I think an IT (or corporate) overreaction is typical of these kinds of
events. How many people have labs now set up to test MS updates and then
find themselves getting farther and farther behind? As somebody said,
sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.
-Original Message-
Honestly, its all a risk-based decision, if you have additional compensating
controls, in place, then you can afford the buffer, some organizations don't
and have higher-risk to begin with.
I don't agree so-much with the corporate IT comment about testing and
validation of MS patches before
Cool interactive website.. Maybe this will make it into this weeks
Sunbelt newsletter???
http://now.sprint.com/nownetwork/
.
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Thanks, the non-auth restore did the trick! 30 hours of work and the client
lost no data, but I think I shortened my lifespan by a few years. I'm a
low-stress kind of guy, but I was worried on this one since there was no way to
tell success until the very end and the system booted. It could
HI All,
I wonder if someone can help please. I'm looking to archive 5000+ files
that were modified pre-2008 to Tape.
I am using only the Standard windows search tool to search a specific
network location for all files created before 01/01/2008. When I copy
these files to a holding area
NOISE NOISE NOISE NOISE NOISE!!
1. I truly hate web sites that start blasting sound through your speakers
before the page loads completely!
2. How does one find anything useful amongst all that clutter?
I better stop now before my rant slides into things like those little
Farcebook and
Robocopy is your friend, it can do exactly what you're looking for.
David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764
From: Mark Robinson [mailto:mark.robin...@cips.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 6:38 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Yeah, LogMeIn - I can access all of my various clients systems from that one
console. To be clear I have one or two systems from each client that has
LogMeIn on it, from that system I can RDP, remote wake up, etc the other
systems.
Actually that's an excellent question - Quicken logs into
Robocopy can find files created on a certain date and copy them to
another location maintaining folder structure.
On Tuesday, April 27, 2010, Mark Robinson mark.robin...@cips.org wrote:
HI All,
I wonder if someone can help please. I’m looking to
archive 5000+ files that were
Man I hate those share buttons too.
On Tuesday, April 27, 2010, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote:
NOISE NOISE NOISE NOISE NOISE!!
1. I truly hate web sites that start
blasting sound through your speakers before the page loads completely!
2. How does one find anything useful
amongst
Robocopy with the /E switch and then file inclusion options for date(s).
Robocopy /? for more
-sc
From: Mark Robinson [mailto:mark.robin...@cips.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 9:38 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Network File Copy
HI All,
I wonder if someone can
Cacophony !
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:40 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote:
NOISE NOISE NOISE NOISE NOISE!!
1. I truly hate web sites that start blasting sound through your speakers
before the page loads completely!
2. How does one find anything useful amongst all that clutter?
I
Uh, Kaseya is one.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 9:43 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: what is Best Practices to mange many small company you consultant?
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:33 AM, David Mazzaccaro
david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com wrote:
Cool interactive website.. Maybe this will make it into this weeks Sunbelt
newsletter???
http://now.sprint.com/nownetwork/
I'm making that the new corporate home page. ;-)
-- Ben
~ Finally, powerful
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:40 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote:
http://now.sprint.com/nownetwork/
2. How does one find anything useful amongst all that clutter?
That page *is* a joke, right?
-- Ben
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~
thinking that they overdid their example of what you *could* do to your
'desktop' with widgets, like you can with win7 and other OS's
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:40 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote:
I didn't know Sprint had bought GeoCities.
-sc
-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 10:11 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OT: Sprint Now Network website
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:40 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org
Well, anyone who reads Arthur C. will be an asset to another company!
Sorry to hear about your retrenchment; also been there when I was doing
really well. The most important piece of advice I was given at the time
was: Keep your head up and don't doubt your capabilities. They are
letting you go
LOL, that is funny on Craiglist Angus. But thanks for that link, I hadn't
even thought of looking on Craigslist.
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming
angu...@geoapps.comwrote:
Sherry
Bummer^2 ... best of luck finding new work.
I'm amused by the sub-page that craigslist
Interesting, from reading it I don't get that it lets a consultant view
resources from multiple clients on one console, I read it as more of a per
client management tool, but I guess it can be interpreted a couple of ways.
This page, right?
http://www.kaseya.com/solutions/service-providers.aspx
I have firewall command I used to run on XP machines that looked like this:
netsh firewall add portopening TCP 7800 SomeApplication
netsh firewall add portopening TCP 7801 SomeApplication
Now in Windows 7, that rule doesn't work right. I suspect because of the
multiple network / firewall
Group policy?
