Re: Screensaver Wallpaper Policies/Options?

2010-11-11 Thread James Rankin
OpenGL screen savers on server operating systems - which bright spark came up with that? I preferred the Netware snake that got bigger as the system utilization went up. On 10 November 2010 21:44, Malcolm Reitz malcolm.re...@live.com wrote: We just apply the screensaver/background GPOs to our

Re: Citrix Licensing indestructible user account

2010-11-11 Thread James Rankin
As usual, your advice works a treat. Thanks! On 10 November 2010 17:29, Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com wrote: I found the user I just created in c:\program files\citrix\licensing\ls\conf\server.xml. I was able to delete my test user from the XML file, restart the 3 Citrix license

Re: Terminal Server or VPN? Now TS on VM Q's too

2010-11-11 Thread Anders Blomgren
You're better of using more and smaller TS VM's per host. Given that SMP is a lie with todays Nehalem cpus, which are actually NUMA, scheduling a 4vcpu or larger VM will take more resources from the host. Might not be noticable if the host isn't loaded but also see the flexibility point that

Re: Citrix Licensing indestructible user account

2010-11-11 Thread James Rankin
Just a quick follow-on query while we're on the subject of the Licensing Consoledoes anyone know if you can integrate the authentication in this console with Active Directory? It doesn't look like itI'm just hunting for some confirmation. Cheers! On 11 November 2010 08:08, James Rankin

Re: Terminal Server or VPN? Now TS on VM Q's too

2010-11-11 Thread Richard Stovall
Have you looked at the TS / RD Gateway feature? It's essentially just SSL-encrypted RDP proxied through the Terminal Server. The TS licensing implications are the same as for 'regular' TS desktop users (each user or remote device requires a TS CAL), but it's dead simple to set up, and you

RE: Personal USB drives

2010-11-11 Thread N Parr
Interesting, that's good to know. It wasn't quite making sense that USB could power two drives even if they were laptop.. Either way it works great, is small and give him 1TB of space. From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Wednesday, November

RE: Freeware PDF creator?

2010-11-11 Thread John Aldrich
Yep. -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 10:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Freeware PDF creator? Do you have MS Word installed? -Original Message- From: John Aldrich

RE: Terminal Server or VPN? Now TS on VM Q's too

2010-11-11 Thread David Lum
Yep that’s one item I am checking out now, thanks! Dave From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 3:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Terminal Server or VPN? Now TS on VM Q's too Have you looked at the TS / RD Gateway feature? It's

RE: Freeware PDF creator?

2010-11-11 Thread Rod Trent
Save As...PDF... -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 10:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Freeware PDF creator? Yep. -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent:

RE: Freeware PDF creator?

2010-11-11 Thread Steve Hanna
Let them eat cake! -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 10:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Freeware PDF creator? Save As...PDF... -Original Message- From: John Aldrich

RE: Freeware PDF creator?

2010-11-11 Thread David Lum
Dude that's way too easy, what you mean to say is get a Mac. -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 7:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Freeware PDF creator? Save As...PDF... -Original Message- From: John

RE: Freeware PDF creator?

2010-11-11 Thread John Aldrich
What's the earliest version of Word that does this? Also, what about Excel spreadsheets? :-) Not meaning to be a contrarian or anything, but sometimes you need files other than Word documents as a PDF. :-) -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday,

RE: Remote Consulting Opportunities

2010-11-11 Thread Jimmy Tran
Hi Andrew, I am interested in this. Could you provide some more details? Thanks, Jimmy From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 9:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Remote Consulting Opportunities Please contact me off-line and I

RE: Freeware PDF creator?

