RE: iPhone 4S/IOS 5/Exchange 2010

2012-07-28 Thread Benjamin Zachary
Don't forget dropping the device does not remove it from the user account. So whenever you are troubleshooting if you remove it from the phone also goto the account and remove it so it connects fresh. We had a few weird issues with this happening when we migrated people had to remove the phone

RE: Open position in PA or NY

2012-06-12 Thread Benjamin Zachary
Ill be up in Bethlehem on Thursday - Saturday.. no man's land though right now which is nice coming from Miami. From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 11:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Open position in PA or NY

RE: BPOS to Exchange on-premise

2012-04-19 Thread Benjamin Zachary
We had someone who asked us to do this for them manually but then found a company who polled the rpc/https with all accounts and peeled off the data in one swoop . I didn't ask them but most likely a tool they purchased in house , they needed the admin account to see all mailboxes and that was it.

RE: DNS-y

2012-02-22 Thread Benjamin Zachary
We do this for many clients with internal/external facing DNS , and just put everything in needed, so if you have the dns thisclient.com when you add the A records, also poll public DNS to get their www and mx records .. of course if they change them you have to change them as well, but idk how to

RE: South Florida position.

2012-02-07 Thread Benjamin Zachary
As a business owner of a small IT consultancy in Boca Raton, you probably could find an entry level person for about 25/hr, but you would need to include/reimburse for mileage. If you look in the South Florida Business Journal, you will see that IT networking is @ 3% unemployment and

RE: Consulting (was: OT - ugh!)

2012-02-07 Thread Benjamin Zachary
I agree that is the most reliable way to get leads / business but it takes time. The way I got started on my first IT business was by moving from a FT position with my employer to a contract position, they covered my bills and it let me build up some other clients at the same time. That business

RE: Anyone Use Double-Take RecoverNow?

2012-02-07 Thread Benjamin Zachary
We are using Vmware HA/DRS 5 , and Veeam Backup and DR. We do daily backups and 4 hour snapshots to a secondary SAN. We can drill into the backups easily and drag out files or just mount from backup. We tested the exchange restore and Im not super crazy about it, but it does work . we don't

RE: Wireless extenders

2012-02-02 Thread Benjamin Zachary
gear. I’m using m110’s all throughout, and they support multiple “virtual communities”, so you can have one that is WPA2 encrypted tied to the intranet (all the same SSID) one that is open and in the DMZ (again, same but different than the first SSID). Sean Rector, MCSE From: Benjamin

RE: 2008 R2 DNS strangeness

2011-11-28 Thread Benjamin Zachary
Hey Greg, just curious are you seeing any issues with rr.com up there? we have an office in Tampa and since last week are getting really weird connectivity coming out of roadrunner, and today we couldn’t even email rr.com from down here I was getting no route to host ... we have 3 connections with

RE: Using Skype in a corporate environment

2011-11-24 Thread Benjamin Zachary
I have one medium client , about 75 users in corporate, 25 in PA, 25 in UK, and another 30 or so travelling constantly. We tried a few different products for group meetings, and ended up with Skype business (which just recently came out). It does work well, but the bandwidth requirements are high.

RE: Veeam

2011-11-22 Thread Benjamin Zachary
We use Veeam 5.0 right now and have been pretty happy with it. The restoring of Exchange with the virtual lab has been a little pain point for us, so we ended up getting ontrack, and simply mount the edb and pull out what we need the few times that was required. We run Veeam as a virtual

RE: OT - converting a VMware VM back to a physical box

2011-11-15 Thread Benjamin Zachary
. -Original Message- From: Mike Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 10:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - converting a VMware VM back to a physical box On 11/14/2011 10:20 PM, Benjamin Zachary wrote: In the past years back, we would install the driver

RE: OT - converting a VMware VM back to a physical box

2011-11-14 Thread Benjamin Zachary
In the past years back, we would install the driver controller (Raid/HP/Dell etc) into the 2000/2003 vm, then ghost it from VM to physical. Usually this got us at least into booting and then re-detected all the new hardware , several reboots later we were okay (drivers loading, rebooting etc). if

RE: ShoreTel

2011-11-10 Thread Benjamin Zachary
When I looked at lync it seemed to only connect to a pbx, its not an actual pbx right? or did I miss something when I looked at it From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 11:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ShoreTel In terms of?

