RE: Reviewing my GPs, and found something I don't understand

IIRC, GPMC was supposed to ship with Server 2003 but got delayed. It was made available before SP1. From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Reviewing my GPs, and found something I don't understand

Re: Reviewing my GPs, and found something I don't understand

That sounds reasonable. I worked with quite a few SBS 2003 customers back in 2003 / 2004 and I am fairly certain that SBS 2003 was the first OS that shipped with GPMC installed. I was consulting all over the place at the time and it was frustrating going to larger, non-SBS shops because the tool

RE: Reviewing my GPs, and found something I don't understand

That seems like a bit of a stretch. Much of the focus on GPMC was around simplifying enterprise management, programmatically accessing GPOs and providing a scripting interface, why would you need all that on SBS? I spent a couple of evenings with the GPMC PM right around the time it launched a

Re: Reviewing my GPs, and found something I don't understand

Ah. That's interesting. I wondered what that was about. I so rarely do anything with GP that I tend to forget a lot of this stuff. Makes it hard to keep up with it. Thanks, Kurt On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 19:03, Richard Stovall wrote: > You used to get to the editor by right clicking on an objec

Re: Reviewing my GPs, and found something I don't understand

Yup, it's installed, and I have created a couple of policies with it. On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 19:00, Richard Stovall wrote: > Perhaps only tangentially related, but are you running the Group Policy > Management Console?  If you're getting to the editor directly from ADUC it > sounds like you might

Re: Reviewing my GPs, and found something I don't understand

I was just doing an audit, not trying to modify/add/delete. Like I said, not a huge deal. On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 18:58, Carl Houseman wrote: > Why aren't you using Group Policy Management (GPMC)?  That's the tool > intended for editing group policies that are applied to OUs.  You can run > that

Re: Reviewing my GPs, and found something I don't understand

That's pretty much the kind of explanation I was looking for. Thanks! On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 18:37, Free, Bob wrote: > The basic elements of the Group Policy Editor are implemented in gpedit.dll, > if you launch it via gpedit.msc you get LGP (Local Group Policy) which is > only the most basic s

Re: Reviewing my GPs, and found something I don't understand

Not that it matters one whit, but my understanding is that the GPMC came out of the SBS group (SBS 2003) and was such a popular addition that it was adopted overall. On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Brian Desmond wrote: > Up until Windows 2008, there was a Group Policy tab on the properties of >

RE: Reviewing my GPs, and found something I don't understand

Thanks, I was starting to figure that out. I didn't really get into Active Directory and group policy until after GPMC was released. Carl -Original Message- From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 10:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject

Re: Reviewing my GPs, and found something I don't understand

You used to get to the editor by right clicking on an object in ADUC where a GPO could be linked, choosing properties from the context menu, and selecting the Group Policy tab. Or something like that. The link now takes you to the GPMC. On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Carl Houseman wrote: > Wh

RE: Reviewing my GPs, and found something I don't understand

Up until Windows 2008, there was a Group Policy tab on the properties of OUs, Domains, and Sites in ADUC and dssites. This was how you accessed policies and edited them. GPMC came out of band sometime after 2003 shipped. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 Active Dir

Re: Reviewing my GPs, and found something I don't understand

Perhaps only tangentially related, but are you running the Group Policy Management Console? If you're getting to the editor directly from ADUC it sounds like you might not be. It's a much more intuitve and all encompassing way to view and manage GPOs, their settings, RSOP, yada, yada, yada all fr

RE: Reviewing my GPs, and found something I don't understand

Why aren't you using Group Policy Management (GPMC)? That's the tool intended for editing group policies that are applied to OUs. You can run that on a DC, member server, or workstation and it always looks at domain policies. By default, gpedit.msc views and modifies the local machine policy.

