RE: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain

Hi, Unless you have proper procedures for safegaurding this stuff, and legals in place, I would do this all on the customer's premises (or wherever they instruct you to work) on their equipment. They must have a budget for this (otherwise how are they paying you?), and it becomes a cost of part

RE: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain

"What happens when you tell the customer you've made a backup of their whatever and their office burns down a couple days later? " You're wy off base here ... there are too many theoreticals ... what happens, if during the upgrade, something goes wrong and the active directory metabase beco

RE: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain

Thank You ! Someone that gets it ! The real world versus how it should be. You folks working within a 'real' corporate IT structure don't know how good you have it ( I have been there, too ). You wouldn't believe the number of sites with no disaster recovery plan, or even backups. Of those th

RE: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain

Yes pretty much. Here's another way I'd think of this. What's your liability insurance got to say about this bonus service? What happens when you tell the customer you've made a backup of their whatever and their office burns down a couple days later? Sure you can just restore that bonus backup

Re: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Ken Schaefer wrote: > I'm going to have to agree with Brian on this. Making a copy of someone's > DIT isn't the same as a proper backup. I don't think Brian's questioning > your professionalism here - but if I was a customer I'd be quite nervous > about this to.

RE: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain

Erik, I'm going to have to agree with Brian on this. Making a copy of someone's DIT isn't the same as a proper backup. I don't think Brian's questioning your professionalism here - but if I was a customer I'd be quite nervous about this to. The type of clients that Brian works with don't need

RE: Gmail

It was a joke on my part, I couldn't resist the jab. In all honesty I use Outlook everywhere (work, home, clients) and have no issues with it. Same for IE. Same for XP / Vista. They're popular to shoot fun at, but for me, what I do day in and day out, it's no problem. I figure the more frequent

RE: New IE zero day exploit in the wild

Are all your users admins? Otherwise, how is that logon script going to update HKLM? Machine-based startup script would be better idea, no? Cheers Ken From: Kurt Buff [kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 8 July 2009 2:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues S

RE: Gmail

It has its flaws, but it re-defined the way email/contacts/calendar were done, and as far as I'm concerned, does them more seamlessly than just about any other program. It's not too hard to find many other programs that are trying to be like Outlook. Now admittedly it's best when running with an

Re: Gmail

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Steven M. Caesare wrote: > Outlook has rocked for years. Outlook isn't terribly good at anything in particular. There are better email programs. There are better calendar programs. There are better task managers. Outlook's strengths lie in integration, having

Re: Gmail

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Ben Schorr wrote: > That explains why so many clients are calling me to get them off Exchange > and onto Groupwis Popularity generally isn't a reflection of technical merit. Just look at television or popular music. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint securit

RE: Gmail

Well, that's true, I am definitely of the opinion that "whatever works" but to be honest...in the last 5 years I've had ZERO calls to replace Exchange with Groupwise and probably a dozen or more who wanted to replace Groupwise with Exchange. Your mileage may vary, of course. :-) Ben M. Schorr Chi

RE: Gmail

Exchange != Outlook AnywaI dunno what you are doing, but with proper admin, Exchange doesn���t either. -sc From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 7:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Gmail GroupWise. Never goes down (on Windows/Li

RE: Gmail

I have to second Michael's sentiment. Outlook has rocked for years. I've yet to find anything as remotely slick as Outlook/Exchange... particular for multiple-PC/multiple-location/mobile folks. IMAP didn't even really come close... and I tried hard to make it. -sc From: Michael B. Smith

RE: MJ's Arcade Virtual Tour (my submit for next week's sunbelt newsletter links)

Well, the flash debugger popping up to give diagnostic info (including the registered owner if the development tool, lol) kinda spoiled the browser magic for me... but actually it was very cool. -sc From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 5:12 PM To: NT Sys

RE: MJ's Arcade Virtual Tour (my submit for next week's sunbelt newsletter links)

He had some nice cabs and pins in there... From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 4:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: MJ's Arcade Virtual Tour (my submit for next week's sunbelt newsletter links) http://www.pinsane.com/pinora

