Help with mass file renaming via command-line

Hi all, I need to put together a command line to traverse a folder tree and rename all files that start with "WO" to drop the "WO" but keep the rest of the name. I think I'll need a FOR /R command but I can't work out all of the rest. Any experience with this? Thanks! ~ Finally, powerful endpo

Re: Dang

I haven't done that, the spam message even had the NTSysadmin label on it. When I've found messages from the list in my spam folder that weren't spam, I just mark it as not spam. Google seems to have learned. On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > Ah. > > I told google to never sen

RE: Help with mass file renaming via command-line

How about something like this? FOR /R H:\TEST1\ %I IN (WO*.*) DO SCRIPT.VBS %I And SCRIPT.VBS looks like this: strSourceFilePath = WScript.Arguments.Item(0) Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set f = objFSO.GetFile(strSourceFilePath) strTempFileName =f.Name

RE: net flow analyser

That looks very interesting Thanks ASB. -sc From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 9:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: net flow analyser http://www.actionpacked.com/freeflow This tool is

RE: building a new server

I thought I made a mistake once, but I was wrongheh heh. Bill Lambert Concuity Phone 847-941-9206 The information contained in this e-mail message, including any attached files, is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not th

Re: Website Issue

On 21 Jan 2010 at 12:41, Cameron Cooper wrote: > > A colleague´s company is having issues accessing their own website, which > is hosted offsite. Internally when they try to access it, it goes to a porn > site. When anyone externally accesses the site, it goes right to their > website. He´s

Re: Too many replies causes Outlook to not send???

On 21 Jan 2010 at 10:51, John Aldrich wrote: > It doesn´t appear to be related to the total number of emails > sent/received, it appears to have something to do with the number of replies > in the individual email Only thing I can think of that would cause that > would be the size of the

Re: Reality check

On 21 Jan 2010 at 16:04, Mayo, Bill wrote: > I am terribly frustrated with an application vendor who is on-site to > add a new module to on of our critical software packages, and I want to > confirm it is not just me being difficult. This system already has the > requirement that a workstation b

RE: building a new server

LOL! From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 8:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: building a new server You're wrong about that. -sc From: Bill Lambert [mailto:blamb...@concuity.com] Sent: Friday

RE: Too many replies causes Outlook to not send???

That could well be. I looked at some of the messages the user has in his "drafts" folder (usually when an email won't send, I'll move it there so other messages can go through) and it was around about 50K in size, according to Outlook. That would not really be a problem for the SMTP server. I do k

RE: building a new server

You're wrong about that. -sc From: Bill Lambert [mailto:blamb...@concuity.com] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 9:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: building a new server I thought I made a mistake once, but I was wrongheh heh. Bill Lambert Concuity Phone 847-941-9

Handling two separate companies on same network

Client has asked about having another company added to the network. Currently small business, 10 employees, SBS 2008. New company will be minority owned and according to him the businesses must be separated. When I asked for clarification he wasn't sure. Instead saying the Federal government wa

RE: Website Issue

Looks like it was DNS poisoning. He looked in the host file and there were a bunch of entries in there that was causing the issue. Once removed, they were no longer being redirected to the p0rn site. _ Cameron Cooper System Administrator | CompTIA A+ Certified A

Re: Website Issue

On ALL the client computers? Wow. 2010/1/22 Cameron Cooper > Looks like it was DNS poisoning. He looked in the host file and there > were a bunch of entries in there that was causing the issue. Once removed, > they were no longer being redirected to the p0rn site. > > > >

RE: Website Issue

Sorry... no this was just on their DC. _ Cameron Cooper System Administrator | CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Reports, Inc Phone: 847-890-4021 | Fax: 847-255-1896 ccoo...@aurico.com | www.aurico.com From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] Sent: Frid

Re: Website Issue

So, who was the naughty person web surfing from a DC? On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:20, Cameron Cooper wrote: > Sorry… no this was just on their DC. > > > > _ > > Cameron Cooper > > System Administrator | CompTIA A+ Certified > > Aurico Reports, Inc > > Phone: 847-890-402

RE: Website Issue

That's pretty scary that their DC was compromised like that! makes you wonder what else "they" got to From: Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Website Issue Sorry... n

permission issue on 2008 R2?