RE: Reviewing my GPs, and found something I don't understand

The basic elements of the Group Policy Editor are implemented in gpedit.dll, if you launch it via gpedit.msc you get LGP (Local Group Policy) which is only the most basic subset of the settings available as you noticed. I've seen it described as the top level of the namespace which is actually a

Re: RE: Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 R2

+1. Backup AD and do it. I have never had issues with schema updates like this. On Feb 9, 2010 1:25 PM, "Greg Olson" wrote: +1 have a backup and you should be good to go. Have done this at 20 locations so far with no issue. *From:* Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] *Sent:* Tuesd

RE: Adding 2008 DC's... (revisited)

The PFE who came onsite showed us http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee522994(WS.10).aspx#BKMK_KnownIssues which is actually maintained by support folks. He said a lot of it comes from actual cases and there is a lot of input from folks like himself. It is very dynamic, I actually print

RE: Adding 2008 DC's... (revisited)

Not necessarily. When you add attributes to the PAS, while everything doesn't re-replicate, things still get touched. What can happen is say you have a distributed environment and you have two DCs replicating. DC-A runs garbage collection and cleans up a bunch of tombstoned objects DC-B hasn't r

RE: backspace working as the delete key

Are you using an USB keyboard with a PS2 converter to plug into the KVM. I have seen what you described happen that way sometimes. From: Miguel González Castaños [miguel_3_gonza...@yahoo.es] Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 4:51 PM To: NT System Admin Iss

Re: Reviewing my GPs, and found something I don't understand

That's fine, but when launched from ADUC, I get what seems to be essentially the same interface as gpedit.msc, except that it's pointing to the domain. By "launched from ADUC", I mean I open ADUC on my workstation, navigate to the OU in question, select Properties from the context menu, select the

RE: Adding 2008 DC's... (revisited)

Whoa. They've done some serious updating to those articles in the last couple of months. I've not seen those mentioned in any of the other lists I read - where did you get those Bob? From your PFE or TAM? Or someplace more public? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://The

Re: Reviewing my GPs, and found something I don't understand

I'm not sure I understand.. running gpedit.msc by itself just gets you into the local policy, this is expected. On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > Minor issue, but it caused me to fumble for a few minutes > > I was looking over my Group Policies, and couldn't find them. > > I

Reviewing my GPs, and found something I don't understand

Minor issue, but it caused me to fumble for a few minutes I was looking over my Group Policies, and couldn't find them. I tracked it down, but need some help understanding what I was looking at. Win2k3 R2 domain, FFL/DFL. I started gpedit.msc via Start/Run on my XP SP3 workstation, and star

RE: Adding 2008 DC's... (revisited)

>I'm assuming you mean multiple domains/forests/trusts? It *could* happen regardless of the number of domains or forests if you have a lot of GCs and the PAS does a full replication. Think of a branch office scenario with LOTS of DCs on lousy links. This got a fair amount of consideration from f

Migration to SBS 2008 directly from regular 2000 server.

Trying to migrate to SBS 2008 from regular 2000 server. Not SBS, and no pre-existing Exchange installations. Has anyone done this before? I have the answerfile in the root of a USB thumbdrive, and the whole install seems to be taking place. No migration wizard ever appears however. On its fina

Re: backspace working as the delete key

John Aldrich wrote: Sounds like your KVM is messing things up. Maybe time to buy something better. I finally managed changing the mapping with keytweak. Yes, this KVM doesn't look to be good Thanks! Miguel ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 R2

+1 have a backup and you should be good to go. Have done this at 20 locations so far with no issue. From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 12:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 R2 Did this a few ti

RE: Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 R2

Did this a few times for different reasons with no issues. Just make sure you backup AD before you extend the schema. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306

Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 R2

I wanted to OCS it instead of Skype that the President is trying to show down everybody’s trough. So I downloaded the trial and setup a new VM (2008 R2). Now it needs Forest Prep, Domain Prep etc. Honestly I’m a bit scare of doing the AD updates to extend the schema, should I be? What could

RE: OT ? Server ROI - Reuse ?

+1 I like this suggestion a lot. I ran into a similar issue at a client and I used VM to split the difference. SBS 2003 Server was on 5yr old Dell and no extended warranty available. Bought new server for about $5K (2008 Server OS) and VM'd their SBS 2003 with Hyper-V. If you count time this

RE: backspace working as the delete key

Sounds like your KVM is messing things up. Maybe time to buy something better. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Miguel Gonzalez [mailto:miguel_3_gonza...@yahoo.es] Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 2:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: backspace working as the delete key I have j

RE: backspace working as the delete key

I have just tried and it didn't work either. I think I know what is the issue. It works directly plugged in but it does this erratic behavior when connected through an Iogear KVM. I managed  to install a software called keytweak. When pressing delete and backspace I get the same code. Unfortuna

RE: backspace working as the delete key

Have you tried another keyboard, or an external one if a laptop? Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com From: Miguel Gonzalez

Re: OT ? Server ROI - Reuse ?