RE: Gmail

Seriously? Exchange has most of the market but GW is so easy to manage. Some of the features are different than Exchange, but it is definitely a full-featured client. Whatever works for my employer is what they get... >>> "Ben Schorr" 7/7/2009 7:44 PM >>> That explains why so many clients a

RE: Gmail

Hey - I said fully-featured. (No intent to start a war here. :-) ) From: Tom Miller [tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 7:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Gmail GroupWise. Never goes down (on Windows/Linux/Netware). Been doing GW admin

RE: Gmail

That explains why so many clients are calling me to get them off Exchange and onto Groupwi� ���oh wait, I think I said that backwards. ;-) Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer __ Roland Schorr & Tower www.rolandschorr.com

RE: Gmail

GroupWise. Never goes down (on Windows/Linux/Netware). Been doing GW admin for many years, many versions. (Exchange admin as well but I can't say Exchange didn't go down, but I hear 2010 is real good.) >>> "Michael B. Smith" 7/7/2009 7:35 PM >>> Oh? And what fully-featured Email/PIM do you f

RE: Gmail

Oh? And what fully-featured Email/PIM do you find to be more stable than Outlook? From: David Lum [david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 3:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Gmail So has Outlook…. From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@g

RE: Import-mailbox duplicate behaviour

My advice to you (and all other readers) - don't depend on default behavior. Specify all available parameters. From: Oliver Marshall [oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 4:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Import-mailbox duplicate b

RE: New IE zero day exploit in the wild

What patch? Killbit workaround is not a patch. Open the registry and look for the registry keys. Carl From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 5:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: New IE zero day exploit in the wild Anyone know how to confir

RE: New IE zero day exploit in the wild

Anyone know how to confirm this patch is applied? Any tools around yet? I'd just as soon not manually check 4 or 5 machines sand assume all 400 are OK...and if I don't have to write my own script to check 'em, all the better... David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk)

RE: MJ's Arcade Virtual Tour (my submit for next week's sunbelt newsletter links)

I can't decide what's more bitchin' - the arcade, or the ability to navigate through it From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 1:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: MJ's Arcade Virtual Tour (my submit for next week's sunbelt news

OT: MJ's Arcade Virtual Tour (my submit for next week's sunbelt newsletter links)

http://www.pinsane.com/pinorama/events/MJ_09/kr/michael_jackson_arcade_e ntry.html In. Sane. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

Re: Server 2008 fail/ My fail?

Did you adjust the GPO? Administrative Templates\System\User Profiles "Add the Administrators security group to roaming user profiles" On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Owens, Michael wrote: > Heres what is going on. > > I have a share, that TS profiles get created on. Only that account has > ac

Re: Firefox 3.5 Silent Install.

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming wrote: > No, you have to be admin to update any program except Chrome, which installs > in > %APPDATA% and is completely writeable by the user who install it. And it doesn't even offer the *option* of installing somewhere else. Or at least it

RE: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain

You're entitled to your opinion ... but from my experience, providing and offsite backup at my expense ( zero charge if not needed ) is a very VALUABLE service to most of these small businesses. And I *NEVER* do this without fully informing the client, so they always have right of refusal. Most ha

RE: GPO to block chrome.exe

> Google felt it was above security principles and users/lusers should have the final say They supplied an adm file for a GPO to block their toolbar in the past so that's not entirely accurate. Seems to me they will have to adapt that mindset if they want to their services to appeal to enterpri

Import-mailbox duplicate behaviour

Hi gang, Does anyone know what the default behaviour of the import-mailbox powershell command is when importing data in to an existing mailbox? Will duplicates occur if two emails are the same, or will it only import emails that don't already exist? Olly ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security

Re: Firefox 3.5 Silent Install.

