RE: GPO Security Context

2009-06-11 Thread Damien Solodow
There are two different places to run a script in a gpo. It can run as a user script, or a computer script. A computer script runs as localsystem. However, the GPO for that script has to be applied to the computer object(s) not the users. -Original Message- From: Juned Shaikh [mailto:js

RE: Clone an OS/2 Disk

2009-06-10 Thread Damien Solodow
e yet. Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _ From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 4:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Clone an OS/2 Disk What filesystem is it? HPFS? Ghost s

RE: Clone an OS/2 Disk

2009-06-10 Thread Damien Solodow
What filesystem is it? HPFS? Ghost should handle that, not sure of clonezilla From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 4:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Clone an OS/2 Disk We have a large press controlled by an aging (and failing) OS/2 system

RE: Which is better port 123 or port 13

2009-05-21 Thread Damien Solodow
By default, ntp is 123/udp From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 12:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Which is better port 123 or port 13 My brain is fried at this point which is better port 123 or port 13 for domain time? I believe it is post

RE: Limit XP box to certain users only

2009-05-19 Thread Damien Solodow
Modify the local security policy to restrict who has "Log On Locally" rights? From: Vicky Spelshaus [mailto:vicky.spelsh...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 5:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Limit XP box to certain users only It's easy to limit user accounts to only be able

RE: 2003 R2

2009-04-30 Thread Damien Solodow
You can do it via a WMI query. Grab a copy of wmicodecreator from the MS downloads site and poke around, it's a value under win32.computersystem I think... From: KenM [mailto:kenmli...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: 2003 R2 no WSU

RE: xp share removal?

2009-04-29 Thread Damien Solodow
You should be able to do 'net use \\servername2\sqlbkup /delete' From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 1:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: xp share removal? I browsed to a share for which I don't have access to the files (different dom

RE: Upgrading Hard Drives on DL380 G3 Mirror

2009-04-17 Thread Damien Solodow
Mostly. After it rebuilds with the second drive, you may need to use HP Array Manager to expand the logical drive to use the rest of the space. Then resize your partition. From: Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 2:23 PM To: NT System Adm

RE: Backup Software

2009-04-17 Thread Damien Solodow
The Do_Not_delete directory suggests an NTFRS issue, or at least the remains of one. Also with BE, do be sure to check LiveUpdate to make sure you have the current SP/patches. You may need to push these to the clients as well... From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Fr

RE: Backup Software

2009-04-17 Thread Damien Solodow
Last I'd heard outshining Arcserve isn't much of an accomplishment. ;) From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 10:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup Software 2nd the CommVault. I've used BackupExec and CA Arcserve, CV outshines

RE: Net port bonding

2009-04-17 Thread Damien Solodow
----Original Message- From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@ibcschools.edu] Sent: 17 April 2009 15:31 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Net port bonding Aside from the obvious that the workstation will need multiple NICs and switch ports, make sure the NICs have a teaming capabl

RE: Barracuda stuff?

2009-04-17 Thread Damien Solodow
Odds are good you got the poor rep due to the bounces. J How long ago did you make the appeal through the site? From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 10:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Barracuda stuff? Greetings! Our No

RE: Net port bonding

2009-04-17 Thread Damien Solodow
Aside from the obvious that the workstation will need multiple NICs and switch ports, make sure the NICs have a teaming capable driver/software. You usually won't see this except on server nics though. In general, teaming will allow bonding on outbound traffic without needing anything to happen on

RE: Win2k8 - 64Bit on ESX

2009-04-09 Thread Damien Solodow
It would be in the server BIOS. Look under Advanced Settings. -Original Message- From: Juned Shaikh [mailto:jsha...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win2k8 - 64Bit on ESX Where would I enable the "DEP" in the HP Server Bios? or Vir

RE: Win2k8 - 64Bit on ESX

2009-04-09 Thread Damien Solodow
You need to enable "Execute Protection" or "DEP". -Original Message- From: Juned Shaikh [mailto:jsha...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 4:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win2k8 - 64Bit on ESX Hi: I am tyring to understand this phenomena. HP DL380G4 with Intel Xeon3.0

RE: HP iLO question

2009-04-06 Thread Damien Solodow
Nope, you can configure the card without a reboot. What you want is "hponcfg" which is here: http://preview.tinyurl.com/cboru9, assuming Windows 2003 x86. This version has a GUI util you can use to make life easier.. From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 06,

