RE: Printer installation error

2009-11-10 Thread James Hill
From memory the prompting policies only apply to Vista and above. When the domain admin connects the printer are they simply using the add printer wizard and pointing to the print queue on the server? From: Jim Dandy [mailto:jda...@asmail.ucdavis.edu] Sent: Saturday, 7 November 2009 11:01 AM

Active Directory design in the win2008 R2 world

2009-11-10 Thread Pauls Hotmail
What's the collective wisdom these days regarding the justification of deploying multiple domains as a means of limiting replication traffic? I have an instance here where every part of me wants to suggest a single forest/domain as the optimum solution, but a couple of other admins are pushing for

Re: Server 2008 causing domain issues

2009-11-10 Thread Chris Hamby
Does this server have Symantec Endpoint installed? We had a 2008 server that was doing something similar. Endpoint was the problem. I cant remember the exact version, but we uninstalled and installed a newer build and the problem went away. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a

RE: Active Directory design in the win2008 R2 world

2009-11-10 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Agreed... 1 domain. Additional complication requires justification. Ask them to quantify the additional traffic load for the expected domain topology and provide traffic statistics demonstrating that a single domain environment would be problematic. -sc From: Pauls Hotmail

Patch Tuesday

2009-11-10 Thread Bill Lambert
Hello all... I believe there is a site where you can sign up for email notification of the monthly patches from MS. Can someone link me? Thanks! Bill Lambert Windows System Administrator Concuity A healthcare division of Trintech, Inc. Phone 847-941-9206 Fax 847-465-9147

Today is the 234th Birthday of the US Marine Corp

2009-11-10 Thread Todd Lemmiksoo
Here is a tribute! https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/holiday/usmc2009/default.asp?isc=gdr1162d Todd Lemmiksoo Network Administrator All-Mode Communications, Inc. 1725 Dryden Road Freeville, New York 13068 (607) 347-4164 x440 1-877-ALLMODE (toll free) http://www.all-mode.com ~ Finally, powerful

RE: Patch Tuesday

2009-11-10 Thread Dennis Hoefer
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/dd252948.aspx From: Bill Lambert [mailto:blamb...@concuity.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Patch Tuesday Hello all... I believe there is a site where you can

Re: Patch Tuesday

2009-11-10 Thread Richard Stovall
Bill Lambert wrote: Hello all... I believe there is a site where you can sign up for email notification of the monthly patches from MS. Can someone link me? Thanks! Bill Lambert Here you go. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/dd252948.aspx ~ Finally, powerful

Re: Today is the 234th Birthday of the US Marine Corp

2009-11-10 Thread Daniel Rodriguez
THAT WAS AWSOME Thanks for sharing. Sending to my father. He is ex-Marine. He would love it. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Todd Lemmiksoo tlemmik...@all-mode.comwrote: Here is a tribute!

Re: Patch Tuesday

2009-11-10 Thread Daniel Rodriguez
Scott Cate at KBAlertz.com On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Bill Lambert blamb...@concuity.com wrote: Hello all… I believe there is a site where you can sign up for email notification of the monthly patches from MS. Can someone link me? Thanks! *Bill Lambert* *Windows System

Re: Patch Tuesday

2009-11-10 Thread Richard Stovall
Mine come from: Microsoft [micros...@newsletters.microsoft.com] On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Bill Lambert blamb...@concuity.com wrote: Thanks, all.  Can you tell me the 'from' address of the email from TechNet?   I have a sense that my spam assassin is trapping them. Thanks, again!

