RE: Send email when a particular event is recorded in system log

This is from a thread back in July... Dunno if it will work on your OS. -- From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 8:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DHCP scope usage alert vbs, without MOM Off the top of my (

NETWORK RUNS SLOW AFTER 5PM

We have an AWS (alternate work schedule) whereby if you choose you can work longer days such that you get a Friday off every other week. So, while our regular working hours are 8:30AM to 5:00PM, there are always a small number of people left in the building and thus the network after 5PM. Of these

RE: NETWORK RUNS SLOW AFTER 5PM

Scheduled anti-malware scans? Backups kicking off? From: Murray Freeman [mailto:mfree...@alanet.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 6:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: NETWORK RUNS SLOW AFTER 5PM We have an AWS (alternate work schedule) whereby if you choose you can work longer

RE: Send email when a particular event is recorded in system log

Or eventcomb, a tool from MS. -Original Message- From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 5:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Send email when a particular event is recorded in system log This is from a thread back in Jul

RE: Send email when a particular event is recorded in system log

Or, the free version of EventSentry allows you to watch up to 1 Error, and send alerts. -Original Message- From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 5:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Send email when a particular event is

Re: strange dns issue

Do you have to /registerdns? It makes no sense to me if you do. Can you tell us the actual URL you're hitting so we can have a look at theircompany.com's DNS information? On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Didtel, Larry wrote: > I am having trouble with dns going to an external site.  It goes to

Re: NETWORK RUNS SLOW AFTER 5PM

Backups on your file or email servers? On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 15:01, Murray Freeman wrote: > We have an AWS (alternate work schedule) whereby if you choose you can work > longer days such that you get a Friday off every other week. So, while our > regular working hours are 8:30AM to 5:00PM, ther

Re: NetBT event logged that says duplicate computer name on network.

Could it be that your machine is multi-homed on the same subnet? Do you need name resolution on both ips? Just a coupla quick thoughts... On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Bill Monicher wrote: > I get eventID 4319 from NetBT logged occasionally on a production server. > The next is: > "A duplica

Visio licensing and Win2k TS

All, Wind2k3 domain... We have a number of users with Visio on their laptops, and frequently use it while connected to our SSL VPN, by copying the files back and forth to the file server. They want to have it installed on our Win2k TS box, because they often work on the same documents, and don't

Re: strange dns issue

Yes, from local pc I have to /flushdns /registerdns then it works for a short time. The address is //stemilt.gousa1.com. Doesn't make any sense to me either. The link most people use is //stemilt.gousa1.com/Default.asp?Redirected=Y but I have used both. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security th

RE: Windows 7 Indexing

That would be good! It's one thing to read a Microsoft article saying it does it but another to actually see it working :) From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 28 October 2009 12:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 7 Indexing I've installed the windows

RE: NETWORK RUNS SLOW AFTER 5PM

Our backups start at 8:30PM. We do very few blast email internally. There might be some anti virus updates and I'm checking those out. Murray -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 5:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re

A better "dumpel"?

I have always used the "dumpel" tool from the reskit to dump event logs for external examination. However dumpel does not dump the "data" of a record when it exists. I have a problem where a crucial piece of information is contained in the data (see "NetBT event logged that says duplicate computer

RE: Send email when a particular event is recorded in system log

2008 has that capability baked in, eventtriggers.exe works on the older os's http://www.petri.co.il/how-to-use-eventtriggersexe-to-send-e-mail-based- on-event-ids.htm -Original Message- From: Bill Monicher [mailto:bmacd5...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 2:20 PM To: NT Sys

Re: strange dns issue

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Didtel, Larry wrote: > I am having trouble with dns going to an external site. What OS and version for the client PC and for the DNS cache server? Have you tried from more than one client? > The address is like http://ourcompany.theircompany.com What are

Re: NETWORK RUNS SLOW AFTER 5PM

Last guy out the door at 5PM, starts up his torrent client? :) On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Murray Freeman wrote: > Our backups start at 8:30PM. We do very few blast email internally. > There might be some anti virus updates and I'm checking those out. > > > Murray > > > -Original Messag

Re: strange dns issue

>What OS and version for the client PC and for the DNS cache server? My OS is Win7 but this is a company wide problem and everyone else is either on XP or a Citrix desktop from Win2k03 servers. Our DNS server is Win2k03. >Explain what happens when you are "no longer able to get to the site". W

Re: strange dns issue

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Didtel, Larry wrote: > Yes, from local pc I have to /flushdns /registerdns then it works for a short > time. It's possible the client PC is caching a negative answer. > The address is //stemilt.gousa1.com. Here's what I see: has a single resource record

