Re: Group Policy Won't Go Away

2010-11-03 Thread Christopher Bodnar
From the GPMC run the Group Policy Results Wizard against this particular machine, and see if it shows that setting as being applied. If so, it will show you where it's getting it. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insuranc

OT: SDM Software’s new GP Reporting Pak?

2010-10-29 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Anyone using this ? http://www.sdmsoftware.com/blog/ If so, I'd like to hear feedback on how you like it. Looks like the perfect tool for a project I'm working on. Just got off the phone with the sales guy. Waiting on pricing. He told me it's licensed by the number of GPOs in your environment

RE: KMS Best Practices

2010-10-14 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I'm not sure this is accurate. It's my understanding that the threshold of (5) still requires physical servers, and does not include virtual machines. If you can point out a MS reference that states otherwise, I'd love to see it. This is a pain for our lab environments that we set up, which pr

Classic Shell on R2?

2010-10-07 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Anyone using this on production servers? http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/index.html I'm tempted, since none of us love the new interface. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_

Re: The end of the BIOS is nigh...

2010-10-01 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Sorry had to laugh when I saw this line: "New PCs could start in just seconds" My experience with UEFI is limited to IBM blade servers, but we have a lot of new HS22 systems, and they take forever to get past the UEFI. Dramatic increase in boot time compared to the previous HS20 and HS21, whi

Why did Inbound and Outbound replication get disabled?

2010-09-30 Thread Christopher Bodnar
W2K3 FFL: I did a P2P migration tonight with PlateSpin on (2) domain controllers. One of them holds the RID and Infrastructure FSMO roles (SERVER1), and the other held the Schema role(SERVER2). Everything looked good until the end when I started looking at replication. SERVER1 wasn't replicati

Re: MS10-070 & .NET 3.0

2010-09-29 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Its' my understanding that 3.0 installs 2.0, so that makes sense that 2.0 patch installed. 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: 610-807-600

Re: W2K8R2 Core as external DNS server

2010-09-29 Thread Christopher Bodnar
to use from the CL are not exactly intuitive. But after it's set up you can administer it from your administrative station like any other DNS server. - WJR On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 08:35, Christopher Bodnar < christopher_bod...@glic.com> wrote: Our environment currently uses QIP for

W2K8R2 Core as external DNS server

2010-09-29 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Our environment currently uses QIP for IP management (DNS, DHCP) both internally and externally. We are in the process of designing a new AD infrastructure that will be W2K8R2 and I'm bringing up the possibility of moving from QIP to AD DNS. My primary thought is cost savings. We are a large MS

OT: TechMentor

2010-09-28 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Anyone going ? 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 - This message, and any attachment

re: Does Windows 2008 R2 Server Core support running applications in Compatibility Mode?

2010-09-01 Thread Christopher Bodnar
If any one is interested: I opened a case for this with MS, to get an official answer. Here is their reply: *** Issue Definition: Does W2k8 R2 Server Core support running applications in Compatibility mode? Answer: Application server

Does Windows 2008 R2 Server Core support running applications in Compatibility Mode?

2010-08-26 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I've tried this on the standard version of the OS, but trying to run it on a Server Core installation doesn't seem to work. To enable it on the server core system, I import a reg file. And I can't find any documentation that specifically talks about supporting it or not. Did find one blog post

RE: Auditing in Windows 2008 and R2 what are folks doing?

2010-07-29 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I'll chime in with my 2 cents. We are in the same situation, but we did have a small SCOM implementation. Only used for KMS reporting. I convinced management to buy licenses so we could monitor the domain controllers using ACS. Prior to that I looked at this product: http://www.diskmonitor.com/

AD User account restore procedure

2010-07-23 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I have a business user that wants to restore a user account that was deleted from AD but they don't know the samaccountname, but they do know the SID. They also have no idea how far back this account was deleted. this is the procedure I propose. Can someone verify if this is accurate, or am I m

Possible causes of corrupt computer accounts in AD

2010-07-09 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Can someone point me to an MS article that talks about this? Not really having an issue with this, but we do have the occasional corrupt computer account and standard procedure is to remove the computer from the domain and rejoin. Always works. Management is now asking what causes this, and I d

RE: NTBackup scripting

2010-06-17 Thread Christopher Bodnar
So you are programmatically creating the *.BKS file? Are you saving it as Unicode? See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/237310 Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.co

Re: Programatic way to uninstall patches on 2008 Server???

