Re: ArcMail?

oh yes.. years of experience. my old company bought the biggest one they had. U3120 IIRC. It was great that it wasn't a per user cost.. but the yearly maint fee for hardware and software support was alot of money. Once you get it loaded with years of emails.. it can be VERY slow for users.. like

Re: Initializing SAS drives on an IBM X-Series Server

Can't see the hardware... does that mean he can't see the drive to install? Controller drivers seem possible. I've had pesky drives that windows fails to deal with in any kind of sane manner respond much better after I boot from a live CD of linux and 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX' (where sdX ==

Re: Intel pulls a fast one in Sandy Bridge fiasco | Processors - InfoWorld

If they are still in business you mean? Jon On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Steven Peck wrote: > Of course they aren't. There is an entire engineering support division for > this sales and support and that's what they do. But as I and some other > have said, in certain configurations the af

Initializing SAS drives on an IBM X-Series Server

Here's a question I was asked recently.Anyone know the answer? I need to know what tools are available on the web that I can use to initialize SAS drives. This is a 64-bit hardware and I am trying to install Win2008. The problem is that none of IBM's driver downloads will recognize the hardwar

Re: Shadow Copies - Dedicated Drive?

I had the same issue and that is why I just put it on the separate drive. Jon On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Kim Longenbaugh wrote: > The VSS snapshots on our systems were starting to trigger disk space > alerts when left on the existing drives, due to some new processes that used > VSS. I’ve

Re: Shadow Copies - Dedicated Drive?

Last file server I set up I had a dedicated drive for the Shadow Copies. Jon On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Paul Hutchings wrote: > Those of you with servers with several volumes/lun’s full of data, if > you’re using Shadow Copies do you use a dedicated drive for the shadow copy > data volume

Re: Stop CD Check

On 8 Feb 2011 at 16:29, Miller, Michael wrote: > I have tried to mount the ISO - Permanently (which I prefer not to do) How? Did you try MagicDisc? -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security

RE: Windows 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows 7 SP1 RTMs

Are the comments correct? No release notes until Feb 22nd even though we can get it by the 17th? -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 1:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows 7 SP1 R

RE: IPv6 question

Unchecking IPv6 does nothing, for all intents and purposes. Setting that registry value is the only way to turn it off. From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 3:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IPv6 question Question-I've been

RE: IPv6 question

Question-I've been watching this thread, and honestly haven't read up on the IPv6 stuff lately (although we're getting there eventually). In our environment, we've disabled IPv6 on every WS08+ server by importing the reg value: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\C

RE: Shadow Copies - Dedicated Drive?

The VSS snapshots on our systems were starting to trigger disk space alerts when left on the existing drives, due to some new processes that used VSS. I've been moving them to a separate drive. You can size the drive appropriately by observing how much space is used by the snaps when you look

RE: Shadow Copies - Dedicated Drive?

Curious to see this recommendation as well - I once wondered where disk space was going until I found the shadow copies settings... I have just used existing drive myself and had never even thought about another option. David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 503.54

RE: OT: Early Friday Funny

Well http://www.snopes.com/college/homework/writing.asp No cursing in the original... http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article117333.ece Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@

RE: OT: Early Friday Funny

And a cheesehead made it up. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 1:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Early Friday Funny On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Roger Wright wrote: > http://www.marktaw.com/culture_an

Re: Quick Terminal Services Profile question

I think I will find that the GPO wins when I do some more testing tomorrow. The fact that it is a computer setting had my brain all at sea. Typed frustratingly slowly on my BlackBerry® wireless device -Original Message- From: Miller Bonnie L. Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 11:20:34 To: NT Syste

RE: Windows Server 2003 RSM

Maybe the removable storage service is stopped or disabled? From: itli...@imcu.com [mailto:itli...@imcu.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 7:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows Server 2003 RSM Windows Standard Server 2003 Sp1 Device manager sees Tape Drive RSM has white x in a re

Re: Windows 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows 7 SP1 RTMs

Thanks!! *ASB *(Find me online via About.Me ) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... * On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > FYI: > > < > http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2011/02/09/announcing-av

Re: OT: Early Friday Funny

True on both observations. Roger Wright ___ "The internet is a great way to get on the net." – Bob Dole On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Roger Wright wrote: >> http://www.marktaw.com/culture_and_media/ProfMillerAssignment.html > >  FYI  to

RE: Quick Terminal Services Profile question

When someone here added this via GPO (also using loopback) it immediately overrode what was in AD for us, and had to be turned off. Was making a second TS Roaming profile for every TS user on our server. From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 8:16 A

