RE: Problems with locked computers

2010-01-08 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Can you specify if he wants to bump the existing user off, and log in under his ID, or logon as the currently logged on user? If the latter, he will need to have a list of passwords for each user. No other way that I am aware of to do that. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer

Delegating GPO administration

2010-01-08 Thread Christopher Bodnar
W2K3 FFL: I'm trying to delegate GPO administration to a group of users. I've run the Delegation of Control wizard and gave them the Manage Group Policy links selection. Should this give them the ability to read and edit existing GPOs? When you look at the security properties at the

RE: Delegating GPO administration

2010-01-08 Thread Christopher Bodnar
permission to create or manage GPO's. On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote: W2K3 FFL: I'm trying to delegate GPO administration to a group of users. I've run the Delegation of Control wizard and gave them the Manage Group Policy links selection

RE: How long to get a server?

2010-01-06 Thread Christopher Bodnar
My previous job was a Dell shop. 90% of the time items arrived in a timely manner. But we did experience issues like what you are running into on occasion. A good rep will be working with you on these issues and offering you alternatives. As others have mentioned, if your rep is not responsive, or

W2K3 on IBM HS22 with NUMA enabled

2010-01-05 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Anyone running this and run into an issue? We have found that W2K3 Standard does not support NUMA, and the new HS22 blades have NUMA enabled by default, which has been causing us some memory issues. Just wanted to see if anyone else on the list has run into this yet. Thanks, Chris

RE: Microsoft Support: Number??

2010-01-04 Thread Christopher Bodnar
There is only 1 phone number or contact name in the signature? I find that very strange. For example I've got a case open right now, and it has 4 names with full contact information for each (main contact, backup contact, technical lead, manager). And this has been my experience for years with

Way OT: Census ad campaign

2010-01-04 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Saw it was a slow day on the list and thought I'd vent a little. Anyone else see this yet? Or think this number is astronomical for what they are trying to accomplish? I just keep thinking how many Head Start programs this could fund or arts programs could be re-instated with this kind of

RE: Way OT: Census ad campaign

2010-01-04 Thread Christopher Bodnar
, Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote: Saw it was a slow day on the list and thought I'd vent a little. Anyone else see this yet? Or think this number is astronomical for what they are trying to accomplish? I just keep thinking how many Head Start programs this could fund or arts

RE: Copy Local Database of Windows Users to New Server?

2009-12-30 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Will USMT let you do this if the source and the destination are both server OSs? 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

RE: Opinions on Desktop Central 7

2009-12-29 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Looks interesting. Especially the pricing. What size environment? What are you comparing it to? Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Infrastructure Service Delivery Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email:

Checking for clean removal of application

2009-12-28 Thread Christopher Bodnar
We have an application that installs an agent on a server. We want to test to see how cleanly the agent is removed after uninstalling it. Does it remove all the registry entries, all the files , all the registered DLLs, etc.. Anyone have suggestions for tools to use? I've thought of using

RE: UMCT

2009-12-24 Thread Christopher Bodnar
May your primary and secondary numbers in the on-call database be deleted by elves. 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

RE: AD Tool

2009-12-16 Thread Christopher Bodnar
What are your requirements? 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: Bill

RE: AD Tool

2009-12-16 Thread Christopher Bodnar
contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. Thank you. From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 2:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AD Tool What are your requirements? Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr

RE: Windows 2008 Fax server or alternate?

2009-12-16 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Have you thought about using a 3rd party service for this? Not sure it's the cheapest over the long term, but there are definitely benefits and I think all the services can do what you are looking for. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Infrastructure Service Delivery Distributed

Problem with MS Update site ?

2009-12-11 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Anyone else getting this when they connect to the MS Update site in IE? 403 - Forbidden: Access is denied. You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials that you supplied. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Infrastructure Service Delivery

RE: Hyena

2009-12-11 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I haven't used it recently, but did use it at a previous job and liked it. We now use DameWare NT Utilities, and I highly recommend trying it. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Infrastructure Service Delivery Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance

RE: Problem with MS Update site ?

