So far, I have yet to find out where the script doesn't work.
I still have scripts that use this and work (although I've implemented GPP
for other things)
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On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 7:05
Patching will be a big part of this, but we also use the reporting to find what
is installed and versions. Our procurement department is also wanting us to
find a product to report on licensing for current apps so we make sure we stay
compliant.
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Good luck John,
Up here at SANS Boston, its a lot of fun doing packet inspection and
decoding, every interesting stuff J
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Edward E. Ziots
CISSP, Network +, Security +
Security Engineer
Lifespan Organization
Email:ezi...@lifespan.org
Cell:401-639-3505
From: John
Patching is super easy in KBox. I spent about a day creating PC/server
groups (tied to AD/ldap or IP - your preference), then another
day creating my various patch groups. Since then (about a year) I've
modified the patch groups maybe once or twice. Once you create the PC
groups, the patch
Cool. We have Shavlik for patching but are looking at Kace to help with our
move to Win7, let us know who has the oldest machines and should get upgraded
next, and software license compliance.
From: Senter, John [mailto:john.sen...@etrade.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 4:56 AM
To: NT
Nothing is broken, but we don't have any mappings assigned based on group
membership currently so IMO it's not scalable. I wanted to get a feel for what
others are doing and not change something to later hear hey Lum, you should
have asked and not gone down that path If all I need to do is
If you’re looking for good metering/licensing, throw AppClarity into the mix…
http://www.1e.com/software/appclarity/
From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org]
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 8:53 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Kace K1000 System Management Appliance
We are also going to review LanDesk, so if anyone has insight on that it would
be very useful.
From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org]
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 8:53 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Kace K1000 System Management Appliance
Patching is super easy in KBox. I
Isn't germane one of the Jackson 5?
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote:
Gotta give me points for at least trying to make it germane…
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*From:* Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com]
*Sent:* Monday, August 08, 2011 6:06
And he's Dynamite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQtxVT39fSc
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Doug Hampshire dhampsh...@gmail.com wrote:
Isn't germane one of the Jackson 5?
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote:
Gotta give me points for at least
Where are you syncing your ESX server to? Do your guests sync with it or are
they keeping time themselves?
John W. Cook
System Administrator
Partnership For Strong Families
5950 NW 1st Place
Gainesville, Fl 32607
Office (352) 244-1610
Cell (352) 215-6944
MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+,
I'm a big fan of GPP for drive mappings, and a huge opponent of login
scripts unless said login scripts are *absolutely necessary*. The
reason for this is that login scripts have an almost irresistible
tendency to turn into huge, undocumented, incomprehensible masses of
copy+pasted spaghetti
Yeah,
So where's the DC, on the esx server? What time keeping does the esx server
have setup? Is tools installed on both, is time keeping using tools or ntp?
There is a vmware kb article about how they recommend to setup time keeping for
the guests.
jlc
From: Greg Sweers
As John notes, you should let the guests keep time for themselves, and not
get their time from the hosts.
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On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Greg Sweers gswe...@acts360.com wrote:
We
I actually use the VMWare tools time sync function on the guests and have my
hosts sync to north-america.pool.ntp.org. I'm on ESX 4.1 not ESXi
John W. Cook
System Administrator
Partnership For Strong Families
5950 NW 1st Place
Gainesville, Fl 32607
Office (352) 244-1610
Cell (352) 215-6944
Was out on vacation last week (if painting counts as vacation 8), but if you
didn't already find them, here's what we have. I also went with a group like
Jon, so we could put our repair technicians in there, and for anyone else down
the road who needs to have the privilege added/removed.
For
Tools are loaded, but we are not syncing with the Host. The DC is on another
server, which is also running 2008 R2. Same setup. Not syncing with Host.
The PDC is configured to sync with time.windows.com 0x1, per Microsoft time
setup articles. All of our workstations and other servers have no
Everyone's environment is different. We have about 6000 users, spread
around the state, with about 20 sites, most with their own servers. Each
site has their own .bat, because it wasn't worth trying to figure out how to
map local drives and also drives back to the Home office.
We have
Are these domain machines? You don't sync them to a DC and sync the DC out to
an external NTP server?
David Lum
Systems Engineer // NWEATM
Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764
From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 7:21 AM
To: NT System Admin
If you haven't updated firmware and drivers in a while, you might go that route
as well. A lot of Dell issues with drives going offline and then rebuilding
successfully are resolved with firmware updates.
From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com]
Sent: Monday, August 08,
All workstations and server sync to the DC, the DC syncs outside as well as the
VMWARE host.
