RE: 2003 -> 2008 sales pitch, sorta

Thanks Ken those are excellent Q's ~350 PC's, ~100 servers. Current challenges? Nothing outstanding really. Some misc. ramblings: * RODC: Adds security and lowers traffic but there is no visible or real measureable improvement. * Printer management (assigning printers via GPO): Cuts some admini

RE: 2003 -> 2008 sales pitch, sorta

What is the environment size? Just listing 'enhancements' usually don't get you anywhere in anything beyond a small environment. You need to also discuss some of the other things that Sean has mentioned: - Current challenges (could be anything from supportability, to technical challen

Re: looking for free helpdesk solution

Web+Center from www.inet-sciences.com should meet your needs just fine! Roger Wright ___ Sent from Largo, Florida, United States On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 5:26 AM, Laurence Childs < laurence.chi...@btinternet.com> wrote: > Hi All > > i have been supporting a couple of local organisations for a

Re: How to properly clone a VM in Vsphere

Not for the WSUS bits. Not necessarily. http://www.wsuswiki.com/ClientFAQ On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Sam Cayze wrote: > Hold the bus everyone… > > If you SysPrep before a Clone, you don’t have to worry about any of this > nonsense.   VM can even invoke a lot of the syspreping. > > Sam C

RE: Home WAP recommendations?

I used to do exactly that... I had an 802.11 card as an interface that used wiconfig with. Worked great. The issue became that my OpenBSD FW is in my server closet in the basement, and I could never get good coverage on the upper floor of my house (3 levels incl. basement). Now that my daughter

Re: How to properly clone a VM in Vsphere

Yes I was under the impression that VMWare does the sysprepping automatically when you do a clone? On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Sam Cayze wrote: > Hold the bus everyone… > > If you SysPrep before a Clone, you don’t have to worry about any of this > nonsense. VM can even invoke a lot of th

RE: How to properly clone a VM in Vsphere

Hold the bus everyone... If you SysPrep before a Clone, you don't have to worry about any of this nonsense. VM can even invoke a lot of the syspreping. Sam Cayze Information Technology Administrator ROLLOUTS ONSITE * ON DEMAND LinkedIn Profile Facebook

Re: How to properly clone a VM in Vsphere

And who do you check / change that? On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Richard Stovall wrote: > I always to do this as well, just to be safe. Don't forget the > WSUS-specific IDs if you're using it to patch. > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Jeff Bunting > wrote: > > The hostname remains the

Re: How to properly clone a VM in Vsphere

Thanks and how do you check the SID? On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Jeff Bunting wrote: > The hostname remains the same too. I generally disable the NICs in virtual > center (uncheck "connect at power on") before starting up a clone to make > sure everything (IP, name, domain, SID) has been

Re: looking for free helpdesk solution

BTW - I forgot to mention Request Tracker, from Best Practical. It's free, and there's an O'Reilly book on it. The book can be viewed in two different ways, perhaps simultaneously. 1) It's so complex that it needs its own book 2) It's so good/popular that it was deemed profitable to publish a b

RE: looking for free helpdesk solution

I used Track-It at a previous job. After our purchase, they were bought by Intuit and the price GREATLY increased (our renewal price was higher than our original purchase price). That left a bad enough taste in my mouth to never venture their way again. Hopefully, the folks are Numara have impro

RE: looking for free helpdesk solution

Yeah, understand his original request, I was just curious since it's almost never mentioned on any of these help desk threads (and there have been more than a few). -Original Message- From: Jim Slattery [mailto:jslatt...@medexassist.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 4:53 PM To: NT

Re: IE8 password problesm

Welcome to IE8 :) >>> Adrian Montagnani 12/22/2009 2:07 PM >>> Problem gets worse though even after logging into a site sometimes browsing to different pages within the site will re-require login. Tedious, wierd, very frustrating, and incredibly inconsistent Seems we are not the only ones

