RE: SCOM OpsLogix PING MP problem

2011-03-23 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Thanks Michael, Environment: SCOM 2007 SP1 all on one server. Up until this point, just been using it for KMS reports and ACS for our domain controllers. We have a different tool for our regular monitoring environment. I followed all the documentation, and configured it with a HOST and

RE: PDF Reader recap

2011-03-23 Thread John Aldrich
Interesting. I was not aware that Chrome auto-rendered PDFs. Thanks for that info. You learn something new every day. :-) From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 6:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PDF Reader recap Just to point out... Chrome now

Question on DFS roots in Windows 2008

2011-03-23 Thread Ziots, Edward
Since I am a total N00b on DFS, On a Standalone Root on a Windows 2008 R2 Server, does one need AD permissions to create said DFS root? If the administrator have full rights to his servers ( one to host the root and the other server to replicate to), then I would figure none of this

Windows Activation for non-Dummies?

2011-03-23 Thread Ben Scott
Does anyone know of a way to make Windows telephone Activation suck less? Or a way to submit feedback on it? Right now, using it is agonizingly frustrating. Every prompt has a 15 minute speech telling me how to use a telephone, and there's no way to interrupt it with your input. You have to

Re: Windows Activation for non-Dummies?

2011-03-23 Thread Jonathan Link
It sucks so that people go the Volume licensing route. The more painful it is, the more revnue they generate by driving people to Volume licensing. On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know of a way to make Windows telephone Activation suck

Re: Windows Activation for non-Dummies?

2011-03-23 Thread RichardMcClary
You might try to outsource yourself to an NEC shop... Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote on 03/23/2011 11:39:07 AM: Does anyone know of a way to make Windows telephone Activation suck less? Or a way to submit feedback on it? Right now, using it is agonizingly frustrating. Every prompt

Re: Windows Activation for non-Dummies?

2011-03-23 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: It sucks so that people go the Volume licensing route. The more painful it is, the more revnue they generate by driving people to Volume licensing. I thought that, as of Vista, Windows still needed Activation,

Re: PDF Reader recap

2011-03-23 Thread IS Technical
+1 On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:38:11 -0400, Bill Humphries wrote: I like PDF-Xchange viewer. Fast and has lots of advanced features. Bill Erik Goldoff wrote: There was a relatively recent discussion on PDF readers that I'm unable to search right now... I use FoxIT reader on my home XP

Re: Windows Activation for non-Dummies?

2011-03-23 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:03 PM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote: You might try to outsource yourself to an NEC shop... Outsourcing isn't going to happen for the same general reasons we can't connect the PCs to communications lines, but: NEC shop? (In my experience, NEC either stands for

RE: PDF Reader recap

2011-03-23 Thread Ray
+2 - Our agency has standardized on it. -Original Message- From: IS Technical [mailto:ist...@intsolcan.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 10:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PDF Reader recap +1 On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:38:11 -0400, Bill Humphries wrote: I like

Re: Windows Activation for non-Dummies?

2011-03-23 Thread Jonathan Link
I'm ignorant of Vista, having avoided it. And my Windows 7 experience is limited to OEM licensing. I've not had to activate when using the supplied media for our Dell notebooks with Windows 7. I presume you have a different brand? On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Ben Scott

Re: Windows Activation for non-Dummies?

2011-03-23 Thread RichardMcClary
What you describe in Windows Activation of a phone seems painfully similar to what new users had to go through to set up their NEC voice mail. Managmenet was even more fun... Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote on 03/23/2011 12:41:07 PM: On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:03 PM,

Re: Windows Activation for non-Dummies?

2011-03-23 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote: I'm ignorant of Vista, having avoided it.  And my Windows 7 experience is limited to OEM licensing. I've not had to activate when using the supplied media for our Dell notebooks with Windows 7.  I presume you have a

RE: Windows Activation for non-Dummies?

