Re: Advice on setting up a Win2012 RDS environment - Progress!

2013-03-21 Thread Michael Leone
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 7:53 PM, James Hill falc...@gmail.com wrote: Get a cert from a public CA. Far less hassle and they are very inexpensive. These are internals apps, so they won't be accessed by the public, or over a public Internet (well, perhaps over VPN). And being a government agency,

Re: Korean web attacks used

2013-03-21 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Yes, your conclusion appears valid. But the contents of the article provide an even more enlightening comment: *It is important to note that this attack worked only on computers with disabled DEP ( data execution prevention ). If you run this attack on computer with enabled DEP, the following

RE: Advice on setting up a Win2012 RDS environment - Progress!

2013-03-21 Thread Ken Cornetet
For traffic handling, you don't need two web servers for 4 session hosts. You don't need 2 web servers for 40 session hosts. For HA, I presume you are using an ESX cluster. -Original Message- From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 1:07 PM To:

Re: Meraki

2013-03-21 Thread Andrew S. Baker
So, my device arrived today -- solid piece of hardware, so no complaints. As I review the setup instructions, I see a different concern than the ones that have been voiced thus far. I'm really not worried about what might happen 3 years from now, but rather how much information a cloud managed

Re: Meraki

2013-03-21 Thread Matthew W. Ross
Which model did you get? Was this the free one they offer? --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:45:55 -0800 Subject:

Re: Advice on setting up a Win2012 RDS environment - Progress!

2013-03-21 Thread Michael Leone
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Ken Cornetet ken.corne...@kimball.com wrote: For traffic handling, you don't need two web servers for 4 session hosts. You don't need 2 web servers for 40 session hosts. Well, it's more for redundancy, than actual traffic balancing. Speaking of which ... does

RE: Meraki

2013-03-21 Thread Sam Cayze
Valid concern. That aside, I watched the presentation and was very impressed! -Sam From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 12:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Meraki So, my device arrived today -- solid piece of hardware, so

RE: Advice on setting up a Win2012 RDS environment - Progress!

2013-03-21 Thread Ken Cornetet
I don't think you can have two connection brokers without complicating things (clustering and SQL server involved). If you have ESX clustering, you have your redundancy covered. No need for two web servers (or two brokers). ESX does HA with fewer headaches than any other way - use it. Here's

Re: Advice on setting up a Win2012 RDS environment - Progress!

2013-03-21 Thread Michael Leone
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Ken Cornetet ken.corne...@kimball.com wrote: I don't think you can have two connection brokers without complicating things (clustering and SQL server involved). If you have ESX clustering, you have your redundancy covered. No need for two web servers (or two

Re: Meraki

2013-03-21 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Yep, the free one. The MR12 *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.orgwrote: Which model did

RE: Advice on setting up a Win2012 RDS environment - Progress!

2013-03-21 Thread Ken Cornetet
The web server and broker are out of the picture after the RDP client session is established with the session host. If something goes wrong with a session host, the users have lost their sessions anyway - no way to prevent that. -Original Message- From: Michael Leone

Re: Advice on setting up a Win2012 RDS environment - Progress!

2013-03-21 Thread Michael Leone
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Ken Cornetet ken.corne...@kimball.com wrote: The web server and broker are out of the picture after the RDP client session is established with the session host. If something goes wrong with a session host, the users have lost their sessions anyway - no way

RE: Advice on setting up a Win2012 RDS environment - Progress!

2013-03-21 Thread Ken Cornetet
With VMWare HA, your web server and broker will only be down for a minute or two - even if one physical host crashes. -Original Message- From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 4:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Advice on setting up a

Forefront client security

2013-03-21 Thread Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
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Re: Forefront client security

2013-03-21 Thread Matthew W. Ross
Isn't Forefront the Home/SMB version? --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife [mailto:joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:11:31 -0800 Subject:

RE: DPM and LTO6?

2013-03-21 Thread Brian Desmond
I haven’t a clue, but, isn't the specific tape media/type abstracted to the backup program via the driver? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013

Re: DPM and LTO6?