RE: IE8 password problesm

Well about half of our users are on IE8 and so far none have reported that problem. -Original Message- From: Adrian Montagnani [mailto:adrian.montagn...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 4:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: IE8 password problesm Problem gets worse t

RE: How to properly clone a VM in Vsphere

A VM clone is 100% the same as the source machine you cloned from, the only thing that changes is the Name given by you on the VC Client, so as stated, disable the NIC prior to making changes on the VM or you will have Name / IP conflicts From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent

Re: How to properly clone a VM in Vsphere

I always to do this as well, just to be safe. Don't forget the WSUS-specific IDs if you're using it to patch. On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Jeff Bunting wrote: > The hostname remains the same too.  I generally disable the NICs in virtual > center (uncheck "connect at power on")  before starti

Re: IE8 password problesm

Problem gets worse though even after logging into a site sometimes browsing to different pages within the site will re-require login. Tedious, wierd, very frustrating, and incredibly inconsistent Seems we are not the only ones experiencing this (google shows lots of people experiencing this)

Re: How to properly clone a VM in Vsphere

The hostname remains the same too. I generally disable the NICs in virtual center (uncheck "connect at power on") before starting up a clone to make sure everything (IP, name, domain, SID) has been properly changed. Jeff On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Don Guyer wrote: > In 3.5 it would rema

RE: IE8 password problesm

Well we tell all of our users to not let IE remember the Password and that sort of thing does not happen. Really no we have not had that happen yet, however our users have not had IE8 that long, with a few exceptions. And yes we really do stress that they should not choose remembered passwords

RE: Home WAP recommendations?

I've been watching this thread for a while, and here's my take. I had trouble with my first Netgear G router, so I went and upgraded to a Rangemax MIMO, and that solved all the problems except when my wife runs the microwave. My router is upstairs at the east end of the house and I'm usually on the

RE: looking for free helpdesk solution

We use TrackIt for basic ticket management. It's not free or cheap, which was the request, and for what he was looking for, there are other packages that do the basics a lot cheaper. TrackIt does the basics relatively well, but I've heard that there are some issues with more complex implementation

IE8 password problesm

Does anyone have a solution for ie8 intermittently forgetting login details for websites? This is proving to be a real pain to sort out! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

RE: looking for free helpdesk solution

We used Numara. Really expensive and the support sucked. Switched to Spiceworks and found it better. -Original Message- From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:al...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: December-22-09 4:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: looking for free helpdesk solution I'm c

RE: looking for free helpdesk solution

I'm curious, the folks at Numara Software are down the street from us but no one on these help desk threads ever mentions their product, Track-It. Is it just too high priced or something? (I have no agenda other than curiosity) Alex Alex Eckelberry, CEO Sunbelt Software 33 N. Garden Avenu

RE: How to properly clone a VM in Vsphere

In 3.5 it would remain the static address. Let us know if it's different in Vsphere, please, as we're heading that way. Thx, Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax:

Re: 2003 Server R2

Hence the old joke that disk two was "R2D2". Couldn't resist. Devin On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Jeff Bunting wrote: > Unless MS has changed this, disc 1 of R2 is plain old Windows 2003. Disc > 2 has the R2 components, so you could just install disc 1 and not have to > extend the schema im

RE: 2003 -> 2008 sales pitch, sorta

Thanks and yes, they really have no clue what to expect, but then again neither do most other SE's I work with - my current documents are aimed at them. The new one will be aimed at MGMT. Seven SE's and it seems none of them look ahead to the latest server OS's, I have to pitch it myself. Dave

Re: White House appoints cybersecurity chief

Yup Several have been appointed and resigned recently. It's a thankless task, and the position don't have any real authority - if you can't fire people, or reassign/demote them, you will *not* get anything done. Kurt On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:48, Jacob wrote: > Career Is Over.. > > -Or

