RE: IP KVM

I have the -2 Dell's you mentioned. They work well and have http as well as the Dell application. They also have extenders that allow you to turn a single port into 8 ports.If I had to change for some reason and couldn't get the Dell, I would look at that Avocent. I have used those before

RE: Please be assisting in selection

I like the cinnamon flavored round ones. Make sure to get them from a reputable vendor because you don't want to get refurbished ones. The refurbs don't hold up as well as OEM. BF From: Amit Hanji [mailto:amit.ha...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 3:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issu

RE: MSI deployment software

Recently I needed to remotely deploy a small software package. The vendor did not support GPO because there was a special license code that had to be entered. It did, however, support command line. I was using PSExec and a small batch that I wrote to map a drive, copy the needed files, run the

RE: HP P1102

sheets in the feed for a primary, high use network printer. Seen too many fusing rollers gunked up from poor quality labels that came apart inside the printer. So I'm all for using dedicated label printing lasers. On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Bob Fronk mailto:b...@btrfronk.com>&g

RE: HP P1102

I consider any printer that will sit on a user's desk as disposable. (Less any tiny manufactures warranty). I am pretty anti-personal printer, but sometimes there have been valid arguments to the contrary. (Valid to the person arguing for the printer anyway.). We have had decent luck with mo

RE: Windows 2008 R2 Clustering, and SQL 2008

I have only setup a few clusters, but really the 2008R2 was pretty hard to screw up, even for me. I thought I had some other links, but this one is the only one I can find right this second. It was helpful. IIRC Michael Smith also provided some help via this list. (Thanks again) http://www.

RE: HP P1102

FTFY BF From: Mike Sullivan [mailto:neog...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 10:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ANY HP PRINTER It even looks like a use once then toss model. Thanks for the heads up. On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Jonathan Link mailto:jonathan.l...@gm

RE: Dell battery replacement still giving warning

Aldrich, You are missing the point. The point isn't the keyboard. It is a pattern of behavior that most everyone here can see. There are many VERY smart, VERY experienced and VERY high paid individuals on this list, offering you (and others) free advice. Advice that could cost hundreds or t

RE: VOIP issues

I would change to a higher quality switch and establish QOS. A 12 port Cisco 3650 is not terribly expensive and the "Auto QOS VOIP" is pretty easy to do and will work with non-cisco devices as long as you use the correct command. Once the call leaves your network, you basically have no control,

RE: Windows 7/2008R2 SP1 available

Installed in less than 25 minutes on my laptop. (Dell M6400, Quad Core, 16GB RAM, 500GB SSD Drive) BF From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 3:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7/2008R2 SP1 available Agree. Made my beefy desktop

RE: File Copier with GUI?

Use RichCopy all the time. Seems to work well. BF -Original Message- From: Rubens Almeida [mailto:rubensalme...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 2:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: File Copier with GUI? Has anyone tried RichCopy? They say it's like a graphical in

RE: widescreen vs "standard" monitors

I have three 27” monitors for my workstation. I am not sure how I could live without them! BF From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 12:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: widescreen vs "standard" monitors Yep, overkill … I have a 30” LCD TV/M

RE: How do you deploy AV?

How does the licensing costs of FCS compare to Vipre, do you know? BF From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 10:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How do you deploy AV? ditto From: John Hornbuckle [john.h

RE: IE9 RC released

oved it as well. IE7 turned ClearType on so it's been on by default for a few years now. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Bob Fronk mailto:b...@btrfronk.com>> wrote: Seems IE9 turns on ClearType with no way to turn it off. ClearType is a stupid idea a

RE: IE9 RC released

011 at 10:31 AM, Bob Fronk mailto:b...@btrfronk.com>> wrote: Seems IE9 turns on ClearType with no way to turn it off. ClearType is a stupid idea and I don't understand why MS keeps forcing it on us. BF From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com<mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com>]

RE: IE9 RC released

Seems IE9 turns on ClearType with no way to turn it off. ClearType is a stupid idea and I don't understand why MS keeps forcing it on us. BF From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 1:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IE9 RC released Firefox ha

