RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

but the lists and the web forums are separate right? From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 12:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start? There are mailing lists. -- Sent from my Motorola Xoom with K-9 Mail.

RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

There are mailing lists. -- Sent from my Motorola Xoom with K-9 Mail. Ryan Finnesey wrote: I love Rod’s forum just wish they were in a mailing list format. Cheers Ryan From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 8:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Sub

RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

Its becoming more and more common. The issue in the past was that servers and desktops were managed by different groups...and the server folks didn't want anyone touching their stuff. ConfigMgr has come a long way, allowing a single implementation to be segmented and managed by different groups

RE: Azure - Onsite?

I have tried but as with most things Azure I do not get a straight answer J From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 9:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Azure - Onsite? I know there are Value Added Partners that will be selling white-b

RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

I always see the focus on SCCM seems to be on desktops. Is it not as common to use it to manage servers? Cheers Ryan -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 1:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: New to MS System Center

RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

I love Rod's forum just wish they were in a mailing list format. Cheers Ryan From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 8:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: New to MS System Center, Where to start? If no one else says it get on the Rod Tr

RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

Now part of NetIQ Cheers Ryan -Original Message- From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 3:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start? I am surprised Citrix hasn't bought ZenWorks just to rename it XenWorks

RE: powershell dns lookup

@Michael, Yeah it's just not very sexy, but it's seriously the easier way to do it... @Webster, Yeah, try entering a username/password, that was a mindfsck when I needed it while remoting in once... Thanks guys, jlc -Original Message- From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent:

RE: powershell dns lookup

At a PowerShell session with Don Jones (PowerShell MVP) he asked how we would map a network drive using PowerShell. My head started spinning trying to think of what I needed in PS to get the task done. The answer? Net use x: \server\sharename DOH! KISS Webster > -Original Message-

RE: Azure - Onsite?

I know there are Value Added Partners that will be selling white-box (i.e., self-branded) Azure. But I've not heard about it for anyone of a "reasonable" size. I'd recommend talking to your PAM or Regional AM. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.co

RE: powershell dns lookup

Don't use PowerShell. Seriously. Use nslookup.exe. Wrap it in PowerShell if you want to - but use nslookup instead of the various DNS helper libraries. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mail

powershell dns lookup

I need to look up a hostname through one specific server. Looking for a native way shows that specifying the server is not trivial. I found this snippet from http://thepowershellguy.com/blogs/posh/archive/2007/04/10/add-extended-dns-support-to-powershell-in-5-minutes.aspx : [System.Reflection.

Re: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

If no one else says it get on the Rod Trents forum. There are a lot of smart people on it and they will help with questions. I think it www.MyITForum.com. Jon On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Matthew W. Ross wrote: > Hey everybody. > > I have a server which has been freed up from it's previous

RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

Well there's where to start, then. If you're looking for an end user experience win, Lync even just for IM/Presence tends to be a good move. That's a project, though. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c   - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr..

RE: Password expirations

We use Kix for our scripting of Logon scripts, but it can be run anytime so just create a script and schedule it and you are done. From: John Aldrich [jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 3:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: P

RE: Password expirations

Yes. you just need to point it to an SMTP server. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 5:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: Password expirations

Will this work if you don't have Exchange? We have our email hosted by our internet provider... -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 4:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Password expirations There are quite a

Re: Password expirations

There is a free one that works pretty well. www.netwrix.com (check the freeware section). It actually emails the users to tell them...I think the default is 14 days before...it will also send you an email with all the passwords that are going to expire within that period. The only thing I had to do

RE: Password expirations

"There are seldom technical solutions to behavioral problems" You could set the domain security option via GPO that makes an unlock re-auth to the DC. That *may* give them another "your password expires in X days" message. DAMIEN SOLODOW Systems Engineer 317.447.6033 (office) 317.447.6014 (fax)

RE: Password expirations

There are quite a few scripts out there that do this. Here was one I wrote a long time ago. I've updated it to PowerShell (and fixed a few bugs in the process), but never blogged the update. I'll do that one day. http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/sending-an-e-mail-

