Re: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread tony patton
If you don't have a separate PC/Laptop, the ESXi box would be useless as you would have no way of connecting to it or the guests running on it. With ESXi, it takes over the hardware and just gives you a few options for management of it. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078

Re: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread tony patton
Hi Erik, The card in my home box shows up as 82575GB Gigibit Network Connection with the 4 nics. Google seems to report that this is either a Pro/1000 VT or a Pro/1000 QP. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com

Re: Questions in a macro (Was: Hiberfil.sys on W2K8 systems)

2009-11-04 Thread Andrew S. Baker
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RE: Getting a public certificate for Windows 2008 R2

2009-11-04 Thread Brumbaugh, Luke
Crap, I forgot to put it in. The remote desktop/remote app services. I am trying to do single sign-on and makew available to outside non-domain users. From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 6:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Getting

RE: Password change rules - never?

2009-11-04 Thread Ken Schaefer
Iwtbot,i (It was the best of times, i). As long as the phrase is memorable, the user should be able to type the password in (and after a few days should be quick). Something such as the above is not going to be brute-forced in any meaningful way. Cheers Ken

RE: PING on W2K8 server uisng IPv6?

2009-11-04 Thread Miller Bonnie L .
Interesting, and Exchange might be why it would affect SBS. I've not seen this behavior on any of our servers where IPv6 is off, but maybe we've just been lucky so far, and our Exchange is on a WS03 server. If anyone has any documentation on this, I'd love to take a look at it. -Bonnie

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread Erik Goldoff
thank you very much for the follow up... I'm needing to add a NIC to my newly built i7 box, that could be a good choice for me Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security _ From: tony patton [mailto:tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04,

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread tony patton
No probs, it needs PCI express 4x or greater, if you only have a 1x slot available it won't work, just a heads up. There also seems/seemed to be some issue with vlan with the card and esxi, but as I don't use vlans I never looked into it much. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread Erik Goldoff
i7 is a relatively new cpu, so most motherboards should have that. I'm using a Gigabyte EX58-UDP4P and it has several PCI-e x16 slots Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security _ From: tony patton [mailto:tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com] Sent: Wednesday,

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread Ken Schaefer
If you are being financially prudent, then you could do that. For home: www.adopenstatic.com/temp/homenetwork.jpghttp://www.adopenstatic.com/temp/homenetwork.jpg On my single e6400 laptop I have around 50 VMs for a lab environment to use at clients. Cheers Ken

Re: Desktop Management

2009-11-04 Thread Tom Miller
I remember Landesk from several jobs ago. One problem we had back then was CPU/memory utilization. Can you tell me if this is no longer an issue? So what are the issues you have with it? I need something to push an application/patch immediately, if I need to do so. Does Landesk to this, in

Moving VMWare management suite

2009-11-04 Thread RichardMcClary
Greetings! We have a VMWare system, not quite two years old, and the management suite (VMWare Infrastructure Client 2.5, update managers, converters, and license server) are on an aging box we need to replace. I have docs saying how to install the Infrastucture Client, etc from scratch. What

RE: Moving VMWare management suite

2009-11-04 Thread Garcia-Moran, Carlos
Don't worry about the Host's they maintain a license for some time when they can't communicate with a License server. While you can do a migration export the DB and re import, I always find it's best to start over fresh if you have all the pieces you need. Also you can do a P2V of the server

Re: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: www.adopenstatic.com/temp/homenetwork.jpg You score so much geek cred every time you post that. ;-) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread Sean Rector
Agreed - I drool every time I see it. Sean Rector, MCSE -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Home Servers On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com

RE: Moving VMWare management suite

2009-11-04 Thread RichardMcClary
Thanks for the info on the license! By starting from scratch, would this mean a database would get guest information from the ESX servers (two of them) and populate the client? Meanwhile, as far as P2V, having this as a VM makes me a bit nervous. (So does virutalizing ALL my domain

RE: Moving VMWare management suite

2009-11-04 Thread Garcia-Moran, Carlos
Can you give us more info on the setup you have? Normally here's what I do for example. We have Virtual center Server Hosts Guests Clusters Datacenters Folders So we create a new VC with a the needed features, Update manager, license server etc... Once it's online we recreate the