RE: locating one machine

2009-03-31 Thread Damien Solodow
Or run "psloggedon" against it and see what user account is logged into it. ;) -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 11:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: locating one machine You guys are cruel! :) But it's fun li

RE: ADUC - Change "Office" on multiple users

2009-03-30 Thread Damien Solodow
Select all the users, right click and choose properties? Then click the box for Office and type in the new one. Could use a query in ADUC to create a list of just the users you want.. From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 10:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues S

RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

2009-03-23 Thread Damien Solodow
ssues Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize? That worked. Thanks Craig Gauss, Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital Association Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572 -Original Message- From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@ibcschools.edu] Sent: Monday, March 23, 20

RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

2009-03-23 Thread Damien Solodow
Issues Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize? Guest still only shows 20GB Craig Gauss, Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital Association Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572 -Original Message- From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@ibcschools.edu] Sent: Monday, March

RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

2009-03-23 Thread Damien Solodow
What does the guest say though? Sometimes I've made changes in the viclient and have to restart it before they show up correctly. -Original Message- From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMware -

RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

2009-03-23 Thread Damien Solodow
instantly Reconfigure Virtual Machine - VCenter - Completed - Root - Time - Start Time and Complete Time Craig Gauss, Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital Association Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572 From: Damien Solodow

RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

2009-03-23 Thread Damien Solodow
Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize? VI Client Craig Gauss, Technical Supervisor/Security Officer Riverview Hospital Association Phone: 715-423-6060 ext. 8572 From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@ibcschools.edu] Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009

RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

2009-03-23 Thread Damien Solodow
Nope, you don't need vCenter to do the resize. Are you trying to do it from the VI Client or from the service console on the esx host? From: Craig Gauss [mailto:gau...@rhahealthcare.org] Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMware - Vcenter resize?

RE: resize system partition

2009-02-19 Thread Damien Solodow
I use SystemRescueCD which has gparted on it. It���s free and has a ton of useful recovery/repair tools. It has saved my bacon several times From: Phil Guevara [mailto:pguev...@mhccov.org] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: resize system partiti

RE: Primary Group Membership

2009-02-13 Thread Damien Solodow
You can do an LDAP query with ADUC.. Use this string: (&(objectCategory=user)(objectClass=user)(!primaryGroupID=513)) -Original Message- From: Jeremy Anderson [mailto:jer...@mapiadmin.net] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 12:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Primary Group Membershi

RE: vRD 2009

2009-02-11 Thread Damien Solodow
I know that recent mRemote can save to vrd 2008 format.. -Original Message- From: Jon B. Lewis [mailto:j...@myriadds.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 3:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: vRD 2009 Of course now I have to convert everything from MRemote to this. Got any

RE: AD attributes

2009-02-09 Thread Damien Solodow
Not sure about goo programs, but ADExplorer from sysinternals is quite nice. From: Chinnery, Paul [mailto:pa...@mmcwm.com] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 2:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: AD attributes Is there a goo program for viewing attributes on the Users container in acti

RE: Del *.bak after 7 days

2009-02-03 Thread Damien Solodow
I'd have to poke around, but I'm sure I do. Although, at a cmd prompt try "forfiles /?" and look at its options. It's pretty straightforward (it's what I use) From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:sj...@amico.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 11:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Del *.bak

RE: Little password generator

2009-01-08 Thread Damien Solodow
Keepass != keypass. Two separate but similar products. ;) From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 11:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Little password generator Heh. WE use keepass here. Didnt even think to look whether

RE: ESXi newbie - question about data stores

2009-01-06 Thread Damien Solodow
Might not be able to do that with esxi as it doesn't have a service console, so maybe no sshd -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESXi newbie - question about data stores http://win

RE: ESXi newbie - question about data stores

2009-01-06 Thread Damien Solodow
Use the VIClient. Double click the datastore, and there should be a button for Upload. From: Bryan Garmon [mailto:bryan.gar...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: ESXi newbie - question about data stores I want to copy a few iso files to t

RE: Utility to Access all Registry Keys remotely

2009-01-05 Thread Damien Solodow
There is a utility called “user2sid” that you can download. Just run it and pass it a username, and it will spit out the SID. A quick Google will turn up download links From: Terri Esham [mailto:terri.es...@noaa.gov] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 1:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: Win 2k8 Enterprise 240-day Eval & Terminal Serivces licenses for 25 users.

