RE: Thoughts on ConnectWise

Look at autotask. From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Thoughts on ConnectWise Buggy and slow. From: Cesare' A. Ramos [mailto:cra...@idfllc.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:27 PM To: NT System Admin

RE: Thoughts on ConnectWise

Buggy and slow. From: Cesare' A. Ramos [mailto:cra...@idfllc.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Thoughts on ConnectWise Hellos all. Anyone on the list using or evaluated ConnectWise? Looking for thoughts and experiences. Thanks. CA

Thoughts on ConnectWise

Hellos all. Anyone on the list using or evaluated ConnectWise? Looking for thoughts and experiences. Thanks. CAR This e-Mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addre

RE: Internet Proxy - Group Policy Question

We use a .pac file. Works quite well. Here's an example that will work perfectly for most environments:- function FindProxyForURL(url, host) { // If URL has no dots in host name, send traffic direct. if (isPlainHostName(host)) return "DIRECT"; // If IP address is int

RE: Management of laptops

There's a policy against inappropriate questions?!? Since when? From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 3:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Management of laptops Wow. Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Ea

RE: Web app stress tools?

I KNEW I heard banjo music... From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 1:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Web app stress tools? Synonyms. Didn't you see the "Southren" threads? -sc From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gm

OT: Outlook 2002/Word oddity

Has anyone here ever run across this oddity and fixed it? One of my home users has Outlook 2002 using Word 2002 as its editor. When he start a document in Word and then chooses to send it to email, the email address appears normal in the entryfield in Word. But it goes to the Outlook outbox a

RE: cscript for domain users

Thanks, I'll give that a shot. From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 2:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: cscript for domain users See joe's and my comments here: http://blog.joeware.net/2010/06/17/2078/ From: Carl Housem

Cisco MARS

Does anyone have access or experience with Cisco MARS? Replies off list thanks -Marc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

Re: OT: SQL Question

You can do this manually if you really want to. Get this hex editor http://www.box.net/shared/eugsmcip6i it's the only one I found that lets you past hex data. Find the binary content in the database. Copy the content of the field into the hex editor and save the file with the proper extension. Ma

RE: Highly-Available Solution for SQL Server

Thank you all for your input on my high-availability dilemma. It appears at this time we will be looking into database mirroring on SQL Server 2005. While I understand and agree with many of your concerns relating to SQL Clustering, and that it may be a better choice for high-availability, for

RE: Multi-head video card recommendations?

Be particularly careful with the selection of the ATI EyeFinity cards. Even though many of them have triple-head connectivity (DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort), most of them require that at least one monitor be a DisplayPort monitor if you are going to connect more than two displays. For example, with tw

RE: cscript for domain users

See joe's and my comments here: http://blog.joeware.net/2010/06/17/2078/ From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 3:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: cscript for domain users Ordinary users can't change the default script host. You could use

RE: EXTERNAL:RE: Robocopy /SEC

I bet the difference is the /SEC (or /COPYALL) option requires a lot more network traffic to retrieve the security information for each and every file (even files that already exist on the destination) to see if any changes in the security parameters are needed. You could run FILEMON (or it's repl

RE: SQL Server Client connectivity

Ken and Brian, thanks for the help. All is working now. Had to find and download the file ntwdblib.dll as apparently it's not included in the SQL Server 2008 install, but all is well now. Thanks again! :) Evan -Original Message- From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sen

Re: Multi-head video card recommendations?

I have a Dell Precision workstation with two nVidia Quadro FX 570 cards, powering 3 monitors. Each card has 2GB RAM. Pretty sure that it exceeds your threshold, but it works really, really well driving 22" monitors at 1600x1200 If you go for something more mid-range, be sure your computers have

RE: SQL Question

Have you found the table that contains the BLOBS (binary large objects) containing the contents of the files? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 4:25 PM To: NT Syste

Re: Multi-head video card recommendations?

If you are having trouble with the fans in the cards continuously burning out, I suggest you find a new brand of card. VisionTek and PNY make good quality hardware - I rarely have trouble with the fans on them burning out, even in our dirty warehouse environment. The make, model and form factor of

OT: SQL Question

I've recently been sent a SQL database that contains all of our documents from an externally hosted site and have been tasked with the job of extracting said documents. I've found the table that lists them all and the size/type (PDF, Word, Excel) but have NO idea on how to extract them into their n

RE: Multi-head video card recommendations?