On 5 Jul 2009 at 11:57, Stephen Wimberly wrote: > The NTT sounds great, but can a non-admin run it and upgrade any > update??? No, you have to be admin to update any program except Chrome, which installs in %APPDATA% and is completely writeable by the user who install it. Now if you had insta

RE: Advice... need a network book

Vickey, I am also in the process of looking for no/low cost (non-profit, no budget) training for myself and our two other staff, so I'm interested to see what people recommend. One option in addition to a good book that looks interesting is video training at vtc.com. They have a $3

RE: New IE zero day exploit in the wild

TY Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + ezi...@lifespan.org Phone:401-639-3505 From: Eric Wittersheim [mailto:eric.wittersh...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 1:57 PM To: NT System

Re: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Brian Desmond wrote: > IMO a “network security engineer” would know better than to take copies of > sensitive customer data like that. Put it this way, if you were on my > payroll and I found out you were walking off with a copy of my DIT you’d be > shown the door st

RE: Advice... need a network book

Maybe something like this to start with? http://www.amazon.com/Network-Warrior-Gary-Donahue/dp/0596101511/ref=sr_1_ 5?ie=UTF8 &s=books&qid=1246995980&sr=1-5 Chris Bodna

RE: troubleshooting website performance

Also you can use Fiddler to look at the http responses from a client prespective to see if you can capture the 400/500 errors. You can even see which script or url sequence is taking the longest as it looks from the client, and reissue that request after you make changes to see if the performance i

Re: OT: Advice... need a network book

Heh. Haven't worked with the HP WAPs, so don't have an opinion on those, but the Linksys and DLink WAPs I had were utter rubbish, and I'm glad to have the Cisco units. Kurt On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:35, Vicky Spelshaus wrote: > Sorry Kurt - even the wireless is HP.   :-) > Wireless Edge services

RE: Can't change hidden attribute, nor take ownership, of a file

No wonder it's causing an issue, it's Ed Rendell! J Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com

RE: Weird issue with Domain Controllers

There should be a corresponding mini in c:\windows\minidump, let's start with that. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 1:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Weird issue with Dom

Re: OT: Advice... need a network book

Sorry Kurt - even the wireless is HP. :-) Wireless Edge services in the 5308xl and ProCurve 210 radios. Can't afford Cisco. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > If she's got Cisco switches I suggest selling them on ebay, getting HP > equipement, then investing the difference i

Re: New IE zero day exploit in the wild

How lucky for you. Heh. Still on Win2k3 here, and likely to be so for quite a while. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:14, James Rankin wrote: > I'm pushing it out via Group Policy Preferences. 2008 rocks > > 2009/7/7 Kurt Buff >> >> I'm just pushing out the .reg file in the login script: >> >>     rege

Re: OT: Advice... need a network book

If she's got Cisco switches I suggest selling them on ebay, getting HP equipement, then investing the difference in the books she needs. Except for the Cisco WAPs, of course - can't beat those, IME. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:21, paul chinnery wrote: > I found the Cisco Press books to be quite goo

Re: OT: Advice... need a network book

All HP... core switch is a 5308xl and all the rest are 2800 series. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:21 PM, paul chinnery wrote: > I found the Cisco Press books to be quite good, especially the Catalyst > Switch Config field manual. What kind of switches do you have (Cisco, 3com, > HP?) > > --

Re: OT: Advice... need a network book

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:15, Vicky Spelshaus wrote: > As the IT staff for a small college (just me and one other full time person > in charge of distance ed support), I am the perfect example of "jack of all > trades, master of none".  While I'm comfortable with my skill level in > regard to the s

RE: OT: Advice... need a network book

I found the Cisco Press books to be quite good, especially the Catalyst Switch Config field manual. What kind of switches do you have (Cisco, 3com, HP?) From: vicky.spelsh...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 14:15:11 -0500 Subject: OT: Advice... need a network book To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-s

OT: Advice... need a network book

As *the* IT staff for a small college (just me and one other full time person in charge of distance ed support), I am the perfect example of "jack of all trades, master of none". While I'm comfortable with my skill level in regard to the servers and the workstations, I'm somewhat lost when it come

Re: New IE zero day exploit in the wild

I'm pushing it out via Group Policy Preferences. 2008 rocks 2009/7/7 Kurt Buff > I'm just pushing out the .reg file in the login script: > > regedit /s \\fileserver\public\patches\videokillbits.reg > > The file was easy to create, in a capable editor (not notepad or > wordpad) that allows me

Re: New IE zero day exploit in the wild

Just about ALL my users think the monitor is the computer...bloody chip PCs 2009/7/7 paul chinnery > I know, Sherry. But try to teach that to all the users. I still have a > few who think the monitor IS the computer. > > -- > Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 10:54:41 -0500 >

