Re: GPOs back from the dead

2013-04-09 Thread Bill Songstad
-authoritative restore of the data in the sysvol folder as described in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/840674 and all seems to be replicating. -Bill On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Bill Songstad bsongs...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your response Damien. I definitely had some replication issues

Re: Office 365

2013-04-03 Thread Bill Songstad
We use it. It is stable and available. We don't always get the most responsive service if something minor goes wrong. They have a system based on how many people are without mail to prioritize responses. I have no knowledge of the security of the service, but I imagine it is as safe as

Re: Office 365

2013-04-03 Thread Bill Songstad
to be there if not the snappyness of local Outlook. -Bill On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:47 PM, itli...@imcu.com itli...@imcu.com wrote: Do they have a webbased outlook so all my users would be standardized?? -Original Message- From: Bill Songstad [mailto:bsongs...@gmail.com] Posted At: Wednesday, April 3

Re: GPOs back from the dead

2013-04-02 Thread Bill Songstad
-Original Message- From: Bill Songstad [mailto:bsongs...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 1:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: GPOs back from the dead Hi folks. I have an issue that I can't seem to pin down and am hoping someone here can help out. I recently

Re: Spamhaus Lookup

2011-04-27 Thread Bill Songstad
Many public DNS servers don't reply correctly about lookups at spamhaus. Make sure you are getting your DNS info from your ISP, and not the free public servers. (e.g. 8.8.8.8, 4.4.2.2. etc...) Bill On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Level 5 Lists li...@levelfive.us wrote: Yes, we are using

Re: VMware disk latency

2011-04-06 Thread Bill Songstad
Joseph, I can't find the build info for that box, but it looks to be a built in SATA controller. (SmartArray E200i) Does that sound like a viable option? Thanks, Bill On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.comwrote: Which controller on the ML? *From:* Bill

Re: RBL issues

2011-02-11 Thread Bill Songstad
I've had problems with spamhaus hating my DNS proxy on my watchguard firewall. Had to turn off the proxy. Another issue I had recently with spamhaus is that public DNS servers like 8.8.8.8 and 4.4.2.2 don't work. But that should actually allow all traffic, so forget that I guess. By everything

Re: RBL issues

2011-02-11 Thread Bill Songstad
of following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal information. Something is definitely wrong. Kurt On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 09:55, Bill Songstad bsongs...@gmail.com wrote: I've had problems with spamhaus hating my DNS proxy on my watchguard firewall. Had

Re: RBL issues

2011-02-11 Thread Bill Songstad
. And in the original post he mentioned with spamcop turned on by itself it still did this. I just did some googling and it looks like over the last few weeks Spamcop has been listing some Google servers. *From:* Bill Songstad [mailto:bsongs...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, February 11, 2011 3:22 PM

who is denying my access

2011-01-11 Thread Bill Songstad
I know this has been mentioned here in the past and is probably chronicled on the interwebs too, but I think my google foo is being thwarted by too many common terms. situation: program is not starting unless run as administrator. Normally I would just grant full control to domain users for the

Re: who is denying my access

2011-01-11 Thread Bill Songstad
://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896652 *From:* Bill Songstad [mailto:bsongs...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, January 11, 2011 2:20 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* who is denying my access I know this has been mentioned here in the past and is probably chronicled on the interwebs

Re: OT: integra telecom support in Seattle Portland

2010-12-10 Thread Bill Songstad
, and go.) Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: Bill Songstad bsongs...@gmail.com Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 20:31:49 -0500

OT: integra telecom support in Seattle Portland

2010-12-02 Thread Bill Songstad
I'm evaluating a new service provider to install a phone system in Seattle and our branch office in Portland Oregon. Does anyone have experience with Integra Telecom in the Northwest? Their pricing is pretty good, but their competitors, predictably, say their service is shoddy. So I've learned

network mapping software

2010-10-19 Thread Bill Songstad
I have been asked to fix up a fairly complicated small network that has lost their network admin and their boss. A lot of knowledge was tied up in those individuals and contacting them is often quite difficult. Additionally their memories have as many holes as their records. I need a network map

