Re: Fiber Cable Tester

Multimode optics tend to be LED, not laser. Still wouldn't point the output side of a fiber pair at my eyeball. Ben Scott wrote: > It depends. The lasers used for single-mode LX fiber can blind you. > Multimode, I'm not sure. I wouldn't take the risk. -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com

Re: Fiber Cable Tester

One of my favorite sites: http://www.wickedlasers.com/ Note the performance comparison chart a little more than half way down... Kurt On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 15:13, Phillip Partipilo wrote: > They can't possibly be very powerful.. Are they?  Wouldn't they use a bright > LED instead of a laser?

RE: DNS issue

With XP you can't uninstall TCP/IP, however you can reset the XP TCP/IP stack with the following command: netsh int ip reset c:\logfile.txt Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 _ From: Len Hammond [mailto:lenhammo...@gmail.com] Sent: T

Re: Fiber Cable Tester

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Phillip Partipilo wrote: >> Yikes. Be *very* careful, here. You can only look at a laser twice. > > They can't possibly be very powerful.. Are they? It depends. The lasers used for single-mode LX fiber can blind you. Multimode, I'm not sure. I wouldn't tak

Re: Any RAID tricks??

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:03 PM, MarvinC wrote: > 2. There's a Simple 36gb drive. That could be a hot spare. > Sooo! For some reason the server errors and show the drives as Failed > when attempting to boot from the SCSI controller card. That sounds like it has a hardware RAID controlle

RE: Fiber Cable Tester

They can't possibly be very powerful.. Are they? Wouldn't they use a bright LED instead of a laser? Or maybe just a class II laser, like those cheap keychain bullet shaped lasers you can buy at gas stations for a few bucks? Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 7

Re: Fiber Cable Tester

Oooo, home grown Lasik surgery! >>> wjh 9/24/2009 1:45 PM >>> Aside from flashlight you could plug it on the sending side and see if light makes it through. Just don't look directly into it. You should reflect it on your hand or a piece of paper. That is, if you like having eye sight. Bill

Any RAID tricks??

A small organization has this very old Gateway server running W2K3 server which has 6 drives configured in the following manner: 1. First two 18gb drives are mirrored RAID 1 with the OS. 2. There's a Simple 36gb drive. 3. Remaining three (3) 36gb drives are configured as RAID 5 and contain files t

Re: Fiber Cable Tester

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:45 PM, wjh wrote: > Aside from flashlight you could plug it on the sending side and see if light > makes it through.  Just don't look directly into it.  You should reflect it > on your hand or a piece of paper.  That is, if you like having eye sight. Yikes. Be *very*

Re: DNS issue

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Len Hammond wrote: > My conclusion is that something is wrong with the IP installation. Obviously. :) > But I am curious as to where to go to just refresh the IP > stack, never having done just that. I am of the belief that once Windows gets screwed up like

RE: Fiber Cable Tester

Poor man's LASIX? /groan -Original Message- From: wjh [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 1:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Fiber Cable Tester Aside from flashlight you could plug it on the sending side and see if light makes it through. Jus

RE: DNS issue

netsh ip reset has proved most helpful for me in the past. How to reset Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299357 How to reset "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)" in Windows Server 2003 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317518

RE: DNS issue

Do a google search for Winsock XP Fix. Use that tool and see if it helps at all. I've used it in similar scenarios, typically when a virus or malware has damaged network settings, and it seems to help. Jay From: Len Hammond [mailto:lenhammo...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 24, 200

Re: DNS issue

This is a long shot, but is there a chance that the IE settings went into "Work Offline" under tools\ when the computer couldn't connect to anything, and now that you have a valid ip config, maybe it's only IE having issues - that is as long as the only thing that isn't working is IE and surfing

Re: Fiber Cable Tester

Aside from flashlight you could plug it on the sending side and see if light makes it through. Just don't look directly into it. You should reflect it on your hand or a piece of paper. That is, if you like having eye sight. Bill Len Hammond wrote: In my last full time gig, I had an OmniSca