RE: OT: desktop network switches

This has bailed me out in many occasions, especially when running more cable is not possible. It mounts in the place of the network jack. If you have POE, even better as no wall wart is needed. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833316214&nm_mc=OTC-Froogle&cm_mmc=OTC-Froogle

RE: VPN problems

System Restore to the last point it worked? BF -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 11:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VPN problems Thanks, Bill. That's what I'm thinking, but I don't know of anythin

RE: [OT] Job Change

Congratulations. Good Luck! BF -Original Message- From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 11:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [OT] Job Change Hi everyone, This will be my last post from this email address, however I've sub

Windows 7 USB Transfer Speed

I have tested 4 Windows 7 computers with an external USB hard drive (7200rpm 512GB Hitachi 2.5"). The transfer speeds are miserable at 5 to 10mb per second. Transfer speeds to high performance USB flash drives are very slow as well. On the SAME PC with XP installed, the speeds are almost 6X a

RE: Web filter?

iPrism with mobile client. BF From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:ithelp.e...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 11:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Web filter? Greetings, We're looking to deploy PCs at several locations that are to be used strictly for access to a couple of our website

RE: Internet browsing reporting?

+! iPrism It also has a new mobile client that reports and blocks without proxy. It is working really well for us. BF From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 2:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Internet browsing reporting?

RE: So...our data centre is under water

If there is something you don't have a backup of, don't throw out your drives. Data can be recovered from drowned drives. I sent one to a recovery company a few years back. I cannot recall the name, but they were able to get 90% of the data back. Best of luck to you. From: James Hill [mailt

RE: RE: Backing up an important file every X minutes?

ersioning built into it. On Jan 14, 2011 10:05 AM, "Bob Fronk" mailto:b...@btrfronk.com>> wrote: > Second Copy will do this. Also will run as a service. > > BF > > > > Bob Fronk > b...@btrfronk.com<mailto:b...@btrfronk.com><mailto:b...@btrfro

RE: Backing up an important file every X minutes?

Second Copy will do this. Also will run as a service. BF Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.com<mailto:b...@btrfronk.com> From: Ben Schorr [mailto:b...@rolandschorr.com] Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 9:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backing up an important file every X m

RE: HDD Dock (USB or eSATA)

I use the Thermaltake BlackXDuet. Esata and USB. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153112 BF From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 1:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: HDD Dock (USB or eSATA) Indeed, one of the

RE: OT: Cell phone device manager

ile device manager? I have very little experience of it however, just a quick guess Typed frustratingly slowly on my BlackBerry(r) wireless device ____ From: Bob Fronk Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:42:51 -0500 To: NT System Admin Issues ReplyTo: "NT System Admin I

OT: Cell phone device manager

Hello list. I am responsible for managing over 700 cell phones, Blackberries, Data cards, etc. Currently we use an Excel spreadsheet to manage all the related info such as phone number, device ESN, device type, etc. I also would like to be able to create various reports based off this data.

OT: XBOX Live and ASA

So, my son has two Xbox 360s and two TVs in his "Man Cave". His friends bring their hard drives over and they play COD on Xbox Live. I have a business cable connection with 13 public IPs available. I use a Cisco ASA for firewall and VPN to work. I have set public addresses via NAT to each Xb

RE: Excel personal.xls to xlsb conversion

: Thursday, December 09, 2010 5:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Excel personal.xls to xlsb conversion You cant do that to a personal.xls file, it _only_ opens in the dev environment... From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 2:47 PM To: NT System Ad

RE: Excel personal.xls to xlsb conversion

Open .xls and SaveAs .xlsb? From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 2:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Excel personal.xls to xlsb conversion I have a user with a personal.xls with several hundred macros, so far the only way I can fin

RE: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you?

