Long shot - keys sticking in Citrix sessions

2010-06-10 Thread James Rankin
Got a few users with Windows CE clients connecting to Citrix XenApp 6 desktops who are experiencing keys sticking (mainly the Ctrl key, but occasionally other ones) when in the Citrix session. I've replaced the keyboards on multiple occasions and the error still occurs. I've seen some Citrix forum

More pain on the Windows front, possible 0 day

2010-06-10 Thread Ziots, Edward
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/10/windows_help_bug/ http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Jun/205 Looks like a combination of XSS, and invoking the hcp protocol for help and support center to execute commands in the context of the logged on user. PS: Mad Props to Susan Bradley on the

Re: More pain on the Windows front, possible 0 day

2010-06-10 Thread James Rankin
Saw this earlier on Patch Management...any word yet on workaround/mitigation to keep us sane until the inevitable OOB patch comes around? On 10 June 2010 12:00, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/10/windows_help_bug/

RE: More pain on the Windows front, possible 0 day

2010-06-10 Thread Ziots, Edward
My intial thought would be HIPS to block the helpctr from even being called, either that or stopping the help and support center service, and ACLing the helpctr.exe. But still waiting to see what comes up on the Security lists from Microsoft that Susan Bradley myself and others are on, for

RE: More pain on the Windows front, possible 0 day

2010-06-10 Thread Joe Tinney
The article Susan linked had a mitigations section. The one I am most interested in was the temporary disabling of the hcp protocol handler in the registry. http://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/b10a58b75029f79b5f93f4add3ddf992/ADVISORY From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Thursday,

Re: More pain on the Windows front, possible 0 day

2010-06-10 Thread James Rankin
I can't find the protocol handler anywhere in HKCR? On 10 June 2010 13:31, Joe Tinney jtin...@lastar.com wrote: The article Susan linked had a mitigations section. The one I am most interested in was the temporary disabling of the hcp protocol handler in the registry.

RE: Ethernet First Mile

2010-06-10 Thread Andy Shook
ME2 has validated a Shook post. I feel pretty Shook From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 6:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Ethernet First Mile +1 -- ME2 On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Andy Shook

Re: More pain on the Windows front, possible 0 day

2010-06-10 Thread James Rankin
Oh wait...it only exists on Server 2003 and XP. Does that mean Windows 2008 is not affected by this? The POC link seems to work... On 10 June 2010 13:37, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: I can't find the protocol handler anywhere in HKCR? On 10 June 2010 13:31, Joe Tinney

Re: Long shot - keys sticking in Citrix sessions

2010-06-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:13 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Got a few users with Windows CE clients connecting to Citrix XenApp 6 desktops who are experiencing keys sticking (mainly the Ctrl key, but occasionally other ones) when in the Citrix session. Interesting. I have

Re: Long shot - keys sticking in Citrix sessions

2010-06-10 Thread Mike Tellson
If the issue disappears when you shadow them, then the issue has to do with something in their session. This usually is something stored in the roaming profile (hku hive in the registry). In these cases I will generally try recreating the roaming profile. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 10,

Re: Long shot - keys sticking in Citrix sessions

2010-06-10 Thread James Rankin
I don't think that is the case, because when these users log on from home everything works OK, and they are using the same roaming profile (and I've already tried removing it, only to see the issue reoccur). It is only when they are using the Windows CE client in a non-shadowed state that it

Re: Long shot - keys sticking in Citrix sessions

2010-06-10 Thread Mike Tellson
Can you disable the hot key mapping in the Citrix client? Does it make a difference if the session is full screen vs in a seamless window? Sent from my iPhone On Jun 10, 2010, at 7:55 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: I don't think that is the case, because when these users

RE: Ethernet First Mile

2010-06-10 Thread Webster
Feeling and looking are two very different things Shooky Baby! J Webster From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Subject: RE: Ethernet First Mile ME2 has validated a Shook post. I feel pretty.. Shook From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com]

Re: Long shot - keys sticking in Citrix sessions

2010-06-10 Thread James Rankin
Will give it a try with these pointers, cheers. Unfortunately due to the intermittent and distributed nature of this problem, the testing trial/error process is very slow :-) On 10 June 2010 14:00, Mike Tellson micha...@colonialsavings.com wrote: Can you disable the hot key mapping in the