Re: My Tuesday Morning/Afternoon

I was working at Nordstrom in Seattle in both 1988 and 1993 when fire in electrical vaults in the city (one in Belltown and one in Downtown) blacked out large areas. In each case, they got a semi-trailer-mounted generator for their data center going for days while repairs were made. Kurt On Tue,

Re: White House appoints cybersecurity chief

Wow! Nowhere in his biography does he claim to be a former treasury official in Nigeria... David Lum wrote on 12/22/2009 02:24:09 PM: > Ok sorta weird. On tab 2 of my browser is usually news.cnet. > com/security so it?s currently this: > http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10420268-83.html?tag=mn

RE: White House appoints cybersecurity chief

Career Is Over.. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 12:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: White House appoints cybersecurity chief He's the new national CIO. You know what CIO stands for, don't you? Heh. On Tue,

Re: White House appoints cybersecurity chief

He's the new national CIO. You know what CIO stands for, don't you? Heh. On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:24, David Lum wrote: > Ok sorta weird. On tab 2 of my browser is usually news.cnet.com/security so > it’s currently this: > > http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10420268-83.html?tag=mncol;title > >

RE: 2003 -> 2008 sales pitch, sorta

Hmm. I ought to come up with a document like that for adding our first SAN. J I'm seriously thinking about going with Silicon Mechanics and having three devices total.two in the main location and one at the D/R site. Unfortunately they don't have a dual-controller option, so for a high-availabilit

RE: Home WAP recommendations?

Boy, this is complicated. :-) Guess I get to have fun playing :-) -Original Message- From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 3:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home WAP recommendations? DD-WRT supports bridging, repeating,

Re: 2003 -> 2008 sales pitch, sorta

That really all depends on what they expect. If they haven't the slightest clue what to expect, than yes, a couple of paragraphs outlining the benefits, etc. should suffice. We have a fairly in-depth project management process here which requires formal documents based on approved templates. Peer

RE: My Tuesday Morning/Afternoon

I like the full disclosure. I've worked at places where all anyone would "see" is "We had a problem and fixed it, we're still the best". From: Greg Olson [mailto:gol...@markettools.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 12:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: My Tuesday Morning/Afternoon

RE: Home WAP recommendations?

DD-WRT supports bridging, repeating, WDS. There's a few ways to do this and a lot of overlapping terminology when googling. http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Repeater_Bridge -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, Dec

White House appoints cybersecurity chief

Ok sorta weird. On tab 2 of my browser is usually news.cnet.com/security so it's currently this: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10420268-83.html?tag=mncol;title On tab 3 (which is sans.org) is this: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7792 Refreshing the CNET one brought me to a newer CNET

RE: looking for free helpdesk solution

Yes I am using Sysaid 4.x at a client and it's free for 3 tech's. Picked it up initially because it handles inventory nicely. You can see what's in add/remove for each system, its hardware specs, and it even gives you a history of recent hardware/software changes per system. Dave From: James K

RE: My Tuesday Morning/Afternoon

These are always good learning opportunities if nothing else. I had the joy of being in the Datacenter at 365 Main in SF back in 2007 when through a really interesting set of events it went dark. Even the best of planning sometimes doesn't cover everything, but it does allow for looking at how w

Re: Home WAP recommendations?

Sorry to hear that! Several of us here got Linksys WRT54G routers many many years ago (4-5?), and they have all behaved very nicely with no issues. Mine even took a new firmware burn-in so that it would do N as well as (is it) WPA2 (?) security. The antennas unscrew so that either longer or

Re: Home WAP recommendations?

IME Linksys support is worthless. I had a problem with a WRT54G, dropping the radio for no apparent reason, support couldn't resolve my issue except rebooting would fix it. DD-WRT did fix it, for good. Except for a recent power outage, and one about 6 months ago I haven't rebooted the router. I'

Re: looking for free helpdesk solution

Yeah sysaid looked really nice when I checked it out and for our needs I think it was going to cost about $400. We still may buy it. I think it may have been free for like 2 techs to use but its been a while. James - Original Message - From: Devin Meade To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: My Tuesday Morning/Afternoon

Kind-a reminds me of the visit from the fire marshal to sign-off on the installation of our new fire supression system (FM-200). He insisted that he would NOT sign-off until we modified our electical system so that, when the fire supression system kicked in, the UPSs also cut off all power to

RE: Home WAP recommendations?