Put up the pole and get ready for the feats of strength! BF From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 3:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Office decorations - Are they allowed for you? Celebrate whatever holiday you want. Get enough people behi

RE: NEW "HALLMARK POST CARD" VIRUS

And Bill Gates will give you a dollar if you forward it to everyone. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 11:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: NEW "HALLMARK POST CARD" VIRUS Yes, they did! On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Jim Holmgr

RE: Need Volume License Reseller

+1 CDW NEGATIVE 1 million - PC Mall. From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 4:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Need Volume License Reseller I've had good success with CDW (Drew Klos) and TLIC (Matt Biben). Roger Wright ___ Life isn't like a

RE: PC Memory

I have a box of literally hundreds of various memory modules. Not sure why I keep them, half of them have no markings. From: Bob Hartung [mailto:bhart...@wiscoind.com] Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 9:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PC Memory That's my situation as well. I can r

RE: Recommendations for cheap and cheerful virtual server

jra...@eaglemds.com> www.eaglemds.comhttp://www.eaglemds.com/> ________ From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 11:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Recommendations for cheap and cheerful virtual server I just bought 4 -

RE: Recommendations for cheap and cheerful virtual server

I just bought 4 - notebook 512GB SSDs. If that was cheap, I hate to see what is expensive! From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 11:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Recommendations for cheap and cheerful virtual server How do

RE: Recommendations for cheap and cheerful virtual server

I surf the Dell Outlet for "test / training" servers. (and sometimes production). You can find great deals on occasion. You have to check several times a day because the inventory constantly changes. BF From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 4:40

RE: Open Source/Free analog of Crystal Reports ?

Are you looking just to open existing crystal reports, or actually create or edit them? From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 3:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Open Source/Free analog of Crystal Reports ? Just wondering if anyone uses or kno

RE: Remote Desktop slowing down

Excessive items in the inbox will certainly cause Outlook to be sluggish, although I have not seen Outlook 2010 exhibit this as bad as previous versions. Are these Outlook clients cached? Another thing to look at on a 2003 server with slow networking is the TCP chimney issue from a couple year

RE: Barracuda VoIP (Cudatel)

I have not used the VOIP product, but do have several other Barracuda products. I have to say that their support is very good. I have not had to use support much, but the few times I have, they have been very responsive and knowledgeable. BF From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com]

RE: SQL Query question

e size of the data). However a 4x increase does > seem very large. CheersKen From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] > Sent: Wednesday, 20 October 2010 12:07 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: SQL Query question Recreating the previous environment > isn't possible du

RE: Outlook 2000 strangeness

http://www.bing.com/search?q=outlook+2000+outbox&src=IE-SearchBox&FORM=IE8SRC -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 1:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Outlook 2000 strangeness Ok, some of you may recall I

RE: SQL Query question

run before/after and what data sets are being returned. Cheers Ken From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Tuesday, 19 October 2010 11:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SQL Query question Good morning list! I am by no means a SQL expert and especially not a query expert. However

SQL Query question

Good morning list! I am by no means a SQL expert and especially not a query expert. However, I have been asked to review a problem that I believe has something to do with changing from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008R2. Brief background: The accounting system is industry specific and backend is SQL. Re

RE: Hard Drive Recovery

hrough the electronics ? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 12:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hard Drive Recovery I n

RE: Hard Drive Recovery

ckups are best, but I've saved my life with SpinRite a few times before. This is a better "disk recovery" program, there are file recovery programs that might be better if all you want is a specific file or files. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message -

RE: Hard Drive Recovery

;s always a possibility that trying this "at home" could make the problem worse to the point that the pros can't do anything with it either. From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 11:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hard Drive Reco

Hard Drive Recovery

I need to try and recover a corrupt drive. Is Ontrack EasyRecovery still the tool of choice on the list? Any other suggestions? (I pulled the drive and put it in an external housing. The drive registers as a drive, but shows no contents. It was not formatted. The PC had a BSOD, then would

RE: OT: Photo catalog software

/matching, which opens up a whole new world of automatically sorting photos. But, as far as categorization being based off of meta data, well, no. But you can tag the crap out of your pictures. -- ME2 On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Bob Fronk mailto:b...@btrfronk.com>> wrote: Today while l