Re: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread tony patton
+1 The SO already complains at the fact I have 13 vm's and 2 physicals at home. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com From: Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread Harry Singh
S0? now that's an acronym worth remembering..lol. On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:18 AM, tony patton tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com wrote: +1 The SO already complains at the fact I have 13 vm's and 2 physicals at home. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread Pauls Hotmail
I prefer “SWMBO”;-) P. From: Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com] Sent: 04 November 2009 15:23 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Home Servers S0? now that's an acronym worth remembering..lol. On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:18 AM, tony patton tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Wait... she complains about _VM's_?? -sc From: tony patton [mailto:tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Home Servers +1 The SO already complains at the fact I have 13 vm's and 2 physicals at home.

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread Steven M. Caesare
S0 is a register. SO is a person. Ususally. -sc From: Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Home Servers S0? now that's an acronym worth remembering..lol. On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:18 AM, tony

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Sad. -sc From: Pauls Hotmail [mailto:paul_gor...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers I prefer “SWMBO”;-) P. From: Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com] Sent: 04 November 2009 15:23 To: NT System

RE: Moving VMWare management suite

2009-11-04 Thread RichardMcClary
Thanks! We have pretty much the same setup... Any issues with having the same license file on two VCs? Anyway, then, once the new VC is set, simply remove from the old and add to the new, and all is well? Thanks again! -- RMc Garcia-Moran, Carlos cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com wrote on

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread tony patton
Yep, I think that is more accurate :) Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com From: Pauls Hotmail paul_gor...@hotmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: 04/11/2009 15:26

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread tony patton
She has a fear of fire since she was about 2. Everything has to plugged out bar the fridge at night. I don't completely trust the ESX shutdown, so I shut them down manually, only takes about half an hour :) Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email:

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread David Lum
What does that have to do with VM's? From: tony patton [mailto:tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 7:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers She has a fear of fire since she was about 2. Everything has to plugged out bar the fridge at night. I

RE: Moving VMWare management suite

2009-11-04 Thread Joseph Heaton
We've got 2 DCs, one 2K3, one 2K8, both virtual. :) richardmccl...@aspca.org 11/4/2009 7:06 AM Thanks for the info on the license! By starting from scratch, would this mean a database would get guest information from the ESX servers (two of them) and populate the client? Meanwhile, as far

RE: Moving VMWare management suite

2009-11-04 Thread John Cook
P2V the server, shut down the old server, connect to the newly created VM from VI client (just type in the IP address in a browser) tweak your settings and scrap the box. I did it like this and had absolutely no issues. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE

Re: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread Harry Singh
His font (at least how gmail is delivering it) lead me to believe it was S0, which is exactly why I found it to be pretty funny... Anyways, please proceed...=) On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:43 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: What does that have to do with VM’s? *From:* tony patton

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread tony patton
The VM's have to be shut down, before the host can be shutdown and unplugged from the wall. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com From: David Lum david@nwea.org To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread Ken Schaefer
Um, I'm pretty sure ESX has a save state feature. Or just hibernate the VMs and turn them off? Cheers Ken From: tony patton [tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com] Sent: Thursday, 5 November 2009 2:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers The VM's

Re: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread asbzone
I can't quite get this concept of computers that are shut down daily... :) Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: tony patton tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:54:02 To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread Ken Schaefer
I've just decided that I need to get current gen SSDs for just about everything I can. I bought an OCZ Vertex (Indilinx controller) last weekend, and this thing is awesome (compared to mechanical disk, and earlier SSDs that I've had). My next mission to upgrade the server to SSDs for all the

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread John Aldrich
Me either. It annoys me when my users do it and their computers can't get scanned by antivirus.. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: asbz...@gmail.com [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Home Servers I can't quite get

RE: Moving VMWare management suite

2009-11-04 Thread Garcia-Moran, Carlos
No issues with the same license file on multiple VC's. Remove and Add pretty much basically From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving VMWare management suite Thanks! We have

Thanks Sunbelt!

