OT: Earthquake!!!!!!

Anyone on east coast feel it? We did here in Pennsylvania. Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 --

Problem with FTP virtual directory using alias to NAS device

Anyone run into this before? A few FTP virtual directories on one of our servers were migrated to a NAS device this past weekend. An alias was created for this, but it doesn't seem to work with FTP jobs, when the FTP job tries to change directory to this virtual directory, you get the followi

Re: full system backup

With something this small, how about using Windows 7 Virtual PC, then just backup the VHD files to some form of external drive, which you will of course keep off site. Basically no reliance on OS or hardware at that point. Just a new W7 machine running Virtual PC to import the VHD file and you

Re: MS Patch fallout

Can't say I've seen that here. How much of your environment is affected? Every patch cycle I see a few servers that need an extra reboot to clear this type of issue, but it's never been widespread. Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Se

RE: Looking for Position and Positions in Pennsylvania

9 Fax: 610-807-6003 From: Webster To: "NT System Admin Issues" Date: 08/18/2011 04:04 PM Subject:RE: Looking for Position and Positions in Pennsylvania Christopher Bodnar meet Don Guyer, Don meet Chris. If anyone is looking or knows of someone who is look

Positions in Pennsylvania

If anyone is looking or knows of someone who is looking, we will be interviewing soon for a Sr. level Sys Admin position. Ideal candidate will have the typical qualifications with an emphasis on Citrix (XenApp 6, XenApp 5). This is a FTE position not a contract position, and will be located her

IIS WebDAV settings

Not sure this is specific to SCCM, think it might just be an IIS issue, so posting here as well as on the SCCM list: Working with MS on a software updates issue in SCCM, and they had me go look at the WebDAV settings in IIS on the Primary Site server and (2) of sections are missing in WebDAV:

Re: FW: GPOs applying to a service account

This might help: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc785665(WS.10).aspx User GPO's won't be applied until a user logs on. A service that has a specific account configured in the "Log On" section isn't really logging on as far as group policy is concerned. Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP

RE: Schedule batch files to run accoss multiple servers and multiple schedules

I've worked with CA AutoSys in a distributed environment before. Not bad, but pricey. Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-8

Re: GPO inheritance puzzler

If you run GPRESULT on this system, does it show that the GPO to enable screen saver is applied? What you should be seeing is that this GPO is filtered out similar to this: The following GPOs were not applied because they were filtered out

IIS6:Execute permissions on \bin folder keep resetting

I'm having this exact problem on a W2K3 IIS 6 server: http://forums.asp.net/t/1073368.aspx/1 Anyone see this before? Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.c

RE: Net group command

omain Admins, you need to specify the group name inside quotation marks ("Domain Admins").” Don Guyer Windows Systems Engineer RIM Operations Engineering Distributed – A Team, Tier 2 Enterprise Technology Group Fiserv don.gu...@fiserv.com Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 Fax: 610-233-0404 www.fi

Net group command

I typically don't enumerate groups with this command, but an internal auditor is using it and found a discrepancy between what ADUC shows, and using NET GROUP or NET GROUPS. For example GROUP1 (a domain global group) has 3 members, one global group and 2 user accounts. When viewing this in ADU

PassProp question

I know that this utility was run on some systems in our environment, allowing local admin account to be locked out. Does anyone know how to test for this? I'd like to see how many it was run on, but don't know what to check for. Thanks, Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distrib

DFS-R replication monitoring

Found that there is a DFS-R replication set (W2K8R2) setup on two servers here in our environment and wanted to just get a quick status on the health of the replication set. Is anyone else disappointed with the lack of a quick visual representation of the health status of the replication set? Y

Re: OT: I need a Landline! You read that right.

+1 Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From: Richard Stovall To: "NT System Admin Issues" Date: 07/11/

Re: OT: Nice rant on the cloud...

