Windows 2008 HW Sizing

2010-03-11 Thread Palmer, Neal
Hi all, I'm looking for info on Windows 2008 recommendations for hardware sizing/multiple DC configuration based on a approx 10,000 users, but that splits into 2000/8000 on different subnet/Vlans. I see Microsoft has a lot of white papers and I am about to embark on the Google research, but tho

Office Communicator client on Windows 2008

2010-03-11 Thread James Rankin
Mornin' all We are using Office Communicator for all of our users connecting via published desktops on Citrix. On our 32-bit 2003 terminal servers, it runs without issue. However, on x64 2008, Communicator auto-launches at login (as intended) - but, whenever another user launches the login prompt

RE: CCProxy opinions

2010-03-11 Thread Ralph Smith
I mentioned CCProxy in another thread because I used it to implement white lists of web sites at a couple of locations. What I can tell you about it from my own experience is that for me it was pretty much 'set and forget'. I've never had any trouble with it. I have it running at two offices of

Re: restrict internet access to three websites

2010-03-11 Thread Andrew Levicki
You could edit the routing tables to prevent them surfing by IP address, taking care not to break access to the three sites you allow. Regards, andrew On 10 March 2010 23:22, Thomas Mullins wrote: > I was shopping around for another prong, > > > > I can use the ASA to lock them down in their

RE: Win7 licensing question

2010-03-11 Thread Don Guyer
I remember having to generate a MAK key through the Volume License Center the first time I installed Win7. When you create (or request, I can't remember the verbiage) it will give you the number of available installs "allowed" by your licensing agreement. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Informati

RE: Windows 2008 HW Sizing

2010-03-11 Thread Don Guyer
We pretty much kept it in line with what our W2k3 servers utilized, except for the system drive, which we bumped up to 32GB minimum. 16GB just won't cut it with W2k8. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19

RE: DNS Server service shuts down shortly after the DC boots

2010-03-11 Thread hg
And what a perfect marketing buzzword. It conjures up a mental picture that the angels are there to help and magically make it all better... From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 8:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DNS Server service shuts

Re: DNS Server service shuts down shortly after the DC boots

2010-03-11 Thread David W. McSpadden
what is the wget From: Richard Stovall Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 4:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DNS Server service shuts down shortly after the DC boots I just set this up on a sandboxed test VM and it was effective. I had to chuckle, though, because it took over an h

VIPRE 4 - bad updated installer (4275)

2010-03-11 Thread RichardMcClary
OK folks, after my series of rants, we have figured out that most if not all of my problems with VIPRE 4 are the result of installing an "update". If you downloaded VIPRE 4 Enterprise between FRI 5-MAR and TUE 9-MAR, but have not yet installed it, DELETE IT! Go back and download another instal

RE: DNS Server service shuts down shortly after the DC boots

2010-03-11 Thread Tim Evans
Yes, very good point. Thanks for pointing that out Brian. Fortunately, I don't run the delete all very often. It looks like I'll have to revisit this again in the near future. ...Tim From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 1:14 PM To: NT System Admin Iss

Re: VIPRE 4 - bad updated installer (4275)

2010-03-11 Thread Joseph Heaton
Good to know you guys got it figured out. Hopefully the repair is fairly simple. >>> 3/11/2010 7:05 AM >>> OK folks, after my series of rants, we have figured out that most if not all of my problems with VIPRE 4 are the result of installing an "update". If you downloaded VIPRE 4 Enterprise bet

RE: DNS Server service shuts down shortly after the DC boots

2010-03-11 Thread Tim Evans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget Curl would work too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL ...Tim From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 6:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DNS Server service shuts down shortly after the DC boots what is the w

R: CCProxy opinions

2010-03-11 Thread HELP_PC
Thank you. I found it very nice and simple at first look GuidoElia HELPPC _ Da: Ralph Smith [mailto:m...@gatewayindustries.org] Inviato: giovedì 11 marzo 2010 14.46 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: CCProxy opinions I mentioned CCProxy in another thread because I used it to i

