RE: Upgrade O/S or GPU?

2011-03-11 Thread Paul Hutchings
Try some basic housekeeping first to ensure the PC is in good order and check within Photoshop what the various scratch disk settings are - it's been a while but I seem to remember that in Photoshop you specifically configure areas of disk for it to use as scratch space - OK the machine may not be

RE: web host with 24*7*365 phone support

2011-03-11 Thread Mark Kelsay
On our teamspeak server for a MMORPG game I play, some of the younger guys say “lol” all the time. Took me a couple of days to catch on to what they were saying. Feeling my age... From: Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com] Sent: 10 March 2011 14:30 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re:

Re: How does windows handle scheduled jobs when DST when skips ahead an hour?

2011-03-11 Thread Andrew S. Baker
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325413 *ASB *(Find me online via About.Me http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... * On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:07 PM, N Parr npar...@mortonind.com wrote: I could have sworn this has been asked before but don't

RE: Downloading Hotfix Issue

2011-03-11 Thread Jonathan Gruber
That was the issue, it was odd since our gateway A/V was blocking it but I wasn’t receiving an email about the blockage as I normally would. From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 5:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Downloading Hotfix

Re: OT New home PC

2011-03-11 Thread Stefan Jafs
I did forget about the CCD boot drive, good idea, I use the Xbox360 to stream recorded TV to my 52” plasma so the computer noise is not a problem it’s in my home office and the Xbox is networked to the living room. SJ On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Jim McAtee j...@zolx.com wrote: I agree

Re: OT New home PC

2011-03-11 Thread Stefan Jafs
Are you referring to the Intel recall of SandyBridge (spelling?) SJ On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Harry Singh hbo...@gmail.com wrote: If you build and go i7, make sure to wait a few weeks until the new B3 stepping boards are released. On Thursday, March 10, 2011, Carl Houseman

RE: OT New home PC

2011-03-11 Thread Guyer, Don
Building is generally cheaper, but shop around first. If prices start to get close to one another (bought vs. built), warranty coverage may sway your decision to just buy already built. I rebuild/replace our home systems every 3-4 years and usually go the Newegg route. My friend is a hardware

Re: OT New home PC

2011-03-11 Thread Stefan Jafs
My last system was built using an ASUS MB, if I go that route and us an ASUS MB again waht would be your recommendations of model for the MB? SJ On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Guyer, Don don.gu...@fiserv.com wrote: Building is generally cheaper, but shop around first. If prices start to get

Re: OT: web host with 24*7*365 phone support

2011-03-11 Thread G.Waleed Kavalec
Not often, but when I do those are exactly the hours it happens. No complaints, been with them several years. On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming angu...@geoapps.comwrote: On 10 Mar 2011 at 10:03, G.Waleed Kavalec wrote: Brinkster's been good to me.

RE: Citrix 4.0 - Published IE8 opens then immediately closes (SOLVED)

2011-03-11 Thread David Mazzaccaro
It was actually DEP (data execution prevention). I changed it to turn on for essential Windows programs and services only), rebooted the server, and voila! Everyone is opening IE8 with no problems today. Also - the server memory is hovering around 500MB available and pagefile is 4GB

Hyper-V NIC utilization

2011-03-11 Thread Jay Dale
Hey all, I am setting up a new Hyper-V server for a company where I am P2V'ing 3 of their physical servers. Currently I want to just set up one virtual network, and if they add servers down the road I will add another. The physical host machine comes with 4 NIC's. My questions are these:

Re: Citrix 4.0 - Published IE8 opens then immediately closes (SOLVED)

2011-03-11 Thread Harry Singh
Thanks for the tip David. On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:13 AM, David Mazzaccaro david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com wrote: It was actually DEP (data execution prevention). I changed it to “turn on for essential Windows programs and services only”), rebooted the server, and voila! Everyone

Re: Citrix 4.0 - Published IE8 opens then immediately closes (SOLVED)

2011-03-11 Thread James Rankin
I disable DEP down to that level whenever I put a Citrix/RDS server or template together, it generally helps with problems launching applications or app instability, especially the flakier older ones that every environment seems to have at least a few of. On 11 March 2011 15:13, David Mazzaccaro