Could you add a wireless N card directly into your OpenBSD box? -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 1:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home WAP recommendations? Yeah, I've been looking at DD-WRT and Tomato

Re: looking for free helpdesk solution

We were going to do an eval of www.sysaid.com in the next month or two. IIRC it was very customizable. It's been a while since the demo :-). It had teaming and quite a bit for free or very low cost. hth, Devin On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Kim Longenbaugh wrote: > I dune go to places like th

Memory Cache issue On Windows 2008 x64 bit servers - all VM (ESX 3.5)

fy1,   I have an issue with a VMware server- Windows 2008 sp2 which has allocated 4 gig ram with 2 CPU's running a application and is complaining for memory. all the resources liek CPU, Disk, and Network resources at below optimum level and the memory is usually at 68%.   I have a is a questio

Re: looking for free helpdesk solution

I'm too anti-social for such things. James -Original Message- From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 1:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: looking for free helpdesk solution Be forewarned, once you get involved with Spiceworks, they

Re: Home WAP recommendations?

I've had terrible luck with wireless routers at home. My first was a dlink, after about a year the radio stopped working. Then I got a Belkin. It also lasted about a year before I would have to restart it a few times a day because no traffic would go through it. Now I have had a Linksys WRT54G2

Re: My Tuesday Morning/Afternoon

Last time a former employer had a full black server room, 3 servers came back up with dead hard drives. One of those servers was my Exchange server and the raid-5 lost 2 of the 3 drives. On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Sherry Abercrombie wrote: > So here's how my Tuesday morning/afternoon is go

RE: looking for free helpdesk solution

I dune go to places like that. -Original Message- From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 1:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: looking for free helpdesk solution Be forewarned, once you get involved with Spiceworks, they will spam your

RE: 2003 -> 2008 sales pitch, sorta

ABE is available for 2003 SP1 and up. -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 2:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: 2003 -> 2008 sales pitch, sorta Here's what I have pulled from MS's website on 2008 Server and pared down.

RE: looking for free helpdesk solution

I recommend IssueView, http://www.issueview.com Right now a 5-Tech license is absolutely free. It does require a little configuration; but it's very powerful, and includes a desktop client and a web client. Good luck with your search! Jim Restucci Axcess Internet® -Original Message-

RE: looking for free helpdesk solution

Yes, spiceworks does send a fair amount of e-mail. The good news is that I have a really great filtering program, MS Outlook. ;-) Never been to a Spiceworld. Almost went to their event in Vegas earlier this year. Jeff Johnson Systems Administrator 714-773-2600 Office 714-773-6351 Fax

RE: Home WAP recommendations?

If you can get a version 1 of the WRT350N, that’s a Broadcom and runs DD-WRT Mega edition just fine (just be sure to flash with the mini edition first) Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 -Original Message- From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@can

2003 -> 2008 sales pitch, sorta

Here's what I have pulled from MS's website on 2008 Server and pared down. Sorry if the cut and paste from Word isn't pretty (looks way better in a Word doc). This is actually two doc's merged into one (and yes I know ABE was available as an add-in in earlier OS's). How would you guys repackag

Re: looking for free helpdesk solution

Is that anything like going to see the Spicegirls in concert? On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Phillip Partipilo wrote: > Be forewarned, once you get involved with Spiceworks, they will spam your > inbox vigorously. Has anyone here actually been to a Spiceworld? > > > Phillip Partipilo > Parame

