RE: I hate newegg...

2012-12-11 Thread Guyer, Don
Newegg rocks, propaganda or not. Unless I need it ASAP, then I drive 20 mins. to MicroCenter. Their prices and selection rival the Egg. Regards, Don Guyer Catholic Health East - Information Technology Enterprise Directory Messaging Services 3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa

Re: I hate newegg...

2012-12-11 Thread Jonathan Link
I go to Newegg... Then I go to Amazon. If they have it, too... On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Guyer, Don dgu...@che.org wrote: Newegg rocks, propaganda or not. Unless I need it ASAP, then I drive 20 mins. to MicroCenter. Their prices and selection rival the Egg. ** ** Regards,

RE: I hate newegg...

2012-12-11 Thread Glen Johnson
I hate mail in rebates. Not that newegg does a lot of those, I think Tiger Direct has everyone beat there. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: I hate newegg... I go to Newegg... Then I go to

Re: I hate newegg...

2012-12-11 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Glen Johnson gjohn...@vhcc.edu wrote: I hate mail in rebates. Not that newegg does a lot of those, I think Tiger Direct has everyone beat there. Instead of Tiger Direct, you could shop at CompUSA. Or Circuit City. Or Infotel. Or Systemax. Or... ;-)

RE: I hate newegg...

2012-12-11 Thread Ziots, Edward
+1 they never pay off, tried it a few times and got nothing back rebate wise, therefore don't use them anymore. Never used newegg, usually just use amazon Z Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org From: Glen

RE: I hate newegg...

2012-12-11 Thread David Lum
I ignore rebates and pretend they don't exist From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 5:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: I hate newegg... I hate mail in rebates. Not that newegg does a lot of those, I think Tiger Direct has everyone beat

Re: I hate newegg...

2012-12-11 Thread Pete Howard
They seem to be doing a lot of instant rebates now which are better than mail-in but a little gimmicky. I built a killer gaming rig recently with mostpartssourced from newegg and was very happy with them.From: "Ziots, Edward" ezi...@lifespan.org To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Dead DC cleanup via GUI in 2008+

2012-12-11 Thread Damien Solodow
I've used it once and it seemed to do the trick. DAMIEN SOLODOW Systems Engineer 317.447.6033 (office) 317.447.6014 (fax) HARRISON COLLEGE From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 10:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Dead DC cleanup via GUI in 2008+

RE: Dead DC cleanup via GUI in 2008+

2012-12-11 Thread Webster
It is that easy. Right-click the dead DC in ADUC, select delete and you are done. I, personally, would still verify the DNS stuff for the dead DC is gone. Thanks Webster From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Subject: Dead DC cleanup via GUI in 2008+ You can clean up dead DC metadata

RE: Dead DC cleanup via GUI in 2008+

2012-12-11 Thread David Lum
Good point and yes I did check DNS and found only a static entry. Sites and Services showed a it a as replication partner but it had additional stuff behind the name that made me think at next replication it might get removed, but I manually killed the entry. That's so much easier it's almost

Windows 2012 as VM

2012-12-11 Thread Jim Majorowicz
I've got a client that has 2008 R2 Enterprise Server that is setup as a Hyper-V Host. It currently is running a couple of VMs (2008 SQL, an an App server). I'm looking to possibly add either a SBS 2011 Standard server to a VM *OR* a Windows 2012 Std. (Essenentials w/ Transmorg) to the box. If

RE: Dead DC cleanup via GUI in 2008+

2012-12-11 Thread Webster
IIRC from what Brian Desmond told me, static DNS entries get flagged as untouchable. At least as far as Aging Scavenging is concerned but I think that would apply to any process that wants to do automated cleanup. Thanks Webster From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Subject: RE: Dead

Re: -1) All your passwords are belong to us

2012-12-11 Thread MMF
The real problem as I see it is that some organizations ignore case sensitivity, and some do not allow special characters. I won’t name the companies that I’m aware of in the investment and finance industries, but I know for a fact that they don’t care if your password is case sensitive, they

RE: -1) All your passwords are belong to us

2012-12-11 Thread David Lum
As irritating to me is when a space is not an allowed character in the password. I can only guess it’s to make some back-end process less painful, or just lazy programming…. Dave From: MMF [mailto:mmfree...@ameritech.net] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: -1) All your passwords are belong to us

2012-12-11 Thread Ziots, Edward
And I have seen applications that are financially based can fields can’t hold special characters, or numbers or sometimes more than 8 characters total (Poor development model and background data model) Z Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan

RE: Windows 2012 as VM

2012-12-11 Thread Michael B. Smith
I'm running (until New Year break) my production mail server on Server 2012 on Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. I haven't had any problems. But honestly, I do not know if it's actually supported... -Original Message- From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:jmajorow...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December

RE: Dead DC cleanup via GUI in 2008+

2012-12-11 Thread Michael B. Smith
I almost always see extra entries hanging around in _msdcs that need to be manually cleaned up. From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 10:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dead DC cleanup via GUI in 2008+ It is that easy. Right-click the

RE: Windows 2012 as VM

2012-12-11 Thread Mike Hoffman
I thought it was more of a recommendation - although if you are using Server 2012 with 1+2 virtualisation rights then you are anly allowed to run the hyper-v bits on the base - and you do not want to be putting Exchange on the domain controller, or the LOB box, and remember that SharePoint will

RE: -1) All your passwords are belong to us

2012-12-11 Thread Crawford, Scott
For quite a while ETrade was limited to 6 characters. From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 10:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: -1) All your passwords are belong to us And I have seen applications that are financially based can fields

SemiOT: They finally pulled the trigger...

2012-12-11 Thread Kurt Buff
And it looks like it has a lot of really rough edges, but it *is* quite a milestone. I'd say it's for testing and the truly adventurous only at this point. Kurt -- Forwarded message -- From: Karolin Seeger ksee...@samba.org Date: Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:40 AM Subject: [Announce]

SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0

2012-12-11 Thread Kurt Buff
I like this, from the very end: Members of the Samba Team work for many of the largest companies in the software Industry and even helped Microsoft produce the protocol documentation that fully specifies the SMB/CIFS protocol. We always knew that MSFT could use help documenting things, didn't

Re: Windows 2012 as VM

2012-12-11 Thread Andrew S. Baker
You don't have to upgrade, I believe. I do need to check, though. *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Mike Hoffman

Re: Server room monitoring/alerts

2012-12-11 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 6 Dec 2012 at 12:10, Bill Humphries wrote: I bet there is an app for that. Couldn't find one that sent SMS messages. There are several Android apps that monitor remote computers over IP and alert you to conditions that you tell them to. I found some dedicated SMS-sending alarm systems.

Re: All your passwords are belong to us

2012-12-11 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 10 Dec 2012 at 13:54, Stefan Jafs wrote: I don't know if you have seen this: http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/12/25-gpu-cluster-cracks-every-stan dard-windows-password-in-6-hours/ Heard this discussed on the last SecurityNow podcast. The GPU cluster cracked only the old LanMan

RE: Server room monitoring/alerts

2012-12-11 Thread Sam Cayze
FreezeAlarm comes to find. I know some people that use them for monitoring conditions at their cabin. It can use a pots line, in case your network is down. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To

RE: -1) All your passwords are belong to us

2012-12-11 Thread Ziots, Edward
Yep, my point exactly, Z Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 12:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: -1) All your

RE: -1) All your passwords are belong to us

2012-12-11 Thread Crawford, Scott
The crazy thing is they were a new dot com so I would think legacy mainframes would have been at a minimum. Add to that the ability to ruin someone’s life financially and it was pretty shocking. From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 1:54 PM To: NT

RE: Dead DC cleanup via GUI in 2008+

2012-12-11 Thread David Lum
I'm chasing this, but only on the DC I just stood up to replace the old one (new one reuses the old IP, but a different name). The other DC's aren't logging it: DCOM was unable to communicate with the computer using any of the configured protocols One thing I've found so far is name

Re: SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0

2012-12-11 Thread Matthew W. Ross
I am curious on what the list thinks about an open-source alternative to an Active Directory server means to them... I'm sure many here will shrug it off, but for smaller installs where money is tight, would you consider Samba 4.0 AD servers? I know I am. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District

RE: SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0

2012-12-11 Thread Michael B. Smith
I intend to look into it. I have a lot of questions. But until replication is stable, I can't seriously consider it. -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 3:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SemiOT #2:

Re: SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0

2012-12-11 Thread Kurt Buff
Exactly my thought. On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: I intend to look into it. I have a lot of questions. But until replication is stable, I can't seriously consider it. -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross

Re: SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0

2012-12-11 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 11 Dec 2012 at 12:26, Matthew W. Ross wrote: I am curious on what the list thinks about an open-source alternative to an Active Directory server means to them... I'm sure many here will shrug it off, but for smaller installs where money is tight, would you consider Samba 4.0 AD servers?

