I got my job partially because I implemented a copy of Bugzilla into a
ticketing system for our school district. We still use it and haven't found an
alternative ticketing system, yet. It has saved us a ton of paperwork, as well
as kept us very productive.
I don't know much about the current
We've been using System Center Service Manager as our helpdesk / change
control / asset management / workflow solution of late. If you are familiar
with SCOM (or maybe even if you're not), it's quite easy to get it up and
running. I've been very impressed so far. Not sure if it's exactly what
I've been working with SCSM as well the past few months and I've been pretty
pleased with it, especially for a v1 product coming out of MS. It's one of
those products that does a lot out of the box, but, if you can wrap your head
around the whole thing you can customize it to do nearly
They do look legit. Both stand-alone as well as when compared to other from
mail-nore...@google.com. I checked it visually myself, as well as ran it
through multiple spam analyzers.
I'd be particularly disturbed that the address level5@gmail.com exists.
Or could this be a solicitation to
No, but it's been so long since this I did this, I had to re-read and you do
need to automate both stages.
jlc
From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:jt...@teachtci.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 10:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Win7 and WDS automated deployment
My process is to just
It's here! It's here!
From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 5:58 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless
Nope one more day, sorry.
Jon
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
Is MDT2010 out of the question?
T
typed slowly on HTC Desire
On 15 Oct 2010 05:07, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote:
The chm that comes with the AIK is pretty clear in what it requires to
fully automate the setup and I have done this with vista numerous times but
the boot image
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
jra...@eaglemds.com wrote:
Thanks – had a spam filter issue after upgrading, but it is now resolved. I
could send, but was not receiving!
Sounds like the way most spammers operate.
-- Ben
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that
Haven't ever looked at it, this has to be done by the weekend:(
Worth looking into when I have time? I have only ever used WDS alone...
jlc
From: Tony Patton [mailto:apco...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 6:01 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Win7 and WDS automated deployment
Reading through technet and the part that attempts to point to more
documentation on this is actually a circular link:(
It states that Win7 etc needs an unsecure domain join, I am prestaging my
accounts using the mac so I can control naming.
Anyone know the black magic here to get the domain
+1.
Not free by any means. But if you are already using System Center Config
Manager and Operations Manager, it fits nicely.
Have to admit, System Center is actually one of the best products Microsoft
has developed.
From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Thursday,
Does it still really count as v1 if it has been in development for 5 years? :)
I think it might be on v3 or v4 by now, it's just a matter of v1-3 being so bad
they were never released.
Tim
From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com]
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 1:56 AM
To: NT System
Ok, who the heck would have thought that Friday is actually a Monday in
disguise!
After totally changing the permissions on everyones home directories using
Robocopy...I figured I'd better ask. I'm moving some leftover home
directories from one server to another and got the bright idea to use
It's definitely worth looking into. At my last place we used it to deploy
XP, but its geared more towards Vista/7. It still uses WDS to pxe boot, but
after that its all handled by mdt, definitely worth the time to set it up.
Not that there's a lot too it.
The advantage that it gave us was the
What do you mean, it's SMS with more stuff, and SMS has been around a long
time...
David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764
From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com]
Sent: Friday, October
It's really not. Service Manager is a new product unto itself which has gone
through many different major iterations while in development. Keep in mind that
SM was being worked on prior to System Center being around. The fact that the
team started out working in an SMS world and ended up in a
and with that, I am looking to upgrade our aging SMS SP2 to SCCM...I need
to get moving, we've already bought the licensing! Problem is I didn't set up
our SMS environment - I inherited it - so am not sure the best way to attack
it...
David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER
NORTHWEST EVALUATION
First, I never move, I always copy then delete the original. (yeah, I
know, hindsight and all)
Second, it's been a looong time since I used this, but it seems that
there were some checkbox options for subdirectories somewhere. I'll
poke around and see if I can find my installation of it and
Make sure you do the checkbox for /s or /e for the subdirectories.
