Re: OK, now I've REALLY, REALLY seen it all

2010-03-26 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 26 Mar 2010 at 21:02, Richard Stovall wrote: > http://tinyurl.com/ycg23z7 FWIW, out of respect for my readers I _*always*_ post tinyurl links with preview.tinyurl.com as too many spammers use shortened links to direct people places they shouldn't be going. If I were to click that link, I'd

Re: OK, now I've REALLY, REALLY seen it all

2010-03-26 Thread Richard Stovall
Oops. This is SFW, but it did go to the wrong list. I apologize for the error. On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Richard Stovall wrote: > http://tinyurl.com/ycg23z7 > > It's a WSJ article, so at least there's no skin or ink. > > Best quote from the article?  "If that thing back there blows, God

OK, now I've REALLY, REALLY seen it all

2010-03-26 Thread Richard Stovall
http://tinyurl.com/ycg23z7 It's a WSJ article, so at least there's no skin or ink. Best quote from the article? "If that thing back there blows, God help us all for miles." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: How would you go about this?

2010-03-26 Thread Steven Peck
That entirely depends on your purpose, business and cost hardware issues would have. We go on a three year cycle here. Do we have boxes older for various reasons? Yes, but those are decided on a case by case basis. Support. How important to the business is it? If it's important, then it gets

Re: [OT]: Script Editors

2010-03-26 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:00 PM, tony patton wrote: > Slightly OT, but those of you who write scripts, whats your preferred > editor? Notepad++. ;-) > ... they both do the job, but looking for something with a bit > more. What are you looking for that you don't have now? -- Ben ~ Finally

Re: Upgrading from 2003R2 to 2008R2 (or later)

2010-03-26 Thread Robert Cato
+1 Well articulated arguments for physical DC(s). On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Christopher Bodnar wrote: > In regards to having DCs virtualized. We have 15 DCs and only 2 of them are > physical (PDCe and another GC). When we bring down the data center for a > recovery exercise or a schedul

re: Upgrading from 2003R2 to 2008R2 (or later)

2010-03-26 Thread Christopher Bodnar
In regards to having DCs virtualized. We have 15 DCs and only 2 of them are physical (PDCe and another GC). When we bring down the data center for a recovery exercise or a scheduled power outage, we need to have AD come up first since other things are authenticating against it. This makes it muc

Re: Anyone use WiFi only BB's on their BES?

2010-03-26 Thread jgarciaitlist
Rim sells wifi only enterpise bbs but not sure about bess support Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: "N Parr" Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:24:45 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone use WiFi only BB's on their BES? Only thing I can't figure out is if I nee

RE: Anyone use WiFi only BB's on their BES?

2010-03-26 Thread N Parr
Only thing I can't figure out is if I need a SIM in the phone or not. Some people say they weren't able to activate it without a SIM, but once it was activated the SIM could be removed. -Original Message- From: jgarciaitl...@gmail.com [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March

Re: Upgrading from 2003R2 to 2008R2 (or later)

2010-03-26 Thread Sean Martin
Think about it from a recoverability stand-point. Pretty good read: http://www.petri.co.il/domain-controller-virtualization-options.htm Original Blog by Ben Armstrong...includes questions/answers in the comments section: http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2008/11/24/the-domain-controll

RE: Anyone use WiFi only BB's on their BES?

2010-03-26 Thread jgarciaitl...@gmail.com
can any blackberry wifi even with 3g or cdma or edge, that includes wifi, be used with just wifi and no cellphone plan? I think so, right. On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, N Parr wrote: Yes from what I understand it should work through desktop manager. My BES is a VM. -Original Message- From: j

Re: Anyone use WiFi only BB's on their BES?

2010-03-26 Thread John Cook
As is mine which is why I specified. - Original Message - From: N Parr To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Fri Mar 26 15:17:47 2010 Subject: RE: Anyone use WiFi only BB's on their BES? Yes from what I understand it should work through desktop manager. My BES is a VM. -Original Messag

RE: Anyone use WiFi only BB's on their BES?