RE: Windows 7 AQS syntax help

I did see that, can't believe there is no way to limit it to a single level. Also found that if you do it at the system level and save the search, this gets added: But there is no way to add that in the search field. Thanks, Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Syst

Password expirations

Any sort of a utility that can be run on a workstation to advise a user when their password has expired? Most of my users only shut down/log out once a week at most (Friday night) so they often go several days with an expired password and never know it until they try and access a network drive and

RE: Windows 7 AQS syntax help

It's a system level option, not a search level option. [cid:image001.png@01CC3CC3.D922FD60] Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 3:36 PM To: NT System Adm

RE: Remote Access Problem with HP Switch

It's weird; prior to installing the new switch I was able to access the old switch at the remote location from my location. The only thing that has changed is that there's a new piece of hardware with the 172.18.1.51 IP address. I'm thinking there's an issue with 172.18.1.51 having a new MAC add

RE: Remote Access Problem with HP Switch

Missing a route somewhere? From: Bob Hartung [mailto:bhart...@wiscoind.com] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 2:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Remote Access Problem with HP Switch Here's the trace route to the new switch's IP. tracert 172.18.1.51 Tracing route to 172.18.1.51 over a ma

RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

I am surprised Citrix hasn't bought ZenWorks just to rename it XenWorks! :) Thanks Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com (check out the changes coming to my website) > -Original Message- > From: Ray [mailto:rz...@qwest.net] > Subject:

Re: Remote Access Problem with HP Switch

Here's the trace route to the new switch's IP. tracert 172.18.1.51 Tracing route to 172.18.1.51 over a maximum of 30 hops 1 1 ms<1 ms<1 ms 172.16.254.254 <--- My Location Main Cisco Router 2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 172.16.254.253 <--- My Location Cisco Router that

Windows 7 AQS syntax help

Does anyone know how to do the equivalent of this with Search in Windows 7? dir *.xls Similar to what you see if you do it from Start->Run> Browse. The problem is that I can't find a way to limit it and not do recursion. I know I can just sort by folder after the fact, but often it's a lot

RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

And, all feedback on FEP with SCCM has been extremely positive. The recent FEP rollup (released last week) included a huge number of enhancements that folks were just starting to request. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 20

Re: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

> GAH! > > So, pick a goal. Actually, pick 3 (not technologies, but goals). Um... we already do some of these in different ways... (Opsview for network/server monitoring, WSUS for patch management, etc. Obviously the solutions available to me now _may_ be better at doing these things.) Okay,

Re: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

GAH! So, pick a goal. Actually, pick 3 (not technologies, but goals). Then decide which one you want and start there. Depending on your skillset and current environment, some of those may be easier to initially implement. Some will certainly have more customer visibility but others may be more

RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

SCCM + FEP is now "free" for you. Even if you don't roll it out for any other reason. (SCCM consists of oh, a dozen or so modules. You don't have to implement every module, nor do the modules you DO choose to implement have to be done all at once.) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exc

RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

> Is this a nice way of telling us to "be quiet now"? :) Oh, no... Just saying "I'm used to lots of email." I'm looking deeper into what we get with this new EES license: Win7Entperise upgrade Office Pro Plus 2010 and Office for the Mac 2011 Windows Server Standard CALs Right Management Service

RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

Thanks. From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 11:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: New to MS System Center, Where to start? While Ray is not on the team he might want to pass this tool along onthe remote chance they are not aware of it http:

RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

LOL! No, I didn't start this thread. I'm sure Matt Ross is learning a few things. We were on Zenworks until dumping Novell. -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 11:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: New to MS Syste

RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

> SCCM business is booming. Right now, I'm doing more SCCM than I am Exchange. We're seeing similar demand. FEP moving into the Core CAL (even previously as an eCAL product) is driving a good chunk of this too. The cost savings in rolling out FEP and dumping whatever incumbent you have (Symante

RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

Hugely valuable. A lot of folks use Web Essentials, too. http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rcrumbaker/archive/tags/SMS+Web+Remote+Tool/d efault.aspx From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 2:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: New to MS System Cen