Re: DNS Server service shuts down shortly after the DC boots

2010-03-11 Thread David W. McSpadden
Playing with my wget now. From: Tim Evans Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DNS Server service shuts down shortly after the DC boots http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget Curl would work too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL ...Tim From:

RE: VIPRE 4 - bad updated installer (4275)

2010-03-11 Thread Jeff Johnson
I must say that my smooth upgrade was to 4265. I guess I got lucky by taking a chance and upgrading early. So far no problems. Almost all systems have been rebooted and all definitions on agent is at 5822. So far, I am happy with my upgrade. I hope everyone that is having problems get them r

Re: DNS Server service shuts down shortly after the DC boots

2010-03-11 Thread Richard Stovall
What!? You mean they're NOT there helping and magically making it all better? On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:48 AM, hg wrote: > And what a perfect marketing buzzword. It conjures up a mental picture > that the angels are there to help and magically make it all better... > > > > *From:* Carl Housem

RE: VIPRE 4 - bad updated installer (4275)

2010-03-11 Thread David Mazzaccaro
Thank you very much for the update! From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 10:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VIPRE 4 - bad updated installer (4275) OK folks, after my series of rants, we hav

RE: VIPRE 4 - bad updated installer (4275)

2010-03-11 Thread John Aldrich
Well, I think I'll wait a bit until things settle down a bit. J There's a saying my dad (a retired physician) likes to quote and I'll paraphrase it here as I can't recall the exact phrase --- don't be the first to try the new or the last to discard the old. I plan on sticking with the "middle" grou

RE: DNS Server service shuts down shortly after the DC boots

2010-03-11 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Or it could conjure up the image that everything is obscured and it's raining on your data... :-) *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** > -Original Message- > From: hg [mailto:hgedr...@myrealbox.com] > Sent: Thursday, March

Re: Office Communicator client on Windows 2008

2010-03-11 Thread James Rankin
In my tradition (for this week anyway) of answering my own questions, if you upgrade to the Office Communicator 2007 R2 client, this problem disappears. We're still on the 2007 Standard Server, but it seems to play nicely with the new client version. Cheers, On 11 March 2010 11:40, James Rankin

Re: Flashing cursor on black screen

2010-03-11 Thread Bambi J Saastad
It was the drive. I imaged the drive in another system and put a standard IDE drive in and then the system would boot. Thx for your help. B On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:48 PM, N Parr wrote: > I deal with Control based systems a lot and I've see some pretty weird > stuff like this. A lot of the ti

RE: Virtual Server Training? (UNCLASSIFIED)

2010-03-11 Thread Kent, Larry CTR USA
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE "Keep the boss buttered up real well"... that sounds like the plot to some B-movie that Shook would be in! J From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 4:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Virtual Server

Is the list up....our road runner had an outage this AM

2010-03-11 Thread Todd Lemmiksoo
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Re: Is the list up....our road runner had an outage this AM

2010-03-11 Thread Jonathan Link
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RE: VIPRE 4 - bad updated installer (4275)

2010-03-11 Thread Bob Fronk
What was happening to you? We had 3 PCs get hosed by a Vipre upgrade from 3 to 4. Windows XP. PC would boot, then pop a service error and shut down. -- Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.com From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 10:06 AM To: NT

Re: VIPRE 4 - bad updated installer (4275)

2010-03-11 Thread Richard Stovall
By chance do they have Broadcom NICs? http://supportforums.sunbeltsoftware.com/messageview.aspx?catid=27&threadid=3477&highlight_key=y&keyword1=broadcom On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12

RE: VIPRE 4 - bad updated installer (4275)

2010-03-11 Thread Bob Fronk
Hmmm... Maybe. I will have to look. We took the opportunity to reload them with Windows 7, so all wasn't lost. But it did cause some problems and I have turned off auto-deployment for now. -- Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.com From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March

Re: VIPRE 4 - bad updated installer (4275)