2010-03-26 Thread N Parr
Yes from what I understand it should work through desktop manager. My BES is a VM. -Original Message- From: jgarciaitl...@gmail.com [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 2:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone use WiFi only BB's on their BES? Or

Re: Anyone use WiFi only BB's on their BES?

2010-03-26 Thread John Cook
That too would work - Original Message - From: jgarciaitl...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Fri Mar 26 15:15:23 2010 Subject: Re: Anyone use WiFi only BB's on their BES? Or active via desktop manger Right?? Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From:

Re: Anyone use WiFi only BB's on their BES?

2010-03-26 Thread jgarciaitlist
Or active via desktop manger Right?? Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: John Cook Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:13:00 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone use WiFi only BB's on their BES? If your BES is a physical server you might just plug it in to the ser

Re: Anyone use WiFi only BB's on their BES?

2010-03-26 Thread jgarciaitlist
True That true and with bess it would be easy Also wonder if you can get a pin and bbm?? --Original Message-- From: N Parr To: NT System Admin Issues ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone use WiFi only BB's on their BES? Sent: Mar 26, 2010 3:06 PM Prefer the physical keyboard

Re: Anyone use WiFi only BB's on their BES?

2010-03-26 Thread John Cook
If your BES is a physical server you might just plug it in to the server for activation, I think I did this once or twice back in the day. - Original Message - From: N Parr To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Fri Mar 26 15:06:20 2010 Subject: RE: Anyone use WiFi only BB's on their BES? Pr

Re: [OT]: Script Editors

2010-03-26 Thread Kurt Buff
Vim On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:03, Michael B. Smith wrote: > > > VI > > > > Regards, > > Michael B. Smith > Consultant and Exchange MVP > http://TheEssentialExchange.com > > > -Original Message- > From: tony patton [mailto:tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com] > Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010

RE: Anyone use WiFi only BB's on their BES?

2010-03-26 Thread N Parr
Prefer the physical keyboard. And a device they wouldn't want to play with to much. Therefore a $100 hot pink curve probably wouldn't get "misplaced" to easily. I've done some googling and there does seem to be issues with BES WIFI activations if you don't do it just right. -Original Message

Re: Anyone use WiFi only BB's on their BES?

2010-03-26 Thread jgarciaitlist
What about an itouch nice and simple and apple has deployment tools that are free and can lock down the itouch and setup email. For 200 usd you get a device that works via wifi and supports exchange --Original Message-- From: N Parr To: NT System Admin Issues ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issu

Re: printer redirection woes

2010-03-26 Thread Bill Humphries
No, it is definitely the 64 bit driver. Yesterday, it looked like I couldn't get much info like driver location from the printer properties. i assumed that was becuase the driver is included with Win7. I can relook again when I get access to the machine. Bill James Hill wrote: It really

RE: False-positives on Vipre this morning

2010-03-26 Thread Stu Sjouwerman
Excellent !! Warm regards, Stu Sjouwerman Co-Founder, Publisher, Sunbelt Media P: +1-727-562-0101 ext 218 F: +1-727-562-5199 s...@sunbelt-software.com   -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 1:39 PM To: NT System Admi

Re: [OT]: Script Editors

2010-03-26 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I have both, but use ASE more than PrimalScript on a daily basis. The main things I like about ASE are the ScriptForm Designer and the WMI Wizard. Both are great tools. YMMV Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Compa

Anyone use WiFi only BB's on their BES?

2010-03-26 Thread N Parr
I have a need for some internal users to have quick access to email. Can't justify a service plan so I was thinking of just getting something like an old Curve 8320 that has Wifi and activating them on my BES. Hook them up to my facility wireless and away they go. Could use an ipaq type device but

RE: [OT]: Script Editors

2010-03-26 Thread Jim Slattery
vi Sorry, just being an a$$. :) Now on topic: I just downloaded this: http://powergui.org/index.jspa ...while I wait for my boss to approve purchasing either PrimalScript or Powershell Plus (http://www.idera.com/Products/PowerShell/PowerShell-Plus/) -Original Message- From: Michae