2011-03-23 Thread Jacob
AFAIK. you still need to activate 2008, TS, 7 with VL From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 9:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows Activation for non-Dummies? It sucks so that people go the Volume licensing route. The more

RE: Software packaging

2011-03-23 Thread Guyer, Don
I've used AdminStudio in the past, to massage MSIs for distribution, mainly using AD. At that point, I had never used the product and found it quite easy to pick up on. Don't have experience with any other similar product. Don Guyer Windows Systems Engineer Datasafe Platform

Re: Software packaging

2011-03-23 Thread Joseph Heaton
With SCCM, you have access to a scaled down version of AdminStudio Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com 03/23/11 12:32 PM Along with my earlier question regarding Win7 configuration, I'm trying to get the desktop team here jumpstarted in automated software installation We are likely

RE: OT : Rooting Android phones

2011-03-23 Thread Matthew Bullock
Who's your carrier? Verizon hasn't come out with 2.2 for the galaxy S yet. I rooted my S but VZ sent an update which removed the root, and sent it into a loop. I had to wipe and restore the original image. -mb From: Rene de Haas [mailto:rene.deh...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011

RE: Software packaging

2011-03-23 Thread Steven Caesare
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RE: SIEM

2011-03-23 Thread Matthew Bullock
Thanks, will check out Nitro. -mb From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 9:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SIEM I've heard really good things about Nitro as well http://www.nitrosecurity.com/ ASB (Find me online via

RE: Terminal Services and file transfer

2011-03-23 Thread Jim von Stein
Not yet. I'm somewhat handicapped by the fact that it is a branch office, so I can't easily see what she's actually doing, but so far I've checked the GPOs and disabled the block settings, I've made sure that the Terminal Server configuration is set to allow it. I can see my local hard drive in a

Re: Terminal Services and file transfer

2011-03-23 Thread Kevin W
Perhaps the default settings on the client don't have those features enabled, despite them being allowed now? I don't recall a way to force mapped drives, etc. for clients from the terminal server configuration. You can only disable or allow as I recall. I know when using .rdp shortcuts for

USB 2 or ESATA boot drive

2011-03-23 Thread Jon Harris
Has anyone booted from a USB 2 drive? Was it fast or slow as a snail? What about ESATA slow or fast boot times? Thanks Jon Harris ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions

Re: Windows Activation for non-Dummies?

2011-03-23 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: I do not know enough about the Windows Telephone Activation to be specific, but often times I will use these dial and voice activated systems and give it one of the secret words that can help...

RE: Windows Activation for non-Dummies?

2011-03-23 Thread Gary Whitten
At least that's better than 'Peggy'? -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 9:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows Activation for non-Dummies? On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Matthew W. Ross

Re: USB 2 or ESATA boot drive

2011-03-23 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone booted from a USB 2 drive?  Was it fast or slow as a snail? USB speeds vary quite a lot, depending on the type of drive (flash, Winchester, etc.), speed of drive (especially with flash, not all drives are created

Re: USB 2 or ESATA boot drive

2011-03-23 Thread Jon Harris
Thanks that is what I thought but need to confirm that. ESATA drives are not as common as I would have thought. Seagate and WD are not big players in the field companies like LaCie are and others. Have you played any with a LaCie ESATA drive? Jon On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Ben Scott

Re: USB 2 or ESATA boot drive

2011-03-23 Thread Jeff Steward
I am looking to buy an eSATA drive soon as well. I was looking at an Iomega, but I'm still wary of them from ye olde Zip drive days. -Jeff On Mar 23, 2011 9:56 PM, Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks that is what I thought but need to confirm that. ESATA drives are not as common as I

Re: USB 2 or ESATA boot drive

2011-03-23 Thread Jon Harris
I saw a review on one site that killed any idea of me purchasing Iomega. Not compatable with x64 and I still can't figure that out. How can something external know or care which OS or 32/64 it is, now a days? That was why I was looking more at the LaCie ones. I worked with a few of the USB 1.0

Re: USB 2 or ESATA boot drive

2011-03-23 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com wrote: Have you played any with a LaCie ESATA drive? Only eSATA stuff I've done is with regular drives put inside enclosures from these people: http://www.cru-dataport.com/ The bundled drive+enclosure things are sometimes more

OpSource

2011-03-23 Thread Ryan Finnesey
Has anyone used the VMware hosting services of OpSource? Cheers Ryan ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: