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
were entered just as *.microsoft.com (without the quotes), with no http://;, right? -Malcolm From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: isa 2006 domain sets Hey all, I have a locked down ISA

RE: OT Funny/Lame: RDP Infinite Loop

2009-09-04 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Ive done this with radmin before by accident and it did the same thing never tried it with TS J From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 7:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT Funny/Lame: RDP Infinite Loop Classic -

RE: On Topic-ish: 67 terabytes, one box, under US$8k

2009-09-04 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
I saw this the other day, I don't know why I never think to share it ... not the mindset I guess.. Compared to what some SANs cost and what you get for the money it's a pretty decent deal, just have fun finding a bad drive :) -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare

RE: SPAM Solution

2009-09-04 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Yah time machine is decent until you actually goto use it. From: tony patton [mailto:tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com] Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 9:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SPAM Solution I learnt the hard way, had 2 500Gb drive in raid 0 in my desktop. Bought a

RE: Windows Police Pro

2009-09-04 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Uhm, don't you guys use opendns? This solves a lot of these problems FWIW Once you get it of course its too late, but a decent a/v on the email and opendns and your more likely to catch swine flu from the keyboard J ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: SPAM Solution

2009-09-03 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
www.proxmox.com free for one domain, stand alone product, pretty much set it and forget it, runs great in a vm as your front end av/spam server. From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:cbusitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 4:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SPAM

isa 2006 domain sets

2009-09-03 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Hey all, I have a locked down ISA 2006 box, it works pretty well, but we need to allow some internet access to certain sites. I added a domain name set for like *.microsoft.com and *.symantec.com however that doesn't work. I see in the logs that if I monitor it when I goto the site the monitor

RE: isa 2006 domain sets

2009-09-03 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
to do this. So you created a domain name set, then you created a rule allowing traffic to that domain name set? That's really all there is to do. Your domains were entered just as *.microsoft.com (without the quotes), with no http://;, right? -Malcolm From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li

RE: [WOT] FW: Presidential Address Sept. 8th

2009-09-03 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Thank you I meant to do this today at my son’s school, forget who I am for or against but they are going to try to push kids to tell their parents about health care. I don’t like it at all.. From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com] Sent: Thursday, September 03,

RE: [WOT] FW: Presidential Address Sept. 8th

2009-09-03 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
if they can afford to pay for it. BUT, m definitely antagonising discussion of a politically motivated US centric, OFF TOPIC post, which is definitely worse than listening to stories about someones home network that has 3 computers, no backup and is used for games. From: Benjamin Zachary

RE: Calling Security Experts..

2009-09-01 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Issues Subject: Re: Calling Security Experts.. You could also try restoring the previous security registry hive. --Original Message-- From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists To: NT Issues ReplyTo: NT Issues Subject: RE: Calling Security Experts.. Sent: Sep 1, 2009 12:06 AM Thanks I get your

RE: Calling Security Experts..

2009-09-01 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
can edit secedit.sdb offline and have windows apply the local sec policy changes to the configuration upon next boot. -sc -Original Message- From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 8:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Calling

Calling Security Experts..

2009-08-31 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
I was setting up a client for their annual pci audit, and accidentally put a Deny Logon for the users group and now even the admin user is not able to login either through rdp or physically in front of the device. I was thinking maybe I could boot in safe mode and get around it, or I could also

RE: Calling Security Experts..

2009-08-31 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Thanks I get your login is denied due to access rights or something whenever I try to access any share. Im going to try booting w/ bartpe and then copying over secedit from the windows\security\database folder and see where that gets me. -Original Message- From: Greg Sweers

RE: Liveoffice Email Archiving or other solutions?