RE: More pain on the Windows front, possible 0 day

2010-06-10 Thread David W. McSpadden
I don't have it as well but I am win7pro and I didn't install the HP help center software?? Maybe?? _ From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 8:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: More pain on the Windows front, possible 0 day

Re: More pain on the Windows front, possible 0 day

2010-06-10 Thread James Rankin
I think it is just for XP/2003, and it is the MS Help Center stuff It actually doesn't work properly on 2008, as far as I can tell - I was looking a bit too deep On 10 June 2010 14:08, David W. McSpadden dav...@imcu.com wrote: I don’t have it as well but I am win7pro and I didn’t install the

For all you Apple Fan-Boys out there...

2010-06-10 Thread John Aldrich
Here's the perfect protective case for iPhone/iPod: http://www.unplggd.com/unplggd/personal-health/phoneballs-iphone-case-118980 Saw this on a private mailing list I'm on and thought I'd post it here. J John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a

RE: For all you Apple Fan-Boys out there...

2010-06-10 Thread Don Guyer
Priceless! 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: John Aldrich

RE: DNS settings tool

2010-06-10 Thread David W. McSpadden
I have created a batch file and copied the output below it. I don't think my ISP set the PTR records? Should I see them using DIG site any??? echo on c: cd tmp\dig del %1.txt /q del dig.%1.txt /q :root dig %1 any%1.txt copy %1.txt dig.%1.txt :www dig www.%1 any%1.txt copy

RE: More pain on the Windows front, possible 0 day

2010-06-10 Thread Ziots, Edward
What I am thinking if we don't have the spot in the registry, then maybe configuring your web filtering, to block all URL's or sequences that are calling HCP:// Per the seclist.org site the rogue html file had the following in it: $ cat starthelp.html iframe src=hcp://... But this was

Heres a weird one - customer wants to give domain admin rights to non domain admin group members.

2010-06-10 Thread Graeme Carstairs
I have been asked by a customer if on their 2003 AD domain it is possible for someone to have admin rights to the servers and not be a member of domain admins. and local admin groups on member servers. Any one know if it can be done Graeme -- Good news everyone, you have just received and

RE: More pain on the Windows front, possible 0 day

2010-06-10 Thread David W. McSpadden
Ok that's what I read but I wanted to be sure. I don't even have the binaries directory so I am good. _ From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 9:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: More pain on the Windows front, possible 0 day

RE: Heres a weird one - customer wants to give domain admin rights to non domain admin group members.

2010-06-10 Thread Ziots, Edward
Yes, Restricted Groups... Scope the GPO to the Location in AD in which the servers reside ( Usually a Servers OU accordingly). They will be local administrators on those servers but not a Domain Admin. Without knowing much else about the situation, Id even say that is way too much

Re: Heres a weird one - customer wants to give domain admin rights to non domain admin group members.

2010-06-10 Thread James Rankin
Easily, with restricted groups GPO. Just add another group to local Administrators group on the target server(s). We do this for servers that require some level of third-party support, although we keep their accounts limited to certain date periods. On 10 June 2010 14:47, Graeme Carstairs

RE: Ethernet First Mile

2010-06-10 Thread Ziots, Edward
Just don't wear the high heels and Drag outfit to the next PTA meeting Shooky, you scared the children senseless last time Dang someone spiked the KOOLAID again.. now I feel pretty J Fear Sleep deprevation... Fear it well. Z Edward Ziots CISSP,MCSA,MCP+I,Security +,Network +,CCA

Re: Heres a weird one - customer wants to give domain admin rights to non domain admin group members.

2010-06-10 Thread James Rankin
or do you mean have admin rights without belonging to the local administrators group? You could easily give them all permissions and user rights normally restricted to Administrators, but that would kind of defeat the entire object of having the administrators group in the first place. On 10 June

RE: More pain on the Windows front, possible 0 day

2010-06-10 Thread Joe Tinney
I can't find it on my Windows 7 boxes but I did on Windows XP SP3: C:\WINDOWS\system32reg query HKCR /s | find /i hcp HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\HCP HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\HCP\shell HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\HCP\shell\open HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\HCP\shell\open\command NO NAME REG_EXPAND_SZ

Re: Heres a weird one - customer wants to give domain admin rights to non domain admin group members.