RE: Citrix 4.0 - Published IE8 opens then immediately closes (SOLVED)

2011-03-11 Thread David Mazzaccaro
The more I was researching this, the more I saw it coming into play. Next, I may try switching it to AlwaysOff as mentioned in this KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875352 One thing at a time though... From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, March 11,

Re: Downloading Hotfix Issue

2011-03-11 Thread Richard Stovall
Cool. Glad it was easy to track down. On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Jonathan Gruber jgru...@jblong.com wrote: That was the issue, it was odd since our gateway A/V was blocking it but I wasn’t receiving an email about the blockage as I normally would. *From:* Richard Stovall

RE: Citrix 4.0 - Published IE8 opens then immediately closes (SOLVED)

2011-03-11 Thread Webster
One thing at a time though. Smart man! J Disabling DEP is also a step when troubleshooting issues with Office 2003/2007 in a TS/RDS/Ctx environment. Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://dabcc.com/Webster http://dabcc.com/Webster From: David

Hide specific tabs in Task Manager

2011-03-11 Thread James Rankin
Got a request from management to allow users to use the Task Manager, which I originally had disabled via GPO, but they only want it to show the Applications and Processes tabs. Nothing else. Not that they can do much on the other tabs, but they want them all hidden anyway. This is on a 2008 R2

RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Rod Trent
Have you looked into Forefront? I hear from a lot of folks who are switching with great success. From: Weatherford, Chad [mailto:cweatherf...@scvl.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Antivirus Vendor Replacement We are looking to replace our

Re: Hyper-V NIC utilization

2011-03-11 Thread Andrew S. Baker
How much bandwidth do you need? -ASB: http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Sent from my Motorola Droid On Mar 11, 2011 10:15 AM, Jay Dale jd...@unetek.com wrote: Hey all, I am setting up a new Hyper-V server for a company where I am P2V'ing 3 of their physical servers. Currently I want to just set

Re: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread John Cook
Vipre. Small footprint, easy to configure, great support John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families From: Weatherford, Chad cweatherf...@scvl.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Fri Mar 11 10:59:56

Re: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Jonathan Link
+1 On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:08 AM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: Vipre. Small footprint, easy to configure, great support John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families -- *From*: Weatherford, Chad cweatherf...@scvl.com *To*: NT

RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
Good luck on the catches all of the bugs part, regardless of vendor. Vipre has the smallest footprint of Trend, McAfee, Eset, and a couple of others that have been tested here in the last couple of months. From: Weatherford, Chad [mailto:cweatherf...@scvl.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 10:00

RE: Hyper-V NIC utilization

2011-03-11 Thread Jay Dale
Currently they are on a 22MB/2MB connection from Entouch, they have a BES and are migrating to Exch 2010 from 2003 - heavy BB and email usage, not as much remote usage, only a couple of minor-staffed remote offices with site to site VPN connections - they are a community residential

Re: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Jonathan Link
Hehe, I missed that catches all bugs. If someone finds that product, I want it. On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Kim Longenbaugh k...@colonialsavings.comwrote: Good luck on the “catches all of the bugs” part, regardless of vendor. Vipre has the smallest footprint of Trend, McAfee, Eset, and

Re: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread James Rankin
I would also recommend Vipre as it is very unobtrusive and easy to configure. However I am of the feeling that reactive AV is losing its effectiveness, and that AV combined with good whitelisting is the best way to try and keep systems clean. And, of course, not giving anyone admin rights who

RE: Hyper-V NIC utilization

2011-03-11 Thread Glen Johnson
Depends. I think I read a best practice that said at least two separate connections. One for guest access and one for host management. Possibly a third for backup and fourth for iscsi if needed. From: Jay Dale [mailto:jd...@unetek.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 10:14 AM To: NT System Admin

RE: Hyper-V NIC utilization

2011-03-11 Thread Bob Fronk
I have been using Dell R610 servers to move many of our physical servers to HyperV. The R610 has 4 NIC Ports and 6 SATA drives. I am creating 3 RAID1 volumes, one for OS and one for each VM. I am assigning each VM its own NIC. I would suggest doing the same if there are bandwidth intensive

Re: Upgrade O/S or GPU?

