RE: Punch Clock Recomendation

Your payroll provider may be able to help. I know ADP has the tools needed to do this job. From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 5:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Punch Clock Recomendation I need to start keeping track of hours f

Re: Abandoning Cisco

Well, we *are* a relatively small firm. But, we've got about 230 people on site, including about 80-90 (if memory serves) hardware and software engineers, and then there are the sales staff, and our customer installation/support staff, etc. We do need relatively serious bandwidth, though we couldn

RE: Abandoning Cisco

That's one of things we do is help people move out of their Cisco hardware. Currently a very hot item with customers is Palo Alto Networks. People are falling in love with these devices. If you haven't checked them out yet, you should at least take a look. PS, I don't work on the networking side o

RE: Disk based backup

Keep an eye on Sata, Sata3 is coming fast and the speed will a HUGE difference. Not sure when the prices will come down, but I expect the demand to be huge. From: Ken Schaefer [...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 6:54 PM To: NT Syst

Re: Punch Clock Recomendation

We use Qqest Timeforce and are pretty satisfied with it. http://www.mytimeforce.com/ It seems to work decently. Web interface for running and viewing reports. Keypad, card, and biometric punch mechanisms. The punch clocks interact with a service that you can either host yourself or they can host

Re: Abandoning Cisco

DS3? Holy cow! Haven't you written here that you're at a small mfg facility or something like that? What on earth do you use all that bandwidth for? > I *love* my Sidewinders. When I purchased them it was from Secure > Computing, but they've since been bought by McAfee, I'm afraid. > > The

Punch Clock Recomendation

I need to start keeping track of hours for a small group of about 5 employees. My requirements: . keypad or card based . network (wired or wireless) connectivity w/ software on HR's desktop for hours reports . alternatively, a web interface w/ decent .csv/etc reports m

RE: Disk based backup

That's simply the maximum burst throughput range of SATA2 (original SATA was 1.5gbps). There is no way that a single disk can deliver that throughput. My testing (YMMV) is that eSATA will give you about 1.5x the speed of USB2 Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d

RE: My Docs Redirection

Windows update or here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/grouppolicy/default.aspx Got to add them to XP via an update. From: David Mazzaccaro [david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 4:23 PM To: NT System Admi

Re: ?? on budget spreadsheet

Budgets of what?!? Department? Division? Company? I haven't seen any two organizations have a budget spreadsheet that was similar enough to any other organization to be used. -*ASB*: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker Providing Competitive Advantage through Effective IT Leadership On Wed, Sep 16, 2

Re: Abandoning Cisco

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 13:58, mqcarp wrote: > Has anyone else looked at abandoning Cisco for their firewall? We have > PIXs and they are trying to get us to move to ASA now that they are > phasing out. The ASA is very expensive and from what I hear, very > complicated to manage. > > We are a medi

RE: Abandoning Cisco

Quick comparisons for price from the CDW site : ASA 5505 : http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=1065037 Sonicwall TZ 170 : http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=1352392 Netscreen 5GT : http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=780124 Juniper SSG5 : http:/

RE: Abandoning Cisco

The ASA is a natural progression from a PIX to me ... And I wouldn't say very complicated to manage if you're already used to the way Cisco does things ... Pricewise, the Cisco ASA starts under $400 , that's comparable to Juniper, and I guess Sonicwall too ... I haven't touched a sonicwall in 5

Re: Abandoning Cisco

The ASA don't seem much more complicated than the PIX. That said, I have always been a fan of the Juniper Netscreen firewalls. SonicWall isn't a bad choice, either. What size network are you supporting in terms of bandwidth, number of interfaces, and total devices? -ASB: http://xeesm.com/Andrew

Re: Abandoning Cisco

That is not the response I expected. The NSA devices are pretty robust and could handle anything we have here. I have not seen an ASA quote yet, so I will have to wait for that. On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Klint Price wrote: > I concur with what both Bill and Jon have said.  In addition, if

RE: Phone number to tell you your phone number.