OT: Photo catalog software

Today while looking for an old digital picture, I realized that simple folders and subfolders just does not work when trying to keep up with personal pictures. Anyone use a good software that categorizes the pictures based off metadata and allows editing of subject, ect? Thanks, BF ~ Finally,

RE: IE9 beta

Yes, and it has somehow turned on ClearType and I can't turn it off Made all 3 of my monitors look blurry. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 5:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: IE9 beta Am I the only

RE: OT: Password sharing policy

I like that It may become the entire new policy. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 8:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Password sharing policy On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Bob Fronk wrote: > I

OT: Password sharing policy

Good morning list I am interested in seeing any written "password sharing" policies you have in place. It seems ours is written in Latin, since no one seems to understand it. I am going to draft a new policy, but would like to see how others handle this and get opinions from the list on ho

RE: Networked camera

Find a local, reputable security/alarm company and get a properly designed and installed system. I also second the post suggesting you see a copy of the law/requirement. Without it you can't be sure of need or compliance. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday

RE: MD3200i / VSphere

I have several MD3000i. Each management port has its own IP for redundant management. Each iScsi controller has two ports, again, for redundancy. You can change any of these IPs via the Dell software. I do not know if they can be bonded to increase throughput. I suggest contacting Dell supp

RE: Sunbelt's Archiver vs. others

Are you using Journaling or SEA Direct Archive? From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Sunbelt's Archiver vs. others I'm using SEA but have no experience with others, I have 225 mailboxes and need to add abo

RE: Physical to Virtual backup

al to Virtual backup Look at Shadowprotect from Storagecraft. I think they do something like that. Jay Dale Senior Systems Administrator o:713.785.0960 x290 From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 8:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Physical to Virtual b

Physical to Virtual backup

Good morning list members! I have a physical server running a 3rd party accounting package. The vendor does NOT support their product in a virtual environment or in a cluster at this time. I am certain it would run fine in a VM, but due to our support agreement, I must continue to run it on a

RE: OT- iTunes File Import & Sync

There is also a program called "CopyTrans" that will copy the info off the iPod onto a PC. I have used this a few times to help people who lost a hard drive and all their music. -Original Message- From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 2:02 PM To: NT

RE: ATT outage 07/09/10?

Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Maglinger, Paul mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com>> wrote: Good in Indiana. From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com<mailto:b...@btrfronk.com>] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 8:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: ATT outage 07/09/10? Anyone else seein

OT: ATT outage 07/09/10?

Anyone else seeing cell phone / data issues with ATT wireless today? We are located in KY and have had several reports of no service and/or no data. Also complaints from users in TN. ATT rep says no known issues. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: SQL 2008 R2 Failover Clustering

Yeah... It does? Yeah It doesn't? -- Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.com From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 6:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SQL 2008 R2 Failover Clustering Yeah Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com<m

RE: SQL 2008 R2 Failover Clustering

I thought I read that SQL2K8 R2 didn't need the MSDTC. If it still does, do I just set it up as a clustered service? -- Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.com From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 5:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SQL 20

SQL 2008 R2 Failover Clustering

This is my first journey into SQL clustering. I have setup several stand-alone SQL servers, but none are clustered, mirrored, etc. I am setting up the SQL backend to what will be a SharePoint Farm. To this point, there are two hardware identical servers (W2K8 Ent R2 64bit) configured with exte

Single Live Comm Server 2005 upgrade to OCS 2007

rvers with different roles? -- Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~

RE: Spelling error on license?

