Checking for clean removal of application

2009-12-28 Thread Christopher Bodnar
We have an application that installs an agent on a server. We want to test to see how cleanly the agent is removed after uninstalling it. Does it remove all the registry entries, all the files , all the registered DLLs, etc.. Anyone have suggestions for tools to use? I've thought of using

Re: Checking for clean removal of application

2009-12-28 Thread Jeff Bunting
InstallWatch will show you changes to a system for file system and registry. Basically, it performs a snapshot, installs the app, and then a post-install analysis. I think you'd still have to manually check the system after the uninstall though, so maybe not exactly what you need.

Re: Checking for clean removal of application

2009-12-28 Thread Kurt Buff
Process Monitor http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 06:36, Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote: We have an application that installs an agent on a server. We want to test to see how cleanly the agent is removed after

XP Pro workstation on VMware

2009-12-28 Thread RichardMcClary
Greetings! I am needing to set up an XP Pro workstation in VMware. My problem comes when seeking a disk in the initial Windows setup... If I do not hit F6 to specify a mass storate device, the install fails. Then, for some reason, I am no longer able to boot off the ISO image. Subsequent

IIS 0 day in File parsing, heads up.

2009-12-28 Thread Ziots, Edward
Microsoft IIS 0Day Vulnerability in Parsing Files (semi-colon bug) #Application: Microsoft Internet Information Services - IIS (All versions) #Impact: Highly

RE: XP Pro workstation on VMware

2009-12-28 Thread N Parr
If I remember my 3.5 days change your controller to the Buslogic and windows should find the controller and disk just fine without any extra drivers. Or load the floppy image that comes along with the server and it will have your drivers. From:

RE: XP Pro workstation on VMware

2009-12-28 Thread Mike Semon
The problem is with the Buslogic driver. You need to install the LSI logic driver. You can create a floppy image to install. Be sure to get correct driver From LSI site. The VMware site tells which driver to download. Mike _ From: richardmccl...@aspca.org

RE: XP Pro workstation on VMware

2009-12-28 Thread Jackson, Jeff
All of my XP VMs were set up with the Buslogic driver, I don't recall having the use F6 and a driver disk to setup the machines, but sadly, that doesn't mean I didn't... But, if you have the correct driver disk, you should be able to use either controller, that I am sure of. Jeff From: Mike

RE: XP Pro workstation on VMware

2009-12-28 Thread Mike Semon
I have had issues with the Buslogic driver. It works but LSI Logic driver performs better. _ From: Jackson, Jeff [mailto:jeff.jack...@rbza.com] Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 10:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: XP Pro workstation on VMware All of my XP VMs were set

RE: XP Pro workstation on VMware

2009-12-28 Thread Crawford, Scott
Subsequent Ctrl-Alt-Del signals result in a black console with a blinking _ in the upper left corner. SO, I have to delete that VM and start from scratch... When I run into this, I check the option to go force the VM into BIOS on next reboot. Then after exiting BIOS, you'll get the option to

RE: XP Pro workstation on VMware

2009-12-28 Thread RichardMcClary
Thanks... How does one create the floppy image? What I got from LSI seems to be an installer for a local machine... Do I unzip the installer and simply copy the contents into a directory? Do I burn the contents of the download into an ISO? (Oh well, not that much more time lost to try

RE: XP Pro workstation on VMware

2009-12-28 Thread John Cook
This may help http://it-experts.dk/blogs/jjonsson/archive/2008/12/02/how-to-install-windows-xp-as-a-guest-system-on-your-esx-3i-server.aspx John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944

RE: XP Pro workstation on VMware

2009-12-28 Thread Mike Semon
http://www.petri.co.il/virtual-floppy-disks-vmware.htm _ From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: XP Pro workstation on VMware Thanks... How does one create the floppy

RE: Checking for clean removal of application

2009-12-28 Thread Sam Cayze
Revo Uninstaller From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 8:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Checking for clean removal of application We have an application that installs an agent on a server. We

RE: XP Pro workstation on VMware

2009-12-28 Thread RichardMcClary
Well, my progress so far has me feeling that, for the last 3 hours, I have been dealing with the new Sony product reviewed several months back in The Onion... (Sony announces a brand new stupid POS that doesn't $#@ work) WHY do two separate downloads of vmscsi-1.2.0.4.flp end up with the

RE: XP Pro workstation on VMware

2009-12-28 Thread RichardMcClary
Between my dozen or so re-builds, I've looked for this Boot into BIOS option and have been unable to find it... -- RMc Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote on 12/28/2009 10:16:47 AM: Subsequent Ctrl-Alt-Del signals result in a black console with a blinking _ in the upper left corner.

