Cool beans - thanks, Michael!
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ME2
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote:
WINDOW SUMMIT 2010 - Now a Virtual Event
Windows Summit 2010 has become a virtual event! This is a special
opportunity to learn - straight from the Windows team! How you can
Folks,
I have been getting some questions about the issues surrounding the changing of
the root DNS servers implementing DNSSEC as of MAY 5th, and how this might
affect the zone transfers, and DNS in general for organizations that aren’t
implementing DNSSEC yet, or don’t have DNSSEC
Well said! There are times when a FLOSS1 product *is* the better alternative
to an expensive piece of software. Alternatively, there are times when no
FLOSS product is going to do the job as well as the expensive proprietary
piece of software. I'm a big advocate for FLOSS, but I also realize that
Don't know if it is better news or not, but Secure Computing was bought by
McAfee, not Symantec.
-Malcolm
-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 23:56
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Symantec Acquires PGP
On Thu, Apr 29,
Pretty Good Protection
To
Probably Great POS
-Original Message-
From: Malcolm Reitz [mailto:malcolm.re...@live.com]
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 9:04 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Symantec Acquires PGP
Don't know if it is better news or not, but Secure Computing was bought
My understanding of the issue is that normal DNS traffic uses small DNS UDP
packets, less than 512 bytes. Because of this, some pieces of firewalls or DNS
servers are configured to reject UDP packets larger than 512 bytes, figuring
that it's broken or malicious. Signed DNSSEC packets are much
Stay safe in any travels you may have, Carl. And anyone else in that region.
Webster webs...@carlwebster.com 5/2/2010 11:21 AM
Hope any list members in middle Tennessee are dry, safe and sound. We are
just far enough away from the rivers and lakes to be safe. We also live at
the highest
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote:
From what I am reading non DNSSEC aware DNS servers will get the DNS
responses in
the older non-compliant format.
DNSSEC just adds some records that provide authentication
information for zone data. The domain
Right. I meant to say that...
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 06:04, Malcolm Reitz malcolm.re...@live.com wrote:
Don't know if it is better news or not, but Secure Computing was bought by
McAfee, not Symantec.
-Malcolm
-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
Sent:
Sorry, I knew I forgot something:
currently t1 to each location from HQ. Will be increased 3x once we
move to Metro Ethernet.
Total mailboxes: 900, 20% have little if any activity
Also, does MS still recommend separate RAID configurations for the logs
files and database files (at least for
Is anybody else with a Firebox having all of your email getting quarantined?
This is a brilliant start to a week. After one of the most miserable Sunfests,
entertainment wise (and subsequent recovery from said event)...
Phillip Partipilo
Parametric Solutions Inc.
Jupiter, Florida
(561)
You can deploy Exchange 2010 a couple of different ways.
The traditional way, with RAID, assumes you will continue to execute regular
backups. Since Exchange 2010’s I/O requirements is 90% LESS THAN that of
Exchange 2003, it’s arguable whether you need to separate log and database
files. For
Referencing to imaging software (that was the case) I didn't find any FLOSS
product that doesn't require partial manual intervention (command line),with no
limits , offline and online ,HIR and possibility of scheduling. So jumping from
one product to another for getting images is not a wasted
I’d personally go with the “traditional” way and just have one box with all 900
mailboxes. Do you have any HA requirements?
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com
c – 312.731.3132
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 10:02 AM
To: NT System
Not arguing for or against FLOSS in this specific case. Simply stating that
sometimes FLOSS is the best choice and sometimes paid-for software is the
best choice. Now, having formerly used Symantec Ghost, I can assure you that
there is some significant up front time involved in getting it
None currently but I'm thinking of adding HA with the new system.
Thanks for the recommendations folks.
Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com 5/3/2010 12:03 PM
I’d personally go with the “traditional” way and just have one box with
all 900 mailboxes. Do you have any HA requirements?
Anyone that has dealt with Conficker and willing to lend me a hand off-line
with a few questions/concerns? Would prefer to give you a call to discuss
if you are willing. Please contact me off-list. Thanks.
JR
myhosting.com -
I hate to toss such a generic question out there but I have zero experience in
this area. We are putting up a new building this summer, replacing our larges
which would be the High School. We have always just used network attached
printers and let the users run free. Less hassle for us but
WS2008R2 would make a good print server. You want to throw some memory and disk
at this and you should be good. Process is an important part of running a
stable print environment, perhaps more so than the technical side. Depending on
how important print is to you, you can cluster the service.