From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com]
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 11:34 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Robocopy
First, I never move, I always copy then delete the original. (yeah, I
know,
I've never used the gui before - but if it's similar then the /s or whatever
option or checkbox for subdirectory should get your files there and not wipe
out
your already existing permissions.
From: Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.com
To: NT System Admin Issues
/S /E
Just like with XCOPY
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On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.comwrote:
First, I never move, I always copy then delete the original. (yeah, I
know,
I thought that the /copyall would copy everything over (directories,
security, files) and create the folders on the fly?
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote:
/S /E
Just like with XCOPY
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Service Manager is a (mid-level) Help Desk/Service Desk product, not a software
management product...
It was, abortively, released to testers/EAs etc. in the past, but then pulled
due to various issues (functionality, integration, performance) etc.
Cheers
Ken
From: David Lum
That's not what the parameter is about:
/COPY:copyflag[s] :: what to COPY for files (default is /COPY:DAT).
(copyflags : D=Data, A=Attributes, T=Timestamps).
(S=Security=NTFS ACLs, O=Owner info, U=aUditing
info).
/DCOPY:T :: COPY
Copyall is just about what file attributes to copy.
http://ss64.com/nt/robocopy.html
From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 1:42 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Robocopy
I thought that the /copyall would copy everything over (directories,
Is Service Manager a stand-alone product?
Roger Wright
___
Life isn't like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of jalapenos: what
you do today might burn your butt tomorrow.
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote:
Service Manager is a (mid-level)
Kind of. It hooks into OpsMgr, ConfigMgr, and Active Directory.
http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/service-manager.aspx
There's an eval version for download.
From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 2:21 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
I have a native 2008 domain, I want to move to R2 AD. None of my existing DC's
are 64 bit. Do I need to run adprep to go to R2, I would think so. From where
would I run it?
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~
Wouldn't you just run it from one of your existing domain controllers.
That's what you do going from 03 to 08, would it be any different?
From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 1:50 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
There is a 32 bit version of adprep, and it's on the R2 dvd I believe.
Yeah, that bit of info was not apparent.
--Matt Ross
Ephrata School District
- Original Message -
From: Kennedy, Jim
[mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]
To: NT System Admin Issues
Make sure you run it from your schema master.
Greg Sweers
CEO
ACTS360.com
P.O. Box 1193
Brandon, FL 33509
813-657-0849 Office
813-758-6850 Cell
813-341-1270 Fax
-Original Message-
From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org]
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 2:55 PM
To: NT
Hey John - any luck?
Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
Technology Coordinator
Eagle Physicians Associates, PA
jra...@eaglemds.comBLOCKED::mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com
www.eaglemds.comBLOCKED::http://www.eaglemds.com/
From: John Hornbuckle
Got it, thank you's to all three of you.
-Original Message-
From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net]
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 3:02 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: 2008 to R2 adprep
Make sure you run it from your schema master.
Greg
Today, one of my technicians disabled the wired interfaces on a few machines.
It'll take a little testing to see if this fixes things.
But I've had some other thoughts about this, relating to the wireless
network-so I'm trying a couple of other tricks.
I'll definitely post an update to the
Does anyone see any problem with bringing my first R2 DC up from scratch rather
than upgrading a standard 2008 DC?
-Original Message-
From: Kennedy, Jim
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 3:02 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: 2008 to R2 adprep
Got it, thank you's to all three of
Most people agree it's best practice to start fresh.
-Original Message-
From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 2:21 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: 2008 to R2 adprep (one more question)
Does anyone see any problem with
But you could use it without the first two at least. You get a lot more value
when you tie it in to those since it can consume and push data to/from the
other System Center products.
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com
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From: Rod Trent
Me too. Just something about this one has me on edge. :)
-Original Message-
From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com]
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 3:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: 2008 to R2 adprep (one more question)
Most people agree it's best practice to start
Agreed don't inplace it. Makes a mess.