Re: network mapping software

2010-10-19 Thread Bill Songstad
at 2:12 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.comwrote: *Nmap with the thumbprinting options?* * * *What are you planning to do with this data?* * * *Thanks,* *Brian Desmond* *br...@briandesmond.com* * * *w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132* * * *From:* Bill Songstad

Re: network mapping software

2010-10-19 Thread Bill Songstad
Profile) http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Bill Songstad bsongs...@gmail.comwrote: I have been asked to fix up a fairly complicated small network that has lost their network admin and their boss. A lot of knowledge

Re: 3rd Party Defrag Utilities

2010-10-13 Thread Bill Songstad
I defrag my file share directories weekly. The reason is this: when I had a disk fail a few years ago and was unable to recover anything, all the companies that tried to polish and recover something from my platters said if the files weren't so fragmented, they might have been able to recover

Re: Ammo request

2010-07-22 Thread Bill Songstad
There's been a lot of good discussion in this thread and thanks to everyone who chimed in. I have to agree with those who say 10% is too much to irritate. And though they don't directly pay us through the website, the info and articles we put there are some of the side benefits to the things

Ammo request

2010-07-21 Thread Bill Songstad
I work for an association that produces several newsletters for its membership, but a recent website upgrade is causing IE6 to display our pages poorly or not at all. I would like to build an argument to stop supporting IE6 and also help encourage users to upgrade. Does anyone in the group have

Re: Ammo request

2010-07-21 Thread Bill Songstad
___ On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Bill Songstad bsongs...@gmail.com wrote: I work for an association that produces several newsletters for its membership, but a recent website upgrade is causing IE6 to display our pages poorly or not at all. I would like to build an argument to stop

Re: Ammo request

2010-07-21 Thread Bill Songstad
! ' *From:* Bill Songstad [mailto:bsongs...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, July 21, 2010 6:04 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Ammo request I work for an association that produces several newsletters for its membership, but a recent website upgrade is causing IE6 to display our pages

Re: Ammo request

2010-07-21 Thread Bill Songstad
think so... Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Bill Songstad bsongs...@gmail.com wrote: I work for an association that produces several newsletters for its membership, but a recent website upgrade is causing IE6 to display our pages

Re: Looking for fax appliance

2010-07-20 Thread Bill Songstad
I have a fax server built on W2K3 Server and a brooktrout card using the built-in fax service in W2K3 server. Faxes come in TIF format so does not meet your requirements. The drivers weren't easy to get installed properly, but it works now and delivers faxes to a different e-mailbox per line.

encrypting the fax service

2010-07-14 Thread Bill Songstad
I have the fax service running on a W2K3 R2 box. It archives all the inbound faxes to a folder on the box. Works great. But now I want to encrypt the folder where all the faxes are saved, but whenever I ecrypt the folder, the new faxes are saved, have the right file size, appear to be

Re: encrypting the fax service

2010-07-14 Thread Bill Songstad
they are encrypted? With what key are you currently encrypting the folder? -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Bill Songstad bsongs...@gmail.comwrote: I have the fax service running on a W2K3 R2 box. It archives all the inbound faxes

Re: encrypting the fax service

2010-07-14 Thread Bill Songstad
accessing and copying the files to some other place where they would no longer be subject to encryption protection. -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Bill Songstad bsongs...@gmail.comwrote: Once they are encrypted, I don't

Re: DR Plan

2010-06-24 Thread Bill Songstad
You need to start with a Business Impact Analysis and clear expectation of recovery point objective and your recovery time objective. Your recovery strategy and budget will be dramatically different depending on the results of those things. -Bill On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Jay Dale

Re: Run multliple versions of IE

2010-06-17 Thread Bill Songstad
installed. -Bill On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps http://finalbuilds.edskes.net/iecollection.htm will help. Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Bill Songstad bsongs...@gmail.com wrote: My webmaster has

Re: How to block, but not block?!

