Thanks gents, getting this to my management.
Going to be signing off the list at the end of the day tomorrow, I hope to have
it back up on a hotmail address or gmail soon enough, since the new job kinda
discourages the mass emailing going forward.
Z
Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security
If (though unlikely) you are a Citrix XenApp environment with Platinum
licenses, you get Citrix Single Sign-On free. It works and has lots of
features, just a bit tricky to set up sometimes. If you're not Platinum,
though, it is restrictively expensive to implement and you'd be better off
with
OK, makes sense.
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 6:00 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: FTE swag?
On the issues I've had to resolve, it has taken me over 4 hours on a few
occasions to resolve the issue. One of them was a registry key that
Dell and IBM, IIRC, have utilities in their Wireless management software
that do stuff like this, disable wireless when wired detected or
something like that
I also remember seeing a script on the Spiceworks site that could do this
http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/278
There may be
Or try Wireless AutoSwitch http://www.wirelessautoswitch.com
On 7 December 2011 17:37, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote:
Is there a native way in XP or Win7 to do this? Related: Can’t you have
the wireless adapter only work when undocked?
*David Lum*
Systems Engineer // NWEATM
Office
Dell ControlPoint is the Debbil.just sayin.
John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership for Strong Families
From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 12:45 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: Re: Disable
+1
From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 11:46 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Disable wireless when wired connection detected
Or try Wireless AutoSwitch
http://www.wirelessautoswitch.comhttp://www.wirelessautoswitch.com/
On 7 December
There has to be a better way! :-P
But looks like a cool utility.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 12:59 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE:
There is
Configuring Metrics, or how to choose the default connection between Wired and
Wireless Connections.
It is very common in today computers (especially Laptops) to have Wired Network
Card (NIC) as well as Wireless. Often users end up in a conflict and they do
not know how to control
Not that I've found. It's always seemed, to me, like a bit of an obvious thing
to want to be able to do.
From: Michael B. Smith [mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: 07 December 2011 6:12 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Disable wireless when wired connection
Only because I'm curious:
Why do you want/need to disable wireless when wired is plugged in? Doesn't the
laptop use the wired (by making the metric weigh less) automatically?
What's the benefit of turning the Wifi off?
--Matt Ross
Ephrata School District
- Original Message -
From:
Right. Of course the challenge with this is that wireless connection will
continue to consume DHCP resources (i.e., IP addresses).
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
Sent: Wednesday, December 07,
I don't think you can do that via GPO though.
From: John Cook [john.c...@pfsf.org]
Sent: 07 December 2011 6:24 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Disable wireless when wired connection detected
There is
Configuring Metrics, or how to choose the default
That's a great write up of a totally workable solution.
Unfortunately, we have users who try to bypass our firewall and internet
content filter restrictions (which would be theoretically punishable if we
detected it and our HR was willing to enforce the penalties), so we use the
wireless
Sophos Antivirus can do this for you.
We use it here, but on XP machines it does seem to have a tendency to blow up
the wireless drivers occasionally. Haven't seen it happen on any Win7 machines
as yet.
Jim
Jim Holmgren
Director of Technology Infrastructure
XLHealth Corporation
The
Not that I'm aware of but haven't tried.
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: Paul Hutchings
Whaddya want for nothing?
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: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent:
One of the major reasons is that the networks that are wired and
wireless might well be different, and end user machines really
shouldn't be connected simultaneously to different networks without
specific preparation. It's nastiness waiting to happen. Specifically,
a machine with two NICs in it is
Yeh I Want to too.
Another thing I want to do is change ip settings based on network.
My iPhone I can have static ip on some wireless networks and dhcp on others.
Can't be done on windows at least not that I know of.
Graeme
On Wednesday, 7 December 2011, Paul Hutchings
Rubber biscuit?
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:05 PM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote:
Whaddya want for nothing?
** **
*John W. Cook*
*System Administrator*
*Partnership For Strong Families*
*5950 NW 1st Place*
*Gainesville, Fl 32607*
*Office (352) 244-1610*
*Cell
You can have alternate configurations, at least in Win7. I don't remember when
the feature was introduced.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Graeme Carstairs [mailto:loonyto...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 2:32 PM
To:
Free beer.
Actually, this is pretty easy to do. I have something mocked up in PowerShell
and it's working. Translating it to C#, since I'm not really a programmer, is
going to be a lot harder.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: John
It's more basic issues too. PC boots up, wired NIC registers
hostxyz.domain.com in in DNS through DHCP.
User logs on, wifi kicks in, and registers hostxyz.domain.com in DNS through
DHCP.
Same host, but now so far as everything is concerned, the wireless NIC is it.
It's a bit of a PITA when
And some environments want it off for regulatory reasons.