2011-03-11 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Kramer, Jack jack.kra...@ur.msu.edu wrote: That's definitely true - but we're talking an hour or (at the most) two. You also have to factor in product research (specs, compatibility checking, trouble history, maybe reviews), procurement, and on-going support.

RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread David Mazzaccaro
+1 for Vipre From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 11:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Antivirus Vendor Replacement I would also recommend Vipre as it is very unobtrusive and easy to configure. However I am of the feeling that

RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Paul Hutchings
Try Avira Antivir. Not sure how well known it is in the US but in most of the labs it comes out well on detection and it's very light. From: Weatherford, Chad [mailto:cweatherf...@scvl.com] Sent: 11 March 2011 16:00 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Antivirus Vendor Replacement We are

RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread John Hornbuckle
We're happy Forefront users here. Easy to deploy and update via WSUS, if you already have WSUS in place. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 11:08 AM To: NT System

RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Randal, Phil
Big issue is manageability in a corporate environment. All products have their quirks. Would be nice to see a good feature matrix prepared by a non-vendor. McAfee ain't so crappy anymore with VSE 8.8, though we're getting too many false positives with Artemis, even at a low sensitivity level.

RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Jim Holmgren
+1 for Sophos. I'm a big fan - easy deployment, easy to manage via console, catches a ton of stuff that Symantec did not and I got great pricing from our local VAR. Jim Holmgren Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West

OTish: Network monitoring tools

2011-03-11 Thread Kurt Buff
All, My manager is looking for a network/server monitoring package, which pleases me no end. My SAlive installation if 5.0 running on a Win2k box, and I haven't had time to do more than a token install of nagios. However, he doesn't want open source stuff (so nagios, mrtg, jffnms, opennms, etc.

RE: Hide specific tabs in Task Manager

2011-03-11 Thread Crawford, Scott
Wow. They can't come up with anything better for you to do than this? :) I would just tell management that it's not realistically possible and rather pointless anyway. One option might be Process Explorer. Obviously it has WAY more UI than task manager, but it *might* have some option for

RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Crawford, Scott
++ From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 10:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement We're happy Forefront users here. Easy to deploy and update via WSUS, if you already have WSUS in place. John

RE: OTish: Network monitoring tools

2011-03-11 Thread Paul Hutchings
PRTG from Paessler is good. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: 11 March 2011 17:11 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OTish: Network monitoring tools All, My manager is looking for a network/server monitoring package, which pleases me no end. My

Re: OTish: Network monitoring tools

2011-03-11 Thread Kramer, Jack
How about Op5? Nagios based but fully supported and a pretty slick interface. They offer appliances as well. We're looking to deploy here. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 On 3/11/11 12:10 PM, Kurt

RE: OTish: Network monitoring tools

2011-03-11 Thread Jay Dale
We use GFI Max - $12.95 per server, has a ton of monitoring options, nice dashboard interface, and integrates with ConnectWise. Jay Dale  Senior Systems Administrator c:832.373.7883 -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 11:11 AM

RE: Windows 7 64-bit SP1 fails

2011-03-11 Thread Michael B. Smith
Don't do it! Why you don't want to edit your pending.xml to resolve 0xC034 issues - The Windows Servicing Guy - Site Home - TechNet Blogs: http://blogs.technet.com/b/joscon/archive/2011/03/11/why-you-don-t-want-to-edit-your-pending-xml-to-resolve-0xc034-issues.aspx I know that one of

RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread John Aldrich
+2 From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 11:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Antivirus Vendor Replacement +1 On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:08 AM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: Vipre. Small footprint, easy to configure, great

3rd Party laptop batteries

2011-03-11 Thread John Aldrich
Ok... I probably should have listened to you guys when you griped about me jumping on the first thing that I came up with, but it seems to have turned out OK. The first battery I got from the Amazon vendor was apparently bad as it didn't even last 5 minutes, but the replacement battery is working

Re: OTish: Network monitoring tools

2011-03-11 Thread Kurt Buff
That certainly looks interesting. Kurt On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 09:15, Kramer, Jack jack.kra...@ur.msu.edu wrote: How about Op5? Nagios based but fully supported and a pretty slick interface. They offer appliances as well. We're looking to deploy here. Jack Kramer Computer Systems

RE: Upgrade O/S or GPU?