I don't necessarily agree that this is a bad idea. If you extend the warranty, ensuring that the response time is what you need, and potentially replace the spinning bits (drives, fans, etc.), I think you should be fine. However, this assumes that the server is redundant in the usual ways: appropr

RE: SCSI non-destructive disk testing

Hmm. interesting. It was not set up as a mirror. at least when we rebuilt the machine awhile back. I won't worry about that error then. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 1:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: S

RE: SCSI non-destructive disk testing

Well, good news is that it appears the hard drive isn't having any issues, at least according to HDSentinel. Now I just have to figure out why Vipre is apparently causing issues. :-( -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 09,

Re: SCSI non-destructive disk testing

The failed redundancy message almost certainly refers to a failed software mirror. On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:01 PM, John Aldrich wrote: > FWIW, this is NOT a RAID drive. It was originally, but then the system > crashed and we barely got the data back from one of the two drives and had > to reload

RE: SCSI non-destructive disk testing

FWIW, this is NOT a RAID drive. It was originally, but then the system crashed and we barely got the data back from one of the two drives and had to reload the data from the emergency "mirror." Thanks, John Aldrich IT Manager, Blueridge Carpet 706-276-2001, Ext. 2233 -Original Message

RE: SCSI non-destructive disk testing

No, nothing really in the log files…. The only thing in the system log that gave me pause is this: dmboot: Volume Volume1 (C:) started in failed redundancy mode. Not sure what that means…. I’ve rebuilt this server from scratch once, but I’d rather not do it again. Thanks, John Aldrich IT Manager

RE: OT ? Server ROI - Reuse ?

Wish we could renew some of our servers... some are nearing the 10 year mark. We had a Dell PowerEdge that was retired after 12 years of service without any major issues. _ Cameron Cooper System Administrator | CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Reports, Inc Phone: 847

Re: SCSI non-destructive disk testing

Typically there are all kinds of nasty things in the system log if a drive is failing. Anything there? I have used Hard Disk Sentinel to gain some visibility into drive issues in the past. YMMV. http://www.hdsentinel.com/ Good luck (and prepare now for disaster), RS On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12

RE: OT ? Server ROI - Reuse ?

I, personally, would consider replacing the disks when you're rebuilding the server. After 3-4 years of running constantly, I would expect the drives to start showing their age, but that's just me. I know enterprise drives are built to last longer, but still, 3-4 years is a LONG time for a disk to

RE: OT ? Server ROI - Reuse ?

Point three is an excellent point. If the life of the app extends beyond a couple of years then moving it around and all that downtime/hassle negates any perceived loss of RoI. -Original Message- From: Charlie Kaiser [mailto:charl...@golden-eagle.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Re: OT ? Server ROI - Reuse ?

Does this server meet the hardware requirements for Windows Server 2008r2 ? If you're going to keep it at least three more years, you want to be running an OS that's still properly supported for your mission critical application. Also, if the existing hard drives have been spinning constantly for

RE: OT ? Server ROI - Reuse ?

This is already a good conversation, Thanks guys. Currently I am not sure I have any objections other than "its old". Well, so is my cat, but I am not getting a new one because the old cat is still just fine. Is there anything, besides MTBF that I should consider? From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk

RE: OT ? Server ROI - Reuse ?

1. Ask the bean counters what their depreciation schedule is on servers. If it's 3 years like many, they may not be doing their ROI correctly. 2. Ask how much money will be lost if the server is down for 72 hours due to a hardware failure. Does it offset the $4500? Do an ROI on a couple of even 24-

Re: Authenticode, Internet Access, and program loading times, Oh my!

I get the value of checking for strong signing, but why is it bothering to check all executables if I'm not even using software restriction policies? The setting explicitly says "Use Certificate Rules on Windows Executables for Software Restriction Policies" and suggests that, when used with SRS p

Re: OT ? Server ROI - Reuse ?

I almost agree with Michael but he would have more time on servers than me, I think. That said I have had to keep old servers up and working until they die and as long as I fully document my objections I am covered. If there were no warranty available I would push back very hard but the bean coun

Re: OT ? Server ROI - Reuse ?

It really depends, we have "mission critical" apps running on servers that are 4+ years old. Extended service contracts have been purchased from mfg (HP) for those. FWIW, I've had HP/Compaq servers that have run until we shut them down for over 10 years with little more than a power supply being

RE: OT ? Server ROI - Reuse ?