2010-06-10 Thread Graeme Carstairs
yeh thats what I thought. I think they are wanting to make sure that if someone had the admin account they couldn't set themselves up with full domain admin rights, without having the account in the domain admin and local admin groups. Its a security check thing, i think they are preparing to

RE: For all you Apple Fan-Boys out there...

2010-06-10 Thread Maglinger, Paul
As if it wasn't bad enough people were hanging things like this from underneath their pickup truck... From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 8:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: For all you Apple Fan-Boys out there... Indeed +1, LOL. I

RE: For all you Apple Fan-Boys out there...

2010-06-10 Thread Don Guyer
I think for the iPad, something that benefits the Breast Cancer Society would be fitting. 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

RE: More pain on the Windows front, possible 0 day

2010-06-10 Thread David Lum
So I'm not clear...if someone clicks on Help and Support in 2003 / XP it's possible for them to get exploted because they might look for something and get redirected to a compromised site? I'm not clear...what would my users have to go to get exploited? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST

Scripting -- How to Echo Spaces???

2010-06-10 Thread Derrenbacker, L. Jonathan
This seems so simple, but I'm stuck. I'm writing a new bat file in windows and I need to echo spaces to a file. For example: echo bla bla bla spacespacespacespace results.txt Anyone know how to echo a space? I've tried $S, I've tried putting around spaces, I've tried echo #032; Any ideas?

Re: More pain on the Windows front, possible 0 day

2010-06-10 Thread James Rankin
I would assume the primary method of exploitation would be through a crafted URL, delivered by whatever method your average virus writer chooses - email, IM, FaceBook, etc On 10 June 2010 15:09, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: So I’m not clear…if someone clicks on “Help and Support” in

Re: Scripting -- How to Echo Spaces???

2010-06-10 Thread James Rankin
echo. On 10 June 2010 15:05, Derrenbacker, L. Jonathan jderrenbac...@kshgs.comwrote: This seems so simple, but I’m stuck. I'm writing a new bat file in windows and I need to echo spaces to a file. For example: echo bla bla bla spacespacespacespace results.txt Anyone know how to echo

RE: More pain on the Windows front, possible 0 day

2010-06-10 Thread David W. McSpadden
Other way around. Your users have the opening on their pc. The browse a site the the hcp:// embedded and the the embedded code can run with their permissions on their pc. So they could in fact install something or copy something to their machine with the hcp:// exploit. That's how I read it

Re: Scripting -- How to Echo Spaces???

2010-06-10 Thread James Rankin
Sorry - i thought you meant an empty line, which is what echo. will give you (I must learn to stop skimming) On 10 June 2010 15:19, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: echo. On 10 June 2010 15:05, Derrenbacker, L. Jonathan jderrenbac...@kshgs.comwrote: This seems so simple, but

Re: Scripting -- How to Echo Spaces???

2010-06-10 Thread Jonathan Link
$S On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Derrenbacker, L. Jonathan jderrenbac...@kshgs.com wrote: This seems so simple, but I’m stuck. I'm writing a new bat file in windows and I need to echo spaces to a file. For example: echo bla bla bla spacespacespacespace results.txt Anyone know

RE: More pain on the Windows front, possible 0 day

2010-06-10 Thread Joseph Heaton
But, again, they'd have to browse a site with that exploit, which would mean clicking a link within an e-mail, or just dumb luck... David W. McSpadden dav...@imcu.com 6/10/2010 7:20 AM Other way around. Your users have the opening on their pc. The browse a site the the hcp:// embedded and

RE: More pain on the Windows front, possible 0 day

2010-06-10 Thread David W. McSpadden
Drive by dns poisioning. Think you are going to google.com and end up and fu.google.com. get the bad code embedded on your machine redirect to google.com. Nanoseconds and flicker to the user. -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, June 10,

RE: More pain on the Windows front, possible 0 day

2010-06-10 Thread Ziots, Edward
Any site could have the malicious code in it, and we all know that our web filtering software isn't going to block everything on the big bad internet :) Z Edward Ziots CISSP,MCSA,MCP+I,Security +,Network +,CCA Network Engineer Lifespan Organization 401-639-3505 ezi...@lifespan.org

Re: Scripting -- How to Echo Spaces???

