I have just upped my NV+ to 4.1.7 so I shall see how it pans out, it is
currently connected to a netgear (non-managed) switch, but I do have a spare
Procurve (model number escapes me) knocking about which I could swap over.
Have you checked out the readynas forums to see if anyone else is
Not yet
Guido Elia
HELPPC
Da: Matthew B Ames [mailto:matthew.a...@qinetiq.com]
Inviato: venerdì 5 agosto 2011 11.04
A: NT System Admin Issues
Oggetto: RE: What may cause that ? Ready NAS NV+
I have just upped my NV+ to 4.1.7 so I shall see how it pans out, it is
A small support shop I was working at ~6 yrs ago was charging $125/hr,
plus travel if applicable (located in Southeastern PA).
Don Guyer
Windows Systems Engineer
RIM Operations Engineering Distributed - A Team, Tier 2
Enterprise Technology Group
Fiserv
don.gu...@fiserv.com
Office:
+1
My clients understand I have %dayjob% (and %dayjob% knows I have SMB
customers), so any emergencies that require me using UPTO/sicktime gets
charged 150% my normal onsite rate. In the last four years this has happened
exactly twice, the latest once just last month when a switch died and
as of 2009, my consulting rate went to $135 an hour, 1/2 hour minimum for
remote work, 1 hour minimum for on site, but no travel charges within 45
minutes/non-critical arrival. Emergency/after hours travel time started the
clock for the 1 hour minimum however.
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 8:33 AM,
CAL's are handed out as folks sign in to the servers and use the app, you free
up a CAL by logging off a user.
One part of setup is setting up an RDS server to be the licensing server (same
server can hold multiple RDS roles). R2 makes it easy, prior to R2 you needed
to put the license server
Snipped out and left the below. That is how it works. Cals are assigned as they
login and released as they log out. I never liked Harry anyway so I would just
go with two Cal's in your scenario.
From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 9:22 AM
To: NT
You can assign the licensing server for RDP via GPO, to keep things simple
Sometimes on WYSE client devices they can hang on to a TS license and have
to be deleted by the function in the WYSE control panel for them to get
freed up. I don't know whether 2008 R2 TS has made any strides in
If T, D H use one device between them, you only need one Device CAL. If T, D
H each use a separate device you can either buy three device CALs or three
User CALs. Device CALs are tied to a device and User CALs are not tracked. If
you use User CALs I would recommend you not try and run
Hmm. I thought that in my scenario Tom and Dick login, they are assigned the
CALs but when they logout the CALs are still assigned to them via TS license
manager, they aren't freed up for Harry to use?
From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]
Sent: 05 August 2011 14:27
To: NT
In our case each user typically has a device each. We want to minimize
licensing costs and if we could buy X amount of CALs up front and they are only
assigned as users login that would be preferable to having to allocate in
advance regardless of whether that user does ever log in but could
BUT I am required to buy THREE TS/RDS licenses as Microsoft requires a license
for any user who at any point in time MAY use the server
Weird, not how it was explained to me by my Microsoft guy. I will reconnect
with him and get clarification, not that MS's license models have ever been
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/licensing-rds.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/licensing-faq.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/client-licensing.aspx
All your questions are answered in Chapter 12 of the 2008 R2 RDS Resource Kit.
How RD
From http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/licensing-rds.aspx :
Windows Server Client Access License and TS/RDS Client Access License
In addition to a server license, a Windows Server Client Access License (CAL)
is required to access the Windows Server software. If you wish to utilize
Thanks Carl, so if I've interpreted that correctly Tom and Dick logon and are
assigned the two licenses, but if Dick then doesn't logon for 52-89 days his
CAL is returned to the pool and Harry could use it.
From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com]
Sent: 05 August 2011 14:47
To: NT System
That is correct BUT, IMNALO, you are in technical violation of the CAL license
if you try to use two Per User CALs for three users.
Carl Webster
Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional
http://www.CarlWebster.comhttp://www.carlwebster.com/
From: Paul Hutchings
It sounds like the licensing server mechanism lets me do something that the
license agreement doesn't want me to do then?
I can't believe it's licensed so that if Tom logs on one in his entire lifetime
he has to have a CAL assigned for the rest of his life? Actually I can believe
it...
From:
I read it the same way you do, Paul. If you have 20 per user licenses,
they are allocated to the 20 people that log onto the server. If one of
those people is replaced, they take over the license for someone else
(after the inactivity period). In the other situation, you could never
even think
If Tom is never going to access the TS/RDS server again, and has no ability to
for whatever reason, then his CAL can be reassigned. But IANAL.
Carl Webster
Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional
http://www.CarlWebster.comhttp://www.carlwebster.com/
From: Paul Hutchings
Vipre? If I'm not mistaken you can set it so that the device will look to
the cloud if it can't connect to the mother ship!
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.comwrote:
Other than MS with Intune, who else is offering a cloud based corporate
AV solution.
PrevX
Guido Elia
HELPPC
Da: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com]
Inviato: venerdì 5 agosto 2011 16.08
A: NT System Admin Issues
Oggetto: Cloud Based AV
Other than MS with Intune, who else is offering a cloud based corporate AV
solution.
With so many
Trend does this too...
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Cameron cameron.orl...@gmail.com wrote:
Vipre? If I'm not mistaken you can set it so that the device will look to
the cloud if it can't connect to the mother ship!
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Martin Blackstone
I just assumed all A/V defaults to the internet for updates when it can't
contact the LAN update server?
From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com]
Sent: 05 August 2011 15:08
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Cloud Based AV
Other than MS with Intune, who else is offering a cloud
Right. That's what we use today.
The problem is that reporting gets all messed up over time because nobody is
phoning home.
From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 7:20 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Cloud Based AV
Trend does this too...
For updates, yes, most do. For reporting, most don't out of the box.
From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 9:21 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Cloud Based AV
I just assumed all A/V defaults to the internet for updates when it
With VIPRE if you don't mind doing a bit of port forwarding you can make port
18082 on your VIPRE server available on the internet and have roaming agents
check in over the internet. That way all they need is an internet connection.
More details at.
with cloud-based AV offerings, how does one deploy emergency def's specific
to, say, inhouse infections?
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.comwrote:
Other than MS with Intune, who else is offering a cloud based corporate AV
solution.
With so many remote
Have you contacted Trend or checked their KB? I know I once had to reset
something on the Trend server to make sure they still reported into the console
even though they were set to get updates from Trend (Smart scan) instead of the
local server.
Dave
From: Martin Blackstone
Here's what I'm considering ...
* Dock vs Tape Drive
* Pros
* Cost
* An external Quantum RDX dock cost $150 and has cartridges with capacity up to
1 TB. A external Quantum LTO4 tape drive (800 MB) costs about $1,550 and an
external Quantum LTO5 tape drive costs about @2,200. I've had 2
In the other situation, you could never even think about using RDS in a
high-turnover environment.
Sure you would - go per-device.
Dave
From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:bem...@pittcountync.gov]
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 7:10 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Assigning and Freeing up
You are, of course, correct as long as you are dealing with
workstation-bound workers.
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 10:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Assigning and Freeing up TS/RDS Cals?
In the other situation, you could never
Thank you for supplying this clarification Carl! Glad I am nowhere close to
this limit even with this new info, and RDS CAL's are dirt dirt dirt cheap for
non-profits.
Dave
From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com]
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 7:13 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject:
You know, I'm so sick of Trend I could scream. I don't think their products
are half of what they used to be and they haven't really brought much to the
table of late.
We seem to be suffering more and more malware infections that Trend just
skips over.
We have Intune in a small 10 unit
I left Trend years ago (~2006) for that very reason, and they've only gotten
worse, IMO.
* *
*ASB* *http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker* *Harnessing the Advantages of
Technology for the SMB market…
*
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.comwrote:
You know, I’m so
So now I need to find a new one..
From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 8:19 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Cloud Based AV
I left Trend years ago (~2006) for that very reason, and they've only gotten
worse, IMO.
ASB
They have some nice tools though... I'm thinking HJT here. 'Course they
didn't come up with that, they just bought the company that did. :D
From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 11:19 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Cloud Based AV
I left
+100.
Our Palo Alto's are finding things (laptops returning to the office) that
should be easily detectable by Trend. Not zero day, but old virus that they
claim to have signatures for.
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.comwrote:
You know, I’m so sick of
My HR Director just came into the office asking about switching our HR
Performance review software. Does anyone have any good recommendations?
Our company is about 150 employees.
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~
Right. That's how we seem to find out about this these days. The PAN reports
a malware infection while Trend sleeps it off.
From: Kevin Lundy [mailto:klu...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 8:41 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Cloud Based AV
+100.
Our Palo Alto's
Curious, I have no issues at my client with Trend (55 PC's), although from this
list it seems it depends on the size of your deployment. I have no issues with
infections, performance or updates, etc, it just works. It could of course just
be their environment too, I know different businesses
Okay, a bit off topic, but.
We've just started using ISA as a proxy server, we were just using
the firewall bits before.
Our windows clients had no issues really, but with the Macs on our
network, that is another story.
We have the OCSPD (Online Certificate Status Protocol dæmon) that runs
Our PAN catches very little, but it does stop a lot simply through URL
filtering. If I were Martin I'd be looking for a solution that did URL
filtering as well as traditional antivirus.
I have my own views on Trend for A/V but I believe their client cloud URL
filtering is pretty decent.