2010-06-17 Thread Christopher Bodnar
: "NT System Admin Issues" Date: 06/17/2010 10:34 AM Subject:Re: Programatic way to uninstall patches on 2008 Server??? On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Christopher Bodnar wrote: >> ... uninstall a Microsoft update patch(es) from Windows 2008 servers. > > It shou

Re: Programatic way to uninstall patches on 2008 Server???

2010-06-17 Thread Christopher Bodnar
It should be the same process as with 2003. Take a look at this for reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372104%28VS.85%29.aspx Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher

Re: NTBackup scripting

2010-06-17 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I don't believe so. 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: "Joseph L. Casale" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Date:

OT: TechMentor 2010 ?

2010-06-16 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I wasn't able to attend TechEd this year, but may be able to attend this event. I definitely see value in Tech Ed, is this similar? Thank you, Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_

Re: GPO stuff and stuff

2010-06-08 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Create a 2nd GPO and apply to the 4th OU. Then create a security group and put the servers you want this to apply to in the group. Then filter the GPO by this security group. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Compa

Re: Nested VBS in logon scripts

2010-06-07 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Try launching the first script with Cscript instead of Wscript. Also, what happens if you launch the first script manually, instead of part of the logon process? Do you still experience the same issues? You want to see if it's the logon process that is causing the issue, or if it's really the

Re: Server Core

2010-06-04 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I've been reading this thread pretty closely since we will be brining up a 2008 test domain very shortly. My thoughts were to do Core for all the DCs. My concern now is all the client/Agent software that the current DCs require. For example: Adiscon client Asset Insight client Blue Coat proxy

Re: 2008 DC question

2010-06-03 Thread Christopher Bodnar
This might help: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754209%28WS.10%29.aspx To use all the Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 domain-level features without upgrading your entire Windows Server 2003 forest to Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2, raise only the domai

Re: VBS script issue

2010-05-13 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Are you sure the GPO is being applied? Did you run GPRESULT on a client to verify? 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 F

Re: Domain controllers, what is supposed to happen.

2010-04-21 Thread Christopher Bodnar
r_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From: Andrew Levicki To: "NT System Admin Issues" Date: 04/21/2010 10:18 AM Subject:Re: Domain controllers, what is supposed to happen. Where does it say that? 2010/4/21 Christopher Bodnar Sorry but I have to di

Re: Domain controllers, what is supposed to happen.

2010-04-21 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Sorry but I have to disagree with you. I believe the recommendation of the article is to divide the FSMO roles, giving guidance on how to do that. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christop

re: modifying subnet assignment by script

2010-04-15 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Fixed it in case anyone is interested. There are a few problems with the original. Biggest problem is that the "/" in the subnet name needed to be escaped. Also the "_" character was a typo, and there was a "," missing in front of "cn=Subnets" . strNewSiteName = "TESTSite1" strSubnetName =

modifying subnet assignment by script

2010-04-15 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I got this from the AD Cookbook and it's giving me an error. Can someone test this and let me know if it works for them in a test environment? The site and subnet must exist for this to work. I'm getting the following error: (5, 49) Microsoft VBScript compilation error: Invalid character Which

Re: Access Denied on Administrative share

2010-04-15 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Do you see the administrative share for these drives from the computer management mmc snap-in? When you say locally, do you mean via drive letter (U:) or \\localhost\U$? Assuming the former, what happens when trying the latter? On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Christopher Bodnar < christoph

Re: Access Denied on Administrative share

2010-04-15 Thread Christopher Bodnar
ministrative share IIRC, an administrative share is only created on a drive that exists at boot. If you plug in a USB drive, or, unplug and then plug it back in, you'll lose the administrative share. On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Christopher Bodnar < christopher_bod...@glic.com>

Access Denied on Administrative share

2010-04-15 Thread Christopher Bodnar
W2K3 SP2 We have some servers at remote locations that have external USB drives. All are configured as U:\ Recently we have been unable to write to these drives through the administrative share (\\server\u$). We get "Access is Denied". It's not on every machine but on more than a few. We can

Re: Win98SE errors

2010-04-13 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I have an old shrink wrapped copy of Windows 3.0 you can have. :) Better yet, I'm sure you have an old copy of OS/2 Warp laying around! Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod.