Re: [OT]: Script Editors

2010-03-26 Thread Steven Peck
I have PrimalScript, I still use notepad++ a lot. I also primarily use PowerShell. If you want a cross language one then PrimalScript is pretty good (I think you can use it 30 days for free too). If just PowerShell only then PowerShellPlus is awesome. So a better question is, what is driving yo

RE: [OT]: Script Editors

2010-03-26 Thread Mayo, Bill
PrimalScript is pretty sweet. -Original Message- From: tony patton [mailto:tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 1:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [OT]: Script Editors Slightly OT, but those of you who write scripts, whats your preferred editor? I'm us

[OT - it's Friday!] RE: : Script Editors

2010-03-26 Thread Michael B. Smith
Ttthhht :-) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 1:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: : Script Editors On 26 Mar

Re: Upgrading from 2003R2 to 2008R2 (or later)

2010-03-26 Thread Jon Harris
I would be looking at maybe one virtual in each of the outer offices and one in the main office with leaving all of your physicals in place until they were dying or were no longer supportable. Putting them on the SAN for backup purposes is a very good idea. Jon On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:36 PM,

RE: How would you go about this?

2010-03-26 Thread Terry Dickson
I pretty much agree, we replace after three years, then we have always re-tasked the systems and used them for other projects for at least 5 years. We have some that are whitebox products that are over 7 years and still running. If we do not have a production use for them we move them into a t

Re: How would you go about this?

2010-03-26 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 26 Mar 2010 at 10:05, Mike Gill wrote: > if you can´t get at least 5 years out of your servers before replacement, > then IMO you need help. -- Mike Gill FWIW I'm about to write a memo to a client telling them we need to replace their Windows 2000 Server box, which I put in sometime in 2004

Re: False-positives on Vipre this morning

2010-03-26 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
ASF: > * FPs on half a dozen files in hidden directory > C:\hp\recovery\wizard\fsadmin\ > on one XP Home machine that still sits on my network. Submitted them to > Sunbelt after dealing with Rimecud. No answer yet, but it was after 9 PM > Florida time when I submitted them. On 26 Mar 2010 at

Re: : Script Editors

2010-03-26 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 26 Mar 2010 at 17:03, Michael B. Smith wrote: > > > VI > > What is "VI"? I've used "vi", use it extensively on my Linux systems. I still use qedit in DOS boxes a lot -- I'm going to miss it when I move to Win7/64. I use metapad a lot for quick edits, notepad++ when I have a lot to

RE: Upgrading from 2003R2 to 2008R2 (or later)

2010-03-26 Thread John Aldrich
We're a relatively small organization (3 sites, all within 30 minutes driving distance, connected by a VPN) and currently have 2 physical DCs. My only concern about having all virtual DCs is that I'm not sure I'd be comfortable with that. I don't know enough about virtual machines to be comfortable

Re: Upgrading from 2003R2 to 2008R2 (or later)

2010-03-26 Thread Jon Harris
Would that not depend on the load, how old the hardware is, and what you intend to do at the time? I know that the last place I worked we skipped the 2003 R2 step and went with 2008 but that machine was a VM as I did not want to keep a lot of hardware around. Space for them was at a premium both

Re: Upgrading from 2003R2 to 2008R2 (or later)

2010-03-26 Thread Steve Ens
That's how I'm approaching things. One physical, one maybe two virtual DC's. No need to upgrade the 2003 boxes, just let them go when it's their time! On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:22 PM, John Aldrich wrote: > I’m not in a position to do it now, but I’m trying to think ahead a year > or two and

RE: [OT]: Script Editors

2010-03-26 Thread tony patton
Haven't progressed to PS yet, unfortunately. Hopefully I'll get around to it this year, time permitting. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com From: "John Allhiser" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Date: 26/03/2010 1

Upgrading from 2003R2 to 2008R2 (or later)

2010-03-26 Thread John Aldrich
I'm not in a position to do it now, but I'm trying to think ahead a year or two and wondering how hard it's going to be to upgrade our DCs when we want to go from 2003R2 to the newest and best thing. Assuming I wanted to upgrade today, would it be better to start from scratch on new hardware and ju