Workstations have no issues and neither do most of the servers, its just these
2 servers on one host that run fast. I am thinking its hardware, I can
actually watch the clock and for every 3 to 4 real
From the SP 2010 class we recently attended, I wouldn't think MS is pushing
BLOBS with SP, just that they've added it. I was eager to hear about this
feature, thinking it would be more like a friendly explorer-based file system
that we could use, but it is complicated to set up and doesn't
Wow, that's just bizarre
From: Greg Sweers [mailto:gswe...@acts360.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 8:06 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Strange Time issue
All workstations and server sync to the DC, the DC syncs outside as well as the
VMWARE host.
Workstations have no issues and
All domain machines. All VM guests sync to the ESX hosts. All workstations sync
to physical DC's that use standard Windows time service.
John W. Cook
System Administrator
Partnership For Strong Families
5950 NW 1st Place
Gainesville, Fl 32607
Office (352) 244-1610
Cell (352) 215-6944
MCSE,
I'm in NO way an electricity person. If I understand correctly (and they are
correct), this should not affect computers, but is be something to be aware of.
I'm sure someone out there knows the why and why not and will quickly
reply 8)
We kept getting time issues when we had ESX set the time on Windows servers
because the domain will adjust the server time and then the ESX system adjust
it back. This kept causing the time to go back and forth and it turned out the
ESX systems were getting skewed from the NTP source at a
We had this issue back in the ESX 3.5 days but it hasn't been an issue since
our move to 4.1. We're only talking about 20 guests here.
John W. Cook
System Administrator
Partnership For Strong Families
5950 NW 1st Place
Gainesville, Fl 32607
Office (352) 244-1610
Cell (352) 215-6944
MCSE,
Adding a me too post on the versions mentioned.
Also, I am wondering if it's a case of going over the Net for time versus a
local clock.
I want to recall we had similar issues but they went away when we added an NTP
device to the networks.
Memory is a bit scraggly in the morning.
Can't say the timeout issue has been a problem for us in the last 5 years
I've been here. Our scripts are fairly simple and we do try to document.
We've had more problems with machines not getting policies than not getting
running their login scripts.
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From: Steve
Exactly the problem I've seen at two locations. That's why we moved away
from the hosts managing the clock for the guests.
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On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Senter, John
I've done the same thing on my hyperV guests...turn off host time sync and
have them all sync to the DCs. The FSMO role holder is the only machine
syncing to an external time source.
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote:
Exactly the problem I've seen at two
Are we talking individual ESX hosts or several managed by a VCenter?
John W. Cook
System Administrator
Partnership For Strong Families
5950 NW 1st Place
Gainesville, Fl 32607
Office (352) 244-1610
Cell (352) 215-6944
MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4
From: Andrew S. Baker
Single point of failure..
John W. Cook
System Administrator
Partnership For Strong Families
5950 NW 1st Place
Gainesville, Fl 32607
Office (352) 244-1610
Cell (352) 215-6944
MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4
From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday,
The definitive document. :)
http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2010/01/29/a-brief-history-of-time-ok-ok-let-s-go-with-quot-an-introduction-to-the-windows-time-service-quot.aspx
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Andrew
I looked at LanDesk at the same time I looked at KBox. From the demos I
saw, it's pretty amazing. But it's expensive, and the company refused
to compete on the price point, so I discarded them from our options.
By the way, Dave, I use Kbox for reporting for our PC replacement
schedule. A
Redundant time servers in house
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 10:55 AM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote:
Single point of failure……….
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*Office
Anyone else having this issue in IE 8 or FF 5? I get the installer
downloaded and run it. The installer then downloads the app and it
stops at 12% during the download.
Thanks,
Jimmy
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
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Well dang..If that doesn't beat all. Everytime I run the resync command the
stupid thing goes back to Local CMOS when I run a /query /source. So I set it
again, run the /query /source shows the time.windows.com.
Run the update, restart services, run the resync..bam back to local cmos.
Its
Both.
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On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:54 AM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote:
Are we talking individual ESX hosts or several managed by a VCenter?
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Your bet Saint M, read that one three weeks back to help fix a few issues.
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote:
The definitive document. J
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I have two servers configured to seek multiple external time sources.
Easy enough to manage, and we've had no time sync issues since.
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On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:55 AM, John Cook
How thoroughly have you disabled ESX managing the time for the guests?
