RE: [OT] Stats about IT

2011-11-02 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron) (ESS)
She meant to say 95.3% are. From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 10:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: EXT :RE: [OT] Stats about IT Or just make them up...as 95% of all statistics are. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]

RE: EXTERNAL:Re: psexec wont' accept login/password to execute locally

2010-12-14 Thread Alverson, Tom (XETRON)
TRY: psexec -u domain\user -p userspassword path\to\MyBatchFile.cmd -Original Message- From: Mike Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 1:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: Mike Gill Subject: EXTERNAL:Re: psexec wont' accept login/password to execute

RE: EXTERNAL:RoboCopy - please verify my syntax?

2010-10-15 Thread Alverson, Tom (XETRON)
I use the /copyall option to copy all file attributes (security etc). You MUST put /R:1 or /R:0 in there or else it will retry infinite times on any file that is in use. I also use /E to include empty directories too. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Friday, October 15,

RE: EXTERNAL:RE: Robocopy /SEC

2010-07-14 Thread Alverson, Tom (XETRON)
I bet the difference is the /SEC (or /COPYALL) option requires a lot more network traffic to retrieve the security information for each and every file (even files that already exist on the destination) to see if any changes in the security parameters are needed. You could run FILEMON (or it's

RE: EXTERNAL:report of disk space utilization

2010-07-06 Thread Alverson, Tom (XETRON)
Treesize pro from Jam software. -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 11:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: EXTERNAL:report of disk space utilization Wondering what tools people find the most useful on Windows

RE: EXTERNAL:report of disk space utilization

2010-07-06 Thread Alverson, Tom (XETRON)
Or freeware WinDirStat. -Original Message- From: jesse-r...@wi.rr.com [mailto:jesse-r...@wi.rr.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 11:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: EXTERNAL:report of disk space utilization Wondering what tools people find the most useful on Windows 2008 server

RE: laptop encryption

2010-06-04 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
I saw very little difference on a laptop with an Intel SSD. Maybe 5% less disk speed using ATTO. From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 8:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: laptop encryption Bitlocker has a huge impact on high-performance

RE: WTF. no really, WTF?

2010-06-02 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
Tipper gets to keep the internet and some carbon credits in their divorce settlement. -Original Message- From: Cliff Partlow [mailto:cliff...@cox.net] Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 2:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: WTF. no really, WTF? He had a guy working for him that

RE: Office 2010 is up on Technet/MSDN

2010-04-23 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
Does this mean the keys we are getting now are only good for one (or two) installs instead of the normal 10 that you get with an MSDN subscription (or whatever the number is now that they won't say). From: James Hill [mailto:james.h...@superamart.com.au] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 8:29 PM

RE: Source Code for password system stolen in Google Hack (UNCLASSIFIED)

2010-04-20 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
Probably porker rather than dumpling. Don't you know that Google is run by Kanamits and their motto is To Serve Man?? From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 4:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Source Code for password system

RE: Nagios folks....

2010-04-20 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
You don't need a whole Nagios to do that. You can just run PSLIST to get a list of all processes and use FINDSTR to search for the process name. Then you can use the errorlevel from FINDSTR to send you an email if it does not find the process in the list. From: David Lum

RE: Acronis remote backups d2d

2010-03-16 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
I am doing this with Backup Exec System Recovery which is basically the same thing as Acronis (a live while windows is running ghost image). I do the initial backup to a local hard drive, and then copy those files over the WAN to a remote site. BESR has actually incorporated that feature into

RE: BSOD MS10-015

2010-02-12 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
One user reported that the rootkit was able to hide the infected file (in his case atapi.sys) from his Mcafee antivirus, but when he removed the hard drive and scanned it from another computer as a secondary drive, Mcafee found the rootkit as soon as he accessed the file (atapi.sys).In his

RE: OT: Google Username Assistance - huh?