2008-12-31 Thread Damien Solodow
al period ends? Thanks, I think I am getting close. Klint and Enterprise comes with 25, and not just 5? I can't find it on the MS site, and have never dealt wi Damien Solodow wrote: Should. In my experience the trial versions are complete and full function, just time-bombed. Fro

RE: Win 2k8 Enterprise 240-day Eval & Terminal Serivces licenses for 25 users.

2008-12-31 Thread Damien Solodow
Should. In my experience the trial versions are complete and full function, just time-bombed. From: Klint Price - ArizonaITPro [mailto:kpr...@arizonaitpro.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 10:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Win 2k8 Enterprise 240-day Eval & Terminal Serivce

RE: A/V on VM Host

2008-12-30 Thread Damien Solodow
Load AV on it just like you would a physical machine? -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 11:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: A/V on VM Host So how do you protect your VM? Or do you simply keep a supposedly known

RE: A/V on VM Host

2008-12-30 Thread Damien Solodow
ailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 11:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: A/V on VM Host And from the host's perspective, the VMs are files, right? Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _____ From:

RE: A/V on VM Host

2008-12-30 Thread Damien Solodow
Normally the AV autoprotect monitors files, not network traffic From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 10:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: A/V on VM Host Would the anti-virus package on a host machine also protect the guest VMs? I

RE: 0-day IE Exploit "in the wild"

2008-12-16 Thread Damien Solodow
Umm... You can have psexec look through a text file... instead of \\computername do @list.txt From: Sean Rector [mailto:sean.rec...@vaopera.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 4:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: 0-day IE Exploit "in the wild" Does anyone have a psexec batch

RE: Local Users and Groups... Remotely?

2008-12-12 Thread Damien Solodow
Use psexec to run "cmd" and do "net user %username% /add" Otherwise odds are it's permissions.. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 4:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Local Users and Groups... Remotely? What services are needed to ac

RE: WTF does CTP mean?

2008-12-03 Thread Damien Solodow
Community Technology Preview. Aka Beta. From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 5:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: WTF does CTP mean? "SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 - CTP" http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D22317E1-

RE: Userenv 1006, 1030 Domain issues

2008-12-01 Thread Damien Solodow
Something is running on CRAB03SVR-2 that is trying to use the wrong credentials. Service or scheduled task perhaps? From: Alex Carroll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 5:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Userenv 1006, 1030 Domain issues I am having issues h

ESX backup solutions?

2008-11-05 Thread Damien Solodow
oking into? Damien Solodow, MCSE Senior System Administrator Infrastructure Services Group Information Services Indiana Business College [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Direct - (317) 217-6881 We are the Foundation of how Business Gets Done! ~ Finally, powerful endpoi

Vbscript being dumb?

2008-10-24 Thread Damien Solodow
t gives? Note: I'm not really a VBscript person, but I'd rather find a way to make this work so the scripts use the same language then I would to rip them all out and redo them in Kixtart.. Damien Solodow Senior System Administrator Infrastructure Services Group Information Services

Password management app?

2008-10-21 Thread Damien Solodow
ences, etc? TIA Damien Solodow Senior System Administrator Infrastructure Services Group Information Services Indiana Business College [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Direct - (317) 217-6881 We are the Foundation of how Business Gets Done! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that

RE: IE7 initial settings - can you turn it off?

2008-10-15 Thread Damien Solodow
Yes and yes. From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 1:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: IE7 initial settings - can you turn it off? I'm talking about the initial 4 screens that ask to turn on phishing filter, choose your default search, etc.

RE: PDF Editing Software

2008-10-08 Thread Damien Solodow
Take a look at PDFTKBUilder.. From: Aaron T. Rohyans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 2:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: PDF Editing Software Anyone know of some (preferably free) PDF editing software? I don't necessarily need to manipulate an original

RE: Good text editor

2008-10-02 Thread Damien Solodow
I've always had good luck with Textpad. From: Ames Matthew B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 10:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Good text editor Crimson or UltraEdit (both support ftp editing of files, which is a bonus for me) _

RE: Windows 98 question.