2010-06-17 Thread Bill Songstad
The secure environments that I have seen use clean desktop environments with security cameras. Employees are not allowed to bring anything into the secure area. The desktops must remain clear at all times and cameras watch for any rule breakages. -Bill On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Angus

Run multliple versions of IE

2010-06-14 Thread Bill Songstad
My webmaster has asked for the ability to run multiple versions of IE (6, 7, and 8) on a Windows XP workstation. I found a couple of candidates for testing on the interwebs, but is anybody using a solution for this that they like and/or recommend? Thanks, Bill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint

Re: Run multliple versions of IE

2010-06-14 Thread Bill Songstad
use VMs. Microsoft offers pre-baked VMs with all the IE versions on their site for download. * * * *Thanks,* *Brian Desmond* *br...@briandesmond.com* * * *c – 312.731.3132* * * *From:* Bill Songstad [mailto:bsongs...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, June 14, 2010 1:13 PM *To:* NT System

Re: Run multliple versions of IE

2010-06-14 Thread Bill Songstad
Its my understanding that VMs require an OS license. And you are prohibited from using trials for longer than 90 days... So there would be a cost for my webmaster to use the VM on an ongoing basis. Unless I am misunderstanding something. Bill On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Brian Desmond

Re: Exchange Active Sync w/o a Front-End exchange server?

2010-06-07 Thread Bill Songstad
I do it. Auditors are fine with it. Server loads are fine. Only a handful of users though. My biggest concern was opening my exchange server to the web, but the firewall limits the traffic to ssl and passwords are all strong for my users. In the end there is in theory a second attack vector to

OT: DVD burning software

2010-05-27 Thread Bill Songstad
I just rebuilt a XP workstation only to discover that I don't have the Nero disk that came with the DVD burner. Does anybody have a recommendation for software to use in lieu of Nero? I know I can download a full version of Nero, but it is so full of bloat that if I have to pay, I want something

Re: DVD burning software

2010-05-27 Thread Bill Songstad
of the equation? http://infrarecorder.org/ http://www.imgburn.com/ http://cdburnerxp.se/ All free. -- Mike Gill *From:* Bill Songstad [mailto:bsongs...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:04 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* OT: DVD burning software I just

Re: mid-tower cases

2010-05-19 Thread Bill Songstad
I just took 10 degrees C off my home PC with one of these aftermarket CPU fans: http://www.infotechnow.com/product_info.php?cPath=33_88products_id=7108 Bill On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Greg Olson gol...@markettools.com wrote: Funny, I just picked up 3 Antec 900 cases for $15.00 from a

log Windows Live Messenger conversations

2010-05-10 Thread Bill Songstad
My office uses WLM for communication to supplement email and telephones. That battle is lost. But the next battle is to log communications through that medium for legal purposes. My Google Fu has been less than encouraging as the popular opinion is that since there are no GPOs for WLM and since

Re: log Windows Live Messenger conversations

2010-05-10 Thread Bill Songstad
– 312.731.3132 From: Bill Songstad [mailto:bsongs...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 4:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: log Windows Live Messenger conversations My office uses WLM for communication to supplement email and telephones. That battle is lost

Re: Internet Policies

2010-05-04 Thread Bill Songstad
I was recently at a peer conference where an IT director from a financial institution had a pretty good policy for dealing with non-work social networking. They recognized that users want to use the internet for personal reasons. That those personal reasons were often acceptible in moderation.

Re: Locking adobe

2010-04-19 Thread Bill Songstad
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Peter van Houten peter...@gmail.comwrote: Would be interested in the results. As Brian pointed out, the Reader might not enjoy having its private parts locked ;-) -- Peter van Houten Bill Songstad wrote the following: Shamefully, I never thought of locking

Re: Vipre upgrade to 4.0

2010-04-16 Thread Bill Songstad
Did it. Upgrade was easy and smooth. I only have a couple dozen agents though. -Bill On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Chris Orovet coro...@atsi-inc.com wrote: The only problem I had was compatibility with windows 2000 server. I did not find this out until I started to install and got an OS

Locking adobe

2010-04-16 Thread Bill Songstad
Okay, I've figured out how to disable the /launch feature in Acrobat Reader, and make it so users can't easily undo it. But I can't for the life of me turn of jscript and make it sticky. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\JSPrefs] bEnableJS=dword: will turn off

Re: Locking adobe

2010-04-16 Thread Bill Songstad
Shamefully, I never thought of locking down the perms on the reg key. I'll monkey with that and post back with my results. -Bill On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Peter van Houten peter...@gmail.comwrote: Have you tried changing the permissions of the reg key? -- Peter van Houten Bill

Re: Simple Fax Server?