Eyefinity is a good solution, also any of the 200 series nvidia cards will be able to do nvidias version of eyefinity once they release the newest drivers. If you don't want to wait there is already beta drivers out from nvidia with the features and they really work well. Also keep in mind that if

Re: cscript for domain users

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Jimmy Tran wrote: > Is it possible to allow domain users to cscript to change the default script > host?  I really don’t want to make users local admins on their machines. Do you need for them to be able to make the change at will, or are you just looking to mak

RE: Multi-head video card recommendations?

I’ll have to find the box, but I’ve got a system with a GeForce pci-e adapter, has oth a DVI and a VGA port and 512mb on board. I had it on one system using the default mobo video, and both GeForce ports for a trio setup. One of the monitors on the GeForce only handled 1280x1024 so I don’t know i

RE: Multi-head video card recommendations?

ATI's Eyefinity solution (3 monitors) is a darn good solution for you. At reasonable resolutions, their midrange cards (HD5750, HD5770, and HD5830) should handle the tri monitor setup on a single card. Something to note, they do require you to use at least one Displayport(tm) adapter. Thanks, J

RE: Multi-head video card recommendations?

I believe you. I just found the advert copy humourous. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 4:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Multi-head video card recommend

RE: Multi-head video card recommendations?

They work fine on Win7 Ultimate. Webster From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Subject: RE: Multi-head video card recommendations? "windows vista ready". HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.c

RE: cscript for domain users

Ordinary users can't change the default script host. You could use a GPO startup script to do this. Carl _ From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:jt...@teachtci.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 3:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: cscript for domain users Is it possible to allow domain

RE: Multi-head video card recommendations?

"windows vista ready". HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 3:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Multi-head video card recommendations? I ran

RE: Multi-head video card recommendations?

One card over two? Well, often, even if the two cards are identical, they do not always play nicely together. They're getting better, but we've spent hours on individual machines (supposedly identical new ones) trying to get just one quirky system to take the second card. -- richard Brian Des

RE: Multi-head video card recommendations?

I ran two of these in my Writing PC until about a month ago and never had a problem with them. They drove 2 20" LCD and 1 19" widescreen in portrait mode. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130560 They were replaced with two: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.

Re: Multi-head video card recommendations?

We've been using PNY dual head cards. They use NVidia chips. However, rather than a little fan that burns out (and has the sticker, "SoKool / ULucky"), it has a huge heat sink. I believe we get them for $150-160, and they are pretty reliable. They also come in assorted "PCI Express" flavors

RE: Multi-head video card recommendations?

When I was investigating this for my current machine at home (have 3 screens now), I learned a few things as it applies to Aero in particular. è You need to make sure the cards have matching chips è 512MB is NOT enough on a quad-head card to drive three screens. I ignored this advice and now I

Multi-head video card recommendations?

They're talking (again) about putting three monitors on each of our call center stations. The (dual monitor) video cards we have in the computers now SUCK... fans burn out constantly, always having issues, so I'm looking at replacing current dual-head cards with two dual-heads. (I did find qua

RE: Letter from Sunbelt CEO: GFI Acquires Sunbelt Software - Domain does not exist

The head of Veritas support is the head of GFI support, fwiw. -Original Message- From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 1:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Letter from Sunbelt CEO: GFI Acquires Sunbelt Software - Domain does n

cscript for domain users

Is it possible to allow domain users to cscript to change the default script host? I really don't want to make users local admins on their machines. -Jimmy ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

RE: Back as CTO of eEye

Congrats! Warm regards, Stu -Original Message- From: Marc Maiffret [mailto:mmaiff...@eeye.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 6:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Back as CTO of eEye NTSYSADMIN friends, I first joined this list approx. 10 years ago when I was 17 years old and

RE: Back as CTO of eEye

I hear pythons can help with the gator problem. :) http://www.sptimes.com/2005/10/06/State/Gator_vs_python_ends_.shtml Thanks, Jeff Cain Technical Support Analyst Sunbelt Software Email: supp...@sunbeltsoftware.com Voice: 1-877-757-4094 Fax: 1-727-562-5199 We

Re: Back as CTO of eEye

Gator hunting? - Original Message - From: David To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Back as CTO of eEye Thanks for jumping in, Jeff, I'll do so today, been busy killling alligators David On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:29

RE: encrypting the fax service

Bitlocker the drive? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Bill Songstad [mailto:bsongs...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 12:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: encrypting the fax service I only need to protect the data from someone physicall

Re: encrypting the fax service

Also: http://www.truecrypt.org/ -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Bill Songstad wrote: > WDE ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