Re: Logging Use Of Terminal Servers

2010-04-08 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Something like this? http://preview.tinyurl.com/yatbfwl 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: "Robert Jackson" To:

Re: Keep remote Desktop Runnin.

2010-04-07 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I have similar reports that we have automated with VBscripts. Run them as a scheduled job, and there is no need to tie up a session. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@g

RE: Learning System Center Configuration Manager

2010-04-06 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I agree with the others and in addition, highly recommend the Unleashed book: http://www.amazon.com/System-Center-Configuration-Manager-Unleashed/dp/0672330237/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270586732&sr=1-1 Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Serv

Re: employeeType attribute?

2010-04-06 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Brian is correct. See this article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727064.aspx 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: 610-807-60

Re: Unable to join computer to Domain

2010-04-06 Thread Christopher Bodnar
when you specify the domain to join, have you tried both NetBIOS name and FQDN? For example ACME vs. ACME.COM ? Also how are you specifying the admin credentials? acme\jdoe ? Have you tried using a UPN (j...@acme.com)? Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery

Re: SunGard

2010-03-31 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Sunguard is the 800lb gorilla in this space. Typically smaller shops tend to find less costly vendors, but they do have a very wide service offering. Here we currently use them for an Alternate Work Space(AWS). Basically we have a dedicated line to them and a DC and some workstations that just

re: Upgrading from 2003R2 to 2008R2 (or later)

2010-03-26 Thread Christopher Bodnar
In regards to having DCs virtualized. We have 15 DCs and only 2 of them are physical (PDCe and another GC). When we bring down the data center for a recovery exercise or a scheduled power outage, we need to have AD come up first since other things are authenticating against it. This makes it muc

Re: [OT]: Script Editors

2010-03-26 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I have both, but use ASE more than PrimalScript on a daily basis. The main things I like about ASE are the ScriptForm Designer and the WMI Wizard. Both are great tools. YMMV Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Compa

Re: YouTube Down?

2010-03-25 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Not working here either. 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: John Hornbuckle To: "NT System Admin Issues" Dat

Check for domain or local user

2010-03-18 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I have a script that is enumerating the members of a local group. what I'd like to do is see if the user is a domain account or a local account. I can't seem to figure this out. I know that in the GUI you can see if the account is local or domain. For example: ACME\user1 ACME\user2 testuser1 te

Re: Scripting Question - How to go backwards with tokens in for loop?

2010-03-12 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Much easier to do in VBScript with string manipulation. Try this: ' Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set objScriptExec = objShell.Exec("cmd.exe /

RE: AD Central Store

2010-03-10 Thread Christopher Bodnar
desmond.com c – 312.731.3132 From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 7:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AD Central Store Sorry, I should have been more specific. I was referring to the Central Store for group policy te

Re: AD Central Store

2010-03-10 Thread Christopher Bodnar
n-On stuff from XenApp 6 on 2008 R2 when it goes out of Tech Preview. On 10 March 2010 13:17, Christopher Bodnar wrote: Has anyone else created the central store in a W2K3 FFL AD environment. The process looks pretty simple. Any issues we may run into? Thanks Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engin

AD Central Store

2010-03-10 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Has anyone else created the central store in a W2K3 FFL AD environment. The process looks pretty simple. Any issues we may run into? Thanks Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bo

Re: copying files and shares from one server to another server

2010-03-08 Thread Christopher Bodnar
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/125996 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: "Reimer, Mark" To: "NT System Admin

Re: Windows NTP and CISCO MD5 authentication

2010-03-08 Thread Christopher Bodnar
hilip Brothwell To: "NT System Admin Issues" Date: 03/08/2010 11:37 AM Subject:Re: Windows NTP and CISCO MD5 authentication Do a Google search for "windows ntp authentication pdf" The top hit should be a MS PDF on the subject. On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:

Windows NTP and CISCO MD5 authentication

2010-03-08 Thread Christopher Bodnar
W2K3 FFL: Currently our PDC emulator is configured to retrieve time from our Cisco routers. The network group has been asked to implement MD5 authentication on NTP. As far as I know Windows doesn't have the ability to do this. Can anyone confirm this? And if they can, point me to a document tha

OT: Excel question

2010-03-05 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Anyone know how to do this in Excel or Access? I've got two columns. Column A has a server name and column B has a version number. There are multiple entries for each server. What I am trying to do is query by highest version number. For example: SERVER1 2.2 SERVER1 3.4 SERVER2 2.0 SERVER2 4.