RE: NETWORK RUNS SLOW AFTER 5PM

By any chance running Trend Micro ??? I've seen three small customer sites where the updates brought the network to a crawl and killed VPN bandwidth to make terminal server unusable ...turning the updates schedule to after hours resolved the symptoms if not the cause. Erik Goldoff IT Consulta

Re: strange dns issue

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Didtel, Larry wrote: >>What OS and version for the client PC and for the DNS cache server? > > My OS is Win7 but this is a company wide problem and everyone else is either > on XP or a Citrix desktop from Win2k03 servers.  Our DNS server is Win2k03. > >>Explain wh

Re: Buffalo TeraStation III

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Ames Matthew B wrote: > My Terastation Pro died in the middle of a firmware upgrade.  I now have > a 1TB doorstop. Did you try a TFTP boot to recover? Google suggests that's possible for a Terrastation Pro. (I don't own one.) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpo

Re: Whats thrashing my disks?

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Oliver Marshall wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to go about finding out whats causing really high > disk write queue lengths on our old SBS 2003 box ? Process Explorer. I always add all three history graph columns. Seeing CPU, RAM, and I/O history over time wil

Re: strange dns issue

Yes, that is the same information that I resolve to here. I can telnet to that address. I'll time how long it takes to lose the dns resolution. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

Re: WAN Link Load Balance

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Brent Buchanan wrote: > My company is looking to implement hardware that would load > balance multiple wan links – both outgoing and incoming. What's applications are you looking to run over the "load balacing", and in what directions? Web browsing, web serving

Re: WAN Link Load Balance

I don't know much of anything about the products listed, but if you're open to suggestion i would HIGHLY recommend ELFIQ. www.elfiq.com The product plainly works as advertised -- it's support team is very knowledge and responsiveness and overall code design is very efficient. On Mon, Oct 26,

Re: NetBT event logged that says duplicate computer name on network.

Yep, that is it alright. I have several machines multi-homed, but this is the only one with a name on both interfaces. I'll look to see what they are trying to do and why. --BM On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Richard Stovall wrote: > Could it be that your machine is multi-homed on the same sub

Re: Delegation

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 5:22 PM, David Lum wrote: > Can you delegate AD right based on group membership? If I understand what you're asking, no, no exactly. You can *not* say "Allow group X to edit property Q of users who are members of group B". You *can* say "Allow group Y to edit prope

Re: WAN Link Load Balance

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Harry Singh wrote: > www.elfiq.com Holy crap -- I just looked at the prices. You can do this with Linux and a 7 year old PC for "free". Sure, they're doing the config work for you, and that's worth something. But $1800!! Yikes... and their major feature is

Re: strange dns issue

At 23 minutes I had lost dns resolution. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

Re: strange dns issue

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Didtel, Larry wrote: > At 23 minutes I had lost dns resolution. Which makes sense, given the TTL we saw. Again, the nameservers for are apparently rather fscked up. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: GPO script not running for Citrix (XenApp) users

Yes, runs as expected. For users logging in normally there is a slight pause while any vb scripts are executed. On XenApp it's just a blip, like it's ignored. >>> "Webster" 10/27/2009 5:21 PM >>> Have you run GPResult and verified the GPO is processing properly for the server and user? Webs

RE: A better "dumpel"?

I use psloglist most of the time now for qnd queries From: Bill Monicher [mailto:bmacd5...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 3:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: A better "dumpel"? I have always used the "dumpel" tool from the reskit to dump event logs for external examinat

RE: GPO script not running for Citrix (XenApp) users

Change the scripts to run visible and add a pause command at the end. Webster From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Subject: RE: GPO script not running for Citrix (XenApp) users Yes, runs as expected. For users logging in normally there is a slight pause while any vb scripts are exec

Re: Remote access card

Perhaps not *exactly* what you're looking for, but this might do [some|all|most] of what you want: http://www.provantage.com/lantronix-sls200usb0-01~7LANB01T.htm On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 05:49, Rubens Almeida wrote: > Good morning folks! Can you recommend any generic RAC card? (like a > DRAC, RSA

Re: HP ProCurve 2810 CLI ref guide

http://www.hp.com/rnd/support/manuals/2810.htm Probably you want this PDF: Management and Configuration Guide for the ProCurve Series 2810 Switches On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 17:19, Webster wrote: > My Googlefu is failing me and I can’t find it on Procurve.com either.  Does > anyone know w

RE: HP ProCurve 2810 CLI ref guide

Yes, already found that one but it doesn't have a reference to all the CLI commands and options. I must be doing something wrong on my switch as I was told to enter "ip routing" but I get "Invalid command: routing". I am at the (config)# prompt but can't figure out what I am doing wrong. I am

RE: NETWORK RUNS SLOW AFTER 5PM

Antivirus scans on the desktops? From: Murray Freeman [mailto:mfree...@alanet.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 6:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: NETWORK RUNS SLOW AFTER 5PM We have an AWS (alternate work schedule) whereby if you choose you can work longer days such that you g

