RE: Good NT sysadmin list?

+100 From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 11:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Good NT sysadmin list? I honestly think I've learned more from the lists (Exchange as well) than all the books I've been through

RE: Advice on re-locating user home profiles

"John C. Anson" wrote on 08/28/2009 12:07:24 PM: > I would use FRS and DFS to replicate the user shares then change their > home folder to the name space share (DFS) OK. But we don't want to use replication (in our case), because we don't want to replicate that much data. Perhaps I am mis-under

Re: Ft. Lauderdale, FL

alone time=mikey time -- ME2 On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Andy Shook wrote: > Dinner/drinks = alone time > > Shook > > -Original Message- > From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 11:43 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject:

Re: Advice on re-locating user home profiles

FRS and DFS will allow for the replication of the users directories without you having to do all the work that you are currently doing. In your case, you have servers at each of the three sites. What you would do is create folders on each server like you norally would, use DFS to create an AD shar

Re: Advice on re-locating user home profiles - DFS questions

Jon Harris wrote on 08/28/2009 12:29:07 PM: > I don't know but I think DFS in 2000 was pretty poorly done, 2003 > was better and I hear the 2008 fixed a lot of things so he may have > issues with DFS. That is assuming he is still running all of his > file servers on 2000, he does not say. 4

Re: Advice on re-locating user home profiles - DFS questions

Daniel Rodriguez wrote on 08/28/2009 12:36:27 PM: > FRS and DFS will allow for the replication of the users directories > without you having to do all the work that you are currently doing. That would a Good Thing ... > In your case, you have servers at each of the three sites. What you > wou

Re: New Attack Cracks WPA in a Minute

Hope they don't have important information at risk like TJ Max, Marshalls, et. al. On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Jon Harris wrote: > I still have garage clients running WEP as setup by Verizon. They don't > see any need to change and don't want to change because "then the Verizon > technici

Re: Advice on re-locating user home profiles - DFS questions

I wish I could help you with that I do know DFS works but my group is too small to make much use of it. I used it in the past (2003 both sides) to assist me in a file server migration but it did have issues, like failing under heavy load. Until I need it again I will not be using it we are now on

Re: Advice on re-locating user home profiles

DFS would probably work if you used it in conjunction with DFS-R. The questions are this 1) Do you want to host ALL of your user profiles on all servers? 2) Is it possible to upgade to Windows 2003 R2, to take advantage of DFS-R? I don't have any experience with DFS using FRS With DFS, you h

RE: New Attack Cracks WPA in a Minute

From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: New Attack Cracks WPA in a Minute Hope they don't have important information at risk like TJ Max, Marshalls, et. al. I was involved in a project to replace all the wireless stuff for a nationwide company. Someone had sat out i

Re: New Attack Cracks WPA in a Minute

These are home owners not stores. Jon On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Jonathan Link wrote: > Hope they don't have important information at risk like TJ Max, Marshalls, > et. al. > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Jon Harris wrote: > >> I still have garage clients running WEP as setup by

.Zip file password

Anyone know of a tool to recover a lost password for a PW protected WinZip file? 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: New Attack Cracks WPA in a Minute

Ok, so they don't have credit card information then. Besides. Their. Own. Or they never shop online? Verizon doesn't have their best interests at heart. I would defintiely push these clients, for my "garage" clients, I lay it out straight, and not once has a customer refused. Some did say it was

Re: .Zip file password

Can't remember where I downloaded it from. The program is called "password Ultimate cracker (zip,word,excel).exe" and has worked fairly well on zip files... unless the zip file is using newer encryption. On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:16 PM, David Lum wrote: > Anyone know of a tool to recover a los

RE: .Zip file password

http://www.elcomsoft.com/archpr.html Is this a 'classic' zip file (no AES encryption)? Do you have at least one file from the zip? If both of these are true it's relatively trivial. If not, brute force and dictionary approaches are pretty much what you're stuck with and could take a lonn

RE: Good NT sysadmin list?