I ask because even though you can switch off time sync in VM tools etc., ESX
will *still* resync the guest's time to the host on certain events like
VMotion. It can be extremely frustrating to see a perfectly good PDC with
+1, used that doc a couple months ago myself to correct a drift I was getting
by letting Hyper-V supply the time to guests. Doing those sets fixed me right
up!
From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 9:05 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Strange
So? Every time the source changes, something gets logged on 2008 and above. And
you can turn on logging for 2003. The change doesn't happen by itself.
I promise. :)
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Greg Sweers
Pinky swear?? As my two year old came home for the first time last week and
said to me when I promised him a snack...
I will turn on the logging and let you know, I am really curious to see what is
changing that.
Am I wrong in thinking this is 2 issues.
1.The clock physically
*Note *Peers is a placeholder for a space-delimited list of peers from which
your computer obtains time stamps. Each DNS name that is listed must be
unique. You must append ,0x1 to the end of each DNS name. If you do not
append ,0x1 to the end of each DNS name, the changes made in step 5 will not
Thanks Steve,
I ran this and my time sync source set correctly. No more going back to Local
CMOS for the /query /source command.
Now to just figure out why this darn clock is running to its own drumbeat...
Since none of my other devices are doing this and its only these 2 virtuals on
this
I have a script to manage that whole process...
http://kb.ultratech-llc.com/Scripts/?File=SetTimeSync.BAT
It relies on the following as well:
- http://kb.ultratech-llc.com/Scripts/?File=SetDrive.BAT
-
*http://KB.UltraTech-llc.com/Scripts/Input/?File=CustomVariables.TXT
Thank you!
From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 9:20 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: trouble downloading Adobe Flash Player
Kindly provided by someone else on this list once (Thanks to whomever :)
I use this all the time now.
C:\Program
I've researched this and it appears to be okay to do, but something keeps
telling me it seems too easy
I'm in the process of retiring an old print server, but with most of the
faculty not back yet I need to keep the printers 'live' on both servers.
I'd like to set up different share names for
With the exception of centralized reporting/logging, it is indeed as easy as
it sound. No problem with having 2 print servers point to the same
printer... We've done lots of migrations that way...
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charl...@golden-eagle.org
Kingman, AZ
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Thanks - I needed the second opinion as I kept second guessing myself!
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Charlie Kaiser
charl...@golden-eagle.orgwrote:
With the exception of centralized reporting/logging, it is indeed as easy
as
it sound. No problem with having 2 print servers point to the same
Wow you're good, I don't stop at seconds guessing myself, I sometimes make it
to ace - 5 times guessing myself!
From: Vicky Spelshaus [mailto:vicky.spelsh...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 9:41 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: same IP printer - two different print servers
Is the clock on the host running fast? If it's not, then it can't be
physically running fast on the guest.
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Greg Sweers gswe...@acts360.com wrote:
Pinky swear?? As my two year old came home for the first time last week
and said to me when I promised him a
Thanks Bonnie, I will be putting those in on my Computers Container and
representative OU that I am going to be doing moving forward and see how
the testing goes accordingly.
I am sure my workstation group might not like it that much, but this
should have been done along time ago.
Z
Hey all,
I have a client who has 2 2003 servers and one of them is about to die. They
have a primary domain and a child domain in the same forest. We're replacing
the dying server, which happens to be the child domain controller, with a 2008
DC. I've adprep'd the forest, added the 2008
You need to dcpromo the 2008 DC down and dcpromo it into the child domain...
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com
w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132
From: Jay Dale [mailto:jd...@unetek.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 11:25 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Adding 2008 DC to
Not sure whether it's actually supported, but most of those errors that I've
seen on import (going to the same version or newer) are related to options that
don't exist or are not configured. For example, if you have an option set up
on the 2008 server, but that option doesn't exist in the
I just want to be sure that I understand this feature correctly before I get
too excited and look at upgrading our DC's to 2008 R2.
I have 2 DHCP servers, let's call them PRI and SEC. I also want to use
reservations but in an outage the reservations are something I could live
without having
Yes.
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I just want to be sure that I understand this feature correctly before I
get too excited and look at upgrading our DC's to
Remember the delay is just so the primary DHCP ack's first. This is the work
around so they don't compete. If your DHCP server is sluggish or busy you may
have to up the time period a little, and at the same time make sure the clients
don't give up (this is quite a while for pc's but sometimes
You only add hard drives which are external via hotswap trays in many of the
SM barebone units, processor and RAM. It's hardly building compared to a
whitebox. To each their own.
--
Mike Gill
From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 3:00 PM
To: NT
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