It will remove all those pesky locks and allow you to clean up nicely. http://www.microsoft.com/downloadS/details.aspx?FamilyID=1b286e6d-8912-4 e18-b570-42470e2f3582&displaylang=en -Brian From: Joe Heaton [mai

RE: Account Unknown profiles

Too bad the Gators spoiled their fun last year! 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, A+, N+, VSP -Original Message- From: Tim Va

RE: Account Unknown profiles

Sherry here's hoping you're not a basketball fan. Except when the Nuggets beat the you know what out of the whinny Cubanites (a.k.a) the Mavericks. :) -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 3:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Sub

RE: Account Unknown profiles

Except when the Sooners beat the tar and stuffing out of the Longhorns every year in the Cotton Bowl. :-) Sorry Sherry, couldn't resist. TVK -Original Message- From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 4:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Acco

RE: OT-RE: Account Unknown profiles

Unfortunately all the doors being opened say Women on the outside. TVK -Original Message- From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 4:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT-RE: Account Unknown profiles Still doing the sales engineer thing with Peak

RE: Account Unknown profiles

The credit goes to our little NT list queen of Texas. I called Sherry with a Nortel VPN question and she got on my case pretty hard for dropping off-list. So here I is...b\c I'm scared to death of Sherry, as you don't mess with Texas! Shook -Original Message- From: Ziots, Edward [mai

OT-RE: Account Unknown profiles

Still doing the sales engineer thing with Peak 10 but I've recently added some Sr. mgmt responsibilities with staff and its working out well. I really like it and its going to open tons of doors for me down the road. Con tact off list if you need an updated vCard... Shook -Original Mess

RE: Account Unknown profiles

Shook was lost, and now has been found... Ok who looked under the rock and found his hiding place again ( Grin Shookie) Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + ezi...@lifespan.org Phone:401-639-3505 -Original Message- From

RE: Account Unknown profiles

I was actually just thinking of you this weekend Shookie. My dog went out in the rain and rolled in the mud and something oddly resembling goose feces. When she came back inside, the combination of sight and smell made me think of you buddy. ;-) TVK -Original Message- From: Andy Shook [

RE: Account Unknown profiles

So are you done with the Sales thing? So do settle back in. It's been a little stale lately. :) -Original Message- From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 3:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Account Unknown profiles Thanks big guy, it's go

Re: Account Unknown profiles

They won't. They're all Shook up. - Original Message - From: "Andy Shook" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 5:00 PM Subject: RE: Account Unknown profiles > Thanks big guy, it's good to be back. Of course, it won't feel like home until Webster\ME2\MBS\TVK\Blacks

RE: Account Unknown profiles

Check the archives.Welcome back! 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, A+, N+, VSP -Original Message- From: Andy Shook [mailt

RE: Account Unknown profiles

Thanks big guy, it's good to be back. Of course, it won't feel like home until Webster\ME2\MBS\TVK\Blackstone et al, chime in with some wise crack at my expense... :) Shook -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 4:54 PM To: NT Syste

RE: Account Unknown profiles

Shookie!! Welcome back, man... missed ya around here. Well, I ended up taking ownership of the profile folders, deleting the old, non-existent account from the Security tab, and putting me there with full control, and the delete buttons under the Profile list appeared for me. These two profi

RE: Wan optimizer

what type of traffic are you trying to accelerate ? Most WAN Optimizers cache the data stream and remove most of the windowing/handshaking to reduce the latency ... so your data streams to the destination without two way delays of 'got that segment, what's the next segment , got that next segment,

RE: Wan optimizer

Yes, and it does a lot more than that. CFee From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 2:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wan optimizer Was that compression and traffic prioritization? >>> "Carol Fee" 5/26/2009

