RE: malware that creates Outlook rules

Let me know if you have any questions - I deal with this stuff several times a week. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c   - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 5:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issu

Re: Finding a huge file dump from June...

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 17:25, Michael B. Smith wrote: > In regards to [1], change "-auto" to "-wrap" in the format-table element of > the pipeline. That worked, but not in a way that appealed to me. It keeps output to a column set, rather than doing a complete wrap to the beginning of the line -

RE: malware that creates Outlook rules

That paragraph and the OP's vertical comprises much of what I do every week so like MBS said I assumed some knowledge there. l...@edu is Microsoft's free offering for education for student email. It runs on Exchange 2010 up "in the cloud" and is hosted by Microsoft. OLSync is their term for the

RE: malware that creates Outlook rules

Yes and if you were sneaky you might be able to forward mail to those mailboxes (such as UM data) to the cloud. I'm not sure if the voicemail form would be retained on the remote side, and you'd have a probably with MWIs on your phones and OCS as people would mark messages as read in the cloud b

RE: Finding a huge file dump from June...

In regards to [1], change "-auto" to "-wrap" in the format-table element of the pipeline. In regards to [2], on the out-file element of the pipeline, add "-Encoding ASCII". Have I ever spoken with you about incomplete user requirement documents? :-) :-) :-) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consulta

Re: Finding a huge file dump from June...

Nuts. This works, except for two things: PS K:\Groups> get-childitem k:\groups -force -recurse |? {$_.CreationTime.ToString() -match "^2010-06-2[3-6]" } | format-table creationtime,length,fullname -auto | out-file out.txt 1) The output from the above is truncated - I'm only seeing 150 characters

RE: WMI information gathering

That shouldn't even be on the table. You really want to have your domain admins and server admins thoroughly separated. Not to say a person couldn't be both but you don't want every server admin being a domain admin and often, vice versa. Having to give up admin on all your servers is one thing,

RE: WMI information gathering

2- Never IME, it is a big fight. And they still end up wanting administrator level privs because they can only go so far with delegation via WMI and DCOM. BTDTGTTS Not little guys either, products from HP,IBM,BMC etc. Usually have big time backing from mgmt. Never gave them access to DCs but t

Re: Guilty, will change after reading this.

Yeah APC goes above a lot of the time if it is something real strange. Like a battery that explodes inside the unit after a lightening hit. They seem to really care about how their products do in the strange and unusual. Jon On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:49 PM, wrote: > > No... I was the one who

RE: UGH (Tivoli TSM clients)

What is wrong with "reg delete " ?? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 5:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: UGH (Tivoli TSM clients) So, I need to reinstall the T

RE: malware that creates Outlook rules

I didn't know we were having a contest! Webster > -Original Message- > From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] > Subject: RE: malware that creates Outlook rules > > Take that paragraph out of contest... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: malware that creates Outlook rules

That's awesome. I look forward to playing with it. -Original Message- From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 3:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: malware that creates Outlook rules Yep it's the same set of cmdlets you use for Exchang

RE: malware that creates Outlook rules

Good to know. Is it possible to host additional mailboxes locally just for voicemail/faxes and leave the actual mail in the cloud? Not really UM per se, but it would allow us to get off of our 3rd party voicemail server and auto-attendant and use Exchange's considerably cheaper versions. -

RE: malware that creates Outlook rules

The poster of one of the questions I answered today - I can't remember where - emailed me and said "huh? That wasn't clear". So I rewrote my answer using lots more words. I generally answer questions with short-cut responses, as Brian did, assuming that the OP has most of the knowledge to

RE: malware that creates Outlook rules

Outbound anti-spam: I've been asking sunbelt to add this to Ninja for years. Still waiting on it, and I'm not sure why. In any case, I moved off Ninja and Vipre to Forefront so I'll let someone else continue the wait :). Exchange now has outbound message throttling so you can set limits like x

Re: Finding a huge file dump from June...

I should have *BOLDED* 'edge case'. :) For day to day use, I certainly wouldn't do it. On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > I'm not going to suggest that this doesn't work - because it does. At least where-ever I've tried to use it. > > However, be aware that it is NOT SUPPO

Re: Guilty, will change after reading this.

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle wrote: > 3. During an ACTUAL strike on the structure, the ambient step potential is > several gazillion volts per foot for dozens of yards. Grounding does not > mitigate this fact. Unplugging does not mitigate this fact. This. We had li

RE: malware that creates Outlook rules

Take that paragraph out of contest and it scarcely looks like English... -Original Message- From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 1:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: malware that creates Outlook rules Yep it's the same set of cmdle

Re: Guilty, will change after reading this.