+1 to the nth however much that is... Of course there is much value in the community aspect of the list but when the majority of traffic is noise, good people who make high quality technical contributions go by the wayside. I said just that here 10 years ago and it is still my experience. Previous

Re: OT: Word Definition & Origination - SOLVED!

At the risk of creating even more noise I'll attempt to close this thread. I sought the counsel of someone I know who speaks fluent French and received this response: Chiot (w/o extra t) basically means "puppy" or young dog. Chiottes can mean "john" as in going to the "john" or even like a "slop

Re: New Attack Cracks WPA in a Minute

Of the three I have seen one only uses their systems to do homework and check work schedules (I don't know anything about how they are doing that), another does use it for online shopping and stockmarket stuff (FWIW they are the ones i am most concerned about), and the last uses it mainly for doing

RE: New Attack Cracks WPA in a Minute

Wouldn't happen to be a well know pharmacy per chance. I attended a class a few years ago, learned a few things and on the way home from the class, one of the people I traveled with had his laptop scanning as we were driving back through town. Saw this pharmacy ssid being broadcast, no encryption

Re: Advice on re-locating user home profiles - DFS questions

You can certainly implement DFS without replication. You would simply need to follow your same procedures of backup/restore, copying, etc. when a user moves from one site to another. It would just eliminate the need for modifying the user's profile path. Keep in mind that you'll need to modify your

RE: .Zip file password

Whew. that's a tough one. There used to be utils for cracking them.. A quick Google search turned up a number of them, including this one: http://www.zip-password-cracker.com/ Searching download.com with the term "zip password recovery" also got a lot of hits. Sorting by relevancy helps. The mo

Re: Advice on re-locating user home profiles

Sean Martin wrote on 08/28/2009 01:21:19 PM: > DFS would probably work if you used it in conjunction with DFS-R. > The questions are this > > 1) Do you want to host ALL of your user profiles on all servers? No. Because then I would need hundreds of gigabytes of storage at each site, so that

Re: Good NT sysadmin list?

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr wrote: > I think the noise is far more worth than a sterile robotic forum. Since it seems that several people are having a hard time grasping this concept, I will clarify: It is not the noise but the relative fraction which I am complaining

Re: Good NT sysadmin list?

SC would you post that OT discussion list again? Thanks ;) On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr > wrote: > > I think the noise is far more worth than a sterile robotic forum. > > Since it seems that several people are havin

Re: Good NT sysadmin list?

Anyway, please don't leave us! You've helped me out of quite -- 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 information co

Re: New Attack Cracks WPA in a Minute

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Jeff Brown<2jbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Seriously, what are the odds someone in your neighborhood is lurking around > with the technology/desire to break into your home network? For a home network, the biggest threat is probabbly someone looking to mooch Internet

RE: Good NT sysadmin list?

The irony in all of this is that not a single person has addressed my *on-topic* question about clipboard behavior, but we've had a bazillion off-topic posts about not posting about off-topic subjects, as well as duplicate requests (one plain text, one HTML) to fill out a survey to vote for a produ

OT Good NT sysadmin list?

I think this whole issue could be resolved if we tagged our subjects. Then both 'sides' can live in harmony. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

Re: Advice on re-locating user home profiles - DFS questions

Sean Martin wrote on 08/28/2009 02:31:17 PM: > You can certainly implement DFS without replication. You would > simply need to follow your same procedures of backup/restore, > copying, etc. when a user moves from one site to another. It would > just eliminate the need for modifying the user's

RE: OT Good NT sysadmin list?

I don't condone group tagging. Shook From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 3:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT Good NT sysadmin list? I think this whole issue could be resolved if we tagged our subjects. Then both 'sides' can live in h

RE: New Attack Cracks WPA in a Minute

Another concer, but for people who don't have a WIFI, or who just like to mooch, is the fake "Public WIFI" that are 'default' and unsecured. I understand that these are used by unscrupulous people to capture personal info. Every now and then, I see one of those in my neighborhood. Murray

Re: Good NT sysadmin list?