2010-03-11 Thread RichardMcClary
Hard to say - the VIPRE server is a VM... -- RMc Richard Stovall wrote on 03/11/2010 11:05:56 AM: > By chance do they have Broadcom NICs? > > http://supportforums.sunbeltsoftware.com/messageview.aspx? > catid=27&threadid=3477&highlight_key=y&keyword1=broadcom > > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12

RE: VIPRE 4 - bad updated installer (4275)

2010-03-11 Thread RichardMcClary
Well, the most recent was one of our servers decided to uninstall its VIPRE agent... Again, though, on TUE (post 4275) I could not push an update nor a new agent. On WED, what I was seeing on my server console was a combination of gibberish and the fact that no agents had new defs since early

Re: VIPRE 4 - bad updated installer (4275)

2010-03-11 Thread Richard Stovall
I was referring to the client machines BF was having trouble with. Your problems sound like something else entirely. I generally like Vipre now, but after some extremely frustrating experiences last year my standing policy is to never, ever do anything with a brand new release. I don't have time

RE: VIPRE 4 - bad updated installer (4275)

2010-03-11 Thread John Aldrich
Richard, That thread mentioned problems with Embassy Trust Suite. Just curious if anyone who's having problems with upgrading to Vipre 4 is running Embassy? My boss' laptop had that problem when I first got Vipre back in December and after opening a ticket with support, they told me to uninstall E

RE: VIPRE 4 - bad updated installer (4275)

2010-03-11 Thread RichardMcClary
Aw, dell! Actually, with previous versions of VIPRE (beginning w/early CSE and continuing through VIPRE 3.1+), none of our Dells have screamed, griped, or simply pouted quietly. We're about a 98% Dell shop, and I believe they foise Embassy Sweat onto all their machines. (At least they do on

Re: Virtual Server Training? (UNCLASSIFIED)

2010-03-11 Thread Jon Harris
So true but can anyone say they have heard Shookie butter up anyone? I doubt it Jon On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Kent, Larry CTR USA < larry.k...@us.army.mil> wrote: > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Caveats: NONE > > “Keep the boss buttered up real well”… that sounds like the plotSo to >

RE: Virtual Server Training? (UNCLASSIFIED)

2010-03-11 Thread Maglinger, Paul
No, but I heard that's because he ties them up and gags them beforehand... From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 11:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Virtual Server Training? (UNCLASSIFIED) So true but can anyone say they have heard Shooki

Re: Virtual Server Training? (UNCLASSIFIED)

2010-03-11 Thread Joseph Heaton
Haven't heard Shookie, period, in a while now. >>> Jon Harris 3/11/2010 9:31 AM >>> So true but can anyone say they have heard Shookie butter up anyone? I doubt it Jon On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Kent, Larry CTR USA < larry.k...@us.army.mil> wrote: > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Cave

RE: Virtual Server Training? (UNCLASSIFIED)

2010-03-11 Thread Michael B. Smith
He's a busy boy. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 12:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Virtual Server Training? (UNCLASSIF

Outlook problems, redux

2010-03-11 Thread John Aldrich
Ok, I thought I'd solved the problem by creating a new mail store. Nope. The user emailed me today that she's still getting the error message when she right-clicks on a file and selects "send to email recipient." It does NOT give her that error when she creates a new message and attaches a file to

Re: Windows 2008 HW Sizing

2010-03-11 Thread Jon Harris
I would look at doing some virtualization of DC's as well. Mix physical and virtual works great from what I have seen. Jon On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Don Guyer wrote: > We pretty much kept it in line with what our W2k3 servers utilized, > except for the system drive, which we bumped up t

RE: Outlook problems, redux

2010-03-11 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Google OutlookSecureTempFolder and clean that out. Attachment problems in OL can often be traced to this folder, especially if the filename is auto-generated by an app. Here's a link to an example... http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrclients/thread/c 58ac4a5-16b7-4531-973