2013-03-21 Thread Kurt Buff
I would expect that, but the HCL for DPM doesn't list any LTO6 machines - only LTO5 and earlier, so I ask... Kurt On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com wrote: I haven’t a clue, but, isn't the specific tape media/type abstracted to the backup program via the

RE: Forefront client security

2013-03-21 Thread Art DeKneef
From what I remember. Forefront Client Security was the original product/name. The name changed to Forefront Endpoint Protection with the initial System Center products. It is now called System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection. I wonder what it will be called next? -Original Message-

Re: Advice on setting up a Win2012 RDS environment - Progress!

2013-03-21 Thread Andrew S. Baker
It is possible to overdo HA to the point of introducing fragility to a system. Too many moving pieces for not enough benefit. *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market…***

RE: OT: Career and Social Media

2013-03-21 Thread rodtrent
I can attest to that. My last two jobs have come because social media. Sent from Microsoft Surface Pro From: Andrew S. Baker Sent: ‎March‎ ‎21‎, ‎2013 ‎6‎:‎38‎ ‎PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Career and Social Media http://www.dilbert.com/fast/2013-03-21/ This

RE: Advice on setting up a Win2012 RDS environment - Progress!

2013-03-21 Thread James Hill
Even if they aren't accessed externally I think a cert from a public CA makes sense because you don't have to distribute an internal cert to the devices that need it. If for some reasons down the track the apps are made available externally then there is no work to do. Personal choice of cause

RE: OT: Career and Social Media

2013-03-21 Thread Jon Harris
I am glad I am getting close to the end of my career. I really dislike using things like Facebook for anything more than keeping in touch with family/friends. LinkedIN is about the only social media I use for business. I like to keep the two very separate from each other. Jon From:

RE: Meraki

2013-03-21 Thread Jon Harris
I agree that was one of the reasons I even looked further. I think it is about time someone had something like this now it just comes down to does it work as well as the Webinar showed it working and costs. Jon From: sca...@gmail.com To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE:

RE: Meraki

2013-03-21 Thread Jon Harris
Will you be posting what you find out on what the system pushes up to their cloud? Jon From: asbz...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:50:52 -0400 Subject: Re: Meraki To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com The technology is quite impressive, I must admit. ASB

RE: Advice on setting up a Win2012 RDS environment - Progress!

2013-03-21 Thread Ken Cornetet
Or, as one of my old engineering professors like to remind us, the motto at the old Western Electric (the folks that used to make phones) was A part that isn't there is 100% reliable. Western Electric mandated a 60 *year* MTBF for their phone equipment designs. From: Andrew S. Baker

RE: RT devices?

2013-03-21 Thread Ryan Finnesey
The issue I have with managing RT devices is that they have changed the licensing- only offering per user licensing and that there is no system center on premise solution you have to go with a cloud solution. I thought Microsoft's strategy was to offer both an on premise and cloud offering and

Re: OT: Career and Social Media

2013-03-21 Thread Kurt Buff
+1000 I do not have a facebook account, nor any other social media account other than LinkedIn. Work and personal life are as separate as I can make them. Social media is a time stealer and a privacy invader. Kurt On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Jon Harris jk.har...@live.com wrote: I am

RE: OT: Career and Social Media

2013-03-21 Thread Ken Schaefer
Networking has always been important to finding work. You used to do it at work, user groups etc. Now you can also do it via LinkedIn or a blog etc. I think you’re confusing Facebook (a specific social media implementation) with digital networking/reputation (as a general concept) Cheers Ken

Re: OT: Career and Social Media

2013-03-21 Thread Kurt Buff
Perhaps I am, but I don't think so - for instance, LinkedIn is trying to become the Facebook of the business set, and harvest data for sale in one form or another. I'll put it this way: if it's a free service on the Internet, you're paying in the form of data harvesting, and that's almost

RE: OT: Career and Social Media

2013-03-21 Thread Ken Schaefer
I'm sure we'd all prefer to be off doing the things we like to do. But we still need to find jobs somehow. And finding jobs usually depends on your network (it's possible to get some jobs 'cold' but that isn't the norm IME). That the network is extending into the digital realm, I think, is

RE: OT: Career and Social Media

2013-03-21 Thread Jon Harris
I agree to a point with Ken, It is not what you know but who you know! that gets you the job(s). I have only gotten one position, many many years ago on the basis of what I knew. All of them since then have been on who I knew as much or more as what I know. Yes what you know is important but