Re: RE: Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 R2

Thanks good to know because I would want my BB users using communicator Stefan On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Eisenberg, Wayne < wayne.eisenb...@pbvllc.com> wrote: > The only caveat I would add is that if you think you will want to have > Blackberries/BES tied in to OCS, do NOT install OCS 200

Re: OT: Google Username Assistance - huh?

...and will given enough time. Change is life. -- ME2 On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Alverson, Tom (Xetron) < tom.alver...@ngc.com> wrote: > Remember back when we were all using Altavista and this new kid "Google" > came along. We dropped Altavista like a rock. Same thing could happen to >

Re: Has anyone seen BSOD's when applying MS10-015 Patch for Windows Kernel

I've got a user's Vista Home Premium desktop that they brought in to have me fix after applying Windows Updates and getting a BSOD when it rebooted. Getting an error in SCFLTR.SYS and a STOP error as well. Anyone know if this is the same problem? -- Thanks, John Aldrich Blueridge Industries IT

RE: OCS and Cisco Call Manager

Ditto - we use the Cisco softphone where needed and use MOC for call control. Wayne From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 6:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OCS and Cisco Call Manager We are doing all of that except for

RE: RE: Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 R2

The only caveat I would add is that if you think you will want to have Blackberries/BES tied in to OCS, do NOT install OCS 2007 R2 directly. It is a known issue that OCS 2007 R2 will not work with Communicator for BES. You have to install OCS 2007 first (using the OCS 2007 schema, not the R2 schema

RE: OT: Google Username Assistance - huh?

Remember back when we were all using Altavista and this new kid "Google" came along. We dropped Altavista like a rock. Same thing could happen to Google. -Original Message- From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 8:48 PM To: NT System Admin I

OT: Fix for Outlook Message Size Issue in Outlook 2010 beta

OK, I got accused (rightfully so) of this issue. All of the rest of you running Outlook 2010 beta should apply this too! http://blogs.technet.com/office2010/archive/2010/02/11/fix-for-message-size-issue-in-outlook-2010-beta.aspx Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEs

OT: Fix for Outlook Message Size Issue in Outlook 2010 beta

OK, I got accused (rightfully so) of this issue. All of the rest of you running Outlook 2010 beta should apply this too! http://blogs.technet.com/office2010/archive/2010/02/11/fix-for-message-size-issue-in-outlook-2010-beta.aspx Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEs

Re: GPO question

I don't think it's that - this is the same on all PCs. Can you show me a snap of you GPP settings? >>> James Rankin 2/11/2010 4:47 PM >>> All of our Office stuff gives the correct icon too. Have you tried anything like rebuilding the icon cache (Googling may help, I am rebuilding a PC here an

Re: GPO question

All of our Office stuff gives the correct icon too. Have you tried anything like rebuilding the icon cache (Googling may help, I am rebuilding a PC here and it's well slow.) On 11 February 2010 21:23, Tom Miller wrote: > I want to provide some users Office (Word, Excel) desktop icons via GP

RE: GPO question

Yes, file system object and I point to the local .exe for the app and the icon. Should I not? >>> James Hill 2/11/2010 4:29 PM >>> We use GPP for this and the icon displays correctly. You are just using GPP shortcuts? From:Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Friday, 12 February

RE: GPO question

We use GPP for this and the icon displays correctly. You are just using GPP shortcuts? From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Friday, 12 February 2010 7:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: GPO question I want to provide some users Office (Word, Excel) desktop icons via GPO Pr

GPO question

I want to provide some users Office (Word, Excel) desktop icons via GPO Preferences. The icon works, but none of them are the application icon - they are generic shortcut icons. For my other apps I copy down *.ico files and point to them. But for office the bitmap is embedded within the ex

Re: External Drives

As I recall I had that behavior because another drive was attached and the windows disk management was confused. In my case it was a mapped network share, and I just exited Disk Managment, disconnected the physical drive, unmapped the network drive and plugged the physical back in. But it's been a

External Drives

Anyone come across a USB drive that gets recognized by Windows 7, but doesn't get a drive letter assigned? I have a stubborn Seagate that works on XP and OSX, but not 7. I've tried manually assigning a letter but that is greyed out. The only option I get is to convert to dynamic, but that gets m

RE: Wireless NAC

No, but I will. Thanks... -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 3:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wireless NAC Have you looked at PacketFence? http://www.packetfence.org On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 07:41, Chyka, Rob