RE: Gmail

So has Outlook From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 10:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Gmail Gmail has been "beta" for years.. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Murray Freeman mailto:mfree...@alanet.org>> wrote: How do I tell if I

Re: Server wants to boot from USB drive - RESOLVED

I put the current firmware on the server, and in the BIOS I can change USB priority from "high" to "low". This in combination with "Removable drives" in the last boot order resolved the issue. I guess this was a firmware issue. You'd think HP would have detected this in testing. >>> Ben Sco

RE: GPO to block chrome.exe

Block the hash of chromesetup.exe. Carl From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 1:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: GPO to block chrome.exe I have a GPO with a path value blocking %userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Appli

RE: Weird issue with Domain Controllers

Yes but it is almost 4GB Craig Gauss, Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital Association Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572 From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 1:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Su

RE: Weird issue with Domain Controllers

Have you got a copy of one of the dumps I can look at? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 1:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Weird issue with Domain Controllers Well no new u

RE: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain

IMO a "network security engineer" would know better than to take copies of sensitive customer data like that. Put it this way, if you were on my payroll and I found out you were walking off with a copy of my DIT you'd be shown the door straight away. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com

RE: Can't change hidden attribute, nor take ownership, of a file

>From a MS KB article (KB120716, I think ): Another option is to use a syntax that bypasses the typical reserve-word checks completely. For example, you can possibly delete any file with a command such as: DEL \\.\driveletter:\path\filename For example: DEL \\.\c:\somedir\aux If the name in

RE: Weird issue with Domain Controllers

Well no new update on this. We thought we had it taken care of on Friday but it seems to have started back up today. Friday we removed one troublesome DC from the domain but today we have another one doing it. We have not narrowed it down to anything. I cant get the one that is currently rebo

Re: Server 2008 fail/ My fail?

Yes I go to the parent folder Edit the list and Add Administrators. I am doing the opposite I am removing permissions I have to Remove the user/group from the list. It is kind of a pain but it works when I get it right. It also makes it quicker to force changes down. Jon On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at

RE: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain

Hopefully "Whole" disk encryption will mitigate this risk. From: KenM [mailto:kenmli...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 12:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain I dont think this is all about trust. What

RE: Server 2008 fail/ My fail?

Heres what is going on. I have a share, that TS profiles get created on. Only that account has access to them, and system. For some reason it takes away administrators - I would like to add a group, to the parent folder, to propogate to all child objects created. Does that make sense?

Re: GPO to block chrome.exe

I personally am waiting until Windows 7 is out. I will be trying to RC soon for AppLocker. I am hoping that will fix the issue as well. Jon On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:00 PM, David Lum wrote: > Oh, I can certainly block the install – McAfee is kludgy, but I can block > anything I want with it.

Re: Can't change hidden attribute, nor take ownership, of a file

Ben Scott wrote on 07/07/2009 01:15:15 PM: > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:04 PM, wrote: > > When it does, I then end > > up with 2 files of the exact same name, but with different icons in > > WinExplorer. > > Hmmm. It sounds like that file name isn't as it appears -- like it > has a reserved ch

RE: GPO to block chrome.exe

Did you take a look at this? http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/100418/how-to-stop-users-from-in stalling-google-chrome.html Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christop

RE: Can't change hidden attribute, nor take ownership, of a file

"Free, Bob" wrote on 07/07/2009 01:25:45 PM: > Tried the prefixing your file path with \\?\trick ? > > ie. C:\Temp\file.txt becomes \\?\C:\Temp\file.txt > > It works sometimes when other methods won?t for objects that don?t > adhere to Win32 naming conventions Close! >ren \\?\"F:\Temp\

RE: GPO to block chrome.exe

Oh, I can certainly block the install - McAfee is kludgy, but I can block anything I want with it. From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 10:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: GPO to block chrome.exe Last time I heard you could not block the install

List postings

I'm not getting any email from the NT or the Exchange list, including my own. I have their domain white-listed so I'm not sure why this is happening. Can someone send me the address of the list manager? Send to blamb...@concuity.com Thanks! Bill Lambert Windows System Administrator