2010-04-08 Thread Bill Songstad
I have a couple of brooktrout fax cards set using microsoft fax service on windows server 2003. They send the faxes to one mailbox or DL each. The fax cards were about $800 bucks or something around there. Software was technically free, but making the brooktrout cards work without a third party

Re: Enterprise Anti-Virus

2010-04-02 Thread Bill Songstad
probably run without desktop AV at all. But I'm not completely crazy. -Bill On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:13 PM, justino garcia jgarciaitl...@gmail.comwrote: what is that gateway av product your using? Had you had issues with malware infecting your pcs anyway? On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Bill

Re: Enterprise Anti-Virus

2010-04-02 Thread Bill Songstad
smtp and http from untrusted sites. Bill On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 7:51 AM, jgarciaitl...@gmail.com wrote: Bill songstad Cool Does watch av scanning slow down the wan a bit?? Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -- *From: *Bill Songstad bsongs...@gmail.com *Date: *Fri

Re: Enterprise Anti-Virus

2010-04-01 Thread Bill Songstad
I Replaced Symantec AV 10 with Vipre earlier this year. I expected the process to be pretty smooth. After all, I had been running Ninja/vipre email for years and loved it. I was sadly disappointed both in the performance of Vipre and the famous Sunbelt tech support. Vipre Server doesn't play

OT: Streaming media security

2010-03-03 Thread Bill Songstad
I know this is a little off-topic, but I though this group might be a good resource here. As a matter of procedure, we block flash streams at our firewall. It is quite a pain when I have to open a firewall hole every time an employee wants to attend a webinar or watch some streaming content.

Re: Users Setting NTFS Permissions

2010-01-13 Thread Bill Songstad
I'm curious why you are concerned that an employee empowered to create a folder in your domain should not be allowed to set access rights to it. Why disallow them the ability to control access if you as a domain admin can seize control if need be? It's not like the everyone group includes anyone

Re: Lansweeper advice.

2009-11-19 Thread Bill Songstad
I can't say anything about how the premium version works, but I had no problems executing the lsclient remotely using a couple of two-liner batch files and psexec with a domain admin account. This command triggers the lansweeper client on all the workstations listed in C:\pcs.txt

Finding Adobe on the network

2009-11-12 Thread Bill Songstad
Not really a server admin issue, but probably under the job descriptions of quite a few of us... I have a few users that have Adobe Air installed on their workstations. What would be a good way to go about finding out which machines have Air installed? I loathe the possibility of walking around

Re: Finding Adobe on the network

2009-11-12 Thread Bill Songstad
. Bill On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Andy Ognenoff andyognen...@gmail.comwrote: SpiceWorks - free and easy. - Andy O. From: Bill Songstad [mailto:bsongs...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 1:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject

Re: Finding Adobe on the network

2009-11-12 Thread Bill Songstad
eric.wittersh...@gmail.com wrote: You can use Sydi-Server and modify the script only to give you software that is installed. On 11/12/09, Bill Songstad bsongs...@gmail.com wrote: Not really a server admin issue, but probably under the job descriptions of quite a few of us... I have a few

Re: Once more - software RAID

2009-10-08 Thread Bill Songstad
A software mirror creates a mirror and that will protect you from a single disk failure. That is a certainly better than nothing at all if redundancy is your goal. A couple of things to keep in mind though, a windows software mirror will have a read/wite performance cost that you might notice if

OT: Portable AC unit for small closet

2009-10-02 Thread Bill Songstad
I have a server closet that is creeping into the 80s so I thought a little AC unit might do the trick. I've heard that there are two flavors of portable AC units for small areas like this. Basically a home user version that breaks if you run it 24/7 and a commercial version that can run 24/7