DNS issue

Good morning folks, Recently, at a new customer who just upgraded from dial-up to cable, they havn't been able to use the cable connection - it just didn't work. Apparently Comcast wasn't able to help them, so I got the call. Anyway, what I found was that ipconfig/all showed that it had an appropr

Re: Fiber Cable Tester

In my last full time gig, I had an OmniScanner II for Ethernet. It had an option to add a Fiber tester to the device. The OmniScanner retailed for about $8500 & I bought it new in 2000 for $5000 and the Fiber option was about $1500 and I didn't get one. It had TDR for copper and I am assuming that

RE: Remote Desktop Support Options

SSH indeed. You can do some disk provisioning stuff that the GUI just doesn't expose as of 3.5 -sc From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 3:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remote Desktop Support Options Most of my command-

RE: IE8 breaks printing html emails

To imply that the OP's issue renders IE8 useless without first upgrading to Office 2007 would be incorrect in my opinion. It's more an irritation, which can be added to the list of things that go into making the decision to upgrade (or not) to IE8. One way of dealing with the problem would be to

RE: IE8 breaks printing html emails

?? Do you expect to be able to run Exchange 2003 on Windows Server 2008 R2? Same concept, just server level instead of user level. From: Rene de Haas [rene.deh...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 3:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: IE8 br

Re: Remote Desktop Support Options

Most of my command-line stuff is aimed at my Windows boxes - I generally just open a DRAC session to an ESX server if I need to do anything on the hosts. I don't generally need to modify much on the ESX side (only seven hosts), but I am assuming you could open some sort of terminal session to it us

Re: IE8 breaks printing html emails

Having to upgrade to office2007 to be able to use IE8 makes upgrading to IE8 quite expensive... On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Tim Vander Kooi wrote: > I'm not meaning to imply that everyone should upgrade on a faster > schedule...Just that the complaint strikes me a bit like " Why don't the BW

RE: IE8 breaks printing html emails

Upgrade...yes. Improvement? That is very debatable. ;-) Tim -Original Message- From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 2:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IE8 breaks printing html emails Ok I'm back... LOL Are you call

RE: Ports for WSUS

Thanks guys, for the reinforcement. I'm sure the light would have gone on in my head eventually... >>> Sean Rector 9/24/2009 12:04 PM >>> You're right. "Maybe this paragraph is talking about clients hitting my WSUS server, not my WSUS server hitting Microsoft..." Sean Rector, MCSE _

RE: Remote Desktop Support Options

Does DA do Mac, though? He may need one of the bigger management suites, like LANDesk or Altiris that has support for both. wayne -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 12:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Re

RE: IE8 breaks printing html emails

Ok I'm back... LOL Are you calling Vista an upgrade over XP? I'm sure a quick poll would suggest otherwise! ;) -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 2:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IE8 breaks printing h

RE: Ports for WSUS

You're right. "Maybe this paragraph is talking about clients hitting my WSUS server, not my WSUS server hitting Microsoft..." Sean Rector, MCSE From: Joseph Heaton [jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 2:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Ports for WSUS

+1 Sean Rector, MCSE From: James Kerr [cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 2:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Ports for WSUS My previous WSUS install used ports 8530 and 31 by default as 80 and 443 were already being used

RE: Ports for WSUS

Yep, the source you mentioned is for communication *to* your wsus server, either from a replica or a client. Communication with the Windows Update servers is http and https over standard ports. -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, September 2

RE: Ports for WSUS

Damien, Yep, that's one of the sources I found. The other is this, from the Technet website. It changes that paragraph slightly: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb693717.aspx To configure the firewall for software updates 1. Configure the firewall to allow communication for th

RE: Mirroring Backup Server?

There is also Double-Take, for which our sponsor is a re-seller. It ain't cheap, though... "Todd Lemmiksoo" wrote on 09/24/2009 01:31:36 PM: > I believe FalconStor has a product that will help you. > http://www.falconstor.com/en/index.cfm?CFID=5746703&CFTOKEN=85364860 > > > -Original

RE: Roaming profiles???