Re: New IE zero day exploit in the wild

yes On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Ziots, Edward wrote: > Are you doing it in a Startup script via the GP? > > > > Z > > > > Edward Ziots > > Network Engineer > > Lifespan Organization > > MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + > > ezi...@lifespan.org > > Phone:401-639-3505 > -

Re: GPO to block chrome.exe

Last time I heard you could not block the install. Google felt it was above security principles and users/lusers should have the final say in what they ran on "their" systems. Jon On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:52 PM, David Lum wrote: > I have a GPO with a path value blocking %userprofile%\Local >

Re: Gmail

Gmail has been "beta" for years.. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Murray Freeman wrote: > How do I tell if I'm still in beta? I don't use my account very often and > I don't remember any "beta" notification. > > > *Murray * > > > -- > *From:* Steven M. Caesare

GPO to block chrome.exe

I have a GPO with a path value blocking %userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe, but it doesn't seem to be working. Running the modeling wizard I see the GPO is applied to the correct system. I also see chrome.exe seems to exist in all sorts of "Local

RE: Gmail

Upper left under the gmail logo used to say "beta" From: Murray Freeman [mailto:mfree...@alanet.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 1:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Gmail How do I tell if I'm still in beta? I don't use my account very often and I don't remember any "beta" n

RE: Gmail

How do I tell if I'm still in beta? I don't use my account very often and I don't remember any "beta" notification. Murray From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 12:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: G

RE: New IE zero day exploit in the wild

Are you doing it in a Startup script via the GP? Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + ezi...@lifespan.org Phone:401-639-3505 From: Eric Wittersheim [mailto:eric.wittersh...@gmail.com]

Re: Server 2008 fail/ My fail?

I have been doing that for the last week while I move from 2003 to 2008. Look at the Security Tab bottom Advanced then Edit then Edit again then Apply To. Will this not work or do you want to Add a group/person/etc. If you are adding then the second Edit should be Add instead. Jon On Tue, Jul 7

Server 2008 fail/ My fail?

Does anyone know why they got rid of the option to "replace permission entries on all child objects with entries shown here that apply to child objects?" Or did they move it? This message, and any response to it, may constitute a public record and thus may be pub

RE: Can't change hidden attribute, nor take ownership, of a file

Mac or more specifically a Unix machine. Hidden files in Unix have a leading period. From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 11:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Can't change hidden attribute, nor take owner

RE: Can't change hidden attribute, nor take ownership, of a file

Tried the prefixing your file path with \\?\trick ? ie. C:\Temp\file.txt becomes \\?\C:\Temp\file.txt It works sometimes when other methods won't for objects that don't adhere to Win32 naming conventions From: michael.le...@pha.phila.gov [mailto:michael.le...@pha.phila.gov] Sen

RE: Gmail

They are now collector's items. Put them on ebay. -sc From: Devin Meade [mailto:devin.me...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 1:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Gmail Refresh took mine out of beta. Hey I only have 96 gmail invites left. What happened to the bazillio

RE: Can't change hidden attribute, nor take ownership, of a file

The alternate streams are accessed by appending a colon on the end... don't think it's that... If you don't wanna reboot and try the safe-mode trick (or I was going to suggest a linux boot disk with the NTFS driver), you might want to see if you can find Services for Unix v3.5... it was install

RE: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain

Laptop doesn't get stolen, files are in encrypted folders, I don't keep identifying info with files beyond knicknames, I delete the virtual server file after several days if no panic calls no world is perfect, but I do take proper and reasonable precautions ... and I do NOT post my firewall conf

Re: OT: RE: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain

Look at it as an opportunity to upsell security consulting services. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Erik Goldoff wrote: > Compared to best practice, you all would shudder at some of what I come > across. > > I do support some law offices ( a few that do real estate closings ) as > escalation

Re: Can't change hidden attribute, nor take ownership, of a file

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:04 PM, wrote: > When it does, I then end > up with 2 files of the exact same name, but with different icons in > WinExplorer. Hmmm. It sounds like that file name isn't as it appears -- like it has a reserved character in the name or something. Like the old trick of fi