2008-09-26 Thread Damien Solodow
, 2008 10:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 98 question. The line "dos=single" is not there. I had already changed the "BootGUI" to zero. Will try the F5 trick next. ____ From: Damien Solodow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sen

RE: Windows 98 question.

2008-09-26 Thread Damien Solodow
At the dos prompt, take the system, hidden and read-only attributes off of msdos.sys and edit it. It is a text file, and there should be a line that says something like dos=single. Delete that line, save the file, put the attributes back on and reboot. From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: List Implosion

2008-09-12 Thread Damien Solodow
It happened when they turned on the large hadron collider... From: Jason Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 9:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: List Implosion Did the list implode again? --- Jason Morris MJMC,

Is it dead Jim?

2008-09-11 Thread Damien Solodow
I haven't seen anything come through the last day or so and the archive doesn't show anything after about the 3rd... Damien Solodow Senior System Administrator Infrastructure Services Group Information Services Indiana Business College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Direct - (317) 217-6881

RE: Partition Magic??

2008-09-04 Thread Damien Solodow
Should work fine. From: Cesare' A. Ramos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 3:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Partition Magic?? Hellos all. Have never used Partition Magic but we have the need to take a PC running Windows XP Professional with one ph

RE: RDP quits after windows update

2008-09-04 Thread Damien Solodow
I'm guessing here, but I'm reasonably sure he didn't install XP SP3 on Windows Server 2003. From: Stephan Barr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of lists Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 11:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RDP quits after windows update By chance did your

RE: How to Display/Change Workgroup name in Server 2008 Core

2008-08-15 Thread Damien Solodow
Try this: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/guyt/archive/2008/03/22/windows-serve r-core-coreconfigurator-to-the-rescue.aspx -Original Message- From: Bryan Garmon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 8:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How to Display/Change

RE: Hippa Compliance Checklist

2008-08-12 Thread Damien Solodow
Add an L to the beginning of the first word of UBNC. -Original Message- From: Steve Kelsay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 11:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hippa Compliance Checklist OK, I give what is an LBNC issue? I can Google a UBNC syndrome (

RE: Canon Network Scangear

2008-08-08 Thread Damien Solodow
The utility 'procmon' from sysinternals is your friend in these cases. From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 1:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Canon Network Scangear Anyone know what to do so this POS works w/o giving the user admin rights

RE: [OT] TGIF

2008-08-08 Thread Damien Solodow
I've noticed that it's more often in spurts then waves.. -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 10:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT] TGIF -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] S

RE: Scripted AD Redirected Profile Change

2008-08-05 Thread Damien Solodow
You can definitely do that with dsmod. Run 'dsmod user /? |more' for more info From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 4:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scripted AD Redirected Profile Change Thanks for all the quick responses! Sorry, I

RE: Scripted AD Redirected Profile Change

2008-08-05 Thread Damien Solodow
Another good option is 'dsmod' From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 4:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scripted AD Redirected Profile Change Which profile? Cusrmgr.exe from the Win2k resource kit might help you script this out prett

RE: Ghost like products

2008-07-22 Thread Damien Solodow
Altiris. From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 12:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Ghost like products What other products are the out there for managing HDD image files that give you the ability to push out the images to workstations besides Ghos

RE: Starting services

2008-07-21 Thread Damien Solodow
be obvious, but I'm fighting about 5 other problems at the moment.) Thanks again! -- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org "Damien Solodow"

RE: Starting services

2008-07-21 Thread Damien Solodow
It sounds like you have a GPO applying to those systems that defines what accounts have the right "Logon as a service". Add those two service accounts to that GPO and your problem will go away. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 200

DHCP installation failure

2008-07-09 Thread Damien Solodow
ves the service and registry entries. Anyone seen this one before? Damien Solodow System Administrator Infrastructure Services Group Information Services Indiana Business College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Direct - (317) 217-6881 We are the Foundation of how Business Gets Done! ~ Upgrade

RE: looking for a freeware utility to....

2008-07-03 Thread Damien Solodow
Or do it in Powershell. ;) Grab a copy of WmiCodeCreator from MS downloads, and you can figure out what properties to query and it will make a vbs script to pull that data. From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 1:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subjec

RE: Your fav AV?