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > I don't know if MOVs are still used in surge protectors, or if they're > sensitive to them, but it's plausible to me that this might be true... Putting cheap MOVs on L-G and N-G is still the most common way to make a TVSS. Especially the cheap

Re: Guilty, will change after reading this.

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Maglinger, Paul wrote: > Interesting, but isn’t A/C power typically a sine wave? Cheaper UPSes use a square or stepped wave as an "approximation". For many types of equipment (in particular, the switching power supplies used in most IT gear), that works just fine

RE: Guilty, will change after reading this.

This is possibly the most plausible explanation I've found about plugging a power strip into a UPS. I know that Metal Oxide Varistors are by design a sacrificial device. Their sole purpose in life is to protect the component or device that lies beyond them. Every time they do their job, even tho

RE: UGH (Tivoli TSM clients)

Can you run the script under the context of LocalSystem and just delete the reg key that way? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 4:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: UGH (Tivoli TSM cl

Re: Guilty, will change after reading this.

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:01 PM, David Lum wrote: > - do not plug surge protectors into a UPS. If they UPS runs on batteries it > will usually generate a step sine wave which may destroy surge protectors It can, in theory, be a problem, although I've never seen it happen. But it's easy enough t

UGH (Tivoli TSM clients)

So, I need to reinstall the Tivoli TSM client on dozens of machines. For the reinstall to work I need to kill one registry key since the uninstaller doesn't nuke it: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_TSM_SCHEDULER_MACHINENAME To delete this key I need to change permis

RE: Finding a huge file dump from June...

I'm not going to suggest that this doesn't work - because it does. At least where-ever I've tried to use it. However, be aware that it is NOT SUPPORTED. Microsoft does not support using versions of the .Net framework later than v2.0 with either PS v1 or PS v2. It is not (and was not) part of th

RE: Desktop/Laptop Backup Software

After looking at the storagecraft product it looks like it would also solve the problem we had during the discussion last week of going back and forth between physical and virtual hardware. -Original Message- From: Jay Dale [mailto:jd...@emlogis.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 3:37

Re: Acronis Backup & Recovery Advanced Workstation 10

I also get that problem Any solution? On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Bob Hartung wrote: > We have it working here. We're running the license server on a Windows > 2003 SP2 server and run the Acronis Mgt Console on it as well. > > I've never seen your error message. Is it possible your proble

RE: malware that creates Outlook rules

Yep it's the same set of cmdlets you use for Exchange (as that's what l...@edu runs on). You can also use the OLSync ILM solution they offer. It's $500 + SQL Std for the ILM licensing but this will do GALSync from your existing AD/Exchange environment in to l...@edu. Thanks, Brian Desmond br..

Re: Acronis + trueimagecmd.exe, + scripting. Any scripted acronis echo bacups?

Ahh yea, I notice about bettween both data and OS backup it is 40 gigs each day, and 20 gig weekly backup (that I keep 4 weeks worth) on a 500 gig NAS, should be enough storage right?? IT a five user office, with small data backups. 7X40gigs + 4 X20 gigs at one time. Plus log files. On Tue, Aug 3

RE: Desktop/Laptop Backup Software

Shadowprotect from Storagecraft works well for me! Jay Dale  Senior Systems Administrator o:713.785.0960 x290 -Original Message- From: Juma, Lumumba [mailto:lcj...@icipe.org] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 6:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Desktop/Laptop Backup Software Hi A

Re: malware that creates Outlook rules

Microsoft also has a similar program for EDUs for hosted mail. http://www.microsoft.com/liveatedu/free-hosted-student-email.aspx They have powershell cmdlets that work over the web for administrator so there should be some ways to accomplish automation of a sort. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org

Win firewall

We've been having intermittent group policy processing errors, other servers losing time sync with domain controllers and just flaky networking issues. Sometimes uses will boot up in the morning, and the mapping to a file share will be gone. Almost every time, rebooting will fix it. While troubl

Re: Guilty, will change after reading this.

A surge protector generally lacks the electronics to care enough at the difference. It would have to be a fairly edge case to destroy something. If a stepped sine wave won't destroy an PSU then a surge protector should for hte most part be fine. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Aug 3,

Re: Finding a huge file dump from June...