I have a strange issue where if I right click in the root of my D drive and choose "new", the only option I get is Folder. This also happens when I move folders/files from another system (2003 R2) to the D drive of my 2008 R2 server. However, if I create a new folder on the root of that drive and

RE: 16 bit VDM

Hey, I haven't messed with Office 2010 yet, but does it have an option to revert to the pre-2007 non-ribbon system? That is the real factor limiting the rollout of a modern office suite here. Nobody wants that ribbon crap. We have older folks who know where shit is, where it has been for over a d

ftp timeout issue

I'm having problems with several users using different ftp programs, they cannot connect to ftp websites because their session timesout before connecting, or sometimes they connect and only see some of the folders on the ftp site. My personal issue is with Dreamweaver, it just never uploads fil

RE: ftp timeout issue

How about Filezilla? That's been a bulletproof (and free!) FTP client for many of us. Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 -Original Message- From: Neil Johnston [mailto:njohns...@kjbsecurity.com] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 12:28 PM To:

Re: ftp timeout issue

First I did not see if you said this or not but has it ever worked? Second you did verify that both port 20 and 21 are allowed. Third if it did work in the past what changed? That should be a start. Jon On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Neil Johnston wrote: > I'm having problems with several

Re: ftp timeout issue

Filezilla has the same issue. I have tried Dreamweaver & Filezilla from my house with no issues so it must be something on our network. Neil Johnston KJB Security Products, Inc. 841 Fesslers Parkway Suite B Nashville, Tn 37210 615-620-1370 800-590-4272 www.kjbsecurity.com > From: Phillip Part

Re: ftp timeout issue

+1 - Original Message - From: "Phillip Partipilo" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 12:41 PM Subject: RE: ftp timeout issue How about Filezilla? That's been a bulletproof (and free!) FTP client for many of us. Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Ju

Re: ftp timeout issue

Yes it used to work, ports 20 & 21 are allowed and it appeared to start having problems when we put the firewall in. Our firewall is not on site, it is a phone company solution, so I cannot bypass it other than going home and checking which I did. I spoke with the firewall support team and they s

RE: permission issue on 2008 R2?

Windows 7 is the same, even logged in as a local administrator all I can do is create a folder at the root of a drive, not a file. I can COPY a file to the root but not create. Haven't cared enough to find what I need to change, it's certainly a permissions issue. David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER N

RE: 16 bit VDM

Not that I see at a quick glance. -sc From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 12:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: 16 bit VDM Hey, I haven't messed with Office 2010 yet, but does it have an option to revert to the pre-2007 non-ribbon s

Re: Website Issue

On 22 Jan 2010 at 10:20, Cameron Cooper wrote: > Sorry... no this was just on their DC. IOW their ISA/DC box was hacked somehow. Not Good, to say the least. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 +---+ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint

Re: ftp timeout issue

On 22 Jan 2010 at 12:28, Neil Johnston wrote: > I'm having problems with several users using different ftp programs, they > cannot connect to ftp websites because their session timesout before > connecting, or sometimes they connect and only see some of the folders on > the ftp site. > > My pers

RE: ftp timeout issue

Re: ftp timeout issueSounds like a firewall problem. Try setting your FTP client to use "passive" connection mode, this will let the client pick the port not the server. Joe Morlino -Original Message- From: Neil Johnston [mailto:njohns...@kjbsecurity.com] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2

RE: 16 bit VDM

You can simply build your own button bar with whatever you need. The Ribbon can be changed now. Mike From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: 22 January 2010 18:30 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: 16 bit VDM Not that I see at a quick glance. -sc From: Phillip Partipi

Re: ftp timeout issue

Already tried setting passive mode, still no luck. I¹m almost convinced it is a firewall issue but as I said before I cannot test without the firewall at work. From: Joe Morlino Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:34:28 -0500 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ftp

Resizing C partition in Server 2003

Anyone ever expanded a C partition in a multi-partitioned RAID-5 server? Client needs to do so to add new software. Any time I've thought about doing this it has been: back up twice, verify backups, blow away D partition, expand C, add D partition, restore from backup. Client uses Acronis to

RE: Resizing C partition in Server 2003

Never used this tool to do it, but I've successfully used others before. Moving the D partition may take a while as it requires actually moving the data. -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 2:12 PM To: NT System Admin Is

RE: Resizing C partition in Server 2003

Used this extensively on Physically and Virtual Machines, boot from CD / iso, there's a wizard and a manual steps you can do, click the volume you want to expand commit changes reboot and youre done. Haven't had it fail once. But Ive also used Gparted and Extpart with excellent results and both f

RE: 16 bit VDM

I hated the newer menu layout (using 2k7), for a few weeks. I now am used to it and can locate what I need just as fast. But, you're right, for the anti-change and "I refuse to learn something new" crowd, it's a huge difference. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fo

Outlook Web Access on SBS 2003 works in Basic mode but not Premium

HI folks. Happy Friday! Having an issue where you run Microsoft Outlook Web Access and if you choose basic mode, you can create and type body text into a new message. However, if you choose Premium mode, you can put in To:, CC:, Subject, etc. but the frame where you would type your message body