Depends on the phone system and the carrier. On a Nortel Norstar with multiple PRI T-1s I use to admin the number displayed was the main office/billing number. They started another company and wanted a different number displayed for the new company. Called the LEC and had them make sure it passed t

RE: Abandoning Cisco

I concur with what both Bill and Jon have said. In addition, if you are a smaller company, or have a smaller budget, I would consider purchasing from a grey-market retailer like Network Hardware (you can have Smartnet added to your order). Klint -Original Message- From: Mayo, Bill [ma

RE: Phone number to tell you your phone number.

To compound the problem, carriers are slow to update their ANI lists, so if you make a change to the CLID associated with a toll free number, it can take several months to propagate, and in many cases has to be done at the carrier level. For instance, my previous employer had a PBX which allowe

RE: Abandoning Cisco

Correctly sized cisco devices are cost-effective. If you're using any other cisco gear (routers, switches, etc), I'd recommend staying with them. Interop with other vendors' products can be a nightmare. We've got a few clients with things like watchguards and when they have to talk to a cisco box,

Re: Abandoning Cisco

As Bill pointed out the price is much lower. Ours was about 1/3rd the price of the PIX. Jon On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Jon Harris wrote: > IMO the ASA was easier to setup and manage than the PIX. > > Jon > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 4:58 PM, mqcarp wrote: > >> Has anyone else looked at

Re: Abandoning Cisco

IMO the ASA was easier to setup and manage than the PIX. Jon On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 4:58 PM, mqcarp wrote: > Has anyone else looked at abandoning Cisco for their firewall? We have > PIXs and they are trying to get us to move to ASA now that they are > phasing out. The ASA is very expensive and

RE: Abandoning Cisco

Expensive? Our Pix cost over $8000 in 2001, we bought *2* ASA's to replace it and still paid less than that in 2007. There are some differents in the OS between the Pix and ASA, but they are very similar. If you can manage a Pix, you can manage an ASA--at least in my experience. -Origin

re: Abandoning Cisco

Don't let Dr. Tom here you say you're moving away from ASA... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

Abandoning Cisco

Has anyone else looked at abandoning Cisco for their firewall? We have PIXs and they are trying to get us to move to ASA now that they are phasing out. The ASA is very expensive and from what I hear, very complicated to manage. We are a medium sized business and do not need this IMHO. Has anyone

Re: Phone number to tell you your phone number.

I wouldnt say it could be "anything". IIRC, if your equipment is incapable of sending ANI [1] or it isnt properly communicated outward, then your LEC [2] provides the BTN [3] off the primary line; which is typically the main business number for the account. 1. Automatic Number Identification 2. Loc

RE: My Docs Redirection

Check out this article How to prevent folders from roaming with a profile in Windows Server 2003 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814592 Mike Original Message: - From: Chris Blair chris_bl...@identisys.com Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:44:21 -0500 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-softwar

RE: Phone number to tell you your phone number.

We're using a PRI here, and it displays the actual extension from which the call was made and not the master corporate number. BTW, while we have a master number xxx.xxx.1252, the wonderful AT&T have us as xxx.xxx.0776, and that number if dialed will connect to xxx.xxx.1252. The 0776 never shows up

Re: My Docs Redirection

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731892(WS.10).aspx I just deployed the client for the XP workstations today via WSUS. On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 4:23 PM, David Mazzaccaro < david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com> wrote: > Guess not... where can I get those? > > --

RE: Real a/v Testing

whitepages.com From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 4:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Real a/v Testing LOL -- ME2 On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Richard Stovall wrote: Ny

Re: My Docs Redirection

If you dont see the setting, upgrade your GPO's to 2008 levels... Or you can add/make custom .ADM's. -- ME2 On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:39 PM, David Mazzaccaro < david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com> wrote: > Somehow I am still missing that... where is this setting? > > > ---