How to properly clone a VM in Vsphere

I want to clone a VM, never done it before! The wizard looks pretty straight forward, I have a question, what happens to the IP on the clone will it automatically become dynamic? (the host is static). Is there anything else I should worry about? -- Stefan Jafs ~ Finally, powerful endpoint securi

RE: looking for free helpdesk solution

Be forewarned, once you get involved with Spiceworks, they will spam your inbox vigorously. Has anyone here actually been to a Spiceworld? Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 -Original Message- From: Jeff Johnson [mailto:jjohn...@hydraflowusa

Re: 2003 Server R2

Unless MS has changed this, disc 1 of R2 is plain old Windows 2003. Disc 2 has the R2 components, so you could just install disc 1 and not have to extend the schema immediately. Jeff On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:36 AM, David Lum wrote: > Scenario: Domain and forest are 2003 Server (non R2) >

Re: My Tuesday Morning/Afternoon

Yow - Merry Xmas, I suppose. On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:13, Sherry Abercrombie wrote: > So here's how my Tuesday morning/afternoon is going so far. > > Arrive shortly after 7AM CST, all is quiet and functioning normally.  I > proceed with taking care of some Heat tickets, monitoring stuff as norm

RE: My Tuesday Morning/Afternoon

Before we had a generator we had a power outage that drained the batteries and shutdown the servers. It wasn't so much the darkness so much as was the quiet that was creepy. I'm not used to going in there without hearing the fans. -Paul From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.co

Re: My Tuesday Morning/Afternoon

Actually Dave, I wish the AC had failed on the switch back to house power. We would have known that if not immediately, because we do a physical check on it when the generator goes off, within a few minutes because we would have started getting heat alert messages from our Netbotz. That would have

RE: Home WAP recommendations?

On a related note, I want to use several of these in "repeater" mode. I'm relatively new at wireless. I seem to recall there was something about "bridged" mode when setting up the wireless router I have here at the office. Is this the same thing as "repeater" mode? If so, what all is required, j

RE: My Tuesday Morning/Afternoon

I understand how you feel, we had a power outage a couple of weekends ago. It was planned but while the building power was being inspected and cleaned I had the fortune of being in the server room with no power. It is very different with no lights and no sound. -Original Message- Fr

Re: My Tuesday Morning/Afternoon

I don't expect my server room to go completely dark until mid-January. That's when I'll be in Snowmass (with no way to make an emergency return to Illinois...) -- richard Sherry Abercrombie wrote on 12/22/2009 01:08:52 PM: > Colorado ski vacation is scheduled for Jan. 31 - Feb. 6 @ Wolf Creek.

RE: Home WAP recommendations?

I find the AP's to sometimes be more expensive than the wireless routers. I've been buying the WRT54GL's for a while, but as of a year or so ago the non L's no longer have removable antennas. So make sure you get the L. DD-WRT is supported on several Linksys N routers also. I just disable the fi

Re: My Tuesday Morning/Afternoon

Colorado ski vacation is scheduled for Jan. 31 - Feb. 6 @ Wolf Creek. Yeah Richard, with the warning of "Do you really want to have days like this?" Final tally of damages, 2 sticks of memory in one of the VMWare servers, spare parts on hand, everything up now. I haven't seen my server room

Re: looking for free helpdesk solution

I was just playing with it a little because I'm looking for something just like this software. We currently use spiceworks but we just need a helpdesk with a knowledge base and to use for other depts besides IT. Spiceworks doesn't have a knowledge base and has lots of stuff we don't need and is

Re: Vista Restore point, can you tell if it's been restored

Thanks, that's what I needed. B . . SAVE THE EARTH.. IT'S THE ONLY PLANET WITH CHOCOLATE "Angus Scott-Fleming"

Re: My Tuesday Morning/Afternoon

This would have been an excellent first reply to yesterday's "Getting back into IT" query! -- richard Sherry Abercrombie wrote on 12/22/2009 12:13:14 PM: > So here's how my Tuesday morning/afternoon is going so far. > > Arrive shortly after 7AM CST, all is quiet and functioning > normally.

RE: My Tuesday Morning/Afternoon

Yikes! From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 12:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: My Tuesday Morning/Afternoon So here's how my Tuesday morning/afternoon is going so far. Arrive shortly after 7AM CST, a

Re: looking for free helpdesk solution

Anyone have liberum running on server 2008 64bit? - Original Message - From: Michael B. Smith To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 12:58 PM Subject: RE: looking for free helpdesk solution I used liberum in a "former life" (i.e., before I became an in

RE: My Tuesday Morning/Afternoon

You lucky the AC stayed on. Makes my day look easy. J good luck with this one. You should book that Colorado ski vacation soon and get away. From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 11:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: My Tuesday Mornin

RE: OT: Getting back into IT

Sure well. I am using two resources at the moment. Art of Service - http://theartofservice.com/ http://theartofservice.com/page,shop.product_details/flypage,shop.flypage/pr oduct_id,355/category_id,12/option,com_virtuemart/Itemid,1.html Foundation of IT Service Management http://www.amazon.com/g

My Tuesday Morning/Afternoon

So here's how my Tuesday morning/afternoon is going so far. Arrive shortly after 7AM CST, all is quiet and functioning normally. I proceed with taking care of some Heat tickets, monitoring stuff as normal via Nagios, checking on backups, etc etc. Send a few emails to this list about Citrix, blah

RE: Home WAP recommendations?

Yeah, I've been looking at DD-WRT and Tomato supported hardware, and trying to work my way backwards, but it seems that -N support is markedly absent from a lot of these. Given that all of my router/NAT/FW/etc... functionality I define in my OpenBSD firewall/router, all I want the thing to do i

RE: looking for free helpdesk solution

I used liberum in a "former life" (i.e., before I became an independent consultant) and modified it heavily. I'm surprised to see that it doesn't really appear to have been maintained at all. What's that about? From: G.Waleed Kavalec [mailto:kava...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 12

Re: Terminal Server in a Virtual Environment

We didn't experience any issues when we P2V'ed our Win2k TS box. If anything, it works a bit better. Put it on an ESX 3.5 box, no issues. Kurt On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 04:17, Chris Hamby wrote: > Thanks James. Just need some ammo for when we go to virtualize one of our > customer's TS boxes. > >

Re: Home WAP recommendations?

WRTG54-L - if you don't care so much about 802.11n, but want max flexibility. You can load tomato or any of several other distros on it that allow you to turn it into a really capable firewall/WAP. Or leave it as is, as it's fairly good with the original install. Kurt On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 07:5

Re: looking for free helpdesk solution

Ah, Kurt beat me to it I see. On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:19 AM, G.Waleed Kavalec wrote: > We have been using this > > http://www.liberum.org/ > > ...for a few years. > > Not all that and a side of fries, but it does the job. > > > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Jeff Johnson > wrote: > >> I

Re: looking for free helpdesk solution

We have been using this http://www.liberum.org/ ...for a few years. Not all that and a side of fries, but it does the job. On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote: > I think this one is overkill for you, but anyone looking for a "full suite" > of > items for their job, you just

Re: Vista Restore point, can you tell if it's been restored

On 22 Dec 2009 at 10:01, I wrote: > I googled "event log restore point" and found this, there might be something > useful here: > > Restore Point Forensics > http://128.175.24.251/forensics/restorepoints.htm > > When a system is restored using "System Restore", before reverting >

Re: Vista Restore point, can you tell if it's been restored

On 22 Dec 2009 at 10:38, bambi.j.saas...@seagate.com wrote: > > Good Morning > > Is there a way to tell if a Vista (or XP for that matter) has been > restored to a previous restore point? > I have a system that I think was restored to an earlier point, but I > wanted to know if there is a way

