Re: upgrading W2K3 to W2K8 both 32 bit, uninstalling Powershell breaks things.

Hi All, Thanks for the advice. Issue is mostly solved. Like the errormessage pointed out it had to do with the web.config file, it was missing a section that was in the machine.config. Because of the powershell warning I first thought that had caused it,but it didn't. As to the advice of doing a

RE: Tech support call from "Microsoft"

I got one of these at home a few weeks ago. I put on my very best broad Norfolk accent (think "hillbilly" for the Americans amongst us) and said "ahhh, my boy deals with that doh hicky, hang on, I'll pass you over" To four year old son: "it's for you" Son: "hloo, you happy today? Where gran

Re: Tech support call from "Microsoft"

I got one some time ago as well. Claiming to be from Microsoft. First I played being gratefull for the warning. Then said so you work for Microsft eh interesting, what was your name again. Hung up. on me. On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Tobie Fysh wrote: > I got one of these at home a few wee

Re: Tech support call from "Microsoft"

Some of Those calls in the UK are apparently from a "Legit Company" who sell you service contracts such as £90 to fix the current problem, or £120 to cover you for the year, One of my friends dads spent 8 hours on the call (the company had called back) and paid £120, and the problem he had want r

Re: file limitation error

I Love how windows lets you make the files and folders have too long a path name but then refuses to let you move them out again, cos the paths too big. some should have fixed that a long time ago Also how some things balk at the 256 character limit and others are quite happy to continue past. I

Replacing a print server - publishing printers in directory?

So I need to replace one of my current print servers (Win2003, 32bit) with a new VM (Win2008 R2, 64bit). Some of you may recall my emails about this recently. Anyway, I have the new server ready, all printers defined on it (with the same names as the current production printers). My question is abo

RE: Replacing a print server - publishing printers in directory?

Any chance you could just publish them in Group Policy? John W. Cook Network Operations Manager 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 -Original Message- From: Mi

Re: Replacing a print server - publishing printers in directory?

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:33 AM, John Cook wrote: > Any chance you could just publish them in Group Policy? ... I don't know if they (some of them) are already being being published via GPO. Might be, probably are. But not all of them. What impact does that have on my plans? ~ Finally, powerful

RE: Replacing a print server - publishing printers in directory?

Depending on your organizational structure you could possibly just publish all the new printers to your users and make life a little easier going forward - you could eliminate the manual process by just adding a printer policy to a user. John W. Cook Network Operations Manager Partnership For

Re: Replacing a print server - publishing printers in directory?

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:45 AM, John Cook wrote: > Depending on your organizational structure you could possibly just publish > all the new printers to your users and make life a little easier going > forward - you could eliminate the manual process by just adding a printer > policy to a user.

OT: MCM certification

Was reading this yesterday: http://blogs.metcorpconsulting.com/tech/?p=1101 And got to thinking about this again. It still bothers me that the road to this certification is artificially blocked by monetary constraints. I think the certification is difficult enough without adding that as a fact

RE: Replacing a print server - publishing printers in directory?

You might go through these, it could be of help. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd379488(WS.10).aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722360.aspx John W. Cook Network Operations Manager Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office (352) 24

RE: MCM certification

I see the cost of the certification is to make sure you study for it. I see the price tag as making sure you're serious about your endeavors. If the cert was $50 a pop, you could simply take it over and over until you eventually passed by knowing just the answers or by pure dumb luck. I didn't

Re: OT: MCM certification

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 7:20 AM, Christopher Bodnar wrote: > > Was reading this yesterday: > > http://blogs.metcorpconsulting.com/tech/?p=1101 > > And got to thinking about this again. It still bothers me that the road to > this certification is artificially blocked by monetary constraints. I thi

Re: Replacing a print server - publishing printers in directory?

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:27 AM, John Cook wrote: > You might go through these, it could be of help. > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd379488(WS.10).aspx Yeah, I've read that. And done it. I think this is the part that I just wanted to verify: --- In most cases, a

RE: OT: MCM certification

Microsoft loses money on the Exchange MCM classes. I suspect they do for all of the MCM tracks. The fee is to ensure that only serious people apply plus to cover the cost of the labs, meeting rooms, and presentation materials. Big companies need people with big experience. I don't pass the scr

Re: OT: MCM certification

No I do not think they are free to administer. Nor do I claim they should be free. I take exception to the fact that they seem to be artificially inflated. Just my opinion. Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Architect I, Corporate Office of Technology:Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Servi

RE: Replacing a print server - publishing printers in directory?