Re: Wireless NAC

Have you looked at PacketFence? http://www.packetfence.org On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 07:41, Chyka, Robert wrote: > We currently have a homegrown system for our dorm students on campus for our > wired network.  It resembles Cisco clean access, but it is agent-less.  It > basically puts all ports on

RE: Non-local admin for developers, etc

We do this but they don't have admin rights. They are given another account that has admin rights on their dev machine that they can use RUN-AS with. There was a lot of complaining when I first implemented this (because using RUN AS is SO hard you know). But when I started here everyone was lo

RE: Has anyone seen BSOD's when applying MS10-015 Patch for Windows Kernel

Rolled it out last night to my test group of XP sp3 and no problem. But, if MS can't get it fixed by next week when I roll out to the entire user base, I'll have exclude that patch. Subject: RE: Has anyone seen BSOD's when applying MS10-015 Patch for Windows Kernel Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:1

RE: PCI compliance

Now, I've run into a snag. Changed all my servers but now they're saying my firewall is failing. Which is ridiculous for obvious reasons. ugh. Subject: RE: PCI compliance Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:42:03 -0500 From: ezi...@lifespan.org To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com

RE: PCI compliance

I tried 8 at home. I'll still stick with FF. It's the plug-ins that I like. One of my favorites is speed dial. Allows me to have up to 9 'home' pages. For example, I press ctrl-6 to go right to hotmail or shift-ctrl-6 to open hotmail in a new page. Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:42:41 -0800

RE: Has anyone seen BSOD's when applying MS10-015 Patch for Windows Kernel

I haven't seen it with the 100+ I have patched so far, but there has been a few blogs out there posting that it is doing it. So until I get one ( which I hope I don't) I won't have a minidump. Z From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:44 AM T

RE: Penetration Testing

This is probably the most awesome father moment of my life (and he has provided many). My son is on the Metasploit team, and is the author of Fast-Track. From: Marc Maiffret [mailto:marc.maiff...@fireeye.com] Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Penet

RE: Penetration Testing

Metasploit is going to be the best free tool you can use to do pentesting around software vulnerabilities etc... Backtrack is a good free linux boot cd/image that has basically every major pentest tool on it should you want to do wireless testing etc... This is a good documented framework around

Re: Wireless NAC

Have you looked at or considered using 2008 AD/NAS/NAC for this? Jon On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Chyka, Robert wrote: > Well we have Cisco WAPs, controllers, and radius servers. We have full > authentication built into Active Directory. We are missing the whole NAC > piece though like

Re: Google Username Assistance - huh?

Isn't Buzz, just Google's version of Facebook/Myspace, etc? >>> Steve Ens 2/10/2010 6:07 PM >>> So far I've found the buzz to be less buggy. On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Richard Stovall wrote: > Who knows? Maybe Buzz is Wave lite. > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Carl Houseman wrote

Re: Google Username Assistance - huh?

Just noticed Buzz is enabled by default. Then I ran across this article on lifehacker. http://lifehacker.com/5469388/stop-google-buzz-from-showing-the-world-your-contacts I think it's buzzworthy. On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Steven M. Caesare wrote: > I think it has SOME promise… they jus

RE: Has anyone seen BSOD's when applying MS10-015 Patch for Windows Kernel

http://www.krebsonsecurity.com/2010/02/new-patches-cause-bsod-for-some-windows-xp-users/ From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 12:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Has anyone seen BSOD's when applying MS10-015 Patch for Windows Kernel

Re: Has anyone seen BSOD's when applying MS10-015 Patch for Windows Kernel

Have only had a few machines installed with it but nothing so far. From: Ken Schaefer To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Thu Feb 11 11:43:45 2010 Subject: RE: Has anyone seen BSOD's when applying MS10-015 Patch for Windows Kernel Get minidumps please. Cheers Ken F

Re: Has anyone seen BSOD's when applying MS10-015 Patch for Windows Kernel

I saw this article. I deployed it to our test group and they are just fine. This is 9 XP SP3 boxes and 19 Vista SP2 boxes. They all have Office 2007 SP2. W

RE: Has anyone seen BSOD's when applying MS10-015 Patch for Windows Kernel

Have to eat really small tacos first. From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Has anyone seen BSOD's when applying MS10-015 Patch for Windows Kernel Get minidumps please. Cheers Ken From:

RE: Has anyone seen BSOD's when applying MS10-015 Patch for Windows Kernel

Get minidumps please. Cheers Ken From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Friday, 12 February 2010 12:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Has anyone seen BSOD's when applying MS10-015 Patch for Windows Kernel Getting some chatter at my workplace about reports of possible BSO

RE: Kiosk Controls

Free from Microsoft : http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/sharedaccess/default .mspx A retail product that works quite well: ($150 per station) http://www.sitekiosk.com/en-US/SiteKiosk/Default.aspx From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursd

RE: Wireless NAC

Bradford networks has been providing NAC services for the education environment for over a decade. A few years back they began marketing to the enterprise and have developed a pretty good product suite. They have excellent integration in heterogeneous environments. http://www.bradfordnetworks

Re: Managing iPhones in a corporate environment?

You need to install the ActiveSync Mobile Admin, but its pretty straightforward. Remote wipes work quite well in my testing. The longest delay I experienced between issuing the command and it taking effect was 20 minutes. Otherwise, it's usually completed in less than 5 minutes. We were in the pro

RE: Wireless NAC

Well we have Cisco WAPs, controllers, and radius servers. We have full authentication built into Active Directory. We are missing the whole NAC piece though like the checks for Antivirus, scanning, patching etc before you autehnticate. Thanks. From: John Aldri

RE: Has anyone seen BSOD's when applying MS10-015 Patch for Windows Kernel

Installed on 20 XP Pro SP3 w/ no issues. From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Has anyone seen BSOD's when applying MS10-015 Patch for Windows Kernel Getting some ch

RE: Has anyone seen BSOD's when applying MS10-015 Patch for Windows Kernel

Hmm. after reading the blog, that sounds like the problem my user is having. Hopefully it won't be a problem now that I'm reinstalling. with any luck, Microsoft has pulled this patch! John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Jay Dale [mailto:jay.d...@3-gig.com] Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:18

RE: Has anyone seen BSOD's when applying MS10-015 Patch for Windows Kernel

I had one computer that I'm having to reimage due to a failure to finish booting. I was able to get the user's data off by hooking the HDD into another PC, but I chalked it up to a conflict between some sort of Windows Update last night and the Deep Freeze software that was on there (although it wa

Re: Has anyone seen BSOD's when applying MS10-015 Patch for Windows Kernel

No problems here either. W7, 2000, 2003, and XP SP3 On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Phil Brutsche wrote: > no reports of BSODs across 200+ XP SP3 machines. > > On 2/11/2010 10:27 AM, tony patton wrote: > > We've rolled all the patches to test groups and about 40 XP SP3 pcs have > > all patches

RE: Wireless NAC

There are controls built into a lot of the 3rd-party firmware for wireless access points to allow you to have a "hotspot" mode. I'm sure that could be modified to require authentication against the network, etc. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Chyka, Robert [mailto:bch...@medaille.edu] Sent:

Re: Has anyone seen BSOD's when applying MS10-015 Patch for Windows Kernel

no reports of BSODs across 200+ XP SP3 machines. On 2/11/2010 10:27 AM, tony patton wrote: > We've rolled all the patches to test groups and about 40 XP SP3 pcs have > all patches installed with no issues reported. -- Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security th

RE: Has anyone seen BSOD's when applying MS10-015 Patch for Windows Kernel

We've rolled all the patches to test groups and about 40 XP SP3 pcs have all patches installed with no issues reported. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com From: "Jay Dale" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Date: 1

RE: Has anyone seen BSOD's when applying MS10-015 Patch for Windows Kernel

http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/winxp-users-hold-off-on-installing.h tml Jay From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 10:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Has anyone seen BSOD's when applying MS10-015 Patch for Windows Kernel

Re: Has anyone seen BSOD's when applying MS10-015 Patch for Windows Kernel

Haven't pushed it out here yet, but something is apparently going on. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9155419/Windows_patch_cripples_XP_with_blue_screen_users_claim?source=CTWNLE_nlt_dailyam_2010-02-11

Has anyone seen BSOD's when applying MS10-015 Patch for Windows Kernel

Getting some chatter at my workplace about reports of possible BSOD with MS10-015 being applied to machines, can anyone confirm what you are seeing from Windows XP, Vista or 7 with this patch or Windows 2000-2008? Thanks Z ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~

RE: Managing iPhones in a corporate environment?