2011-03-11 Thread John Aldrich
Ok.. we *might* have found the problem... the memory settings were set to about 900 megs max for Photoshop, but there was about 1.5 gigs available RAM. What we're doing is rendering a room scene. We have a room scene picture that we use to display our carpet in and we re-use that room scene with

RE: Upgrade O/S or GPU?

2011-03-11 Thread John Aldrich
Bummer... we're on CS3. :-( -Original Message- From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 9:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Upgrade O/S or GPU? yeah, and unless you have cs4 or cs5, you don't see any gains. those are the only

Re: OTish: Network monitoring tools

2011-03-11 Thread Kurt Buff
I've seen that before. Not quite what he wants. On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 09:15, Paul Hutchings paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk wrote: PRTG from Paessler is good. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: 11 March 2011 17:11 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: Upgrade O/S or GPU?

2011-03-11 Thread John Aldrich
Paul, I think you may have hit the nail on the head. Photoshop was set to use a maximum of like 900 some megs of RAM when there was almost twice that much available. We've since upped the RAM and we'll see how that does... From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Friday,

RE: Hyper-V NIC utilization

2011-03-11 Thread Andrew S. Baker
You should consider aggregating 2 or 3 of the NICs and using them for guest traffic in a way that provides redundancy. Use a separate NIC for management. -ASB: http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Sent from my Motorola Droid On Mar 11, 2011 11:16 AM, Jay Dale jd...@unetek.com wrote: ~ Finally,

Re: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Whatever you get/use, suppliment it with registered Malwarebytes. -- ME2 On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Weatherford, Chad cweatherf...@scvl.comwrote: We are looking to replace our current AV (McCrappy Total Protection for Endpoint) with something that is more light weight AND catches

RE: OTish: Network monitoring tools

2011-03-11 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
Longitude, from Heroix, is the best I've come across that doesn't cost an arm and 15 legs. It's much less expensive than the SolarWinds stuff, and monitors a lot of stuff, including but not limited to Windows WMI, SQL, Netflow, Citrix, Exchange, VMware, and,well, a lot of stuff. They have

RE: Hyper-V NIC utilization

2011-03-11 Thread Malcolm Reitz
1. How many NICs you use depends on the load and bandwidth requirements of your VMs. Use one NIC for managing the host and one or more for the virtual network connections (aggregated or dedicated to specific VMs). 2. I would enable static addresses for all, or at least DHCP

RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Rod Trent
Wow.it's been a long time since I've had to use Malwarebytes - even when supporting friends' or family PCs these days. Anymore, someone calls with some crazy Trojan or virus, I tell them to download and install Microsoft Security Essentials on their own and it takes care of it, and keeps them

Re: OTish: Network monitoring tools

2011-03-11 Thread Kurt Buff
I remember them being discussed here a while ago. I'll check them out again. On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:24, Kim Longenbaugh k...@colonialsavings.com wrote: Longitude, from Heroix, is the best I've come across that doesn't cost an arm and 15 legs.  It's much less expensive than the SolarWinds

Re: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
To add to this, when cleaning a system post-infection (yea yea, in cases where I cant just reformat) Malwarebytes is invaluable. I clean a system with multiple tools, and Malwarebytes always catches things that all of the other vendors I use miss. -- ME2 On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:36 AM,

Re: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Pete Howard
Malwarebytes #winning From: Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Fri, March 11, 2011 1:41:04 PM Subject: Re: Antivirus Vendor Replacement To add to this, when cleaning a system

Re: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
And I've seen the exact opposite, where AV tools including MSE, did not adequately protect against newer drive-by exploits. Malwarebytes however blocked the source of the malware completely based on IP. YMMV, but I see lots of residentials where Malwarebytes is the difference between winning or

