RE: URL length in IE Favourite GPOs

Alas it's a javascript link being used as a bookmarklet and doesn't seem to work well when redirected. :( -- G2 Support Network Support : Online Backups : Server Management Web: www.g2support.com Twitter: g2support Newsletter: www.g2support.com/newsle

Re: Consultants

On 4 Oct 2010 at 9:09, Sam Cayze wrote: > Oops, wrong one! > http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/100210/ I much prefer the flashing-gif-ad-free version http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/100210/consulting-consultant.gif -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 Security Blo

Re: Opinions on Netbooks...

On 4 Oct 2010 at 22:48, Matt Cross wrote: > I actually do ok with Office 2010 -- the trick is in managing the > running apps while using Office. Biggest problem with running Office on the X-by-600-pixel screens is that many Office config dialogs are larger than 600 pixels and can't be resized d

Re: Opinions on Netbooks...

Thanks, that's great information. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District On Oct 4, 2010, at 7:47 PM, Matt Cross wrote: > The U120 from early 2009. > > 1 gb ram > > Changed o/s from xp to Win 7 HP 32-bit > > Runs great as a quick trip system, as a presentation system, and as a > troubleshootin

RE: Set password that doesn't meet complexity policy

I'm virtualizing what I can, but I've got stuff spread far outside my data centers. I am starting to put some of the remote sites on 2008 R2 Hyper-V clusters, and I think that is going to work out pretty well. -Malcolm From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 04,

Re: Opinions on Netbooks...

I actually do ok with Office 2010 -- the trick is in managing the running apps while using Office. -- Matt Cross mailto:mrforkl...@gmail.com On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Matthew W. Ross wrote: > I had no preconceived notion of running Office on one of these. I think a web > browser might

Re: Opinions on Netbooks...

The U120 from early 2009. 1 gb ram Changed o/s from xp to Win 7 HP 32-bit Runs great as a quick trip system, as a presentation system, and as a troubleshooting system. -- Matt Cross mailto:mrforkl...@gmail.com On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Matthew W. Ross wrote: > There are a few MSI win

Re: OT: DataMax thermal printers

On Mon October 4 2010, you wrote: > Turns out that DataMax Thermal printers quickly wear out if they have to > print excessively large and annoying eMail signatures. Has anyone there > been doing this? If so I'd go for the large LCD screen then. Otherwise > you won't be able to see the entire sig.

RE: Speaking of Drobo ... (was: SAN question)

As I understand it, a Drobo will intelligently use a combination of raid5 and mirroring. If you have one 500 GB, one 2 TB and two 1 TB drives, You'll wind up with a 3 disk raid 5 across the two 1 TB and half of the 2 TB, plus a mirror of the 500 GB with half space the remaining on the 2 TB drive. 2

Re: Opinions on Netbooks...

I had no preconceived notion of running Office on one of these. I think a web browser might be the heaviest application I would want to run on one. My question is trying to find the line where the OS no linger feels sluggish. If I need the machine running quickly, will I need the 2 gigs or will

Re: Opinions on Netbooks...

I´m used to the Acer ones. Tried some HP minis, but while the keyboard had that space between the keys you talk, the touchpad was too narrow, and the button position seemed wrong, also. One thing that we had to insert into our group is that the netbooks where meant for that, troubleshooting an

Re: Set password that doesn't meet complexity policy

Virtualize what you can in 2008. It has it quirks but it seemed to me to be better than 2003. I have not done any testing on 2008 R2 or 2003 R2. Jon On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Malcolm Reitz wrote: > That’s what I thought. I’m pushing our move to 2008, but it’s a long road > – lots of old

Re: Opinions on Netbooks...

There are a few MSI wind netbook models... Can you tell me which model your running? Which OS? How much Ram? --Matt Ross Ephrata School District On Oct 4, 2010, at 3:32 PM, Matt Cross wrote: > I have one from MSI -- good keyboard, decent screen, decent performance > > > -- > Matt Cross > ma

Re: OT: DataMax thermal printers

Turns out that DataMax Thermal printers quickly wear out if they have to print excessively large and annoying eMail signatures. Has anyone there been doing this? If so I'd go for the large LCD screen then. Otherwise you won't be able to see the entire sig. On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 3:14 PM, John Aldr

Re: Opinions on Netbooks...

I have one from MSI -- good keyboard, decent screen, decent performance -- Matt Cross mailto:mrforkl...@gmail.com On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Matthew W. Ross wrote: > Hey list, > > I'm curious if any of you have experience with a variety of netbooks. I'm > considering the purchase of one

Opinions on Netbooks...