2009-12-11 Thread Christopher Bodnar
11, 2009 11:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Problem with MS Update site ? Nope. On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote: Anyone else getting this when they connect to the MS Update site in IE? 403 - Forbidden: Access is denied

RE: Problem with MS Update site ?

2009-12-11 Thread Christopher Bodnar
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: Christopher Bodnar Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 11:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Problem with MS Update site

RE: Problem with MS Update site ?

2009-12-11 Thread Christopher Bodnar
-807-6003 _ From: Christopher Bodnar Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 11:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Problem with MS Update site ? Found this: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows/46532-403-forbidden-access-denied-wi n-xp-updates.html Interesting. Not sure

RE: Odd GP issue

2009-12-08 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I believe it's creating a temporary file in the %TEMP% directory, which is probably not set to the users desktop. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Infrastructure Service Delivery Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America

RE: AD users and computers

2009-12-03 Thread Christopher Bodnar
With some experimentation you can get exactly what you want. The delegation wizard is the place to start and if that isn't sufficient modify the permissions directly. One thing to keep in mind is that by default this user or group won't be able to modify users in protected groups. In 2003 these

Permissions on AdminSDHolder

2009-12-03 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I've brought this up before, but have been running into some more issues. Anyone else modifying the permission on the AdminSDHolder object to grant permissions as described in this KB article? http://support.microsoft.com/?id=817433 In our scenario I've got different support groups that

RE: Permissions on AdminSDHolder

2009-12-03 Thread Christopher Bodnar
(in general) I think it's a bad idea. Use dsacls to do a complete dump on an affected object, and if that doesn't answer your question, post it here (or I guess send it to me directly, although I'd rather everyone get to be involved). From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod

RE: No answers here, but a suggestion for an approach

2009-12-02 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I agree with this assessment 100%. I also like the analogy to the airline industry. My take on this issue is the difficulty in finding truly competent people (technologists?) at each progressive level of management. For example I think it's fairly easy to find someone who is competent at SQL, or

RE: HTTP to HTTPS redirect -

2009-12-01 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Can you put one of these clients outside the firewall? Directly on the internet and test to verify it's not an issue with your firewall/proxy server? Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Infrastructure Service Delivery Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian

RE: Trying to save myself a bit of work

2009-11-30 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Wouldn't it have to be the number of days in the shortest month of the year? Which would be 28 for February ? Maybe I'm missing something here. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Infrastructure Service Delivery Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life

Startup script security context

2009-11-30 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I have a startup script running as part of the local group policy on a server. I know it's running in the context of the Local System account. Is there any way to modify that to use a different account? Thanks, Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Infrastructure Service Delivery

RE: Startup script security context

2009-11-30 Thread Christopher Bodnar
user (though probably not safely via script, but your script could invoke something else) Cheers Ken From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Monday, 30 November 2009 11:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Startup script security context I have

RE: How view what network resources a User has

2009-11-24 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Would it be sufficient to do it by Share? List the shares and the permissions on each share? Or do you have to do it by user? If so we use a product called DatAdvantage by Varonis that does that. Works really well, but fairly beefy. Not sure it would be a good fit for a smaller shop.

RE: Will Ntbackup Suffice?

2009-11-19 Thread Christopher Bodnar
You can do a lot with NTBackup and some scripting, if you don't have any other options. Relatively easy to setup e-mailed reports of backup jobs to go to different distribution lists, etc.. And there are a number of examples of scripts like this out on the net if you are interested. As others

NTLM authentication question

2009-11-04 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Can someone give me a brief overview of the communication that takes place when a client falls back to NTLM for Domain Authentication after Kerberos fails? I'm interested in the ports it's using not the actual handshake that takes place. I've read a few things that say its UDP 137, UDP 138, and

PING on W2K8 server uisng IPv6?

2009-11-03 Thread Christopher Bodnar
OK so if I ping the localhost on a W2K8 box by hostname it defaults to the IPv6 address of ::1 even if IPv6 is disabled. So this will return ::1 c:ping MYSERVER Reply from ::1: time=4ms Reply from ::1: time1ms Reply from ::1: time1ms Reply from ::1: time1ms If I comment out the IPv6 address in

RE: PING on W2K8 server uisng IPv6?