Umm, no thread stealing! Go create a new on-topic message from scratch ya bastid! But sorry, no, I dont have an answer to that question. I can recall seeing clipboard utilities listed on download sites in the past, but I have never looked into them, so I dont know exactly what they are meant to

Re: OT Good NT sysadmin list?

is tagging a new word for shagging? OT tags typically get lost in the replies. People have to remember to keep editing the subject line. -- ME2 On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Andy Shook wrote: > I don’t condone group tagging. > > > > Shook > > > > From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyri

Re: Good NT sysadmin list?

As a long-time reader and occasional simple technical contributor, I'd have to say that I enjoy this list exactly the way it is...however, if I wasn't using Gmail, I would probably change my tune slightly. But it is very nice to be able to call on contacts globally to help me out of those strange p

RE: Good NT sysadmin list?

I'm on a number of other non-computer related lists, and for some reason people just don't understand or perhaps are too lazy to change a subject line when going off topic or just opening a new subject for discussion. Some people need "training". I go into a lot of trouble on one list because a guy

OT VMWorld 2009

Anyone besides me heading to San Fran for VMWorld? CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Info

Re: Good NT sysadmin list?

Clearly you are having a hard time grasping the concept currently under discussion. ;-) -- ME2 On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:14 PM, James Rankin wrote: > As a long-time reader and occasional simple technical contributor, I'd have > to say that I enjoy this list exactly the way it is...however, if

Clipboard

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Steven M. Caesare wrote: > So I ask again, any ideas how to force the clipboard to not get cleared > after certain operations? In every version of Windows I've used (including Vista, not including Vista.1 AKA Win 7), and even the MS Office fancy clipboard, the st

Re: OT Good NT sysadmin list?

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr wrote: > OT tags typically get lost in the replies.  People have to remember to > keep editing the subject line. Outbreak -- I mean, Outlook -- tends to eat any two-letter prefix in the subject line. (Grrr.) I've noticed that square bracket

Re: Advice on re-locating user home profiles - DFS questions

> AH! DFS moved back into the realm of possible (for us). Without > replication, I don't need as the full amount of storage at each site, > enough to support *all* users; I'd really only need enough storage to > support the number of users who can physically fit into the site ... (plus > some as ov

RE: Clipboard

Weird thing is that it happens on multiple systems but they all have Office2K7... I think it started with the clipboard mgr that showed up in Off2K3(?). I think it's the office apps pulling data OFF the clipboard that does it... -sc > -Original Message- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:mai

Re: Clipboard

+1 with respect to the last statement... Generally, if you do not get a usable answer to a problem within a few hours, it's because everybody is stumped. People posting real questions typically are neither ignored nor lost in all the OT postings. However, it is extrememly frustrating to keep c

Re: Advice on re-locating user home profiles - DFS questions

Sean Martin wrote on 08/28/2009 03:35:50 PM: > > AH! DFS moved back into the realm of possible (for us). Without > > replication, I don't need as the full amount of storage at each site, > > enough to support *all* users; I'd really only need enough storage to > > support the number of users who

RE: Clipboard

There may be a setting for this. (In Oriface 2007, good luck finding it!) A few hours ago I did a rather large copy-and-paste between Excel worksheets. When I pasted, I got a popup saying the contents of my clipboard was "large", and would I like to clear the clip board after the paste. Perh

Re: OT Good NT sysadmin list?

Ahh, good to know! -- ME2 On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr > wrote: >> OT tags typically get lost in the replies.  People have to remember to >> keep editing the subject line. > >  Outbreak -- I mean, Outlook -- tends to e

Re: Clipboard

I agree. The only time I've ever seen the clipboard get cleared is because I am running security software that clears it for me intentionally on a time-expire basis. -- ME2 On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Steven M. Caesare > wrote: >> So I

[LIST ADMIN MESSAGE] RE: Good NT sysadmin list?

[LIST ADMIN MESSAGE] Yup. And guess what? It's all my fault. I take full responsibility for not doing a bit more stringent 'policing' of the OT threads. So, now... BEHAVE! Y'hear? ;-) Warm regards, Stu Sjouwerman Founder, VP Marketing. P: +1-727-562-0101 ext 218 F: +1-727-562-5199 s...@sunb

RE: Clipboard behavior (was: IE8 doesn't work!)