We recycle servers like that downward from mission critical to lesser important things. That satisfies the bean counters and keeps mission critical on new solid hardware. So, do you have an older server that could be replaced with this less older server. As for the bean counters that is simple.

SCSI non-destructive disk testing

I get an error trying to run Seatools to test my SCSI drive, even after installing .Net 2.0 and all the updates. Anyone got any suggestions for error checking software to see if the drive is having issues? O/S is Win2k Server. John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security th

RE: OT ? Server ROI - Reuse ?

What's the MTBF of the server at 3 years? The vendor should be able to tell you that. I typically consider the life-time of a server at 3 to 4 years; after that, they tend to start breaking down more often. That doesn't mean you won't find the odd outlier that has been running for 6 years with

OT ? Server ROI - Reuse ?

I am not even sure what the subject of this should be. I have a server, it's about 3 years old, the warranty expires in 15 days. It runs a %mission critical App%. This App is going to be replaced with %new mission critical app%. This server meets the hardware requirements for %new app% just

RE: Authenticode, Internet Access, and program loading times, Oh my!

Sure - strong assembly signing. It serves to validate that the executables you are loading are actually from who they say they are from. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Christopher [mailto:c.bo...@gmail.com

Disable low disk space notices?

Is there a way to disable low disk space notices in Win2008? I ran across this article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q188074&ID=KB;EN-US;q188074 but this doesn't appear to work in 2008. I have a volume that only contains a large page file and I'm just trying to stop it

RE: File Server Migration to VM

I was thinking about doing that also. I don't have a lot of shares to re-create either. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 10:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: File Server Migration to VM In the

Authenticode, Internet Access, and program loading times, Oh my!

OK, here is the setting in question: System settings: Use Certificate Rules on Windows Executables for Software Restriction Policies and this relates to the regkey "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Safer\CodeIdentifier\AuthenticodeEnabled". Now, if I understand correctly, th

backspace working as the delete key

Hi all,   After a Windows reinstall I find that the backspace key is acting as the delete key. I have searched around how to change the key mappings but I have just found tools from Microsoft that doesn't let me to change that or regedit settings that are not very clear.   Any idea?   Miguel

Re: File Server Migration to VM

In the interest of not giving you something else to learn... What I essentially did was: Create a volume on the SAN. Attached volume to file server robocopy with /mir /sec /r:1 /w:10 (mirror changes, apply security retry once, wait 10 seconds if the file is busy) Repeated daily until my scheduled

Re: Workstation time sync

Thats a good idea, thanks for that. James - Original Message - From: James Rankin To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 10:51 AM Subject: Re: Workstation time sync use psexec and a list of computers in a text file to send the command w32tm /resync

Re: Forum membership

On 9 Feb 2010 at 10:33, Gary Babb wrote: > Please excuse me for going off topic. > > I have been a member of this forum for awhile; another co-worker would also > like to become a member. However, I completely forget how I actually sign up > for this forum. Did not see any links on the logon pag

Re: Sharepoint on the fly?

On 9 Feb 2010 at 9:33, Sam Cayze wrote: > > We have the need to collaborate on the Internet on an XLS doc, and we > kinda need it quickly. Is something like Windows Live for Business the > quickest way to get a one-off requests like this going? Tia, Sam Quickest, esp. for a 1-time deal? G

OT: Hobbit/Xymon metrics reports

Any gurus on the list that could talk to me offline about this? Thanks, Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Infrastructure Service Delivery Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-

RE: Workstation time sync

What happens when you run: w32tm /resync From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 10:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Workstation time sync The time was wrong on a PDC for one of our domains, about 3 minutes off. We have since chang

Re: Workstation time sync

use psexec and a list of computers in a text file to send the command *w32tm /resync* On 9 February 2010 15:53, James Kerr wrote: > The time was wrong on a PDC for one of our domains, about 3 minutes off. > We have since changed the NTP server data on that server and it has the > correct time n

Workstation time sync

The time was wrong on a PDC for one of our domains, about 3 minutes off. We have since changed the NTP server data on that server and it has the correct time now. Do I really have to wait 8 hours before the workstations sync to the correct time? Is there a way to make them sync sooner? Other the

Re: Forum membership

Thank you. Regards, Gary ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

RE: File Server Migration to VM

DFS gives you the ability to swap things around in the background without user impact, as well as replicate things without much work. It's abstraction of the user experience from the backend infrastructure. Just like other well established protocols. You wouldn't do without DNS would you? Cheer

Re: Sharepoint on the fly?