RE: ShoreTel

2011-11-10 Thread Benjamin Zachary
is a software-based PBX. Lots of folks manufacture hardware interfaces for POTS, PRI, FXS, etc. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 6:17 PM To: NT System

RE: OT - Phone System In A Virtual Machine

2011-11-09 Thread Benjamin Zachary
My experience is , if possible keep the networks separated to the firewall at minimum. We did some decent networks (800 users, multi-office with 1gig wireless connections and fiber uplinks) we did vlans for printers, ip phones, and management networks. It was great until something went down

RE: OT: Streaming media device

2011-11-08 Thread Benjamin Zachary
I use the mediabox devices at home for my kids rooms and their gaming TV (55' LED Samsung). It works well wirelessly as long as we aren't doing 1080 streaming. On wire its fine, or over USB / internal HDD its fine. They don't have any additional streaming services though, my main TV (Samsung

RE: OT - Phone System In A Virtual Machine

2011-11-08 Thread Benjamin Zachary
I saw that Mitel demo at our datacenter awhile back looked nice. In our office we have an asterisk box sitting in a VM and never have an issue with it. We are only 10 employees and 4 lines though, but we do a lot of call routing to our phones, all of our droids are SIP registered with our

RE: SSD for lab Hyper-V server

2011-11-05 Thread Benjamin Zachary
://www.supertalent.com/datasheets/SLC_vs_MLC%20whitepaper.pdf - Sean On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Benjamin Zachary li...@levelfive.us wrote: Check that the kind of SSD, there is MFC and SLC I think are the acronyms, one is single layer or multi layer. The single layer are much faster and more

RE: Knowbe4 website

2011-11-05 Thread Benjamin Zachary
Hey Stu, what about monitis? :-) -Original Message- From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 12:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: s...@knowbe4.com Subject: RE: Knowbe4 website Hi Paul, It's not you. It was us. What happened? Our

RE: OT: Streaming media device

2011-11-05 Thread Benjamin Zachary
I was at one of my friends house who setup the little acer's with BluRay on his main and living room TV's he is using some new Sony little keypad, very nice, looked sort of like an xbox controller ... -Original Message- From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Thursday,

RE: Equallogic non-Dell drives?

2011-11-04 Thread Benjamin Zachary
This did not work for us in our MD1000,3000 or PS 6000 if I recall . they need to have Dell flashed firmware. You can get these drives from other retailers however. From: Mark Boeck [mailto:netadmin...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 11:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re:

RE: SSD for lab Hyper-V server

2011-11-04 Thread Benjamin Zachary
Check that the kind of SSD, there is MFC and SLC I think are the acronyms, one is single layer or multi layer. The single layer are much faster and more reliable. They don't really announce if they are single or multi, you have to do a little digging . We just did a nice Nexenta SAN with

RE: vmware developers?

2011-11-01 Thread Benjamin Zachary
. On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Benjamin Zachary li...@levelfive.us wrote: I have some private cloud offerings on vmware and host about 8 servers for one client who runs a mix of linux/2008 machines. Their developer is stating that vmware is preventing a certain line of java code from

RE: [OT] Rugged USB cable?