Vista and Server 08 SP2

Speaking of patches, anyone tested this yet. So far, we have it on one vista 32 system and no issues. Nice to have one patch for both server and workstations. Gonna test on a couple of virtual 08 server later this week. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: Exporting permissions

fileacl.exe will not only export the permissions, it will optionally do so in the form of a batch file that that you can use to re-apply them after editing or whatever. It's a very nice tool indeed. On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 07:54, helpdesk UK wrote: > I have come across a domain I need to migrate

Adobe "Patch day"

I was out last week, was this discussed? http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3442&tag=nl.e019 David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Exporting permissions

Icacls on Windows 2003 R2 SP2 also will export the permissions too: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753525(WS.10).aspx Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + ezi...@lifespan.org Phone:401-639-3505 ___

RE: Account Unknown profiles

+1. I've seen this on folders used by MS updates to store their decompressed files in during the install. Taking ownership of them allowed me to delete them. The error message was that they were 'in use'. From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 1:47 PM To: N

RE: Wan optimizer

Was that compression and traffic prioritization? >>> "Carol Fee" 5/26/2009 2:06 PM >>> +1 for Riverbed. CFee From: Jason Morris [mailto:jmor...@mjmc.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 12:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wan optimizer I used Riverbed in a test environment and

RE: Wan optimizer

+1 for Riverbed. CFee From: Jason Morris [mailto:jmor...@mjmc.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 12:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wan optimizer I used Riverbed in a test environment and was impressed with their performance. However, the appli

RE: Account Unknown profiles

Try from your machine using the manage option My Computer, and manage accounts. Also, try the C$ share remotely and see if you can rename the old users' folders. Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [mailt

RE: Account Unknown profiles

Joe, Check your permissions on those files "in use" . When I've seen this in the past, it was due to the account I was logged in with didn't have full control of the file(s) in question. In that case, I would take ownership of said files, modify permissions as needed, then kill it. IME, those

Re: Account Unknown profiles

Can't figure out why anything would be grabbing these two ntuser.dat files. These users have been gone for a long time, before I got here. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

Re: Account Unknown profiles

You could try using Process Explorer to find the ntuser.dat file via the Find function which will show which process or handle has the file(s) open, then close the handle using the same tool I take no responsibility if the server BSODs or hangs though :-) 2009/5/26 Joe Heaton > Server 2k3 > >

RE: Windows 7 to ship all versions on one medium

I just downloaded the Vista SP2 DVD from eOpen. The file is named: SW_DVD5_Windows_Vista_Business_32BIT_English_Full_Int_SP2_MLF_X15-39889.ISO Upon running setup.exe, the title window for the license agreement reads: WINDOWS VISTA BUSINESS SERVICE PACK 2 So at least for me, the

RE: Account Unknown profiles

Same results when I RDP to the box using the local admin credentials. The profile delete button is grayed out, and neither of the profile folders can be deleted. I'm going to try to reboot at lunch time, and see what happens. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Account Unknown profiles

You may also want to check the Admin accounts on the box to make sure they are set as administrators, they may have changed to debugger users. -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 1:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE:

RE: Account Unknown profiles

Can you manage the box remotely and remove the accounts? Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 12:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Account U

RE: Account Unknown profiles

I'll give that a try. Now to find time to reboot the main file server, lol. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

RE: Please disregard

Gee, I guess it is working... lol Klint From: David Lum [david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 8:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Please disregard Yeah I picked ‘em up on sale – it was buy one get one, limit ten so I stocked up! “Sarcasm…g

Re: mass email

Oh, we´ve done somethings like that. It is just that it bothers me that people have all the trouble signing, writing ( even in the paper forms ) , don´t pay attention to what they are signing, and later complain that the one email they receive with marketing info is too much... oh well, users.