Or 'netsh advfirewall /?' and learn the new syntax. Googling netsh
advfirewall may also be some help.
Carl
From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 11:19 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Windows 7 FW Rules
I have
Thanks, I'm using it now.
Cheers
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: 27 April 2010 14:41
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Network File Copy
Robocopy is your friend, it can do exactly what you're looking for.
David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER
NORTHWEST EVALUATION
Because it's your data.
If you can get them to do this, then great. Otherwise, it's less risky to
handle it yourself.
-ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote:
That also works, but why not make the vendor of the system do
LOL!!
And they're selling epilepsy
-ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote:
I didn't know Sprint had bought GeoCities.
-sc
-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday,
Help with netapp (not really i have an IBM system)
If anybody has installed an ibm tape library to an ibm nas\san (netapp based).
I really need help on finding an how to on the subject. Going through the
help of the system itself is confusing for me at least. I have done lots in the
net app
The new site drives me nuts. Now it's a toss up on rather or not the account
services side of the site works. Drives me nuts.
Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with Nextel Direct Connect
-Original Message-
From: Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:55:00
To: NT
Yup... I agree. So much for that upgrade.. what a mess.
From: viperb...@gmail.com [mailto:viperb...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 12:16 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OT: Sprint Now Network website
The new site drives me nuts. Now
Our museum has huge pillars and it's hard to get wireless through them. Anyone
had good/bad luck using open-mesh wireless repeaters?
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
You can put something on site, or in your site; as long as you have VPN
connectivity to the customer site.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 11:08 AM
To: NT System
I'm assuming most of you are like me and in charge of the consumables for
your laser copiers/printers/fax machines. How do you have your people
trained to deal with the cold-callers who try to get you to buy the toners?
Mostly, my users are trained to refer the call to me, but it's starting to
I forward the calls to our local rejection hotline (insert google search
here). Unprofessional, I know, but so is cold calling IMHO.
Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with Nextel Direct Connect
-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010
IF the call gets to me, I explain that I do not take unsolicited sales calls
for any reason, and ask to be removed from whatever list they used to reach
me. Same at home.
Just don't have the time or the desire to listen to anyone's sales spiel.
For any product or service.
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010
I rarely answer my work line, for this exact reason. If I do, I'm always
too busy at the moment for calls such as these.
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)
Yeah.but do you have your users trained to reject these calls outright
*before* they get to you or do you just accept 'em and tell 'em no thanks.
John-AldrichTile-Tools
From: viperb...@gmail.com [mailto:viperb...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 1:13 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Hmm. never thought about the take me off your list idea. will have to use
that next time.
John-AldrichTile-Tools
From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 1:20 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Ink toner cold callers
IF the call gets to
setup a unique voicemail box for 'vendors' , you can be as generic as you
like ( one single box, or granular, one for hardware, one for software, one
for consumables, etc ) and have the receptionist or whomever transfer the
calls to the voicemail. Set up an appropriately professionally polite
Unfortunately, with such a small company, anything tech related automatically
gets forwarded to me, regardless. Unless the owner picks up, then I hear more
German cuss words that I still can't remember.
Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with Nextel Direct Connect
-Original Message-
Hmm. nice idea. J
John-AldrichTile-Tools
From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 1:26 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Ink toner cold callers
setup a unique voicemail box for 'vendors' , you can be as generic as you
like ( one single
I tell them we're a paper-free environment my nutty tree-hugging boss insists
everything gets scanned and no paper is allowed. I explain we have no
printers, copiers or anything that generates a piece of paper. All we have are
scanners and shredders. The reactions you get are hilarious!
We trained our callers to just reject the callers, and not even forward them
on. We do have a contract we have to purchase from and they do not call like
this so that works for us.
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 12:26 PM
To: NT System
Ahh. I'm getting some good ideas here. J Thanks, all. keep the info coming!
J
John-AldrichTile-Tools
From: Terry Dickson [mailto:te...@treasurer.state.ks.us]
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 1:39 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Ink toner cold callers
We trained our callers to
Yep-yep. I've seen this same thing in a few different distribution-lists
like this. World-wide to regional. But, the spam was the same format.
--
ME2
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:54 AM, David W. McSpadden dav...@imcu.com wrote:
It's not just you Erik. ME2 asked early if anyone else had seen
Excellent!