RE: Resizing C partition in Server 2003

+1 Just last night on a vm. -Original Message- From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 12:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Resizing C partition in Server 2003 Used this extensively on Physically and Virtual Machines,

Small assistance request

Could one of you who has a non-domain-joined Server 2008 or Server 2008 R2 (or Vista or Win7) image running in _VMware_ open a command prompt and run W32tm /query /source Please note that if you've previously done a "net time /setsntp:..." these results won't help me. I'm looking to fin

RE: Resizing C partition in Server 2003

As others have mentioned Acronis DiskDirector does the job, and we use it here extensively on ESX guests. The problem we ran into with DiskDirector is the lack of x64 support and no support for Windows Server 2008. We have since moved to Paragon's Partition Manager 10.0 Server Edition. Almost ident

RE: Outlook Web Access on SBS 2003 works in Basic mode but not Premium

There's an S/mime issue that can cause this. Here's what I used... 1. In OWA, click on the "options" in the left Task Pane. 2. Under "E-mail Security" and Click Install or Upgrade the S/MIME Control. This will download a new add-on. 3. Click "RUN" when asked about the Microsoft Outlook Web Access S

Re: Small assistance request

Win2008 SP2, (not R2) under VMWare 3.5 returns: Free-running System Clock Jeff On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > Could one of you who has a non-domain-joined Server 2008 or Server 2008 R2 > (or Vista or Win7) image running in _VMware_ open a command prompt and run > >

Custom ADM confusion

I get an error 55 on the custom ADM below. I'm not exactly an expert on custom ADMs but it isn't the first I write and it's pretty straightforward, so I don't understand what I am missing. Probably something obvious as usual. CLASS USER CATEGORY !!CustomTemplates CATEGORY !!CustomCategory PO

Re: Small assistance request

W2k8 R2 SP2 - Local CMOS Clock On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > Could one of you who has a non-domain-joined Server 2008 or Server 2008 R2 > (or Vista or Win7) image running in _VMware_ open a command prompt and run > >W32tm /query /source > > Please note that i

Re: Resizing C partition in Server 2003

Piece of cake with virtual machines - join the hard drive to another server, expand it using diskpart, join it back to original server. I'm pretty sure Windows 2008 can do a c: expansion natively with diskpart - upgrading may save you a lot of messing about. I'm not sure about the 2008 bit though,

Re: 16 bit VDM

We just opted to get them trained up on 2007. In the end, they'll have to adapt. MS being the market leader, it's adapt or die. I feel your pain, tho. I had some users who couldn't deal with the D: drive becoming the K: drive. 2010/1/22 Phillip Partipilo > Hey, I haven’t messed with Office 2010

RE: Outlook Web Access on SBS 2003 works in Basic mode but not Premium

I have just posted this on the Exchange list as well, for those who haven't seen it there... Server needs patching. There was an update for OWA because Microsoft lost a patent case. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911829 Run the SBS Best Practises tool against the system - it will flag that m

Downsizing to SBS. Same domain name?

I have a client that is going to be moving from a 2003 domain with VERY old hardware to Small Business Server 2008 new hardware. Here is my question. Can you think of any problems if we keep the same internal domain name? If I disconnect the pc's from the old domain * ABC.LOCAL* and connect them

Re: Downsizing to SBS. Same domain name?

You should be fine. Neither domain will know about the other... On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Matt Plahtinsky wrote: > I have a client that is going to be moving from a 2003 domain with VERY old > hardware to Small Business Server 2008 new hardware. > > Here is my question. Can you think of

RE: Custom ADM confusion

Just a guess here, but don't you need an ACTIONLISTOFF and END ACTIONLISTOFF section as well? Otherwise it won't know what to do when the policy is cleared? See the last example here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc738443(WS.10).aspx. -Bonnie From: E. Peeters [mailto:ml2...@iba

RE: Downsizing to SBS. Same domain name?

If by disconnect you mean disjoin from old domain and join to new domain, the PC's shouldn't care. You're creating new user accounts and fresh shares/permissions so those should be OK. Mail-wise you're just changing MX pointers. Thinking about it, you might have to move the local profiles on th

RE: Downsizing to SBS. Same domain name?

Wouldn't you have domain SID issues? I think I remember something like that trying to do a test some time ago here in the lab. The old ABC.Local identification will be different from the new ABC.Local identification. There is the Microsoft migration paper for SBS2008 that outlines going from re

Re: Downsizing to SBS. Same domain name?

Any reason to not keep the existing AD? This google search may be helpful. http://www.google.com/search?q=standard+server+2003+migration+to+sbs+2008+site%3Aitknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1 On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Matt

RE: Custom ADM confusion

I don't believe so, I have another custom ADM with ACTIONLISTON and no ACTIONLISTOFF and that one works fine. From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu] Sent: Fri 1/22/2010 3:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Custom ADM confusion

OT: Another Windows Security Vulnerability.