2011-11-01 Thread Benjamin Zachary
I have never seen one, what about covering it with something for network cabling, like those conduits or wiremold . typically made for cat5 or misc. cables but obviously would cover/protect a usb cord -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday,

RE: From the Mac Enterprise list

2011-11-01 Thread Benjamin Zachary
What I find interesting about that article is just last year there was another report from gartner or forrester that claimed that Apple has a small margin in the business segment but a huge margin in the support segment. I can testify to this as I have two clients who love their Macs, iphones

RE: PC going to Verisign

2011-10-31 Thread Benjamin Zachary
This may sound like a silly workaround but what about getting the dns name and resolving it to 127.0.0.1 in DNS or a hosts file? This way it just errors out the lookup quickly and continues. -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Monday, October 31,

RE: PC going to Verisign

2011-10-31 Thread Benjamin Zachary
:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PC going to Verisign Might work. Thanks. Still annoying that I figured it out once and now am stumped so far. -Original Message- From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 8:42 PM To: NT System Admin

RE: Hyper-V VM's and unnecessary heart failure

2011-10-30 Thread Benjamin Zachary
MBS – I don’t have this on my VSphere cluster, but the ISOs are also on our SATA SAN so this could be why. If you are using local disk you will definitely get this .. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 6:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Storagecraft

2011-10-27 Thread Benjamin Zachary
We use these BDR units and they use Storagecraft in the units and do hourly vss snapshots. The interface is a little kludgy but easy enough to navigate. We haven't had to do any full metal restore but have done exchange items and files without issue everytime. -Original Message- From:

RE: Steve Jobs on Flash

2010-04-30 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
HTC EVO is supposed to have flash IIRC. On that note a good friend of ours is a fashion designer and shes been hired to do a new Apple commercial. They are shooting this weekend in NY, she had to get 100 'jobs' look alikes at different ages and dress them all up the same. I joked that it was the

RE: SBS Console Error

2010-04-03 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
I found the fix for that sbs 2008 outlook popping for password, it was in IIS you have to tell it to ignore client certificates on the Autodiscovery and OAB. I can try to dig up the article but I did that and never saw that issue again. -Original Message- From:

RE: time limit software

2010-04-02 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
hours of the day. James - Original Message - From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists mailto:li...@levelfive.us To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 4:09 PM Subject: time limit software Ive been tasked on finding some

time limit software

2010-04-01 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Ive been tasked on finding some software for a small office (40-50 users) that wants to limit computer usage to 40 hrs / week so no one gets overtime. One of the banks that I consulted with was using it but I never asked what it was, they included it into AD as a group and would put the

dell rant

2010-03-19 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Ive been a solid dell guy for years but this is about as aggravating as it comes. We have a new server that cannot get the 2.5 15k rpm drives for several weeks due to manufacturing problems. We went and got drives from hp and the drive caddys so everything is great right? NOT, if you have

perfmon w/ teamed nics

2010-03-18 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
I have a client that's been having some issues with connectivity so they put perfmon on there and run it against the team and it sits at 100 bytes, even though the packet counters are much much less. Im wondering if I just need to monitor the individual network card instead, or is 'bandwidth

RE: perfmon w/ teamed nics

2010-03-18 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
for a speed/duplex mismatch or other errors on the port. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 9:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: perfmon w/ teamed nics I

interesting web tools

2010-03-10 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
www.serversniff.net I was sent there to test some ssl ciphers and seems that they have a nice handful of web based tools.. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

RE: Migration from Mac Mail to Entourage

2010-03-03 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
A few years ago I used an app called alchemy wizard or something and was able to convert from Mac's email to Outlook Express which I could then run outlook and let outlook detect and import it. It had a bunch of different conversion options. I don't know the last time it was updated, but works on

RE: Windows 7 concurrent connections

2010-03-02 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
You may have seen this, it only mentioned win7 beta but goes into the registry in vista and 2008 server so maybe win7 is the same. http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/10895-RemoveWAT-A-safer-activation- solution. From: jbech...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:jbech...@actsconsulting.net]

Equipment in Atlanta

2010-03-01 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Just curious if anyone knows of a local place to pick up enterprise equipment in Atlanta, GA. We are up here deploying a network at telx in downtown and no one even knows where an office depot is let alone a place where I can get a 24 port rack switch J On a side note if any consultants are up