Re: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

While Ray is not on the team he might want to pass this tool along onthe remote chance they are not aware of it http://sourceforge.net/projects/smsclictr/ Our SCCM guys used it to remiediate a lot of things in the earlier days. On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Rod Trent wrote: > Is this a nice

RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

Is this a nice way of telling us to "be quiet now"? :) Incidentally -- remote control in SMS (2003 and below) was phenomenal. Microsoft made the mistake in ConfigMgr 2007 to eliminate an integrated RC component and rely more on Windows RDP. ConfigMgr 2012 brings back a full RC component. -O

RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

Like I said, we had lots of various WMI issues, but didn't know it until rolling out SCCM. I'm no longer on that team. I didn't even know they were still having a problem and bringing in MS again. Other than remote control, which is mediocre at best, I don't use it for anything. -Original

Re: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

Matt, As for diving into SCCM, I would highly recommend reading this at a bare minimum: http://www.amazon.com/System-Center-Configuration-Manager-Unleashed/dp/0672330237/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310061524&sr=8-1 If you have the resources, I suggest a 5 day course on the product. That should ge

RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

> I'd suggest, > even if you never participate, subscribing to the SCCM email discussion > list. The valuable info that flows through there is enormous. Be > forewarned that the list is just as active as this one. Bah. I used to subscribe to the Linux Kernel Mailing List. Talk about a lot of em

RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

The guy who was handling the project spent a lot of time in MyITforum. No longer my problem. I'm in another part of the agency now. -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 10:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: New to

RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

WMI is one of the key resources used just about everywhere within Windows. It may be "hidden" by lots of command line programs, but it's often the underlying technology they are using. Not always, but often. SCCM does use it heavily as well. In fact, current versions install a specific WMI prov

RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

You might be able to fix a lot of those issues *and* help the MS consultant by having the person dealing with ConfigMgr to jump out to myITforum. ConfigMgr is a piece of technology that will definitely let you know you have problems you didn't even know about or hadn't even considered. -Origi

RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

Apparently everything in the MS world doesn't rely on WMI or we would've known we were going to have major issues. Yes, we looked at 3rd party resources. The project really wasn't mine, and now I have even less to do with it. I did hear, however, that they're bringing in another MS consultant via

RE: Adobe Reader 10.1 Woes (9.4, previously)

Nahh... Just nuke it from orbit, install Ubuntu and you're golden. ;D From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 1:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Adobe Reader 10.1 Woes (9.4, previously) Same for me... I just have this one user with the issue.  I'

RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

SCCM 2012 will help with the communication issues (links). But, if there are bandwidth issues now (and even after SCCM 2012 releases), 1E has their Nomad product. There's a company starting implementation in the Middle East right now (i.e., satellite links, etc.) and they couldn't deploy SCCM wit

Re: gmail outages

No issues. Been using gmail on my Android Phone and Dell Streak 7. Working fine. On Jul 7, 2011 1:08 PM, "IS Technical" wrote: > Can anyone tell me if there have been any major Gmail outages in the > last week. One if my customers uses gmail on his home system and > claims that service has been d

Re: gmail outages

http://www.google.com/appsstatus -- Espi On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:07 AM, IS Technical wrote: > Can anyone tell me if there have been any major Gmail outages in the > last week. One if my customers uses gmail on his home system and > claims that service has been down or intermittent in the

Re: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

Once we fixed most the broken WMI stuff it was amazing how many other phantom problems went away in our server environment. We do have a few persistent 'special' servers but we just deal with them now. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Michael B. Smith wrote:

Re: gmail outages

I don't think that means what you think it means... lol! On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Jonathan Link wrote: > Day0. > > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Don Ely wrote: > >> >>I haven't had ANY problems. >> Nothing Gmail related anyway... >> >> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Jonathan Link

RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

+1 The primary issues I've had with the deployments of SCCM I've done are telecom related (poor WAN communications). But if the set-up is done properly, that just means things TAKE LONGER - not that they don't happen. SCCM business is booming. Right now, I'm doing more SCCM than I am Exchange.

