Re: Possibly a brilliant mistake...

2011-10-25 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Lists - Level Five wrote: > This might be a good time to use AD to deploy shares ... In my experience, too many things (including Windows Explorer and Microsoft Office) use and store the UNC path for things, so simply putting a share link in AD doesn't help you

RE: slow IE

2011-10-25 Thread Lists - Level Five
Thought about that, turned out to be windows anti-malware. The user installed it on their own via windows update for some reason manually. They already have vipre running, but what was strange was that it doesn’t affect FF or chrome, just IE .. even no add-ons … so I removed it and bounced it an

RE: Possibly a brilliant mistake...

2011-10-25 Thread Brian Desmond
It will work. You will need to disable strict name checking as someone mentioned. You could look at DFS consolidation roots as a way around the rename. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w – 312.625.1438 | c   – 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...

Re: slow IE

2011-10-25 Thread Daniel Rodriguez
Did you clean your cache? On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Lists - Level Five wrote: > I have one pc that has IE running really slow. I disabled all add-ons, I > defaulted the settings (took off auto discover) , I run it in disabled > add-ons mode. Nothing seems to make a difference (running Vip

RE: Possibly a brilliant mistake...

2011-10-25 Thread Lists - Level Five
This might be a good time to use AD to deploy shares . this way you can migrate without renaming and such, and you could always add DFS down the road. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 8:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Possibly a bri

Re: Possibly a brilliant mistake...

2011-10-25 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Agreed.I avoid server name swaps like the plague. Doable, but I prefer to avoid. * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Crawford, Scott wrote: > Sounds pretty good, but you can also give it

Re: Possibly a brilliant mistake...

2011-10-25 Thread Jonathan Link
Well, it should work, regardless. On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > I would prefer to do it that way, but > > o- The user population has a bad habit of populating their desktops > with shortcuts that contain the old server name > > and > > o- The internal web server has a massi

Re: Possibly a brilliant mistake...

2011-10-25 Thread Kurt Buff
Good point. I don't really want to mess with a CNAME and the rest - this might be the impetus to start my long-delayed program of setting up printers via Group Policy. Kurt On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 16:34, Crawford, Scott wrote: > Sounds pretty good, but you can also give it a new name and through

Re: Possibly a brilliant mistake...

2011-10-25 Thread Kurt Buff
Oh, yeah. Forgot to ask... Any worries about differences in NTFS between the two OSes? I've done a little searching, and didn't find anything, but I may not have looked in the correct places... Kurt On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 16:12, Jonathan Link wrote: > Yes, I've done something almost like this.

Re: Possibly a brilliant mistake...

2011-10-25 Thread Kurt Buff
I would prefer to do it that way, but o- The user population has a bad habit of populating their desktops with shortcuts that contain the old server name and o- The internal web server has a massive maze of documents that refer to documents on the file server Easier just to change the name of t

RE: Possibly a brilliant mistake...

2011-10-25 Thread Crawford, Scott
Sounds pretty good, but you can also give it a new name and through the magic of DNS point the old name at the new server as a CNAME. You'll need to disable strict name checking (as was recently discussed), but that gives you a little bit of coexistence time for at least the printers. -Orig

RE: local subnet routing issue

2011-10-25 Thread Jimmy Tran
All we did was re-ip our dedicated site to site routers with a routable ip address. So all our machines default to our firewall which then sends the traffic to the dedicated router. When we got the Juniper firewalls, we initially had trouble getting the routes to work properly over the site

Re: Possibly a brilliant mistake...

2011-10-25 Thread Jonathan Link
Yes, I've done something almost like this. It's slicker 'n snot. I kept the new sever name, and just did a find/replace in the login script. On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > A scenario for y'all to consider... > > I've got a file server (Win2003 R2) running as a VM. It's usi

Possibly a brilliant mistake...