RE: Virus/Spam Filtering SmartHosting Service providers

2010-02-25 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
I have a few customers on postini that have always had it. I experienced just the other day a pretty big problem, I had a client moving from dual t1's to a 10mb fiber, we planned to migrate them this weekend and their pri's went down so we just accelerated and moved them on the fly. They changed

RE: Semi-OT -- Windows isn't the only O/S with problems

2010-02-25 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
You don't have to convince me, the past few months every time I goto a datacenter I keep seeing people deal with this root/ssh hack/backdoor and see people crying after trying to recover data that was wiped with porn and music from the night before. Just speaking to a vlan/switch guy two days

RE: gateway metric question

2010-02-25 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Oddly enough you have to do the same thing with an NLB in 2008 even though it complains and yells about it, it works and wont route the cluster without a gateway on the physical IP that is bound to the virtual NLB. If you need to do some routing, I would trust a route statement before I let

RE: OpenDNS

2010-02-25 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
I use it in most of my sites, just the free version. Pretty much turn it on, disable the adult, shopping, streaming, and social sites and its all set. There is one that says 'unknown' or something its in the top left and if you turn that on, any site that is *not* categorized gets blocked. I

RE: Virus/Spam Filtering SmartHosting Service providers

2010-02-23 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Before you do that check out these guys: www.proxmox.com I used to drop it into my datacenter for individual users, and it worked so well that I purchased their enterprise version with clustering and I have about 5000 mailboxes from different companies and it has worked great with basically no

RE: IP gurus ..

2010-02-14 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
-Original Message- From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 3:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IP gurus .. Thanks all for the ideas, we think it has something to do with the phone server, because the pbx listens on 192.168.0.1

RE: IP gurus ..

2010-02-13 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
, February 12, 2010 1:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: IP gurus .. In addition to the advice from the others, make sure that the MAC address that's responding to the pings is the same as the MAC address of 192.168.0.1 Just sayin' On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 07:15, Benjamin Zachary - Lists li

IP gurus ..

2010-02-12 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Has anyone seen something like this before? I have a network with 192.168.0.x/22 (255.255.255.248.0) When we goto ping a device @ 192.168.0.1 the reply comes back in 1-3ms so that's okay, however a tracert yields: 1 * * * 2 1ms 1ms 1ms 192.168.0.1 This is happening only for this

dc replication / logonserver

2010-02-08 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
I have a site @ 600 users, with dual 100mb links between the primary and secondary site (a datacenter). We have a sensitive network application being deployed and find people getting kicked out of it because the server cannot authenticate them fast enough (1ms is the limit, don't ask why). So on

RE: How to check when a file has changed from URL?

2010-02-08 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
A lot of ftp apps can do checksum and file size checks for you. I think smart FTP was one that you could schedule and if the file was changed do a set of tasks .. From: Jackson, Jeff [mailto:jeff.jack...@rbza.com] Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 4:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: dc replication / logonserver

2010-02-08 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
to a particular DC, will continue to talk to that DC unless the site is changed or the secure channel reset or the DC isn't available. Netdom can do this too. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us

RE: Email archiving solution without Exchange

2010-01-28 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Im running mailarchive free for a pretty big shop @ 200gb datastores, and it works well. We have it running with LDAP/AD on a 2003 domain and now on a 2008 domain, and were able to make AD groups and put users/mgrs in them. I like GFI better but for free mailarchiva worked pretty good the few

RE: OT: Moto Droid and Lack of Xch GAL

2010-01-25 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Did you check with touchdown by NitroDesk? I haven’t used it myself, but I do sync to my exchange server with push and it works fine http://www.nitrodesk.com/dk_touchdownFeatures.aspx From: Daniel Rodriguez [mailto:drod...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 5:43 PM To: NT

RE: 2008 R2 in a 2003 R2 domain

2010-01-22 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
We just did this project last week and I couldn't dcpromo the 2008r2 box until I did a bunch of things with adprep and domainprep and extend the schema but that was for making it a DC obviously. We did join the network first without issue. From: Neil Standley [mailto:n...@net-venture.com]

RE: Windows 7 Search Indexer

2010-01-20 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
http://www.voidtools.com/ From: Terry Dickson [mailto:te...@treasurer.state.ks.us] Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 8:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 Search Indexer I have two an running Windows 7 at home and work and do not see that issue on either one.