Iscsi from old server

2009-11-10 Thread jbechard
I'd like to make a couple of old server into iSCSI targets. Anyone know of a good way to do this and keep the accountability that comes with Dell Openmanage software? I don't really want to go back down to nothing but storage on these servers unless there is a way that I can still be alerted in

RE: Iscsi from old server

2009-11-10 Thread N Parr
If they're Dell servers wouldn't you continue to run Openmanage on them? From: jbech...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:jbech...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 8:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Iscsi from old server I'd like to make

Re: OT: Side work

2009-11-10 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 9 Nov 2009 at 16:08, Ben Scott wrote: If I need Windows-based disk imaging, I use Acronis True Image Echo Backup and Recovery Workstation Professional or whatever it's called this year. BartPE with free DriveImageXML works fine, just used it myself to back up a laptop with a failing

RE: Active Directory design in the win2008 R2 world

2009-11-10 Thread David Lum
+1 Domains are an administration boundary, not a traffic boundary. You will have DC's and GC's all over the place but not different domains, and as you said, since 2008 allows different password policies you don't even need different domains for that. David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST

Printer Auditing Software

2009-11-10 Thread Wilhelm, Scott
Hello; In our district there's a need to audit all our printers, mainly our xerox copiers. Rather than implement the user login system for each copier, I'm trying to find a way to report print jobs going to the printers through our print server. Is there an application out there that would

RE: Printer Auditing Software

2009-11-10 Thread David Lum
Do the printers reside on the same one or two servers? If so you can audit the event logs. David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Wilhelm, Scott [mailto:swilh...@mcs.k12.ny.us] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 6:23 AM To:

Connecting two offices next door to each other

2009-11-10 Thread WeFixIT
Hi All, A new client has asked me to look into the following scenario: He has two offices which are almost beside each other...there's one building between them. The buildings are listed which means no holes in walls and they are not allowed to string a cable between buildings. Both offices

Re: OT: Side work

2009-11-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Angus Scott-Fleming angu...@geoapps.com wrote:   If I need Windows-based disk imaging, I use Acronis True Image Echo Backup and Recovery Workstation Professional or whatever it's called this year. BartPE with free DriveImageXML works fine ... Windows-based

Re: Connecting two offices next door to each other

2009-11-10 Thread Erik Goldoff
if they both have reasonably robust internet connectivity, simple to just set up a site-to-site vpn between subnets ( just have to make sure they're not using same subnet in both locations ) Otherwise you get a little more expensive doing private network via line of sight laser connections, or

Re: Printer Auditing Software

2009-11-10 Thread Damien Solodow
Take a look at PaperCutNG. -- Sent using BlackBerry From: Wilhelm, Scott swilh...@mcs.k12.ny.us To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Tue Nov 10 09:23:09 2009 Subject: Printer Auditing Software

RE: Printer Auditing Software

2009-11-10 Thread Miller Bonnie L .
We use Papercut NG here in our District. http://www.papercut.com/ Product and support are good-the only problem we have sometimes is that their support is not 24/7 and they are based out of Australia. Being in PST in the US makes it hard to connect sometimes, but they are good about getting

Re: OT: Side work

2009-11-10 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 9 Nov 2009 at 15:23, John Aldrich wrote: Thanks. I´ll probably go cheaper than that, probably estimate 2 hours @$25/hour for cleaning malware. Also, blow the inevitable dust bunnies out of the case, etc. Way too cheap. Don't know where you are, but the Geek Squad is $99/hour even

RE: Printer Auditing Software

2009-11-10 Thread Domingue, Jamie
We use Print Manager Plus here. It works pretty well and has lots of built in reporting. http://www.softwareshelf.com/ jamie From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 8:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Printer Auditing Software

Re: Printer Auditing Software

2009-11-10 Thread Erik Goldoff
check out Interface Electronics, http://www.interface.com/?Products:Print_and_Session_Management if you call, ask for Chuck Singer and tell him that I referred you. I've known Chuck and his company for 20 years now On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Wilhelm, Scott swilh...@mcs.k12.ny.uswrote:

RE: Connecting two offices next door to each other

2009-11-10 Thread John Aldrich
Well, if nothing else, do you have LOS between the two buildings? If so, maybe a point-to-point wireless circuit would work. Of course, it would probably be cheaper to have a VPN and do it that way, but a point-to-point wireless circuit would work as well. You can either buy or build a

RE: Server 2008 causing domain issues

2009-11-10 Thread Jeff Johnson
Nope, no endpoint on the server. Jeff Johnson Systems Administrator 714-773-2600 Office 714-773-6351 Fax [cid:image001.jpg@01CA61D4.47BC8A60] From: Chris Hamby [mailto:tellys...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 4:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Server 2008 causing domain