2009-11-03 Thread Christopher Bodnar
shows up first? -Bonnie -Original Message- From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 11:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PING on W2K8 server uisng IPv6? Yeah, I did find that. I'd rather have a good idea of why it behaves

re: Ammo for apple mac sales pitch

2009-10-23 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Not sure how much time you have to prepare, but if you can go into the meeting with some initial numbers on the ongoing costs it will take to support the Macs in your environment, that might help. For example, say you now have to spend 3 hours per week dealing with Mac specific user issues that

Password policy minimum password age

2009-10-08 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I've been working towards getting our help desk accounts out of the Domain Admins group. I've successfully modified the permissions on the AdminSDHolder object so they can reset passwords on users in protected groups (i.e. Domain Admins, Schema Admins, etc..). During testing the password reset

RE: Google's screen today

2009-10-07 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Except for the notable exception of the UFO doodles leading up to HG Wells birthday. 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

SP2 cannot be installed to an offline image of Windows Server 2008

2009-10-07 Thread Christopher Bodnar
It took a while for me to find this, and I thought I'd pass it along to anyone else that was thinking they could update their existing offline WIM images: The following scenarios are applicable to businesses that want to deploy SP2 to multiple computers or deploy custom images, or both. We

Delegate permission: Reset Domain Admin passwords

2009-10-05 Thread Christopher Bodnar
We have a requirement that our helpdesk be delegated the right to reset passwords for Domain Admin accounts, but need to limit their access. I don't want to add them to Domain Admins. I know that the Domain Admins is a protected group and I'm aware of the function of the AdminSDHolder object. I

RE: Delegate permission: Reset Domain Admin passwords

2009-10-05 Thread Christopher Bodnar
, October 05, 2009 10:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Delegate permission: Reset Domain Admin passwords Are all of you DA accounts in the same OU? If so just delegate the right to reset passwords for the helpdesk on the OU. On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Christopher

RE: Security Log/Event Viewer wierdness

2009-10-01 Thread Christopher Bodnar
What happens if you roll it back to a less restrictive security template like Compatws.inf Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Infrastructure Service Delivery Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email:

RE: How to set up a private network on VMware ESX for testing purposes

2009-09-30 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Setup the reverse lookup zone and add the PTR records. You should be OK then. 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:

RE: Intermediate Certification Authorities

2009-09-23 Thread Christopher Bodnar
for or who issued it? Cheers Ken From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Wednesday, 23 September 2009 12:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Intermediate Certification Authorities Need help with this: Windows 2003 forest functional level. We

RE: Intermediate Certification Authorities

2009-09-23 Thread Christopher Bodnar
. You might check the default domain policy. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 11:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Intermediate Certification

RE: Intermediate Certification Authorities

2009-09-23 Thread Christopher Bodnar
/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: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 8:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Intermediate

RE: Intermediate Certification Authorities

2009-09-23 Thread Christopher Bodnar
19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 8:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Intermediate Certification Authorities Nothing that I can think

RE: Intermediate Certification Authorities

2009-09-23 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Found this article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/889250 Read through the whole thing, which walks you step by step how to remove everything manually. Then at the very end it tells you about PKIView, which is a GUI to do the entire thing in 10 seconds. I’ve removed all the

Intermediate Certification Authorities

2009-09-22 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Need help with this: Windows 2003 forest functional level. We currently do not have a PKI infrastructure. There is a certificate in every machines Intermediate Certification Authorities - Certificates folder , and I'm not sure how it got there. I had a test server that I installed

RE: Enterprise IP management Software

2009-09-17 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Do you currently use MS DHCP? If so are you looking for a 3rd party tool that will give you a web interface for this? Or are you looking to replace MS DHCP with a 3rd party like VItalQIP? If you are using MS DHCP, why can't you just have the 10 users install the administrator tools and launch

Inbound and Outbound replication on DC

2009-09-10 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Had an issue with a DC in a remote site. It ended up being that Inbound and Outbound replication on the DC was disabled which was shown by REPADMIN /SHOWREPS /V: DC Options: DISABLE_INBOUND_REPL DISABLE_OUTBOUND_REPL I enabled them and that seems to have fixed the problem. From what I am

RE: Inbound and Outbound replication on DC

2009-09-10 Thread Christopher Bodnar
minutes it starts causing issues) that replication disabled itself? Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox 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

RE: Win 7 key

2009-09-08 Thread Christopher Bodnar
While we are on this topic, anyone do the upgrade of their KMS servers to support 2008 R2? I've done the updates on the KMS servers and retrieved my new KMS key but haven't swapped it out yet. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services

Access to Event Logs for Auditors

2009-09-03 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Got an internal group of auditors that needs access to servers for investigations, but only read access. This is one of the items they need. If I make them a member of the Remote Desktop Users group, and they log on to the server through RDP, they can view all of the event logs except Security. If

RE: Changing a NetBIOS name considerations

2009-09-02 Thread Christopher Bodnar
You can hobble together a quick VB script or PowerShell one to do this. Shouldn't be that difficult. This might help: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394418%28VS.85%29.aspx Specifically you are looking at the StartName property. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed

RE: Network Monitoring tools

2009-09-02 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Have you looked at SolarWinds? http://www.solarwinds.com/products/toolsets/ Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. 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

W2K8 R2 OSD image wtih SMS 2003

2009-09-01 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Anyone here create one yet? I'm running into an issue with Sysprep. Get the following error at the end of the Capture wizard: No Sysprep.exe in LH Sysprep.exe is on the machine, same place it is on a regular 2008 machine. Not sure what this is about. Anyone run into this yet?

RE: Client for Microsoft Networks and File and Print Sharing

2009-08-28 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I think when you setup Hyper-V and assign NICs for the switch, it disables all that stuff. I could be wrong. Also I don't believe there is a NETSH command to do what you want. I think you need to modify the registry. Take a look at this:

RE: Good NT sysadmin list?

2009-08-28 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Michael, I'm in the same boat, we are a Lotus notes shop and 6.5 is the standard. I hobbled the old Lotus Notes connector to work with Outlook 2003. I can send you the steps offline if you are interested. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel

RE: default logon domain name Vista

2009-08-27 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I think that is a Vista only setting and you need to manually load the Vista ADMX or ADML files. Keep in mind that this won't apply to down-level clients (XP, 2000). Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of

RE: Word Definition Origination

2009-08-27 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Natives of CHIOS Island, Greece. ? Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. 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: rhw...@gmail.com

RE: DSQuery

2009-08-26 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I just did this with Dsquery and it required very little cleanup with Excel to pull out the names of the OUs from the output. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email:

RE: Dell poweredge server problems with VMWARE

2009-08-25 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Please give more detail on the configuration. What Version of VMWare (ESX 3.5, ESXi, VSPhere)? When you say it freez for upto 2 minutes can you please describe exactly what that means? What symptoms? Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services

RE: Dell poweredge server problems with VMWARE

2009-08-25 Thread Christopher Bodnar
ESXi or VMWare Server? Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. 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: Nigel Parker

re: Orion APM vs SCOM

2009-08-25 Thread Christopher Bodnar
We are in the process of evaluating a few of the vendors in this area. Specifically: NetIQ AppManager IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) HP Operations Manager SCOM 2007 A lot of the functionality you need will affect what you get. For example, we need something that will connect to our ticketing

re: Right to create share on server?

2009-08-25 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I found this: http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/archive/2005/04/18/409105.aspx Thanks Chris ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

RE: Open Letter and apology

2009-08-25 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Did you get to see it? He's a great guitar player. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. 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:

RE: Way, Way, Way, OT: Google News

2009-08-24 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Keep in mind that image was not chosen by Google. It's an image from the source article: http://www.dbtechno.com/health/2009/08/24/cdc-proposing-circumcision-to-re duce-rate-of-hiv/ But I agree it's an atrocious choice. Every day I am agreeing more and more with Michael Moore in regards

Right to create share on server?

