Re: Citrix web interface query

2010-11-01 Thread James Rankin
Yes, all clear - I'm pretty sure I checked it, there were no specific domains specified, but I'll give it another check Cheers, On 30 October 2010 00:06, Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com wrote: In Web Interface Management Console: Click your site Click Authentication Methods Click on your

SBS 2003 storage upgrade

2010-11-01 Thread Glen Johnson
This is for our church so budget is really tight right now. We have a 2003 sbs system, running exchange, quickbooks and a power church app. Drive d holds the exchange database, all the user file shares and is almost full. Currently the server has one 80gig drive partitioned as C: 20 gig, D: the

Re: Two Win2K8 R2 DNS Servers

2010-11-01 Thread Andrew S. Baker
What server is each DNS server using as its primary DNS server? If it is using the other server, that might cause your problem, if for some reason, it's not failing over to the next one in the list in a timely fashion. Also, when you do an NSLOOKUP locally on each server, is it responding via

RE: SBS 2003 storage upgrade

2010-11-01 Thread Kennedy, Jim
I vote for plan three, it seems simpler. Add the new drives and leave the old D drive in place and move user files or the exchange stores to that drive. Whichever is the largest. If it is the user files just robocopy them over then delete the old ones from the D drive leaving the new free

Re: SBS 2003 storage upgrade

2010-11-01 Thread Daniel Rodriguez
On your 2nd scenario, I would install the drivers, first, so when you get everything transfered Windows will see your card. On Nov 1, 2010 8:47 AM, Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edu wrote: This is for our church so budget is really tight right now. We have a 2003 sbs system, running exchange,

Re: SBS 2003 storage upgrade

2010-11-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edu wrote: I’ll then set all the exchange services to manual or disabled, disable starting of the qb and power church software. Shut down the system and then boot with my copy of UBCD, use one of the tools to copy the existing D

Re: SBS 2003 storage upgrade

2010-11-01 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Daniel Rodriguez drod...@gmail.com wrote: On your 2nd scenario, I would install the drivers, first, so when you get everything transfered Windows will see your card. IIRC, you have to do something special to tell Windows to load the drivers at boot time. It's

RE: Citrix web interface query

2010-11-01 Thread Webster
Are your two domains in different forests? Webster From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Subject: Re: Citrix web interface query Yes, all clear - I'm pretty sure I checked it, there were no specific domains specified, but I'll give it another check Cheers, On 30

Re: Citrix web interface query

2010-11-01 Thread James Rankin
Indeed they are On 1 November 2010 14:08, Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com wrote: Are your two domains in different forests? Webster *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] *Subject:* Re: Citrix web interface query Yes, all clear - I'm pretty sure I checked it, there

RE: Citrix web interface query

2010-11-01 Thread Webster
Did you ask this question on EE also? Just curious because someone asked basically the same question there. Try to figure a way to write an article on this. Webster From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Subject: Re: Citrix web interface query Indeed they are On 1

Re: Citrix web interface query

2010-11-01 Thread James Rankin
Not guilty...haven't raised a question on EE for about five years now. On 1 November 2010 14:12, Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com wrote: Did you ask this question on EE also? Just curious because someone asked basically the same question there. Try to figure a way to write an article on this.

RE: Citrix web interface query

2010-11-01 Thread Webster
Someone has asked essentially the same exact question on EE. Gotta lab this and write about it. They can't get it to work either and I have never worked with XenApp in multiple forests. Webster From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Subject: Re: Citrix web interface query

Re: Patch Management

2010-11-01 Thread Stephen Wimberly
WSUS and SCCM 2007. We can't beat the license agreement our company has! On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Brumbaugh, Luke luke.brumba...@butlerschein.com wrote: Now that I have figured out how to update adobe. My next question is what do you guys use for patch management. What do you

After Action Report RE: How'd this for a bad day? AKA bad me

2010-11-01 Thread David Lum
Now that the dust has settled, we know what happened. Our tech didn't completely disconnect the SAN connections (he unplugged them, but not far enough) when installing ESX v3.5 on a new physical host and it formatted a SAN drive instead of the local drive. If we had known this before powering