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com
w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132
-Original Message-
From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com]
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 12:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: 2008 to R2 adprep
Besides you said all your 08 DC's are 32Bit. There's no upgrade path for x32
08 server to x64 08r2, even if your hardware is x64.
-Original Message-
From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 2:29 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE:
All,
Early last week, I set up a GPO to setup WSUS entries for
workstations. I've probably fubar'ed something, but I can't figure it
out.
The issue today is that I've got some random updates (starting last
night and continuing on through today) installing and rebooting
machines - I haven't yet
Why can't you export the GPO settings from the GPMC?
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On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
All,
Early last week, I set up a GPO to setup WSUS entries
Cloning a hard drive with permissions in order to speed up a P2V
migration on a server with a 250GB D: Drive
I'm cloning the D: disk ahead of time to a VMDK, so that when it comes
to the P2V Process, I can just do the C: Drive - saving a ton of
downtime.
I'm doing this while files on the
Because I'm a complete idio^H^H^H^newb at GPO stuff, and didn't know?
I even googled, and didn't find that, but it's completely obvious once
you said it.
Sigh.
Setting State
Do not display 'Install Updates and Shut Down' option in Shut Down
Windows dialog box Enabled
Do not adjust default
I use the /copyall option to copy all file attributes (security etc).
You MUST put /R:1 or /R:0 in there or else it will retry infinite times
on any file that is in use. I also use /E to include empty directories
too.
From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com]
Sent: Friday, October 15,
OOOH my bad, I thought he meant SCCM, not SCSM...damn MS and their naming...
David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER
NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION
(Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764
From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com]
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010
John – see point #5. I’m wondering if this is somehow updated/changed in 2008
to account for Vista, but the policy setting “Always wait for the network at
computer startup and logon” in 2003 does not natively apply to Vista (as was
alluded to in this thread yesterday…)
Good catch, thanks!
Sam
From: Alverson, Tom (XETRON) [mailto:tom.alver...@ngc.com]
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 4:18 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Cc: Sam Cayze
Subject: RE: EXTERNAL:RoboCopy - please verify my syntax?
I use the /copyall option to copy all file attributes (security
Not sure, I don't use my gmail very often but I did use it yesterday for
testing some email issues , this came in an hour or two later which is funny
that I almost clicked on it.
From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 3:40 AM
To: NT System
Lucky you I have to wait until 1 am for it to be here.
Jon
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.comwrote:
It’s here! It’s here!
*From:* Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Thursday, October 14, 2010 5:58 PM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
Here are the relevant sections from the policy that I use:
Policy Setting
Allow Automatic Updates immediate installation Enabled
Automatic Updates detection frequency Enabled
Check for updates at the following
interval (hours): 4
Policy Setting
Configure Automatic Updates Enabled
Configure
That happens. :)
On the WSUS side, what updates, if any, are set to auto approve?
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On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
Because I'm a complete
I usually use the /mir (for mirror) switch, but if you don't want the deletes
to replicate then you'd want something like /s /e /sec /z /eta /w:0 /r:0
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com
w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132
From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com]
Sent:
Not sure what you mean by unsecure domain join? Also not sure what you mean
by prestaging it using the MAC?
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com
w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132
From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com]
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 7:45 AM
To: NT
...and CLI strings like that are why we have GUI's :) I usually add /nfl /ndl
/np /log:log.txt so I can see the errors at a glance.
From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com]
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 8:52 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Robocopy
I usually use the /mir
Hey Brian,
Thanks for following up! I opened a PSS case and the guys is green, using
social.technet for answers, sigh? Not even MS knows how to join a Win7 box
that’s prestaged with WDS? I find that rather hard to believe?
Anyway, here is the answer to your questions!
Run the adprep32.exe on one of your existing DCs.
- Sean
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.org
wrote:
I have a native 2008 domain, I want to move to R2 AD. None of my
existing DC’s are 64 bit. Do I need to run adprep to go to R2, I would think
so.
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