I would be interested also. We've been using a very old version of
Knowledgepoint performance appraiser which I'm pretty sure doesn't exist
by the same name/company any more.
From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 10:44 AM
Ken, thanks, that's excellent news - not actually looked at IIS7 yet, I just
know that our general purpose web server needs to be rebuilt soon and as we
have 2008 R2 licenses I figured it's going to be on 2008 R2.
Thanks again,
Paul
From: Ken Schaefer
Also using Palo-alto to catch things talking outbound that the AV and
other controls should have found inbound. Like I have said before AV is
about next to worthless these days.
Z
Edward E. Ziots
CISSP, Network +, Security +
Security Engineer
Lifespan Organization
I've got the same one...Performance Impact...bought by Vurv, bought by
Taleo.
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:25 AM, N Parr npar...@mortonind.com wrote:
**
I would be interested also. We've been using a very old version of
Knowledgepoint performance appraiser which I'm pretty sure doesn't exist by
Which PN product(s) are you guys specifically using?
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org wrote:
Also using Palo-alto to catch things talking outbound that the AV and
other controls should have found inbound. Like I have said before AV is
about next to worthless
Surprised no one has mentioned Security Essentials. Cloud-based. Ties into
Intune and will eventually tie into Forefront.
--
Sent from Kaiten Mail for Android. Please excuse my brevity.
Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.com wrote:
So now I need to find a new one….
From: Andrew S. Baker
We have 2020’s in an HA pair.
From: Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 9:42 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Cloud Based AV
Which PN product(s) are you guys specifically using?
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org
We have the 4020's in a HA pair.
I have a dual belt CCIE, one of them security, working for me. In other
words, he is a big Cisco bigot. He chose the PAs and feels nothing Cisco
has is even close.
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.comwrote:
We have 2020’s
I did that. It showed 8.Strange
Thanks,
Mathew
-Original Message-
From: kz2...@googlemail.com [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 9:37 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Excel reports 4 cpus?
Check task manager, I dare say that will
What is querying the number of CPUs?
Sent from my POS BlackBerry wireless device, which may wipe itself at any
moment
-Original Message-
From: Mathew Shember mathew.shem...@synopsys.com
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 17:30:17
To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
She has a field at the bottom of her sheet which displays the count.
It seems to be working now ..
Thanks,
Mathew
-Original Message-
From: kz2...@googlemail.com [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 10:34 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Excel
I did some work for a bank processing company one time where they processed all
the checks, deposits, etc for numerous banks. The software they used put
everything nice and neat in a very organized folder system with files for
everything processed for that day in a separate folder. After 2
I have noticed with Excel 2010, if I am processing a netlogon.log file with
hundreds of thousands of lines[1], Excel will report the RAM usage, # of cores
being used and a % complete.
Carl Webster
Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional
http://www.CarlWebster.com
1. I did process a
Sharepoint stores files in SQL with no problem.
--T
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote:
We have a company pitching a project management solution that stores all
project data, including photos, docs, etc. in SQL. I'm leary because most
of our projects have
We have a project management system that stores everything outside the DBs.
That model works great for us, everything is served up instantaneously.
We have about 100GB worth of active data in it (And we archive the data out
about 4 times a year).
From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com]
Yes, I think there were problems though, and iirc MS is trying to move away
from that. To 'BLOBS' or something. Some sort of external SQL storage
mechanism.
-Original Message-
From: Tigran K [mailto:tigr...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 1:01 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
With a lot of files, and especially a lot of small files, Windows is VERY
inefficient. Move into the millions of files and the Windows file system is
not where I would want to store stuff.
+1,000,000
Dave
From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com]
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 10:54 AM
We have the OCSPD (Online Certificate Status Protocol dæmon) that runs
as root and won't authenticate with ISA.
apps running as the user authenticate fine.
I do not know this program... Is this daemon running on the Mac clients? I'm
assuming it is.
any thoughts on how to get it to
A lot of times depending on how large the files are its might be better to use
Remote Storage instead of storing stuff in SQL blobs.
Z
Edward E. Ziots
CISSP, Network +, Security +
Security Engineer
Lifespan Organization
Email:ezi...@lifespan.org
Cell:401-639-3505
-Original Message-
Using 4020’s here.
Z
Edward E. Ziots
CISSP, Network +, Security +
Security Engineer
Lifespan Organization
Email:ezi...@lifespan.org
Cell:401-639-3505
From: Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 12:42 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re:
Don't forget how you're going to back it up as well. Stating the obvious I
know but backing up a large SQL database is very different to backing up a
large drive full of files.
From: Roger Wright [rhw...@gmail.com]
Sent: 05 August 2011 6:37 PM
To: NT System
I've experienced problems with directories that have as few as 10k
files in them. This usually manifests itself first as problems
browsing the directory with explorer.exe.