RE: Vipre and DB req's

2010-11-01 Thread Phil Garven
Hi Joseph, The Windows Internal Database is a customized / modified version of SQL Express 2005 which is the version included with the Vipre installation. So installing Vipre using the Simple mode and letting is install it's own instance of SQL Express 2005 will result in pretty much what

RE: Vipre and deployment

2010-11-01 Thread Phil Garven
The Uninstallers we create essentially just call the existing AV's built in uninstall process so it should be as effective as uninstalling the other AV through add / remove programs (we grab the uninstall string from the registry and run it) - however that often doesn't work as well as

Fax Service for on the fly use (with paid account)

2010-11-01 Thread HELP_PC
Does anybody know about a fax service that can be accessed from anywhere on the Internet using a pre-paid account (I mean from any Pc using a logon ID) ? TIA GuidoElia HELPPC ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Fax Service for on the fly use (with paid account)

2010-11-01 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
https://www.j2.com/ I've used it. Free incoming as long as you don't need a toll free #. 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/

Re: Fax Service for on the fly use (with paid account)

2010-11-01 Thread Kevin Lundy
www.efax.com On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:07 AM, HELP_PC g...@enter.it wrote: Does anybody know about a fax service that can be accessed from anywhere on the Internet using a pre-paid account (I mean from any Pc using a logon ID) ? TIA *GuidoElia* *HELPPC* ~ Finally, powerful

R: Fax Service for on the fly use (with paid account)

2010-11-01 Thread HELP_PC
I see that most of them are based on reception of faxes (that I don't need ). I need a service where I can send a fax to every country and from every country. Not quantities but individually. In many countries a fax has more legal value than an email even certified GuidoElia HELPPC _

Re: Fax Service for on the fly use (with paid account)

2010-11-01 Thread Kevin Lundy
You can send from eFax. On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:33 AM, HELP_PC g...@enter.it wrote: I see that most of them are based on reception of faxes (that I don't need ). I need a service where I can send a fax to every country and from every country. Not quantities but individually. In many

Exchange 2003 and BES 4 upgrade

2010-11-01 Thread Steve Ens
I'm starting my planning and looking for suggestions, etc. My idea is to create two new VM's with W2008R2 and install BESX on one and Exchange 2010sp1 on the other. What is the preferred method, move the blackberry users first and then the mailboxes or vice versa? Is it kosher to move from my

RE: VMWare ESXi

2010-11-01 Thread Fogarty, Richard R Mr CTR USA USASOC USA
Yeah, pulled that down this weekend and finally got it installed. Just have to brush up on my Linux as well as I want it to be storage for the whole Windows domain environment. Not sure just how to do that now. From: Tony Patton [mailto:apco...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 3:43

RE: SDM Software’s new GP Reporting Pak?

2010-11-01 Thread Joseph Heaton
Thought you were talking about Jeremy, until I clicked the link... Free, Bob r...@pge.com 10/29/2010 11:54 AM I am not using that tool in particular but have use others of theirs. Pricing is negotiable with anybody J I have known the principal of that endeavor for quite some time and he’s

Random poll: GPO count

2010-11-01 Thread David Lum
Recent thread on SDMSoftware pricing per # of GPO’s makes me wonder…how many GPO’s do you guys have in your environment? We have 56! Very few of them are at the root level, but for example we have 10 GPO’s just to handle our Service Desk having local admin or remote desktop user membership for

RE: Random poll: GPO count

2010-11-01 Thread Don Guyer
55-ish GPOs. 4000-ish users. 1000-ish workstations on domain. Anywhere from 1-2000-ish laptops – not on domain. When I first got here there were roughly 125 GPOs. Took us awhile but we widdled it down to current amount. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential,

Re: Random poll: GPO count

2010-11-01 Thread Sean Martin
Approximately 250 GPOs ~1700 Users ~ 2000 Client Devices ~ 600 servers (including 180 Citrix servers) - Sean On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:59 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Recent thread on SDMSoftware pricing per # of GPO’s makes me wonder…how many GPO’s do you guys have in your

Outlook Weidness HELP!!

2010-11-01 Thread Dave Vantine
I am hoping someone can offer some suggestions to a very weird Outlook problem I am having. When I open Outlook the performance is fine and I can change from different folders I have and they open each folder immediately. As time goes by changing from 1 folder to another gets slower and slower

RE: Outlook Weidness HELP!!