Steven. I know I've seen this behavior too but can't remember when/where or what application I was pasting to and from. I can't repeat it now but I do know it happened. It was on Vista and Office 2007 is installed. From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, August 2

[OT] Good NT sysadmin list?

I should have know that. Those are the tags used on SPAM-L, now I know why. That list doesn't accept messages unless you have them tagged properly. -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 3:57 PM To: NT System Admin

OCS 2007

Anyone know how to compose phone normalization rules for OCS 2007? I am having a nightmare with this, they use .Net regular expressions, and I am struggling to get to grips with them. Does anyone have any examples they'd care to share that are perhaps more straightforward than the ones supplied by

RE: Clipboard behavior (was: IE8 doesn't work!)

It is hard for me to force to replicate as well. I found an article that states that the Office clipboard will be cleared when the last office app is closed... but quick testing didn't appear to mirror that... will have to play some more. -sc From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu

RE: OCS 2007

Are you doing call control or enterprise voice with OCS ? From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: 28 August 2009 21:09 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OCS 2007 Anyone know how to compose phone normalization rules for OCS 2007? I am having a nightmare with this, they use .N

Re: New Attack Cracks WPA in a Minute

I have 2 in my neighborhood that are open but I refuse to look when I go to someones home at what the neighbors are doing. I feel it is not my business to advertise that someone is unsecured. I do on the other hand try to keep my clients safe and I am very thankful that someone started this threa

Re: OCS 2007

Call control 2009/8/28 Davies,Matt > Are you doing call control or enterprise voice with OCS ? > > > > > > > > *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] > *Sent:* 28 August 2009 21:09 > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* OCS 2007 > > > > Anyone know how to compose phone normal

UTF-8 setting in Outlook 2007

Okay a while back there was a discussion going on about the strange and wonderful world of UTF encoding of text in Outlook. I was modifing a system recently and found under Tool, Options(Tab), Mail Format(Tab), International Options(button), at the bottom in Outlook 2007 the UTF-8 control. I only

Re: OCS 2007

Actually we are using the full enterprise voice kit, now that I check into the OCS 2007 phrases. This was set up by a consultant who didn't test everything obviously, and is now mine to fix. And I don't even know all the relevant buzz-words for it yet :-( 2009/8/28 James Rankin > Call control >

RE: OT VMWorld 2009

Nope, you'll be the only person there. Damnit couldn't resist, bad methere goes the S/N ratio... Dave From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 12:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT VMWorld 2009 Anyone besides me heading to San Fran for VMWorld?

RE: OCS 2007

Good luck :) I take it you have found the company phone number normalisation rules file on the OCS server ? We spent a long time trying to get this to work with the Avaya communication manager, in the end I gave up with the trying to modify file on the OCS server and used the Avaya AES server

RE: OT VMWorld 2009

I'll think about you while I'm chilin in SF ;-p 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+, VSP4, VTSP4 From: David Lum [mailto:david...

RE: New Attack Cracks WPA in a Minute

While I'm not friendly with the neighbor directly behind me, they are nice people. So, a couple of years ago, I noticed one day that their Access Point was no longer secured. I called them on the telephone and told them and they asked for help. It seems they purchased a new laptop and when they got

RE: OCS 2007

On the OCS2007R2 resource kit there is the enterprise voice route helper utility that may help. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: 28 August 2009 21:52 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OCS 2007 Actually we are using the full enterprise voice kit, now that I check in

Re: New Attack Cracks WPA in a Minute

See if your router is supported by DD-WRT. On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Jon Harris wrote: > I have 2 in my neighborhood that are open but I refuse to look when I go to > someones home at what the neighbors are doing. I feel it is not my business > to advertise that someone is unsecured. I

Re: OT VMWorld 2009

Take a couple of sweaters and a coat as you really will be chilling. The family and I just got back from the SF area early this month and the better half would only say how cold she was all the time. Noon time temps depending on the fog/atmosphere can keep the temps in the 50's to 60's. Nothing l