2009-08-24 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Windows Server 2003: We are looking at delegating some administrative tasks. One of these tasks is creating shares on member servers. Is it possible to delegate this task without adding the user to the local administrators group? Thanks, Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer

Semi OT: SMS 2003 collection question

2009-08-24 Thread Christopher Bodnar
SMS 2003: OK, I've got a collection that is working and doing what I want it to do, but I'm curious as to how it's doing it. I've created a collection that has members of an AD OU. It seems that by default this is recursive down the OU hierarchy. It's similar to this: select

RE: certification advice

2009-08-24 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I'll chime in with my worthless 2 cents. I'm in the same boat as Brian. I have my 2003 MCSE cert, and I just took 70-649 which gave me (3) MCTS certs. I now need 70-646 for MCITP Server Administrator and then 2 more for MCIPT Enterprise Administrator. Most likely 70-620 and 70-647. I'm happy

Patching question

2009-08-18 Thread Christopher Bodnar
This is not really an SMS question, more of a generic patching question. We have SMS 2003, and use it to patch systems. I recently found out we have a large number of systems still at W2K3 PS1. Easy enough to push out SP2 to them. The problem then, is how to automate the application of any post

RE: Help with /regserver

2009-08-18 Thread Christopher Bodnar
It could be doing anything. Switches are hard coded in the application. The developers can create any switches they want, to do anything, and call them whatever they please. You should really ask the application vendor what the switches do. What is the application? Maybe someone on the list

RE: Obsolete Tech

2009-08-17 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I'm pretty close. I'd say 38, but 2 only because I couldn't afford them when they came out: Phone installed in Car Laser Disk Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email:

RE: log parsing

2009-08-17 Thread Christopher Bodnar
My guess is that you are not launching REGEDT32.EXE It should have 5 cascaded windows within the program when you launch it. Taken directly from the article: In Windows 2000 and later, only Administrators and Backup Operators have default network access to the registry. How

SCOM 2007 architecture question

2009-08-17 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Say you have multiple Management groups. Each Management group needs an RMS. Can the RS span multiple management groups? Or do you need an RS for each Management group? Also for the GS, can you have clients configured for a primary and a secondary like they are with an MS? That way if one GS

RE: SCOM 2007 architecture question

2009-08-17 Thread Christopher Bodnar
architecture question Each RMS belongs to a single management group Gateway servers act just like MSes. You can configure your agents to have a primary gateway and a secondary gateway. HTH Cheers Ken From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Monday, 17

70-646 exam?

2009-08-17 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Anyone take 70-649 and 70-646 recently? I just passed 70-649 this weekend and looked at some online practice tests for 70-646 and it seems like it covers the same material? If that's the case I may schedule the test in the next week or so to get it out of the way. Thanks Chris Bodnar,

RE: (OT) Oh no....

2009-08-13 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I used to be a music teacher in another life, guitar was my major instrument in college. It's a very sad day. I very much regret not taking the time to see him play at the Iridium Jazz Club in NY. He was one of those icons I always assumed would be there. I'm still mourning Sam Maloof.

RE: Server 2008 Books

2009-08-13 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I liked Windows Server 2008 Unleashed. Chapter 16 covers migrations. http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Server-2008-Unleashed-Morimoto/dp/0672329301 /ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8 http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Server-2008-Unleashed-Morimoto/dp/067232930 1/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8s=booksqid=1250194809sr=1-1

RE: OT: Salary rant

2009-08-12 Thread Christopher Bodnar
..You're the best, around. No one's ever gunna beat you down) but that was not the intent. :-) On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote: I know I'm not going to get a any sympathy here, due to the unemployment rate, and the economy in general

RE: OT: Salary rant

2009-08-12 Thread Christopher Bodnar
) but that was not the intent. J                On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote:                I know I'm not going to get a any sympathy here, due to the unemployment rate, and the economy in general, but needed to vent a little. Was hired as a contract

RE: Windows 2008 Rdp

2009-08-12 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Did you install the Terminal Services role on this machine? Is it a DC? Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. 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 _