Other fun tactics:
- Hold on, we are looking for a new vendor and would love to
evaluate your products, please hold on while I transfer you to our
purchasing specialist. - Then proceed to transfer the call to the
unsuspecting accountant lady with an accent so thick you
At least in the world of nuisance calls, take me off your list does no
good. As I understand it, federal law requires telemarketers to
maintain a do not call list and you have to ask to be added to that.
I am pretty certain this is not relevant to businesses or these types of
situations as far as
Definitely open your eyes to CL. You'd be surprised at what gets posted
there.
--
ME2
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.comwrote:
LOL, that is funny on Craiglist Angus. But thanks for that link, I hadn't
even thought of looking on Craigslist.
On Mon, Apr
I do look at CL all the time, but just for buying stuff. I've never had a
reason to even realize that jobs are posted there also. LOL, but now I
know!
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr
michealespin...@gmail.com wrote:
Definitely open your eyes to CL. You'd be surprised
Sorry Sherry, but as others mentioned you should find a gig quick
enough. I know here in NY craigslist is pretty popular for tech jobs.
On 4/27/10, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.com wrote:
I do look at CL all the time, but just for buying stuff. I've never had a
reason to even realize that
We're a small organization, and I purchase all toner ink. It's really
no big deal here as I don't get many cold calls from toner venders, but
I usually do take the time to explain that we're very happy with our
current vendor and no intention of changing at this time. While we're on
the subject
+1. All my gigs the past 7 years or so have come from Craigslist. There's
also a metasearch site for CL called searchtempest.com that lets you search
multiple locations with various criteria and display the results all on one
page...
***
Charlie Kaiser
OT.
My cousin found her husband(Now ex)on there. Looking for some
Hope he found some because there isn't any at home anymore
:-)
-Original Message-
From: Charlie Kaiser [mailto:charl...@golden-eagle.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 2:16 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject:
If you have time.. pretend you are interested. Even have them come out and
visit you. drag it on and on. Then when they think they are close to signing
a deal with you, tell them you are no longer interested.
Almost all the vendors I have a relationship with have my cell. They will
call me on
And knowing is half the battle
Andy Shook
Senior Sales Engineer | Peak 10, Inc.
8910 Lenox Pointe Drive, Suite B, Charlotte, NC 28273
office: (704) 264-1078
fax: (704) 264-1075
mobile: (803) 517-2168
email: andy.sh...@peak10.com
www.peak10.comhttp://www.peak10.com/?linkref=ES-01-PKTN-STND
People still use VPN? That's so old school.
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 9:36 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: what is Best Practices to mange many small company you consultant?
As a outside integrator / IT consultant
You can put
Our receptionist knew to transfer any calls for us into the group voicemail box
where they could be flushed at our convenience.
However before we completed his training, the best one I ever heard was a
former co-worker of mine. (His name is South).
Caller: yeah, hi - I'm calling about
Agreed.
It's easier to just open the NetBIOS/CIFS ports up on the firewall and
connect directly.
-sc
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 2:47 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: what is Best Practices to mange many small company you
So what's new school now?
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 12:47 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: what is Best Practices to mange many small company you consultant?
As a outside integrator / IT consultant
People still use VPN? That's so old
My manager at a previous employer would tire of the calls and started asking
the callers to tell me more about whatever the product was while he
ignored it all. Then he'd say Hey, I think I need that. Let me get my
credit card..., set the phone on the desk, grab a magazine and head to the
rest
I used to try to nicely explain to them that I wasn't interested, but
most of them are so rude this got old fast.
I started just hanging up on them when they wouldn't shut up, but
sometimes they would actually have someone else call back and yell at me
for being rude!
Then, since we are a
That reminds me of an encounter I had. WAY back at my first tech job
(when dot matrix printers were still all the rage), I would get called 3
or 4 times a week by folks wanting to sell us their ribbons. Having
been stupid enough to try a free sample from a vendor one time (and
getting bitten), I
Well, I just sent out an email to all our office staff asking them to tell
anyone who calls for ink/toner that we're under contract and if someone
refuses to take no for an answer to transfer them to my voicemail. I
followed that up with an email explaining *just* how to transfer directly to
Who? Who doesn't want to buy the ribbons?!
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 mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com
From:
You brute, you... :)
-ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote:
Excellent!