Re: gmail outages

Day0. On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Don Ely wrote: > >>I haven't had ANY problems. > Nothing Gmail related anyway... > > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Jonathan Link wrote: > >> I haven't had ANY problems. >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:07 PM, IS Technical wrote: >> >>> Can anyone tell me

RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

Everything in the Windows world relies on WMI... WMI can be finicky, but only when the repository becomes corrupted due to various means (like improper imaging). Have you consulted the 3rd party resources for SCCM? -Original Message- From: Ray [mailto:rz...@qwest.net] Sent: Thursday, Ju

Re: gmail outages

>>I haven't had ANY problems. Nothing Gmail related anyway... On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Jonathan Link wrote: > I haven't had ANY problems. > > > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:07 PM, IS Technical wrote: > >> Can anyone tell me if there have been any major Gmail outages in the >> last week. One

RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

Overkill? No. A single site server can support 10's of thousands. However, you'll want to review the architecture docs for planning the implementation. You'll also want to get intimately comfortable with the important acronyms like BDP, DP, etc., etc. and how they work. Planning the right archi

RE: gmail outages

Negatory. -Original Message- From: IS Technical [mailto:ist...@intsolcan.com] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 1:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: gmail outages Can anyone tell me if there have been any major Gmail outages in the last week. One if my customers uses gmail on his home

Re: Adobe Reader 10.1 Woes (9.4, previously)

Same for me... I just have this one user with the issue. I've uninstalled Reader and reinstalled - same issue. Must be something mucked up in the registry. May have remove ALL Adobe products (they're malware anyway, right?), scrub the registry and reinstall. Roger Wright ___ "Formula for succ

Re: gmail outages

I haven't had ANY problems. On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:07 PM, IS Technical wrote: > Can anyone tell me if there have been any major Gmail outages in the > last week. One if my customers uses gmail on his home system and > claims that service has been down or intermittent in the last week. > > I ha

RE: gmail outages

Haven't had any problems with my gmail account. -Original Message- From: IS Technical [mailto:ist...@intsolcan.com] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 10:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: gmail outages Can anyone tell me if there have been any major Gmail outages in the last week. On

RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

I don't think 500 is too much for a single server. Of course the specs are important as well as the links. SCCM has been a bit of a disappointment for our agency of about 5,000 workstations. We've had MS folks here multiple times trying to get it to work correctly. Some of it has been MS support

Re: gmail outages

It has been a little stiff the last few days - mostly when I clear out some large folders. But DOWN? No. On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:07 PM, IS Technical wrote: > Can anyone tell me if there have been any major Gmail outages in the > last week. One if my customers uses gmail on his home system a

Re: gmail outages

He's full of it :-) AFAIK --Original Message-- From: IS Technical To: NT System Admin Issues ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues Subject: gmail outages Sent: 7 Jul 2011 18:07 Can anyone tell me if there have been any major Gmail outages in the last week. One if my customers uses gmail on hi

RE: Password management tool

I use Password Corral. There is a free-standing version (non-installed), the data file (strongly encrypted) is separate from the app and can be exported in several ways, and it does separate folders. Plus, it's free (or was when I got it). Jim v. From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail

RE: Adobe Reader 10.1 Woes (9.4, previously)

I have no issue opening from network a Windows 7 64-bit via double click I have enable protected mode at startup unchecked And automatically trust sites frin my Win IS security zones checked From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 10:04 AM To:

gmail outages

Can anyone tell me if there have been any major Gmail outages in the last week. One if my customers uses gmail on his home system and claims that service has been down or intermittent in the last week. I haven't seen any news confirming this on the usual websites I monitor for this kind of news

Re: Adobe Reader 10.1 Woes (9.4, previously)

I tried adding the root network path to Reader's Advanced Security preferences but it didn't seem to help. Roger Wright ___ "Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil." - J. Paul Getty On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:48 PM, HELP_PC wrote: > ** > > I think it is a matter of security.

Re: Adobe Reader 10.1 Woes (9.4, previously)

Some guff in the registry methinks. I might be able to provide a list of keys to check tomorrow for you. Sent from my POS BlackBerry wireless device, which may wipe itself at any moment -Original Message- From: Roger Wright Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 12:30:20 To: NT System Admin Issues Re

RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

Good question. Would I want to support every workstation in the district? (Aka, about 500 windows machines...) Or would that be overkill for a single server? --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] To: NT System Admin Iss

RE: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

:) Where to start...? How many clients will be supporting through ConfigMgr? -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 12:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: New to MS System Center, Where to start? Hey everybody. I h

New to MS System Center, Where to start?