The choice was taken out of our hands unfortunately. From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Roaming profiles??? Funny, I'm busy trying to un-deploy EPO 4. _ From: Ray [mailto:rz...@qwest.

RE: Ports for WSUS

Yep. From page 29 of the WSUS deployment guide. Configure the Firewall If there is a corporate firewall between WSUS and the Internet, you might need to configure the firewall to ensure that WSUS can obtain updates. To obtain updates from Microsoft Update, the WSUS server uses port 80 for HTTP pr

Re: Ports for WSUS

My previous WSUS install used ports 8530 and 31 by default as 80 and 443 were already being used on the server. In the GPO I just pointed the clients to that port and everything worked fine. James - Original Message - From: "Joseph Heaton" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Thursda

RE: Roaming profiles???

Funny, I'm busy trying to un-deploy EPO 4. From: Ray [mailto:rz...@qwest.net] Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 12:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Roaming profiles??? Just kept cleaining it once they finally got us DATs that worked. We schedule

RE: Mirroring Backup Server?

I believe FalconStor has a product that will help you. http://www.falconstor.com/en/index.cfm?CFID=5746703&CFTOKEN=85364860 -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 12:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Mirroring

RE: Ports for WSUS

So I'm finding conflicting information for the ports used to communicate to Microsoft's Update servers. One says WSUS uses 80 and 443, non-changeable. Another says that if I'm using the custom WSUS site within IIS, then it can use the same 8530/8531. Anyone know the real-life answer? >>> "Jo

RE: Remote Desktop Support Options

Along those lines, are you using the command line tools for your ESX boxen? (ESX or ESXi?). There are a number of handy things I do on my ESXi home boxes that the GUI doesn't give me... -sc From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 1:40 PM To

RE: NLB w/ 2008

Right they totally are I have done NLB a bunch of times on 2003 but this is my first 2008. My config looks like this: NIC1: 192.168.200.7/24/192.168.200.1 NIC2: 10.10.10.10/24/no gw NIC1:192.168.200.9/24/192.168.200.1 NIC2:10.10.10.11/24/no gw When I go in and enable NLB the IP's show

RE: IE8 breaks printing html emails

I'm not meaning to imply that everyone should upgrade on a faster schedule...Just that the complaint strikes me a bit like " Why don't the BWM headrests I bought fit into my Yugo?" The problem brought up by the OP doesn't occur (or I should say that I do not have it) when IE8 is used with Office

Re: Remote Desktop Support Options

psexec \\machinename cmd is also very handy 2009/9/24 Matthew W. Ross > Hey all. > > I'm curious what remote support software for windows people are using. > We're using Dameware now, and have used VNC in the past... but we also > manage Macs using Apple Remote Desktop... and we feel that we hav

Re: Remote Desktop Support Options

I use MRemote for RDP and other connection types. Got a few glitches, but otherwise it's cool. Really missed it when working away from my desk recently. Because most of our systems are virtual I use VI Client as the "RDP backup" for connecting to the console. On physical systems I use the DRAC's b

RE: Roaming profiles???

Just kept cleaining it once they finally got us DATs that worked. We scheduled multiple full scans/day on all pc's. I think out Cisco guy was able to help by blocking some traffic. Not 100% sure we are completely clear of it yet. We don't always hear from the field. In the meantime we're

Re: Server 2003 Small Business Server Terminal Services issue

If you have VPN capabilities, the users can establish a VPN tunnel into the network, then use Remote desktop to take over their office computers (that's if they have machines). Otherwise you're back to the TS solution as mentioned. Don K From: Joe Morlino To

Re: Mirroring Backup Server?