Re: OT: Early Friday Funny

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Roger Wright wrote: > http://www.marktaw.com/culture_and_media/ProfMillerAssignment.html FYI to the list: Some mild profanity in the target page. I know some people get all worked up about that. FYI to anyone who cares, i.e., nobody: I've seen that joke befo

Re: OT: Early Friday Funny

Well, I had just received a link to a survey site regarding how our department can improve our communications. The timing was excellent! I just now sent THIS link to the person sending the survey link... -- richard Roger Wright 02/09/2011 01:19 PM Please respond to "NT System Admin Issue

Windows 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows 7 SP1 RTMs

FYI: Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a reso

Re: Mandatory profile

Ah gotcha, my bad. Still fumbing with 2003 here :) - Sean On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Rankin, James R wrote: > That's the one I set, the RDS policy has replaced the old TS one on 2008 R2 > > Typed frustratingly slowly on my BlackBerry® wireless device > -- > *From

RE: GP will not apply

Since the policy is not showing up (I'm assuming you mean neither in the applied nor not applied area), check FRS replication on your domain controllers-you might have a problem. I'd start with Dcdiag /f and check the FRS event logs on all. -Bonnie From: Kelli Sterley [mailto:kjsterley.li...@g

Re: Intel pulls a fast one in Sandy Bridge fiasco | Processors - InfoWorld

Of course they aren't. There is an entire engineering support division for this sales and support and that's what they do. But as I and some other have said, in certain configurations the affected options may not have any built configuration that will expose the issue. If an issue does arise, th

Re: Intel pulls a fast one in Sandy Bridge fiasco | Processors - InfoWorld

I stand by my earlier observations. Let's see how it plays out in reality, after several months have gone by. *ASB *(Find me online via About.Me ) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... * On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Matthew W. Ross wrote:

Re: Intel pulls a fast one in Sandy Bridge fiasco | Processors - InfoWorld

> I'm saying that they looked like they were going to the the "really" right > thing in the beginning, but I suspect that they knew all along that they > would end up here. They used the PR of what they were going to do to their > advantage. Perhaps. But I think they really did do the right thin

Re: Intel pulls a fast one in Sandy Bridge fiasco | Processors - InfoWorld

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Steven Peck wrote: > While Intel does make and ship motherboards, they ship far more chip-sets > then motherboards.  The announcement makes sense for those configurations > that do not leverage certain of the problematic chip-set capabilities. While true, consid

Re: Intel pulls a fast one in Sandy Bridge fiasco | Processors - InfoWorld

I'm not suggesting a hush-hush fix as an alternative. I'm saying that they looked like they were going to the the "really" right thing in the beginning, but I suspect that they knew all along that they would end up here. They used the PR of what they were going to do to their advantage. Well do

RE: Intel pulls a fast one in Sandy Bridge fiasco | Processors - InfoWorld

Ok, now how to check my Gigabyte EX58-UD4P mobo ? Or is there a list somewhere ? ( yeah, right ) Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, Februar

RE: Recovering offline files

Your bing string is csc recover. If you have the C:\Windows\CSC folder in tact, you should be able to extract the files using csccmd.exe. From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 10:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Recovering offline files Short st

Re: Recovering offline files

I had to do this once, and rebuilt a virtual machine with the same name (and shares) as the old system in order to get the off-line folders to sync up. Also try: - http://www.jacksontechnical.com/article.htm?id=34 - http://forums.techarena.in/operating-systems/1078146.htm

Re: Intel pulls a fast one in Sandy Bridge fiasco | Processors - InfoWorld

> I'll bet it's more nuanced than that. Oh, most certainly it is. > Intel gets the benefit of public disclosure of a big and costly problem, > BUT, at the 11th hour, the "business realities" of their OEM partners > "forces" them to continue shipping the defective product, but only to select > par

Recovering offline files

Short story - we had a server crap out several months ago and over the weekend we did a cleanup of everyones offline files only to find out that one particular user was still saving everything to their offline folder instead of the new server.. We've recovered files but they don't have an extens

Re: Intel pulls a fast one in Sandy Bridge fiasco | Processors - InfoWorld

It won't necessarily be Intel making recalls. It may be motherboard manufacturers. While Intel does make and ship motherboards, they ship far more chip-sets then motherboards. The announcement makes sense for those configurations that do not leverage certain of the problematic chip-set capabilit

Re: Mandatory profile

That's the one I set, the RDS policy has replaced the old TS one on 2008 R2 Typed frustratingly slowly on my BlackBerry® wireless device -Original Message- From: Sean Martin Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 07:23:06 To: NT System Admin Issues Reply-To: "NT System Admin Issues" Subject: Re: Mandat