Very nice. I really wish there was a digital copy of Mark Minasi's talk from last years Tech Mentor available online. Similar thoughts, although a lot of his arguments were along the lines of technical hurdles and cost analysis. Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Sy

RE: Windows 7 AQS syntax help

Windows 7 AQS syntax help It’s a system level option, not a search level option. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 3:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issu

Windows 7 AQS syntax help

Does anyone know how to do the equivalent of this with Search in Windows 7? dir *.xls Similar to what you see if you do it from Start->Run> Browse. The problem is that I can't find a way to limit it and not do recursion. I know I can just sort by folder after the fact, but often it's a lot

Re: New to MS System Center, Where to start?

Matt, As for diving into SCCM, I would highly recommend reading this at a bare minimum: http://www.amazon.com/System-Center-Configuration-Manager-Unleashed/dp/0672330237/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310061524&sr=8-1 If you have the resources, I suggest a 5 day course on the product. That should ge

Re: Password management tool

Our team uses KeePass. Works well. Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From: Jon Harris To: "NT System Ad

re: Single Forest multiple Child domains

I think the only way to do this, without re-training users, would be to to write a custom credential provider (similar to the custom GINA's that were written for previous verions of Windows). Here is a good discussion on this topic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163489.aspx#S5 My

RE: Be Very Wary of "The Cloud"...

"Vendors are sticking the word "cloud" in front of everything and effectively making it a cloud offering." Makes me think of a funny episode of The IT Crowd http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel

Re: Windows 2000 machines on your network

We were in the same boat last year. We ended up virtualizing the servers, and then upgrading them to Windows Server 2003 and testing. That is not a supported configuration from the vendor, but we decided that was the lesser of the 2 evils. So far no issues. Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Techni

Re: OT: Dear Dell

Too funny, Sounds exactly like me about 3 years ago. Might even be a rant in the archive. In fact there is: http://www.mail-archive.com/ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com/msg25196.html Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services

RE: DFS Only Works with "Pre-Windows 2000" Domain Name

On a "Bad" machine, does a non-DFS path UNC using a FQDN work? For example: \\server1.acme.com\share1 Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-80

Re: server locks up

PerfMon is your friend for something like this. Load up some memory and CPU counters and start watching it. I'm guessing that one of those will start to creep up, and from there you should be able to narrow it down. Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Del

Re: Encrypting Event Logs

Interesting, that's the first time I've heard a requirement to have just the event logs encrypted. When your auditors come in do they reference any standards such as CIS, DISA, NIST ? If this is a real requirement, I think it might make sense to coordinate the upgrade to 2008 and enabling BitLo

Re: Trigger Script Remotely?

Just curious, what exactly are the circumstances where you want to do this? What is really trigging your need to run the scrip? Alarm, condition? Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Ema

Authentication issue with SAMBA clients?

Has anyone run into an issue with SAMBA clients and this? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2536720 Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-

GPP and GPMC for W2K3 systems

W2K3FFL I've configured a Group Policy preference that I thought would be rolled out to all systems. I thought that the Client Side Extensions were included in W2K3 SP2, but that does not seem to be the case. So as a test I installed the CSE on a W2K3 test box and rebooted. The client got the

Re: P2V Problems

This may be overkill for you, but have you looked at using another migration tool? Windows IT Pro had a decent review of the products in this category recently: http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/virtualization2/comparative-review-p2v-conversion-tools We have a large vSphere environment, and t

Re: OT: Media Center tuner card for Comcast

I don't have ComCast, but in regards to a tuner card I can recommend this: Hauppauge 1229 WinTV-HVR-2250 Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610

IIS WMI and PowerShell

Thought I would pass this along in the hope that it may save someone some time: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff730973.aspx So I'm trying to retrieve some settings on virtual directories on an internal FTP sever we have. I've been trying to use PowerShell as much as possible inste

PowerShell scripts in PrimalScript

Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 PrimalScript 2009 version 5.0.644 OK, if I run a PS script in PrimalScript, and it completes successfully, should I seen an exit code like I do with a VBScript? Right now it looks like PowerShell is still running after the script completes. I need to manually terminat

Re: Operations Manager - configuration

I've got everything running on a single VM with 4G of memory (RMS, SQL, ACS, web console). Definitely overloaded, but I've had no issues so far. It's not our primary monitoring tool, I've been using it for KMS reporting and ACS. Also just started using the OpsLogix PING Management Pack to moni

RE: ADUC Pluggins?

Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From: "Sam Cayze" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Date: 03/30/2011 04:58 PM Subject:RE: ADUC Pluggins? Pretty impressive, thanks. For $290, looks like a no-brainer. -Sam

RE: Group Enumeration Issue

Do a DCDIAG with the /e /i switches and look closely at the results. You should be seeing something there. Also do a repadmin /showrepl Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: chr

Re: ADUC Pluggins?

Not a plug-in, but if you are looking to have more functionality, I can highly recommend DameWare's NT Utilities. The amount of options available is staggering. But not free. Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Ins

Re: Win2008 R2 not writing crash dump file

Doesn't sound like it's actually crashing. It's rebooting for some as yet unknown reason. I would check hardware issues first (bad memory, disk issues, power supply. etc.) Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life I

Re: IBM Servers

We are an IBM shop, almost exclusively blades (HS22 models) in BladeCenter-H chassis. Work very well for us, and have had good experiences with support. One thing I will say is that I'm not a fan of IBM Director. YMMV Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Servic

Re: IBM Servers

We are an IBM shop, almost exclusively blades (HS22 models) in BladeCenter-H chassis. Work very well for us, and have had good experiences with support. One thing I will say is that I'm not a fan of IBM Director. YMMV Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Servic

Re: OT Friday Favour

6,804 Good luck. Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From: Andrew Laya To: "NT System Admin Issues" Dat

RE: Terminal Services and file transfer

application, but I also set the equivalent policy in the 2003 mode. Jim v. From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 5:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Terminal Services and file transfer When you do an RSOP on the client

RE: Terminal Services and file transfer

When you do an RSOP on the client that connects to the Terminal sever, do you seen an entry under: Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Terminal Services\Client/Server Data Redirection\Do not allow drive redirection Chris Bodnar, MCSE Technical Support III Distr

Re: Question on DFS roots in Windows 2008

I would suggest some reading if you haven't done so already. Specifically this document: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732863(WS.10).aspx My first question, is why you don't want to use a domain based DFS namespace? There are valid reasons for choosing a stand alone namespace,

RE: SCOM OpsLogix PING MP problem

ds, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Christopher Bodnar [christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 4:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: SCOM OpsLogix PING MP problem Sorry for the OT, if someone is interested in giving

OT: SCOM OpsLogix PING MP problem

Sorry for the OT, if someone is interested in giving me a hand configuring this offline I'd appreciate it. thanks, Chris Bodnar, MCSE Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 6

Re: New Adobe Patches

Looks like it's here: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/9.x/9.4.3/misc/ Chris Bodnar, MCSE Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 Fro

RE: GPO question

ng your own? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132 -Original Message----- From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 7:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: re: GPO question If anyone is intere

RE: GPO question

m file and re-import into the affected GPO? -Original Message----- From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 7:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: re: GPO question If anyone is interested I found out why this is happeni

re: GPO question

If anyone is interested I found out why this is happening. From here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709647(WS.10).aspx Group Policy tools will continue to recognize custom ADM files you have in your existing environment, but will ignore any ADM file that has been superseded by AD

Re: Seriously Wierd Issue

Have you connected a machine directly to the cable modem and tested? Same issue during the day? Chris Bodnar, MCSE Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax:

Re: Shadow Copies/Previous Versions on 2008 R2

Yes, you can do that. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From: "Paul Hutchings" To: "NT System Admin Issues"

GPO question

W2K3 DFL FFL: We created a GPO using a Windows 2003 GPMC. And modified the system.adm file with the following: POLICY !!NoViewOnDrive #if version >= 4 SUPPORTED !!SUPPORTED_Win2k #endif

OT: MMS 2011 ?