2010-06-10 Thread Jonathan Link
I just used spaces in a test batch file and that worked fine. I called the batch file interactively, though... On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: $S On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Derrenbacker, L. Jonathan jderrenbac...@kshgs.com wrote:

Re: Scripting -- How to Echo Spaces???

2010-06-10 Thread James Rankin
I concur. I just knocked up a quick batch file and successfully echoed some spaces in On 10 June 2010 15:33, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: I just used spaces in a test batch file and that worked fine. I called the batch file interactively, though... On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at

RE: More pain on the Windows front, possible 0 day

2010-06-10 Thread Ziots, Edward
I would also see phishing attacks with this type of exploit as the payload, along with others. Maybe they combine it with MPACK or Zues... Z Edward Ziots CISSP,MCSA,MCP+I,Security +,Network +,CCA Network Engineer Lifespan Organization 401-639-3505 ezi...@lifespan.org From: James

Re: Scripting -- How to Echo Spaces???

2010-06-10 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Just pad the spaces after your text and before your redirect (). The spaces will echo just fine. An empty line as someone pointed out is (echo.) -- ME2 On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Derrenbacker, L. Jonathan jderrenbac...@kshgs.com wrote: This seems so simple, but I’m stuck. I'm

Patch Management - again

2010-06-10 Thread Joseph Heaton
I've been asked to research this arena again. What are you guys using for automating patch management for your servers? Our environment: A lot of VmWare Mostly Server 2k8, some 2k8R2, some 2K3. Not worried about 3rd party application patching within this project. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint

Re: Scripting -- How to Echo Spaces???

2010-06-10 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Here are some options: 1. Make the last space character ALT-255 2. Set a variable that is longer, and only output a specific number of characters The way you have written it should output the space to the file. -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:05 AM,

RE: Patch Management - again

2010-06-10 Thread Rod Trent
You're wanting this just for servers? What are you currently using for desktops? -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 11:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Patch Management - again I've been asked to research this arena

Re: Patch Management - again

2010-06-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Joseph Heaton jhea...@dfg.ca.gov wrote: What are you guys using for automating patch management for your servers? WSUS. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

RE: More pain on the Windows front, possible 0 day

2010-06-10 Thread David Lum
So what does Help and Support have to do with it? It tells the OS that hcp:// is a valid URL? Would that also mean disabling that service mitigates it? Dave -Original Message- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 7:29 AM To: NT System Admin

Re: Scripting -- How to Echo Spaces???

2010-06-10 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Ohhh, thats right. It truncates. Dunno what I was thinking!!! -- ME2 On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: Just pad the spaces after your text and before your redirect (). The spaces will echo just fine. An empty line as someone pointed

Re: Patch Management - again

2010-06-10 Thread Tom Miller
We use the Dell Kace KBOX here. It gets its patching stream from Patchlink (not that it really matters). I have no issues with it, and it's very easy to use. KBOX is a full management product, so that might be overkill if you looking for patching exclusively. Joseph Heaton

RE: More pain on the Windows front, possible 0 day

2010-06-10 Thread James Winzenz
Have any of you checked out the examples of the exploit on the seclists.org site? It is innocuous - only spawns calc.exe, but it is a good example of what can be done with this exploit. Have already passed it on to my manager to see if we can get a gpo implemented. Thanks, James Winzenz

RE: Patch Management - again

2010-06-10 Thread Joseph Heaton
Desktops is done by a different group. We currently are a Novell environment, with a Windows application domain. I personally have both of my machines in the Windows domain, and doing updates myself. I think the desktop group has the clients automatically downloading and installing updates

RE: Patch Management - again

2010-06-10 Thread Sean Rector
+1 Sean Rector, MCSE -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 11:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Patch Management - again On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Joseph Heaton jhea...@dfg.ca.gov wrote: What are you guys

Google and stupid background pictures

2010-06-10 Thread Daniel Rodriguez
To all, Ok, I have seen some rants about what Google has done on their main search page. I don't like it either. So, instead of ranting and complaining about to Google on getting it changed, all I did was create a graphic with a white background, saved it as a JPEG and then used their utility to

RE: Patch Management - again

2010-06-10 Thread Kennedy, Jim
If this is just OS patching you just need WSUS, and I would talk to the other group about switching the desktops to that also. Single point of download so all those clients are not hitting your internet connectionyou decide what (and when) updates to deploy...not some set of rules by MS.