RE: Connecting two offices next door to each other

2009-11-10 Thread Pauls Hotmail
http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantenna :-) Paul G. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: 10 November 2009 15:04 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Connecting two offices next door to each

RE: OT: Side work

2009-11-10 Thread David Lum
Geeksquad.com shows $49.99 for a tune-up done remotely and $99.99 for doing it in the store, $299 to come to your house and remove virii and spyware ($149 online). $25 for 2 hours of cleaning malware is *waaay* to cheap, don't give away your time! One way to look at it is if they can't afford

Re: OT: Side work

2009-11-10 Thread Jon Harris
I really don't think you want to place yourself in the same class as the Geek Squad bunch. I have come in behind them several times and had to fix things that they either broke or did not install at all. As for pricing price yourself lower than them and doing a better job will get you a

RE: Active Directory design in the win2008 R2 world

2009-11-10 Thread Pauls Hotmail
An additional query if I may... - What about DNS Namespace choice these days? - I've always had a personal preference to keep internal AD public facing names unique separate, i.e. NOT using the company's registered internet domain name as the AD forest name. Obviously this has implications for

INTERNET SLOWNESS

2009-11-10 Thread Murray Freeman
Good Morning. I'm trying to determine the cause of internet access slowness here. We are a small organization of fewer than 40 employees, and use a bonded T1 line (3.0) for internet access. Our staff has complained about internet access slowness to me and I've suggested tha the problem is with the

Re: Printer Auditing Software

2009-11-10 Thread Jon Harris
I was at a IT meeting last week and saw a presentation on a product that looked interesting. You install a small client on the server or actually could be on a dedicated server on the network and it used SNMP traffic to monitor all of your printers. The package was only a collector that then

Short PtP LoS fixed wireless (was: Connecting two offices...)

2009-11-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:03 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: Well, if nothing else, do you have LOS between the two buildings? If so, maybe a point-to-point wireless circuit would work. I'm actually somewhat interested in this. Do people here have any experience,

Re: INTERNET SLOWNESS

2009-11-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Murray Freeman mfree...@alanet.org wrote: Good Morning. I'm trying to determine the cause of internet access slowness here. Start with traceroute. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: INTERNET SLOWNESS

2009-11-10 Thread RichardMcClary
There's a chance you no longer have bonded T1's... Go online to find connection testers. See if your bandwidth is 1000 - 1500 rather than approaching 3000. This would indicate a failed T1 somewhere. Then, check your services router (where the two T1's connect), then possibly the building's

RE: INTERNET SLOWNESS

2009-11-10 Thread Cameron Cooper
You can try this speed test - http://netspeed.stanford.edu/ _ Cameron Cooper IT Director - CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Reports, Inc Phone: 847-890-4021Fax: 847-255-1896 ccoo...@aurico.com From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org]

RE: INTERNET SLOWNESS

2009-11-10 Thread Kennedy, Jim
To dovetail on the below http://www.speedtest.net/ is a good place to test from. You can pick points all over the world and see what you get. FWIW I had a bonded T1 at a 50 user office, it was not enough. It was saturated. HOWEVER, these were heavy surfers and downloaders, an advertising

RE: OT: Side work

2009-11-10 Thread Jacob
Same here. About 50% of the systems I fix for home users are ones that were just touched by Geek Squad. Either the problem was not fixed or they made the system worse. And when you see how much they pay their techs, you can see why… From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday,

Re: Short PtP LoS fixed wireless (was: Connecting two offices...)