We've always used a server, which could very easily be a VM, if you have the
environment for it, installed the printers to that, and have the users connect
through the server. Could use 08R2 if you want, but then you're dealing with
64 bit drivers, and needing to get the 32 bit drivers
What are you trying to monitor and why? If you have no management
mandate to monitor and no overall objective to monitor, then you are
creating work for yourself that is unnecessary and will not get done.
Frankly print jobs are boring.
Generally using a print server should be there to centralize
In light of a similar thread going on here, I thought I'd post a related
question. Can anyone suggest any software to help with network print
accounting? We currently print primarily through our Win2k3 print server (at
least for our MFP devices) and I'd like to help spread the pain of the
When I worked in a high school, an advantage to not using a print server at
the time (NT 4 and Win 2000) was the fact that I could localize printing to
the room the computer is in very easily, by limiting which printers were
installed on the computer. To my knowledge, there isn't anyway to do
I am just getting started, but so far the same permissions seem to apply for
installing a printer connection from a print server as are needed to install
the printer locally. Students don't have that ability, heck the teachers don't
either. For exactly the reasons you describe. But again I am
You could limit who has rights to add/print to specific printers.
Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com 5/3/2010 11:51 AM
When I worked in a high school, an advantage to not using a print server at
the time (NT 4 and Win 2000) was the fact that I could localize printing to
the room the computer
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote:
What are you trying to monitor and why? If you have no management
mandate to monitor and no overall objective to monitor, then you are
creating work for yourself that is unnecessary and will not get done.
Mr. Peck makes a
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote:
When I worked in a high school, an advantage to not using a print server at
the time (NT 4 and Win 2000) was the fact that I could localize printing to
the room the computer is in very easily, by limiting which
True, but students change classrooms throughout the day, so their access to
printers should vary by location rather than group membership.
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Joseph Heaton jhea...@dfg.ca.gov wrote:
You could limit who has rights to add/print to specific printers.
Jonathan
Tell me how security permissions could solve the following problem. I'm
interested, it's academic now, but I'm still interested.
Student schedule
8:00-8:50 Room A15
9:00-9:50 Room B12
9:50-10:50Room C19
10:50-11:50 Room A12
11:50-12:30 Lunch
12:40-1:30Room A16
1:40-2:30
I remember we disuaded from teachers from doing that with some really crappy
printers. Laserjet 1100XL's. Specifically designed to annoy...
Seriously, it was a consideration, of using a low end printer in the room
that was really pretty slow that would encourage teachers to use better
Haven't used this one but it looks promising:
http://www.adiwatchdog.com/default2.htm
http://www.adiwatchdog.com/default2.htm
Die dulci fruere!
Roger Wright
___
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:48 PM, John Aldrich
jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote:
In light of a similar thread going on here, I
Complicated, but doable in theory:
Set up print queues based on time for each printer - a series of eight
one-hour slots. Grant permissions for each print queue by group. Put
students in their respective groups.
It would take some scripting to make happen in any kind of reasonable
fashion, but
Put the computers in security groups and then do the mapping with GP prefs
based on computer group membership.
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com
c - 312.731.3132
From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 2:18 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Yes, doable in theory, but you'd have to repeat every semester, or worse, if on
a block schedule, every handful of weeks.
Not my idea of fun, but then again I'm not managing the IT infrastructure of an
education environment...
Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
Technology Coordinator
Eagle
Students change classes 3 times a yearnot to mention drops and adds
throughout the year. Pretty big setup I think.
Question for you since you clearly have a handle on WS Print services. Am I
seeing this correctly in my testing.that a printer that User A creates a
connection to is not
That works, and those computers would have those printers installed for each
user on the printer. Correct?
From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com]
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 3:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Print Server suggestions
Put the computers in security
Or:
Have a vbscript login script do a regex using the computer's host name
and maps the printer based on the room number (the room number is
embedded in the host name - ie class-room number-computer number).
On 5/3/2010 2:29 PM, Brian Desmond wrote:
*Put the computers in security groups and
Yes, that is correct. Unless you do as Brian suggested, and run GP based on
computer, not user.
Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.org 5/3/2010 12:33 PM
Students change classes 3 times a yearnot to mention drops and adds
throughout the year. Pretty big setup I think.
Question for you
Right
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com
c - 312.731.3132
From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 2:35 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Print Server suggestions
That works, and those computers would have those printers installed
Yes the config is per profile so UserA has different printers than UserB. There
are some mechanisms to get network ones installed on a per machine basis as
well.
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com
c – 312.731.3132
-Original Message-
From: Kennedy, Jim
I have setup and managed 2003 and 2008 print servers in a research
environment and found that the 2008 were much more stable and would reliably
allow both XP, Vista and 7 to connect and run. They were setup very
generically with nothing fancy being done. Vista and 7 always had the
printers
But, the print queues should live on, and it's then only a matter of
getting the spreadsheet and running the update once per semester.