Google Docs ? On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Sam Cayze wrote: > We have the need to collaborate on the Internet on an XLS doc, and we > kinda need it quickly. Is something like Windows Live for Business the > quickest way to get a one-off requests like this going? > > > > Tia, > > Sam > >

RE: Sharepoint on the fly?

Microsoft online has a SharePoint offering, about USD 15 per user per month. There are lots of in-house answers to this question but they involve detailed licensing scenarios. WSS, for example, MIGHT be "free". But it depends. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEs

Re: Forum membership

http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Communities/ or directly by sending email to : ly...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with 'Subscribe ntsysadmin ' in the body of the message ( without the single quotes ) On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Gary Babb wrote: > Please excuse me for going off topic. > > I ha

Sharepoint on the fly?

We have the need to collaborate on the Internet on an XLS doc, and we kinda need it quickly. Is something like Windows Live for Business the quickest way to get a one-off requests like this going? Tia, Sam ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: Forum membership

Sunbelt's website, and look for the community tab. On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Gary Babb wrote: > Please excuse me for going off topic. > > I have been a member of this forum for awhile; another co-worker would also > like to become a member. However, I completely forget how I actually sign

Forum membership

Please excuse me for going off topic. I have been a member of this forum for awhile; another co-worker would also like to become a member. However, I completely forget how I actually sign up for this forum. Did not see any links on the logon page for new membership. I just need someone to point

RE: Drive testing for SCSI drives in an active system

Minidump on the way. Thanks, John Aldrich IT Manager, Blueridge Carpet 706-276-2001, Ext. 2233 From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 9:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Drive testing for SCSI drives in an active system Please get some

RE: Drive testing for SCSI drives in an active system

On the logo/signature, not really. About all I can do is select either plain text or HTML. If I choose HTML, that’s the only signature I have available. :-( I can switch though. From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 9:56 AM To: NT System Admin Iss

Re: AntiVirus exclusions redux

thanks, and just FYI, this is not restricted to severs, also looking for workstation exclusions to ensure decent performance. working with some state agencies and *hope* discovery meetings have uncovered any local applications with large files, had to explain to them that if you write 10k to a 2gb

Re: Terminal Server Q

setting up the server 'farm' in NLB is pretty straightforward , but bear in mind that NLB uses TCP/IP connectivity to determine availability. (most recent I've set this up is Win2003 ) NLB really doesn't look into CPU or application availability. On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:59 AM, David Lum wrote

RE: File Server Migration to VM

I will look it to DFS some more. But I only have two file servers, I don't plan on consolidating them and don't plan on any more for a long time. From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 9:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issue

RE: AntiVirus exclusions redux

Depends on the server and its role. 1) Block the PST's from being saved on the server, this isn't supported by Microsoft anyways. ( I know people do it, but it's a great way to run servers out of space and cause everyone not to work) DBF/MDF/LDF/NDF is for SQL servers and Database Servers alike

RE: MS DHCP and RFC 3011

Looks like the answer is "no". http://www.generation-nt.com/us/answer/windows-2003-server-dhcp-server-subne t-selection-option-help-41966722.html -Malcolm From: Senter, John [mailto:john.sen...@etrade.com] Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 10:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: MS

RE: File Server Migration to VM

You really need to learn DFS. It's not complex, but will make your life much easier. If you have no legacy problems with your current setup, I'd consider P2V-ing your current setup (to preserve all the current settings) and then transition to DFS. That would enable you to add in Win2k8 R2 serve

RE: Drive testing for SCSI drives in an active system

Please get some of the minidump files generated during these crashes, and make available to Brian or I for analysis. Also, is it possible to consider a slightly smaller logo/signature? Cheers Ken From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, 9 February 2010 10:51 PM To

RE: SSGD ISA 2006 Issues

Hi, Can you please elaborate on how, exactly: "ISA/SGD/Internal Clients" Is laid out? Additionally, if you enable logging in ISA Server, and then test access using a non-local client, what do you see in the ISA Server logs? If you then compare to a local client accessing (via public IP)

Terminal Server Q

Am I correct in thinking if I have two Terminal Servers it's pretty easy to set up a farm to get load balancing and redundancy - if one dies, the users are redirected to the good one and the biggest change is a performance hit? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk)