RE: XP Pro workstation on VMware

2009-12-28 Thread Todd Lemmiksoo
Edit the VM prosperities, on the option tab there is a boot options on the left side of the box. Highlight it and on the right side now appears the box to check for booting into the bios. Todd From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org]

Moving to 2003 domain and forest questions

2009-12-28 Thread Matt Falenski
We had a single 2000 server that was holding us up from moving to 2003 domain and forest levels. It had some old software that required it to be a DC and that software has now been removed. I demoted it this AM to a Member Server and was just watching waiting for any issues. Looks good so far

RE: XP Pro workstation on VMware

2009-12-28 Thread Richard Stovall
Is there a way to edit MY prosperity? I’ve been looking for one for a while… From: Todd Lemmiksoo [mailto:tlemmik...@all-mode.com] Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 1:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: XP Pro workstation on VMware Edit the VM prosperities, on the option tab

Partiioning tool for ESXi

2009-12-28 Thread Jim von Stein
I have a Windows 2003 R2 server that has an inadequately sized system drive (it's an old server). I'm thinking of P-to-V'ing it onto an ESXi box and expanding the drive, but I need a cheap (preferably free - we're a non-profit) partitioning tool that will expand the system drive on a virtual. Any

RE: Partiioning tool for ESXi

2009-12-28 Thread Damien Solodow
SystemRescueCD is free and includes GParted which does quite nicely. -Original Message- From: Jim von Stein [mailto:jvonst...@soastc.org] Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 1:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Partiioning tool for ESXi I have a Windows 2003 R2 server that has an

RE: Partiioning tool for ESXi

2009-12-28 Thread John Cook
I thought VMWare Converter would let you do this during the P2V process. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I, A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4

RE: Partiioning tool for ESXi

2009-12-28 Thread Phillip Partipilo
You can bring up another VM, mount the image of the VM of which you want to extend the system partition, and use diskpart. There's a brief synopsis here: http://www.geekzilla.co.uk/View18A035DE-06FF-4EA6-BC77-57D431CD50DD.htm Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561)

RE: XP Pro workstation on VMware

2009-12-28 Thread Todd Lemmiksoo
Try that company that has the green carpet that leads the way! From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 1:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: XP Pro workstation on VMware Is there a way to edit

RE: Moving to 2003 domain and forest questions

2009-12-28 Thread Michael B. Smith
There were issues with IAS and RRAS between 2000 and 2003 that dealt with default levels of security. I don't remember the details, although they should be in the windows 2003 upgrade whitepapers at Microsoft.com. From: Matt Falenski [mailto:matt.falen...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 28,

RE: XP Pro workstation on VMware

2009-12-28 Thread RichardMcClary
After The Worst Christmas Ever... is there a way to edit one's posterity? Richard Stovall richard.stov...@researchdata.com wrote on 12/28/2009 12:30:46 PM: Is there a way to edit MY prosperity? I?ve been looking for one for a while? From: Todd Lemmiksoo [mailto:tlemmik...@all-mode.com]

RE: Moving to 2003 domain and forest questions

2009-12-28 Thread Brian Desmond
Just make sure the computer account is a member of the RAS/IAS servers security group. I think if you right click the root node in the IAS console there is a Register option that will do this for you. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.commailto:br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132

Re: XP Pro workstation on VMware

2009-12-28 Thread Kurt Buff
Is that prospective posterity, or actual posterity? Speaking of worst Christmas - ours was probably not the worst, but it was down there. 4 month old child has an ear infection, and a cold (or colds) that has lasted about 3 weeks and is restless and fussy. Wife came down with a cold Christmas

Re: XP Pro workstation on VMware

2009-12-28 Thread Lee Douglas
Above ground and vertical (a fair number of people I used to know aren't). Able to sit up and take nourishment. Can't get much better. My wife of ~ 30 years and I were able to entertain various children and grandchildren and various in-laws and *outlaws* and it was a good Christmas. We had food,

Symlinks.. UNC... Possibilities

2009-12-28 Thread Jason Gauthier
All, Using Windows 2008's ability to create symlinks I would like to achieve the following goal: Using SCVMM's library features, create a symlink in the directory that points to my storage of ISOs on another server. (I do not want to duplicate ISOs). What I have done: * I