2010-02-11 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
Remember back when we were all using Altavista and this new kid Google came along. We dropped Altavista like a rock. Same thing could happen to Google. -Original Message- From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 8:48 PM To: NT System Admin

RE: Penetration Testing

2010-02-10 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
Nessus is no longer free unless you are just going to use it on your home network. Commercial organizations that use the Nessus vulnerability scanner must purchase a ProfessionalFeed subscription to scan their network, obtain support, updates to their database of vulnerability checks and

RE: Workstation time sync

2010-02-09 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
What happens when you run: w32tm /resync From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 10:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Workstation time sync The time was wrong on a PDC for one of our domains, about 3 minutes off. We have since

RE: Cheap recovery for dead HD?

2010-01-28 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
recovery for dead HD? On 26 Jan 2010 at 14:26, Alverson, Tom (Xetron) wrote: A friend has an external Seagate 1TB drive that died on them and it has the only copy of a lot of the photos they took. I took the USB enclosure apart and connected the SATA drive up directly to a PC, but the motor

Cheap recovery for dead HD?

2010-01-26 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
A friend has an external Seagate 1TB drive that died on them and it has the only copy of a lot of the photos they took. I took the USB enclosure apart and connected the SATA drive up directly to a PC, but the motor does not spin at all (you can hear the heads move some at power up). She took it

RE: Windows 7 and DHCP puzzler

2010-01-14 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
It could be that the Windows 7 computers boot up faster and the switch you are connecting to is not ready by the time the PC is making its DHCP request. This can happen if you are using Cisco switches that are set up to run a spanning tree test every time a new connection is made to a port.

RE: Print Servers

2010-01-13 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
You could just throw the printers in the trash and buy some HP OfficeJet 8500 printers on sale for about $80 each. They are cheaper per page than laser printers (they use large ink tanks - black and 3 color tanks). They have built in Ethernet (similar to Jet Direct but nicer). Tom

RE: Defragmenting servers

2009-12-17 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
] Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 8:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Defragmenting servers Mydefrag. From: Alverson, Tom (Xetron) [mailto:tom.alver...@ngc.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Defragmenting servers The only

RE: Defragmenting servers

2009-12-16 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
The only real benefit of a commercial product is they tend to be less obtrusive to the users when they kick off - I don't agree with this at all. I use Diskeeper because it defragments continuously using only idle server time. What free product will do this? Tom From: Alex French

RE: Symantec Backup Exec System Restore 2010

2009-12-09 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
BESR is a ghost like product that works while windows is running. Once the initial ghost image is created, it can do incremental images after that, and you can control how often it starts over and does a new full image. You can easily do a bare metal restore, and they support restores to

RE: OT-ish: GMail annoying mail clipping

2009-12-09 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
You can choose your default message format in Outlook 2007: plaintext, html or richtext (word). You can also have a separate choice for emails sent to the internet -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 1:39 PM To: NT System

RE: OT-ish: GMail annoying mail clipping

2009-12-09 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
Demand a refund. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 11:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT-ish: GMail annoying mail clipping Is anyone else getting really hacked off by Gmail putting out this [Message clipped] View entire

RE: Symantec Backup Exec System Restore 2010

2009-12-09 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
for an additional off-line backup. Hmm... something to think about. From: Alverson, Tom (Xetron) [mailto:tom.alver...@ngc.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 12:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec Backup Exec System Restore 2010 BESR is a ghost like product that works while

RE: Symantec Backup Exec System Restore 2010

2009-12-09 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
What I want to do is replicate the changes from one SAN to another over a VPN (2 Mbit on my end and 5 Mbit on the remote side) for D/R purposes. From: Alverson, Tom (Xetron) [mailto:tom.alver...@ngc.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 12:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE

RE: OT-ish: GMail annoying mail clipping

2009-12-09 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
-ish: GMail annoying mail clipping I've managed to negotiate a 50% discount... 2009/12/9 Alverson, Tom (Xetron) tom.alver...@ngc.com Demand a refund. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE

RE: Symantec SEP on 2008 R2

2009-10-22 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
The problems people are having with SEP seem to be with the firewall portion or the threat protection thing. The antivirus part is pretty much the same as SAV 8, 9 or 10 (which is fairly trouble free). If you do a custom install and only install the antivirus part (which is what Symantec was

RE: Anybody ever get Vista Ent 64 bit to run on an HP DL360 G5?