2010-11-11 Thread Carl Houseman
CutePDF prints a PDF from anything. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 11:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Freeware PDF creator? What's the earliest version of Word that does this? Also, what

OT: Out of Band Management

2010-11-11 Thread Harry Singh
All - I've tried searching the archive but came up empty. I remember a device, possibly 1U or 2U that worked via IP which provided out-of-band (light out) management for servers and/or other devices. I know of Dell's DRAC and HP's ilo, but this was a 3rd party stand alone device, to which i

Re: Cisco UCS

2010-11-11 Thread Pete Howard
We looked at HP and UCS over the last few weeks and are likely to be getting a few UCS chassis soon. This includes the blade chassis, fabric interconnects, fabric extenders, blades and cards. Its designed by the same Cisco team that created the nexus, catalyst and MDS lines and they did a nice

RE: Remote Consulting Opportunities

2010-11-11 Thread Jim Holmgren
Seems like you failed the first test. ...Please contact me off-line... From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:jt...@teachtci.com] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 11:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote Consulting Opportunities Hi Andrew, I am interested in this. Could you

RE: Freeware PDF creator?

2010-11-11 Thread Dennis Hoefer
Office 2007 was the first with native support for PDF, available in Word, Excel, PP and Publisher, not sure about others. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 10:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE:

RE: Freeware PDF creator?

2010-11-11 Thread Rod Trent
I believe it was Office 2007 that started the PDF integration. Microsoft had it included in Office 2007 betas, Adobe whimpered, Microsoft took it out of RTM, but then release it as an add-on. Office 2010 does a great job at it - almost flawless, except for TOC bookmarks. -Original

Re: OT: Out of Band Management

2010-11-11 Thread Sean Martin
An IP KVM? - Sean On Nov 11, 2010, at 7:57 AM, Harry Singh hbo...@gmail.com wrote: All - I've tried searching the archive but came up empty. I remember a device, possibly 1U or 2U that worked via IP which provided out-of-band (light out) management for servers and/or other devices. I

Re: Screensaver Wallpaper Policies/Options?

2010-11-11 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 2:59 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: I preferred the Netware snake that got bigger as the system utilization went up. Oh! I had forgotten about that. That was cool. I remember watching that on an monochrome amber monitor. Hmm... I wonder... [/me

Re: OT: Out of Band Management

2010-11-11 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Harry Singh hbo...@gmail.com wrote: I've tried searching the archive but came up empty. I remember a device, possibly 1U or 2U that worked via IP which provided out-of-band (light out) management for servers and/or other devices. I know of Dell's DRAC and HP's

RE: Cisco's Unified Computing System

2010-11-11 Thread Ryan Finnesey
Do you know what the solution cost? From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 4:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Cisco's Unified Computing System Doing it here, seems fine so far. Handover isn't finished though, so we haven't got our

RE: Screensaver Wallpaper Policies/Options?

2010-11-11 Thread John Aldrich
Didn't work here.. gives me a runtime error 13 and a type mismatch. :-( -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 12:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Screensaver Wallpaper Policies/Options? On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at

Re: Screensaver Wallpaper Policies/Options?

2010-11-11 Thread James Kerr
Ah man, too bad my servers are on the other side of the building. - Original Message - From: Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 12:37 PM Subject: Re: Screensaver Wallpaper Policies/Options?

RE: Terminal Server or VPN?

2010-11-11 Thread Jacob
Just one day.. I would just give them the day off. Too much of a headache for one day. We had to move back in April. We gave the employees Friday off, with pay, while us techs moved and setup all the workstations/servers/etc. We talked about having employees, like data entry, work from home.

RE: Terminal Server or VPN?

2010-11-11 Thread Jacob
Likewise 400 miles south on the I5 ;-) -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 3:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Terminal Server or VPN? Bad weather event? wow, the rivers would have to be really over the banks

RE: Freeware PDF creator?

2010-11-11 Thread Mike Gill
The feature was included in Office 2007 SP2. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Dennis Hoefer [mailto:dhoe...@ufcoop.com] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 9:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Freeware PDF creator? Office 2007 was the first with native support for PDF,

RE: Citrix Licensing indestructible user account

2010-11-11 Thread Webster
http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/licensing-1161/lic-lmadmin-users-b. html License Administration Console users are administered by and stored in the console only. These users are not connected to the computer's local users or any network authentication system. Hope that helps

RE: Citrix Licensing indestructible user account

2010-11-11 Thread Webster
Glad to help. Carl Webster Citrix Technology Professional http://dabcc.com/Webster From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Subject: Re: Citrix Licensing indestructible user account As usual, your advice works a treat. Thanks! On 10 November 2010 17:29, Webster

RE: Citrix Licensing indestructible user account

2010-11-11 Thread Webster
Oh, I should have added some explanation. The Citrix License Server 11.6.1 build 10007 is designed to be used by: Stand-alone Windows servers Windows Workgroup mode (similar to 1st item) Active Directory Novell whatever it is called directory Unix AIX Solaris It was probably for

Re: Freeware PDF creator?

