RE: Kinda OT: ESX with only two nics

The built-in network ports are just pass-thru ports, not switches and are tied to their respective blade - A1 port 1 and A2 port 1 are tied to blade 1. I have an M600 with 4 additional Cisco 3032 20 port switches (16 internal and 4 external). The Cisco's give each blade 4 additional NIC's, two ar

Re: In case you missed it: Adobe to release patches along with Microsoft's "Patch Tuesday"

What you don't like giving users admin rights? Or undeploying the software via GPO patching the installation files and then redeploying? On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Micheal Espinola > Jr wrote: > > This starts tomorrow. Coincidental my @s

Re: Visual Representation of network devices

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 12:07, Craig Gauss wrote: > Has anyone seen any low cost, open source or coded any sort of webpage that > could be a quick and easy visual representation of your network?  We had a > switch go down this morning and it would have been nice for my Help Desk > staff to look at a

RE: Finding Old files

It's Monday... It's odd that Micro$oft would have something that powerful built-in.. :> Been playing around with Robocopy to get this done. My (ab)users have surprised me with some creative folder structures, some of the levels are too deep and the paths too long...Nice. The command line gives me

Re: Windows 2008 Trial License to Volume License

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Keith Turgeon wrote: > No respect insult taken, I just got on the project today, so I just get the > fun cleanup part :) Ahhh, yes. "If you think it costs a lot to do it right, just wait until you find out how much it costs to do it wrong". -- me -- Ben ~ Final

Re: In case you missed it: Adobe to release patches along with Microsoft's "Patch Tuesday"

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr wrote: > This starts tomorrow.  Coincidental my @ss.  And, its about time... Now if Adobe could only make patch download/installation for their products at least be less painful than a root canal without Novocaine, we might be getting somewhere

Re: Visual Representation of network devices

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Craig Gauss wrote: > Has anyone seen any low cost, open source or coded any sort of webpage that > could be a quick and easy visual representation of your network? There was a thread on NANOG on this back in February. I didn't check out any of the responses, but

Re: Finding Old files

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Mike French wrote: > My google fu is not going well today. Anybody have a favorite utility > (preferably not just a script piped to a text file) that can search a > file server and filter the files based on last modified date? I'd use command line tools, but since

Re: Windows 2008 Trial License to Volume License

No respect insult taken, I just got on the project today, so I just get the fun cleanup part :) On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Erik Goldoff wrote: > I haven't heard of a *proper* way to turn a trial or beta into production > without the inplace or forklift upgrade ... With all due respect,

RE: Visual Representation of network devices

don't know about current, but yes, used to be an SNMP based discovery Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security _ From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 5:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Visual Representation of

RE: Visual Representation of network devices

This one is free: http://preview.tinyurl.com/co7cuo Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 5:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Visual Representatio

RE: Visual Representation of network devices

Isn't there an add-on for Visio for network discovery? From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 5:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Visual Representation of network devices not so much graphical, as a tablular web page, check out sAlive! ( Serv

RE: Visual Representation of network devices

not so much graphical, as a tablular web page, check out sAlive! ( Servers Alive ) I think you can still run the full version as an evail for up to 10 monitored settings Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security _ From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.

RE: Windows 2008 Trial License to Volume License

I haven't heard of a *proper* way to turn a trial or beta into production without the inplace or forklift upgrade ... With all due respect, I would never put a trial version into critical production based on the license timeout issue Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security

RE: Visual Representation of network devices

Can't beat the cost of Nagios! (free) www.nagios.org From: Carol Fee [mailto:c...@massbar.org] Sent: June-08-09 3:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Visual Representation of network devices I don't know what the cost is these days, but Whats Up Gold is great. CFee

RE: Decision tree / troubleshooting software recommendations

Fuze creates knowledge base solutions that allow you to populate answers to typical questions. You can set expiration dates on answers, set triggers to review answers and get notified when users have new questions or are unsatisfied with their results, and get reports on top questions. It really

Re: Changing MY DOSS location using script or batch file after log in

On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 14:51:14 -0700 (PDT), Mike Wiebke wrote: >The trick is that you need to tell explorer to reread the registry settings. Here is a snippet from a vbscript that will redirect the My Documents to a network drive after the user is logged in. Watch out for the wrapping. The tri

Re: Windows 2008 Trial License to Volume License

Yes you are correct, we are looking to add in a volume MAK key. On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Brian Desmond wrote: > *I assume you’re specifying a MAK key and not a KMS key?* > > * * > > *There’s no such thing as a traditional VLK anymore in WS2008.* > > * * > > *Thanks,* > > *Brian Desmond*

RE: Finding Old files

I have used File Insight from Brocade, very comprehensive report on the fileserver. ___ Stefan Jafs From: Rob Bonfiglio [mailto:robbonfig...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 3:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Finding Old files I wrote/borrowed