RE: SAN solutions

2010-01-19 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
You should look at all the vendors out there, including software based ones, and then decide what you need. Personally I like Netapp, especially with vmware, but I have also used bare solutions like DRBD w/ISCSI and Starwind on 2003/2008 servers both work pretty well (drbd is a replication tool

RE: Windows 2008 R2 Spec Sheet

2010-01-17 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Be aware of the Exchange 2007 implications J You need SP2 integrated and the xml patches for it to install. From: John Bowles [mailto:john.bow...@wlkmmas.org] Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 2008 R2 Spec Sheet All- Is there a

RE: Windows 2008 R2 Spec Sheet

2010-01-17 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
: R: Windows 2008 R2 Spec Sheet to install or to use it? GuidoElia HELPPC _ Da: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Inviato: domenica 17 gennaio 2010 15.07 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Windows 2008 R2 Spec Sheet Be aware of the Exchange 2007

RE: Migrate DHCP database

2010-01-15 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
We just did this same basic thing from 2003 to 2008r2 and worked fine. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 2:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Migrate DHCP database I've done it several times. I can't remember there being any

Backup Exec issues

2009-12-18 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
I have BEX 12D running to backup about 1TB of user data, and about 600GB of mail data. The exchange07 cluster has the Symantec agents running on it and I have a front end server doing spam and handling mail delivery. BEX constantly whines and complains about the VSS writer status, something is

RE: Moto Droid

2009-12-07 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
I picked up an HTC droid and its been pretty good. The browsing has been fantastic, the battery doesn't last as long as Id like. I find myself turning off gps/BT in order to get through the day w/o charging. The email interface is nice and works with ActiveSync a couple of times I ended up with

isa 2006 vpn

2009-12-01 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
I have a handful of ISA 2006 servers with vpns and Im having an issue with just one. We created the vpn tunnel and they have 2 different static IPs on the other end. The vpn comes up fine and I can ping across it. When I goto hit http://internalip the monitor shows the route going out through

RE: Google Wave Invitations

2009-11-25 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
FWIW: On both my laptop and desktop running windows 7 ultimate the google chrome addon fails to install. Works fine in firefox though. Im getting some 0x8000417 or something error. I tried to d/l and run as admin and just run it off the site directly both the same thing. From: Andrew

RE: Google Wave Invite Available

2009-11-24 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Id like to get one, tried a couple of other routes but most of them are out L Mucho gracias as I stand in line with the rest of the poor folk heh From: MarvinC [mailto:marv...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 9:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Google Wave Invite

RE: Outlook does not recognize

2009-11-24 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
You may get this if you have hide the user from the organization checkbox because when you goto setup the account outlook cannot find the username in the GAL. What you can do is goto the user account, right click and exchange features and remove all exchange attributes, this will orphan the

RE: Google Wave Invite Available

2009-11-24 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Oh yah I guess it would be easier: benzach...@gmail.com if that speeds things up From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 10:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Google Wave Invite Available Id like to get one, tried a couple

something besides BEX 12.5

2009-11-20 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
I have a decent network that's been running BEX 11 and recently went to 12.5 and still having big issues with snapshot processing and vss getting locked up. I don't think its necessarily all the servers as much as BEX issues. Ive been tasked with finding a replacement software. We have an

RE: Win7 and Server 2003 Admin Tools

2009-11-09 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Btw ever since I installed this I cant even imagine going back to the 2003 server tools J From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 11:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Win7 and Server 2003 Admin Tools Good find! Thanks... Roger Wright

outlook / word 2007

2009-11-09 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
I have an sbs client that opens document attachments and frequently hits the save button by accident. On 2003 this still defaulted to the my docs folder (the default save/auto save area) however in 2007 its defaulting to the internet temporary folders. Right now I put a shortcut to that on their