Re: Outlook problems, redux

2010-03-11 Thread Orland, Kathleen
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/securetemp.htm - Original Message - From: "Charlie Kaiser" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 1:08 PM Subject: RE: Outlook problems, redux > Google OutlookSecureTempFolder and clean that out. Attachment problems in OL > can of

RE: Virtual Server Training? (UNCLASSIFIED)

2010-03-11 Thread Ziots, Edward
Yep, shookie is defintely a busy boy these days.. Z Edward Ziots MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I,CCA,Security+ Network+ Network Engineer Lifespan Organization 401-639-3505 ezi...@lifespan.org -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 12:48

Re: Outlook problems, redux

2010-03-11 Thread Orland, Kathleen
Another suggestion is to download MDBVU32.exe from Microsoft. Extract the downloaded file and run it from the folder. Press OK on the first screen. Select MDB-> Open Message Store. Then Open Root folder. In the middle pane called Messages in Folder you may see a list of emails, these would be the o

RE: Outlook problems, redux

2010-03-11 Thread John Aldrich
Thanks, Charlie and Kathleen. There does not appear to be a "OutlookSecureTempFolder" on this machine. I don't know if it's because it's Outlook 2000 or what, but I cannot find a reference to that folder in the registry on that computer. -Original Message- From: Charlie Kaiser [mailto:ch

RE: Outlook problems, redux

2010-03-11 Thread John Aldrich
Thanks, I'll give that a shot. -Original Message- From: Orland, Kathleen [mailto:korl...@rogers.com] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 1:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Outlook problems, redux Another suggestion is to download MDBVU32.exe from Microsoft. Extract the downloa

RE: Outlook problems, redux

2010-03-11 Thread John Aldrich
Does it matter that this is NOT on an Exchange connected Outlook? This is on a machine where Outlook is configured for POP/SMTP instead of Exchange/SMTP. -Original Message- From: Orland, Kathleen [mailto:korl...@rogers.com] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 1:43 PM To: NT System Admin Iss

Re: Outlook problems, redux

2010-03-11 Thread Orland, Kathleen
Then simply point it to the PST. Here's the instructions: http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/deletereadreceipt.htm - Original Message - From: "John Aldrich" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 1:52 PM Subject: RE: Outlook problems, redux > Does it matter that

RE: Outlook problems, redux

2010-03-11 Thread Charlie Kaiser
So the new mail store you created was NOT an exchange mail store... Where is the mail coming from and stored between client connections? ISP? In house? Find another way to access that mail store and see if you can clear it from there. Most ISP mail will have some sort of webmail these days. You ne

RE: Outlook problems, redux

2010-03-11 Thread Charlie Kaiser
See if this helps... http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/securetemp.htm *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** > -Original Message- > From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 11

RE: Outlook problems, redux

2010-03-11 Thread John Aldrich
Thanks. I'll look at that. I was a bit concerned as the name on the page was "Microsoft Exchange Information Store Viewer" :-) -Original Message- From: Orland, Kathleen [mailto:korl...@rogers.com] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 2:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Outlook pr

RE: Windows 2008 HW Sizing

2010-03-11 Thread Don Guyer
Yeah, we have 3 colo's with a virtual and a physical at each site. Has worked well for us. 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

Weird...

2010-03-11 Thread David Lum
So, McAfee can monitor all sorts of things. Normally I get 20-30 of these an hour for various machine here, but today I'm getting *hundreds* an hour - something's up but I don't knows what it is. Threat name: Anti-virus Standard Protection:Prevent Windows Process spoofing Source process name

RE: Outlook problems, redux

2010-03-11 Thread John Aldrich
I think it may have been an Outlook Express issue as her default email client was set to Outlook Express. Nevertheless, I ran the tool Kathleen suggested and played around with it. :-) Whether it was the tool Kathleen recommended or switching to Outlook as the default email client (most likely) the

RE: Disk configuration in new server

2010-03-11 Thread Evan Brastow
Thank you guys, for all of the replies. I'm a little uncertain, still, because of the following three things: 1) I have actually used RAID 5 on my current server for the last 7 years... three disks, one volume... holding the OS, data and logs, with no issues. (I'm not saying I knew wh

Re: Disk configuration in new server

2010-03-11 Thread Sean Martin
You're running into the age old question: Good, Fast, Cheap Now pick two of those. Just judging by your description of overall utilization, you're probably not going to see much difference in performance whether you choose RAID 5 or RAID 10 using the hardware you previously referenced. If you're

Re: Weird...