If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. I don't have a copy of a CAL like that, but I did a few searches for "misspellings on valid CALS", etc, nothing came up. > -Original Message- > From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 4:12 PM > To: N

RE: OT, vintage memories

Issues Subject: RE: OT, vintage memories Even better was when they we're phasing out Regular gas. I had a 1970 Firebird and remember paying $.40-45 per gallon for my Junior year in High School. From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 11:53 AM To: NT System

RE: OT, vintage memories

Yep.. Remember all of it. Except gas was about $0.75 when I started driving. From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 2:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT, vintage memories For those of us who are "vintage", a fun link http://www.webmarketin

RE: SharePoint - SQL Backend setup

PM to backup SharePoint? In which case the DB backup LUN is not required. DPM will backup SQL Server DBs and index the content via the SharePoint WFE. Cheers Ken From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Friday, 14 May 2010 9:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SharePoint - SQL Backend

RE: SharePoint - SQL Backend setup

ineering XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201 410.625.2200 (main) 443.524.8573 (direct) 443-506.2400 (cell) www.xlhealth.com<http://www.xlhealth.com> From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 9

RE: SharePoint - SQL Backend setup

in) 443.524.8573 (direct) 443-506.2400 (cell) www.xlhealth.com<http://www.xlhealth.com> From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 9:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SharePoint - SQL Backend setup I am designing my SQL server for a SharePoint farm.

SharePoint - SQL Backend setup

I am designing my SQL server for a SharePoint farm. I have an iSCSI array with 15 - 420GB SAS drives. I want to use the array to house the transaction logs, database and backups. My thought is to use two drives in a RAID1 for the transaction logs (420GB), Three drives in a RAID5 for the DB Ba

Web Filter mobile users

Good morning! Currently we use an iPrism device and set IE to proxy to the iPrism for mobile users. This works well when they are at home or "free" wifi. However, in many instances the users are at hotels that require you to log in to their local web page first. The IE proxy does not allow t

RE: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise?

Not even in my worst nightmare! From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 2:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone leaving their current AV and returning back to Symantec enterprise? No way! Symantec is still a system hog and does not catch early w

RE: Webster is now employed

Great news! We have offices in Nashville and Chattanooga. Next time I have an emergency, I know who to call! BF From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 10:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Webster is now employed Webster is now employed by LPS Inte

OT: Anyone looking for a Small Business customer in Tulsa, OK?

out of the loop after providing information and introductions. Shoot me an email off list if interested. -- Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~

RE: Mobile Printer/Scanner

This was a mobile printer/scanner? Model? -- Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.com From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 9:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mobile Printer/Scanner We used only Fujitsu scanners at my last company. We worked them

OT: Mobile Printer/Scanner

I need to purchase several mobile printer/scanners to install in some pickup trucks. My past experience with a Canon and HP unit were less than impressive. I am interested in ideas and suggested models from the group. Thanks. BF ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog

Certenroll folder permissions

Somehow our CA got hosed. The only changes recently are MS updates. The last certificate was issued on 3/9/2010, so it was working at that point. Anyway... I am trying to get it working again. At this point, one of the problems is that permissions on the c:\windows\system32\CertSrv\certenrol

RE: VIPRE 4 - bad updated installer (4275)

Hmmm... Maybe. I will have to look. We took the opportunity to reload them with Windows 7, so all wasn't lost. But it did cause some problems and I have turned off auto-deployment for now. -- Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.com From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday,

RE: VIPRE 4 - bad updated installer (4275)

What was happening to you? We had 3 PCs get hosed by a Vipre upgrade from 3 to 4. Windows XP. PC would boot, then pop a service error and shut down. -- Bob Fronk b...@btrfronk.com From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 10:06 AM To: NT

RE: Cisco x64 IPSec Client

Thanks for letting us know. AnyConnect gets blocked at some hotels my employees stay at. I am not sure what the issue is, but my guess is old wireless APs that can't pass the SSL traffic. The IPSec client is good news with our current rate of new PCs with Windows 7 64 bit. BF From: Rohyans,

RE: Password protect a folder

the box is not on the network, you already know the users. If I remember correctly, Deny over-rides all other access settings. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com<mailto:tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com>

RE: Password protect a folder

then they won't try to access it, kind of negating the need for a password. On 2 March 2010 16:38, Bob Fronk mailto:b...@btrfronk.com>> wrote: I have been requested to password protect a folder. Is there a way to do this beyond a third party add-on? (Not NTFS permissions, but pass