Here is an advanced look... For the edge case blogging guys on dotNet4: http://tfl09.blogspot.com/2010/08/using-newer-versions-of-net-with.html http://tfl09.blogspot.com/2010/08/more-on-using-different-versions-of-net.html http://tfl09.blogspot.com/2010/08/using-later-versions-of-net-framework.htm

Re: Finding a huge file dump from June...

We all live in hope. Now at least I have some more ammunition for users. Thanks, Kurt On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:39, Michael B. Smith wrote: > It is truly unfortunate, but that is actually a .NET framework limitation. > > .Net 4, plus a patch, supports "arbitrary length" pathnames (i.e., up to

RE: Guilty, will change after reading this.

Along with the laser printer. From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 10:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Guilty, will change after reading this. Don't plug space heaters into them, either! David Lum wrote on 08/03/20

RE: malware that creates Outlook rules

Most schools I've worked with either have something that plugs in to the message bus of their ERP/SIS system for provisioning to outsourced services, or, more frequently, they have a job which either scans an Oracle table every so often or a batch job on the ERP side that dumps delta flat files

RE: multihomed SQL, same subnet feasible?

I'm lost. What's the second NIC got to do with anything? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c   - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:ma...@usc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 12:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: multihomed SQL, same subn

RE: malware that creates Outlook rules

Currently UM in that scenario isn't possible. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c   - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 4:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: malware that creates Outl

RE: Finding a huge file dump from June...

It is truly unfortunate, but that is actually a .NET framework limitation. .Net 4, plus a patch, supports "arbitrary length" pathnames (i.e., up to the NTFS limits), so I expect "some future version" of PS will too. I'm not promising anything, just hoping. :-) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consult

RE: Guilty, will change after reading this.

I know pretty much nothing about electricity, so this is news to me. I've done this before, like others, in order to allow UPSs to support more devices (without overloading them, of course-I only get the kind with load meters on them). So, a step sine wave created by a UPS could destroy a surge

Re: Acronis + trueimagecmd.exe, + scripting. Any scripted acronis echo bacups?

As long as you have the space to backup the data, there's no particular problem with that. I have a daily script that creates systemstate backups (for the appropriate OSes, of course) and uses the same format.Overwrite the backups named for . This keeps 7 days worth of backups available. -AS

Re: Finding a huge file dump from June...

You Rock. Awesome. BTW: I'm running into lots of these errors: Get-ChildItem : The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters. I keep yelling at people to shorten their

RE: malware that creates Outlook rules

I'm sure it is, and the Va. CC uses PeopleSoft for our Student Info System(SIS) and so they worked together to create an automated process in that, a student applies to the college, registers for classes and the next day, they have the email account active. All this is done via the web. Maybe go

Re: Finding a huge file dump from June...

Heh. I knew that something was available, but didn't have time to research it. Thanks. Kurt On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:19, Rubens Almeida wrote: > You can also replace FindStr with native PowerShell CMDLet > Select-String! I've even created me a nice alias to it suggestively > called "grep" ;)

Re: Finding a huge file dump from June...

That's a nice one-liner Michael! Another nice trick to my PoSh black book! On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > get-childitem k:\groups -force -recurse |? {$_.CreationTime.ToString() -match > "^2010-06-2[0-9]" } | format-table creationtime,length,fullname -auto > > Or select

RE: Finding a huge file dump from June...

get-childitem k:\groups -force -recurse |? {$_.CreationTime.ToString() -match "^2010-06-2[0-9]" } | format-table creationtime,length,fullname -auto Or select-string. No need to drop to findstr. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Origina

Re: Finding a huge file dump from June...

You can also replace FindStr with native PowerShell CMDLet Select-String! I've even created me a nice alias to it suggestively called "grep" ;) On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > I tested this against a small directory, and am now running this: > > PS K:\> get-childitem k:\groups

Re: Finding a huge file dump from June...

I tested this against a small directory, and am now running this: PS K:\> get-childitem k:\groups -force -recurse | format-table creationtime,length,fullname -auto | findstr ^2010-06-2 | findstr /v ^2010-06-20 | findstr /v ^2010-06-21 | findstr /v ^2010-06-22 | findstr /v ^2010-06-23 | findstr /v

Acronis + trueimagecmd.exe, + scripting. Any scripted acronis echo bacups?