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming wrote: > Has anyone ever heard of a backup server system that works in two or more > locations where the backup server in location 1 will back up all the systems > there (desktops and servers) and the backup server in location 2 will do the > s

Re: IE8 breaks printing html emails

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Tim Vander Kooi wrote: > I have to chuckle just a little at someone running both an OS and an > application that were upgraded over 2 years ago complaining about not being > able to upgrade their browser within 2 months of release. J Things like the fact that t

RE: IE8 breaks printing html emails

Some of us don't have the budget to upgrade yet :( But your sentiment is understood... >>> Tim Vander Kooi 9/24/2009 9:31 AM >>> I have to chuckle just a little at someone running both an OS and an application that were upgraded over 2 years ago complaining about not being able to upgrade thei

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

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr wrote: > D'oh!  I didnt even realize that Gmail regurgitated this old email as a new I haven't had any time-traveling mail that I've noticed, nor have I had trouble reading mail, but I had the red contacts-are-broken banner this morning. I

RE: Mirroring Backup Server?

What we're looking at doing is having two NAS/SAN devices which will back up our primary and secondary server. Basically the NAS/SAN in our primary location will back up the two Windows servers and then will be mirrored on the remote SAN/NAS device. I suppose we could split the desktop backups, but

RE: Complex email archiving needs

I recommend you do spam off-server (whether that be an Edge server for Exchange or a third party provider, really isn't that relevant - just don't let it touch your Exchange mailbox databases). Exchange 2007 has Messaging Records Management (MRM) and Exchange 2010 has that plus Retention Polici

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

I get those occasionally for other folks, some using gmail, some not. I haven't figured out why that happens, but it seems pretty benign, usually. On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 08:54, Micheal Espinola Jr wrote: > Anyone else using Gmail get warning about Kurt's message? >> >> Warning: This message may

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

D'oh! I didnt even realize that Gmail regurgitated this old email as a new mail item for me. Strange things are afoot! -- ME2 On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Jeff Bunting wrote: > My Gmail was showing a red warning message for awhile earlier saying that > it couldn't access my contacts or s

Complex email archiving needs

Have an interesting situation regarding email archiving. One of my clients is a technical company that performs scientific surveys for their clients. They currently just use a mish-mash of different POP3 clients to POP their mail from their hosted domain, and as a result all the emails related

Mirroring Backup Server?

Has anyone ever heard of a backup server system that works in two or more locations where the backup server in location 1 will back up all the systems there (desktops and servers) and the backup server in location 2 will do the same for its location. The two servers should also back each other u

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

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/24/gmail.crash/ -- richard Jeff Bunting wrote on 09/24/2009 11:40:19 AM: > My Gmail was showing a red warning message for awhile earlier saying > that it couldn't access my contacts or something to that effect. > May be related? > > Also, the message you're hav

Re: Roaming profiles???

How did you finally get rid of it? - Original Message - From: Ray To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 12:31 PM Subject: RE: Roaming profiles??? Ours didn't even clean it for days. The online scanner detected it but didn't clean it. The Full Scan

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

My Gmail was showing a red warning message for awhile earlier saying that it couldn't access my contacts or something to that effect. May be related? Also, the message you're having a problem with is from July 7? If there was antoher one today, I haven't seen it in my box. Jeff On Thu, Sep 24,

RE: Question on Upgrade process

Are they the same people who are Enterprise Admins? IOW, are those your most trusted admins who have access to everything in AD one way or another? Since it is well known that the forest is the security boundary, all DAs of any of the domains need to be fully trusted throughout the forest. We

RE: Roaming profiles???

Ours didn't even clean it for days. The online scanner detected it but didn't clean it. The Full Scan didn't even detect it. It never stopped the spread. When we finally knocked it down, it came back a few weeks later (I'll assume a variant). From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.

RE: IE8 breaks printing html emails

I have to chuckle just a little at someone running both an OS and an application that were upgraded over 2 years ago complaining about not being able to upgrade their browser within 2 months of release. :) Tim From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 8:

RE: Remote Desktop Support Options

Desktop Authority from ScriptLogic/Quest does this very nicely. You get to decide whether the user knows about what you are doing or not. They have a newer piece called Remote Support Center that works with the DA remote support to allow for remote sessions from any web browser without having to

Re: Roaming profiles???

Going through the motions already. The new Microsoft Security Essentials scanner is picking it up as iloma.c and it keeps setting up residence in the system32 directory. - Original Message - From: richardmccl...@aspca.org To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Thursday, September 24,

Re: Roaming profiles???

Not really. - Original Message - From: Ray To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 12:14 PM Subject: RE: Roaming profiles??? Your AV is doing better than ours did. From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Thursday, September

Re: Roaming profiles???

It depends when you downloaded it. Again, they claim they update it daily. You could check your current version with what is available to download. "David W. McSpadden" wrote on 09/24/2009 11:14:30 AM: > If I already have that on my machine would I download it again? > - Original Message

Re: Roaming profiles???

If I already have that on my machine would I download it again? - Original Message - From: richardmccl...@aspca.org To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 10:54 AM Subject: Re: Roaming profiles??? And now a word from our sponsor... (They still say t

RE: Roaming profiles???

Your AV is doing better than ours did. From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 7:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Roaming profiles??? app data is always where it is finding the iloma and clamp but it is 'cleaning' them Once I g

RE: Ports for WSUS

Thanks Ken, does it use the same ports to talk to Windows Update? The task is to figure out what specific ports I need to allow through the firewall. >>> Ken Schaefer 9/24/2009 8:54 AM >>> That is for clients to connect to WSUS. The admin console also works over those ports. WSUS also needs t

Re: Virtual servers taking a long time to restart

We generally do not see that behavior here. If we do, it's something specific to that guest. If it was a p2v system, then often someone forgot to remove the physical system ports that came over with the migration or a driver issue that an update clears up. One thing that happens at times is that

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

Anyone else using Gmail get warning about Kurt's message? > Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of > following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal > information. Learn more -- ME2 On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > On Tu

RE: Ports for WSUS

That is for clients to connect to WSUS. The admin console also works over those ports. WSUS also needs to connect to an upstream server. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, 24 September 2009 11:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues S

RE: Remote Desktop Support Options

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Re: Remote Desktop Support Options

" Anybody know of a decent program that allows you to A) see who's logged in on a machine B) remotely run command and/or install packages, possibly silently C) gather basic computer information from a list of computers all while D) Keeping a sortable list of connectible computers? " well, not all

Remote Desktop Support Options

Hey all. I'm curious what remote support software for windows people are using. We're using Dameware now, and have used VNC in the past... but we also manage Macs using Apple Remote Desktop... and we feel that we haven't seen an equal to it on the windows side. Anybody know of a decent program

Ports for WSUS

Just checking my logic here. The only port(s) that WSUS needs is whatever you setup in the IIS site, correct? So, by defaults, if you use the default website, it would be 80 and 443; and if you use the customized WSUS site, it is 8530 and 8531. Are there any other ports that need to be opene

Re: Roaming profiles???

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Re: Roaming profiles???

app data is always where it is finding the iloma and clamp but it is 'cleaning' them Once I get into the machine I find 0 files in the app data folder.. - Original Message - From: Ray To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 10:35 AM Subject: RE: Roam

RE: Server 2003 Small Business Server Terminal Services issue

There's no MS product that gives you what you're asking for. SBS is not designed to be nor should you try to use it as a Terminal Server. If you need to support remote desktop users, you install another box running Windows server and you buy Terminal Server CALs for the users. Now, SBS does

RE: Roaming profiles???

Run Malwarebytes on your machines. This was how a major virus outbreak started on our network, and we're still not completely done with it. ILOMA,B and I think Clamp. McAfee started finding it as a "Buffer Overflow" but woudn't fix it. We spend days trying to get them to get us a DAT that w

Re: Anti-spam solution

I look forward to checking this out, thanks! -- ME2 On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Benjamin Zachary - Lists < li...@levelfive.us> wrote: > www.proxmox.com > > > > works pretty well out of the box. I have the enterprise version clustered > and host thousands of mailboxes and dozens of domain

Re: Terminals 1.7e

I've been using Terminals for a while, but only for RDP. I noticed that issue with telnet also. For telnet I've used TeraTerm for years. One thing I haven't had a chance to delve into with Terminals: I had the master password set up so it would automatically log me into servers when I connec

Re: Anti-spam solution

I've been evaluating spamtitan for a couple of weeks to replace a barracuda. it has been doing a good job. seems to be as effective at stopping spam out of the box as the barracuda after doing a lot of bayesian filter training. Bill Ralph Smith wrote: I’ve been using SpamTitan at my organ

RE: Virtual servers taking a long time to restart

The progress bar is where I see the delays as well. I've noticed it most on new guests I've just installed. I think the other responders have some good ideas, like the nics and various services not starting in a timely manner. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2..