RE: rdp / citrix error

2009-11-09 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
with the security permissions on the HD of the server or in the registry recently? Maybe a chkdsk /f is in order? -B From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 6:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: rdp / citrix error Right that's the odd

RE: rdp / citrix error

2009-11-07 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
a few issues with RDP especially on x64 servers. Have had to turn off firewall on server and sometimes disable and re-enable RDP. As long as user is member of local admin he should be able to RDP to server by default. Mike _ From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us

RE: Foxit Reader

2009-11-07 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
I use visage soft it lacks all the addons and built in IE stuff that adobe gives you but I find those problematic anyway and try to disable them whenever possible. -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 1:50 AM To: NT

tsadmin console

2009-10-29 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
I have a 2003 ts server that was recently re-done. The admin swears (with screen shot) that previously when they ran the tsadmin option the Users Description was listed there and now its not there. I poked around for it and tried a little google-fu without success. Basically all the

RE: dhcp reservations

2009-10-15 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
the diff with blat. This gives me good insight into what changes on my subnets. Kurt On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 14:32, Ken Cornetet ken.corne...@kimball.com wrote: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc787375(WS.10).aspx#BKMK_addresd ip From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li

dhcp reservations

2009-10-14 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Anyone know of an easy way to convert dhcp to dhcp w/reservations? We have a 450 user network with all dhcp but need them to not change for some new software. I was hoping I could just right click on the current dhcp lease and convert it to a reservation but no such luck :0 Id rather not have

RE: dhcp reservations

2009-10-14 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
their DHCP address unless the address they had before is no longer available. They request the address they had previously. ASB (My XeeSM Profile) http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker Providing Competitive Advantage through Effective IT Leadership On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Benjamin Zachary - Lists li

RE: NAS/SAN

2009-10-12 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
I was at the vmware forum the other day and netapp did a decent demo on their new offerings with deduping backups, sql and exchange for storage recovery. Also their app has a plugin for vcenter so you could manage the SAN from the vi console which I thought was a nice little bonus. Up to this

BES 4.1 syncing

2009-10-05 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Anyone run into this, I have a couple of sites where contacts don't seem to be syncing properly. Everything else appears to work. I poked around about finding invalid contacts without names apparently can hang this up but I cant seem to find any on these two particular installs. One is an sbs03

RE: BES 4.1 syncing

2009-10-05 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
and they reinstalled BES (WTF?) -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 6:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: BES 4.1 syncing On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Benjamin Zachary - Lists li...@levelfive.us wrote: I have a couple of sites

RE: USB Boot drive Frustration

2009-10-05 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Check out: unetboodin-windows-323 it has a set of premade usb images and will get them and extract them on for you. Most of them are unix live cd ports like gparted but you may find what you need. If you just need to boot an iso or similar off a usb then heres what I have (found it on some

RE: LogMeIn Central!

2009-10-01 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
The new logmein is pretty nice actually. I like that you can make shortcuts on the desktop which go right through and connect. To combat any theft you can click on invalidate all shortcuts if anything became compromised.. im interested to see the hamachi vpn, looks interesting for certain.

RE: MSE is released...

2009-09-30 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
As a test I took a 100 user network with a handful of servers, put them on OpenDNS and removed Symantec 11 across the board. So far after about 6 months I have had 3 users actually get something. How, I have no idea, most likely through webmail which I have now also removed in OpenDNS and the

RE: VMWare tools

2009-09-30 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
I spoke to veeam and they don't support the free ESXi w/o the foundation tools, which I thought was strange because the free version worked .. I checked out vranger 3.3 and it requires vcb, none of my machines are available for backup w/o it. I tested this by doing a new install, if I put in the

RE: Officejet 6500 drivers in an XP vm

2009-09-27 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
That's what I do too, I install the printer on a workstation connect it that way so the server gets the driver. Don't forget the printsubs.inf too where applicable. From: Ronald Wulff [mailto:rwu...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 11:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

HP Rep (Vmware helps)