So far my script for each day is one image backup OF OS, one image backup of data. Script (I have scripts one for each day of the week). echo Monday Backup W drive "D:\Program Files\Acronis\TrueImageEchoServer\TrueImageCmd.exe" /create /partition:1-1,1-2,1-3 /filename:"w:\OSimageBackup\Monday.tib"

Re: WMI information gathering

I would go and test MBS's suggestion. Either that or I'd set up a standard user account myself and see what needed tweaking to make their WMI stuff work. Procmon may be a particular help here. This reminds me sometimes about the perception of "admin access". When I used to work for a big outsource

RE: WMI information gathering

Scripts can do this - check out the Script-o-matics on the Microsoft scripting pages for both a PowerShell version and a VB Script version. Also, Kim Opalfens has done some really good articles on WMI recently: http://www.myitforum.com/absolutenm/default.aspx?zoneid=89&search=Kim+Oppalf ens --

Re: WMI information gathering

Exactly! Which is why we're trying to figure out if we can comply, by letting them get whatever info they need, without giving them the keys to our domain... >>> James Rankin 8/3/2010 11:38 AM >>> Domain Admin access not a big deal? Morons. I wouldn't let any third parties near a Domain Admin a

Re: WMI information gathering

Domain Admin access not a big deal? Morons. I wouldn't let any third parties near a Domain Admin account. On 3 August 2010 19:15, Joseph Heaton wrote: > 1. Yes, we are required to do this. It's supposed to be for information > gathering only, but we're trying to cover our backsides, in case th

Re: Guilty, will change after reading this.

I have used the board room analogy for surge protectors into UPSs as using a stack of coffee filters in the coffee maker basket. If one filter is good, then 10 should be great, right ? But what happens, you impede the proper flow through the filter. I know, a crude analogy that is not technicall

Re: WMI information gathering

Orion is our internal benefit to implementing WMI, but the outside people coming in and wanting to use it to gather some mysterious, as of yet undefined, information is what concerns us. >>> Steven Peck 8/3/2010 11:21 AM >>> Oh. Orion. Yes, that response is somehow not a surprise to me. On T

RE: Guilty, will change after reading this.

We replaced a UPS for a client where the old unit was used on a ship. Due to the fact the unit was not suitable it failed and left a diver at the bottom of the sea - they had to resort to tugging on ropes to get the guy back! They also had the most important bit of equipment plugged into the sur

Re: WMI information gathering

Oh. Orion. Yes, that response is somehow not a surprise to me. On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Joseph Heaton wrote: > 1.  Yes, we are required to do this.  It's supposed to be for information > gathering only, but we're trying to cover our backsides, in case they mess > something up. >     Y

RE: Guilty, will change after reading this.

We actually had a cabling contractor come in one time that plugged a fiber termination heater into a UPS that powered the main switch for a large 4 story multi-tenant building. Fortunately it didn't cause any damage - all it did was overload the UPS and consequently the switch lost power. Needle

Re: WMI information gathering

1. Yes, we are required to do this. It's supposed to be for information gathering only, but we're trying to cover our backsides, in case they mess something up. Yes, we can gain benefit, in that we can use this to get WMI access for our Orion product. 2. Documentation is a difficult thin

Re: Guilty, will change after reading this.

I would. Even if something like that is a 'no no', I can imagine it would disturb APC to no end that it happened without the unit shutting itself off at all. The closest I had was when I very forcefully explained to the electrician that he could NOT plug his drill into my UPS and he could get a d

Re: Guilty, will change after reading this.

No... I was the one who had to console the poor student (giving the melted mass time to cool down) and then contact APC. You'd not believe it, but APC actually wanted to look at the unit to see why the breaker did not trip. They actually replaced it with a new one! Joseph Heaton wrote on 08/

Re: WMI information gathering

To be honest the real questions are; 1. Are you required to do this? (Usually yes) - if yes, can you gain benefit? (Usually you can) 2. Do they have documentation on least privilege necessary for their tools to run? On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Free, Bob wrote: > My experience with WMI

Re: Guilty, will change after reading this.

http://thomaswilburn.net/source/images/sample_sine.jpg A utility company sine wave is the blue line. The gray represents a stepped sine wave. In reality the utility output is generally full of jagged spikes :) On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Maglinger, Paul wrote: > Interesting, but isn’t A/C

RE: Guilty, will change after reading this.

Ditto. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Jeff Cain [mailto:je...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 1:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Guilty, will change after reading this. When the UPS switches to battery power, it _can_ cause a dip or a spike which the sur

multihomed SQL, same subnet feasible?