2010-11-11 Thread Anatoly Podgoretsky
Office 2007 It is no print to PDF, it is full fetures convertor? that allow keep hyperlinks Works good with Word, Excel -- Anatoly Podgoretsky - Original Message - From: John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent:

RE: Terminal Server or VPN? Now TS on VM Q's too

2010-11-11 Thread Webster
I am not a TS person and have only ever setup 1 pure TS in my career. I would advise looking at the recommendation from Project: Virtual Reality Check. They will give you unbiased info/data on what works best for configuration details. Project: VRC has gotten so influential that Microsoft,

RE: Freeware PDF creator?

2010-11-11 Thread John Aldrich
Ahh.. Ok. Yeah..most of our machines have Office 200 or 2003. Only about 1/3 have Office 2007. Another good reason to have a PDF printer application. -Original Message- From: Anatoly Podgoretsky [mailto:anat...@podgoretsky.com] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 2:09 PM To: NT System

Re: Freeware PDF creator?

2010-11-11 Thread Anatoly Podgoretsky
But PDF printer make only image of document. It's not enought in any case -- Anatoly Podgoretsky - Original Message - From: John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 9:20 PM Subject: RE:

Re: Freeware PDF creator?

2010-11-11 Thread Phil Brutsche
That is something that is specific to different PDF printers. I've seen the built-in Office 2007 PDF printer do that, but very rarely with the freeware (or even paid) third-party PDF printers. On 11/11/2010 1:34 PM, Anatoly Podgoretsky wrote: But PDF printer make only image of document. It's

Re: OT: Remote Consulting Opportunities

2010-11-11 Thread Amit Hanji
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Re: OT: Out of Band Management

2010-11-11 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Avocent makes some of the best IP KVMs around. *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Harry Singh hbo...@gmail.com wrote: All - I've tried searching the archive but came up empty. I

RE: Freeware PDF creator?

2010-11-11 Thread John Aldrich
Actually, that's perfect for most of our needs... otherwise why have a PDF? :-) MOST stuff that we convert to PDF doesn't need to have active links, etc. For example, we use Excel for purchase orders. Wouldn't do to have those be changeable, so we convert to PDF to send out. -Original

RE: Freeware PDF creator?

2010-11-11 Thread Terry Dickson
I have been doing that out of Excel for years, no need for anything else. Excel had this availability since 2007, I think there was an addin for 2003 that allowed Excel and word to directly save as PDF. From: John Aldrich [jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]

Re: Freeware PDF creator?

2010-11-11 Thread Anatoly Podgoretsky
PDF printers have advantage they can print any documents and graphics -- Anatoly Podgoretsky - Original Message - From: John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 9:48 PM Subject: RE:

Re: Freeware PDF creator?

2010-11-11 Thread Anatoly Podgoretsky
It addin only for 2007 and above. -- Anatoly Podgoretsky - Original Message - From: Terry Dickson te...@treasurer.state.ks.us To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 9:50 PM Subject: RE: Freeware PDF creator? I have been

RE: Event Log monitoring

2010-11-11 Thread Webster
Oh, so that is why MBS wanted my Amazon credentials for just a couple of minutes! J Webster From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Subject: RE: Event Log monitoring Nice review by Webster. Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle

RE: Terminal Server or VPN? Now TS on VM Q's too

2010-11-11 Thread David Lum
Excellent reference point, thanks Carl! From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 11:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Terminal Server or VPN? Now TS on VM Q's too I am not a TS person and have only ever setup 1 pure TS in my career. I would

Re: Terminal Server or VPN?