2008-07-03 Thread Damien Solodow
Fix Or Repair Daily Funky Old Rusty Derelict From: Sean Houston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 11:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Your fav AV? FORD = Found On Road Dead Sean Houston On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Andy Shook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: WSUS question

2008-06-19 Thread Damien Solodow
I think it's susdb.mdf, but you probably don't have many mdf files on the server in the first place. From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 5:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: WSUS question Well, my DB manager got a bit over-zealous a few weeks ago

RE: Firefox 3.0 Download Day - TMP plugin?

2008-06-18 Thread Damien Solodow
There is a dev build of it on the developers site (link on the Addons page) that works with 3.0 final. -Original Message- From: Krishna Reddy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 1:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Firefox 3.0 Download Day - TMP plugin? I

RE: Remote registry changes in bulk

2008-06-18 Thread Damien Solodow
What about a login or computer startup script? -Original Message- From: Kirk Woloshyn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 12:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Remote registry changes in bulk I'm looking for a tool that will allow me to apply registry changes

RE: Firefox 3.0 Download Day

2008-06-17 Thread Damien Solodow
erson From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 3:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Firefox 3.0 Download Day Wow, major glitch in the Matrix, unless Andrew Greene and Damien Solodow are the same person Joe H

RE: Firefox 3.0 Download Day

2008-06-17 Thread Damien Solodow
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means. From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 3:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Firefox 3.0 Download Day Inconceivable.. On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Ben Scott

RE: Disk/partition migration tool

2008-06-13 Thread Damien Solodow
Or gtparted which is free. ;) From: Todd Lemmiksoo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 10:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disk/partition migration tool Partition Manager for desktop or server. From: Damien Solodow

RE: Disk/partition migration tool

2008-06-13 Thread Damien Solodow
Ghost? DriveImageXML, G4L, or similar. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 9:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Disk/partition migration tool Good morning, I have an XP Pro machine with a small system partition that has run out of space.

RE: Utility to show details of installed printers?

2008-06-12 Thread Damien Solodow
details of installed printers? On 11 Jun 2008 at 15:16, Damien Solodow wrote: > Win2k3 and XP have a couple of pr*.vbs files in %systemroot% that will help with this. > Prnmngr.vbs will let you list installed printers and it will give you driver name and port > name. There is a prnport

RE: Utility to show details of installed printers?

2008-06-11 Thread Damien Solodow
Win2k3 and XP have a couple of pr*.vbs files in %systemroot% that will help with this. Prnmngr.vbs will let you list installed printers and it will give you driver name and port name. There is a prnport.vbs that will give you all the details on the ports as well. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

RE: need to recover/reset local admin password

2008-06-05 Thread Damien Solodow
I've used this tool before: http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/ From: Sean Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 11:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: need to recover/reset local admin password Doesn't our host have a tool? NTAccess? Although it

RE: Fav free FTP client?

2008-05-08 Thread Damien Solodow
Filezilla is always popular. SmartFTP is pretty nice, but heavier. I personally use WinSCP since it also does SCP, SFTP and ties in with Putty. -Original Message- From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Fav free

RE: PSShutdown

2008-05-06 Thread Damien Solodow
This inclines me to think that domain admins don't have local admin rights on that machine. -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 11:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PSShutdown Ok, my message is very poorly written. Let m

RE: HP DL380 G5

2008-05-05 Thread Damien Solodow
Look up the serial number for the server, and you should be able to get a parts list from HPs website. From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 11:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: HP DL380 G5 I am trying to deduce if a new mobo in a DL380 G5 supp

RE: Win server 2008

2008-04-30 Thread Damien Solodow
Correct. -Original Message- From: SMREKAR, JACK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win server 2008 I have a quick question. Would there be any issues if I add a Win 2008 member server to a Win 2003 native domain. I am

RE: Raid 10 SCSI drives - different manufacturers?

2008-04-15 Thread Damien Solodow
Usually. The main gotcha I'd worry about is if the existing drives are rebranded as there might be firmware changes. HP particularly does this with their drives as they have a custom firmware and non-HP drives can have unpredictable results. From: Ben Nordlander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

RE: Naming convention for Servers

2008-04-14 Thread Damien Solodow
trips to the zoo when you start to run out? :p From: Damien Solodow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 15 April 2008 1:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Naming convention for Servers It depends on how you do it. J At my last place, we had well over 50 servers and we still

RE: Naming convention for Servers

2008-04-14 Thread Damien Solodow
break down once you have 50-100 (or more servers)? Cheers Ken From: Damien Solodow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 14 April 2008 8:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Naming convention for Servers My preference has always been to use names with some kind of theme