Re: AntiVirus exclusions redux

The following article gives a pretty good list of exclusions, it's what we've based ours on here. http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/scassells/archive/2007/05/14/what-anti-virus-scanning-exclusions-should-be-considered-for-system-and-servers.aspx Joe Heaton >>> "Erik Goldoff" 2/9/2010 3:04 AM

RE: AntiVirus exclusions redux

Google this, be happy: Guidelines for anti-virus exclusions (taken from the title of a document I have from Microsoft) David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, Februar

RE: Drive testing for SCSI drives in an active system

Do any of you know of the open-source app, Drive Fitness Test? I suppose I could also download "Prime95" to test the CPU and memory to see if there is an issue developing there. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010

RE: Drive testing for SCSI drives in an active system

Generic, "white box" system with an Intel motherboard. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 9:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Drive testing for SCSI drives in an active system is this in a generic system, o

RE: 2008 Failover cluster

Chris, Only the Public NIC can be teamed, but even in some of the Windows 2003 Documentation said, if the teaming is causing problems, it might have to be broken accordingly to troubleshoot the problem. Teaming of NIC's on the Private NIC should not be done. I still go with the old sc

File Server Migration to VM

Getting ready to P2V a couple file servers. OS is C: and all file shares are on D:, E:, etc. Our plan is to end up with the file share drives on their own Volumes on our ISCSI SAN and use the ISCSI connector on the VM guest over it's own VNIC. This is the way we do it now with Virtual SQL server

Re: Drive testing for SCSI drives in an active system

is this in a generic system, or something like HP with insight manager ? or can you enable S.M.A.R.T. monitoring to record stuff like spin up times, error counts, etc ? On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:35 AM, John Aldrich wrote: > How does one test if a SCSI drive is failing in an active system? I’ve >

2008 Failover cluster

I'm very familiar with failover clustering in 2003, but not in 2008. A colleague setup a 2008 cluster on our network and it's having some issues. Unfortunately he is no longer with the company. We opened a case with MS regarding this and the tech is asking me about the network configuration. The se

Drive testing for SCSI drives in an active system

How does one test if a SCSI drive is failing in an active system? I've got a machine that keeps crashing and I'm beginning to suspect hardware issues. What's the best way to conduct non-destructive testing on the SCSI drive in the machine? I need to keep the data and O/S, as it's our time and atten

RE: Adding 2008 DC's... (revisited)

I think Brian means that environments that already have problems (e.g. in replication) may experience issues when you propagate schema changes, or changes to the PAS. Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Palmer, Neal [mailto:npal...@uwic.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, 9 February 2010 6:55 PM To:

AntiVirus exclusions redux

I remember a few years back there was some good discussion on what file types/extensions to block from emails with regards to computer virus threats so I've got a small spin ... I'm looking to see what extensions/file types folks are excluding from their AntiVirus software on-access and on

RE: Adding 2008 DC's... (revisited)

Can you expand on that? I don’t see how a schema change in itself causes problems. I'm assuming you mean multiple domains/forests/trusts? (Our site is W2K3 D/FFL - One domain/forest, lots of pretty W2K3 boxes :) -Original Message- From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent

RE: SSGD ISA 2006 Issues

Hi Ken, It's more like the SGD server is behind the ISA Proxy. Our ISA server is really only used as a proxy server and not a full blown ISA protection device (if that makes sense). We don't have a dedicated DMZ. So the diagram becomes: Internet --- HW F/W -- Network Switch(es) -

RE: SSGD ISA 2006 Issues

What is your actual network configuration? Internet <-> HW FW <-> SGD <-> ISA Proxy <-> Internal Client Or something else? Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Robert Jackson [mailto:r...@walkermartyn.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, 9 February 2010 4:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SSG

SSGD ISA 2006 Issues

Does anyone know if ISA 2006 configuration changes are specifically required in order to get Sun's Secure Global Desktop operational? My scenario is this: We have a SGD server on our local LAN. A laptop on our local LAN can access SGD no problem using an internal ip address in the browser - as y

SSGD ISA 2006 Issues

Does anyone know if ISA 2006 configuration changes are specifically required in order to get Sun's Secure Global Desktop operational? My scenario is this: We have a SGD server on our local LAN. A laptop on our local LAN can access SGD no problem using an internal ip address in the browser - as y

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