Anyone going to this ? http://www.mms-2011.com/ Chris Bodnar, MCSE, MCITP Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003

RE: Child Domain or Not?

I'd really take a closer look at the business requirements for separate domains. Especially in something as small as this. I would find it very difficult to justify keeping separate domains. Especially since you are going to have users who log into both. You can easily put ACLs in place that wi

Issue with Add-SDMgplink in DMZ

Anyone out there using the SDM CMDLets? Running into an issue that I'm almost positive is firewall related. I'm scripting the creation of GPO links using the add-sdmgplink CMDLet and its works perfectly in our production environment. We have another domain that resides in an isolated DMZ. I'm t

Re: UNC paths from Run line in W7 and W2K8R2

me name? I used to get some weirdness when trying to open the oobe folder in system32 which also contains an oobe.exe. It's picking the file out instead of the folder. Bung a \ on the end. On 8 March 2011 16:37, Christopher Bodnar wrote: Interesting. Yeah, my autodiscovery works fine, f

Re: UNC paths from Run line in W7 and W2K8R2

spaces. However the auto complete was navigating to the folders as fast as I could type, so don't know whether this auto-discovery function is a factor or not. However, on my XP desktop, I can't do it without quotes if there are spaces in the folder name. ??? On 8 March 2011 16:28, C

UNC paths from Run line in W7 and W2K8R2

Not sure what OS started supporting this, but I'm used to not enclosing UNC paths in quotes on the Run line to navigate to a UNC path, if there are spaces in the path. For example: \\servername\shareName\Directory One\ On Windows XP, W2K3, quotes are not required from the Run line. Recently

RE: W2K8 GPO setting: User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode

B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 11:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: W2K8 GPO setting: User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode

W2K8 GPO setting: User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode

This is really weird. Just this week all of our 2008 servers, in an isolated domain, are prompting for Admin Approval, as if UAC is enabled. We have Admin Approval Mode disabled via GPO, been this way for over a year, and RSOP run on a client verifies this. But we are still being prompted as if

Re: remote computer not setup on domain user

I'm not familiar with the Juniper solutions, but is there an option on the client to allow the connection to persist though a log off? Or do they have the option of adding a connection as a DUN connection? That way the user could pick that DUN connection to log on with. What is the client OS?

Printer Driver isolation: shared or isolated?

I know there was a recent thread about this, but wanted some more input on this specific feature. Right now we have everything configured as "Shared". My reasoning was that it's less overhead, and since this is a new feature, that we could get a better gauge on how much additional overhead the

Re: Strange account lockout situation

Sorry, maybe this was covered already, but can you reproduce the problem on a workstation that doesn't belong to the user? Or are these issues isolated to the specific user on a specific machine? So if the problem is happening to JohnDoe on his PC WorkstationA, if he logs onto WorkstationB does

IPv6 question

While the discussion of IPv6 is in play. Just wanted to put this out there to start a discussion. see what others are doing ,and get some feedback: When we initially configured our "Gold build" for Windows Server 2008, the decision was made to disable the following on all network adapters:

RE: Printer driver isolation

On the Printer Driver Isolation feature in R2, we recently brought up 2 print servers and are going to be migrating print queues and users over to them over the course of the next year. So far we have had great success, but only a limited set of drivers and load on the servers so far. YMMV C

Re: Folder transfer over WAN via BITS???