VMWare tools

2009-09-30 Thread Bill Songstad
I've been using ESXi 3.5 for about six months and I have run up on a need that is not covered in the free hypervisor. So, as any industrious sole might, I went to the VMware website to see what products might suit my needs. And Viola! There I discovered that the marketing folks at VMware are

Re: VMWare tools

2009-09-30 Thread Bill Songstad
I was using regular client backups as well, but a recent MotherBoard failure on my ESX host left me high and dry for 36 hours because rebuilding 4 servers and reinstalling them only to back them up and restore them back to the original host was going to be a pretty big hassle not to mention having

RE: Mail server software

2009-08-17 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
If you mean you only want to restore the message without loading a database first, sure. But you can easily restore all or only one message from a single mailbox using exmerge on your recovery storage group. Granted, you have to load the entire database into the recovery storage group to do it,

RE: Relatively Cheap (read free) Network Monitoring Software...

2009-07-29 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
Depending on what he wants to monitor, KS-soft Hostmonitor (http://www.ks-soft.net/hostmon.eng/index.htm) is cheap and easy to configure on windows. Free trial is fully functional. 50 monitored items is only $100. Bill From: Marty Nelson [mailto:mnel...@transdyn.com] Sent: Wednesday,

RE: WSUS group by supersedence?

2009-07-28 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
You can click on the column to sort it by supercedence. It is a very skinny column with only icons in it, but it is sortable. From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 7:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: WSUS group by supersedence?

RE: GPO puzzler

2009-07-22 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
they've changed a lot with offline files, but I seem to remember having problems on XP when a user already had cached files and we tried to turn it off on a machine via gpo. -Bonnie From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:administra...@waleague.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 4:10 PM To: NT

OT: Presentation Laptop recommendations

2009-07-21 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
I'm in the market for a new laptop to run sales and training presentations. In the past I've always gone with Dell Latitudes and they've always been durable and reliable. I thought that since the sales folks at Dell have been all but rude to me recently, I'd take a look at the other offerings

GPO puzzler

2009-07-21 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
Scenario: W2k3 domain Vista Business SP2 workstation Goal: Disable offline folders Strategy: Create AD OU: Domain Local machines vista workstations Place workstation into OU Create and link disable offline folders GPO to the previously mentioned OU Computer

RE: GPO puzzler

2009-07-21 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
Almost forgot: other GPOs like redirecting the my documents to a server share and configuring WSUS work as designed. Subject: GPO puzzler Scenario: W2k3 domain Vista Business SP2 workstation Goal: Disable offline folders Strategy: Create AD OU: Domain Local machines vista

RE: GPO puzzler

2009-07-21 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
) to the security settings of the GPO? We see this fairly regularly with Computer specific GPOs due to computer groups not being added by default. TVK From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:administra...@waleague.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 5:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: GPO

RE: Security by obscurity?

2009-07-16 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
Who are you obscuring it from? Script kiddies are scanning for IP addresses, so it doesn't matter what the name is. A directed attack on you is going to do some research and know your domain name. They'll start by scanning 25 and 80 on all your listed MX entries. I don't think you are really

RE: Decision tree / troubleshooting software recommendations

2009-06-08 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
Fuze creates knowledge base solutions that allow you to populate answers to typical questions. You can set expiration dates on answers, set triggers to review answers and get notified when users have new questions or are unsatisfied with their results, and get reports on top questions. It really

RE: Open source remote access

2009-05-12 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
Skyfex http://skyfex.com/ lets you watch a user's PC for free for 30 minutes and remote control it for 5 minutes per session. When you have used up your time, you can initiate a new session or upgrade to their fee product. It's easy enough for even technologically challenged lusers to use.

advanced file management W2K3 VS W2K8

2009-05-07 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
I've seen a number of posts in this group about the advanced file management resources available in W2K3 R2. Is W2K8 more or less functional when it comes to things like file management and directory comparison and such? Thanks for your insights, Bill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint

RE: OT - Copier Reliability

2009-05-07 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
We had a Konica machine several years ago when multifunction copier printers were just coming out. We had a model we nic-named the trainwreck. Anytime someone sent a print job when a copy job was in progress, you would wind up with no fewer than 12 pieces of paper jammed in its bowels. I