OT: can't get BB to initalize to BES

2009-12-28 Thread Eldridge, Dave
I am still new at this BES thing. My first two phones activated just fine but I have one that sits at initalizing on both the phone and server sides. I have tried both the wireless and wired/usb methods. I have also removed the activation and recreated the user. Still no luck. This phone is

Re: OT: can't get BB to initalize to BES

2009-12-28 Thread John Cook
Is the activation message (not the password message) ever showing up in the inbox? Are you setting the pw or autogenerating it? From: Eldridge, Dave To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Mon Dec 28 17:36:30 2009 Subject: OT: can't get BB to initalize to BES I am still

Re: OT: can't get BB to initalize to BES

2009-12-28 Thread Andrew Levicki
Hi Dave, This is one of the joys of BlackBerries, I'm afraid. It's not unusual to have this situation. Because of the many things that can go wrong during activation, these things can happen. What I would do is this: - delete the user from BlackBerry Enterprise Server - on the handset, go to

RE: can't get BB to initalize to BES

2009-12-28 Thread Martin Blackstone
Who is the carrier? From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com] Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 2:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: can't get BB to initalize to BES I am still new at this BES thing. My first two phones activated just fine but I have one that sits at

RE: Multiple Bluetooth radios.

2009-12-28 Thread Steven M. Caesare
On my WinMobile device, there are some tunable parameters that I've seen tweaked to handle audio dropouts (bytes per xfer, etc...). Some googling there might be helpful. -sc From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 1:55 PM To: NT System Admin

RE: Dell E6500 Audio Output level control?

2009-12-28 Thread Steven M. Caesare
I do , and I disable that along with the trackpad... both drive me nutz. -sc From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 1:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell E6500 Audio Output level control? I installed Win7 on my E6500

RE: can't get BB to initalize to BES

2009-12-28 Thread Eldridge, Dave
It's Verizon. From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 4:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: can't get BB to initalize to BES Who is the carrier? From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com] Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009

Re: XP Pro workstation on VMware

2009-12-28 Thread Jonathan Link
Good plumbing? Or more specifically, no sewer backups with following remediation and replacement. Happened to us Thanksgiving Day, added a lot of stress to our Christmas. We're now in replace/repair mode. Even with that problem Christmas was good and no one was sick or injured or had passed

RE: can't get BB to initalize to BES

2009-12-28 Thread Martin Blackstone
I would call them and ask them if you need a BB Enterprise plan to use BES. If yes, ask them if there is one on that number. From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com] Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 3:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: can't get BB to initalize to BES

RE: Partiioning tool for ESXi

2009-12-28 Thread Jim von Stein
I haven't actually done a P-to-V conversion yet, but it appears that if I extend a disk, the OS sees the bigger disk, but doesn't expand the volume. Jim -Original Message- From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 11:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Partiioning tool for ESXi

2009-12-28 Thread Mark Boersma
Jim, if you use the VMware tool it will ask you if you want to resize the disks. You simply enter the size that you want and it will make it so, no other adjustment needed. Mark - Two rules for success in life: 1. Never tell people everything you

RE: can't get BB to initalize to BES

2009-12-28 Thread Eldridge, Dave
That's a definite possibility. I assume that's an option you have to pay/ask for when you sign up. The user did call me as I was walking out that she did get two emails from RIM. I don't know what they are but would they send a notice that your data plan doesn't support a BES environment? Thanks

RE: Partiioning tool for ESXi

2009-12-28 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Are you sure Jim isn't correct? The disc volume file (.vmdk) is expanded, but I don't believe the filesystem (NTFS logical volume) within in it is extended, no? This is akin to imaging a machine on to a larger hard drive... it then needs to have the NTFS volume expanded, correct? -sc

Re: Partiioning tool for ESXi

2009-12-28 Thread Matthew W. Ross
Yes, the volume is expanded, but the actual partition on the drive remains the same. This is the expected behavior. Next, you use a partition resizing utility to expand that partitin to fill the drive. I use a Gparted live cd, which is free. Someone else already mentioned a rescue cd that

RE: can't get BB to initalize to BES

2009-12-28 Thread Martin Blackstone
That's probably just a registration message which means nothing. If this is a user provided device, I can almost assure you that the user has the wrong plan. In fact I had a user like that today. From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com] Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 4:47 PM To:

RE: Partiioning tool for ESXi

2009-12-28 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Right, so Mark's assertion that ... so, no other adjustment needed., is not correct, and as Jim originally stated, the OS sees the bigger disk, but doesn't expand the volume.. That's my experience as well. -sc -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org]