W2K3 R2 systems have DFS R, which should meet your needs. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From: Mark Smith To

Re: ADUC to untrusted domain on W2K8R2

ND disable UAC I had the same problem because I administer a single OU in someone else's AD for our exchange accounts (long story). You may need to use the FQDN of the domain and server On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Christopher Bodnar < christopher_bod...@glic.com> wrote: I have a

RE: ADUC to untrusted domain on W2K8R2

as dsa.msc” with the untrust credentials work? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 12:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: ADUC to untrusted domain

Re: ADUC to untrusted domain on W2K8R2

Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 12:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: ADUC to untrusted domain on W2K8R2 I have a machine where all my admin tools are inst

ADUC to untrusted domain on W2K8R2

I have a machine where all my admin tools are installed. The system is running 2003 R2. I am able to connect to an untrusted domain in ADUC with no issues, by specifying the untrusted domain. I recently brought up a new machine (W2K8R2) to replace this one and installed all the tools. Everythi

Re: 2008 Server Ran DCPROMO into existing domain and it says it completed succesfully but on reboot, NLA, Base filtering etc wont start

Hopefully this is not the only DC in the domain? Does it hold any FSMO roles? I'd go through this process to scrub it from the domain: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216498 Then rebuild the OS from scratch, then DCPROMO it back up Chris Bodnar, MCSE Technical Support III Distributed Systems S

re: WINS question

If anyone is interested in the original question, I think this answers it pretty well: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299977 Chris ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~ --- To manage subscriptions cli

WINS question

If "disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP" is selected on the WINS tab of the TCP/IP configuration of a client, and there are WINS servers specified, does the client register with the WINS server? Or does that bypass the registration process. My thought is that the client still registers with the WINS

OT: SQL training?

Putting together a list of possible training options for this year. One area I'd like to get more training on is SQL reporting. Ideally this would be from an SCCM perspective, but I can't find any training specific to that. I am by no means a master of SQL or a DBA, just a sysadmin who has some

Re: Upgrade Win7 versions to Enterprise

Based on this, it looks like you are correct: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd772579(WS.10).aspx Chris Bodnar, MCSE Technical Support III Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-80

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

Ugh. what an awful mess you are in. Although, I would like to see some pictures of the data center as you described it. Good poster shot for DR planning. Schema should have already been modified since original post indicated he already had both 2008 and 2008 R2 domain controllers. Are any of

Re: Domain and Forest Functional levels

Wait, you can't get Access Based Enumeration working with Windows Server 2003 Forest Functional level? It's my understanding that is a Windows Server 2003 FFL attribute: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc784710(WS.10).aspx Where did you see that it requires W2K8 R2? Chris Bodnar

Re: domain controller in the cloud???

Jason, I was at TechMentor back in October. Mark Minasi presented a talk about going to the cloud that covered a lot of good points, mostly against it. He's talking about putting out an audio CD of that presentation. http://www.minasi.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=36453 It might be worth you

RE: iMedia Converter - FREE through 12/27/2010

ptions like that in iMedia, the output was a little pixilated and I didn't get that with WinX. From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 3:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: iMedia Converter - FREE through 12/27/2010 I went hom

Re: iMedia Converter - FREE through 12/27/2010

WMA files and plan to test it tonight. Roger Wright ___ "Never make hard what you can make easy." - Fred W. Frailey On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Christopher Bodnar < christopher_bod...@glic.com> wrote: Anyone use this software before? like it? Chris Bodnar, MCS

Re: iMedia Converter - FREE through 12/27/2010

Anyone use this software before? like it? Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From: Roger Wright To: "NT System Admi

RE: OT: NTL M and bootable DOS CD

oving. I'll bet that the re-engineering isn't really all that much, and that the end result will actually be faster and better installs. Kurt On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 07:32, Christopher Bodnar wrote: > Sorry, just venting: > > OK, so we implemented our new SCCM infra

RE: OT: NTL M and bootable DOS CD

they could not do it then. (Second law of thermodynamics – simplified form – You cannot win. You cannot break even. It even applies to IT.) Sincerely, Jeffrey and Mary Jane Harris VIPCS From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 12:31 PM To:

Re: OT: NTL M and bootable DOS CD

, go over their setup with them and identify the points that need improving. I'll bet that the re-engineering isn't really all that much, and that the end result will actually be faster and better installs. Kurt On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 07:32, Christopher Bodnar wrote: > Sorry, just ve

Re: Share permissions question

I think you are going to run into issues until the users log off and back on. What's going to happen is that the files that have already been accessed and in use won't need to be checked again, but new files will. The new files will have a different security descriptor than it did before and it

OT: NTL M and bootable DOS CD

Sorry, just venting: OK, so we implemented our new SCCM infrastructure about 9 months ago (all W2K8 servers). Almost done with the migration from our old SMS 2003 infrastructure (W2K3 R2 servers). I get a request from our desktop guys last week to create a few shares on the new SCCM servers to

RE: Problem loading W7 on new HD

e, Myself and I, Inc. Leader in s...@r+@$$ Virtualization Services From: VIPCS [mailto:vi...@stny.rr.com] Subject: RE: Problem loading W7 on new HD If you create a small partition for the OS (say 40GB), does it still fail on first reboot? Sincerely, Jeffrey and Mary Jane Harris VIPCS From

OT: Problem loading W7 on new HD

Sorry for the OT, not doing a lot of hardware at the moment, and hoping those of you out there who are doing this everyday might be able to assist: OK, so I have got a frankenclone machine at home that I wanted to update with a larger HD and load Windows 7 on, currently has Vista Ultimate 64-b

GPO for Password Policy question

W2K3 FFL domain: Can someone let me know if this is correct: OK, so you have your default domain policy, which is linked to the domain. You have account Password policies configured there. This affects both local SAM accounts and AD accounts. If you decided for some business reason that you di

FilterManager Event ID 3

I've got a W2K8 Std x64 box that is getting a ton of these errors in the event log and has crashed a few times over the past few months. I'm really having a problem finding any info on this particular issue on the web, the things I have found seem to be targeting VM's or backup issues, neither

RE: Event Log monitoring

Interesting, I'm in the same boat. We use a different tool for enterprise monitoring here, but I brought in SCOM to do KMS reporting. I'm in the process now of setting up ACS to pull the event logs off our domain controllers, which will be a huge help. If you already have SCOM, I think ACS is

RE: PSEXEC and %homedrive%

me% Gets parsed to Psexec \\server cmd /c echo Workstation Which is exactly what the server does. What you want is Psexec \\server cmd /c echo ^%computername^% The carets escape the percents to pass the command echo %computername% to the server. From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christo

RE: PSEXEC and %homedrive%

ject:RE: PSEXEC and %homedrive% Do this psexec \\SERVERNAME cmd /c set So what's the difference. Look again at this very carefully... psexec \\SERVERNAME cmd.exe /c echo %homedrive% Hint: On what computer is %homedrive% expanded ? Carl From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:ch

Re: PSEXEC and %homedrive%

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Christopher Bodnar wrote: > I've got a VBS script that we use pretty frequently, and I was trying to run > it remotely using PSEXEC against a bunch of systems. Finally narrowed the > problem down to the fact that for some reason, the %HOMEDRIVE% variab

PSEXEC and %homedrive%

Wondering if anyone else has run into this before. I've got a VBS script that we use pretty frequently, and I was trying to run it remotely using PSEXEC against a bunch of systems. Finally narrowed the problem down to the fact that for some reason, the %HOMEDRIVE% variable and PSEXEC didn't mix

RE: MS reference for VSS

y “enabled” and “disabled”. I’m referring to automatic VSS copies being taken two or three times a day. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 3:36 PM T

MS reference for VSS

Can someone point me to a MS reference that talks about VSS in Windows Server 2008? Specifically I'd like to see a MS reference that states the following in regards to sizing for VSS: "The default value is 15 percent of the total drive space or 30 percent of the available free space, whichever

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