Hey everybody. I have a server which has been freed up from it's previous duty. Trying to find something productive for it's use, I'm looking at the possibility of running System Center on it. Now, I'm totally new to any of the System Center stuff, so I'm ignorant of much of it's uses. We at

R: Adobe Reader 10.1 Woes (9.4, previously)

I think it is a matter of security. You have to trust the share in Adobe preferences Guido Elia HELPPC Da: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Inviato: giovedì 7 luglio 2011 18.30 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: Adobe Reader 10.1 Woes (9.4, previously) Got

Re: How To Stop/Limit Attempted Hacking Over The Internet

Yeah, we like using an inexpensive sonicwall sslvpn for stuff like this for some clients. Ben Scott wrote: On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:30 AM, Robert Jackson wrote: We’re having an issue at our Data Centre, where by our customer Internet facing Terminal Servers are under attack on a more frequ

RE: Fake sales confirmation

We have seen this stuff also, Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: Mathew Shember [mailto:mathew.shem...@synopsys.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 3:31 PM To: NT System Admin I

Re: How To Stop/Limit Attempted Hacking Over The Internet

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:30 AM, Robert Jackson wrote: > We’re having an issue at our Data Centre, where by our customer Internet > facing Terminal Servers are under attack on a more frequent and sustained > basis. I strongly prefer wrapping RDP in a VPN of some kind, and then using strong authe

RE: Another cool tool from MS coming...

Cool, GFis mail archiver product already has this and you can deploy it over the network. I think the free mail archiva has an import tool but not a discovery tool. GFi's was far the most advanced I had used of the few products. It would deploy an agent to the desktop scan the box for pst, repor

RE: Citrix/RDP Alternatives?

Agreed. Any cost savings will likely come from other areas than licensing... -ASB: http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Sent from my Motorola Droid On Jul 6, 2011 3:57 PM, "Michael B. Smith" wrote: ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

ex2k7 transport rule

What am I missing? I created a transport rule to send custom ndr and drop the message. I went and added a custom NDR 5.7.100 for both en\internal\5.7.100 and en\external\5.7.100 . However when the rule gets executed it always sends back the 5.7.0 default message. the custom text from the rule wi

RE: How To Stop/Limit Attempted Hacking Over The Internet

Ahhh, but can you prove you didn't just read my response and then reword it? :) -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 10:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How To Stop/Limit Attempted Hacking Over The Internet

Re: Remote Access Problem with HP Switch

How about the gateway and the subnet mask? What happens if you traceroute to the switch? -ASB: http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Sent from my Motorola Droid On Jul 7, 2011 7:41 AM, "Bob Hartung" wrote: ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: creation of home folders in 2008 r2?

What's the share name? -ASB: http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Sent from my Motorola Droid On Jul 6, 2011 3:35 PM, "jesse-r...@wi.rr.com" wrote: > Finding this strange... > > When creating a new user account in AD on my 2003 R2 server, and assigning > a home folder to the user (H: as the drive and

RE: How To Stop/Limit Attempted Hacking Over The Internet

Great minds, Jim... I just suggested that myself. :D From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 9:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How To Stop/Limit Attempted Hacking Over The Internet Where is your customer base? If it is UK only you ca

RE: How To Stop/Limit Attempted Hacking Over The Internet

You might try limiting what IP groups you are willing to accept connections from..i.e. if you have no need to accept connections from China, Russia, Korea, etc you might just consider dropping all packets originating from IPs that are assigned to those countries. There are supposedly "blocklists" t

RE: How To Stop/Limit Attempted Hacking Over The Internet

Where is your customer base? If it is UK only you can restrict to just UK IP addresses. Or maybe you can just allow the EU.I do that on our VPN and FTP because I know it is only our employees and a handful of vendors that will connect. So I block the whole world except the US. On Thu, J