2009-11-10 Thread Jon Harris
I looked at running a proprietary solution like this for a 10 mile link between campus. This was something like last year and for that distance (using microwave) they were promising 100Mb link provided there was no water between the two points. Water was defined as thick fog or rain. The

RE: INTERNET SLOWNESS

2009-11-10 Thread John Aldrich
Try looking at the T1 router to see if there are any errors on the line. Try going to somewhere like speedtest.net and run an internet speed test. Finally call your internet provider and see if there are any errors or alarms on your line. Also, you might want to make sure someone hasn't plugged in

Re: OT: Side work

2009-11-10 Thread Kurt Buff
And here's what popped up on Google's sponsored links while looking at this thread: The Squad Is Overpriced - www.itokhelp.com - The Squad Alternative - Save 60% 866-515-4865 For Help in Minutes Heh. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 07:55, Jacob ja...@excaliburfilms.com wrote: Same here. About 50% of

Re: Active Directory design in the win2008 R2 world

2009-11-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Pauls Hotmail paul_gor...@hotmail.com wrote: What about DNS Namespace choice these days? This is something of a religious issue for some people. :) I’ve always had a personal preference to keep internal AD public facing names unique separate ... As do

Re: INTERNET SLOWNESS

2009-11-10 Thread Jon Harris
A bonded T1 for 50 users? My previous gig we only had one T1 for that many and until the users started pulling UTube during the day it was more than enough. After that the pipe was full and everyone complained. Good luck, Jon On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:57 AM, John Aldrich

Event log monitor/aggregator

2009-11-10 Thread Jim Slattery
I could have sworn that I asked this question previously, but a search of the archives says no. What software products do you use/recommend for monitoring Event Viewer logs? I'm mainly looking for something with a good centralized interface for all my servers, as well as something that sends

RE: OT: Side work

2009-11-10 Thread Jacob
So.. how do you guys to remote work? Remote Assistance in XP? GoToAssist? Remote Assistance in XP is great (free), but if they are behind a firewall.. too much hassle. Now, I have to instruct them on how to open up the firewall. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday,

RE: Active Directory design in the win2008 R2 world

2009-11-10 Thread Brian Desmond
Think 120,000 users and really slow links before you need to even think about segregating replication. Here is a deck on this topic I delivered a few weeks ago -

RE: Active Directory design in the win2008 R2 world

2009-11-10 Thread Brian Desmond
They are definitely a traffic boundary if you want them to be. This requires a lot more planning for it to actually be the case though. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 8:19 AM To: NT

RE: Active Directory design in the win2008 R2 world

2009-11-10 Thread Brian Desmond
See the deck I sent earlier. Doesn't really matter although I usually side with something registered. You can either do a subdomain off the company's domain, use something like company.net (I'm a fan of this one), or company.com or whatever. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c -

Re: Network link state slow to propagate; UI freezes

2009-11-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: PROBLEM SUMMARY  When plugging in or unplugging the network cable, the link state change does not propagate to the whole system immediately. Network-related UI elements may freeze until the system notices the change.  The

Re: INTERNET SLOWNESS

2009-11-10 Thread Tom Miller
Aside from the previous suggestions, do you have content filtering on your firewall? Blocking streaming media/movies/ and so on and help reduce those staff members who are hogging all the bandwidth. Here we block the general streaming category and that's really helped to address complaints

Re: Event log monitor/aggregator

2009-11-10 Thread James Rankin
System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 does that sort of business for me, and a whole load of other stuff besides. Alerting is excellent, the interface is nice and easy to use - however price may be an issue if you are not a non-profit. GFI do their Event Monitor product which I've used as well

Re: OT: Side work

2009-11-10 Thread James Rankin
I mainly used RemotelyAnywhere, just have to remember to configure the port forwarding for them on their firewalls/routers before I leave the site. However the agentless stuff such as GoToAssist is probably a much better option these days 2009/11/10 Jacob ja...@excaliburfilms.com So.. how do

RE: INTERNET SLOWNESS

2009-11-10 Thread Murray Freeman
I do speed checks from time to time and we're usually in the 2800 to 2900 range. Murray From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 9:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: INTERNET SLOWNESS

Re: OT: Side work

2009-11-10 Thread Jon Harris
The few times I have done it my clients had Live Mmessenger installed and a Live ID. I walked them through the making a request via the Messenger. It works but this is only for those clients using/having Live Messenger. Jon On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Jacob ja...@excaliburfilms.com

OT: Serial port modems not supported!