OT: Salary rant

2009-08-11 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I know I’m not going to get a any sympathy here, due to the unemployment rate, and the economy in general, but needed to vent a little. Was hired as a contract to hire position last year. Great company, close to home, good salary. 6 months in they cut my salary by 10% to the contracting

clarification on sp level and patching

2009-08-10 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Got a question, If a machine is not at the latest SP level, say for example a server is at W2K3 SP1, but it has all the critical updates for SP1 applied, is that machine considered patched for critical updates? It has always been my impression that it is not. My reasoning is that it's missing

RE: LDAP Service

2009-08-10 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Take a look at AD FS in 2008: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772593%28WS.10%29.aspx Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone:

RE: Robocopy

2009-08-10 Thread Christopher Bodnar
What happens if you copy a file over manually using the GUI? Does it inherit permissions as expected? Or does it blank them out like your script? Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America

RE: Scheduled Tasks/Batch logons, etc

2009-08-07 Thread Christopher Bodnar
My suggestion is to create a service account that will never log on interactively to the workstation. Have that account's credentials execute the batch file. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of

RE: PowerShell training - recommended!

2009-08-06 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Just curious, what was your level of experience with PowerShell prior to the training? Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax:

RE: domain/forest setup question

2009-08-06 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Very subjective question. A lot depends on internal politics, not necessarily technical issues. MS is really pushing single forest and single domain, unless you have good reasons to do otherwise for Windows Server 2008. How big are the environments at each site? How many users? What are the

RE: PowerShell training - recommended!

2009-08-06 Thread Christopher Bodnar
admitting I'm not too bright :-) Dave From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 7:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PowerShell training - recommended! Just curious, what was your level of experience with PowerShell prior

VBScript Regular expression help

2009-08-05 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Can someone help me out with a regular expression in VBScript? This does exactly what I want it to do, for the { character: myRegExp.Pattern = [^{]*\{([^}]*)\} So if my string is the following: (Select * FROM {SQL_TABLE} Where Field={SQL_FIELD}) It returns: SQL_TABLE

RE: VBScript Regular expression help

2009-08-05 Thread Christopher Bodnar
regexp re.Global = true re.Pattern = (.*?) set oM = re.execute(a) for each str in oM: Wscript.echo replace(str,,,1,-1,1): next From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 6:09 am To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VBScript Regular expression

2008 SP2

2009-07-24 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I just started testing this on our standard builds. Is it my imagination or does this thing take a long time to install compared to other service packs? Thanks Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of

RE: Lost only domain controller

2009-07-24 Thread Christopher Bodnar
If this is the only DC, has a good backup, and he will be using the same hardware, he might be OK. What backup software were they using ? Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email:

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

2009-07-23 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Matthew, No, your DHCP server will dish out the correct IP address by scope. The router has a DHCP helper address which will forward it to the DHCP server. The DHCP server will see what subnet the request came from, and give out a lease for an IP address of the scope assigned to that subnet. For

Computer Security groups

2009-07-23 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Windows Server 2003 SP2 Is there a way to refresh/update the group membership of a computer without rebooting? I'd created a group, and added computer accounts to it, but GPRESULT doesn't show the group membership yet, I think it needs a reboot. Thanks, Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr.

RE: Computer Security groups

2009-07-23 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Nope that doesn't update the group membership of the computer. This is interesting: http://waynes-world-it.blogspot.com/2008/03/refreshing-computer-account-ad -group.html Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance

RE: Data replication in real-time (or near real-time)

2009-07-22 Thread Christopher Bodnar
I'm not sure you are going to find anything out there that is less expensive, and gives you what you are looking for, then going with DFS in 2008. I think the 3rd party products have more features, but you will pay a premium for them. We had been using Double-Take at my previous job, and switched

OT: EMC PowerLink KB document

2009-07-22 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Can anyone get to this document on PowerLink? emc100126 Having problems viewing anything from the KB. Thanks, Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email:

RE: Printer issue

2009-07-21 Thread Christopher Bodnar
What happens if you try printing locally in the office? Have her forward the e-mail to you, ,and try printing locally to a regular network printer (i.e. HP LJ something or other). Does it print correctly ? Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel

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