2009-10-22 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
The DL380 G5 (and probably the DL360) have an unusual network interface. HP has an intermediate network driver and a separate low level driver. I think this is so they can do the teaming where both Ethernet ports are active in a redundant or parallel fashion. Because of these special drivers (and

RE: A poke in the eye for cloud computing?

2009-10-13 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
They DID send the black helicopter, he just didn't hear it. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 6:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: A poke in the eye for cloud computing? Best conspiracy theory seen so far:

RE: A poke in the eye for cloud computing?

2009-10-12 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
No, no, no - you need to use your Captain Kirk voice: Must resist.. making.obvious. joke... From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 10:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: A poke in the eye for

RE: Sysinternals does it again

2009-10-08 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
That is nice. If you wanted to use the VHD's just for backup, is there a VHD browser (like Ghost Explorer)? Tom From: Tim Evans [mailto:tev...@sparling.com] Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 10:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Sysinternals does it again

RE: BES 4.1 syncing

2009-10-06 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
+1 for Martin's delete/undelete tip. That has worked for me in the past. Tom -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 9:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: BES 4.1 syncing One more time. I have not had the

RE: Home email servers (was: MSE is released...)

2009-09-30 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
Better be the Exchange 2010 RC or you're gonna lose some geek cred. Tom -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 12:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home email servers (was: MSE is released...) Not until I

RE: Hard disk technology (was: Disk based backup)

2009-09-23 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 12:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hard disk technology (was: Disk based backup) On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Alverson, Tom (Xetron) tom.alver...@ngc.com wrote: I'm wondering why they have not done

RE: Hard disk technology (was: Disk based backup)

2009-09-23 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
Correct. Until they improve the raw speed of the drives, the faster interface helps mainly to speed up reading and writing to the drives onboard ram cache, which is a good thing but doesn't help applications where you need sustained high speed reading and writing (video, raw data collection etc).

RE: Hard disk technology (was: Disk based backup)

2009-09-21 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
technology (was: Disk based backup) On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Alverson, Tom (Xetron) tom.alver...@ngc.com wrote: Modern hard drives can sustain, what, maybe 0.4 to 0.6 Gbit/sec? Even the 3 Gbit/sec we have now is much higher than that. How is moving to 6 Gbit/sec going to help? :) All

RE: Hard disk technology (was: Disk based backup)

2009-09-21 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
It may have been done already (2 heads running in parallel). I have a Seagate 1.5TB drive that is surprisingly fast (115MB/sec sustained) that may be doing this, or they may just have a very high bit density. The 750GB drives we have run about 70MB/sec with the same test. Tom -Original

RE: Print server driver updating

2009-09-21 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 8:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Print server driver updating On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Alverson, Tom (Xetron) tom.alver...@ngc.com wrote: I would like to update the print drivers on our Windows 2003 SP2 print server ... Why

RE: Hard disk technology (was: Disk based backup)

2009-09-21 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
the heads would still be at the same location on the platters. On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Alverson, Tom (Xetron) tom.alver...@ngc.com wrote: I'm wondering why they have not done this yet as well. Using more that 2 heads in parallel would at some point be enough to saturate existing SATA

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-18 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
If they did the performance boost would be obvious with benchmark testing. The maximum sustained data transfer rate (read or write) depends on how much data is stored on each track of data (1 revolution of the platter with the head not moving) and the speed that the platter is rotating. All of

Print server driver updating

2009-09-17 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
I would like to update the print drivers on our Windows 2003 SP2 print server but I'm not sure what the best approach would be. I am currently running the HP universal PCL6 driver 4.5 and would like to upgrade to the new 5.0 drivers. I also have the Xerox universal Postscript driver installed

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-17 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
All they need to do is upgrade the (on-board) controllers to operate all the heads in parallel. For a 4 platter drive (8 heads) they could get an immediate 8X improvement in real read and write speeds. Tom -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday,

RE: TraceRoute Timout -- Normal???