Re: Virtual servers taking a long time to restart

It's almost all of my systems from time to time - mainly Citrix MPS4 and XenApp, and particularly SQL boxes, I seem to find. I may not have been clear enough - it's actually sticking on the Windows boot screen with the progress bar, rather than after that. The other responses here may give some g

Server 2003 Small Business Server Terminal Services issue

Trying to add capability for a couple more Remote Desktop users on a 2003 Small Business Server in a small single server office network.. SBS has the standard capability of 2 Remote Administration logins; but, it is not possible to add additional TS CAL's and actually use them ( http://support.micr

Re: Roaming profiles???

These are local local on the user profile page. They are showing up as if they logged into my machine. - Original Message - From: Richard Stovall To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 3:14 PM Subject: RE: Roaming profiles??? Just out of curiosity,

Re: Virtual servers taking a long time to restart

What are these systems for? What do they do/run? We have a development VoIP system on a VM. If the phone controller system service is set to "Automatic", that service takes several minutes to start. If there is "a piece missing" necessary for starting this service, it can take like 45 minute

RE: Virtual servers taking a long time to restart

Boy, my experience in general couldn't be more different. With very few exceptions almost always caused by a failed service or something else in the OS, our VMs restart extremely quickly. To the point of being surprisingly quick - as in, "Did I actually restart it of did I just log off?" More th

RE: Virtual servers taking a long time to restart

I see this behavior from time to time if a VM has been moved from one physical server to another and ARP caching has been turned up to a large value on switches. From: Kim Longenbaugh [k...@colonialsavings.com] Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 9:29 AM To: NT Sy

RE: Virtual servers taking a long time to restart

Most of the time when we see that here, it's because the VMWare Tools on the Windows guest are in the process of updating or installing. Our experience, contrary to what might be expected, has been that the install doesn't complete in one fell swoop, but seems to dribble out over a number of resta

Virtual servers taking a long time to restart

Does anyone else have any issues with odd VMWare ESX 3.5 virtual systems taking a long time to restart? I have a lot of problems (seem to becoming more frequent) with machines that sit on the "starting Windows" screen for a long time (up to half an hour), or some that even have to be manually reset

RE: Anti-spam solution

I've been using SpamTitan at my organization (200 employees) for a few years. For us it has been very effective, mostly set and forget, easy web based console, and has plenty of features and options for us. Includes Kaspersky AV, has a web interface for users to manage their quarantine, can send e

RE: NLB w/ 2008

i don't know what you mean by this statement: "I see on the 2008 NICS they all have 0.0.0.0 in them but apparently this is ok". you should have a default gateway on the NLB network and NO default getway on the heartbeat network. your public and private networks must be different networks.

Re: Is this a good SMTP transaction?

Thank you. - Original Message - From: Michael B. Smith To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 5:31 PM Subject: RE: Is this a good SMTP transaction? yes. -- From: David W.

RE: Question on Upgrade process

Just got one followup question, In a 2 Domain setup ( Empty root) and then a child domain, is there a legitimate reason that the Domain Admins of the child domain is in the root domains administrators group? I don't see the reason it should be and was going to remove it, accordingly, but want

Re: Terminals 1.7e

I use mRemote here at work with no issues using PuTTY, to only 1 server though. mRemote doesn't work on Windows 7 though, so I've started using Terminals on my setup at home with RDP, VNC and HTTP connections, haven't tried configuring SSH yet tho, still use PuTTY for that, might try that this