* *
*ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of
Technology for the SMB market…
*
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote:
Right. Of course the challenge with this is that
Gmail provides a nice indexing mechanism
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com
w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132
From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org]
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 8:38 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Question on Self Service Password
Resource usage. Why have 57 connections to your wireless network when none are
needed. In my case I can reboot my AP controller at 4am with nobody in the
building and I'll get 57 registrations in two minutes. We start to get
connectivity issues at about 200 users - users come in, dock and power
Yep Tried that.
Say for example home network, using opendns to block the kiddies from
accessing nasties, so DHCP gives out open DNS addresses.
So for me I want to have static for firewall and nat rules on my laptop,
and non open dns servers.
If I set this on the adapter, then that is the
Care to share o great one???
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: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent:
Yes, Control Point is rubbish, but you don’t need it installed to set the
‘Disable Upon Wired Connect’ in the adaptor settings.
From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 11:54 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Disable wireless when wired
Where would I find that, I’m not seeing it on my D620.
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: Sam Cayze
What a crock.
If you have money to spare, put your temp files and pagefiles on SSD.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 4:29 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject:
Don’t have a laptop in front of me, but found a screenshot online:
http://goo.gl/8BdI3
From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 3:43 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Disable wireless when wired connection detected
Where would I find
No such luck, our D620/30 laptops have 1390 mini cards, not on them.
John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership for Strong Families
From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 04:55 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject:
Thanks for confirming my suspicion :)
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 3:50 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: RAMDisk Prevalence?
What a crock.
If you have money to spare, put your temp files and pagefiles on SSD.
I use a RAM Disk for SQL TempDB on an ETL server. It works just fine (the
server has 256GB of RAM), and it is fully supported, but in the upcoming
re-architecture of the system I will be eliminating the RAM Disk and replacing
it with SSD storage now that enterprise SSD storage is much more
Do they own the IP on Ramdoubler?
I think I can hear the 80's calling, they want their 5 ¼ floppies back ...
Mike
From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com]
Sent: 07 December 2011 22:14
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: RAMDisk Prevalence?
I use a RAM Disk for SQL TempDB on an
Thanks. I suspect that's the end of this one.
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Steve Kradel skra...@zetetic.net wrote:
Load up http://host/?feed=rss2 and see what's there; take it down if need
be.
It sounds like someone has pointed Google Reader at the site. No big
deal really...
The crock part was for part of the install accessed via the web clients.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 5:14 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE:
On 6 Dec 2011 at 18:29, David Lum wrote:
http://seclists.org/nmap-hackers/2011/5
I downloaded something from them a few months ago and realized I needed to
really pay attention on that site because the defaults have you installing
crap you don´t want. And by defaults I mean
In related news today:
= Included Stuff Follows =
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
This story was linked to on the Drudge Report this morning, and I was able
to read it earlier, but I suspect that the site is overloaded as it no
longer loads:
Library of
Are they Broadcom (Dell) Nics or Intel? Dell’s Drivers or MS Drivers?
I’ve seen the option on all my D600’s, D610’s, D620’s D630’s, etc…
From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 4:10 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Disable wireless when wired
H. I don't use Twitter so I'm at a disadvantage. But would this be
different than declaring all e-mail to be in the public interest? And how
do they get to sign 'an agreement' to do that? Has the user agreement
always included this potential provision??
DAF
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 3:34
No, unless you've declared your email as public.
The Library of Congress and Twitter have signed an agreement that will see an
archive of every public Tweet ever sent handed over to the library's repository
of historical documents.
From: David [mailto:blazer...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday,
Turned out it was a none issue the underlying OS was Windows 2003 server
and it was what was damaged. Three and a half hours on site and I could
not get to the virtual drives with anything I had with me, Linux and
a Barts PE with XP. There was no Recovery Console installed originally and
the
I can think of a few odd cases where a RAM disk could still make
sense; e.g., an application built to flush / fsync files at a high
rate, like an embeddable temp database that doesn't have an in-memory
mode. Certainly most apps are better off leaving this to the OS
buffers. For serving static
Why limit yourselves? Search them all.
- Sean
On Dec 7, 2011, at 7:38 PM, Cesare' A. Ramos cra...@idfllc.com wrote:
Hope everyone is well.
We are looking to post some job openings and also search for tech positions
of different levels and want to see the thoughts of monster.com versus
IMNSHO, Careerbuilder is a complete waste of time from the aspect of someone
who uses it to find work/contracts. Word of mouth, Dice, LinkedIn and Monster
and the top 4 for me.
Carl Webster
Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional
http://www.CarlWebster.comhttp://www.carlwebster.com/
Well, the employer pays to post so that cost multiplies as you add each site.
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com
w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132
From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 8:50 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re:
If you're going to pick two, I'd go for Dice and LinkedIn. Many people I know
(including myself) are finding a lot of their resources through LinkedIn.
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com
w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132
From: Cesare' A. Ramos [mailto:cra...@idfllc.com]
Sent:
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