Re: Monitoring services

2010-03-02 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Are you asking if it's good enough to monitor the event log instead of the state of a service? Personally I would say no. It's possible that the messages wont' get to the event log for a number of reasons, or that the event log can become corrupt. It's much more reliable to query the service di

Re: Increase C: on server

2010-03-02 Thread Christopher Bodnar
As mentioned, I think a 3rd party partitioning tool is your best bet. We have recently switched from Acronis to Paragon's Partition Manager 10.0 Server Edition. Basically the same as Acronis, but it has support for Server 2008 and x64, which Acronis lacked. YMMV Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engi

Re: 2008 for experiences 2003 admins

2010-02-26 Thread Christopher Bodnar
That book seems to have taken up permanent residence on my desk at work. 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: "Tom Mi

Re: Powershell book

2010-02-26 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I've got the Windows PowerShell Cookbook and like it a lot. If you have no scripting experience at all, I highly recommend Windows NT Shell Scripting by Tim Hill as a starting point. No PowerShell but it covers the basics of scripting in a Windows environment better than anything I have ever s

Re: OT: Vista home premium question

2010-02-26 Thread Christopher Bodnar
ngus Scott-Fleming" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Date: 02/25/2010 11:46 PM Subject:Re: OT: Vista home premium question On 25 Feb 2010 at 10:49, Christopher Bodnar wrote: > > This is on my home network. > > My daughters machine is running Vista Ho

RE: Vista home premium question

2010-02-25 Thread Christopher Bodnar
mation for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 2:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vista home premium question Y

Re: Log Management software

2010-02-25 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Angus Scott-Fleming" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Date: 02/25/2010 02:34 PM Subject:Re: Log Management software On 18 Feb 2010 at 14:22, Joseph Heaton wrote: > I noticed they have a desktop version. Anyone out there monitoring logs > from their desktops? &g

RE: Vista home premium question

2010-02-25 Thread Christopher Bodnar
quot; Date: 02/25/2010 02:27 PM Subject:RE: Vista home premium question Tried the hostname in the credentials? HerComputerName\AdminAccount for the username maybe. From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 12:24 PM To: NT Sy

RE: Vista home premium question

2010-02-25 Thread Christopher Bodnar
ldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 10:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Vista home premium question

OT: Vista home premium question

2010-02-25 Thread Christopher Bodnar
This is on my home network. My daughters machine is running Vista Home Premium (32-bit). My machine is running Vista Ultimate 64-bit. I've setup CyberPatrol on both machines and it's working fine. Problem is when I try to access her machine remotely through a UNC path. I get the logon prompt,

Re: Windows Task Manager not seeing full 8GB RAM

2010-02-25 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Standard 32-bit is limited to 4G: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778%28VS.85%29.aspx#physical_memory_limits_windows_server_2008 You can go above 4G with 32-bit, but it has to be enterprise or datacenter with the /PAE switch. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems

Firefox and Yahoo mail

2010-02-23 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Anyone experiencing problems with Firefox crashing with Yahoo mail? Both my home systems are experiencing this today, and it's only when I use Yahoo mail, no other sites. Different versions of Firefox (3.5 and 3.6). I've reverted to a previous version of Firefox and it does it on there as well.

Re: log levels

2010-02-19 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I'm not aware of a global logging level in Windows that you can just turn up. Typically you enable verbose logging on specific components (DNS, WINS, DHCP, Exchange, etc). Which is usually made with a registry change and usually outputs to a log file. Many, but not all, applications have a

RE: Log Management software

2010-02-19 Thread Christopher Bodnar
dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 5:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Log Management software I noticed they have a desktop version. Anyone out there monitoring logs from their desktops? >>> "Christopher Bodnar" 2/18/2010 2:14 PM >>> >&

Log Management software

2010-02-18 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Anyone use this before? http://www.diskmonitor.com/Log-Manager/ I just set it up on a test system, and it seems to be pretty decent. Does exactly what I was looking for. Basically download the security logs from our domain controllers and store them in a SQL DB for reporting. Thanks, Chri

Event ID for moving computer account?