Re: Password management tool

Our team uses KeePass. Works well. Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From: Jon Harris To: "NT System Ad

RE: How To Stop/Limit Attempted Hacking Over The Internet

Many thanks for the feedback. In terms of the "under attack", I was able to physically see an attempted connection (via Terminal Services Manager) every second or so, backed up by the server's security event logs. The source IP address was from India. We only allow port 3389, through the Cisco

Re: Password management tool

I've used both Keepass and Password Corral and prefer the latter. For online password management I've found LastPass indispensable (despite their recent issues). Roger Wright ___ "Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil." - J. Paul Getty On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Jon H

Re: Password management tool

I like Password Corral. There's also LastPass.com * * *ASB* *http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Jon Harris wrote: > I know this has been discussed but what are some good password management > softw

Re: Valuation of hardware [OT]

On the contrary... In reality, there are a lot of people who go through life with fed info. It's sadly, a lot more like real life -- the way things have been shifted for a couple of decades, at least. * * *ASB* *http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the S

Re: How To Stop/Limit Attempted Hacking Over The Internet

Our firewall has a built-in IPS (we use Fortinet devices). I see attempts at our various systems (lke Citrix) getting prevented all the time. As ABS said, these are very helpful. Does not directly answer your question, but provides an option. >>> "Andrew S. Baker" 7/7/2011 7:43 AM >>>

Re: How To Stop/Limit Attempted Hacking Over The Internet

In similar situations, we typically restrict by IP address for both corporate customers and their home networks. When you say "under attack", what do you mean? It is easy enough to ensure that only the right ports and protocols are accessed on the Terminal Servers. An IPS device would be very he

Remote Access Problem with HP Switch

Yesterday, I replaced an HP Procurve 2626 with an HP 2810-48G. Now I'm having issues accessing the switch. The switch is located at a remote facility that is on a 172.18.x.x subnet. My location is on a 172.16.x.x subnet. The two facilities are connected via wireless bridges and a pair of Cisco

RE: r...@walkermartyn.co.uk - Re: How To Stop/Limit Attempted Hacking Over The Internet - Found word(s) risk free in the Text body

Hi James, Sorry no gateway device in place. Just a basic IPsec VPN between our internal LAN and the network at our Data Centre. We operate 2 x GB-2500 firewalls from GTA, at our Data Centre we're using 2 x Cisco ASA 5520's for resilience. Regards, Rab. ==

Re: Password management tool

I use Keepass at home & work. I use an autoexec plugin to automatically open our contract databases after I open my own personal one. T Typed slowly on HTC Desire On 7 Jul 2011 04:12, "Jon Harris" wrote: > I know this has been discussed but what are some good password management > software? I d

RE: Track regional settings change

Thanks, I have enabled auditing on a test server with below article & changed date to previous week. Now able to see Event ID 577 which is showing "SeSystemtimePrivilege". Now I have changed date format from m/d/ to mm/dd/ & got the same event ID with same details "SeSystemtimePrivileg

Re: How To Stop/Limit Attempted Hacking Over The Internet

What sort of VPN solution are you using? Don't you have a device (like a Citrix Access Gateway) sitting between your servers and the external world to facilitate secure connections? On 7 July 2011 10:30, Robert Jackson wrote: > We’re having an issue at our Data Centre, where by our customer Inte

How To Stop/Limit Attempted Hacking Over The Internet

We're having an issue at our Data Centre, where by our customer Internet facing Terminal Servers are under attack on a more frequent and sustained basis. We have selectively been blocking the offending public addresses. However as you can imagine, this exclusion list will only continue to grow and

Re: Track regional settings change

Those 520 and 577 events are logged in the Security log, IIRC On 7 July 2011 10:03, Haritwal, Dhiraj wrote: > Hi, > > ** ** > > How can we track who/when have changed Date/Time settings (Date format > change / Date change / Time change etc) on windows 2003 server. Will it have > any specifi

Re: Track regional settings change

I think there is an event log event written for this, it was something like 577 and 520 on NT, so may or may not have changed for 2003 server. It would probably be easier to restrict the ability to change the system time via a GPO though, at least then you will have a shorter list of suspects to s

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