2009-11-10 Thread John Aldrich
We tried to upgrade our time clock software late last week, only to find that the external, serial-port based modem was not supported by the newer version of the software. Give me a break! Who explicitly requires a USB-based modem??? It would seem to me (being an old Fidonet sysop) that an

Re: OT: Side work

2009-11-10 Thread tony patton
TeamViewer.com, no configuration needed on the client side, just point them to the website. That's assuming they can get that far, though. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com From: James Rankin

RE: INTERNET SLOWNESS

2009-11-10 Thread Murray Freeman
Thanks for the responses! I believe that our internet access is working properly and sufficient for the number of users. We have done some checking to see if people are streaming or downloading music and movies, and we caught one individual who thankfully chose to find employment elsewhere. I'm

Re: OT: Side work

2009-11-10 Thread Matt Plahtinsky
+1 for Teamviewer. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:57 AM, tony patton tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com wrote: TeamViewer.com, no configuration needed on the client side, just point them to the website. That's assuming they can get that far, though. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan

RE: Serial port modems not supported!

2009-11-10 Thread John Hornbuckle
I used to work for an ISP in the days of dial-up. I had nightmares about modems for years. So glad those days are behind me; I haven't touched a modem in ages. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us From:

RE: INTERNET SLOWNESS

2009-11-10 Thread Murray Freeman
I haven't tried Chrome, but I have tried Firefox with the same results as IE8. Murray From: Walker, Michael [mailto:mwal...@mail.cvhp.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 11:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: INTERNET SLOWNESS Murray, Just

Re: OT: Serial port modems not supported!

2009-11-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:56 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: We tried to upgrade our time clock software late last week, only to find that the external, serial-port based modem was not supported by the newer version of the software. Q: What time is it? A: Time to find a

RE: Active Directory design in the win2008 R2 world

2009-11-10 Thread Pauls Hotmail
Thanks Brian, definitely some food for thought there... I wonder if there's an article somewhere that illuminates the rationale for selecting between the various choices, - and indeed whether this has changed at all in light of the W2008 landscape? - strikes me that not much seems to have changed

RE: INTERNET SLOWNESS

2009-11-10 Thread Walker, Michael
Chrome is much faster than firefox. In regards to your other post - if you have users streaming media, downloading MP3s, MS-Updates or other large files; you should see a hit when you do a bandwidth test. Michael Walker Senior Network Engineer Citrus Valley Health Partners 140 W.

RE: OT: Side work

2009-11-10 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Logmein rescue... Even allows unattended reboots of remote machine... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 9:36 AM To:

Re: New firewall recommendations

2009-11-10 Thread Stephan Barr
+1 on the Fortigate. Great stuff (FG60 or better). On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Jay Dale jd...@xpresstel.com wrote: See, I have dealt with SonicWall support on several occasions, and each time has been pleasant and informative. And I don't work for them either...:) Jay -Original

RE: INTERNET SLOWNESS

2009-11-10 Thread Walker, Michael
Murray, Just for the heck of it, try using Google's Chrome instead of IE and see what the difference is in accessing the different web sites. I have 30MB/2MB on my home network and IE is still slow sometimes. You can also try ping and traceroute tests. Even though your bandwidth tests

RE: Active Directory design in the win2008 R2 world

2009-11-10 Thread Brian Desmond
Not much has although you should aim for a single domain forest. I think I had some slides on that Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Pauls Hotmail [mailto:paul_gor...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 11:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: INTERNET SLOWNESS

2009-11-10 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Advertising Agency, I can't begin to describe it. You had a problem with YouTube, they didn't care if the staff used YouPorn. I got yelled at for deleting 10 gigs of pirated music off a server.. From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 11:04 AM To: NT

Re: Connecting two offices next door to each other

2009-11-10 Thread WeFixIT
Does the site to site option require a Windows server on each end? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

Re: INTERNET SLOWNESS

2009-11-10 Thread John Cook
We never delete music we just move it to a USB external - we have a pretty nice collection of confiscated media ! John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families Sent to you from my Blackberry in the Cloud From: Kennedy, Jim To: NT System Admin

Re: INTERNET SLOWNESS

2009-11-10 Thread Jon Harris
Yeap, been there but what can you do if you are told NOT to do what is legal and the people you are supposed to report it to are some of the ones doing it? Jon On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.org wrote: Advertising Agency, I can’t begin to describe it.

RE: INTERNET SLOWNESS

2009-11-10 Thread Sam Cayze
You fire people for Streaming Radio? Yikes. I recommend you to do some configuration on your firewall to regulate bandwidth so stuff like this doesn't bring you down. There are many good reasons for streaming in a business environment, whether it is ambient listening or something like webinars,

RE: Connecting two offices next door to each other

2009-11-10 Thread WeFixIT
LOS type laser things are not really an option. They are Georgian listed buildings so adding anything requires much red tape and government department say so. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

RE: INTERNET SLOWNESS

2009-11-10 Thread David Lum
you are told NOT to do what is legal, in other words, asked to do or allow something illegal? Is this really a question? Leave From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 9:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: INTERNET SLOWNESS Yeap, been there but

Re: Connecting two offices next door to each other

2009-11-10 Thread Jon Harris
Not really at least mine did not it was extending the existing wire between the two sites. I would think about at least a router (good one) but for those numbers you could do it with just a Linksys if money was an issue. Depending on the vendor they may supply one. If you go without the router

Re: Connecting two offices next door to each other

2009-11-10 Thread Jon Harris
So use a Microwave type of device and place it behind a window. Nothing external to cause issues but you will lose interior space. Jon On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:30 PM, WeFixIT i...@wefixit.ie wrote: LOS type laser things are not really an option. They are Georgian listed buildings so adding

RE: Iscsi from old server

2009-11-10 Thread Webster
Make them iSCSI targets? Have you looked at the Starwind iSCSI software? http://www.starwindsoftware.com/ Disclaimer: Starwind gave me an Enterprise license of their software for an article series I will be writing shortly. It is a piece of cake to use and setup. They have a lot of

Re: INTERNET SLOWNESS

2009-11-10 Thread John Cook
Policies backed by HR upper mgmt are a wonderful thing. I liken it to the drug war - you can only do so much on the front line till you're fully supported. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families Sent to you from my Blackberry in the Cloud

RE: OT: Serial port modems not supported!

2009-11-10 Thread John Aldrich
Well, it's a HandPunch biometric time clock. The company that services it is Time and Technology out of Neenah, Wi. I tend to agree that external hardware modems are very well supported, but apparently not by the Handlink Software that talks to the clocks and downloads the punches.

RE: OT: Side work

2009-11-10 Thread Chris Orovet
Thanks guys! Regards, Chris Orovet Technical Support O: (727)812-0276 Ext. 125 F: (727)812-0278 Email: supp...@atsi-inc.com Web: http://www.atsi-inc.com Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this

Re: INTERNET SLOWNESS

2009-11-10 Thread Tom Simpson
Not sure what type of router you have, but the ASDM for our Cisco ASA has some pretty slick graphs that can show you your interface usage over several days. I convinced management to upgrade our Internet lines by proving that we were maximizing our bandwidth and these graphs helped do that. On

Re: Event log monitor/aggregator

2009-11-10 Thread Roger Wright
I have use the ELA from http://www.manageengine.com/products/eventlog/. It worked very well, easy to setup and configure, with several canned reports. The free version will handle up to 5 hosts. Roger Wright ___ Sent from Tampa, FL, United States On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Jim

Re: INTERNET SLOWNESS

2009-11-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Murray Freeman mfree...@alanet.org wrote: That's why I mentioned the waiting message on the status bar at the bottom of IE8. Have you run traceroute yet? -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: INTERNET SLOWNESS

2009-11-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Sam Cayze sam.ca...@rollouts.com wrote: You fire people for Streaming Radio?  Yikes. FWIW: We haven't, but we do have it in our policy manual that streaming media without a business purpose is forbidden, and subject to disciplinary action. I have had to have

RE: OT: Serial port modems not supported!

2009-11-10 Thread Todd Lemmiksoo
+1 -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Serial port modems not supported! On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:56 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: We tried to

RE: OT: Serial port modems not supported!

2009-11-10 Thread John Aldrich
As for replacing the one modem clock, it ain't happening. The only thing I might be able to do would be to change it over to an Ethernet-based clock and poll it over the VPN. -Original Message- From: Todd Lemmiksoo [mailto:tlemmik...@all-mode.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:12

RE: OT: Side work

2009-11-10 Thread Mike Gill
I flat rate home computer repair. A tune up is $85 and a fresh install is $100. I spend 10 to 15 minutes trying to figure out if I can guarantee to clean the machine of $trouble. If I decide I have to re-install, I use a BartPE disc to move the entire contents of the C: drive to a temp folder

RE: INTERNET SLOWNESS

2009-11-10 Thread Jay Dale
Not to hijack the thread, but is there a way to graph traffic between T1's to show to management in order to justify upgrading the speed? Jay -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: OT: Side work

2009-11-10 Thread Mike Gill
Ammyy Admin. I don’t do enough remote support to run into their pay for version. So the free version works for me and there is nothing to install. -- Mike Gill From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 8:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE:

Re: INTERNET SLOWNESS

2009-11-10 Thread Jon Harris
Correct and no not a question. Jon On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:32 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: “you are told NOT to do what is legal”, in other words, asked to do or allow something illegal? Is this really a question? Leave *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com]

RE: INTERNET SLOWNESS

2009-11-10 Thread Richard Stovall
MRTG -Original Message- From: Jay Dale [mailto:jd...@xpresstel.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: INTERNET SLOWNESS Not to hijack the thread, but is there a way to graph traffic between T1's to show to management in order to justify

Re: Connecting two offices next door to each other

2009-11-10 Thread Erik Goldoff
you can do a site to site VPN between the firewalls that doesn't care what the endpoint systems are, whether Windows, Mac, HP JetDirect, etc ... The VPN only carries TCP/IP traffic through to the other side. Do you know about the internet connections from both locations and what firewalls they

RE: Short PtP LoS fixed wireless (was: Connecting two offices...)

2009-11-10 Thread John Aldrich
Well, at an ISP I used to work for, we used some Cisco wireless gear and managed to send a signal to a customer a couple miles away. Before that, we used Microwave STL transceivers. 'Course those had to have FCC licenses. The Cisco stuff was good 'cause it didn't require a license. It worked

RE: INTERNET SLOWNESS

2009-11-10 Thread Sam Cayze
The company also provides power; can they plug in a radio and use your electricity? -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: INTERNET SLOWNESS On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:29 PM,

Re: Short PtP LoS fixed wireless (was: Connecting two offices...)

2009-11-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com wrote: Something like across the street or even with clear line of sight this should be easily doable. That's what I figure, but I was hoping to hear from people who've actually done it, and can comment on specific gear, and how

Re: INTERNET SLOWNESS

2009-11-10 Thread James Kerr
Ask your internet provider if they can give you access to MRTG reports for your T1s. James - Original Message - From: Richard Stovall richard.stov...@researchdata.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:17 PM Subject:

Re: INTERNET SLOWNESS

2009-11-10 Thread David W. McSpadden
That is the same in wording only. The pipe electricity comes down is so much larger and cheaper than the pipe bandwidth for streaming radio comes down. That is exactly the apples and oranges conversation. Both are edible (play music), both are good for you (consume power or bandwidth), and

RE: Active Directory design in the win2008 R2 world

2009-11-10 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
Just be very sure that whatever you use internal is not something that someone else could register externally. That throws all kinds of wrenches in Exchange and OCS configurations. Regards, Tim From: Pauls Hotmail [mailto:paul_gor...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 9:38 AM To: NT

RE: Laptop Recommendations with 1920x1200 displays around 1000-1500

2009-11-10 Thread Mike Gill
Still Like my Latitude e6500 after 9 months or so. I like how I can remote into my desktop with a 20 display at 1680x1050 and see the entire desktop on my 15.4 laptop screen, in a window. J -- Mike Gill From: TS [mailto:sunnrun...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 10:51 AM To:

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