2010-02-17 Thread Christopher Bodnar
W2K3 FFL: Anyone know if this is logged in the Security log of a DC when you move a computer account from one OU to another if auditing of Directory Services is enabled? If so what is the event ID? Thanks, Chris Bodnar, MCSE Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Servic

RE: Running a DOS app on Win7

2010-02-17 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I agree with trying XP mode first. But if that doesn't work, VMWorkstation is always an option. 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: 610-80

Re: Troubleshooting DHCP

2010-02-17 Thread Christopher Bodnar
How large is the environment? Multiple subnets? Any commonalities between the clients that can't get DHCP addresses (same subnet, same OS patch level, etc...)? Any firewalls in-between the clients and the DHCP server? Firewalls turned on, on the client side? Cisco helper address issue? We use

MS10-015 on W2K3 systems?

2010-02-17 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Just talking about server OS here, not XP. We deployed this to our test systems last week (about 150 systems), with no issues. Preparing for production this weekend, and with all the talk about this patch, I just wanted to see if anyone did run into issues with W2K3 systems. And if so, what w

Re: IP gurus ..

2010-02-12 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I think you have a typo. Do you mean? 192.168.0.x/21 (255.255.248.0) 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: "Benjamin

OT: Hobbit/Xymon metrics reports

2010-02-09 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Any gurus on the list that could talk to me offline about this? Thanks, Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Infrastructure Service Delivery Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-

2008 Failover cluster

2010-02-09 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I'm very familiar with failover clustering in 2003, but not in 2008. A colleague setup a 2008 cluster on our network and it's having some issues. Unfortunately he is no longer with the company. We opened a case with MS regarding this and the tech is asking me about the network configuration. The se

RE: Easy way to scan all security logs on Domain connected PC's

2010-02-08 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Will EventComMT do what you are looking for? Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Infrastructure Service Delivery 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: OT: WOL cost savings

2010-02-05 Thread Christopher Bodnar
ff anyway. In the end, it was decided not to change the policy of keeping all pcs on 24x7. One issue that was raised, but not looked into, was what affect increased power cycles would have on hard drive life. Something to think about. Phil On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Christoph

RE: OT: WOL cost savings

2010-02-04 Thread Christopher Bodnar
h/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com -Original Message----- From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 3:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT:

RE: OT: WOL cost savings

2010-02-04 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 3:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: WOL cost savings On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:45, Christopher Bodnar wrote: > Has anyone put something together to show management in regards to the > possible ROI of using WO

OT: WOL cost savings

2010-02-04 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Has anyone put something together to show management in regards to the possible ROI of using WOL? I'm more interested in getting some solid numbers on the savings per PC per month. I'm not really sure where to go in order to get these kinds of numbers. I've seen some general stuff out there that ra

RE: Windows 2008 - Page file

2010-02-02 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Nothing in the Event Logs? Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Infrastructure Service Delivery 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: james.h

RE: robocopy script - deleting aged folders

2010-01-29 Thread Christopher Bodnar
go back a specific date, I just want it to copy the file and replace it if it's been changed. _ From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 8:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: robocopy script - deleting aged folder

RE: robocopy script - deleting aged folders

2010-01-29 Thread Christopher Bodnar
- deleting aged folders Another question about robocopy. How do you do the equivalent of and xcopy /d in robocopy? _ From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 2:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: robocopy script

RE: Can't browse workgroup

2010-01-29 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Sorry hit that one too soon: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/135404 Specifically this might be something to look into: "A virtual network adaptor (NLB/WLBS) could make a system logically multihomed." Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Infrastructure Service Delivery

RE: Can't browse workgroup

2010-01-29 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Take a look at this: Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Infrastructure Service Delivery 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 -Original Message- From:

RE: robocopy script - deleting aged folders

2010-01-28 Thread Christopher Bodnar
You need /MOVE see below. /MOV only does files. /MOVE does files and directories: /MOVMoves files (that is, deletes source files after copying). /MOVE Moves files and directories (that is, deletes source files and directories after copying). Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Enginee