Hey list, I'm curious if any of you have experience with a variety of netbooks. I'm considering the purchase of one as my mobile troubleshooting workstation, such as IP-Camera configuration, Network Device configuration (over local serial port), etc. Here's my questions: I don't think I'll be

RE: OT: DataMax thermal printers

Thank you. You're correct. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 5:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: DataMax thermal printers For future reference, what you should've done is: Anyone have any of these printers? Please contact me

Re: OT: DataMax thermal printers

For future reference, what you should've done is: Anyone have any of these printers? Please contact me off list so I can discuss some questions I have about them with you. On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 3:14 PM, John Aldrich wrote: > Hey, everyone… > > We have a DMX-600 here that the print head is goi

RE: OT: DataMax thermal printers

No, but the engineers and/or production team can...if you can get that far. Ant it isn't that they can't tell you, it's that they probably WON'T tell you one way or the other, unless you happen to know or work with the engineer(s) quite a bit at a personal level. Also, in manufacturing, there m

RE: OT: DataMax thermal printers

Well, that wasn't the question I had... the question I had was whether there was any functional difference. I finally got a response from the VAR stating that the only real difference was the size of the LCD screen. :-) -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschoo

RE: OT: DataMax thermal printers

Actually, they did, but I'm kind of impatient... I sent them an email earlier this afternoon, then decided to see if anyone here had any knowledge of them. :-) -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 4:36 PM To: NT System Admin Is

Re: OT: DataMax thermal printers

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 3:14 PM, John Aldrich wrote: > Our VAR says that the tall LCD version isn’t going to be > available until the end of this month, but we can get the > small-LCD version within a week. I just need to know if > there is any real difference between the two besides the > LCD size

Re: OT: DataMax thermal printers

As with most "odd parts", I always assume that different models take the different parts. In other words, assume the worst. I've had parts from the same model of product not work with different _revisions_ of the same hardware. That being said, the manufacturer can't tell you if the parts are i

RE: URL length in IE Favourite GPOs

Substitute a link from tinyurl.com, or create your own public facing page if it must be trusted with a list of links on that page. You could also create a page for each link that auto redirects if you want to be slick... Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians

URL length in IE Favourite GPOs

Hi, Has anyone noticed that URLs inserted in to a favourite entry of an IE GPO appears to be cut off? It appears to have a limit of about 50 characters. After that the end user gets the favourite but the URL gets cut off. Anyone know a way around it at all ? Olly [cid:personal229.jpg] [cid:g

RE: Question on "Users" folder on Windows 2008 server

I think the secret lies in the new way permissions are being handled to "improve" security. Try accessing the real Users folder from within "Documents and Settings". One of my associates found several ways to gain permissions to the "Users" folder on Google. From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@h

Re: Question on "Users" folder on Windows 2008 server

No, I've found it to be quite a PITA. So if you go to C:\ and select Properties on the "Users" folder you still can't see permissions? I just looked on my server, but it's R2, I wouldn't think that would make a difference...but it might. If you can access the "Users" folder you could take owners

OT: DataMax thermal printers

Hey, everyone. We have a DMX-600 here that the print head is going bad quickly. According to the manufacturer, that model is discontinued and parts aren't even available for it any longer. According to our VAR, the replacement is an H-6308. There are apparently two configurations for this, one wit

Re: Question on "Users" folder on Windows 2008 server

Correct, I cannot. This is the "Users" folder on Windows 2008 servers. However Windows won't let you change perms on the Users folder. At least it refuses to do so for me. Is it me or is it sorta dumb that administrators can't administer a server's profiles? Tom >>> William Robbins 10/4/2

RE: Set password that doesn't meet complexity policy

That's what I thought. I'm pushing our move to 2008, but it's a long road - lots of older hardware that needs to be replaced. -Malcolm From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 12:06 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Set password that doesn'

Re: Question on "Users" folder on Windows 2008 server

Ah, gotcha. In that case you will have to either take ownership or add DA to the security on the profiles you wish to access. I'm guessing presently you cannot even view the security tab to verify permissions? - WJR On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 13:37, Tom Miller wrote: > Thanks. I can access the

Re: Question on "Users" folder on Windows 2008 server

Thanks. I can access the remote profile path, it's just the local profiles that I cannot access. Administrators are already in the GPO to have perms to the profile path. >>> William Robbins 10/4/2010 2:29 PM >>> I've had similar behavior with our profiles. Tell me, when you look at the fo

Re: Question on "Users" folder on Windows 2008 server

I've had similar behavior with our profiles. Tell me, when you look at the folders do you see the lock icon on the folders? What we did was change the GPO settings to add the Administrators security group to the roaming user profile share. as mentioned in this article: http://technet.microsoft.co

Question on "Users" folder on Windows 2008 server

Folks, A few of my XenApp users are having profile issues. I use roaming profiles, and they seem to work, although the local size is always larger than the network profile size (temp files, etc). Anyway I need to access a few of the local profilese on these XenApp (2008 not R2) servers. I

Re: outbound smtp broke (connection to host lost-fixed)

Appreciate the feedback from everyone. I just figured out the problem. We have an internet filter appliance that is in-line right before the firewall. Servers/Network--->Filter Appliance--->Firewall--->Internet The filter was changed the other day with a setting that blocked all non-HTTP traffi

RE: Set password that doesn't meet complexity policy

Server 2008 and above - yes http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770842(WS.10).aspx Note: there are loads of utilities around (specifically, check out joeware.net) to make this easier to do. Below that - no. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://T