2009-08-20 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
We had been using GFI's mail archive was is decent, and recently switched to mailarchiva (about 8 months ago). It is open source but runs on windows, their pay version has more features and includes pst importing tools and overall is basic, but functional and works. GFI's is nice with the

RE: Mapped Drives over VPN

2009-08-20 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Isnt there a reg setting about mapping slow links or something? -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Mapped Drives over VPN We're running with Cisco PIX firewalls and using the Cisco

security updates/bulletins

2009-08-18 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
On our new pci requirement they want the staff to be on some security update lists. I went to cisecurity.org and sans.org and didn't see anything special. I used to be on ntbugtraq and I suppose I could sign them up for the Microsoft ones (they are 100% MS shop), just wondering what else people

RE: Windows 2008 Server and/or Exchange in the cloud

2009-08-18 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
www.intermedia.net kind of pricey but stable and easy to manage/setup. Im sure there are others. For that size why not just partner up with an MSP who can put your own server in a datacenter and host it/manage it for a flat fee. You could probably have several of those in your area.

RE: Social networking sites as a business resource

2009-08-16 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
There was an article not too long ago in the WJ? Or NYT that talked about corporate cyber squatting on company names by their competitiors trying to influence business. I will see if I can dig up the link, but social media has become an important part of the game, a client I work with does entire

RE: laurinburg, nc 28352

2009-08-14 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 12:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: laurinburg, nc 28352 I was there last week. Jon On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Benjamin Zachary - Lists li...@levelfive.us wrote: Anyone up in this neck

RE: Windows 2008 Rdp

2009-08-14 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
I would look at the ts config and on the connector check permissions. From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 5:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 2008 Rdp They need the right to logon to Terminal Services also, and the right to

laurinburg, nc 28352

2009-08-13 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Anyone up in this neck of the woods? I have a client in WPB, FL that needs some onsite assistance occasionally at this location. Simple things like setup wireless router, add printers etc. Doesn't need to be a consultant could be anytime if you're working a full time job. Thanks , email me off

RE: Kiosk software

2009-08-13 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Set it up like a TS where it doesn't load explorer just IE. You can also run windows media center in a kiosk mode, but idk how effective it is. -Original Message- From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 5:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: laurinburg, nc 28352

2009-08-13 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Well how come you didn't let me know? jeeesh From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 12:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: laurinburg, nc 28352 I was there last week. Jon On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Benjamin Zachary - Lists li

Exchange Migration Wizard

2009-07-30 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Anyone have any help for me on this? I have a domain that's being migrated into a corporate domain. ADMT works and Ive been able to migrate the users and desktops successfully. When I goto run the migration wizard I get an error about not having the right permissions. I went into Exchange on

RE: Windows 7 edition comparison

2009-07-26 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Every laptop/desktop that ran Vista in the past few months that had an issue got bumped up to Win7 beta. I have had less problems with it and it fixed a lot of little issues people were having with Vista. I ran Vista for quite some time both 32/64 versions. I didn't have any real problems with

RE: Ubuntu and FTP

2009-07-26 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
Check out unetbootin-windows-323 It is a usb iso maker, however, it points to dozens of different distros, so you can just pop a usb drive in, click on distro select whatever you need and it will stream it and lay it out onto the usb and make it bootable. While the usb feature is nice, the

RE: OT: Facebook dislikes you guys

2009-07-26 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
I do oversee a few places that are heavy users and management uses them for sales so we leave it open because there are actual business uses for it. BTW: I need mafia help too! b...@levelfive.us J you guys use diff emails for your FB so I cant find you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security

RE: Team Viewer - remote support app

2009-07-22 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
What does it do besides remote connection? I use gotoassist (free and now commercial) and I also have some clients on logmein. I see the free version doesn't install on server(s), but doesn't seem too bad if it works just as well. -Original Message- From: Gavin Wilby

RE: Data replication in real-time (or near real-time)

2009-07-22 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
For a lan if you feel up to the task: http://www.drbd.org I use it in my datacenter, and am now replicating it for clients over 10/100meg fiber for entire esx servers and some just data servers. Seems to work pretty well with little management. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security

RE: Managed Services

2009-07-20 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
My company offers managed services, and I know that most consulting firms offer something. From 24/7 monitoring, help desk, server updates etc etc also spam/junk hosting, offsite dr, co-location etc. From: KenM [mailto:kenmli...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 7:22 PM To: NT

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