2010-11-11 Thread Andrew Laya
Did the 'talent' get the day off with pay too? :-) On 11/11/10, Jacob ja...@excaliburfilms.com wrote: Just one day.. I would just give them the day off. Too much of a headache for one day. We had to move back in April. We gave the employees Friday off, with pay, while us techs moved and

Re: Terminal Server or VPN?

2010-11-11 Thread Andrew Laya
Did the 'talent' get the day off with pay too? :-) On 11/11/10, Jacob ja...@excaliburfilms.com wrote: Just one day.. I would just give them the day off. Too much of a headache for one day. We had to move back in April. We gave the employees Friday off, with pay, while us techs moved and

Re: Terminal Server or VPN?

2010-11-11 Thread Jonathan Link
Their work is already in the can, as it were. On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Andrew Laya andrew.l...@gmail.com wrote: Did the 'talent' get the day off with pay too? :-) On 11/11/10, Jacob ja...@excaliburfilms.com wrote: Just one day.. I would just give them the day off. Too much of a

Loooooong ping times

2010-11-11 Thread Evan Brastow
Hi peoples, I have a weird issue, and I've had it for about 3 weeks (don't worry, it's work related!) Our Internet connection has been really slow. Web sites time out half the time, and just load really slowly other times. Our connection is a Comcast connection, and I called then to see if

Re: Loooooong ping times

2010-11-11 Thread Mike Sullivan
Did you try running a trace route to see which hop has the high response time? On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Evan Brastow ebras...@automatedemblem.comwrote: Hi peoples, I have a weird issue, and I've had it for about 3 weeks (don't worry, it's work related!) Our Internet connection

RE: Loooooong ping times

2010-11-11 Thread Dennis Hoefer
I'd start with disconnecting from your SonicWall, configuring and connecting a laptop direct, firewall up of course, and see if you still see the latency issues. Assuming you do, you've pretty much eliminated your network as an issue and need to point the finger at Comcast.. From: Evan

RE: Event Log monitoring

2010-11-11 Thread Michael B. Smith
Ouch! Sent from my HTC Tilt™ 2, a Windows® phone from ATT From: Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 5:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Event Log monitoring Oh, so that is why MBS

Re: Loooooong ping times

2010-11-11 Thread Richard Stovall
This is where I'd start. You can probably do it from the firewall. (I can on SonicOS Enhanced 5.5.1.0.) On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Mike Sullivan neog...@gmail.com wrote: Did you try running a trace route to see which hop has the high response time? On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 3:47 PM,

Re: Terminal Server or VPN?

2010-11-11 Thread Richard Stovall
I think they're on a break. Probably having fluffernutters. On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: Their work is already in the can, as it were. On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Andrew Laya andrew.l...@gmail.comwrote: Did the 'talent' get the day off

Re: Event Log monitoring

2010-11-11 Thread Richard Stovall
The nefarious overlord Webster strikes again? (From Gmail) [image: cw.PNG] On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, so that is why MBS wanted my Amazon credentials “for just a couple of minutes”! J Webster *From:* Raper, Jonathan - Eagle

RE: Event Log monitoring

2010-11-11 Thread Lists - Level 5
Im using GFi's ELM, it has specific PCI reports for the different requirements. From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 8:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Event Log monitoring What's everyone using for Event Log monitoring? I have a

Re: Cisco's Unified Computing System

2010-11-11 Thread James Rankin
Unfortunately not...it was purchased before I was brought on board. But by the expressions on some of the budgeteers here, I would say £*expensive* On 11 November 2010 18:06, Ryan Finnesey ryan.finne...@harrierinvestments.com wrote: Do you know what the solution cost? *From:* James Rankin

Re: Citrix Licensing indestructible user account

2010-11-11 Thread James Rankin
Once more, cheers! On 11 November 2010 19:02, Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com wrote: http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/licensing-1161/lic-lmadmin-users-b.html License Administration Console users are administered by and stored in the console only. These users are not connected to the

Re: Screensaver Wallpaper Policies/Options?

2010-11-11 Thread James Rankin
Nice findI may have to deploy this to test at some point On 11 November 2010 17:37, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 2:59 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: I preferred the Netware snake that got bigger as the system utilization went up. Oh!