Re: HP ProCurve 2810 CLI ref guide

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Webster wrote: > I must be doing something wrong on my switch as I was told to > enter "ip routing" but I get "Invalid command: routing". The 2810 doesn't do routing. It's a layer two switch. It's not a router (or a "layer three switch", as routers are sometim

RE: Visio licensing and Win2k TS

Depends on what kind of license you have. If you have retail licenses, the answer is "no". If you have open business licenses, the answer is "maybe". If you have open value licenses with SA, the answer is "yes". If you have select or enterprise licenses, the answer is "yes". Retail licenses sh

RE: HP ProCurve 2810 CLI ref guide

Goal is to setup a VLAN for the iSCSI traffic from my Windows Storage Server 2008 box I built. I can barely spell VLAN so I have my work cut out for me. :) I know I will make a lot of ID10T errors but this is my personal lab so I am not going to hurt anything. If I screw something up, I can just

RE: Visio licensing and Win2k TS

As soon as you enter the product key during install, you will be told the product is not for use on a Terminal Server and will abort. If you have the proper product key, the install will continue on. MSDN (do not know about Technet or MAPS) product keys now include a key for use by all Office pro

Re: WAN Link Load Balance

You're focusing on the incoming load balancing, and as you previously mentioned most are just doing some DNS trickery regardless, even your highly regarded "free" linux box (radware might be doing something different) It's outbound load balancing capabilities work in the field and work well. It's a

Re: HP ProCurve 2810 CLI ref guide

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Webster wrote: > Goal is to setup a VLAN for the iSCSI traffic from my > Windows Storage Server 2008 box I built. Quick and dirty -- suppose your iSCSI equipment is plugged into ports 20 and 22, and those ports are dedicated to iSCSI: config vla

RE: HP ProCurve 2810 CLI ref guide

So the network needs to be flat then? Webster > -Original Message- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] > Subject: Re: HP ProCurve 2810 CLI ref guide > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Webster wrote: > > Goal is to setup a VLAN for the iSCSI traffic from my > > Windows Sto

Re: HP ProCurve 2810 CLI ref guide

Here's the config for one of my 2510s, which should be similar to the 2810: --Begin 2510 configuration-- hostname "2510-48 Dist 1" max-vlans 10 time timezone -480 time daylight-time-rule Continental-US-and-Canada ip default-gateway 192.168.xx.1 sntp server 192.168.yy.191 timesync s

VLAN concepts and applications

Someone was asking VLAN questions, so I decided to re-post this. I've also updated it to reflect our successful VoIP deployment. PROTOCOL CONCEPTS We have regular "untagged" Ethernet frames. ("Frame" is the data-link (layer 2) term for what some protocols calls a "packet" or "datagram".) Th

Re: HP ProCurve 2810 CLI ref guide

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Webster wrote: > So the network needs to be flat then? I'm not sure what you mean by that. Please clarify. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

Re: HP ProCurve 2810 CLI ref guide

When I set up my iSCSI LAN, I put a whole separate LAN in place. I then put a second NIC (or used the already existing NIC) in the servers that communicated with the iSCSI machines. My thought was to avoid the load of the iSCSI traffic off of my backbone. In a small home setup like what you have,

Re: VLAN concepts and applications

This is a great piece of information. Thank You Ben.. On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > Someone was asking VLAN questions, so I decided to re-post this. > I've also updated it to reflect our successful VoIP deployment. > > PROTOCOL CONCEPTS > > We have regular "untagged" Eth

Re: Visio licensing and Win2k TS

The licenses for the products on the laptops and desktops is a retail license. We can certainly get a volume license for the TS machine, but if we need to also buy another volume license for our current installs, well, that's a lot of money, and likely won't happen. My minion has called MSFT lice

Re: Visio licensing and Win2k TS

So, as before, how do I limit access to Visio on the Win2k TS machine to just a named set of people? Kurt On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 17:53, Webster wrote: > As soon as you enter the product key during install, you will be told the > product is not for use on a Terminal Server and will abort.  If yo

Re: Visio licensing and Win2k TS

Drat - I should have said... It's Visio 2003, not 2007, or whatever is current. Kurt On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 17:43, Michael B. Smith wrote: > Depends on what kind of license you have. > > If you have retail licenses, the answer is "no". > > If you have open business licenses, the answer is "may

Re: WAN Link Load Balance

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Harry Singh wrote: > It's outbound load balancing capabilities work in the field and work well. So? Outbound load balancing is trivial to do on practically any multi-port router. > It's a pure layer2 product ... How does it load balance outbound connections

Re: Visio licensing and Win2k TS

Put all the people who need to have access into a group and set perms on the executable. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:20:55 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Visio licensing and Win2k TS So, as before, how