Re: Patch Management - again

2010-06-10 Thread James Kerr
Yeah I just use WSUS for our desktops and servers as well. James - Original Message - From: Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 11:29 AM Subject: Re: Patch Management - again On Thu, Jun 10,

RE: SAN Solution

2010-06-10 Thread Jay Dale
What exactly is SCALE? A vendor? Jay Dale I.T. Manager, 3GiG Mobile: 713.299.2541 Email: jay.d...@3-gig.commailto:jay.d...@3-gig.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and/or privileged information for the sole use of the intended

RE: Google and stupid background pictures

2010-06-10 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Hit change background and hit ‘editors pics’ and use their white background. Tomorrow they release ‘remove background’ as an option and we can all remove it and get back to a normal life. From: Daniel Rodriguez [mailto:drod...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 11:41 AM To: NT System

RE: Google and stupid background pictures

2010-06-10 Thread John Aldrich
Heh… I hadn’t had to “google” anything today (or if I did, I used the built-in search tool in FireFox J) Interesting John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Daniel Rodriguez [mailto:drod...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 11:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Google and stupid

Re: [HUMOR] Someone misconfigured something somewhere, I think

2010-06-10 Thread James Kerr
Thats hilarious! - Original Message - From: Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 2:43 PM Subject: Re: [HUMOR] Someone misconfigured something somewhere, I think On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:54 AM,

Re: Google and stupid background pictures

2010-06-10 Thread Steve Ens
That kind of looks bingish to me. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Daniel Rodriguez drod...@gmail.comwrote: To all, Ok, I have seen some rants about what Google has done on their main search page. I don't like it either. So, instead of ranting and complaining about to Google on getting it

RE: SAN Solution

2010-06-10 Thread John Aldrich
SCALE Computing is a SAN manufacturer. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Jay Dale [mailto:jay.d...@3-gig.com] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 11:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SAN Solution What exactly is SCALE? A vendor? Jay Dale I.T. Manager, 3GiG Mobile: 713.299.2541

Re: Google and stupid background pictures

2010-06-10 Thread Eric Brouwer
For sure. If you're following the competition, you aren't leading any more. On Jun 10, 2010, at 11:51 AM, Steve Ens wrote: That kind of looks bingish to me. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Daniel Rodriguez drod...@gmail.com wrote: To all, Ok, I have seen some rants about what Google

RE: Heres a weird one - customer wants to give domain admin rights to non domain admin group members.

2010-06-10 Thread Alan Davies
First - do not use Restricted Group on your servers without understanding it. You'll most likely strip out every service account in one quick step and break your entire business!! Second - yes, you can just create a domain group and have that added to local Administrators groups on every server

Re: Google and stupid background pictures

2010-06-10 Thread James Kerr
they added a little bing to their site. - Original Message - From: Daniel Rodriguez To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 11:40 AM Subject: Google and stupid background pictures To all, Ok, I have seen some rants about what Google has done on their

Re: Google and stupid background pictures

2010-06-10 Thread Erik Goldoff
sad, as the simple, clean interface was one of the things I liked. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Daniel Rodriguez drod...@gmail.comwrote: To all, Ok, I have seen some rants about what Google has done on their main search page. I don't like it either. So, instead of ranting and

Re: Google and stupid background pictures

2010-06-10 Thread Daniel Rodriguez
Earlier today, that wasn't an option. Guess someone else uploaded that. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.org wrote: Hit change background and hit ‘editors pics’ and use their white background. Tomorrow they release ‘remove background’ as an option

Re: Patch Management - again

2010-06-10 Thread Phil Brutsche
+1 I get nightmares thinking about what it was like before. On 6/10/2010 10:29 AM, Ben Scott wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Joseph Heaton jhea...@dfg.ca.gov wrote: What are you guys using for automating patch management for your servers? WSUS. -- Phil Brutsche

Re: Heres a weird one - customer wants to give domain admin rights to non domain admin group members.