RE: 3rd Party laptop batteries

2011-03-11 Thread David Mazzaccaro
I have NEVER had good luck w/ aftermarket batteries (or AC adapters). Batteries never seem to last, and AC adapters have caused TV interference. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 12:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Weatherford, Chad
The only issue I have with Vipre are the ratings I have seen on Gartner and such...I take that all with a grain of salt but we still have to consider what is said. Chad Weatherford | Network/Security Administrator | Shoe Carnival, Inc. | (:812.867.8314 | 7: 812.471.9866 | *:

RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Weatherford, Chad
HA HA! I know that's a pipe dream...just mentioned it for a grin Chad Weatherford | Network/Security Administrator | Shoe Carnival, Inc. | (:812.867.8314 | 7: 812.471.9866 | *: cweatherf...@scvl.com From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011

RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Weatherford, Chad
I agree with that, James. Trend has a nice looking product especially in their Deep Security product. Their Gartner and SC ratings are good...but the thought of 'I Love You' coming in again and passing right by OfficeScan's defense's is a little worrisome :o) Chad Weatherford |

Re: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Weatherford, Chad cweatherf...@scvl.com wrote: The only issue I have with Vipre are the ratings I have seen on Gartner and such…I take that all with a grain of salt but we still have to consider what is said. I dunno about the and such, but for Garter, that

RE: 3rd Party laptop batteries

2011-03-11 Thread John Aldrich
Yeah... I learned my lesson on that one. *crossing fingers* So far, the 3rd party A/C adapter seems to be working... and we don't have any TV to cause interference with, so that's not an issue. :-) -Original Message- From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com]

RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Weatherford, Chad
I did notice them, Paul. I really haven't heard much about them so I was a bit reluctant. Do you use it? Chad Weatherford | Network/Security Administrator | Shoe Carnival, Inc. | (:812.867.8314 | 7: 812.471.9866 | *: cweatherf...@scvl.com From: Paul Hutchings

RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Rod Trent
Ah.but are you filled with Tiger blood? From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 1:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Antivirus Vendor Replacement And I've seen the exact opposite, where AV tools including MSE, did not adequately

Re: OTish: Network monitoring tools

2011-03-11 Thread Andrew S. Baker
+1 (although I've only had the opportunity to pilot test it for now) *ASB *(Find me online via About.Me http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... * On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Kim Longenbaugh k...@colonialsavings.comwrote: Longitude, from

RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Weatherford, Chad
LOL! I wondered about that! Chad Weatherford | Network/Security Administrator | Shoe Carnival, Inc. | :812.867.8314 | : 812.471.9866 | : cweatherf...@scvl.com -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 13:07 To: NT System Admin

Re: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
My Tiger Mom wouldnt let me get the transfusion. -- ME2 On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: Ah…but are you filled with Tiger blood? *From:* Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, March 11, 2011 1:36 PM *To:* NT

RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Paul Hutchings
Yes. We had Trend OfficeScan previously and I felt we were getting too much sneaking past it. I looked at several products and Avira came out best for us. It's very light and these days we virtually never have to run cleanups on PC's (though to be entirely fair I use good URL filtering so

RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Rod Trent
Agreed. But, Gartner plays to the CIOs and CTOs who are the ones that actually listen to them. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 13:07 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Antivirus Vendor Replacement On Fri, Mar 11, 2011

RE: ost to pst

2011-03-11 Thread Carl Houseman
I just became aware of this program, it won't create a PST I don't think, but it purports to allow you open and read any OST file, and it's free. I have not used it (yet). http://download.cnet.com/OST-Viewer/3000-2369_4-75289423.html?tag=mncol;1 Carl -Original Message- From: Bill

RE: OTish: Network monitoring tools

2011-03-11 Thread Weatherford, Chad
I have never seen Longitude before. We use Solarwinds (mostly for network but have been monitoring a few servers) and it was a lot cheaper than what we were using (Cisco Works...NOT). For server performance monitoring we use NetIQ's AppManager (at least I think that's who still owns them). It

RE: Cisco 3560 Switch config

2011-03-11 Thread Weatherford, Chad
I assume the ACL is to allow the machine running both apps to reach the switches? Chad Weatherford | Network/Security Administrator | Shoe Carnival, Inc. | (:812.867.8314 | 7: 812.471.9866 | *: cweatherf...@scvl.com From: itli...@imcu.com [mailto:itli...@imcu.com] Sent: Friday,

Re: Hide specific tabs in Task Manager

2011-03-11 Thread James Rankin
I did give Process Explorer a thought...however, I have, in the face of the overwhelming evidence that this ain't possible, managed to convince management otherwise. I have managed to restrict the Task Manager window to the Applications tab only, using AppSense to block out all the tab controls.