Re: outbound smtp broke (connection to host lost)

Are you using a mail services (postini) to check your outbound mail, if so is your account ok with them, have you tested from outside using a site like http://mxtoolbox.com HTH, Bob Smith -- From: Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 10:50 AM To: "NT

Re: IE6 and IE8 printing and shrink-to-page

What happens when you use Firefox 3.6.6 or the 4.0 Beta release? Have you tried to update your printer drivers? My issue is when I print out the FedEx label on my laser printer, I have to increase the size from 100% to 125% because the print is too small on 100%. I know this happened when I went

Set password that doesn't meet complexity policy

I have some special requirements for AD accounts which will need passwords that don't meet our domain's password complexity policy. Is there any good way to create these accounts and with the desired passwords without going through a disable complexity, create account/pw, re-enable complexity proce

Re: outbound smtp broke (connection to host lost)

Test your connection to these remote servers without going through the firewall. Check the firewall logs, etc. It seems that there is some issue going on with the firewall. *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Mon, O

RE: outbound smtp broke (connection to host lost)

Thanks for the reply. The PC uses a different firewall rule than the 2 servers, but I moved one of the exch servers to the rule the PC was using (which is an allow-all outbound) and the problem still existed when i tested that last night. The exchange 2003 server CAN telnet into the 2007 server w

re: outbound smtp broke (connection to host lost)

Run the Exchange troubleshooting tool http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=4bdc1d6b-de34-4f1c-aeba-fed1256caf9a&displaylang=en It will help you figure out what direction you need to go. Thanks, Jason ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: outbound smtp broke (connection to host lost)

If you were on a DNS blacklist I would expect you to get a clean 5xx reject, not a disconnect. I'd be looking at your firewall. Do your Exchange servers go out through the same rule as your PC does? Do both servers talk happily enough to each other or is it only when it's to external servers?

RE: outbound smtp broke (connection to host lost)

I'm grasping too right now, lol. We have static IPs btw. And all the tests I've done for blacklists show we're OK - including the link you passed along. (grumble) J Original Message: - From: John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 11:38:55 -0400 To: ntsys

RE: outbound smtp broke (connection to host lost)

Note, I'm just grasping at straws here... you could also check http://www.dnsbl.info/dnsbl-database-check.php to see if you are listed in *any* database. I'm sure that's not a complete list, but it's on that checks a large number of lists from one site. -Original Message- From: John

RE: outbound smtp broke (connection to host lost)

Is your Ex 2003 server set up as your mail host in DNS? Also, are you on a static IP or a dynamic IP? If the latter, that could be the problem. Some places won't accept SMTP connections from a dynamic IP, although if that's the case why you can telnet on port 25 from your desktop, but not on the

Re: IE6 and IE8 printing and shrink-to-page

I always print to PDF or print in landscape mode when printing from IE. IE printing has annoyed me for a long time. *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Oliver Marshall < oliver.marsh...@

Re: Sharepoint questions

I would check with your Great Plains consultant to ensure that any third party tools are updated for 2010. Books - the 2010 books are just starting to come out in full force. A few have been out a bit, but remember those were likely based on beta and RC versions. While the GUI has changed quite

outbound smtp broke (connection to host lost)

Stuck on this one. (1) Exch 2003 server that is my SMTP outbound connector (1) Exch 2007 server that only hosts mailboxes For some reason my Exch 2003 server stopped sending outbound emails on Friday. All messages are getting stuck in the queue and show "the connection was dropped by the remot

RE: Consultants

Beautiful! And so timely. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 9:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Consultants On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Sam Cayze wrote: > http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/100210/ I pref

Re: Visio Network Stencils

There are some nice vmware stencils here .. used to be on the viops site but it looks like they have been pulled. http://technodrone.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-visio-stencils-again.html . Netapp, Cisco, HP, Dell, etc. all have stencils packs free to download. _

Re: Consultants

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Sam Cayze wrote: > http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/100210/ I prefer: http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/posters/58fc/zoom -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Consultants

Hey! I resemble that remark! :-) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 10:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Consultants Oops, w

RE: Consultants

Oops, wrong one! http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/100210/ -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2010 11:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Consultants Related OT: http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/100310/ -Orig

RE: Visio Network Stencils

Cool, that works. Hey do you know what the best way to apply notes to shapes/stencils are? I have am trying to use an excel sheet and link the details but when I do the data graphics don't get formatted worth a darn? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa701255%28office.12%29.aspx Figure 1a

Re: Sharepoint questions

2010 most likely since we are not using Share Point otherwise. >>> Kevin Lundy 10/3/2010 7:24 PM >>> Are you going to be using 2007 or 2010? On 10/3/10, Tom Miller wrote: > Hi Folks, > > We have a project here to start Sharepoint. It will start with integration > with Great Plains, then othe

RE: Visio Network Stencils

www.visiocafe.com is a good starting point. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2010 5:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Visio Network Stencils Never