Re: Intel pulls a fast one in Sandy Bridge fiasco | Processors - InfoWorld

I'll bet it's more nuanced than that. Intel gets the benefit of public disclosure of a big and costly problem, BUT, at the 11th hour, the "business realities" of their OEM partners "forces" them to continue shipping the defective product, but only to select partners. Now, you have to ask yoursel

Re: Mandatory profile

James, Just out of curiousity, can you set the following: Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Terminal Services - "Set path for TS Roaming Profiles". Those are the policy settings we use to control roaming profile locations. - Sean On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 7:15 AM,

Re: Quick Terminal Services Profile question

We're migrating to a GPO based roaming profile environment and my testing has shown the opposite. The GPO appears to override. However, that may be due to another policy configured for loopback. - Sean On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:49 AM, James Rankin wrote: > Does anyone know, offhand, if the Termi

Re: Mandatory profile

After deliberating this all afternoon, I seem to have guessed the answer within a few minutes of posting The problem I am looking at is caused by the fact that this *is *a Computer Config object. Every time I changed something on the GPO, I needed to do a * gpupdate*. Because I was treating it

Re: Intel pulls a fast one in Sandy Bridge fiasco | Processors - InfoWorld

A pity one of their big customers did not have the attitude, "We won't use the USB bus". We've had that fail in a huge proportion of our PWS-390 systems... The good news is, those systems are no longer being made. The bad news is, the systems replacing those have a huge proportion of SIMM or

Mandatory profile

A bit of a follow-up to my earlier question:- I am trying to configure a mandatory profile for my users (I am going to use this as the base for a hybrid profile). I've built the base profile, named it to ntuser.man, stored it on a network share with the appropriate .v2 extension. Now, I used to us

Re: Intel pulls a fast one in Sandy Bridge fiasco | Processors - InfoWorld

This is personally disheartening since I planned on buying a core i7 mobo combo in the next month to finally replace my 6 year old rig at home. I understand if I purchase a board with a "B3 Stepping" (SATA 3), it isn't affected by the bug, but the skeptic in me is apprehensive, to say the least.

Re: Intel pulls a fast one in Sandy Bridge fiasco | Processors - InfoWorld

Apparently, this is due to the OEMs wanting to release their products... not because Intel didn't want to fix the problem. The compromise is apparently "We won't use the 3rd through 6th SATA ports, or we'll get an additional SATA controller". *shrug* --Matt Ross Ephrata School District

Re: Intel pulls a fast one in Sandy Bridge fiasco | Processors - InfoWorld

Always welcome. *ASB *(Find me online via About.Me ) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... * On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Harry Singh wrote: > Thanks for this ASB. > > > > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Andrew S. Baker wrote: > >> >> h

Re: Intel pulls a fast one in Sandy Bridge fiasco | Processors - InfoWorld

Thanks for this ASB. On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Andrew S. Baker wrote: > > http://www.infoworld.com/t/processors/intel-pulls-fast-one-in-sandy-bridge-fiasco-784?elq=true#comment-33801 > > Be careful if you're in the market for a high-end Intel-based motherboard > in the near term...*[1]*

Re: Weird hardware/administrator issue

Use process monitor while logged on as the old domain admin, and see where the access violations are. -ASB: http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Sent from my Motorola Droid On Feb 8, 2011 2:29 PM, wrote: > Greetings! > > This make sense to anyone? > > Dell PWS-390, XP Pro SP3. > > System added to one

Re: Weird hardware/administrator issue

I have no problem believing it was thumb typed - oh, you mean the device is incredible... %-} This too is what I am thinking - either a permissions issue or a key somewhere in that profile. I think what I'll try is create a new local admin account. Then I'll see if I can apply the old admin

Re: Weird hardware/administrator issue

Shot in the dark here.Could it have to do with permissions on registry keys associated with the particular piece of hardware in question? Jonathan - Thumb typed from my HTC Droid Incredible (and yes, it really is) on the Verizon network. On Feb 9, 2011 7:53 AM, wrote: > Thank you, but this is

Re: Weird hardware/administrator issue

Thank you, but this is exactly what I wish to avoid! From past experiences (as well as the current experiences of our Help Desk guy), this is likely to result in hours of a non-bootable system. We have yet to find any consistancy other than finding that two VDAs do no play nicely together... -

Quick Terminal Services Profile question

Does anyone know, offhand, if the Terminal Services Profile set in AD overrides a Terminal Services Profile set via GPO? My testing suggests that it does - I just am looking for a little bit of clarification. My Google-powers appear drained today. TIA, JRR -- "On two occasions...I have been a