Re: OT: Friday News (Sorta OT)

2010-03-26 Thread Jon Harris
They still took a major PR hit and anytime this type of thing happens to them again it makes it easier for the lawyers to get damages out of the company which will have an adverse effect on earnings which will hurt management in the pocket. BUT it still should never have happened with the relative

Re: OT: Friday News (Sorta OT)

2010-03-26 Thread Jon Harris
I would have liked to seen the top management of them prosecuted as well but I am realistic enough to know that is not going to happen. Jon On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > How about the businesses who let this happen? > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Jon Harris wrote

RE: [OT]: Script Editors

2010-03-26 Thread John Allhiser
+1 for Primal. They also have free specialty editors. Have you tried the built-in Powershell ISE for ps1 scripts? Context is a context aware tabbed notepad, and free. http://www.contexteditor.org/-- I use this one the most. From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com]

Re: [OT]: Script Editors

2010-03-26 Thread Erik Goldoff
I played with Primal Script a few years back soley for Kixtart scripting, but I really liked it. This was 2004-2005 timeframe, I hope it only got better and didn't inherit any new version quirks On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:00 PM, tony patton < tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com> wrote: > Slightly OT,

Re: slightly OT : Netscreen 5GT config in Juniper SSG5 ???

2010-03-26 Thread Harry Singh
I haven't had much luck with that. I'm sure it can be a pain if you have 100 tunnels, but if it's a relatively small amount then you're probably better off doing the config from scratch. On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Erik Goldoff wrote: > just had a call from a customer, their netscreen 5gt

RE: How would you go about this?

2010-03-26 Thread Mike Gill
I don't understand this mentality. I would expect to get 3 years from some white box generic desktop built with on-sale, B-grade components. With all the discussions on the list lately for getting matching brand hard drives, integrated management and other things than imply quality of build, this i

Re: Upgrade from 2008 to 2008 r2

2010-03-26 Thread Steve Ens
No, since there a couple of snapshots...I'm merging them into the parent disk first. On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Andrew S. Baker wrote: > Have you tried to import it? > > -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker > > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Steve Ens wr

slightly OT : Netscreen 5GT config in Juniper SSG5 ???

2010-03-26 Thread Erik Goldoff
just had a call from a customer, their netscreen 5gt seems damaged, it keeps resetting even though power light stays on ( external power supply seems OK ) so the question posed to me was : Can the the newer Juniper SSG 5 just load the Netscreen 5GT config file and work ( including site-to-site VPN

Re: Upgrade from 2008 to 2008 r2

2010-03-26 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Have you tried to import it? -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Steve Ens wrote: > So I have a good snapshot, is there a way to restore that? Note - the > snapshot doesn't show up in the HV Manager. > > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 9:35 AM, James Rankin wrote: >

Re: OT: Friday News (Sorta OT)

2010-03-26 Thread Andrew S. Baker
How about this: Prosecutors estimate the group stole tens of millions of debit and credit > card numbers, costing corporations and banks millions when they were forced > to cancel accounts, open new accounts, monitor accounts for fraud, *beef > up their network security* and invest in public relat

RE: [OT]: Script Editors

2010-03-26 Thread Michael B. Smith
VI Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: tony patton [mailto:tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 1:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [OT]: Script Editors Slightly OT, but tho

[OT]: Script Editors

2010-03-26 Thread tony patton
Slightly OT, but those of you who write scripts, whats your preferred editor? I'm using NotePad++ and VBSEdit at the moment for creating mainly VBscripts, they both do the job, but looking for something with a bit more. Going to take a look at these AdminScriptEditor http://www.adminscriptedi

RE: False-positives on Vipre this morning

2010-03-26 Thread Stu Sjouwerman
Darn spelling correction! :-) "is tasked with" Warm regards, Stu Sjouwerman Co-Founder, Publisher, Sunbelt Media P: +1-727-562-0101 ext 218 F: +1-727-562-5199 s...@sunbelt-software.com   -Original Message- From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Friday, Ma