RE: OT VMWorld 2009

Thx. Yeah, it's been pretty chilly there, definitely not like Florida. It'll be a nice change. 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

Re: New Attack Cracks WPA in a Minute

Sad to say this being Florida but I know only about 4 of my neighbors now. The ones I know are all secured with at least WPA I see several very low signals and would not have a clue as to owns them. Jon On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Murray Freeman wrote: > While I'm not friendly with the ne

RE: New Attack Cracks WPA in a Minute

Regarding the 'Public WiFi' SSID you always see being broadcast as an ad hoc network: http://www.nmrc.org/pub/advise/20060114.txt. In short, once you try and join one of those ad hoc networks your system then begins to rebroadcast that SSID. That is what I attribute to the constant 'Free Public Wif

Re: New Attack Cracks WPA in a Minute

I say Tomato, you say DD-WRT. Let's call the whole thing fff. On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Jonathan Link wrote: > See if your router is supported by DD-WRT. > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Jon Harris wrote: >> >> I have 2 in my neighborhood that are open but I refuse to look whe

RE: OT VMWorld 2009

71 deg at first pitch at PacBell Park at 7:14 last night FWIW From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 2:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT VMWorld 2009 Thx. Yeah, it's been pretty chilly there, definitely not like Florida. It'll be a nice ch

Re: Advice on re-locating user home profiles

Bandwith would not be much of an issue once you have this setup properly. Yes, once you have selected the primary share it would replicate to the other servers/sites. But once that is done, any manipulation done to a file, say an Excel spreadsheet, would only be replicated to the other servers. Thi

APC vs Dell 19inch racks

We will be getting a 19 inch 42u rack for our current PE2950 and future Dell PowerEdge servers. It will house servers and possibly a disk array. Is that considered medium density? We already have some APC metered PDU's (AP7830's) on a 16KVA Symettra UPS. They are "0U' PDU's, which I suppose is

Re: .Zip file password

On 28 Aug 2009 at 11:16, David Lum wrote: > Anyone know of a tool to recover a lost password for a PW > protected WinZip file? Unfortunately the latest WinZIP password-protection may be very difficult to crack, ISTR it now includes AES encryption and can be much more secure than earl

Re: New Attack Cracks WPA in a Minute

On 28 Aug 2009 at 10:40, Lee Douglas wrote: > My home network is on an old D-Link DIR-635 (latest firmware but it hit > end of life in 2007!) which only supports WPA personal and WPA > Enterprise - but it only supports WPA Enterprise via a Radius Server. > It's fast enough and works fine so i'

RE: APC vs Dell 19inch racks

Pretty sure APC makes the Dells (not 100% sure). The versa rails work nicely. Pretty much any equipment will fit in the Dell rack. -Original Message- From: Devin Meade [mailto:devin.me...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 7:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: APC vs Dell

Hey Stu - How come I don't see VIPRE here?

http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/RAP/RAP-quadrant-Feb-Aug09.jpg Referenced from here: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/169891/malware_is_evading_detection_researchers_say.html and here: https://blogs.sans.org/security-leadership/2009/08/10/dont-renew-that-anti-virus-contract/ ~ Final

RE: Good NT sysadmin list?

That's lovely that you have an answer Murray. I've got another solution - I'm leaving this list. If anyone has any actual answers to the original question (namely some other good admin lists that they could recommend) that would be appreciated (already on myITForum and ActiveDir) Cheers Ken F

RE: APC vs Dell 19inch racks

The other racks that Graybar carries are probably the CPI racks. They're the bees knees. Since it's in a locked room, no need for a locking cabinet with doors and side panels, so go with the (usually) cheaper QuadraRack. The Dell Versa Rail is just for square hole racks, so they don't need screws

RE: Advice on re-locating user home profiles

Whilst this would be a bit of pain to set up initially, you could look at having DFS but not replicating the data. When a user moves, at that point, just configure their folder as having two targets (old and new location) so that the data is replicated across. But from what I'm seeing of your

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