Re: Hide specific tabs in Task Manager

2011-03-11 Thread Jonathan Link
When you describe the tasks management asks of you, I imagine... A laser pointer aimed at a wall, while my cats go crazy trying to get it. Just sayin'. On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 2:53 PM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: I did give Process Explorer a thought...however, I have, in the

Re: Hide specific tabs in Task Manager

2011-03-11 Thread James Rankin
Well, the only good thing coming out of it is the fact that I have gotten them to rethink how long this project is going to take, in light of the exact way they are demanding their desktop environment look. So I've just gotten my contract extended by an extra eight weeks :-) On 11 March 2011

RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Weatherford, Chad
Thanks for all of the comments! I will gladly except more...swapping out AV is not an easy decision or task. Chad Weatherford | Network/Security Administrator | Shoe Carnival, Inc. | :812.867.8314 | : 812.471.9866 | : cweatherf...@scvl.com -Original Message- From: Rod Trent

RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Tom Miller
Vipre here. However our weekly deep scans are almost as bad as when we had Symmantec. My PC is running the weekly deep now and it's slow, even at low priority. I'm slowly enabling wake on lan for all of our PCs, so they can be powered on before staff arrive, then Vipre can do it's thing.

Re: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Speaking of Vipre: Is Sunbelt fully partnered with Malwarebytes yet? Does Vipre have or spec'd to have full MB functionality? -- ME2 On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Tom Miller tmil...@hnncsb.org wrote: Vipre here. However our weekly deep scans are almost as bad as when we had

Re: Hide specific tabs in Task Manager

2011-03-11 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
+1 and dumb. Are you also blocking access to tasklist.exe ? Have fun trying to block switch syntax. :-) -- ME2 On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.eduwrote: Wow. They can’t come up with anything better for you to do than this? J I would just tell

Re: Hide specific tabs in Task Manager

2011-03-11 Thread James Rankin
Actually I can block specified keystrokes on specified windows, but luckily I haven't been asked anything that crazy yet :-) On 11 March 2011 20:26, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.comwrote: +1 and dumb. Are you also blocking access to tasklist.exe ? Have fun trying to block

RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread pdw1914
We've had Sophos up and running for about 6 weeks now. It does use up more resources than Vipre, though. Jim-I have yet to find a way to deploy the agent w/o using the console. With Vipre it was easy to create an agent and then use that to deploy on a single machine. Sophos is a bit of a

Re: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 11 Mar 2011 at 16:15, Kim Longenbaugh wrote: Good luck on the catches all of the bugs part, regardless of vendor. Vipre has the smallest footprint of Trend, McAfee, Eset, and a couple of others that have been tested here in the last couple of months. I and my users have

RE: OTish: Network monitoring tools

2011-03-11 Thread Craig Sterley
We've been using Opsview, another Nagios based system. Very easy to setup and use, the development community is very strong and there are checks for almost anything you can dream of already available. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March

Re: Disk checking tool for Windows

2011-03-11 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 10 Mar 2011 at 12:45, Angus Scott-Fleming wrote: On 28 Feb 2011 at 8:37, Oliver Marshall wrote: Can anyone recommend a hard disk checking tool for Windows that will give an external disk a good going over? Ideally free/open source J We have 8 disks from a

Re: Hide specific tabs in Task Manager

2011-03-11 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: When you describe the tasks management asks of you, I imagine... A laser pointer aimed at a wall, while my cats go crazy trying to get it. I have a laser pointer in my desk that projects the image of a dollar sign.