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:33, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
jra...@eaglemds.com wrote:
Yes, doable in theory, but you'd have to repeat every semester, or worse, if
2008 R2 has some additional improvements in the print space so you definitely
want to go straight there if setting something new up.
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com
c - 312.731.3132
From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 3:47 PM
To: NT System
Print queues can be assigned by GP.
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:33, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.org wrote:
Students change classes 3 times a yearnot to mention drops and adds
throughout the year. Pretty big setup I think.
Question for you since you clearly have a handle on WS
Agreed. Once setup, it should be completely automated. You could dump the data
from wherever the class schedules are held and run this daily with no manual
intervention.
-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 3:55 PM
To: NT System
Knew there would be a good solution it now. I just didn't need it, so I
couldn't think of it.
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.comwrote:
*Put the computers in security groups and then do the mapping with GP
prefs based on computer group membership.*
* *
Back in the day I used to do it with sec groups or regex against computer name
and a logon script but that is fortunately rendered unnecessary by the GP Prefs
stuff.
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com
c - 312.731.3132
From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com]
Sent:
So I fire up a new server on the local lan *after* I configure ilo w/ an ip I
expect. It has no discs yet.
I attach to the ilo console and connect the fw iso, boot it, it brings up an
interface with the same ip as my gateway?
WTF was HP thinking with this disc, it wasn't until a display of my
I agree that it isn't a client but it does provide a way for status updates to
be viewed within a business app. Previously our staff would have had to go to
Facebook, etc directly.
I can see the temptation to respond to a status update causing staff to be more
interrupted with non-business
IF the rooms are on separate subnets you could easily do this with Group Policy
and Group Policy Preferences.
1. Set GPO to remove the ability for a user to add a printer.
2. Set GPP to map to the server printer queue based on the subnet the
computer is currently in.
3. Set
Greetings,
Somebody set up a machine with a retail version of 2009 enterprise 64 bit.
They did not activate as they were going to purchase an oem license. The
company uses a third party for all OS licensing needs.
Can they use it or is it a reload of the OS?
Thanks
~ Finally, powerful
Retail, OEM and Volume Licensing Windows media all use different keys which
are not interchangeable.
And I'm assuming that the 2009 was a typo?
-ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Mathew Shember mathew.shem...@synopsys.com
wrote:
Greetings,
Somebody set up
No I don't expect it will work.
How do you purchase an OEM license? OEM licenses by definition come with new
hardware.
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com
c - 312.731.3132
-Original Message-
From: Mathew Shember [mailto:mathew.shem...@synopsys.com]
Sent: Monday, May 03,
OEM was the wrong word to use. As with the 2009 typo. I can't seem to type
or think tonight.
Thanks to both of you!
-Original Message-
From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com]
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 7:44 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Can windows 2008
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com wrote:
How do you purchase an OEM license? OEM licenses by definition come with new
hardware.
It seems to be a popular technique to sell a hard disk, mouse,
paperclip, etc., with an OEM license. Then as long as you use
Yeah more of a rhetorical question. I know you can go on ebay and buy a USB
paperclip and get an OEM sticker and media with it. There's a doc from MS that
spells out what constitutes something you can sell the media with. It's a bit
strange.
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com
c -
All
Have a client who's looking to move from hosted-POP3 to an in-house groupware
server with calendaring and email, and I'm looking for alternatives to Exchange
primarily because of cost. I've heard Good Things about both Kerio Mail Server
(now Kerio Connect) and mDaemon from Alt-N. I know
On 3 May 2010 at 13:56, Kurt Buff wrote:
Print queues can be assigned by GP.
Yes, and for Vista and Win7 there are new GP options to:
= Included Stuff Follows =
Group Policy
New Group Policy Settings
... The following sections describe some of the new and
On 3 May 2010 at 9:23, David W. McSpadden wrote:
Pretty Good Protection
To
Probably Great POS
I think you meant Phormerly Great ... ;-)
--
Angus Scott-Fleming
GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
1-520-290-5038
Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T
I know that a major medical research facility in Seattle just started
implementing Zimbra - my wife works there. She's liking it for the
integration of calendars and tasks with email, though she misses the
ability in Thunderbird to make up templates for standard emails.
OTOH, this is a very new
I've been to a number of customers that have significantly sized Zimbra
deployments and they seem to all be pretty happy. My one observation is that
the company seems to change hands quite a bit which would bother me as a
manager if I were making this decision.
What's the impetus for moving
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