MAC AV

2009-05-01 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
Since there are a number of folks apparently running Macs in their networks, I was wondering what everybody is using to protect them from Malware. Are some products better, easier to manage smaller footprint than others? Thanks for any insight. Bill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint

RE: DNS issue

2009-04-30 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
Charlie, I developed a similar problem yesterday when I replaced the SMTP proxy on my Watchgaurd X500 with the SMTP filter. With just the proxy enabled, DNS resolves fine. But when I enable the SMTP filter, DNS queries run amok and the firewall logs fill up with DNS traffic. Web browsing slows

RE: Remote access options

2009-04-30 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
I was tasked with providing secure remote access for all the users in a 20 person office two years ago when bird flu was all the rage. Budget: $0.00. Requirement: Easy for even dummies. Secure. Solution: existing VPN access through the firewall, using realvnc on windows desktops.

RE: When to retire LTO3 tapes

2009-04-17 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
ve done this on the very cheap and pretty cheap using SATA drives. For the very cheapest, you need a SATA controller that allows hot swap ~$ 40.00. Install a removable drive carriage into an available 5-1/4 drive bay ~$20.00. Schedule your NTbackup to a file location on the disk. Change

RE: RAS appliances

2009-04-17 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
I'm pretty happy with my new Sonicwall SSL 2000 VPN appliance $2000.00. I chose it because I wanted to allow remote access to remote desktop hosts on my network without having to worry too much about the integrity of the remote user's machine. I disabled all the networking on the appliance and

RE: RAS appliances

2009-04-17 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
that could infiltrate your network? On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Bill Songstad (WCUL) administra...@waleague.org wrote: I'm pretty happy with my new Sonicwall SSL 2000 VPN appliance $2000.00. I chose it because I wanted to allow remote access to remote desktop hosts on my network without

RE: Help with Exchange...

2009-04-09 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
This would be a good question for the exchange list at sunbelt. Some of those folks subscribe here too, but not all of them. I wanted to, and have been unable to do what you are asking for years but I have never made a real effort. The access logs trip every time someone makes a meeting request

RE: Pros/Cons of putting PDC/2DC on Virtual Server

2009-03-30 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
m going to throw my opinion in to see if I can get my thinking torn apart as m unsure of the value of the physical boxes. I am in the process of planning the exac�bad pla as the original poster is dealing with. I have three servers built on cheap hardware. Sometimes

RE: Internet cafe setup

2009-03-30 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
Will SteadyState restore to the original disk image? Where I'm going is if a user gets all infected and pwnd during their session, will it get completely restored? Then if so, how does it handle software patches? Bill From: Gavin Wilby [mailto:gavin.wi...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday,

RE: Pros/Cons of putting PDC/2DC on Virtual Server

2009-03-30 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
: Bill Songstad (WCUL) administra...@waleague.org Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:35:33 -0700 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Pros/Cons of putting PDC/2DC on Virtual Server m going to throw my opinion in to see if I can get my thinking torn apart as ��m unsure

RE: Pros/Cons of putting PDC/2DC on Virtual Server

2009-03-30 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
to nothing to have online. What if your SAN had a major issue? John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families Sent to you from my Blackberry in the Cloud From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Mon Mar 30 17:35:33 2009

RE: Pros/Cons of putting PDC/2DC on Virtual Server

2009-03-30 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
Issues Subject: RE: Pros/Cons of putting PDC/2DC on Virtual Server Try bringing up your virtual environment with no authentication or name resolution if your Domain Controller VM goes down and no physical DC. Mike Original Message: - From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) administra

RE: WSUS -- How many Gigs is your server?

2009-03-16 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
I'm constantly hanging out between 30 and 60 gigs. I think the difference between the big ones and the little ones is auto-approving updates and downloading approved updates. I have a couple of machines in a wsus test group that I auto-approve all critical updates. They don't get all the

RE: WSUS -- How many Gigs is your server?

2009-03-16 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
not to use the bandwidth in the first place unless you need it. David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 -Original Message- From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:administra...@waleague.org mailto:administra...@waleague.org

RE: Ifax anyone?