Re: Real a/v Testing

LOL -- ME2 On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Richard Stovall < richard.stov...@researchdata.com> wrote: > Nytimes.com > > > > > http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/times-site-was-victim-of-a-malicious-ad-swap/ > > > > > > *From:* Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday,

RE: My Docs Redirection

Guess not... where can I get those? From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 3:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: My Docs Redirection It is part of the spiffy newer group policy preferencesdo y

Re: Symantec Endpoint Vir Suite

Paul, Full disclosure - I work for Symantec and use this set of products everyday. Symantec basically took 3 stand alone products, (Altiris Software Virtualization Solution + AppStream + nSuite) and combined the three together into a better product with a much more confusing name. The main goal o

RE: My Docs Redirection

It is part of the spiffy newer group policy preferencesdo you have those deployed? User>Policies>Folder Redirection. You set Documents there then in the same area the other folders are listed. Hit them and tell them what to do there. From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonh

RE: Real a/v Testing

Here's another one: http://www.malwaredomains.com/ From: Richard Stovall Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 3:51 PM To: 'NT System Admin Issues' Subject: RE: Real a/v Testing http://freepcsecurity.co.uk/2009/01/16/list-of-known-malicious-sites/ From: Roger Wright [mailto:

RE: Real a/v Testing

Now you have a legit excuse... :-) From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 2:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Real a/v Testing Thanks, all. P0Rn sites, screensavers, warez, should give me some real tests.

?? on budget spreadsheet

Hellos to all.. Anyone out there have any template type spreadsheets on budgets that can be shared out. If so, they would be appreciated.. We are reviewing ours and are looking for other minds and ideas. Thanks. CAR This e-Mail and any files transmitted with

RE: Real a/v Testing

http://freepcsecurity.co.uk/2009/01/16/list-of-known-malicious-sites/ From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 3:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Real a/v Testing Thanks, all. P0Rn sites, screensavers, warez, should give me some r

Re: Phone number to tell you your phone number.

TVK is correct in stating that you will get *a* phone number, not necessarily the one you expect. This is especially true for those using an ISDN PRI from a telco. The phone number that shows up on caller ID is set by the phone system that originated the call (or sometimes the telco themselves). T

RE: My Docs Redirection

Somehow I am still missing that... where is this setting? From: Chris Blair [mailto:chris_bl...@identisys.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 2:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: My Docs Redirection I somehow missed that. Thanks! From: K

RE: Real a/v Testing

r a/v solution against real malware. What sites can I hit that'll try to push various malware infections? Roger Wright ___ __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4431 (20090916) __ The message was checked by

RE: Phone number to tell you your phone number.

When we changed LD companies, they asked what we wanted as our "caller ID" for our dial-out lines. I believe I gave them our local number, so it's not necessarily what you've got as your incoming number. -Original Message- From: Murray Freeman [mailto:mfree...@alanet.org] Sent: Wednesd

Re: Real a/v Testing

Thanks, all. P0Rn sites, screensavers, warez, should give me some real tests. I thought there'd be a site like www.infectmenow.com but I didn't have access to it. Roger Wright ___ On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Roger Wright wrote: > I've created a virtual machine and want to test VIPRE

RE: Real a/v Testing (UNCLASSIFIED)

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RE: Phone number to tell you your phone number.

It depends on how your phone system is configured and, in some cases, how your telco has their end configured. Any modern phone system has rules that govern how your phone number is displayed (or not) to outside systems. To know whether this is an effective methodology or not, you need to talk to

RE: Real a/v Testing

What sites can I hit that'll try to push various malware infections? Roger Wright ___ __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4431 (20090916) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://ww

RE: Real a/v Testing

e database 4431 (20090916) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4431 (20090916) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com

RE: Phone number to tell you your phone number.