Once you have problems with explorer hanging, I've found that it's
time to start dividing the files into smaller directories.
They used to be great, I left them about 4 years ago after I had to clean a
few machines with other tools.
-Jeff Steward
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.comwrote:
Right. That’s how we seem to find out about this these days. The PAN
reports a malware
Thanks, all. Sounds like SQL isn't the problem I imagined and may actually
be the solution.
Roger Wright
___
Dr. Seuss is my favorite rapper! Cat - Hat... sheer genius!
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
I've experienced problems with directories that
I think this was more of an issue in versions of SQL prior to 2005. YMMV :)
-Jeff Steward
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, all. Sounds like SQL isn't the problem I imagined and may actually
be the solution.
Roger Wright
___
Dr. Seuss is my
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
Once you have problems with explorer hanging, I've found that it's
time to start dividing the files into smaller directories.
Hell, I've had Explorer hang on empty folders... ;-)
One more reason to use the command line.
hmm. this is a new one to me.
https://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/Home.aspx
https://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/Studies/SearchResult.aspx
Haven't tried it yet, just tossing it out there.
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Jeff Steward jstew...@gmail.com wrote:
One more reason to use the command line. :)
Agreed!
On that subject, is there a good text based editor for Windows anybody can
recommend? If anybody is familiar with the emacs vs vi wars in the *nix world,
I don't want to go there. I just want to know what people are using when they
want
Ultraedit
- Sean
On Aug 5, 2011, at 1:52 PM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote:
One more reason to use the command line. :)
Agreed!
On that subject, is there a good text based editor for Windows anybody can
recommend? If anybody is familiar with the emacs vs vi wars in
Notepad+ or ISE
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote:
Ultraedit
- Sean
On Aug 5, 2011, at 1:52 PM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org
wrote:
One more reason to use the command line. :)
Agreed!
On that subject, is there a good text
Notepad++ or Ultraedit...
***
Charlie Kaiser
charl...@golden-eagle.org
Kingman, AZ
***
-Original Message-
From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org]
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 2:52 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Text
Notepad++
Carl Webster
Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional
http://www.CarlWebster.com
-Original Message-
From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org]
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 4:52 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Text Editor for Windows WAS: SQL for
Ah... I need to clarify:
Both Ultraedit and Notepad+ are in the GUI. I'm looking for a good text-only
full screen editor. Think edit.exe back in MS-Dos 6.0 days.
Anybody have a recommendation for one of those?
--Matt Ross
Ephrata School District
- Original Message -
From: Steven
edit.exe still works. On the odd chance I need to edit from the command
line I use that. I can't think of the last time I had to use it though.
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.orgwrote:
Ah... I need to clarify:
Both Ultraedit and Notepad+ are in the GUI.
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 14:02, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
Once you have problems with explorer hanging, I've found that it's
time to start dividing the files into smaller directories.
Hell, I've had Explorer hang
It was actually edit.com, but it's not on my Win7 install, prolly cuz its
64-bit.
Why wouldn't you want to use notepad though?
I miss edlin :)
From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 5:29 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Text Editor for Windows WAS:
Edlin...which is still available on at least W2K3
From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu]
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 5:35 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Text Editor for Windows WAS: SQL for File Storage?
It was actually edit.com, but it's not on my Win7 install,
This came up because I wanted to edit something real quick on a Win2K8R2
server... and 'edit' didn't work.
I just tried it on my domain controller... it said it wasn't there, either.
I just checked around a bit... looks like 'nano' is available for Windows...
which makes me very happy. If
Why wouldn't you want to use notepad though?
It's probably the linux user in me. I like TUIs. I feel like all this gui crap
is making everything on the computer slower. I've never had a true text (as in
text based) editor hang. Ben's comment about Explorer hanging on empty folders
brought
Taleo.. burf!
From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 9:40 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: performance review software
I've got the same one...Performance Impact...bought by Vurv, bought by
Taleo.
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:25 AM, N Parr
I use notepad for most everything that's quick and dirty. For stuff
that's not, I mostly use pfe32 - which is not supported anymore, but
works well.
I suppose I really should jump into this - http://www.vim.org/download.php
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 14:52, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org
On 5 Aug 2011 at 10:16, Cameron wrote:
Vipre? If I'm not mistaken you can set it so that the device will look
to the cloud if it can't connect to the mother ship!
It does, I have laptops configured this way.
--
Angus Scott-Fleming
GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
1-520-290-5038
Security Blog:
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Matthew W. Ross
mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote:
Both Ultraedit and Notepad+ are in the GUI. I'm looking for a
good text-only full screen editor.
I'm not sure how much you're really saving -- Windows is built
around GUI, with subpar text support. Notepad++ is
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