RE: mail server DR ?

2009-10-13 Thread Charlie Kaiser
When we lay out similar scenarios and costs for our clients (especially the smaller ones), it's funny how their recovery window changes from minutes to weeks... LOL... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message

RE: mail server DR ?

2009-10-13 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Yep. We pitch it, but if they're not willing to spend the money, we won't spend the time... :-) We usually let them chew on it for a bit and provide them with some more realistic scenarios given what we know to be their expense comfort... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden

RE: mail server DR ?

2009-10-13 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Or print out all the emails in the store... :-) *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin

RE: test...sorry..

2009-10-13 Thread Charlie Kaiser
If she hadn't hit that guy on the sidewalk in the face with it, she wouldn't have gotten the ticket... :-) *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent

RE: test...sorry..

2009-10-13 Thread Charlie Kaiser
of the object. Therefore, the point of impact will not change significantly in a forward direction, only in a lateral one. This all assumes the side window is down when the apple is thrown... :-) *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ

RE: SSL Cert and IIS 6.0??

2009-09-25 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Godaddy has pretty good tutorials. Here's a link... http://help.godaddy.com/article/5346 *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Friday, September

RE: free data recovery?

2009-09-25 Thread Charlie Kaiser
I tried spinrite on a disk I had and it wouldn't read it. They were really good about a refund. I then went with Stellar Phoenix data recovery. It got pretty much everything back. I was impressed. Similar cost... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ

RE: PSExec starting stopping

2009-09-22 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Might be a scheduled task somewhere... A sniff might be in order... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 9:47 AM

RE: MS Excel 2003 Security Issue

2009-09-22 Thread Charlie Kaiser
and is non-intuitive, it might be worth a try. *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Robert Jackson [mailto:r...@walkermartyn.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 2:36 AM To: NT System Admin

RE: MS Excel 2003 Security Issue

2009-09-18 Thread Charlie Kaiser
it as well... HTH... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Robert Jackson [mailto:r...@walkermartyn.co.uk] Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 4:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: MS Excel 2003

RE: Window 7 64-bit and Indexing PDF files

2009-09-17 Thread Charlie Kaiser
only needs to know about these things mentality, but on a server? At least give me an admin search that looks at every file... Grrr. /rant *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Bryan Garmon

RE: Window 7 64-bit and Indexing PDF files

2009-09-17 Thread Charlie Kaiser
was there for years. Its removal is what bugged me... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 6:44 AM To: NT System Admin

RE: Window 7 64-bit and Indexing PDF files

2009-09-17 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Try searching for strings in a folder containing .ASP files... Even better; copy a file from .txt to .asp and search. See what you find... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare

RE: Abandoning Cisco

2009-09-16 Thread Charlie Kaiser
, strange things can happen... :-) The ASA is no more complex than a PIX, IMO. *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: mqcarp [mailto:mqcarpen...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 1:58

RE: Anyone using PGP encryption?

2009-09-15 Thread Charlie Kaiser
the laptops rather than the users, it wasn't an issue for us... We used the linux-based management console. Ran it in a VM with no issues. Feel free to ask any specific questions you have about it. *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ

RE: Disable F keys

2009-09-11 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Take away the computers and make them read books or do hard labor... It's prison fergawd's sake... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday

RE: [OT] Managing Geeks

2009-09-11 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Good article. You work for a bank. I've done a bunch of the same. We could probably tell some of the same horror stories... :-) Thanks for the link... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Mike

RE: Remote desktop changed?

2009-09-04 Thread Charlie Kaiser
I had one like that yesterday. I was RDP'd to an XP machine and the user on the console was able to watch what I was doing. Have not looked into why, but it sure was convenient... :-) Remote machine is XPSP3... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ

RE: Remote desktop changed?

2009-09-04 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Nope. I just tested it here, and RDP to a test machine locks the console, and unlocking the console closes the RDP session. But that's not what happened to the other machine yesterday... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ

RE: Cisco VPN Client Weirdness

2009-09-03 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Once you connect the VPN, can you access any local or non-vpn resources? Like go to google.com? Is windows firewall running? What does the VPN log show? Anything of interest? *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original

RE: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Domain machines? Is there connectivity to the DCs? All the users? Or just some of them? Any event log errors? Do the old profiles still exist in documents and settings? What changed? You mention WU; which ones were applied? All successful? Any errors/failures? *** Charlie

RE: OT: Our profession has been exposed

2009-08-27 Thread Charlie Kaiser
business. That's why we end up with things like that sysadmin flowchart. There's an art and skill to methodical diagnosis that differentiates the artisans from the parts changers... There's also an art in knowing when to wipe and when to troubleshoot... :-) *** Charlie Kaiser charl

RE: OT: Our profession has been exposed

2009-08-27 Thread Charlie Kaiser
infestations. Now, if it's a sysadmin that's gotten nailed, we have the right to razz them about it... :-) *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent

RE: OT: Our profession has been exposed

2009-08-27 Thread Charlie Kaiser
efficient? If you don't KNOW the root cause for requiring a wipe/rebuild, IMO you've got the potential for spending a lot more time in the end... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Ray [mailto:rz

RE: OT: Our profession has been exposed

2009-08-27 Thread Charlie Kaiser
hire someone with strong troubleshooting skills way faster than someone who's fast at imaging and deployment. *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:jmajorow...@gmail.com] Sent

RE: OT: Our profession has been exposed

2009-08-27 Thread Charlie Kaiser
I probably wasn't clear enough; Tech B found the root cause (specific update that hosed a DLL)... That's always been my troubleshooting focus. Find the root cause... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message

Websense vs. Barracuda

2009-08-27 Thread Charlie Kaiser
to configure two devices each time I needed to make a change While I haven't fleshed out all the costs, it's looking like the barracuda comes out a bit ahead on price, which is a factor. Anyone used both? Thoughts on one or the other? Thanks! *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden

RE: Computer going offline need advice

2009-08-20 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Have you tried saving as a different format within MM? Can you reproduce the issue using any other app? *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent

RE: Help with /regserver

2009-08-18 Thread Charlie Kaiser
to modify the security on (or point to their app and say it's broke). *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 7:46 AM To: NT

RE: Help with /regserver

2009-08-18 Thread Charlie Kaiser
It's got pretty good search and filter features. I've waded through hundreds of thousands of lines in a very short time with well-formed queries... Somewhere in there, regsvr is launching something and doing something else. You'll find it... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden

RE: A bit OT: Need a linux package...

2009-08-14 Thread Charlie Kaiser
better info than just packet data... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 4:44 AM To: NT System Admin

RE: DHCP scope usage alert vbs, without MOM

2009-07-30 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Is it 2008? If so, you can attach a task to the event via the eventvwr interface; if it's 2003, you can use eventtriggers to do it. It's self-explanatory in 08; here's a good article about 03... http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/Logon/VBScript/eventtriggers.htm *** Charlie

RE: OTish: daydreaming

2009-07-30 Thread Charlie Kaiser
IIRC, Websense allows for a customized block page. You'd probably need to do some scripting to monitor cookies or something to fulfill the 'new domain' part... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From

RE: The remote connection has timed out.

2009-07-28 Thread Charlie Kaiser
... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Pierre Camilleri [mailto:pierre.camill...@fosterclark.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 6:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: The remote connection has timed

RE: Lost only domain controller

2009-07-24 Thread Charlie Kaiser
With that amount, especially the servers, restore rather than rebuild. Wy easier... Fix it later... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Friday

RE: Managed Services

2009-07-23 Thread Charlie Kaiser
... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Adam Greene [mailto:maill...@webjogger.net] Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 6:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Managed Services Yeah, I suspect there are a lot

RE: Ubuntu and FTP

2009-07-23 Thread Charlie Kaiser
CuteFTP... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 7:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Ubuntu and FTP Does

RE: DHCP and multiple Subnets; Multiple DHCP server or DHCP-Relays?

2009-07-23 Thread Charlie Kaiser
to subnet. This is a common scenario. Putting in DHCP is worth the effort. It will drastically reduce your day-to-day IP address maintenance. *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross

RE: DHCP and multiple Subnets; Multiple DHCP server or DHCP-Relays?

2009-07-23 Thread Charlie Kaiser
to prevent the unauthorized machines from getting on the network if they know the subnet... Give themselves a static IP and they're in... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross

RE: List Statistics -

2009-07-21 Thread Charlie Kaiser
into making it that way... One of IT's big triumphs... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 9:38 AM To: NT System

RE: Presentation Laptop recommendations

2009-07-21 Thread Charlie Kaiser
I've always been partial to the thinkpads... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:administra...@waleague.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 10:31 AM To: NT System

Client info secure storage recommendations

2009-07-21 Thread Charlie Kaiser
of software I'd call it. I'd think we could set up something like this in sharepoint, but not being a sharepoint guru, I'm not sure which way to go with it.. TIA... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint

RE: Any WebSense Gurus?

2009-07-17 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Any chance the WS server isn't getting good info from DNS? Pointing to the wrong DNS server, etc? Does a DNS query from that server return all the correct records? How about an LDAP query from the server independent of WS? Does that return all the correct info? *** Charlie

RE: Security by obscurity?

2009-07-17 Thread Charlie Kaiser
What's Ed Crowley's line; There are no technical solutions to behavioral problems? Or something like that... :-) *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent

RE: 800B0100 error on W2K8

2009-07-10 Thread Charlie Kaiser
: Package_for_KB948610~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.0.6001.2123. hr: 0x800b0100 Have not figured out a way to roll this back yet... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille

RE: 800B0100 error on W2K8

2009-07-10 Thread Charlie Kaiser
normally. *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu] Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 7:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: 800B0100 error

RE: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain

2009-07-08 Thread Charlie Kaiser
last names. :-) I also work for large financials and yes, it would be significantly different in such a case. I think it's important to put in perspective what type of data one might be dealing with in this type of situation. *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org

RE: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain

2009-07-08 Thread Charlie Kaiser
of appropriate security, and my systems/infrastructure design incorporates it from the start. But there's a limit to how secure a small business wants and/or needs to be. Or can afford to be... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ

800B0100 error on W2K8

2009-07-08 Thread Charlie Kaiser
found. Posted to the MS newsgroups with no replies yet. Anyone got any ideas? Thanks. *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business

RE: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain

2009-07-08 Thread Charlie Kaiser
to it... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Jeremy Anderson [mailto:jer...@mapiadmin.net] Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 5:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win2003 DC on Win2000

RE: GPO's and remote servers

2009-07-02 Thread Charlie Kaiser
And don't forget his beautiful twin Cessna. But only a another pilot would say that. LOL. You can still watch all the Sky King episodes on the web. http://www.americanflyers.net/entertainment/skyking.asp *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ

RE: Terminal Services question

2009-07-01 Thread Charlie Kaiser
requirements. If you work the VPN right, you can allow only approved computers to connect, if that's your desire. *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent

RE: External hard drive for home LAN

2009-07-01 Thread Charlie Kaiser
+1 on the terastation. *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Jon B. Lewis [mailto:j...@myriadds.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 11:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: External

RE: Terminal Services question

2009-07-01 Thread Charlie Kaiser
to mitigate those risks. I shouldn't have to write a book here on how to set up a reasonably secure VPN solution... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com

RE: Terminal Services question

2009-07-01 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Of course, Passw0rd! Is a strong password by MS standards, too. Take a guess how long THAT one will take to crack... :-) I don't think strong passwords are enough... Better, but not enough... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ

RE: Terminal Services question

2009-07-01 Thread Charlie Kaiser
and then there's STRONG. :-) I've gone so far as to set some people's passwords to an MS license key with a 1 mistake lockout and 12 hour reset when they've been really bad... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message

RE: Terminal Services question

2009-07-01 Thread Charlie Kaiser
For me it's the opposite. I only allow approved machines/users to get remote access of any kind. No POE at all unless approved at C level... It's all in how you define your criteria, I guess. *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ

RE: Terminal Services question

2009-07-01 Thread Charlie Kaiser
No, but we live for the day we can smugly say I told you so. LOL... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 2:08 PM To: NT

RE: Slow network - cause?

2009-06-30 Thread Charlie Kaiser
tool? Put wireshark on a local device out there and start looking at the traffic. *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 30

RE: Windows KMS Server + Windows 7 RC - any tricks to make activation work?

2009-06-26 Thread Charlie Kaiser
in a heartbeat. It was basically a networking/DNS type of thing rather than an actual activation issue. Not sure if that will help with yours, but it might be worth a look... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message

RE: Confused a bit re: sbs.

2009-06-26 Thread Charlie Kaiser
you have other servers) takes some learning. It can often be best to set it up in an isolated network that has internet access, then move it to your production location. You need to rerun some wizards but they handle the change gracefully. *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden

RE: Google Mail

2009-06-24 Thread Charlie Kaiser
for what were they thinking reasons. We want a faster, more secure OS but don't break backward compatibility for our apps! I don't envy the job of the person who needs to make those decisions... One person's feature is another person's bug... Or vice versa! :-) *** Charlie

RE: Google Mail

2009-06-24 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Absolutely! As I said, one person's bug is another person's feature. I have no idea how to solve the dilemma, but it's been around for a while... :-) *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From

Convert .imap to outlook

2009-06-22 Thread Charlie Kaiser
a reasonably simple process for this? I can't find a way to import this stuff into an exchange mailbox or outlook. The imap server is long gone... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T

RE: Convert .imap to outlook

2009-06-22 Thread Charlie Kaiser
... LOL... Works perfectly... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Orland, Kathleen [mailto:korl...@rogers.com] Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 6:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Convert

RE: Windows7 Stop error 0x00000124

2009-06-09 Thread Charlie Kaiser
You might try disabling C1E Enhanced Halt State in the BIOS. Bios updates, for sure. You might also try a wipe and reinstall with build 7127... But definitely disable hibernation. When bears wake up from hibernation, they're really ornery. So is Windows. LOL... *** Charlie

RE: Mac Anti-Malware

2009-06-05 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Heck; the FIRST version of ePO sucked big time. LOL... That was when we made the switch to Trend when was it; around 2000 or so? Doesn't surprise me that it isn't any better... Wish ESET did a MAC version. I really like their stuff... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden

RE: OT: Broken LCD TV

2009-06-01 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Interesting. I've got two of the VA902Bs. They've been great. Not one failed pixel, no problems at all. Great display. Both are over 3 years old now. One has been in use almost constantly for that entire time (powered on and displaying). *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden

RE: Amusing

2009-05-29 Thread Charlie Kaiser
a tendency to lose track of the non-IT user's perspective. Gawd knows it's easy enough to do. We know a lot more about it than they do, but all they want to do is their work. I've always thought IT worked best when nobody realized it was there... :-) *** Charlie Kaiser charl

RE: OOF

2009-05-22 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Check this out and see if it applies... http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2009/02/16/outlook-2007-out-of-office-f eature-may-be-out-of-office.aspx *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Gavin

RE: Performance problem on VMwareServer2 - gah

2009-05-22 Thread Charlie Kaiser
How are the physical drives configured? We usually put no more than one VM on a spindle. The conflicts between two VMs on one spindle produce unacceptable bottlenecks in my experience. *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ

RE: Performance problem on VMwareServer2 - gah

2009-05-22 Thread Charlie Kaiser
That might be correct on ESX, but on Server, you'll get better performance with single VM spindles... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com

RE: Performance problem on VMwareServer2 - gah

2009-05-22 Thread Charlie Kaiser
, is going to be unworkable long term. BTDT. My best solution in the past has been a bunch of disks, ideally mirror sets for reliability if you can swing it, with one VM per array. *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original

RE: Performance problem on VMwareServer2 - gah

2009-05-22 Thread Charlie Kaiser
the fault tolerance. But in a prod environment, as I mentioned, I wouldn't use the OP hardware for that task. DAS box with mirror sets. I've gotten better performance out of single-VM USB spindle setups than multiple-VM raid 5 arrays. *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org

Canon MFD printer, SBS2008, and VMWare

2009-05-21 Thread Charlie Kaiser
that... I'm still pushing for that solution, though. A long USB cable would be a LOT cheaper than setting up a VM... :-) *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http

RE: UNC failure

2009-05-20 Thread Charlie Kaiser
What happens if you use a FQDN instead of a netbios name? (\\sbs.domainname.com) Also, what does nbtstat show about \\sbs? *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Gavin Wilby [mailto:gavin.wi

RE: Haw-haw: New Mac OS X email worm discovered

2009-05-15 Thread Charlie Kaiser
I shoulda known that one would come from you or Ben... LOL... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: James Winzenz [mailto:james.winz...@pulte.com] Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 2:23 PM To: NT

SBS2008 disable Exchange, enable SMTP

2009-05-14 Thread Charlie Kaiser
firing up all the exchange services. Is this possible? SMTP is running, but messages are not going out. I haven't done a lot of digging yet; wanted to see if it's even worth pursuing without spending a bunch of their money... Thanks. *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org

RE: Questions about VPN and moving files

2009-05-05 Thread Charlie Kaiser
You'd need to make a connection to the computer and run the copy/move command locally. If you do it remotely, it will travel through the remote machine. Either RDP or PSExec would be a better solution... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ

RE: Server 2003 DNS issue

2009-05-01 Thread Charlie Kaiser
. Does internal DNS work? You might throw wireshark on the box and see what the DNS queries do... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Art DeKneef [mailto:art.dekn...@cox.net] Sent: Friday, May

RE: Server 2003 DNS issue

2009-05-01 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Can you do NSLookup and set server=the external server IP and get a DNS query reply? If not, the firewall may well be blocking the DNS traffic. What DNS servers are you using? Send an IP and I'll try a query from here to make sure the server is working... *** Charlie Kaiser

RE: DNS issue

2009-04-30 Thread Charlie Kaiser
I'll take a look at that. Thanks. We've recommended logging but the client is still balking at the costs to log/analyze. But they'll pay us to break/fix it daily. LOL... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message

RE: DNS issue

2009-04-30 Thread Charlie Kaiser
. Someone sent me a note about a known issue with the Watchguards. I'm going to look at that today... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday

RE: DNS issue

2009-04-30 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Yeah; I saw that one, but it's a client-side setting only. I set that on the Exchange server, but it doesn't affect the DNS server's caching of outside lookups... And that's where the issue lies... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ

RE: DNS issue

2009-04-30 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Hi Bill. We're going to try this today (method 2) and see what happens... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/828263 Seems like it attacks the problem from the server side... This is the DNS server-based change I was looking for... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org

DNS issue

2009-04-29 Thread Charlie Kaiser
gets NDRs, you get creative. :-) Any ideas? Thanks... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

RE: Home Directories and VPN

2008-08-07 Thread Charlie Kaiser
to connect, they can make the connection, run the batch file, and have their drives mapped. ** Charlie Kaiser W2K3 MCSA/MCSE/Security Systems Engineer Essex Credit / Brickwalk 925 274 3183 ** -Original Message- From: Jeremy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: NEED HELP - Unable to set Permissions on NTFS Partition (XP Pro)

2008-08-06 Thread Charlie Kaiser
A couple of things... Did you disable simple file sharing? And are you logged into the PC with admin creds? ** Charlie Kaiser W2K3 MCSA/MCSE/Security Systems Engineer Essex Credit / Brickwalk 925 274 3183 ** -Original Message- From: Marty Nelson

RE: Remote Location AD Question

2008-07-02 Thread Charlie Kaiser
... ** Charlie Kaiser W2K3 MCSA/MCSE/Security ** -Original Message- From: N Parr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 6:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Remote Location AD Question How many member workstations would you put at a remote

RE: Naming convention for Servers

2008-04-14 Thread Charlie Kaiser
homegrown apps. Using a naming convention going forward though, makes a lot of sense. So does renaming as you rebuild or replace hardware. ** Charlie Kaiser W2K3 MCSA/MCSE/Security Systems Engineer Essex Credit / Brickwalk 925 274 3183 ** -Original Message

RE: Why is Search so crap in Outlook 2007

2008-04-11 Thread Charlie Kaiser
I've found it to be significantly better than it was in OL03. ** Charlie Kaiser W2K3 MCSA/MCSE/Security Systems Engineer Essex Credit / Brickwalk 925 274 3183 ** -Original Message- From: Andy Crellin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April

RE: Dealing with two AD domains

2008-04-11 Thread Charlie Kaiser
with a single domain... That's my two cents worth, anyway... ** Charlie Kaiser W2K3 MCSA/MCSE/Security Systems Engineer Essex Credit / Brickwalk 925 274 3183 ** -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008

RE: Dealing with two AD domains

2008-04-11 Thread Charlie Kaiser
If there's no technical reason for multiple domains, then by all means put everything in one. My mention of new domains is due to your disjointed namespaces (aspca.org and aspca.int). You also weren't clear if aspca.org exists on its own already... ** Charlie Kaiser W2K3 MCSA

RE: Making images to restore to new hardware

2008-04-10 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Still using XP? If so, Ghost and sysprep are working pretty well here... Haven't done any vista imaging yet. No plans to roll it... Archive? I just copy the image files to USB drives and store them... ** Charlie Kaiser W2K3 MCSA/MCSE/Security Systems Engineer Essex Credit

RE: Domain Controller HD setup

2008-04-09 Thread Charlie Kaiser
company leader will see the need for and cost effectiveness of at least one more server. Good luck! ** Charlie Kaiser W2K3 MCSA/MCSE/Security Systems Engineer Essex Credit / Brickwalk 925 274 3183 ** -Original Message- From: Aaron T. Rohyans [mailto

RE: Domain Controller HD setup

2008-04-09 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Like you wouldn't if you put them all on the physical box? LOL... ** Charlie Kaiser W2K3 MCSA/MCSE/Security Systems Engineer Essex Credit / Brickwalk 925 274 3183 ** -Original Message- From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

RE: Interview Q ideas

2008-04-09 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Get it in writing and obey. :-) Also, audit what he does... It's his company, so if he wants to screw it up that's his call. You just need a paper trail so it doesn't bite you... ** Charlie Kaiser W2K3 MCSA/MCSE/Security Systems Engineer Essex Credit / Brickwalk 925 274 3183

RE: Interview Q ideas

2008-04-09 Thread Charlie Kaiser
of a problem or they blow something up badly and either see the light or someone else at their level reads them the riot act. It's going to be the same anywhere else, so you just live with it and spend your energy on things that really matter. ** Charlie Kaiser W2K3 MCSA/MCSE

RE: Domain Controller HD setup

2008-04-09 Thread Charlie Kaiser
point about offsite is a good one, too. Ask management what would happen if their building burned down. Another good reason for VMWare. :-) ** Charlie Kaiser W2K3 MCSA/MCSE/Security Systems Engineer Essex Credit / Brickwalk 925 274 3183 ** ~ Upgrade to Next

RE: SmartPhone

2008-04-01 Thread Charlie Kaiser
of the canyon than you can from either north/south rims. ** Charlie Kaiser W2K3 MCSA/MCSE/Security Systems Engineer Essex Credit / Brickwalk 925 274 3183 ** -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01

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