2009-09-25 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Ive been tasked to put together a 2nd proposal for HP equipment instead of Dell, the quote from Dell is about 125k. The CFO likes HP's but I don't have any contacts.. any recommendations for a decent rep appreciated. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: NLB w/ 2008

2009-09-24 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
getway on the heartbeat network. your public and private networks must be different networks. _ From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 10:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: NLB w/ 2008 I have two webservers w/ 2008 standard

NLB w/ 2008

2009-09-23 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
I have two webservers w/ 2008 standard with dual nics. The nics have two different ips in different subnets (192.168.200.x and 10.10.10.x). I created an NLB and added ip's 192.168.200.20-30 into the cluster. Im using the 10.10.10.x network for the dedicated heartbeat. Internally this works

RE: Anti-spam solution

2009-09-23 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
www.proxmox.com works pretty well out of the box. I have the enterprise version clustered and host thousands of mailboxes and dozens of domains on it without a hitch. I probably do something on it once or twice a month when someone cant get an email due to the other side's issue. Last I

RE: Abandoning Cisco

2009-09-17 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
After coming from a Sonicwall web gui type world I found the ASA to be finicky and buggy. I have one that I manage and sometimes I set things up with it and then come to find that it doesn’t stick and it has to be done through the command line. For fun I dropped in a pfsense vm on my edge and

RE: Window 7 64-bit and Indexing PDF files

2009-09-17 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
http://www.voidtools.com/ From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 1:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Window 7 64-bit and Indexing PDF files I've always resorted to console based searching since XP, because it is much faster and

RE: Backup Server

2009-09-17 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Symantec has a remote backup app, the name escapes me at the moment but Ive seen it in use by some guys at my datacenter. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 4:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Backup Server Keep a tape

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-16 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
So get a workstation with a 4 bay sata hot swap. Basically for the price I would take a handful of sata drives over tapes. By the time you get a fast library that can keep up your in the multi thousands. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Disk based backup

2009-09-15 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Why not just take some external drives and mount them in whatever you use (BEX/UB etc) and rotate the drives. At 79 bucks for a 1TB SATA, or 89 for a USB version, you could do a 5 day rotation for 2 weeks for 900 dollars if you can get the data on 1tb. If you want to be more involved do the

RE: OT - Going rate for MCSEs...

2009-09-15 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Isnt that below minimum wage out there? Haha McDonalds gets only a couple bucks less. Wow, people either have no trust in their skills or don't have any at all I suppose. From: Scott Williamson [mailto:scottwilliamson...@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 6:59 PM To: NT System Admin

RE: 2008 64bit print server with 32bit clients

2009-09-13 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
I have been having similar issues with some lower end printers and even some expensive Panasonic devices ,on a 2008 SBS server. I can install both 64 and 32 drivers but all the 32 bit drivers fail to print to the device, so I had to setup a workstation to share out from there.. -Original

RE: [OT] web - HDTV

2009-09-09 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
I looked at this for a few days with my cousin a couple of months ago, he has HD Dish and HD Cox cable and wanted to watch the HD channels on his mediapc w/ bluray. He currently sees all the standard channels but HD is just grey screen. We looked at 6-7 different cards and they all appear to

RE: SOHO MFP Printer Questions

2009-09-04 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
I just picked up a brother all in one with wireless and it was nice and easy to setup on a small network. From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 3:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SOHO MFP Printer Questions This is a printer for my

RE: SOHO MFP Printer Questions

2009-09-04 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
The brother I picked up from Comp USA was 299 and the HP one comparable was 399 for b/w but the HP color was 499 with 150 off. The Brother scans nice from multiple computers has a 35 page ADF and is fast and quiet. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent:

RE: isa 2006 domain sets

2009-09-04 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
. Are you seeing anything of interest in the event logs? Is the ISA server using the same DNS servers as your clients? Have you tried completely deleting the Domain Name Set and associated rule and then recreating them? I've fixed some odd rule issues that way. -Malcolm From: Benjamin Zachary

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