That was happening to us when we switch phone providers. They had to modify their system to send our main number as the only CID going out. -Original Message- From: Murray Freeman [mailto:mfree...@alanet.org] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 3:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject

RE: Real a/v Testing

ger Wright ___ __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4431 (20090916) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4431

RE: Real a/v Testing

weeks = minutes (and quite possibly seconds) From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 3:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Real a/v Testing You could also do a fresh XP installation, hook it to the internet, and run ab

Symantec Endpoint Vir Suite

Does anybody here have any experience or knowledge of Symantec's Endpoint Virtualization Suite? Our sys admin and clinical analyst met with a vendor who is pushing this product. We're a small hospital (<90 bed) but with the new HITECH initiatives, we need to, eventually, implement electronic

RE: Phone number to tell you your phone number.

Interesting because if I make a call from my office, it gives the actual phone number of my direct dial line. Murray -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 2:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Phone number

RE: Real a/v Testing

signature database 4431 (20090916) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4431 (20090916) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://ww

RE: Real a/v Testing

You could also do a fresh XP installation, hook it to the internet, and run absolutely no updates, patches, etc. In a couple of weeks, try to figure out who really owns it. "Maglinger, Paul" wrote on 09/16/2009 02:20:38 PM: > facebook, youtube, myspace... :-) > > From: Roger Wright [mailto

RE: Real a/v Testing

ger Wright ___ __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4431 (20090916) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource

RE: Real a/v Testing

facebook, youtube, myspace... :-) From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 1:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Real a/v Testing I've created a virtual machine and want to test VIPRE and perhaps another a/v solut

RE: Phone number to tell you your phone number.

Murray, While it is true that "a" number will come through on Caller ID, it is not necessarily going to be the "actual" number from which a call was placed. If I make an outbound call from my company phone to my mobile phone, Caller ID shows it as coming from the company's main line not from my

RE: Real a/v Testing

Nytimes.com http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/times-site-was-victim-of-a-mali cious-ad-swap/ From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 2:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Real a/v Testing I've created a virtual machine and want t

RE: Phone number to tell you your phone number.

Klint, unless Caller ID blocking is in use, you could always make a call to your own cellphone and the number will display. Frankly, it can be slow getting an operator, and I'm not entirely sure they will always be cooperative. What could be simpler than calling your own cellphone...if you have

Real a/v Testing

I've created a virtual machine and want to test VIPRE and perhaps another a/v solution against real malware. What sites can I hit that'll try to push various malware infections? Roger Wright ___ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: My Docs Redirection

I somehow missed that. Thanks! From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 1:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: My Docs Redirection In the GPO don't move my music, leave it behind on the local machine. Same with My Pictures if that suit

RE: My Docs Redirection

Start off with *.mp3, *.wma, *.wav. J John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Chris Blair [mailto:chris_bl...@identisys.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 2:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: My Docs Redirection I am in the testing phase of rolling out My Docs offline sync via GPO. I

Re: My Docs Redirection

I think in the GPO, you can select that you don't want the music folders redirected... On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Chris Blair wrote: > I am in the testing phase of rolling out My Docs offline sync via GPO. Is > there a good way to exclude the “My Music” folder? Or does anyone have a > good

RE: My Docs Redirection

In the GPO don't move my music, leave it behind on the local machine. Same with My Pictures if that suits your needs. From: Chris Blair [mailto:chris_bl...@identisys.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 2:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: My Docs Redirection I am in the testing pha

My Docs Redirection

I am in the testing phase of rolling out My Docs offline sync via GPO. Is there a good way to exclude the "My Music" folder? Or does anyone have a good list of files to exclude? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Disk based backup

Uh... ya. -sc > -Original Message- > From: Miguel Gonzalez [mailto:miguel_3_gonza...@yahoo.es] > Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 2:23 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Disk based backup > > are LTO4 already in the market? We are getting info that won't be > available unt

RE: Vista UAC FRV virtualization without AAM

"start"ing a new elevated explorer instance from an elevated CMD prompt may work too. -sc From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 10:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Vista UAC FRV virtualization without AAM IIRC, you need to k

RE: Phone number to tell you your phone number.