2010-11-01 Thread John Aldrich
Off the top of my head, this sounds like a memory problem, but I'd guess you probably already thought of that. A Google search found that a lot of people are having a similar problem. Although your situation was a bit vague on details I Googled Outlook gets progressively slower and found a bunch

RE: Outlook Weidness HELP!!

2010-11-01 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
Questions: 1. What version of Outlook? 2. Are you using it to connect to exchange or to POP accounts? Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.comBLOCKED::mailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com

Re: A real puzzler...

2010-11-01 Thread Jon Harris
I have seen this with both Apple and Win 7 products taking an IP and because of the way the firewall was configured not responding to ping's or several other products. I was only able to trace it back to a machine by killing switch ports one at a time and resetting DHCP until the offending

Re: A real puzzler...

2010-11-01 Thread Kurt Buff
No Apple, but there are a few Win7 machines, and some Linux machines. On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 12:30, Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com wrote: I have seen this with both Apple and Win 7 products taking an IP and because of the way the firewall was configured not responding to ping's or several

Re: RE: VMWare ESXi

2010-11-01 Thread Tony Patton
I did that through the web interface, it was a bit kludgy at the time. My computer is in semi-storage at the minute otherwise I'd be able to check it for you. The forums can be very helpful, but can be hard to find what your looking for at times. I'll dig it up when I get a chance. T typed

RE: Random poll: GPO count

2010-11-01 Thread Miller Bonnie L .
258 GPOs and counting 1800 staff, 14000+ students 6200 workstations 90+ servers From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 12:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Random poll: GPO count Recent thread on SDMSoftware pricing per # of GPO’s makes me wonder…how

Re: A real puzzler...

2010-11-01 Thread Kurt Buff
Here's what I see so far today after going to the control panel and selecting Show hidden devices - I don't think I'm seeing any ghost NICs: DC in AU office (Dell 1850 - seems to be replying to ARP for 192.168.61.31, but is 192.168.61.30): Direct Parallel Intel(R) Pro/1000 MT Network

RE: A real puzzler...

2010-11-01 Thread Miller Bonnie L .
Did you run the command sequence first? You won't see them without doing that. Anything ghosted will have a bit of a grayed-out appearance: Run cmd as administrator and type set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1enter devmgmt.msc enter When device manager opens,

Authentication

2010-11-01 Thread Jim Dandy
I just created an AD 2008 forest for my church. Most of the computers there are XP Home edition. I have created domain accounts in the AD forest with the same user name and password as they have on their XP Home system. Most of them can use domain resources without any authentication to the

Re: A real puzzler...

2010-11-01 Thread Kurt Buff
Yup - no ghosted NICs. On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 13:39, Miller Bonnie L. mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu wrote: Did you run the command sequence first?  You won't see them without doing that.  Anything ghosted will have a bit of a grayed-out appearance: Run cmd as administrator and type        

Re: A real puzzler...

2010-11-01 Thread Kurt Buff
BTW - I don't think I mentioned it, but all of the Windows boxes are Win2k3 R2 fully patched. On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 13:48, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Yup - no ghosted NICs. On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 13:39, Miller Bonnie L. mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu wrote: Did you run the command

Re: Authentication

2010-11-01 Thread Andrew S. Baker
What's different about the machines where this isn't working? Is the case of those passwords identical to what you think it should be? What are they using for DNS? *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Mon, Nov 1, 2010

Re: Outlook Weidness HELP!!

2010-11-01 Thread Jonathan Link
Using Vipre? It causes most of my odd problems with Outlook. On Monday, November 1, 2010, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle jra...@eaglemds.com wrote: Questions: What version of Outlook? Are you using it to connect to exchange or to POP accounts? Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE

RE: A real puzzler...