2009-11-04 Thread John Aldrich
I just want to send out a big Thank you to Sunbelt for VipreRescue! One of my users was infected with AntivirusPro and I couldn't get MalwareBytes to run, so I downloaded VipreRescue, burned it to a CD and installed it on the infested laptop (which was constantly popping up full-screen porno!)

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread tony patton
It has a suspend state, but I have a few VM's that don't have the tools installed, or up-to-date tools. 1 is the openfiler storage vm, the untangle VM is the other one 1 can think off of the top of my head, haven't gotten round to it yet. Prefer to have some shutdown properly, most of them

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread Ken Schaefer
Why do you need to scan? What benefit do you get over on-demand scanning? Cheers Ken From: John Aldrich [jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, 5 November 2009 3:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers Me either… It annoys me when my

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread John Aldrich
Deep scan with AVG - it's not as nice as Vipre, which I can't get authorization to purchase until much closer to the expiration of our AVG license. AVG Antivirus doesn't bother notifying us of adware according to AVG tech support, because they don't want us bothered by all the alerts. L So, I'm

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Oh. Man, I would have never guessed THAT. Time to invest in a home Halon system. And emergency oxygen masks. -sc From: tony patton [mailto:tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers She has

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Longer for the shutdown sequence I'd guess. -sc From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers What does that have to do with VM's? From: tony patton

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Cha. The new E6500 I'm using is SSD based. I sent this message 3 seconds before I finished typing it. -sc -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers I've just

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread Richard Stovall
Clearly this is e-mail not Google Wave. -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 11:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers Cha. The new E6500 I'm using is SSD based. I sent this message 3 seconds

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread David Lum
That's funny right there, just like the Polish letter that says I was going to send you money with this letter but I already sealed the envelope. -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 8:26 AM To: NT System Admin

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Indeed. Have I mentioned I'm not a big fan of Java or javascript? -sc -Original Message- From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 11:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers Clearly this is e-mail not Google

RE: Best way to extend system partition...

2009-11-04 Thread mikeMitchell
Using ESX 3.5...we: Extend the 'physical' (virtual) drive using Infrastructure Client... We boot the VM into gPartEd (a small bootable GNU linux iso - http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php)... It lets you mouse the partition boundary on the vm's drive Then boot to original OS Of

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread David Lum
Sometimes, just sometimes, I really hate you guys (he says after 45 minutes of reading SSD info from storagesearch.com...) ...must...have...SSD Check out these stats: User Experience with SSDs - How did they feel? People who already used SSDs were asked to rate their experience of the

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Don't hate the playa... hate the spindle. -sc From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers Sometimes, just sometimes, I really hate you guys (he says after 45 minutes of reading SSD info

NewSID retired - The Machine SID Duplication Myth

2009-11-04 Thread Mike Gill
http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2009/11/03/3291024.aspx Saw this last night. -- Mike Gill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

phpbb 403 errors

2009-11-04 Thread David W. McSpadden
Ok so I am trying to install phpbb3 on my iis6 server. I finished the install and now I am getting a 403 error?? I have registered with phpbb but I am still waiting on my account to active long enough to post a forum question there. Does anyone have some pointers? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread Erik Goldoff
Maybe great, but not for the budget conscious .. A 30 GB SSD costs more than a consumer 1.5 TB SATA drive Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:57 AM To: NT

RE: Best way to extend system partition...

2009-11-04 Thread jesse-r...@wi.rr.com
Done this many times with ESX, it really does work great. I HAVE had problems with the newer version of Gparted though. For me, 3.4.11 live CD worked the best to extend Windows system partitions, newer versions had problems. Original Message: - From: mikeMitchell

Re: Thanks Sunbelt!

2009-11-04 Thread Vicky Spelshaus
+1... As we are forced to use SymanCRAP here, VipreRescue has saved me from having to rebuild several times this last year. On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:11 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote: I just want to send out a big “Thank you” to Sunbelt for VipreRescue! One of my users

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread David Lum
True, but I would consider a 60GB SDD ($150) for the OS. Anyone remember RAM drives? You're literally putting the whole OS on one. Sorta. David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 -Original Message- From: Erik Goldoff

RE: Thanks Sunbelt!

2009-11-04 Thread John Aldrich
Well, I may still end up rebuilding this laptop, but at least I'll be able to save the user's files, etc. I'm re-running Rescue now, from a safe-mode command prompt. After that, I'll reboot and try re-installing MalwareBytes and see what, if anything, it comes up with. Right now I'm so sick of AVG

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread Erik Goldoff
And I presume you can partition an SSD into multiple logical drives without the major performance hit of read/write head thrashing Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security _ From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:28 PM

RE: Thanks Sunbelt!

2009-11-04 Thread Jacob
which was constantly popping up full-screen porno Was not me. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 8:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Thanks Sunbelt! I just want to send out a big Thank you to Sunbelt for VipreRescue! One

Re: Thanks Sunbelt!

2009-11-04 Thread David W. McSpadden
And here I thought that was just a screensaver. From: Jacob Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Thanks Sunbelt! which was constantly popping up full-screen porno Was not me. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]

Re: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Indeed. *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker *Providing Competitive Advantage through Effective IT Leadership* On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote: And I presume you can partition an SSD into multiple logical drives without the major

Re: Password change rules - never?

2009-11-04 Thread Jonathan Link
Until someone makes a new dictionary with the first letter of each word in the first sentence of famous literary works. On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: Iwtbot,i (It was the best of times, i). As long as the phrase is memorable, the user should be

RE: NewSID retired - The Machine SID Duplication Myth

2009-11-04 Thread Michael B. Smith
bah. we know you read my tweet on it. :-) From: Mike Gill [lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: NewSID retired - The Machine SID Duplication Myth

Blackberry?

2009-11-04 Thread Evan Brastow
Hi guys, I haven't begun to *really* navigate Blackberry's site about this, but I'm wondering if someone might have some thoughts before I get too far into it... I have 1 or 2 users (and that's it) that would like to get a Blackberry and have their email pushed out to them. We have no

Re: Blackberry?

2009-11-04 Thread David Baca
Evan Take a look at this. http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/professional/ David From: Evan Brastow ebras...@automatedemblem.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wed, November 4, 2009 10:05:46 AM Subject: Blackberry?

FW: Blackberry?

2009-11-04 Thread Evan Brastow
Gosh.. I JUST found the Blackberry Professional Server that's $499 for 5 users. I think that's what I've been looking for, no? Arrgghh.. sorry From: Evan Brastow Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 1:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Blackberry? Hi guys, I haven't

RE: Blackberry?

2009-11-04 Thread Evan Brastow
Yep, I just came across that. Thank you Chad and David for your quick replies. Can’t believe I missed that on my first look at the site! From: David Baca [mailto:dbaca.gr...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 1:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Blackberry? Evan

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread Jay Dale
+1 -Original Message- From: Sean Rector [mailto:sean.rec...@vaopera.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 9:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers Agreed - I drool every time I see it. Sean Rector, MCSE -Original Message- From: Ben Scott

Exchange Tools Windows 7 64bit

2009-11-04 Thread Kelsey, John
Are there exchange tools available to install on a windows7 64bit box? Exchange server is 2003. Or is it still use an XP vm machine for account management ? Thanks all! *** John C. Kelsey Senior Network Analyst DuBois Regional Medical Center (: 814.375.3073 2

RE: Blackberry?

2009-11-04 Thread John Aldrich
Will that work with POP3 servers or do you *have* to have Exchange to work with Blackberry servers? Reason I ask is that we currently host our own email, but several of my users (sales droids) have Blackberries and would like to get their email on there. Currently they have to POP the email using

Re: Blackberry?

2009-11-04 Thread Steve Ens
Works fine for mail only, but if contacts, calendar etc need to be pushed, then you need the BPS or the BES. Takes the issues away from the user and gives you more control, remote wipes, policies, etc. On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:23 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote: Will that

RE: NewSID retired - The Machine SID Duplication Myth

2009-11-04 Thread David Lum
Link to the tweet? From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 9:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NewSID retired - The Machine SID Duplication Myth bah. we know you read my tweet on it. :-) From: Mike

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread Mike Gill
I've read too many recent ars, anand, and Slashdot articles to care about SSD for a while. http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531 http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531p=17 p=17 Anadtech appears down atm but that's a great article.. Even the Intel drives are

Re: Thanks Sunbelt!

2009-11-04 Thread Roger Wright
Try a System Restore and then run VIPRE PC Rescue and/or Malwarebytes. Roger Wright ___ Sent from Tampa, FL, United States On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:32 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote: Well, I may still end up rebuilding this laptop, but at least I’ll be able to save

Re: Blackberry?

2009-11-04 Thread Andrew Levicki
Hi Evan, +1 over here for BES Express, which was renamed BPS, BlackBerry Professional Server, which actually comes as a free download with 1 bundled license and 1 free support call. I'll find the link if need be. Total cost for you should just be that second user license. Let me know if I can

RE: Blackberry?

2009-11-04 Thread Terry Dickson
We had one user a while back that had a blackberry. Here is what they choose to do. Setup a rule that automatically forwarded a copy of all email to blackberry account and then used activesync to sync calendar and contacts when in the office. Not saying it was without problems, as the

Exchange/OWA 2007

2009-11-04 Thread jesse-r...@wi.rr.com
Hello. We currently have a single Exch 2003 box with OWA on it. Users access OWA via https://outlook.mydomain.com/exchange. I am planning my Exchange 2007 migration. In the process, I need to move mailboxes from 2003 to 2007 gradually (over several weeks). While doing this, I STILL need users

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread N Parr
Ok Ken, you finally made me get in gear and do a layout. Who else can up the bar, there's got to be bigger nerds than us out there. I know I forgot something. Standard answer for the SO asking why are you doing that is Because I Can. And I usually only run one VM Host and guests on local

Re: phpbb 403 errors

2009-11-04 Thread David W. McSpadden
Got it. I forgot to index.php in IIS. From: David W. McSpadden Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: phpbb 403 errors Ok so I am trying to install phpbb3 on my iis6 server. I finished the install and now I am getting a 403 error?? I have registered

RE: Thanks Sunbelt!

2009-11-04 Thread John Aldrich
Nahh. I already nuked the System Restore. I know that's where a lot of malware likes to hide itself, so one of the first things I do when cleaning a machine is turn off system restore until I'm done cleaning. Then I'll turn it back on. J Besides the way this thing was hosed, I'm surprised I was

Silicon Mechanics

2009-11-04 Thread John Aldrich
Anyone here have any experience with Silicon Mechanics SAN devices? John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~image001.jpgimage002.jpg

Windows 2003 Firewall throwing me fits... any guru's

2009-11-04 Thread Ziots, Edward
Any Windows Firewall Guru's out there, Windows 2003 variety... I am adding exception to the firewall, along with applications etc. And I can't ping the server ( I enabled the ICMP Echos on the TEAMED NIC) I can't RDP to the server even though enabled RDP on the connection accordingly.

Re: Windows 2003 Firewall throwing me fits... any guru's

2009-11-04 Thread Don Ely
Turn it off? :) On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: Any Windows Firewall Guru’s out there, Windows 2003 variety… I am adding exception to the firewall, along with applications etc. And I can’t ping the server ( I enabled the ICMP Echos on the TEAMED

Network video recorder

2009-11-04 Thread Glen Johnson
Reading the thread home servers and looking at the recent network maps and seeing a surveillance DVR reminded me to ask the collective this. We currently have about 28 analog camera but the recorders are crap. Slow to search for events and don't provide more than a few days storage. I'd like to

RE: Windows 2003 Firewall throwing me fits... any guru's

2009-11-04 Thread Ziots, Edward
Yeah, But someone wants it on, and configured. That is the problem, I usually turn it off because it causes more problems than it solves, and the firewall logs aren't worth a dang. Its pretty bad when you allow ICMP echo in the configuration, and then you can't ping the dam box, even