RE: Wan optimizer

I used Riverbed in a test environment and was impressed with their performance. However, the application we were looking to optimize had very little benefit from the "Caching" that Riverbed uses. That wasn't a failure on their part, it was the old technology of the application. For most other data

Wan optimizer

I've seen occasional talk about bandwidth management/compression. I'm looking for an appliance that can do this between my HQ site and second largest site. Anyone have any experience/recommendations. The two I am familiar with are Citrix's WANOptimizer and Packeteer (now Blue Coat). Thanks,

RE: Account Unknown profiles

Reboot, log on as local admin account and see if they are no longer greyed out. From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 9:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Account Unknown profiles Server 2k3 I've got a couple profiles on my server that are listed as Acco

RE: Account Unknown profiles

Log in as local admin or domain admin and delete them? From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent: 26 May 2009 17:36 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Account Unknown profiles Server 2k3 I've got a couple profiles on my server that are listed as Account Unknown. The delete button is g

Account Unknown profiles

Server 2k3 I've got a couple profiles on my server that are listed as Account Unknown. The delete button is greyed out for them. I'd like to delete them, but can't figure out how. When I look under C:\Documents and Settings, I see two folders there for personnel that have not been with the o

RE: Please disregard

Yeah I picked 'em up on sale - it was buy one get one, limit ten so I stocked up! "Sarcasm...get yer sarcasm here!" Dave From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 6:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Please disregard That's that new thing called sarc

Re: Please disregard

Shookie, you're back!!! It's about time ;) On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Andy Shook wrote: > That’s that new thing called sarcasm isn’t it? > > > > Shook > > > > *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] > *Sent:* Tuesday, May 26, 2009 9:42 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:

RE: mass email

We combat that problem by using double opt-in (confirmed consent) and then we store the source of the sign up (web form, sweepstakes entry, etc) along with the date and include that in every email we send. So it'll say something like "Andy Ognenoff, you subscribed on 5/26/09 as andyognenoff[at]gma

Re: Performance problem on VMwareServer2 - gah

I played around with VMWare server 2.0 and found the ajax web server sucked all the life out of the host. That was the only thing on a fairly quick machine. Version 1 kills Version 2 performance wise. Throw in AJAX with the rest of your google search terms and read on. -Devin On Sun, May 24, 2

Re: Two Factor Authentication

Robert, We are using RSA for authentication with OWA (Exchange 2007), Cisco VPN and access to our intranet from outside. OWA and intranet access is through a Whale Box which is now Microsoft IAG. The solution works very well for us. Denny ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a reso

Re: Two Factor Authentication

Thought of another question Does you implementation have special requirements (Cisco hardware or ISA server for example)? On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Robert Cato wrote: > Good morning, > > Anybody using two-factor authentication that would care to share opinions > and an overview of

RE: Please disregard

That's that new thing called sarcasm isn't it? Shook From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 9:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Please disregard What do you mean? I totally disregarded Klint's e-mail, it's yours I am replying to :-). Nobody on this l

RE: Please disregard

What do you mean? I totally disregarded Klint's e-mail, it's yours I am replying to :-). Nobody on this list ever replies to anything except strict NT administrator business! David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 -Original

RE: Two Factor Authentication

We have been using the RSA SecurID Tokens and haven't had any issues with it running ES03 on WS03. Currently, we are only using it for OWA and for three people to use with a Cisco VPN. The Cisco VPN was a little challenge to setup and we did have an issue with RSA and multi-homed servers. ___

RE: Two Factor Authentication

We use RSA and have had zero issues with it. Initial pin setup for users is a little confusing, I had to walk through 90% of the people using it(even with directions). From: Robert Cato [mailto:cato.rob...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 9:08 AM To: NT

Two Factor Authentication

Good morning, Anybody using two-factor authentication that would care to share opinions and an overview of how you are using? We are looking to protect E2K7 OWA, MOSS07, and Terminal Services. Here are a couple I have found that look promising. http://www.multifa.com/ http://enterprise.comodo.co

Re: Please disregard

Oh, sure. None of us will pay any attention; especially on *this* list. hehehe. Good job! On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Klint Price - ArizonaITPro wrote: > Just upgraded my MTA to E2K7, and making sure everything is routing > correctly. > > Klint > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security