Glad to help get confirmation . I'd still investigate the GPO publishing track if you have the time. John W. Cook Network Operations Manager 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+, VS

RE: OT: MCM certification

Not sure I agree with that. "The fee is to ensure that only serious people apply" If you kept everything else the same, all requirements,tests, labs, etc and lowered the cost to say $5K. What do you think would happen? Do you really think there would be a huge glut of "paper" MCSM/MCM's ou

RE: OT: MCM certification

Don't take what I said out of context: "Microsoft loses money on the Exchange MCM classes" and "The fee is to ensure that only serious people apply plus to cover the cost of the labs, meeting rooms, and presentation materials." Neither of the sentences stands alone. Your standard MCT does not t

RE: Way OT: Zombie hacking

They also hit a couple of northern Michigan stations. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 5:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Way OT: Zombie hacking Someone with more time than brains, but it is amusing... http://blogs

Re: Way OT: Zombie hacking

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Chinnery, Paul wrote: > They also hit a couple of northern Michigan stations. > > -Original Message- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 5:07 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Way OT: Zombie hacking > >

RE: Backup to cloud?

That's the dirty little secret of cloud backups - restore windows can be ENORMOUS, especially if the client is sitting behind a 3x1 Internet connection. Some cloud services will (for an extra fee) overnight a DVD of your data to you in case you need to do a full restore. Still... As for liabili

RE: Backup to cloud?

Why would retrieval take that long? Are you talking more about disaster recovery? From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 12:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Backup to cloud? Does backup to cloud even matter if the time to retrieve it spa

Re: Backup to cloud?

Yep, I am considering backup to the cloud after a backup to disk locally just for disaster recovery sakethen the time doesn't matter as much. I'd still consider a mail recovery site though like postini or something to keep mail going in case of tornado or fire. On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:27

Re: Backup to cloud?

I have 498GB of data stored in the cloud that would take about six weeks to download. The "send me it on a USB drive" option that Ben mentioned is my DR choice :-) On 13 February 2013 17:27, Rod Trent wrote: > Why would retrieval take that long? Are you talking more about disaster > recovery?*

Re: OT: MCM certification

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Christopher Bodnar wrote: > > No I do not think they are free to administer. Nor do I claim they should > be free. I take exception to the fact that they seem to be artificially > inflated. Just my opinion. > While I agree that $14k is a lot of money for the MCM,

RE: Backup to cloud?

System Center DPM can backup to Windows Azure in realtime. Veeam has a good cloud backup, too. From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 12:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Backup to cloud? Yep, I am considering backup to the cloud aft

RE: Office 2013 retail tied to single PCs

It's true, the license is now non-transferrable. Part of their efforts to push everybody to the subscription-based plans, no doubt. Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer Roland Schorr & Tower www.rolandschorr.com -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: We

RE: Backup to cloud?

Amazon has some super high speed pipes linked to various centers for situations like this. (Called Direct Connect?). Not too familiar with it. I think connections as fast as 10Gbps. You could design your DR strategy around a data center supporting this. Mozy also supports shipping DVDs/Driv

Re: Backup to cloud?

Someone once said something I now say: "I don't care about backups. I care about restores." Of course, that includes time to restore, as well as integrity of restore. AFAICT, backups to the cloud, absent a local copy, aren't worth a whole bunch, if my 7tb file server falls over. Kurt On Wed, Fe

RE: Office 2013 retail tied to single PCs

It's pushing some people to a subscription based plan all right... Just not always Microsoft's. -Original Message- From: Ben M. Schorr [mailto:b...@rolandschorr.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 12:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Office 2013 retail tied to single PCs

Re: Backup to cloud?

One critical part to keep in mind is also the build time for the restores. Even though the DVDs or external hard drive will be shipped overnight, doesn't mean the files will be ready any time soon. A little over a year ago I did a restore for a client who had a failed server, and their onsite back

RE: Backup to cloud?