Re: SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0

2012-12-11 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: I am curious on what the list thinks about an open-source alternative to an Active Directory server means to them... I'm sure many here will shrug it off, but for smaller installs where money is tight, would you

Re: SemiOT: They finally pulled the trigger...

2012-12-11 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Patrick Salmon psal...@gmail.com wrote: Most remarkable is use the 'stable' in the same sentence as 'Samba'. Have long liked and used it - no question, it's a badly needed complement to many networks, but in the 15 yrs since I first kicked its tires, 'stable'

Re: I hate newegg...

2012-12-11 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote: Dell Premium is the slowest site in the world ... I know what you mean, but I suspect Verizon Wireless's web site could give them a run for their money. (Or should that be crawl for their money?) Amazon invoices are lot

Re: SemiOT: They finally pulled the trigger...

2012-12-11 Thread Patrick Salmon
No, but I did get an iPhone for my wife. best damn trade I EVER did! ;-) On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Patrick Salmon psal...@gmail.com wrote: Most remarkable is use the 'stable' in the same sentence as 'Samba'.

Question about RU5 for Exchange 2010 SP2

2012-12-11 Thread Ziots, Edward
All, (Mr Smith have you seen this?) We are currently having an issue with event ID 1 on Exchange 2010 SP2 Hotfix Rollup 4 on our internal CAS Servers that are filling up the application log with event ID1. It seems that logs

Re: I hate newegg...

2012-12-11 Thread Free, Bob
I suspect Verizon Wireless's web site could give them a run for their money. (Or should that be crawl for their money?) Concur, I h@te checking my usage but it's a necessary evil for my situation. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday,

Re: I hate newegg...

2012-12-11 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Free, Bob r...@pge.com wrote: Dell Premium is the slowest site in the world ... I suspect Verizon Wireless's web site could give them a run for their money. Concur, I h@te checking my usage but it's a necessary evil for my situation. Try administering 30+

RE: Dead DC cleanup via GUI in 2008+

2012-12-11 Thread Brian Desmond
You have to manually enable scavenging for that zone (and on a server to do it) which folks often don't do. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:53 AM To: NT

RE: Dead DC cleanup via GUI in 2008+

2012-12-11 Thread Brian Desmond
Correct - records with a timestamp of 0 (GUI calls them static records) never get cleaned up. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: Question about RU5 for Exchange 2010 SP2

2012-12-11 Thread Steven Peck
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff637981.aspx ^^ There is a check list for installing Exchange rollups. The other answer is, depends on the patch but generally yes. I haven't reviewed this one yet (they are moving me off Ops Manager back to messaging after a two year break). Steven

Re: I hate newegg...

2012-12-11 Thread Free, Bob
I feel your pain although I'm sure yours is much greater that mine. I just try to keep track of my MiFi and HomeFusion data with it. Now they offer a monitoring service for $4.99 additional...I don't think so. My favorite Verizon moment was when I installed their app on my work phone hoping to

Re: I hate newegg...

2012-12-11 Thread Richard Stovall
Damn. Can't y'all barter, or something? On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Free, Bob r...@pge.com wrote: I feel your pain although I'm sure yours is much greater that mine. I just try to keep track of my MiFi and HomeFusion data with it. Now they offer a monitoring service for $4.99

Re: SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0

2012-12-11 Thread Pete Howard
Id like to use it at home on an existing low wattage appliance like a synology nas for basic centralized logons etc  From: Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Tuesday, December 11,

RE: SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0

2012-12-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I am curious on what the list thinks about an open-source alternative to an Active Directory server means to them... I'm sure many here will shrug it off, but for smaller installs where money is tight, would you consider Samba 4.0 AD servers? I know I am. First off, I'll state I am not a

Re: SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0

2012-12-11 Thread Richard Stovall
I have never done this, but I know Synology DSM has a Directory Server application. A little Googling turned up the following for Windows clients (assuming that's what you've got). http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/Join_Windows_Client_Computer_to_Directory_Service On Tue, Dec 11, 2012

Re: So we killed the CA server....

2012-12-11 Thread Steve Kradel
Well, supposing the old CA is truly gone and lost... in this case I'd look at purging the old CA enrollment endpoint info from AD (see the technet article on migrating CA servers), setting up a new CA, and superseding whatever certificate templates the old CA probably published. This is not a

RE: SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0

2012-12-11 Thread Matthew W. Ross
I have such a distaste for Samba from setting up printing *with server supplied drivers* back in the 3x days. Has 4 improved on that God awful abomination of a process? Since I am unsure of the problems you were having, I don't know. I believe it is still the same: A samba printer share is