Per subject line, as I've never dealt with a multiple NIC SQL server where both NICs are on the same IP range before. I have a situation where a production SQL instance has gone offline, and I lack the budget or time to simply replace it (out of warranty hardware, of course.). I DO have anothe

RE: Guilty, will change after reading this.

Neither have I, but I have clients that are not immediately accessible to me and some of them have 2-3 power outages/year, long enough for the UPS to send a shutdown to systems. I *think* I'm ok for most of them but I wouldn't be surprised if somewhere I have a surge protector plugged into a UPS

RE: Guilty, will change after reading this.

When the UPS switches to battery power, it _can_ cause a dip or a spike which the surge protector may react to. I believe each time they do this it degrades the unit until it fails completely. I'm guilty of this too, but I've never had an issue with it. :) Thanks, Jeff Cain - supp...@sunbeltso

Re: Guilty, will change after reading this.

A stepped sine wave isn't really a sine wave. It's a multi-part set of square waves that somewhat approximate a since wave, and there are some electronic components that don't like them. I don't know if MOVs are still used in surge protectors, or if they're sensitive to them, but it's plausible to

Re: Guilty, will change after reading this.

Make sure you always plug your copiers and laser printers into UPSs. :-P - Original Message - From: Maglinger, Paul To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 1:31 PM Subject: RE: Guilty, will change after reading this. Interesting, but isn't A/C power typica

RE: Guilty, will change after reading this.

Interesting, but isn't A/C power typically a sine wave? Or is it implying that the UPS generates a "special" sine wave that is different than what the utility company generates? 60Hz is the norm, is it not? Surge strips are typically no more than some metal oxide varistors placed across hot, neut

RE: WMI information gathering

My experience with WMI and CMDB or security scanner products tells me you are out of luck, at some point, the information they require is situated such that they require admin privs just to be able to read it. -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesd

RE: WMI information gathering

A quick Google for "wmi access non administrator" turned up quite a lot of hits, a number of which look like HowTo docs.. -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 1:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: WMI information gathe

RE: WMI information gathering

Yes. You can give them a normal domain user's account and then set a GPO that assigns security via "WMI Control" at the root to give that user full read access. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton

Re: WMI information gathering

Anyone have any idea on this one? >>> Joseph Heaton 8/2/2010 3:42 PM >>> We have a group that wants to come in, and "scan our servers" to gather information. We want to cooperate with this effort, but we don't want to give them access to be able to write back to the servers. Is this possible?

Re: Guilty, will change after reading this.

Personal mishap, Richard? >>> 8/3/2010 10:06 AM >>> Don't plug space heaters into them, either! David Lum wrote on 08/03/2010 12:01:04 PM: > - do not plug surge protectors into a UPS. If they UPS runs on > batteries it will usually generate a step sine wave which may > destroy surge protecto

RE: malware that creates Outlook rules

Actually this was happening all weekend. I was chasing my tail so hard I didn't think to e-mail this list until Monday. Lesson learned. Just to wrap up: thanks to Glen, Scott, Thomas, and anyone else who suggested the spam was coming from OWA via phished accounts. I looked at the IIS logs on

Re: Guilty, will change after reading this.

Don't plug space heaters into them, either! David Lum wrote on 08/03/2010 12:01:04 PM: > - do not plug surge protectors into a UPS. If they UPS runs on > batteries it will usually generate a step sine wave which may > destroy surge protectors (in particular tricky to find power strips > witho

Guilty, will change after reading this.

- do not plug surge protectors into a UPS. If they UPS runs on batteries it will usually generate a step sine wave which may destroy surge protectors (in particular tricky to find power strips without surge protector) http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=9319 David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NOR

Re: Desktop/Laptop Backup Software

BackupPC is a Linux based backup solution which I like for backing up laptops/desktops on at a file-based level. Version 3.2 was released a few days ago. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ Pros: * Free! (in both senses) * File-based full and incremental backups with versioning. * File-based de-

RE: Hyper-V and 'Default Gateway'

Then, there is no need for the IPs (host and guest) to be on the same subnet. The NIC that is used for the guests needs to be allocated to one VLAN (on your L3 switch, or otherwise connected to the appropriate interface on your router), and the NIC used by the host needs to be patched to a swit

RE: malware that creates Outlook rules

Hmm, interesting. I like that. Of course, setting it up for all students automatically might prove to be tricky. -Original Message- From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 6:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: malware that creates Outlook ru

Re: Hyper-V and 'Default Gateway'

The box has four NICs in it. Although we currently only have two connected, one is the "Host NIC" and the other is used for the different virtual machines. We have two others we can grow into as need arises. Our Network department charges us per network connection, so we are trying to limit our

Re: Desktop/Laptop Backup Software

Acronis workstation does image backups and can be centrally managed, but costs $74 US per license (per the website). I use it on my $WORK computer and it has been excellent. I have played around with Storegrid ( http://www.storegrid.com/online-backup/network-backup.php) and Robobak ( http://www.r

RE: Favs gone as result of KB2286198?