Re: Gmail

Refresh took mine out of beta. Hey I only have 96 gmail invites left. What happened to the bazillion I had? On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Steven M. Caesare wrote: > I guess that shows what they think of you. > > > > -sc > > > > *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesd

Re: Gmail

LOL yeah is does. Jon On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Steven M. Caesare wrote: > I guess that shows what they think of you. > > > > -sc > > > > *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, July 07, 2009 1:03 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Gmail > > > >

Re: Gmail

That worked guess they did the change sometime since 4 am today. Jon On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Kevin Lundy wrote: > Just do a full browser refresh > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Jon Harris wrote: > >> Mine still shows as Beta. >> >> Jon >> >> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Ste

RE: Gmail

I'll literally LoL if they have a widespread outage today. -sc > -Original Message- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 1:04 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Gmail > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Steven M. Caesare > wrote: > >

Re: Can't change hidden attribute, nor take ownership, of a file

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:39 PM, wrote: > Thoughts? Pointers? Clues? etc More standard-issue guesses than anything: - Make sure nothing has the file open. Use FSMGMT.MSC and HANDLE.EXE from Sysinternals. - Try closing Windows Explorer (Start -> Shutdown, then CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+ESC) and manipulat

RE: Gmail

I guess that shows what they think of you. -sc From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 1:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Gmail Mine still shows as Beta. Jon On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Steven M. Caesare wrote: Well, well, well

Re: Gmail

Just do a full browser refresh On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Jon Harris wrote: > Mine still shows as Beta. > > Jon > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Steven M. Caesare > wrote: > >> Well, well, well… finally out of beta. >> >> >> >> -sc >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful end

Re: Gmail

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Jon Harris wrote: > Mine still shows as Beta. I've seen in the past that Google's systems take a while to propagate changes. Given the purported size and distribution of their IT infrastructure, that doesn't surprise me. They have an "official" blog entry abou

RE: Can't change hidden attribute, nor take ownership, of a file

"Steven M. Caesare" wrote on 07/07/2009 12:56:18 PM: > That?s a leading period? That?s probably jacking you up. It is. However, you can have filename that start with leading periods in Windows; I have done that, as troubleshooting. They work fine. This particular file does not. > Go to the M

RE: Gmail

No beta here. wow From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 11:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Gmail Mine still shows as Beta. Jon On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Steven M. Caesare wrote: Well, well, well... finally out of beta. -sc

Re: Gmail

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Steven M. Caesare wrote: > Well, well, well… finally out of beta. OMG, it's *s* much better now! (To quote Homer Simpson, "In case you can't tell, I'm being sarcastic.") ;-) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: Gmail

Mine still shows as Beta. Jon On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Steven M. Caesare wrote: > Well, well, well… finally out of beta. > > > > -sc > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

Gmail

Well, well, well... finally out of beta. -sc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

Re: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain

I dont think this is all about trust. What happens when your laptop gets stolen and someone has full access to the DC image files. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Erik Goldoff wrote: > With all due respect, if they cannot trust a network security engineer > that helps to maintain and impro

Re: New IE zero day exploit in the wild

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Sherry Abercrombie wrote: > IE Tabs will work for just about everything IE in FF. That wouldn't help the IE security issue that kicked off this thread. (Well, assuming the luser went and invoked an IE tab to get the ActiveX control that wouldn't run, to run.

OT: RE: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain

Compared to best practice, you all would shudder at some of what I come across. I do support some law offices ( a few that do real estate closings ) as escalation for their normal IT consultants. I *always* call before showing up, and I tell them I'm going to plug into their firewall to reconf

RE: Can't change hidden attribute, nor take ownership, of a file

That's a leading period? That's probably jacking you up. Go to the Mac that originated and see if you can rename across the network. -sc From: michael.le...@pha.phila.gov [mailto:michael.le...@pha.phila.gov] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 12:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Can'

Re: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain

Agree with best practices, but with personal experience in dealing with consultants, we make them sign a contract/NDA that prohibits them from using any information or disclosing it outside our organization. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Erik Goldoff wrote: > With all due respect, if they ca

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