2009-09-10 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
Get pingplotter (www.pingplotter.com). Free eval and nagware after that. It will do repeated traceroutes and graphs the results over time (including graphing the intermediate hops if desired). -Original Message- From: Jon D [mailto:rekcahp...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 10,

RE: Checking whats using the disk

2009-08-22 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
Handle with give you a snapshot of all processes and the file handles opened by each process. Filemon (also from Sysinternals/Microsoft) will give you a live scrolling view of file activity that can be very useful for this purpose. From: Oliver Marshall

RE: Apple vs Microsoft?

2009-07-15 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
Frozen Tundra. From: Orland, Kathleen [mailto:korl...@rogers.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 4:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Apple vs Microsoft? BES server - Original Message - From: John Cook mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org To: NT

RE: Confused a bit re: sbs.

2009-06-30 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
I tried the small business edition of the internet, but I could only connect to 5 websites. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 3:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Confused a bit re: sbs. On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 3:30

RE: Robocopy Alternative

2009-06-08 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
I just downloaded it from your link below, and did not find any newer version of ROBOCOPY that was installed. The ROBOCOPY that comes with Vista has an option to copy the time and datestamps of the folders you are copying that I would like to have, but the Vista EXE will not run on Windows 2003

RE: Robocopy Alternative

2009-06-08 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
OK, I found it now in C:\windows\system32. I will see if it has the option to preserve folder date/time. Tom -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 3:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Robocopy Alternative On Sat, Jun 6,

RE: Robocopy Alternative

2009-06-08 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
Alternative On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Alverson, Tom (Xetron)tom.alver...@ngc.com wrote: I just downloaded it from your link below, and did not find any newer version of ROBOCOPY that was installed. I get ROBOCOPY Version XP026. What did you get?  The ROBOCOPY that comes with Vista has an option

RE: Amusing

2009-05-28 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
Cached mode actually makes the problem worse. Much worse. Once the message is sent, every single client that is running will see the new email within about 30 seconds and they will all download a separate copy of it to store in their local caches. If the Exchange server is on a WAN link, that

RE: The industrialization of hacking

2009-05-19 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
Or as Clouseau would say: I believe everything and I believe nothing. I suspect everyone and I suspect no one. -Original Message- From: Marc Maiffret [mailto:m...@marcmaiffret.com] Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 6:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: The industrialization of

Print Server default all users to duplex?

2009-05-13 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
I am trying to make the default settings for printers on my Windows 2003 print server set for duplex and BW (on color printers) for cost savings. I know this had worked once in the past when I changed the printing preferences on the print server, but I was using a standard print driver at the

RE: Print Server default all users to duplex?

2009-05-13 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
this is where you are supposed to set defaults. I'll do some more testing now and see how reliably clients are picking up the new setting. From: Alverson, Tom (Xetron) [mailto:tom.alver...@ngc.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 11:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Print Server default all

RE: Shadow Copy Management

2009-05-04 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
That is much harder. It sounds like it might be possible with the vssadmin delete shadows command but you would need to know the ShadowID to delete. You can get these by running the vssadmin list shadows command but that dumps them all and you would need some eleet scripting skills to parse

RE: Shadow Copy Management

2009-05-01 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
When you create the default snap schedule, I believe it just creates a scheduled task that shows up in control panel. You should be able to modify the schedule there to do what you want. You need to click the option to show multiple schedules and then with the advanced button you can make up

RE: path longer than 1023- actually only about 200 or less

2009-04-24 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
Here is a great way to kill the directories of death (too deep to navigate): Use robocopy to copy an empty directory to one of the lower levels with the /MIR option (mirror) like this: Robocopy c:\emptydirectory K:\Staff And Students\Programming Classes\NHS\Eng086037\web applet

RE: path longer than 1023- actually only about 200 or less

2009-04-24 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
I ran into a situation where I just did a simple ROBOCOPY /E (every subdir) of a VISTA HD I had removed from a laptop. There was some funny kind of file link (on all VISTA HD's) that fooled robocopy into creating a super long recursing directory much like Jack's. I was unable to delete the