Re: encrypting the fax service

I only need to protect the data from someone physically removing the data and attempting to access it off-site. I recognize that the greatest threat to data is from unauthorized access from internal staffers. We (me and the auditors) feel that we have addressed that risk appropriately. However,

Re: encrypting the fax service

Please define "thieves". If you allow access to Domain Users, and a "thief" takes control of a domain account, then you have protected nothing. Please state the nature of the medical security emergency you are trying to address What specific risks are you looking to mitigate? If you are simply

Re: encrypting the fax service

Once they are encrypted, I don't really care who can access them. One domain admin is fine. I could actually tolerate domain users. The reason for encrypting is to keep the data inaccessable to thieves. Authorized users are excluded with ACLs. I'm encrypting the folder with EFS. The cert is as

Re: encrypting the fax service

Who would you like to be able to access them once they are encrypted? With what key are you currently encrypting the folder? -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Bill Songstad wrote: > I have the fax service running on a W2K3 R2 box. It archives all the > inbo

RE: Robocopy /SEC

About 24K files, 3.6GB see below. It looks like all the time is in the "Extras" column. I don't see anything of interest in the event logs of either server or in any DC. -- TotalCopied Skip

Re: Windows 7 Start Menu Items - Clear removed items?

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Wilhelm, Scott wrote: > Does anyone know how to, In Windows 7, clear the personal settings for > programs listed in the start menu that have been removed? (I'm not sure on Win 7, but I think this aspect works the same as for Win XP.) I think what you're talki

encrypting the fax service

I have the fax service running on a W2K3 R2 box. It archives all the inbound faxes to a folder on the box. Works great. But now I want to encrypt the folder where all the faxes are saved, but whenever I ecrypt the folder, the new faxes are saved, have the right file size, appear to be encrypted,

RE: Back as CTO of eEye

+100, Welcome back Marc... Glad to have you in the fold again... Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 -Original Message- From: Sean Rector [mailto:sean.rec...@vaopera.org] Sent: Wednesday, Ju

Re: Back as CTO of eEye

Thanks for jumping in, Jeff, I'll do so today, been busy killling alligators David On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Jeff Cain wrote: > David, > > > > Have you gotten in touch with support or opened a ticket with > us for these problems? I’m sure we can help you get this resolve

RE: Back as CTO of eEye

Welcome back Marc and +eleventy-billion on the title...it definitely should be Chief Hacking Officer...jus' sayin' Sean Rector, MCSE -Original Message- From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Back as

Re: Back as CTO of eEye

This was from Alex. Yes, it's something fubar with our CRM implementation. I'm trying to track this down. Tickets are being seen but there is a problem with routing. From: Network Connection [mailto:netconn...@bellsouth.net] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:37 AM To: Alex Eckelberry

RE: Back as CTO of eEye

You mean GFI, right? J Not saying one way or the other about other products, but MSE has cured the website infection issue around here. From: David [mailto:blazer...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 11:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Back as CTO of eEye Vipre En

RE: Back as CTO of eEye

David, Have you gotten in touch with support or opened a ticket with us for these problems? I'm sure we can help you get this resolved quickly. Thanks, Jeff Cain Technical Support Analyst Sunbelt Software Email: supp...@sunbeltsoftware.com Voice: 1

Re: Back as CTO of eEye

Vipre Enterprise, Vipre Email security. () On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Rod Trent wrote: > Probably the security suites you are using. > > > > *From:* David [mailto:blazer...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 14, 2010 11:16 AM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Back

RE: Back as CTO of eEye

Probably the security suites you are using. From: David [mailto:blazer...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 11:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Back as CTO of eEye Glad you're back, Marc -- Lord knows we need all the help we can get out there. In particular, these web

Re: Back as CTO of eEye

Glad you're back, Marc -- Lord knows we need all the help we can get out there. In particular, these website infections keep getting by my security suites. David On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Marc Maiffret wrote: > NTSYSADMIN friends, > > I first joined this list approx. 10 years ago

RE: Windows 7 Start Menu Items - Clear removed items?

There is no "list of removed items". If there is, how do you access that list? Please try again with the description of what you are looking at and how you want to make it different. It's also not clear from the description so far if you deleted actual shortcuts from the Start Menu under Progr

RE: Windows 7 Start Menu Items - Clear removed items?

I know you can reverse the hiding of items in Control Panel, a quick search didn't find anything about restoring other start menu items. Can you "load up" and modify the image prior to rolling it out? Again you may have to reverse each item by hand. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Ser

RE: Windows 7 Start Menu Items - Clear removed items?