Re: OT: Friday News (Sorta OT)

2010-03-26 Thread Ben Scott
How about the businesses who let this happen? On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Jon Harris wrote: > Not long enough and not severe enough, but that is just my opinion.  What > about the federal people that were working with this guy.  They get to skate > with nothing bad to them?  They knew he

Re: Forefront Client Security

2010-03-26 Thread Jon Harris
I've seen it miss some tools that it should have found when they were dropped onto the machine and not pick them up for a few days. Not good but at least no hacks were done or they were blocked if attempted. Jon On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:47 AM, John Hornbuckle < john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us>

Re: OT: Friday News (Sorta OT)

2010-03-26 Thread Jon Harris
Not long enough and not severe enough, but that is just my opinion. What about the federal people that were working with this guy. They get to skate with nothing bad to them? They knew he was a hacker and were not watching what he was doing? Something is not right there as well. Jon On Fri, Ma

RE: False-positives on Vipre this morning

2010-03-26 Thread Stu Sjouwerman
Joe Frederick here at Sunbelt is takes with handling FP's when they come up. You can report these directly to him. He's cc-d. Warm regards, Stu Sjouwerman Co-Founder, Publisher, Sunbelt Media P: +1-727-562-0101 ext 218 F: +1-727-562-5199 s...@sunbelt-software.com   -Original Message

Re: Epic Fail

2010-03-26 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 26 Mar 2010 at 8:04, Ben Scott wrote: > I do actually tend to log in to the same Google account in both > places, but now that you mention it, I can't guarantee that wasn't the > issue. I use a number of different Google accounts and have a routine which automatically searches every night

Re: Forefront Client Security

2010-03-26 Thread Justin Thomas
That about sums up our experience. I last heard the long awaited next version is due out the second half of this year. It's been pushed back a number of times, as they add requested features. I'm hoping that means improved reporting, and more granular control from the console. On Fri, Mar 26, 2010

Re: Equallogic and Sata

2010-03-26 Thread Anders Blomgren
Our VDI needs are so low that we're not maxing out a single array. We're just doing business apps. But I still find the read/write ratio is between 50/50 and 20/80 instead of the 80/20 I was expecting. Considering a write on raid5 generates 4 backend iops means that the difference on an assumed 10

Re: Upgrade from 2008 to 2008 r2

2010-03-26 Thread Steve Ens
So I have a good snapshot, is there a way to restore that? Note - the snapshot doesn't show up in the HV Manager. On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 9:35 AM, James Rankin wrote: > I haven't had much luck doing R1 to R2 upgrades in our ESX 4 environment. A > lot of flaky network issues with upgraded boxes,

RE: Friday News (Sorta OT)

2010-03-26 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Excellent. -sc From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 10:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Friday News (Sorta OT) Hacker gets harsh sentence: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/03/26/hacker-gets-harshest-cybercrim e-sentence-pass

Re: Upgrade from 2008 to 2008 r2

2010-03-26 Thread James Rankin
I haven't had much luck doing R1 to R2 upgrades in our ESX 4 environment. A lot of flaky network issues with upgraded boxes, hangs on startup, all sorts of weird behaviour. In the end I opted to build a new template fresh from R2 rather than upgrade existing R1 systems. On 26 March 2010 13:57, Ste

OT: Friday News (Sorta OT)

2010-03-26 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
Hacker gets harsh sentence: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/03/26/hacker-gets-harshest-cybercrime-sentence-passed/ -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog!