RE: Stickers

2009-04-22 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
I have a Microsoft Office basketball hoop hanging in my cubicle. I think I used to have a little basketball that went with it but have not seen that for a while. It's a real (plastic) orange hoop (about 9 inch diameter) with a real net on it. Tom -Original Message- From: Steven

RE: OT: Dell Studio 540 - Hardware Issues

2009-04-14 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
I have seen systems that have raid capability on the motherboard, but they are disabled until you go into the CMOS and enable them. Once enabled, there will be a prompt during boot up to hit some key combination to get into the RAID setup screen. From: Sean Martin

RE: OT: Video Conferencing software via webcam

2009-04-01 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
Livemeeting (OCS) can switch the video based on whoever is talking at the time. You can set up your own server, or you can pay Microsoft to host your Livemeetings on their servers. -Original Message- From: Bryan Garmon [mailto:bryan.gar...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009

RE: Windows does not recongize keyboard

2009-03-26 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
All your keystrokes are belong to us. -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 6:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows does not recongize keyboard

RE: Pulling data with logon script?

2009-03-26 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
Why do you need vb script? Can't you just do this: if exist C:\Program Files\whatever\something.exe ( some commands here ) From: David [mailto:blazer...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 5:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Pulling data with logon script?

RE: A quarter million files...

2009-03-25 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
Get Treesize from Jam Software. The eval will let you try it out for a while without having to buy it ($50). It will let you set date ranges and then will show you how many MB fall into each range. http://www.jam-software.com/treesize/ From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]

RE: Staying on top of alerts - your top 3

2009-03-11 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
Patch Management list: PatchManagement.org is hosted by Shavlik Technologies To subscribe go to http://patchmanagement.org/ From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 12:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Staying on top of alerts - your

RE: Offline patching Vista / Microsoft Update Catalog searching

2009-03-09 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
++1 to Ctupdate. One script downloads EVERYTHING that you choose. Another script installs EVERYTHING you need. It will even create an ISO of a CD or DVD containing the install script and all of the updates that all install in one operation. Here is some info from the web page: CTUpdate (WSUS

RE: Looking for a utility that I can run on my laptop and know on servers their BIOS/firware they are running

2009-03-04 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
Put the text below into a file called something like bios_info.vbs and then run it with: Cscript bios_info.vbs strComputer = . Set objWMIService = GetObject(winmgmts: _ {impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\ strComputer \root\cimv2) Set colBIOS =

RE: Shadow copy question

2009-03-02 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
I have only had it dump the old snaps (due to excess load) when they were on the same physical drive. On one server I added another drive just to hold the snaps and have not had a problem since (with Windows 2003 server). What version of Windows server are you running (2003 or 2008?) From:

RE: Backup Exec 12.5 Mirror Backup

2009-02-28 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
BE 12.5 now normally includes CPS (Continuous Protection Service). It's a whole other install and is probably not really what you are asking for. Changes to the source server are immediately replicated to the backup server. Robocopy /copyall is a simpler option. From: Todd Arnett

RE: HP RAID5 P400 SATA questions

2009-02-26 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
Breaking News: I got the memory/battery upgrade for the P400 and installed both (512MB memory card replaces 256MB card) and has the battery added. The RAID5 speed is through the roof. I was getting 2 MB/sec with small block sizes. One a standard desktop drive I get around 4000 MB/sec with

RE: HP RAID5 P400 SATA questions

2009-02-26 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
at 1:55 PM, Alverson, Tom (Xetron) tom.alver...@ngc.com wrote: Breaking News:  I got the memory/battery upgrade for the P400 and installed both (512MB memory card replaces 256MB card) and has the battery added.  The RAID5 speed is through the roof.  I was getting 2 MB/sec with small block sizes

RE: HP RAID5 P400 SATA questions

2009-02-25 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
Just do a google search for P400 raid slow and you will see a bunch of posting (mostly on HP forums). They usually say update your firmware and drivers but I always do that before starting any install. -Original Message- From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Tuesday,