2010-03-11 Thread Kurt Buff
Not so weird. Lots of malware likes to attach itself to a native Windows process to hide itself, and explorer is probably the most popular. You've got malware! On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:19, David Lum wrote: > So, McAfee can monitor all sorts of things. Normally I get 20-30 of these an > hour

RE: Disk configuration in new server

2010-03-11 Thread Evan Brastow
Hmmm, I hadn't even *thought* about RAID 10. Thanks for confusing me more J My plan, if I go with RAID 1 on all logical drives, would be to have 2 drives each for the OS/Program files, Log and Data, so... 6 drives. If I go with RAID 5 for the data, it would be 7 drives. Hadn't given th

Re: Disk configuration in new server

2010-03-11 Thread Steve Ens
I'm seriously thinkiing of RAID 10 for the server itself, and then just use a USB disk or carve up the SAN for a backup copy or two of the databases...less space from the disks, but faster. On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Evan Brastow wrote: > Hmmm, I hadn’t even **thought** about RAID 10. T

RE: Disk configuration in new server

2010-03-11 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
FWIW, since we're talking about the different flavors of RAID, here's a great visual explanation along with the pros and cons of each type: http://www.raid.com/04_01_00.html The one thing it lacks is an I/O calculator, but if get the specs on the disks you're using, then you can calculate it ou

RE: Just had to share

2010-03-11 Thread Crawford, Scott
Even better J http://www.letmebingthatforyou.com/ From: gro...@beachcomp.com [mailto:gro...@beachcomp.com] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 3:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Just had to share Has anyone seen this? TOO FUNNY and perfect for the list. http://www.lmgtfy.com/

Re: Disk configuration in new server

2010-03-11 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Hey, Evan I'm not saying that RAID5 is evil (except when partitioned for the boot drive), but RAID1 performs better, especially in a disk failure situation, and drives are large enough and sufficiently inexpensive that except for lab and testing scenarios, or really small workloads, I avoid it

RE: Disk configuration in new server

2010-03-11 Thread John Aldrich
Andrew, what's your opinion on RAID6 / RAID DP? John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Disk configuration in new server Hey, Evan I'm not saying that RAID5 is evil (except w

RE: Disk configuration in new server

2010-03-11 Thread Brian Desmond
With something that small you're unlikely to max out I/O on whatever you choose... Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 1:45 PM To: NT System Admin Iss

Sunbelt recognized by McAfee...sorta

2010-03-11 Thread David Lum
Connect the dots (aka six degrees of Kevin Bacon) I get an e-mail from McAfee (I am subscribed to their alerts) it contains this line: "Generic Downloader.z has been deemed Low-Profiled due to media attention at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/11/playstation_emulator_malware/"; That link c

RE: Windows 2008 HW Sizing

2010-03-11 Thread Brian Desmond
What do you have now and what does utilization look like on it? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Palmer, Neal [mailto:npal...@uwic.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 2008 HW S

Changing AV from Symantec to Mcaffee - Good or Bad?

2010-03-11 Thread Joseph Heaton
Discuss please. Personally, I'm very much against it. I've had a bad taste in my mouth for McAfee from way back in the Code Red days... (72 hours to recover, 70 of which I was in the server room) I also don't care for Symancrap, but that's mainly due to the bloat, and how hard it is to get ri

Re: Disk configuration in new server

2010-03-11 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Like other disk configurations, it depends on what you're using RAID6 for, and the hardware (primarily the controller) that is supporting it. Your storage controller can make or break a RAID configuration by how it manages reads or writes to the disk. In an environment where redundancy and storag

RE: Changing AV from Symantec to Mcaffee - Good or Bad?