RE: Naming convention for Servers

2008-04-14 Thread Damien Solodow
helpdesk call b\c a user was having problems connecting to the 8th planet? Shook http://www.linkedin.com/in/andyshook From: Damien Solodow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 11:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Naming convention

RE: Naming convention for Servers

2008-04-14 Thread Damien Solodow
My preference has always been to use names with some kind of theme (animals, gems, etc) and to make sure they are pronounceable and something that can be spelled. It's much easier to tell the Helpdesk that what they're looking for is on "sapphire" then on "inusfsrv01" From: Sherry Abercrom

RE: RSAT for Vista SP1--the new adminpak

2008-04-11 Thread Damien Solodow
: RE: RSAT for Vista SP1--the new adminpak Yep... is it just my machine then? From: Damien Solodow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 8:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RSAT for Vista SP1--the new adminpak Did you turn on the check for Show Advanced prop

RE: RSAT for Vista SP1--the new adminpak

2008-04-11 Thread Damien Solodow
Did you turn on the check for Show Advanced properties? :D From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 11:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RSAT for Vista SP1--the new adminpak Okay, anybody else on a 2003 domain notice there are still some tab

RE: RSAT for Vista SP1--the new adminpak

2008-04-10 Thread Damien Solodow
They do appear to. One caveat though is that when you install the msi, none of the tools are actually installed yet. You have to add them through 'Windows features'. From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 12:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RSA

RE: Withdrawal

2008-04-07 Thread Damien Solodow
linkedin.com/in/andyshook -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 3:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Withdrawal I knew he was banned in Solid, Liquid and Gas (especially Gas...Whew), but I wasn't aware of the 4

RE: Withdrawal

2008-04-04 Thread Damien Solodow
Shook is banned in 4 states, and another 15 are pressing charges. :) -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 1:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Withdrawal I'm going through withdrawal from the list being down for a day...qui

RE: Public TS - opinions?

2008-04-01 Thread Damien Solodow
I think you can also setup a TS gateway system that the user connects to via https and it tunnels or passes the rdp traffic to the terminal server. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 4:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Public TS - opinio

RE: [OT] April 1st

2008-03-31 Thread Damien Solodow
We have cookies. -Original Message- From: Christopher J. Bosak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 4:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT] April 1st Come to the dark side. -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sen

RE: Which process has a file open

2008-03-26 Thread Damien Solodow
Comes with? Not that I know of. Sysinternals Process Explorer works great though (and is free) From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 10:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Which process has a file open Is there a windows tool (ie comes with X

RE: Tool to change Permissions..

2008-03-25 Thread Damien Solodow
Permissions.. Thanks Damien...will xcacls work even with the user being the owner and having no permissions to the directory and the checkbox for allow directory to inherit perms from parent? Thanks.. ____________ From: Damien Solodow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

RE: Tool to change Permissions..

2008-03-25 Thread Damien Solodow
The command line tool of choice is 'xcacls' From: Chyka, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 2:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Tool to change Permissions.. I know this has been discussed before but I can't seem to find it in the archives. We have some

RE: Stop WSUS updates

2008-03-12 Thread Damien Solodow
y can. They get thier files from a shared folder on the server. On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Damien Solodow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Nope. They can't download files from a downed website. > > Are you sure WSUS is the cause of your load? > > >

RE: Stop WSUS updates

2008-03-12 Thread Damien Solodow
will die with the www death, correct? - Original Message - From: Damien Solodow <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: NT System Admin Issues <mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:19 AM Subje

RE: Stop WSUS updates

2008-03-12 Thread Damien Solodow
stopped. But the load is still to high. Could the PC's still be downloading even if WSUS and WWW is dead? - Original Message - From: Damien Solodow <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: NT System Admin Issues &l

RE: Stop WSUS updates

2008-03-12 Thread Damien Solodow
: Damien Solodow <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: NT System Admin Issues <mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:11 AM Subject: RE: Stop WSUS updates Nope. They can't download files from

RE: Stop WSUS updates

2008-03-12 Thread Damien Solodow
load is still to high. Could the PC's still be downloading even if WSUS and WWW is dead? - Original Message - From: Damien Solodow <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: NT System Admin Issues <mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>

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