In case you haven't already heard or read about this: http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Windows-hole-discovered-after-17-years-Update-908917.html ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

RE: Another Windows Security Vulnerability.

Nice, thanks! Dave From: Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 2:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Another Windows Security Vulnerability. In case you haven't already heard or read about this: http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Windows-hole-dis

Re: OT: VMware ESX cluster at a hot site?

SRM came out before vSphere so there'll be a version that fits you. Upgrading involves (vry simplfied): - Paying VMware or making sure you support contract includes upgrades. - Upgrading VirtualCenter to vCenter 4. - Using the Host Update Tool to upgrade each host. The advantages of

Re: Outlook Web Access on SBS 2003 works in Basic mode but not Premium

Thanks Simon! much appreciated! Don K - Original Message From: Simon Butler To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Fri, January 22, 2010 3:15:17 PM Subject: RE: Outlook Web Access on SBS 2003 works in Basic mode but not Premium I have just posted this on the Exchange list as well, for tho

2008 R2 in a 2003 R2 domain

Please forgive me if this has been answered already, I searched through my list emails and couldn't find anything related. Is there anything I need to do to prep my 2003 R2 domain before introducing a 2008 R2 member server? I ask because, well I was stupid and forgot to ask before add

RE: Resizing C partition in Server 2003

+1 for GPartEd. Great tool. -Original Message- From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 2:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Resizing C partition in Server 2003 +1 Just last night on a vm. -Original Message- From: Garcia-Moran

RE: Windows 7 Search Indexer

Outlook is in cached mode. Seems to come and go with reboot. One reboot, no problem. Next reboot, indexer runs like mad. Right now it is OK, so will avoid reboot for now! From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 9:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subje

Robocopy GUI

I'm trying to use the GUI verson of Robocopy for first time but having issues getting it to work. I've installed the application and setup the parameters for source and destination along with switches. However, when I select run I receive a message stating that Robocopy started at a certain time. I

Re: Windows 7 Search Indexer

Oh well. Have you tried anything like Process Explorer or Process Monitor to see what Outlook-related files it's munching on during all that activity? I have a remote user whose .ost file blows up every now and then. Have you checked the logs to see if there is any problem with the .ost file? M

Re: Small assistance request

Win 7 on Vmware Workstation 7 also = Local CMOS Clock. On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Don Ely wrote: > W2k8 R2 SP2 - Local CMOS Clock > > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Michael B. Smith > wrote: > >> Could one of you who has a non-domain-joined Server 2008 or Server 2008 R2 >> (or Vista

RE: 2008 R2 in a 2003 R2 domain

We just did this project last week and I couldn't dcpromo the 2008r2 box until I did a bunch of things with adprep and domainprep and extend the schema but that was for making it a DC obviously. We did join the network first without issue. From: Neil Standley [mailto:n...@net-venture.com] S

RE: 2008 R2 in a 2003 R2 domain

Did you run your command window "as Administrator"? UAC doesn't apply to the built-in Administrator account. It does to every other account. You seem to be running into that issue. Regular users haven't had modify permissions to the root of drives in Win2k3 days (at least to the C: drive). Perh

Where do old PST files go when their accounts are deleted?

In Outlook XP/2003, when you delete an account, where does the PST file go? One of my clients did this intending to add a new account and save the old mail, but all the old mail is gone. Where did it go? I can't find any old PST files on the hard drive. They're running in POP mode, and have

R: Where do old PST files go when their accounts are deleted?

If it was an account not in domain ,when deleting you are asked if you want to delete its data as well .. GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Inviato: sabato 23 gennaio 2010 6.05 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: Where do old PST

RE: Robocopy GUI

What you're trying to accomplish and the switches you're using would be a useful start... Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Haralson, Joe (GE Comm Fin, non-GE) [mailto:joe.haral...@ge.com] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 8:18 PM To

R: Robocopy GUI

Brian, do you mean that if you select options that is impossible to execute you don't get any advice ? GuidoElia HELPPC _ Da: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Inviato: sabato 23 gennaio 2010 6.59 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Robocopy GUI What you're trying t

NTVDM issue

Despite the fact even Secunia reports it as a less critical alert (exploitable only through local authenticated access) Microsoft released today a security advisory (979682) pointing to a fix (activating GP) and announcing a possible out of band patch. GuidoElia HELPPC ~ Finally, powerful end

RE: Robocopy GUI

No. I think Brian is trying to say: a) Please describe what you are trying to do b) Please describe how you are trying to do it c) Please describe what the actual error/output is that you are seeing Based on the information above, someone can provide some advice as to what the