Re: Hide specific tabs in Task Manager

2011-03-11 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
LOL! Where did you get it? -- ME2 On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: When you describe the tasks management asks of you, I imagine... A laser pointer aimed at a wall,

Re: Ethernet on a WiFi Only site?

2011-03-11 Thread Jeff Steward
Wireless bridge or gaming adapter at a consumer store like best buy. -Jeff On Mar 11, 2011 4:56 PM, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote: At a WiFi only site right now, no cat5 anywhere. Have a few old print pieces of Ethernet-only equipment I need to hook up. Is there anything that will

Re: Ethernet on a WiFi Only site?

2011-03-11 Thread Richard Stovall
What Jeff said. Some wireless print servers can also be used as bridges, and Netgear's Wireless Range Extender WN2000RPT is also a bridge. http://www.netgear.com/home/products/wireless-range-extenders/wireless-range-extenders/WN2000RPT.aspx On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Jeff Steward

RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Jim Holmgren
We use SCCM to deploy most of ours. You can also go to the SophosUpdate share on the Update Manager and manually install the client. Jim From: pdw1...@hotmail.com [mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 3:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Vendor

RE: Ethernet on a WiFi Only site?

2011-03-11 Thread Hugo Hernandez
You can use a Netgear WNCE2001. I used it successfully to hook up a printer that had no access to network drop. Thanks, Hugo Hernandez IT Manager FUTURE ADS LLC 1920 Main St, Suite 550 Irvine, CA 92614 P: 949-251-0640 x215 F: 949-251-0680 AIM: hugoatfutureads *

Re: Ethernet on a WiFi Only site?

2011-03-11 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
The thing to look for is that it is a non-router with a built-in switch. These are usually marketed as repeaters, extenders, or gaming adapters. Or you can do this with any Apple Airport. -- ME2 On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote: At a WiFi only site right

RE: Ethernet on a WiFi Only site?

2011-03-11 Thread Sam Cayze
Awesome guys. Thanks for the quick responses. -Sam From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 4:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Ethernet on a WiFi Only site? The thing to look for is that it is a non-router with a built-in

RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-11 Thread Ray
We use a startup script to deploy Sophos. From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 3:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement We use SCCM to deploy most of ours. You can also go to the SophosUpdate share on the

Re: Hide specific tabs in Task Manager

2011-03-11 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: I have a laser pointer in my desk that projects the image of a dollar sign. I tell people I can usually get management to chase it. ;-) LOL!  Where did you get it? Hmmm. I forget. It was a kit of a

Re: Ethernet on a WiFi Only site?

2011-03-11 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: The thing to look for is that it is a non-router with a built-in switch. These are usually marketed as repeaters, extenders, or gaming adapters. Be aware that, technically speaking, an 802.11 repeater is not

RE: Windows 7 64-bit SP1 fails

2011-03-11 Thread Carl Houseman
Preferred fix here: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/975484 Carl From: Jim Dandy [mailto:jda...@asmail.ucdavis.edu] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 12:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 7 64-bit SP1 fails I installed SP1 on a bunch of test systems with no problem. So, I

RE: 3rd Party laptop batteries

2011-03-11 Thread Carl Houseman
My cheap 3rd party battery gave good runtime when it was first installed too, but that didn't last a year. Your jury is still out. Carl -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 12:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: Ethernet on a WiFi Only site?

2011-03-11 Thread Carl Houseman
A refurb router that can DD-WRT can be configured as wireless-wired bridge, and will very likely be cheaper than a gaming adapter or print server. Carl From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 4:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Ethernet on a WiFi

Re: Windows 7 64-bit SP1 fails

2011-03-11 Thread Kurt Buff
Wow. That's not even a fix. That's a 'get you running so you can try to install it again'. I wonder if they're going put out a update for this. Kurt On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 14:43, Carl Houseman c.house...@gmail.com wrote: Preferred fix here: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/975484 Carl

RE: Windows 7 64-bit SP1 fails

2011-03-11 Thread Carl Houseman
Fully expecting re-release (SP1A?) at least for WSUS distribution. Not sure whether this affecting WU users. Carl -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 5:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 7 64-bit SP1 fails

  1   2   >