2010-03-11 Thread David Lum
We have it here (have for years) and once you can figure out the ePO console it ain't so bad. Any reason Vipre or Trend is off the radar? We have ePO 4.5 and VirusScan 8.7 Dave -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 2:22 PM To:

Re: Disk configuration in new server

2010-03-11 Thread Sean Martin
Evan, Like Brian pointed out. Unless all 15 of your users are repsonsible for 10-15 iops each, than you're not even going to stress a single disk configuration, let alone a RAID 5 or 10 config. I can appreciate being thorough and making sure you get the right design for your environment, but I thi

RE: Disk configuration in new server

2010-03-11 Thread Brian Desmond
There is an Exchange 2010 calculator - http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/01/22/453859.aspx. The i/o model in 2010 is completely different from 2007 so the data from the 2007 calculator would not provide valid inputs. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com

Re: Changing AV from Symantec to Mcaffee - Good or Bad?

2010-03-11 Thread Andrew S. Baker
I hate them both, but even comparatively, you're going from bad to worse. Why not any of the plethora of other options? --Original Message-- From: Joseph Heaton To: NT Issues ReplyTo: NT Issues Subject: Changing AV from Symantec to Mcaffee - Good or Bad? Sent: Mar 11, 2010 5:22 PM Disc

Re: Changing AV from Symantec to Mcaffee - Good or Bad?

2010-03-11 Thread Harry Singh
I have Sav and it just amazes me how much crap gets installed on a fresh install. I love the idea of AV at the perimeter, but it just doesn't seem sufficient enough to protect against all attack surfaces. I seriously need to sit down and figure what I do on the desktop when renewal time comes aro

Re: Changing AV from Symantec to Mcaffee - Good or Bad?

2010-03-11 Thread Joseph Heaton
Because, unfortunately, it's not my decision. Our CIO apparently likes McAfee, and the McAfee sales people are telling him that their "catch" rates are much better than Symantec or Forefront. No one here has heard of Vipre, and I don't have enough pull to do more than mildly suggest it. I'm g

RE: Changing AV from Symantec to Mcaffee - Good or Bad?

2010-03-11 Thread Ray
You must've inherited our CIO. We tried to dump them last year, had all but the signed the contract with NOD32. Not only would we rid of a horrible solution, but it would've saved us thousands of dollars. At the 11th hour our CIO overrode his IT team and decided to re-sign with McAfee. He'd never

Re: Changing AV from Symantec to Mcaffee - Good or Bad?

2010-03-11 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
We are just about to complete a move from McAfee to Vipre Enterprise. Our contract with McAfee is up on March 28th, I'll finish all the servers in March 27th. The cost to move to Vipre along with Ninja was significantly less than it would have been for us to renew our McAfee contract for 3 years.

Re: Changing AV from Symantec to Mcaffee - Good or Bad?

2010-03-11 Thread John Cook
+1. Just finishing our transition from McCrappy, lots of things coming up on initial deep scans. From: Sherry Abercrombie To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Thu Mar 11 21:14:57 2010 Subject: Re: Changing AV from Symantec to Mcaffee - Good or Bad? We are just about

RE: Changing AV from Symantec to Mcaffee - Good or Bad?

2010-03-11 Thread Ray
All good to hear! From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 7:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Changing AV from Symantec to Mcaffee - Good or Bad? +1. Just finishing our transition from McCrappy, lots of things coming up on initial deep scan

RE: VIPRE 4 - bad updated installer (4275)

2010-03-11 Thread Alex Eckelberry
Embassy Suite issues should be resolved with VIPRE 4. We had to write a fair amount of code around this rather curiously developed program. We have a new hotfix for 4.0 coming out shortly (Monday is the target) that should resolve Richard's problems with deployments. Alex From: richardmccl..