What you may want is an ANAC number which tells you the phone number for a particular line. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_announcement_circuit -Original Message- From: Klint Price [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 9:46 AM To: NT Syste

Re: Full Disk Encryption

Problem we have, is that the laptops/desktops in question do not belong to the company. They are the personal equipment of the claims managers, about 98% never set foot in any of the site. Doesn't help that most are thicker than molasses when it comes to following very simple instructions. Reg

RE: Can't run TaskManager

Update on our problem. User could not run taskmanger, logoff and shutdown were also grayed out. Winxp sp3 on a AD domain. This problem was caused by the latest update to the non paid LogMeIn program. User uninstalled it and everything went back to normal. It kinda looked like he was logged in

RE: Phone number to tell you your phone number.

That may work for POTS lines, but is not as reliable if calling from a PBX, or a line that is tied to a toll free number. You can't even rely on the number written on the wall jack at the DMARC (as I found out yesterday). If you happen to know a field technician at the local telecom, they have

RE: Block device from DHCP scope

Can you do MAC filtering? From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 10:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Block device from DHCP scope Anyway I can block a device from obtaining an IP address from our DHCP scop

Re: Full Disk Encryption

Weird. When I checked it a few months ago, it seemed bigger. Wonder what happened... On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 07:05, Sam Cayze wrote: > That list seems to be lacking a lot of the hardware offerings.  TrueCrypt is > not even listed either. > > -Original Message- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto

Re: Full Disk Encryption

Same here - lot of failures on laptops initially and lot of random blue screens. And, our policy is that no large amount of time is spent trying to fix one if the encryption renders the disk corrupted or unreadable. The corrupted systems gets a quick diag to check hardware, then if 5 minutes of

Re: Anyone using PGP encryption?

Pointsec on the Windows side...   From: Steven M. Caesare To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 8:13:40 AM Subject: RE: Anyone using PGP encryption? PGP was eval’d here, and it may be selected for Macs.   Currently we are using Poin

RE: Diff backups (was RE: Restores from Incremental backups)

Yes. Actually the first DIFF after a full is the same size as an INCR, but they do get bigger over time but not all that much. In my experience unless someone touches a huge file the Friday DIFF is only a couple % bigger than the Monday DIFF. Also as mentioned it's far smaller than FULL/FULL.

RE: Block device from DHCP scope

You might be able to put the MAC address of the phone in your firewall or something to prevent it from accessing the outside world. That would also mess 'em up. J John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:bem...@pittcountync.gov] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 11:35 AM To: NT Sy

Re: Block device from DHCP scope

+1 Sandbox the MAC. -- ME2 On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:10 AM, John Aldrich wrote: > Sure… can you get the MAC address of that device? If so, just give it a > static assignment that is “bad” and you’re all set. J Not quite what you > had in mind, but it works quite well. J > > > > [image: John-

RE: Block device from DHCP scope

*evil grin* Yup.that's exactly what you do. THEN you can report 'em to HR! J John-AldrichTile-Tools From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 11:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Block device from DHCP scope Cheers, I did have som

Re: Block device from DHCP scope

Yes, and a royal PITA it is too. I am working on getting it secured, but changing the minds of directors and managers always takes time. 2009/9/16 Mayo, Bill > Do I infer correctly that you have a wide open Wi-Fi in your office? I > am inferring as much because you say someone is able to get o

RE: Block device from DHCP scope

Do I infer correctly that you have a wide open Wi-Fi in your office? I am inferring as much because you say someone is able to get on your network with an iPhone. If so, IMHO you really should look into some kind of NAC (network admission control) solution. From

RE: Block device from DHCP scope

You should be able to setup a reservation for it, where the router/DNS and IP are all the same. That way the machine doesn't know how to get anywhere other than local. Naturally, this type of thing doesn't prevent someone from manually setting the IP config, but nothing you do in DHCP will. Bil

Re: Block device from DHCP scope

You could give it a bogus address, then use an alert system to ping that address (if it will return one) to let you know to go hunting. On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:26 AM, James Rankin wrote: > Cheers, I did have some thoughts down that route, but didn't know whether > you could give it a "bad" ad