2010-11-01 Thread Miller Bonnie L .
Have you checked WINS/Lmhosts for duplicates or static entries? -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 1:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: A real puzzler... BTW - I don't think I mentioned it, but all of the Windows

RE: Authentication

2010-11-01 Thread Jim Dandy
I have no idea what the difference is. That's why I'm asking the question. Perhaps there is some registry (or other type) setting that I'm unaware of that could be affecting this? I'm not sure what your second question it. The usernames and passwords are the same on both the domain and the

RE: Authentication

2010-11-01 Thread Carl Houseman
Is it possible that these two computers had previously connected to this server with a different username/password, and saved the credentials, and those credentials no longer work? Even if you don't think so, check it - Start/Run control userpasswords2, on the Advanced tab click Manage

RE: Question on Granting service account read access to Domain Controller Eventlogs

2010-11-01 Thread Free, Bob
LOL. Leave it to Symantec to be different. I heard a rumor I may be getting first-hand experience with it so I may want to pick your brain J Rgds --bob From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 12:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE:

Re: A real puzzler...

2010-11-01 Thread Kurt Buff
I've checked WINS - that IP address doesn't exist in the WINS tables. We don't use LMHOSTS - I disable that on all servers - I doubt anyone has it on a workstation, either, but I don't have control over that. Also, I've lied a bit, because I've been more than a bit distracted today... There is

Re: Question on Granting service account read access to Domain Controller Eventlogs

2010-11-01 Thread Sean Martin
Ugh, our Information Security team is implementing SSIM right now. I'm not directly involved, other than having to provide upwards of 10TB for expected storage requirements. I just shudder at anything branded Symantec anymore - Sean On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Free, Bob r...@pge.com

RE: Question on Granting service account read access to Domain Controller Eventlogs

2010-11-01 Thread Brian Desmond
But just look at the upsell opportunities. Now they're going to have to sell you something to manage that storage. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 6:27 PM To: NT System Admin

Virtual Machine Disk Configuration

2010-11-01 Thread Mark Milo
Hi - I am having issues with disk busy' on my virtual server host. The host is a DL 580 connected via fiber to an EVA 4400 SAN. I understand that guest VM's should have disk layouts as per an equivalent physical machine but is it best practice to have a separate LUN per guest VM? If so what

Re: Virtual Machine Disk Configuration

2010-11-01 Thread Richard Stovall
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Mark Milo markmilo2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi - I am having issues with disk busy' on my virtual server host. The host is a DL 580 connected via fiber to an EVA 4400 SAN. Where do you see this message? On the VM? I understand that guest VM's should have disk

Re: Virtual Machine Disk Configuration

2010-11-01 Thread Mark Milo
The host is Windows 2008 R2 running Hyper V. The performance is monitored via UPTIME monitoring software but I see similar high reading using perfmon (%disk time). Don't see any error messages at high utilization but the exchange 2003 server is responding poorly when disk is busy. There are 15

Re: Virtual Machine Disk Configuration

2010-11-01 Thread Sean Martin
We'd need a lot more info. Start with your disk configuration. How many disks make up the storage pool or raid group the exchange lun is allocated from? Are there other luns allocated from the same pool? How many? Which exchange resources reside on the lun (stores, logs, etc.)? Disk busy

Re: Virtual Machine Disk Configuration

2010-11-01 Thread Mark Milo
The san has 21 FC disks configured as a raid 5 array. There have two luns configured from this array. All 15 guest machines are located on one of these luns (including exchange). The performance hit appears mainly on exchange but other servers are suffering as well. The interesting thing is that

RE: Virtual Machine Disk Configuration

2010-11-01 Thread Brian Desmond
Is there any sort of utilization stats on the EVA? Frankly I wouldn't expect 21 spindles RAID5 to perform very well at all with a mixed workload like this. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Mark Milo [mailto:markmilo2...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 01,

Re: Virtual Machine Disk Configuration

2010-11-01 Thread Mark Milo
I don't have stats on the eva performance as yet. What would you suggest the configuration should be for the main disk array? Just to clarify the disk pool is Vraid5 while the disks for individual guest VM's have typically been configured as raid 1 for operating system and log disks and raid 5 for

Re: Virtual Machine Disk Configuration

2010-11-01 Thread Richard Stovall
On the VMs, are you running multiple disks in guest-OS-based RAID configurations underneath the EVA's vRAID5 protection, with all the VHDs on the same LUN? What is the exact config for the problematic Exchange server? On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Mark Milo markmilo2...@gmail.com wrote: I