No, that's not what I'm saying. In Windows 7, you can remove items from the start menu by right clicking and removing the item permanently. Unfortunately, while we were setting up our base image, we didn't realize this at first and removed some links to programs link Microsoft Word or others l

RE: Back as CTO of eEye

Welcome back... but in my opinion, Chief Hacking Officer was *THE* title Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' -Original Message- From: Marc Maiffret [mailto:mmaiff...@eeye.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2

RE: Highly-Available Solution for SQL Server

Corny joke but it made you smile, admit it... Shook -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Highly-Available Solution for SQL Server All natural, all the time. Regards, Mi

RE: Highly-Available Solution for SQL Server

All natural, all the time. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Highly-Available Solution

RE: Robocopy /SEC

Sec related traffic that it never had to query against your dc before? From: Ralph Smith [mailto:m...@gatewayindustries.org] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 7:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Robocopy /SEC I've been using RoboCopy for years to copy files from remote offices back to a ser

RE: Highly-Available Solution for SQL Server

Good advice, MBS. You need to listen to him, he knows a lot about natural cluster enhancement... Shook -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 7:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Highly-Available Solution for SQ

RE: Back as CTO of eEye

Great to hear, double M. I look forward to your continued facebook education Shook -Original Message- From: Marc Maiffret [mailto:mmaiff...@eeye.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 6:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Back as CTO of eEye NTSYSADMIN friends, I first joined thi

Powershell Visual Reference

Shiny, shiny! http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=190436 (requires Silverlight-enabled browser) ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

RE: Windows 7 Start Menu Items - Clear removed items?

Maybe I'm not thinking clearly this morning but, I don't quite understand the question. Did you remove the shortcuts to unwanted programs from the Start menu and now want them back? And, do you mean that somehow removing these shortcuts also uninstalled the associated programs completely? There's p

RE: Robocopy /SEC

How much data are you moving? I use /SEC or /COPYALL and I don't see a 24x increase in copying 4-5GB and thousands of files. Anything in the event log of the source, target, or DC's? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From:

RE: Highly-Available Solution for SQL Server

Honestly, web server DOS or DDOS these days is a trivial exercise with the tools and botnets available on the Internet. I think XSS, SQLi are the more prevalent players in the web-server space (on OWASP top 10) where the attacks are just abusing the front-end interface and the manipulating the back

RE: Highly-Available Solution for SQL Server

Mirroring is dead simple to implement though as long as you can tweak the connection string on the client side. If it's a small enough solution I'd definitely go for that if I didn't have the infrastructure and expertise already in place to do clustering. That said I 100% agree that clustering i

RE: Highly-Available Solution for SQL Server

Look at EMC Autostart. We been using Legato co standby, then EMC when they bought Legato. Been using the product for over 10 years now. Solid and works. It does cost some $$$, but a few hours of downtime for us will pay for itself (which it has already). Jacob -Original Message- From:

Windows 7 Start Menu Items - Clear removed items?

Hello: Does anyone know how to, In Windows 7, clear the personal settings for programs listed in the start menu that have been removed? There's programs that we removed as we worked on the image initially, but realized afterwards that in our attempt to ensure the user had a clean start menu, w

Robocopy /SEC

I've been using RoboCopy for years to copy files from remote offices back to a server at the main office and it has worked great. Recently I had to for the first time use the backed up files when rebuilding a server at one of those remote offices and realized that because I was only using the /MIR

RE: Highly-Available Solution for SQL Server

Frankly I doubt web server DOS is the most of your worries. As others have mentioned - clustering will give you almost instantaneous failover between SQL Server nodes. Clustering does require some expertise, but the barriers to entry are much lower now than, say, 5 years ago. You can even virtu

RE: Highly-Available Solution for SQL Server

Clustering can help with the High-Availability aspects, but the web-server frontend needs retry logic in case of a database failover on the backend. Given the requirements, of downtime, and the BIA will determine what technologies to utilize to address your availability needs. Also along

Forcing users to use IE as a published application

My boss bought a WebSense V5000 without checking whether it works with our systems. I've just fired it up and found that the Citrix Plug-In for WebSense only works with XenApp 5, not XenApp 6 which is what we are using. (Being an early adopter sucks). Now, I know he's an idiot for buying it without

Re: Highly-Available Solution for SQL Server

What do you mean "one or two for the SAN"? In the VMWare world, it would require 3. 2 for the VM hosts, and 1 for vCenter. The storage could be shared iSCSI depending on the SQL I/O requirements. Clustering requires shared storage as well. IMO, the best path to a decision is to determine the c