2009-03-12 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
[mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 6:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Ifax anyone? Bill, that's very interesting. What software are you using for fax handling? On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 15:40, Bill Songstad (WCUL) administra...@waleague.org wrote: Depending

RE: Foxit PDF Reader Flaws

2009-03-11 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
That article is in reference to the earlier workaround of disabling JavaScript in Adobe Reader, not the 3/11/09 patch. Bill   -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 8:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Foxit PDF

RE: Password Policy Change

2009-03-04 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
Dear users, After careful consideration, management has decided to adopt expiring passphrases as recommended by our security audit firm (or the federal government or whatever...). Toward that end, all users' network logon passphrases will expire in 30 days regardless of their age at that

RE: Sonicwall SSL 2000 recon

2009-03-03 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
Thanks everyone. It looks like I'll take the plunge. I was concerned that the remote desktop was buggy, but it seems that everyone is happy with its function. Do the users log in one time with their Active Directory credentials? Or do they log in to the appliance with one set of

Sonicwall SSL 2000 recon

2009-03-02 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
I'm looking at the Sonicwall SSL 2000 http://www.sonicwall.com/us/products/510.html as a clientless VPN to access remote desktop on our WinXP Pro desktops. I've heard a number of things all over the board about Sonicwall as a company, but does anyone have experience with this product in

RE: 0-Day Excel

2009-02-25 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/968272.mspx Bill From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 8:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: 0-Day Excel Wow, I hadn't heard of this via my regular channels (SANS, patch mgmt mailing

RE: Sony Laptop automagically sending emails and opening documents

2009-02-20 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
I've had a cell phone cause interference with a peripheral input device that caused the cursor to do all sorts of crazy things for a few minutes. Might check to see if you are getting interference from another electronic device. Bill From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.org]

RE: One time FREE screen sharing software?

2009-01-21 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
I've been using skyfex http://skyfex.com. You don't host the server though. The client installs the activeX applet and gets a session code from the server. You use the session code to connect to their PC. For free you get 30 minutes of watching and 5 minutes of remote control. If you need more

RE: locating phish domains

2008-12-12 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
Google? Google supports use of the syntax inurl:joesfinancial - it may support wildcards 2008/12/11 Bill Songstad (WCUL) administra...@waleague.org Does anyone know of a tool or website that allows you to submit a search for domains with wildcards. I have a colleague that has some phishing sites

locating phish domains

2008-12-11 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
Does anyone know of a tool or website that allows you to submit a search for domains with wildcards. I have a colleague that has some phishing sites popping up using related domain names. I was hoping to do some DNS queries to try and spot some other potential phish sites. Does anyone know a

RE: GFI LANGuard Vs Security Company

2008-12-02 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
? http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/Sunbelt-Network-Security-Inspect or/ Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 7:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject

RE: Useful tool for people who ask dumb questions

2008-11-26 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
That made my day! I wanted to let them know how much I appreciated their site, so I clicked the contact button. If you like the site, you'll like the contact feature too. Bill From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 11:45 AM To: NT

RE: Odd Redirects

2008-11-04 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
See if your Marketing, PR and Compliance officers have a problem with something like this: Dear member, Thank you for contacting Credit Union with this matter. As you probably know, any unusual activity associated with a financial institution website could be a serious matter and should be

RE: Firewall Recommendation

2008-10-31 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
Also using Watchguard. Very easy to use. Mostly. You can try to bend it to your will and it will give you resistance, but if you don't try to use it in a way the developer never imagined, it is easy to set up and modify. The support is out of India and the accents can be thick. I've had three

RE: firewall lifespan

2008-10-13 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
think of us having a single hardware failure in the last 3-4 years. From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 October 2008 20:03 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: firewall lifespan I have a perfectly functional firewall. A pretty red Watchguard X 500 Core. I've been

RE: Server/network device monitor software suggestions?

2008-10-13 Thread Bill Songstad (WCUL)
Though I don't use it for the event log alerts, I think it does scan logs, I've been pretty happy with the things I can get done considering the price. I originally purchased it just to ping my website but it has a lot of other tests built in. http://www.ks-soft.net/hostmon.eng/index.htm

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