Other fun tactics:
- “Hold on, we are looking for a new vendor and would love to
evaluate your products, please hold on while I
Extremely!
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.eduwrote:
Nice J
*From:* Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com]
*Sent:* Tuesday, April 27, 2010 2:20 PM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: Ink toner cold callers
Who? Who doesn’t want to
Put the home phone on the national donotcall list. I wish the feds would
allow businesses to put their phone numbers on the list.
Jon
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote:
IF the call gets to me, I explain that I do not take unsolicited sales
calls for any
Agreed. That would be great.
Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with Nextel Direct Connect
-Original Message-
From: Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:29:46
To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: Re: Ink toner cold callers
Put
On 27 Apr 2010 at 5:04, Ray wrote:
I think an IT (or corporate) overreaction is typical of these kinds of
events. How many people have labs now set up to test MS updates and then
find themselves getting farther and farther behind? As somebody said,
sometimes the cure is worse than the
Already on it. Between that and Ooma's various privacy features we get
very, very few telemarketing calls anymore.
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com wrote:
Put the home phone on the national donotcall list. I wish the feds would
allow businesses to put their
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE
Ben:
Where in Mass are you located and what are your needs?
Larry
-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 10:45 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: [AKO Warning - Message fails DKIM
This happens ever so often...
Most times, a gentle sorry, we're very happy with our supplier solves that
problem. For those who don't get it, I would put them on speaker phone and
continue with whatever I was doing until they got to the end of whatever
they insisted on saying, at which point I
I send all cold transfers from reception to VM and the auto attendant screens
all calls for me that dial my extension.
- Original Message -
From: John Aldrich
To: NT System Admin Issues
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 1:05 PM
Subject: Ink toner cold callers
I'm assuming
I was mainly being a smart-ass, it really depends on what you're trying to
accomplish. If there's no need for direct system-to-system connection (for
example, remote worker just using Office and the like), TS Gateway/Citrix/etc
are IMO better because the remote system itself doesn't have direct
+1 Citrix Access Gateway Appliance is the way to go if you can fro remote
users. It eliminates the need for VPN in many cases.
Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
Technology Coordinator
Eagle Physicians Associates, PA
jra...@eaglemds.comBLOCKED::mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:06 PM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:
If there’s no need for direct system-to-system connection (for
example, remote worker just using Office and the like), TS
Gateway/Citrix/etc are IMO better because the remote system itself doesn’t
have direct network link to
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Mayo, Bill bem...@pittcountync.gov wrote:
At least in the world of nuisance calls, take me off your list does no
good. As I understand it, federal law requires telemarketers to maintain a
do not call list and you have to ask to be added to that.
Mr. Mayo is
Has anyone seen this? User Bob goes and creates a meeting request on their
desktop in Microsoft Outlook. The recipient receives and accepts the meeting
request. The recipient later decides to look for this meeting on their mobile
device; it is not there. Further, if the recipient logs onto
So Andy..that would mean you just joined the front lines? J
From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 2:45 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Officially Unemployed
And knowing is half the battle
Andy Shook
Senior Sales Engineer |
Better late than never; I'm in the area if you guys have some time
tonight or tomorrow!
On Friday, April 16, 2010, Free, Bob r...@pge.com wrote:
I was going to visit you in NE and now you’ve moved again? Dang….
Hope you do come up
From: Micheal Espinola Jr
salary.com also seems to have jobs not listed on dice, monster, or CL.
Can you send me your resume offline? I work for a company that has a decent
sized office in Boston.
Klint
From: Charlie Kaiser [charl...@golden-eagle.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 27,
whoops, missed that you were in TX.
A good friend of mine is the branch manager at Robert Half. I can see if he
has any offline lists for the TX/DFW area.
From: Klint Price
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 6:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE:
Thanks Klint. Appreciate it.
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Klint Price kpr...@arizonaitpro.comwrote:
whoops, missed that you were in TX.
A good friend of mine is the branch manager at Robert Half. I can see if
he has any offline lists for the TX/DFW area.
Webster is now employed by LPS Integration in Nashville, TN as Sr. Citrix
Technical Architect. I start Friday May 7th. http://www.lpsintegration.com/
Carl Webster
Citrix Technology Professional
http://dabcc.com/Webster
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog!
Congratulation!
From: Webster [webs...@carlwebster.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 9:05 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Webster is now employed
Webster is now employed by LPS Integration in Nashville, TN as Sr. Citrix
Technical Architect. I start
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