RE: lenovo laptop help from the list

2010-03-26 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
I caught the part about "having a clue". That usually precludes the boss and his son. LOL From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 9:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: lenovo laptop help from the list I m

RE: lenovo laptop help from the list

2010-03-26 Thread Don Guyer
I missed the part about him being "the bosses son". They can prolly afford to drop it off somewhere. J 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...@

Re: lenovo laptop help from the list

2010-03-26 Thread Charles Whitby
+1 on that. You can download the hardware maintenance manual from the Lenovo support site and probably find a fan on eBay. I replaced wireless card in my T40 that way, no big deal. (Also did the keyboard on my daughter's Gateway laptop in the same manner - get hardware manual, order keyboard, ya

Re: lenovo laptop help from the list

2010-03-26 Thread Jeff Brown
He isn't technical at all, not all that sure it is the fan, definitely needs to hand it to someone who has a clue. Thanks. On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Don Guyer wrote: > I’ve had my T61 apart a few times to fix various things and I am by no > means a hardware guru. If he’s OK with it, have

Re: Upgrade from 2008 to 2008 r2

2010-03-26 Thread Steve Ens
No AV scanning that box. I'm getting an event id 3070 and 3040. Unnamed VM' failed to initialize. (Virtual machine 64EF49F6-3922-44E1-BB24-254088FE6650) That takes me to this link http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd581971(WS.10).aspx Check the environment in which the start virtual mac

RE: lenovo laptop help from the list

2010-03-26 Thread Don Guyer
I've had my T61 apart a few times to fix various things and I am by no means a hardware guru. If he's OK with it, have him order the fan and do it himself. It's gonna be much cheaper. Google it to see what's involved, but don't think it's going to be that difficult. Don Guyer Systems Engineer

RE: lenovo laptop help from the list

2010-03-26 Thread Steven M. Caesare
While I've never used their service dept, MicroCenter here in the DC/VA/MD area is probably the best "store" type of place for computer gear... far better than Best buy, etc... It's almost an East Coast version of Fry's (albeit far smaller). They have a repair counter. There's one in Fairfax, w

lenovo laptop help from the list

2010-03-26 Thread Jeff Brown
My boss has a son in Arlington, VA who needs help with a T60 that is out of warrantee. He thinks it just needs a fan and wants to be careful where he takes it. I am in Tulsa, Ok and have no connections there. Anyone know of a person or place to recommend there? any help greatly appreciated. Je

Re: Script: Run a command for each computer on network

2010-03-26 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:26 AM, James Rankin wrote: > Sometimes when the browser is getting it's electrons > in a twist, I'll find machines in the server subnet not appearing when the > script is run from the workstations subnet, and vice versa. While the NetBIOS browser is certainly not the m

RE: Script: Run a command for each computer on network

2010-03-26 Thread John Cook
Nice, I feel violated after stepping into Bens dumping ground! John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I, A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 From: Andrew S. B

RE: Upgrade from 2008 to 2008 r2

2010-03-26 Thread Miller Bonnie L .
Are you running any file-level AV software on the host server? That's the only thing I can think of that I've seen completely kill off guests like that. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961804. -Bonnie From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 7:26 PM To: NT S

RE: Forefront Client Security

2010-03-26 Thread John Hornbuckle
I agree on all counts. Very easy to deploy and update via WSUS, and the client software seems to work fine--doesn't overtax the workstations or cause weirdness. The MOM console is, indeed, "a smidge complicated." I'd go further than that and say that it's just plain badly-designed, and not at al

RE: Equallogic and Sata

2010-03-26 Thread N Parr
What kind of ratio are you seeing for clients to array with VDI. And are you doing anything intensive with your desktops or are they just normal business apps? I really want to use VDI in the future when we can finally start doing OS refreshes. From: Anders Blo

Re: Script: Run a command for each computer on network

2010-03-26 Thread James Rankin
I use net view combined with psexec in a few of my command scripts (most notably the ones that do *gpupdate* and *wuauclt /detectnow*), however I find that you've got to have your browser service in good working order for it to function as expected. Sometimes when the browser is getting it's electr

Re: Script: Run a command for each computer on network

2010-03-26 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Andrew S. Baker wrote: >> ... runs a command for every computer it finds on the network ... > > Nice, Ben Thanks! > Thanks.  It's always good to see different approaches. That was my thinking. :) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a r

Re: Epic Fail

2010-03-26 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Angus Scott-Fleming wrote: >>   I've also seen this cause more subtle differences.  For example, at home, I >> sometimes get different Google search results vs at work. Both on Comcast, >> within 30 miles of each other. > > Different Google cookies, so different se