Right from System Manager? -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 10:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Managing iPhones in a corporate environment? Exchange itself can remote wipe phones. You don't need special s

Re: Kiosk Controls

Can't you just use a local group policy? What OS is it running? XP should be able to do local policy fine On 11 February 2010 15:40, mqcarp wrote: > We use two computers that are off domain and on a separate network to > allow employees to surf the Internet dring lunches and breaks. > Although w

Wireless NAC

We currently have a homegrown system for our dorm students on campus for our wired network. It resembles Cisco clean access, but it is agent-less. It basically puts all ports on an isolated subnet that can only get to our "ResNet" clean access system Our system makes sure that they remove their

Kiosk Controls

We use two computers that are off domain and on a separate network to allow employees to surf the Internet dring lunches and breaks. Although we can control the security portion of surfing through our firewall/router, the local computer lacks solid controls like you can handle with group policy. D

Re: Managing iPhones in a corporate environment?

We use Good Messaging for all phone deployment except iPhones. Good has been excellent for controlling devices, remote wipe, etc. Good has a "new" app for iPhones but in my testing it is really bad. At this point we use Exchange 03 to manage them. You can use the iPhone congiguration utility to co

RE: Managing iPhones in a corporate environment?

Exchange itself can remote wipe phones. You don't need special software just for wipes. >Just curious what are you using currently to remote wipe your activesync >phones now? I am looking for a good program with Exchange 2003. > >Thanks. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a reso

RE: Managing iPhones in a corporate environment?

Thanks for the reply. What do others use to remote wipe non Blackberry phones? IPhone, Droid, Activesync phones etc. -Original Message- From: Jon D [mailto:rekcahp...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 9:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Managing iPhones in a corp

Re: Managing iPhones in a corporate environment?

Right now we're 100% blackberry only using BES 5.X. On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Chyka, Robert wrote: > Just curious what are you using currently to remote wipe your activesync > phones now?  I am looking for a good program with Exchange 2003. > > Thanks. > > -Original Message- > Fr

RE: Managing iPhones in a corporate environment?

Just curious what are you using currently to remote wipe your activesync phones now? I am looking for a good program with Exchange 2003. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Jon D [mailto:rekcahp...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 9:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Man

Managing iPhones in a corporate environment?

I'm curious how everyone else who allows iPhones manages them in terms of remote wipe, password policies, encryption, etc. I know there are a few 3rd party software packages like 'Good for Enterprise' and Sybase but I know nothing about them Are any better than the others? Any issues with them

RE: Non-local admin for developers, etc

For servers or workstations? For production servers they don't. Period. Parallel dev environments. For workstations, they can apply for, and get, a second "aa" account ("aa is prepended to their normal login name) and that account is added as a local admin to their workstation. They can use

Re: Non-local admin for developers, etc

Enforce standards and good practices on where in the registry and local drives the corporate developed software can write. Give them permissions to those locations. That solves the problem for most of our software. We do have some people working at the driver level and those work in a lab. On 2

RE: Non-local admin for developers, etc

VMWare or a second machine. "Primary corporate PC" does not get admin rights. VM or second machine is imaged at developer's request. Any blowup of the machine gets a reimage with latest saved image. No troubleshooting. That policy saved us about 40% of our IT troubleshooting work and increased dev

Re: Non-local admin for developers, etc

VMWare Workstation on some Delegated admin rights to virtual test systems on others Liberal use of RunAs feature On 11 February 2010 14:02, David Lum wrote: > For those of you who have adopted the “no login as local administrator” > and have software developers, how do you handle the develope

Non-local admin for developers, etc

For those of you who have adopted the "no login as local administrator" and have software developers, how do you handle the developers? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a res

RE: OT: Conference Calls

FreeConferencing works just fine. If you do the free service, though, it's pretty clear to the people on the call that you're using a free service ("Welcome to FreeConferencing.net!" is the greeting on the call, not always the best image you may want to present). We use Budget Conferencing and

RE: PCI compliance

We have an internal web-based application that the vendor will on support on IE6 without a lot of dosh. So upgrading isn't an option for a lot of people. It works in IE7, but not 8 with out without compatibility mode. The worst part is that IE7 was released before the pilot even started. Regard