RE: Windows 2008 Trial License to Volume License

I assume you're specifying a MAK key and not a KMS key? There's no such thing as a traditional VLK anymore in WS2008. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 Active Directory, 4th Ed - http://www.briandesmond.com/ad4/ Microsoft MVP - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profi

RE: Visual Representation of network devices

For my SOHO network Cisco makes a nice program named Network Magic . I suspect they also have a version for larger networks. This latest release is really nice, visually. From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 15:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subjec

Re: Finding Old files

I wrote/borrowed a script that looked at the last accessed date and logged anything that was older than 6 months to a CSV file. It's written in VBScript. I'm sure there are tools out there that do what you wantin fact, now that I look, Robocopy probably does what you need. But, if you'd like

RE: Finding Old files

I good gui app that might work for you is syncback. It can keep directory structure and permissions. Sam -Original Message- From: Mike French [mailto:mike.fre...@theequitybank.com] Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 2:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Finding Old files My google fu i

RE: Visual Representation of network devices

I don't know what the cost is these days, but Whats Up Gold is great. CFee From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 3:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Visual Representation of network devices Has anyone seen a

Re: Windows 2008 Trial License to Volume License

My understanding is that CDW is correct. We were trying to do something similar here, downloading the trial edition and then using the Volume License key rather than the trial key. It wouldn't work. We had to figure out who we had to talk to about getting access to the volume license site and do

RE: Cellular terminals/routers

I have a Sprint/Linksys one for a small remote location, and a Fortinet 60B for another large office. Both work great. There are also add-on cards that you can stick into existing Cisco routers. Sam From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abide

Finding Old files

My google fu is not going well today. Anybody have a favorite utility (preferably not just a script piped to a text file) that can search a file server and filter the files based on last modified date? We do full daily backups even though only about 2% of our data actually changes. I want to move o

Visual Representation of network devices

Has anyone seen any low cost, open source or coded any sort of webpage that could be a quick and easy visual representation of your network? We had a switch go down this morning and it would have been nice for my Help Desk staff to look at a webpage and see that the switch was not responding to pin

Windows 2008 Trial License to Volume License

Hello, I am looking at an issue, and would like a little extra clarification. We have a couple of servers that have been installed using the Windows 2008 trial copy that is available for download from Microsoft. This enabled the company to get the servers up and running as they would like.

RE: Robocopy Alternative

I got XP026 from the robocopy copy gui link you posted and it has the /dcopy:t option to copy directory timestamps. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 12:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Robocopy Alternative

OT: Cellular terminals/routers

Doing a little research and found this Telular Wi-PATH SX7T GSM Premise Access Transport Hub. Wondering if anyone has any recent feedback on this kind or device or cellular routers. I remember several years ago, people complaining in online forums about various consumer cellular routers (mostly

In case you missed it: Adobe to release patches along with Microsoft's "Patch Tuesday"

This starts tomorrow. Coincidental my @ss. And, its about time... > Regular Security Updates – Starting this summer with the initial output of > our security code hardening effort, we plan to release security updates for > all major supported versions and platforms of Adobe Reader and Acrobat

RE: Kinda OT: ESX with only two nics

That's right.. Creating trunk of 2 NICs (effectively giving 2 Gbps speed) than - You tag your ILO to use a particular VLAN (to access blade or enclosure)- Let your COS on a saperate VLAN, iSCSI and production network respectively. This is supported configuration by VMWare. Just make sure that yo

RE: Robocopy Alternative

> Yah, I saw that. I'm not a big fan of GUIs so I pretty much ignored >it. Your point about multithreading is a good one, though, so maybe I >should give it another look... I haven't used it yet, but based on the help file it looks like you can use the command line for most/all of its functions

Re: Robocopy Alternative

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Alverson, Tom (Xetron) wrote: > I just downloaded it from your link below, and did not find any newer > version of ROBOCOPY that was installed. I get ROBOCOPY Version XP026. What did you get? > The ROBOCOPY that comes with Vista has an option to copy the > time

Re: Robocopy Alternative

I got the 26 version when I downloaded the gui. I had to look for it but it was there. - Original Message - From: "Alverson, Tom (Xetron)" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 12:15 PM Subject: RE: Robocopy Alternative I just downloaded it from your link below, an

RE: Robocopy Alternative

OK, I found it now in C:\windows\system32. I will see if it has the option to preserve folder date/time. Tom -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 3:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Robocopy Alternative On Sat, Jun 6,

RE: Robocopy Alternative

I just downloaded it from your link below, and did not find any newer version of ROBOCOPY that was installed. The ROBOCOPY that comes with Vista has an option to copy the time and datestamps of the folders you are copying that I would like to have, but the Vista EXE will not run on Windows 2003 se

RE: SharePoint database

That sounds good, I would like to look at that. I would need to migrate from a legacy database to a new one. They are on the same server. _ From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 8:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SharePoint database