OT: WQL Where clause limitations

2010-01-28 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Can someone point me to an MS document that outlines the limitations of AND, OR, or NOT operators in a Where clause in WQL ? I know that it exists, and I found this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa392903%28VS.85%29.aspx But it doesn't specify how to determine the limitation. It w

OT: Google Desktop and Outlook 2003

2010-01-27 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Just installed this and if the Add-In is enabled it restricts my access to subfolders, but not my Inbox. For example. I've got an Alerts folder on the same level as the Inbox. If the Add-In is enabled, I can't delete anything out of it. If I disable it, everything is fine. Anyone run into this

KMS activation with Windows Server 2008 R2

2010-01-27 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Just in case this might save someone some time: I've got 2 KMS hosts on the network and I went through the process of preparing them for the new KMS keys that support R2 and W7. No issues at all with the process. But I had no R2 or W7 machines on the network to test. Activation count on both se

RE: Active Directory Management

2010-01-26 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I've used NetIQ DRA at a few different places and like it for user provisioning. http://www.netiq.com/products/dra/default.asp YMMV Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Infrastructure Service Delivery Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insuranc

RE: Resizing C partition in Server 2003

2010-01-22 Thread Christopher Bodnar
As others have mentioned Acronis DiskDirector does the job, and we use it here extensively on ESX guests. The problem we ran into with DiskDirector is the lack of x64 support and no support for Windows Server 2008. We have since moved to Paragon's Partition Manager 10.0 Server Edition. Almost ident

RE: Help with mass file renaming via command-line

2010-01-22 Thread Christopher Bodnar
How about something like this? FOR /R H:\TEST1\ %I IN (WO*.*) DO SCRIPT.VBS %I And SCRIPT.VBS looks like this: strSourceFilePath = WScript.Arguments.Item(0) Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set f = objFSO.GetFile(strSourceFilePath) strTempFileName =f.Name

RE: Reality check

2010-01-21 Thread Christopher Bodnar
As long as you are tied to the vendor, they will do whatever they want, which means not fixing the problem. Any possibility of shopping around for another vendor? Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Infrastructure Service Delivery Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardi

RE: Computer account password expiration

2010-01-20 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Take a look at this: http://blogs.technet.com/askds/archive/2009/02/15/test2.aspx Specifically this: Machine account passwords as such do not expire in Active Directory. They are exempted from the domain's password policy. It is important to remember that machine account password change

RE: just who's in charge here (dom controller query)

2010-01-20 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Very true. h:\utilities>nltest /sc_query:ACME Flags: 30 HAS_IP HAS_TIMESERV Trusted DC Name \\SERVERDC5.acme.com Trusted DC Connection Status Status = 0 0x0 NERR_Success The command completed successfully h:\utilities>set log LOGONSERVER=\\SERVERDC2 Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems

RE: just who's in charge here (dom controller query)

2010-01-19 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Did you run the DCDIAG command with the /e switch so it would test all domain controllers? Also run Repadmin /replsum * so it reports on all the domain controllers. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Infrastructure Service Delivery Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Servic

RE: just who's in charge here (dom controller query)

2010-01-19 Thread Christopher Bodnar
What does replication look like in your environment? Run DCDIAG and REPADMIN to get a health status for AD replication. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Infrastructure Service Delivery Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Em

RE: just who's in charge here (dom controller query)

2010-01-19 Thread Christopher Bodnar
What does replication look like in your environment? Run DCDIAG and REPADMIN to get a health status for AD replication. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Infrastructure Service Delivery Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Em

RE: KMS count question

2010-01-15 Thread Christopher Bodnar
ed to work here From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 11:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: KMS count question I've got (2) KMS hosts on the network for activating Windows Server 2008 systems. Up until now, we haven't h

KMS count question

2010-01-15 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I've got (2) KMS hosts on the network for activating Windows Server 2008 systems. Up until now, we haven't had any Vista or Windows 7 systems to worry about. The desktop group is starting to test windows 7 and I will begin testing Windows 2008 R2 soon. I have updated the KMS keys on the hosts with

RE: Migrate DHCP database

2010-01-15 Thread Christopher Bodnar
& Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 11:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Migrate DHCP data

RE: Windows 7 and DHCP puzzler

2010-01-15 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I agree that this is going to be the quickest way to find out what the issue is. You really need to determine if the packets are getting to the server and if so what are the responses being sent back to the client. WireShark is a great resource for issues like this. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr

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