2010-06-10 Thread Graeme Carstairs
I have used restricted groups before and would be not be keen to use them on servers. Further discussions with the client and he revealed it was a hypothetical from HR as to whether or not it could be done. Thanks for all the suggestions. Graeme On 10 June 2010 16:55, Alan Davies

Re: Patch Management - again

2010-06-10 Thread Joseph Heaton
I currently have 67 boxes that I patch manually each month, ranging from XP to 2k8R2. It's actually kind of nice, at the moment, as I do it at night from home, through a VPN back to the office. Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com 6/10/2010 9:15 AM +1 I get nightmares thinking about what it

Anyone having issues with BB?

2010-06-10 Thread Rubens Almeida
Got several users around the world complaining about BB devices not send/receiving emails. Anyone else seeing this? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

Re: Anyone having issues with BB?

2010-06-10 Thread Eldridge, Dave
Not here. Verizon Colorado -- Sent using BlackBerry - Original Message - From: Rubens Almeida rubensalme...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thu Jun 10 10:20:18 2010 Subject: Anyone having issues with BB? Got

RE: Patch Management - again

2010-06-10 Thread Kennedy, Jim
On the server side that won't change muchI don't think you want download and install automatically as a server option. I have my servers set to download but not install. Then I hit each one and tell it to install, so you skip the step of downloading on each server that is already done.

RE: Anyone having issues with BB?

2010-06-10 Thread David Mazzaccaro
Not here New England Sprint/Nextel -Original Message- From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 12:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone having issues with BB? Not here. Verizon Colorado -- Sent using

ATT/iPad security breach

2010-06-10 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
http://www.google.com/search?q=ipad+security+breach -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

RE: ATT/iPad security breach

2010-06-10 Thread Rod Trent
Fixed that for you. J http://www.bing.com/search?q=ipad+security+breach http://www.bing.com/search?q=ipad+security+breachgo=form=QBLHqs=nsk go=form=QBLHqs=nsk= From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 12:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: ATT/iPad security breach

2010-06-10 Thread Kennedy, Jim
I love how all the wire services are reporting the name of the 'security firm' that discovered the flaw, Goatse Security. I am guessing they don't know the history on Goatse. Or maybe they do and have an awesome sense of humor From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent:

RE: Anyone having issues with BB?

2010-06-10 Thread Don Guyer
Fine here from near Philadelphia, PA, Verizon and ATT. 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 -Original Message- From: David

RE: ATT/iPad security breach

2010-06-10 Thread Don Guyer
Only a matter of time, no shock there. 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: Micheal

Re: Anyone having issues with BB?

2010-06-10 Thread RichardMcClary
(WHEW!) Fortunately, not here... I say Fortunately because I have just finished installing a few service packs and maintenance releases to my BES server... -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCA® 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802

Re: ATT/iPad security breach

2010-06-10 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
I disagree. You illustrated that Google's links are more relevant. :-P -- ME2 On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Fixed that for you… J http://www.bing.com/search?q=ipad+security+breachgo=form=QBLHqs=nsk= *From:* Micheal Espinola Jr

Re: More pain on the Windows front, possible 0 day

2010-06-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:30 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: So what does Help and Support have to do with it? It tells the OS that hcp:// is a valid URL? Would that also mean disabling that service mitigates it? I don't think the HS service per se actually enters into it; just the

Re: Ethernet First Mile

2010-06-10 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Ya sure do harv ah purdy mouf! -- ME2 On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:38 AM, Andy Shook andy.sh...@peak10.com wrote: ME2 has validated a Shook post. I feel pretty…. Shook *From:* Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, June 09, 2010 6:58 PM *To:* NT

Re: ATT/iPad security breach

2010-06-10 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
No doubt. It was pre-destined to be a major target. -- ME2 On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Don Guyer don.gu...@prufoxroach.comwrote: Only a matter of time, no shock there. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster

RE: ATT/iPad security breach

2010-06-10 Thread Rod Trent
iPad or ATT? From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 1:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ATT/iPad security breach No doubt. It was pre-destined to be a major target. -- ME2 On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Don Guyer

RE: ATT/iPad security breach

2010-06-10 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Yea, I thought this was a website exploit that hit ATT. From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 1:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ATT/iPad security breach iPad or ATT? From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent:

RE: Scripting -- How to Echo Spaces???