Re: SharePoint database

And, what I've got is for Sharepoint Services, not portal serverif that makes a difference. There "should" be KB articles on Microsoft's site with that kind of information. On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Sherry Abercrombie wrote: > I've got some documentation on how to migrate the database

Re: SharePoint database

I've got some documentation on how to migrate the database from one server to another which would effectively do what you're asking On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:43 AM, David Minich wrote: > Any ideas on how to extract all the documents from an old SharePoint > companyweb so that I can import t

SharePoint database

Any ideas on how to extract all the documents from an old SharePoint companyweb so that I can import then into a new team SharePoint web? David Minich Ph 602.803.8801 Fx 480.983.9777 dmin...@datamovers.us DataMovers LLC Systems & Network Technologies ~ Finally, powerful endpoint securit

RE: My OS is better than your OS

I think in many cases you'll find the built-in MS driver is actually the vendor reference driver... -sc -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 10:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: My OS is better than your OS O

RE: My OS is better than your OS

OUCH! :-) Score one for FOSS rebuttal. :-) I think we should blame the HW MFR for both Windows AND Linux not having appropriate drivers. Then again, a lot of devices have drivers "built in" in Windows and you don't really need a driver. Now, whether that's an issue with Microsoft taking over the

RE: SMS gateway products

GFI faxmaker, yes it does sms as well Or you could look at clickatel http://www.clickatel.com/ they have a whole load of different ways to send and recieve using them as the gateway. Matt From: Malcolm Reitz [mailto:malcolm.re...@live.com] Sent: 08 June 2009 15:34 To: NT System

RE: My OS is better than your OS

The main reason we are waiting is to let things “settle out” or mature a bit more, in the sense of drivers and apps. I’m not sure that all our apps will work in Vista and switching to Windows 7 may be put on hold as well until machines die and we have to replace them. I just know I have worked on s

RE: SMS gateway products

We use a gateway from www.m-science.com. -Malcolm From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 12:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SMS gateway products For those of you running SMS software on an Internet facing server, what product(s) are yo

RE: Kinda OT: ESX with only two nics

For the blades as NIC ports are limited the best option is to go for Dot1Q vlan trunks, just remember esx expects all the vlans to be tagged, there is no such thing as a native vlan. Matt From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:bem...@pittcountync.gov] Sent: 08 June 2009 13:41 To: NT System Admi

Re: OT: Recruitment agents/agencies for the Middle East

John Matteson could probably give you some pointers. He's currently working for the US Army in Afghanistan as a civilian contractor. On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Daniel E. Rodriguez wrote: > Hmmm. Old Dyncorp used to do that... But, if I remember, CSC bought them > out. But I know they do tha

RE: OT: Recruitment agents/agencies for the Middle East

Hmmm. Old Dyncorp used to do that... But, if I remember, CSC bought them out. But I know they do that type of work/placement. Daniel E. Rodriguez ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

Re: OT: Recruitment agents/agencies for the Middle East

Try www.kaseman.com. I think they place folks all over in government jobs. >>> James Rankin 6/8/2009 3:15 AM >>> Does anyone know of any reputable recruitment agents/agencies specialising in locating people in IT jobs in the Middle East (preferably UAE area)? I have a friend who works as a tea

RE: Kinda OT: ESX with only two nics

The Dell M600 has slots for pass thru switches and a full blown Cisco switch. The M600 we have came with two 16 port pass thru switches. Two for each blade slot. I think I might be able to "borrow" a couple of them for this. I don't need FC I have two equalogic iscsi's hanging off this. I hav

RE: My OS is better than your OS (was: Mac Anti-Malware)

Agreed. If everyone on Linux/Unix was an admin, then there would be just as many 0wned Linux/Unix machines as Windows machines. That being said, it is my considered opinion (just an opinion, but based on years of working with linux) that the Linux/Unix security model is might tighter from the start

RE: Kinda OT: ESX with only two nics

That's the story on our end as well. I was wondering if he really was aiming for 10 ports, and didn't need FC, etc... -sc From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:bem...@pittcountync.gov] Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 8:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Kinda OT: ESX with only two nics I can

RE: Kinda OT: ESX with only two nics

I can only speak about the specifics of our blade hardware, but HP has a mezzanine ethernet card that adds 4 NICs. With the 2 onboard the blade itself, that brings it up to 6. In our particular case, that matches up nicely (no accident) with the number of integrated switches you can put in the ch

Re: FTC shuts down notorious botnet ISP (Zero Day | ZDNet.com)

The only way to fix that is to govern cyberspace the same as we do air or water. By having ports of authority. Since all cyber is eventually on copper make all traffic check in with the port authority (A really big database on known good traffic) before allowing it to proceed to destination.

OT: Recruitment agents/agencies for the Middle East

Does anyone know of any reputable recruitment agents/agencies specialising in locating people in IT jobs in the Middle East (preferably UAE area)? I have a friend who works as a teacher in Dubai who constantly extols the virtues of life there and was trying to cast my net about a bit to see if ther