Reboot fixed it. Wonder why my box didn't, nor was I given notification I needed to... I don't appear to have had anything open that would have prevented it, altho it does look like Security Essentials may have been in the middle of a scan. Thanks all. -sc From: Steven M. Caesare [mailt

RE: Favs gone as result of KB2286198?

Windows XP SP3, IE 7.0. Favs still here, no probs. From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 8:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Favs gone as result of KB2286198? Well, that's interesting: Windows Update grabbed KB2286198 (the .lnk shell

RE: Favs gone as result of KB2286198?

Blank completely... no reverting. -sc From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 10:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Favs gone as result of KB2286198? No such behavior here on both Pro and Home versions of Win7 x64. I installed it manu

RE: Favs gone as result of KB2286198?

Three or four so far all windows 7 64-Bit, and all have come up just fine, Favorites are still there. From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 8:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Favs gone as result of KB2286198? Well, that's interesting: Wind

Re: Holy mother of Vlad Tepes...

No, I had quite forgotten... Thanks for reactivating that portion of my brain. There are other things there which were better left dormant. :) -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > Don’t you remember tape sorts? > > > > If you have two s

RE: Favs gone as result of KB2286198?

All my IE faves are still there on my Win7 Ult x64 laptop. Webster From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Subject: Favs gone as result of KB2286198? Well, that's interesting: Windows Update grabbed KB2286198 (the .lnk shell vuln fix) for me last night on my Win7x64 bo

Re: Favs gone as result of KB2286198?

No such behavior here on both Pro and Home versions of Win7 x64. I installed it manually on a couple of machines and each required a reboot. When they came back up the favorites were still there. (Though I don't have many because I rarely use IE.) Are they gone, gone, or did they revert to the

RE: Favs gone as result of KB2286198?

Well, on my XP (SP3) box, my favorites are still here, and my box *did* reboot overnight. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 9:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Favs gone as result of KB2286198? Well, that

RE: Favs gone as result of KB2286198?

Win7 32-bit here, favs still there, although I rebooted right away after install. 64-bit box at home, will see what happened after I installed last night (at shutdown). Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon,

Favs gone as result of KB2286198?

Well, that's interesting: Windows Update grabbed KB2286198 (the .lnk shell vuln fix) for me last night on my Win7x64 box. Now all my IE favorites are gone. It doesn't appear as if the box rebooted after the hotfix install. Anybody else? Perhaps I'll reboot the box. -sc ~ Finally

RE: Holy mother of Vlad Tepes...

Don't you remember tape sorts? If you have two sets of sorted data, "A" and "B", creating a joined set of sorted data "C" involves only comparing one record each of "A" and "B" to determine which goes first. Then iterate. You can optimize that by retaining indices for each set of sorted data.

Re: Desktop/Laptop Backup Software

Not centrally managed, but we use Syncback (freeware) on our laptops to automagically backup the local Docs & Settings folders to the server when they log in to the network. Desktop users know their locally stored files are at risk and are instructed to always save on the server shares. Die dulc

RE: Desktop/Laptop Backup Software

Centrally managed backups will be a better option, cant be too sure with users doing it themselves. I'd appreciate your proposals for image-based backup solns as well. Costs will determine what to go for. From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Tue

Re: Finding a huge file dump from June...

Treesize Pro has a file search utility that let's you specify date ranges based on creation, changed and last access dates as well as name, size range, attributes and ownership. -- Bob Hartung Wisco Industries, Inc. 736 Janesville St. Oregon, WI 53575 Tel: (608) 835-3106 x21

Re: Desktop/Laptop Backup Software

Are you looking to centrally manage the backups, or would each one backing up independently to a common storage area be good enough? Are you looking primarily for file based backup for important data, or do you need the up-and-running-quickly convenience of image based backup? On Tue, Aug 3, 2010

RE: Finding a huge file dump from June...

We're running Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 on one of our file servers here. As somewhat mentioned in the article, the reports are good but can be misleading. The reports are based on file ownership. If you have quotas set up for your user's home directories and all of the files in the direc

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