RE: Terminal Server in a Virtual Environment

Complete new build from OS up is the way to go. Citrix has never supported upgrading the OS on any version of WinFrame, MetaFrame, Presentation Server or XenApp. Build new servers, create new farm, use WI to aggregate the two farms and your users will never know a change took place. Webste

Re: Vista Restore point, can you tell if it's been restored

Might you go back into System Restore, select the option to restore to an earlier point, then check to see if "newer" restore points are still there? That is, you retore back to August, would November points still be there? (I don't know, either. Once I complete a restore from a point, and t

Vista Restore point, can you tell if it's been restored

Good Morning Is there a way to tell if a Vista (or XP for that matter) has been restored to a previous restore point? I have a system that I think was restored to an earlier point, but I wanted to know if there is a way to tell somewhere? TIA B . . SAVE THE EARTH.. IT'S THE ONLY PLANET WITH

RE: OT: Getting back into IT

Give us some feedback on the test. I am sure others like me are studying for it :) Original Message: - From: Jacob ja...@excaliburfilms.com Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:13:27 -0800 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: OT: Getting back into IT I am actually studying

RE: Home WAP recommendations?

But never supported the Draft-N specs, hence my conundrum. -sc From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 11:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Home WAP recommendations? The Force is already wireless... On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:5

RE: 2003 Server R2

Yeah I'm on that exact page, I figured instead of recreating the wheel that someone might have summarized or listed the ones they found significant. I have now started a Word document but figured if I didn't have to recreate the wheel... Similarly, I have requested to go to MMS2010 and created

RE: looking for free helpdesk solution

I think this one is overkill for you, but anyone looking for a "full suite" of items for their job, you just can't beat this. Plus it's FREE! There is a built in help desk. http://www.spiceworks.com/ Jeff Johnson Systems Administrator 714-773-2600 Office 714-773-6351 Fax -Original M

Re: 2003 Server R2

I don't offhand unfortunately.I just looked them up and reeled them off to the powers-that-be in a meeting. I think I added the RODC capability as well (unless that was just plain-old 2008). 2009/12/22 David Lum > James, do you have a document you used for the 2008 R2 pitch you could > shar

RE: 2003 Server R2

I've recently been doing some reading here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd391932(WS.10).aspx -Bonnie From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 8:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: 2003 Server R2 James, do you have a document you used

RE: OT: Getting back into IT

I am actually studying for ITIL Foundation at the moment. I scheduled the test for Jan 16th. -Original Message- From: mse...@ont.com [mailto:mse...@ont.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 7:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Getting back into IT In addition to CISSP you

RE: 2003 Server R2

James, do you have a document you used for the 2008 R2 pitch you could share? I do plan on pitching for 2008 R2 in the next six/eight months - that should be soon enough after the 2003 --> R2 upgrade that a schema upgrade will be fresh in their minds but not so fresh they ask "why didn't we just

Re: Home WAP recommendations?

The Force is already wireless... On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Steven M. Caesare wrote: > Help me Obi Wan, you are my only hope… > > > > -sc > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

Re: 2003 Server R2

Depends entirely on your environment, but there seems to be plenty of ammo in there... 2009/12/22 David Lum > Oops I mean this: > > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc773240(WS.10).aspx > > > > Dave > > > > *From:* J

RE: 2003 Server R2

Oops I mean this: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc773240(WS.10).aspx Dave From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 7:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: 2003 Server R2 Didn't 2003 R2 provide ADFS and ADAM, as well as new DFS and Pr

RE: Home WAP recommendations?

WRT-54GL flashed with DD-WRT firmware. You can (IIRC) remove the built-in antennas and use a standard antenna with a BNC connector. Other than that, I don’t know. I like the DD-WRT firmware as you can really customize the heck out of it! John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Steven M. Caesare [mailt

RE: 2003 Server R2

Here's what I have: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755834(WS.10).aspx Dave From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 7:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: 2003 Server R2 Didn't 2003 R2 provide ADFS and ADAM, as well as new DFS and

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