2011-10-25 Thread Kurt Buff
A scenario for y'all to consider... I've got a file server (Win2003 R2) running as a VM. It's using the MS iSCSI connector to connect with the 4 data partitions it's running. My cunning plan to upgrade is to: o- Bring up a Win2008 R2 VM o- Configure all of the print queues on it to match the ol

Re: local subnet routing issue

2011-10-25 Thread Andrew S. Baker
What are the routing changes you recently made? That might provide the info we need to understand why this is no longer functional. * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Jimmy Tran wrote: > H

local subnet routing issue

2011-10-25 Thread Jimmy Tran
Hi All, We recently made some routing changes to our network in two of our offices. Some of the machines now, don't see its own local subnet properly. What happens is if the local routing table doesn't have 172.17.0.0/24 though its own NIC. When it routes, it will go to the firewall (defaul

Re: Trend Micro blocking emails from this list

2011-10-25 Thread Jim Majorowicz
You don't actually have to set the MX record for the IP address you want Trend to use as the Highest priority. You can still use your old Filter service durring the process, if it is setup at a higher priority. Once you've configured the settings on Trend HES, then you change your MX records to p

Re: Juniper Networks Switches?

2011-10-25 Thread Anders Blomgren
Our whole network is basically a bunch of EX-4200's in various stacks. Smb, afp, nfs, iscsi, you name it. Except for voip. :) But the gui has settings for voice vlan for a simple switchport and they come in all-POE versions as well so I have a hard time seeing why they wouldn't work well for voip.

RE: Script to fill in last user - ok real Q this time.

2011-10-25 Thread Sam Cayze
FYI, this one will also do the Serial Number & Make/Model if interested. -Sam On Error Resume Next strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _ & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colcomputersystem = objWMIService.ExecQuery

RE: Juniper Networks Switches?

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Hutchings
Thanks Anders. I guess the basic question is whether it's any good? Our needs are reasonably simple on a technical level (I think!). What we are keen on, if possible, is to try and get a vendor with one OS across their range. Right now we have an eclectic mix of vendors kit and frankly it's a

Re: Juniper Networks Switches?

2011-10-25 Thread Anders Blomgren
We use EX switches in a stacked configuration. Juniper calls it a Virtual Chassis. Our VoIP network is totally separate as its a hosted solution and the vendor wouldn't commit to full responsibility if we put it on the same switches. That said, what do you want to know? -Anders Sent from my iPhon

RE: WMI filter for GPO's for WIndows 2003 Servers,

2011-10-25 Thread Damien Solodow
Kind of like the Builtin Domain Controllers group. ;) DAMIEN SOLODOW Systems Engineer 317.447.6033 (office) 317.447.6014 (fax) HARRISON COLLEGE From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 10:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: WMI filter for GPO's fo

RE: WMI filter for GPO's for WIndows 2003 Servers,

2011-10-25 Thread Ziots, Edward
NO need since I am applying the GPO at a level below the Default Domain Controllers OU. I have a separate policy for the Audit Settings on the Domain Controllers. Z Edward E. Ziots CISSP, Network +, Security + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-

Re: WMI filter for GPO's for WIndows 2003 Servers,

2011-10-25 Thread Andrew S. Baker
I prefer this method for inclusions and exclusions, although it is less automatic. * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Kennedy, Jim wrote: > Another option to exclude the DC’s is to add them

RE: WMI filter for GPO's for WIndows 2003 Servers,

2011-10-25 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Another option to exclude the DC's is to add them to a security group and deny read on the GPO. From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 9:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: WMI filter for GPO's for WIndows 2003 Servers, I was meaning to exclude

RE: WMI filter for GPO's for WIndows 2003 Servers,

2011-10-25 Thread Ziots, Edward
I was meaning to exclude DC's since all my DC's are Windows 2008 R2 SP1. This was more targeted for Windows 2003 Member servers, since they and I just learned Windows 2008 servers will not obey the advance audit settings that are reserved for Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7. So I had to create differ