Re: Visio licensing and Win2k TS

Multiple methods come to mind... a) Use Software Restrictions b) Set file system ACLs via group policy c) Put the file name of the Visio executable in a GPO under Administrative Tools/System/Don't run specified Windows applications Kurt Buff wrote: > So, as before, how do I limit access to Visi

Re: WAN Link Load Balance

Defintely don't sell them. I just use them. I can agree to the "inherently secure" proclamation. Asides that, the product works and I'll leave it up to the OP to do the research necessary to make the best decision for his orginazation. I would suggest you do the same, but I'm pretty sure it would

Re: cli wsus client patch install

I've started uploading my scripts to the Google Code site for open source development. You can see/download my WSUSUR script here: http://code.google.com/p/wsusur/ If you want to following along with all the scripts I put online for download/collaboration, you can see them here: http://cod

Foxit Reader

I was a bit late to the party with this one. This looks like quite a nice little Acrobat Reader alternative. Is anyone here using this as the default pdf reader? Have you had any issues? Any other feedback on it? James. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: Visio licensing and Win2k TS

Ah..minions...what are they good for? On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > The licenses for the products on the laptops and desktops is a retail > license. > > We can certainly get a volume license for the TS machine, but if we > need to also buy another volume license for our cur

Re: Visio licensing and Win2k TS

Heh. They're good for simple tasks, until they're trained enough to figure things out for themselves. The problem is getting time to train them... Kurt On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 19:10, Steve Ens wrote: > Ah..minions...what are they good for? > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Kurt Buff wrote:

Re: Visio licensing and Win2k TS

Oh, that's *far* too simple. It's just *got* to be harder than that! It must, it must... I'll try that, and see. On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 18:33, wrote: > Put all the people who need to have access into a group and set perms on the > executable. > > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > > -

Re: Visio licensing and Win2k TS

Option 2 seems reasonable. I don't have to learn or set up anything new for that. I know, I'll delegate learning about options 1 and 3 to a minion! Heh. Kurt On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 18:33, Phil Brutsche wrote: > Multiple methods come to mind... > > a) Use Software Restrictions > > b) Set file s

Re: WAN Link Load Balance

Depending on what kind of links you have, and all that, you could get an ASN, and set up BGP with Vyatta on a spare PC. Overkill, and otherwise inappropriate, for DSL/cable, but appropriate in other circumstances. Kurt On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:56, Brent Buchanan wrote: > My company is looking

RE: Foxit Reader

Didn't like it. Switched back to Reader when they released 8.x and 9.x, which were much, much faster than v7 and previous. Sam From: James Hill [mailto:james.h...@superamart.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 9:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Foxit Reader I was a bit late

Re: Foxit Reader

Tried it. Didn't like it. The things I didn't like about it: * Just by running it it will set the file association for PDF files to itself. Not cool! Well-behaved software will ask first. * Doesn't give you the equivalent to the Adobe Customization Wizard to disable the auto-update feature, the

RE: Foxit Reader

Yes the customisation was an issue for me. It's a shame as it is very quick to open and I prefer the default toolbar/button layout over Adobe Reader. -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] Sent: Wednesday, 28 October 2009 1:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: Buffalo TeraStation III

On 26 Oct 2009 at 7:37, Andrew S. Baker wrote: > I prefer the ReadyNAS devices as well. The Buffalo was cheaper for home use, > though. > -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker Interesting you should say that. I've been looking at a couple of ReadyNAS 2100s ($1600 naked, no drives, from Provantag

Re: OT (Funny): Microsoft Stores

On 26 Oct 2009 at 12:09, Ray wrote: > They opened the 1st one here in Arizona apparently. Just an excuse to get out of Redmond for a while at this time of year ... -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 +---+ ~ Finally, powerful e

Re: Foxit Reader

On 28 Oct 2009 at 12:08, James Hill wrote: > I was a bit late to the party with this one. This looks like quite a nice > little Acrobat Reader alternative. Is anyone here using this as the default > pdf reader? Have you had any issues? Any other feedback on it? James. I use it as default an

Re: What else would you tell this user?

On 27 Oct 2009 at 20:02, Paul Gordon wrote: > I believe this is referred to as "percussive maintenance" "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer." -- The Shadetree Mechanic -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 +---+ ~

Re: Buffalo TeraStation III

We purchased a ReadyNAS Duo recently. We learned that you should make sure the drives you plan on using are supported for your device. I now have a pair of low power seagate 1.5TB harddtives I need to find new homes for. Just FYI. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District On Oct 27, 2009, at 10:

Windows 7 64 bits and RAM

I wonder wether Brands likeHP,Dell,Acer will start to sell desktops and laptops with 64 bit edition and a consequent amount of RAM installed GuidoElia HELPPC ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

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