2010-06-10 Thread Carl Houseman
echo. abc.txt abc.txt now contains a line with one space and a newline. Tested on Windows 7 only so YMMV. Carl -Original Message- From: Derrenbacker, L. Jonathan [mailto:jderrenbac...@kshgs.com] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 1:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: re: Scripting --

RE: re: Scripting -- How to Echo Spaces???

2010-06-10 Thread Derrenbacker, L. Jonathan
-Original Message- From: Derrenbacker, L. Jonathan Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 1:17 PM To: 'ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com' Subject: re: Scripting -- How to Echo Spaces??? Thanks for everyones responses! I gave a bad example of what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to echo spaces

Re: SAN Solution

2010-06-10 Thread Jeff Brown
Maybe our search was too narrow. We looked at HP, IBM, SCALE and Equalogic. SCALE would have been my choice based on price/features, but the guy I work with has LOTS of SAN experience to my NONE, the price diff wasn't huge, so we went with EQ. On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:03 PM, John Aldrich

RE: ATT/iPad security breach

2010-06-10 Thread Rod Trent
Yeah.it's ATT's issue, not Apple's. From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 1:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ATT/iPad security breach Yea, I thought this was a website exploit that hit ATT. From: Rod Trent

Re: Anyone having issues with BB?

2010-06-10 Thread David
Not here, western Oregon. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Rubens Almeida rubensalme...@gmail.comwrote: Got several users around the world complaining about BB devices not send/receiving emails. Anyone else seeing this? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: ATT/iPad security breach

2010-06-10 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Good question, but both really...It appears to be an ATT breach, but as you know it specifically effects the iPad. But, I beleive Apple fails here as well for he provider that they chose to host thier equipment and services with. -- ME2 On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Rod Trent

Re: re: Scripting -- How to Echo Spaces???

2010-06-10 Thread Andrew S. Baker
*Easiest Approach* ECHO ALT-255 C:\Temp\FileName.TXT {where ALT-255 is the actual character, not that whole text} -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Derrenbacker, L. Jonathan jderrenbac...@kshgs.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Derrenbacker,

RE: ATT/iPad security breach

2010-06-10 Thread Rod Trent
I don't know. I think it's a stretch to say it's Apple's fault - and I'm not an Apple fan. From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 1:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ATT/iPad security breach Good question, but both really...

RE: ATT/iPad security breach

2010-06-10 Thread Mayo, Bill
By that rationale, everyone that offers a phone for ATT is guilty of a security lapse. That would be, well, everybody, right? From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 1:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: SAN Solution

2010-06-10 Thread John Aldrich
Well, I'm looking at trying to get as much bang for the buck as I can without having a rip and replace solution when I want to upgrade. IIRC, EQ has a rip and replace (AKA Forklift Upgrade) solution, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Why would I necessarily need to buy a new head unit?

RE: ATT/iPad security breach

2010-06-10 Thread Jay Dale
Apparently it targeted only IPad's based upon the ICC-IDs of the devices. So in essence, the target was through ATT focused on IPads, and geared towards capturing the email information of A-Listers who would be getting the device sooner than the general public. Wouldn't be surprised if it

re: Scripting -- How to Echo Spaces???

2010-06-10 Thread Derrenbacker, L. Jonathan
Awesome. Thanks everyone!!! Jon On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Easiest Approach ECHO ALT-255 C:\Temp\FileName.TXT {where ALT-255 is the actual character, not that whole text} -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker ~ Finally, powerful endpoint

Re: Google and stupid background pictures

2010-06-10 Thread Ben Scott
I have to agree that this is a bad idea on Google's part. I liked Eric's Brouwer remark about following the competition. Google has noted for bucking trends and thinking outside the box; this is a blatant copy-cat move. Bing hasn't been an overwhelmingly phenomenal success, and I'm pretty

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