NTLM authentication question

2009-11-04 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Can someone give me a brief overview of the communication that takes place when a client falls back to NTLM for Domain Authentication after Kerberos fails? I'm interested in the ports it's using not the actual handshake that takes place. I've read a few things that say its UDP 137, UDP 138, and

RE: Exchange/OWA 2007

2009-11-04 Thread Michael B. Smith
and moving to a new namespace in 2007 isn't an option? From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 2:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Exchange/OWA 2007 Hello. We currently have a single Exch 2003 box with

RE: Hiberfil.sys on W2K8 systems

2009-11-04 Thread James Hill
That's the correct method if you want the file to be removed as well. Turning off hibernation via the gui does not remove the file. From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] Sent: Wednesday, 4 November 2009 7:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hiberfil.sys on

Re: Windows 2003 Firewall throwing me fits... any guru's

2009-11-04 Thread Don Ely
Perzactly... if I were to hazard a guess it has something to do with the teaming... Can you turn that off for a quick test? On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: Yeah, But someone wants it on, and configured. That is the problem, I usually turn it off

RE: NewSID retired - The Machine SID Duplication Myth

2009-11-04 Thread Michael B. Smith
Huh. I didn't even know I could do that until you made me go look for it! http://bit.ly/1TDdDX or http://twitter.com/essentialexch/statuses/5417853283 From: David Lum [david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 1:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: Exchange/OWA 2007

2009-11-04 Thread Harry Singh
The recommend migration scenario for OWA users then would be something like this: https://webmail03.mydomain.com https://webmail07.mydomain.com Going to be tackling an 03 migration pretty soon... On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@owa.smithcons.comwrote: and moving to

RE: NTLM authentication question

2009-11-04 Thread Michael B. Smith
the short answer (which doesn't specifically answer your question, but does answer your problem) is that both answers are correct. 137-139 are used by the RPC EndPoint Mapper process in order to connect to the NTM Auth package. The RPCEM will use an arbitrarily high port for that process.

Re: Windows 2003 Firewall throwing me fits... any guru's

2009-11-04 Thread Harry Singh
This is all guess work here, but -- have you checked the binding order of the teamed NIC ? Did you add the exemptions via netsh ? On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Don Ely don@gmail.com wrote: Perzactly... if I were to hazard a guess it has something to do with the teaming... Can you turn

RE: Exchange/OWA 2007

2009-11-04 Thread Michael B. Smith
Didn't say that - but it's easier. Typically, in Exchange 2007 (and 2010 for that matter), the old dichotomy of having multiple names is no longer necessary. That is, you only need a single name. Used to be you'd have owa.example.com, webmail.example.com, mail.example.com,

Exchange email archiving

2009-11-04 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi chaps, We're after an email archiving solution for about 100 users which integrates with Exchange 2007 (Win 2k3) and Outlook 2007 so that users data is archived off of the Exchange server to some other (cheaper, larger) kind of storage but in a way that's as invisible as possible to the end

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread Matthew W. Ross
Wait... Do I see an Outdoor Projector on that? *drool* --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:12:38 -0800 Subject: RE: Home

Re: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread Kevin Lundy
And you are running your surveillance software on a VM? What software? On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:12 PM, N Parr npar...@mortonind.com wrote: Ok Ken, you finally made me get in gear and do a layout. Who else can up the bar, there's got to be bigger nerds than us out there. I know I forgot

RE: Exchange/OWA 2007

2009-11-04 Thread Carol Fee
This is the NT Sys Admin list, not the Exchange List. Why are all the Exchange questions being posted to this list now ? CFee -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 2:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Hehe... I have connections outside to set that up too... is fun for summer parties. -sc -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 4:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers Wait... Do I see an Outdoor

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread N Parr
Yes, projector is mounting inside and shoots out through a window to a 10' screen we hang up on the patio/pergola I built last year. -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 3:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Home Servers

2009-11-04 Thread N Parr
I have some old dlink dcs-1000/1000w camera's. Nothing to write home about, just using the standard software package that came with them. Don't know of anything else that will work. Dlink is pretty proprietary when it comes to their camera's. From: Kevin Lundy

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