Yes, DR. Their Internet connection download is 10MBps, the size of their backups is 400+GB total, the smallest being Exchange DB @ 50GB, and if I am restoring their SBS VM it's 350GB plus another 200GB for their SQL VM. If could get the liability sorted, it would be far easier to have it backu

RE: Office 2013 retail tied to single PCs

Eh - for most of my clients there isn't a practical alternative. Everything else would be a compromise and my clients aren't interested in causing themselves headaches just to spite Microsoft. Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer Roland Schorr & Tower www.rolandschorr.com -Original Message

RE: Backup to cloud?

+1. It's the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) here that concerns me. Here's a thought, maybe I should ask the client what's tolerable. Why I didn’t think of that first... Dave -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 10:11 AM To:

RE: Office 2013 retail tied to single PCs

Indeed. Adobe does that. We went looking for photoshop for my wife and her new Mac. It was about $1000. You could get it from the cloud for a monthly fee with an annual commitment. Price was about the same as the old cost and they promise instant patching. It's a sweet deal for adobe. Y

RE: Office 2013 retail tied to single PCs

I wonder how long before the OS is subscription based? -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 10:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Office 2013 retail tied to single PCs It's pushing some people to a subscription based

RE: Backup to cloud?

Have you thought about the confidentiality aspects of putting your data in the cloud, especially if its under regulatory compliance ( PCI, HIPAA, Sox) if you haven't you might be getting yourself in a lot of hot water. Z Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan O

RE: file limitation error

The path is not that deep so we're starting to wonder if it is the conversion program that she is running. Anyway, she said the senior programmer will examine it on Thursday. I hope that gets the problem resolved as this has been an ongoing problem for the last couple of weeks. Jon, I know w

RE: Backup to cloud?

You might consider where they live as well. A large scale problem where several companies are trying to get at their data? I remember running into that after loma prieta. The DR Company didn't have room to handle all the companies. Granted that was pre-cloud days but are they up to handling

RE: Office 2013 retail tied to single PCs

I just downloaded LibreOffice 4 this morning, and I've been playing with it on various word documents... Thus far, it's very good. Even the stupid timesheet document (that should have been a spreadsheet) with all it's fancy frames and formatting renders correctly. Open source software will neve

Re: Office 2013 retail tied to single PCs

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Matthew W. Ross wrote: > I just downloaded LibreOffice 4 this morning, and I've been > playing with it on various word documents... Thus far, it's > very good. The big problem with (Star|Open|Libre)Office has always been scripts (macros). Their object model isn

Re: Office 2013 retail tied to single PCs

If you're using an enterprise license, then you're pretty much already there. And this is what all of the vendors are trying to do. ChromeBooks, etc... *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* * **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security

RE: Backup to cloud?

There are currently no regulatory concerns, insofar as I have never been asked by them to make them compliant for anything. I will ask to make sure, however. Dave From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 10:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE:

Re: Backup to cloud?

I associated with a cloud backup provider that I've just started working with (in that capacity), and everything is encrypted on the client end before being shipped across the wire. *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* * **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operat

RE: OT: MCM certification

There can't be that many 750K seat Exchange deployments out there. Do they mean 75K? Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2013 2:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: MCM certification Microsoft lose

RE: Backup to cloud?

Let's not get carried away with calling this proposal 'cloud backup'. IMHO you're offering offsite backup. For something to be "cloud" you should look at NIST (or similar definitions), which include elements like "rapid elasticity", "user self-service", "broad network access" and "measured serv

RE: file limitation error

I tried telling her after the third time I had to "fix" her computer that she needed to stop with the really long file and directory names. When I changed jobs I knew that she was to shortly have her "computer problem" again and need to have it fixed. Jon From: pa...@mmcwm.com To: ntsysadmin@

Re: Backup to cloud?

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Ken Schaefer wrote: > Let’s not get carried away with calling this proposal ‘cloud backup’. Why not? Everyone else is. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

Re: Backup to cloud?

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Ken Schaefer wrote: >> Let’s not get carried away with calling this proposal ‘cloud backup’. > > Why not? Everyone else is. > > -- Ben LOL If all your friends jumped off a cliff... OB xkcd : http://xkcd.com