RE: HP RAID5 P400 SATA questions

2009-02-25 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
I don't know if it will do RAID10. It won't even do RAID6 until you add the extra memory/battery option. My only options (as the card sits now) are RAID0 RAID1 or RAID5. From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 7:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: HP RAID5 P400 SATA questions

2009-02-25 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: HP RAID5 P400 SATA questions What stripe and cluster sizes are being used? On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Alverson, Tom (Xetron) tom.alver...@ngc.com wrote: Well I am hoping that someone else on this list may have solved this problem already

RE: HP RAID5 P400 SATA questions

2009-02-25 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
I would definitely get the battery/memory add-on option if I were you. Are you going to use SAS or SATA drives? What size? -Original Message- From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 9:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: HP RAID5 P400 SATA

RE: HP RAID5 P400 SATA questions

2009-02-25 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
P400 SATA questions I think they actually have 450GB 2.5 SAS drives alreadyplus the 1TB SATAs... On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Alverson, Tom (Xetron) tom.alver...@ngc.com wrote: ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com

RE: HP RAID5 P400 SATA questions

2009-02-25 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
The E200/128 controller will not do RAID5 unless you add the 128MB BBWC upgrade. -Original Message- From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 11:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: HP RAID5 P400 SATA questions Two of the servers will have

RE: HP RAID5 P400 SATA questions

2009-02-24 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 3:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: HP RAID5 P400 SATA questions On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Alverson, Tom (Xetron) tom.alver...@ngc.com wrote: ... mirror ... performance was fine ... The RAID5

Another screen sharing gizmo (free) from Microsoft SharedView

2009-02-24 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
I enjoyed reading the earlier thread with all the different screen sharing tools that you guys (and gals) have been using that I have never heard of. Today I discovered that Microsoft has a free one too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SharedView You can download it from here (posted

RE: HP RAID5 P400 SATA questions

2009-02-24 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
of SAS to slow you down on purpose. Tom -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 4:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: HP RAID5 P400 SATA questions On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Alverson, Tom (Xetron) tom.alver

RE: HP RAID5 P400 SATA questions

2009-02-24 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 4:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: HP RAID5 P400 SATA questions On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Alverson, Tom (Xetron) tom.alver...@ngc.com wrote: It has a monster 600+ PIN BGA (ball grid array) LSI chip on it (LSISAS1078).  I'm sure there are a few

RE: Another screen sharing gizmo (free) from Microsoft SharedView

2009-02-24 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 4:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Another screen sharing gizmo (free) from Microsoft SharedView On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Alverson, Tom (Xetron) tom.alver...@ngc.com wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SharedView Sounds like NetMeeting

RE: HP RAID5 P400 SATA questions

2009-02-24 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
, Alverson, Tom (Xetron) tom.alver...@ngc.com wrote: The LSISAS1078 is a custom chip designed for high performance RAID controllers. It is used on the HP P400 and P800 (their best raid card) as well as an Intel RAID card and LSI logics own Mega-Raid brand of RAID card.  My cat's breath smells

RE: Another screen sharing gizmo (free) from Microsoft SharedView

2009-02-24 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
Issues Subject: Re: Another screen sharing gizmo (free) from Microsoft SharedView On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Alverson, Tom (Xetron) tom.alver...@ngc.com wrote: Similar but different.  Netmeeting is point to point.  SharedView appears to communicate through Microsoft servers Ahhh, I

RE: HP RAID5 P400 SATA questions

2009-02-24 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 5:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: HP RAID5 P400 SATA questions On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Alverson, Tom (Xetron) tom.alver...@ngc.com wrote: If the chip did not have the guts to perform the RAID calculations fast enough, I doubt that both Intel and HP

RE: Measuring Scsi speed

2008-11-05 Thread Alverson, Tom (Xetron)
If it is an HP tape drive, their free tape tools utility (used mainly for updating the firmware) has built in test for tape speed as well as hard drive speed. From: David Lloyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 8:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Measuring