Password protect a folder

I have been requested to password protect a folder. Is there a way to do this beyond a third party add-on? (Not NTFS permissions, but password protect a folder, even beyond NTFS permissions) ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: CISCO VPN Client

How did you discover this was happening? From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 1:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: CISCO VPN Client Ok. I am looking at that area under Remote VPN in Configuration and someone has my VPN Client info and t

RE: Any Recommendations For Symantec Enterprise Protection Suite

Per your subject line... My recommendation is: Find another product. Moved away from Symantec going on two years ago. Some users thought we gave them new computers after removing Symantec EndPoint. From: Nitsan Reznik [mailto:nit...@stggroup.co.il] Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 6:55 AM To: N

RE: Windows 7 Search Indexer

Subject: Re: Windows 7 Search Indexer Wild, crazy shot in the dark... Is Outlook not running in cached mode? Just a thought because two of my favorite things about 7 are how well it indexes my Outlook mailbox and how unobtrusive the process is. On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Bob Fronk mailto:b

RE: Reality check

We also have a program that has to be logged in to run. Not only does it need to have a user logged in, it won't auto-start. I have it in "start-up" but it still takes manual intervention. It is maddening. -Original Message- From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:bem...@pittcountync.gov] Sent: Thu

RE: Windows 7 Search Indexer

work and do not see that issue on either one. From: Bob Fronk [...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 7:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 7 Search Indexer I have two Windows 7 laptops (work / home). On each of them the search indexer

Windows 7 Search Indexer

I have two Windows 7 laptops (work / home). On each of them the search indexer runs a constant 5-15% CPU. Enough to keep the cooling fans on constantly. Sometimes I will notice slow IE browsing or program opening. Of course, I can disable the search service, and the issue goes away, but then

RE: Required Certs = Study Time at Work?

min Issues Subject: Re: Required Certs = Study Time at Work? I couldn't agree more. I just don't believe that it's a terribly widespread opinion. But on that copter thing, if there's any traction there... On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Bob Fronk wrote: > Employee develo

RE: Required Certs = Study Time at Work?

having the foresight (and discretionary budget authority) to invest in worthy employees. It's nice to see these days. RS On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Bob Fronk wrote: > Lexington, KY.  www.davishelliot.com > > No openings at present, but if I have any in the future, I will

RE: Required Certs = Study Time at Work?

Sound region. I've got a decent job currently, but the conditions in your business sound nearly ideal. Kurt On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 18:31, Bob Fronk wrote: > Lexington, KY.  www.davishelliot.com > > No openings at present, but if I have any in the future, I will post

RE: Required Certs = Study Time at Work?

= Study Time at Work? Where are you located, and do you have any job openings? On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 17:29, Bob Fronk wrote: > I allow my people to use their work time for study, but they still have to > keep up with job duties.  They are also given spare PCs, network switches, > router

RE: Required Certs = Study Time at Work?

. On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Bob Fronk wrote: > I allow my people to use their work time for study, but they still have to > keep up with job duties.  They are also given spare PCs, network switches, > routers, etc to perform tests and experiments while at work.  We also have a &

RE: Required Certs = Study Time at Work?

I allow my people to use their work time for study, but they still have to keep up with job duties. They are also given spare PCs, network switches, routers, etc to perform tests and experiments while at work. We also have a separate Internet connection for testing, etc. I pay for the first t

RE: Phone Equipment Buyer/Reseller?

Just hope you don't get on their call list. They will call you more than PCMall. From: Orland, Kathleen [mailto:korl...@rogers.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 12:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Phone Equipment Buyer/Reseller? +1 - Original Message - From: Walker, Mi

RE: Windows Update failure

Something similar recently happened to me on my home SBS2008 server. I removed WSUS and reinstalled. Don't know if that is the "proper" way to fix, but it worked for me. Also, I had an issue because I disabled IPV6 on the NIC. I re-enabled it which fixed the issue. However, I can't recall e

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