Re: Block device from DHCP scope

Cheers, I did have some thoughts down that route, but didn't know whether you could give it a "bad" address in terms of the scope or not. Shows you how long it is since I set up any DHCP stuff. Let's wait for the support call from the idiot telling me he can't access the internet from work with his

Re: Block device from DHCP scope

Agreed just grab the Mac address and give it the address 127.0.0.1 as a reservation with the same address as the gateway. Lots of fun. Jon On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:10 AM, John Aldrich wrote: > Sure… can you get the MAC address of that device? If so, just give it a > static assignment that i

RE: Question on Upgrade process

Thanks ME2... Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + ezi...@lifespan.org Phone:401-639-3505 From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 200

RE: Block device from DHCP scope

Sure. can you get the MAC address of that device? If so, just give it a static assignment that is "bad" and you're all set. J Not quite what you had in mind, but it works quite well. J John-AldrichTile-Tools From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2

Block device from DHCP scope

Anyway I can block a device from obtaining an IP address from our DHCP scope? I have a rogue IPhone that appears intermittently on my DHCP range. I haven't managed to find out who it is yet but if I do I will be sure to address it via HRturning off the wireless unfortunately is not an option. I

Re: Diff backups (was RE: Restores from Incremental backups)

Yes, potentially. But, the primary goal of backups is recovery. You have to balance the ongoing space needs with the time to restore. With a disk only solution, speed is a little more in your favor, but using DIFFs rather than INCR backups still gives you the advantage if one particular day's ba

RE: Full Disk Encryption

So is Symantec Endpoint Encryption, but that could be a good thing. We're in the process of rolling it out to remote users, large failure rate of machines not bootable after installing it. seems to have settled down now, but was a nightmare at the start. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations C

Re: Diff backups (was RE: Restores from Incremental backups)

Well, it's still less space than Full/Full/Full... I believe the situation was, someone needing to do a big restore found that incremenatals were excremental. -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCA® 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richardmcc

Re: Question on Upgrade process

He's referring to his own DC's. He's the OP, and is referring to himself. -- ME2 On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Chyka, Robert wrote: > Not necessarily. You have to manually make a DC a GC. > > > > Bob C. > > > -- > > *From:* Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifes

RE: Disk based backup

You would think esata throughput would be much better. I am looking at a promise tx4302 pci card that specs 3gb/sec for esata. This is for both the internal connectors and external. -Original Message- From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 8:20

RE: Question on Upgrade process

In this network they are, was done when it was set up. Z Edward Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + ezi...@lifespan.org Phone:401-639-3505 From: Chyka, Robert [mailto:bch...@medaille.edu] Sent

RE: Question on Upgrade process

Not necessarily. You have to manually make a DC a GC. Bob C. From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 9:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Question on Upgrade process DC's are GC's... So ther

RE: Disk based backup

But now wouldn't eSATA be a good alternative ? I haven't benchmarked throughput but *should* be as good as internal, right ? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2

Re: Diff backups (was RE: Restores from Incremental backups)

I don't know if it was already covered in this thread, but if you're using Disk backup (a NAS device) aren't you burning up a lot more space with Full/Diffs vs Full/Incr ? Don K   - Original Message From: David Lum To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 7:58:3

RE: Full Disk Encryption

Thanks Kurt, I see they updated that page from the last time I used it, but that's what I used when I was evaluating. Oddly McAfee's solution isn't on there. Hey there's a Full Disk Encryption mailing list, cool. Dave -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sen

RE: Full Disk Encryption

That list seems to be lacking a lot of the hardware offerings. TrueCrypt is not even listed either. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 8:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Full Disk Encryption Didn't want to hijack

Full Disk Encryption

Didn't want to hijack the recent thread, but here's a fairly comprehensive list of offerings for it: http://www.full-disk-encryption.net/Full_Disc_Encryption.html ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

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