Re: 2008 R2 DHCP / MAC Address Filtering / mass import of MAC ID's

2012-01-05 Thread Devin Meade
://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc787375(WS.10).aspx At any rate, you should do MAC-based filtering at the router or managed switch, if your intent is to keep unauthorized devices from pestering the network, set up a guest network, etc.. --Steve On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Devin Meade devin.me

2008 R2 DHCP / MAC Address Filtering / mass import of MAC ID's

2012-01-04 Thread Devin Meade
on their laptops etc...) Anyone using MAC ID filtering on 2008 R2 DHCP? If so, how do you handle mulitple servers and mass import of the mac addresses? Thanks all, Devin Meade ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise

Re: 2008 R2 DHCP / MAC Address Filtering / mass import of MAC ID's

2012-01-04 Thread Devin Meade
this? On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Devin Meade devin.me...@gmail.comwrote: So I am finally replacing our 2003 DHCP servers with 2008 R2. I see the option to allow only those MAC ID's that we know about. We have a small network, and I am reviewing the current leases. Our IT dept knows

Dell.com down

2011-10-17 Thread Devin Meade
Hmm ... I can't get to www.dell.com on multiple computers with different ISP's. Seems it not available in the Oklahoma City area. Anyone else see this? Maybe they run blackberries :-/. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: Dell.com down

2011-10-17 Thread Devin Meade
] Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 3:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell.com down Same here. Support.dell.com not available... *** Charlie Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** -Original Message- From: Devin

Re: Sherry's Back

2011-08-17 Thread Devin Meade
Sherry, welcome back! Maybe we will run into each other the next time you are in OKC. We are off of N63rd Street and the Broadway Extension. Later, Devin Meade On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Sherry Abercrombie sabercrom...@nhdallas.com wrote: Hello everyone, I’m finally back. After

Re: Training (was RE: Error message in logs)

2011-08-01 Thread Devin Meade
John, I can't follow this list like I used to...maybe this was suggested. A few years back I performed a DR test. I took a backup of one of our domain controllers restored it to a old PC on a single desktop switch. The dt switch never touched the real LAN. Then I deployed a workstation in the

Re: Seriously (was RE: Vipre console hangs server on reboot)

2011-07-28 Thread Devin Meade
HEY SAM: Blows raspberry sheepish grin On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Sam Cayze sca...@gmail.com wrote: Seriously I’d rather go back to the bashing. At least that had topics of management, budgeting, morals, professionalism, etc. (Although I saw LITTLE of the latter out of many of

Re: Tape backup policies

2011-06-03 Thread Devin Meade
We have a data retention policy driven by lawyers. Our offsite backups are tape via Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape. These tapes are explicitly NOT to be used for long term retention, ie our tapes are rotated in about a year. Our policy drives what is kept long term and short term. Where they are kept

Re: Tape backup policies

2011-06-03 Thread Devin Meade
David, This is why we moved to online archives only. It requires more disk space and periodic review, but disk space is cheap and so is my time! We had DDS1 tapes written in Palindrome Network Archivist, some from the late 80's or so, we had DDS2, DDS3, DDS4, DLTIV, DLT S320 and now DLTS4. We

OT - Happy Skynet Day

2011-04-19 Thread Devin Meade
List peeps, Today is SkyNet Day and it becomes self aware: From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_%28Terminator%29 Skynet now will be implemented on April 19, 2011 and will begin its attack against humanity on April 21. Watch all your machines closely and I hope you are all patched up!

Re: Backups/deduplication

2011-03-01 Thread Devin Meade
We use BE2010 R2 with dedupe on an 18TB array, without major problems. We only keep 3 mos of data though. BE is NOT in the league of Exagrid / Quantum / HP etc. I have had jobs hang in the queue - but not that often. BE is pretty much entry level and works okay. We looked at Exagrid

Re: AutoCAD Remote License Issues

2011-02-24 Thread Devin Meade
We had exactly the same problem that was solved via login script: SETX FLEXLM_TIMEOUT 100 Worked for us - is your timeout high enough? hth, Devin On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote: Any tips for enabling VPN users to consistently obtain an AutoCAD

Monday morning not-so-funny

2011-02-21 Thread Devin Meade
Hello all, Our electric provider, OGE, calls us at 10 AM saying We are replacing your meter now and we will cut your power off in about 1 min. Our facilities mgr says Uh no you don't, you didn't' schedule it. They say they must do it. So we say we need at least 15 min and shame on you for not

Re: Dedupe - Do you trust it?

2011-02-16 Thread Devin Meade
We migrated our main file server by backing it up, then restored it to a new machine using Backup Exec 2010 R2 with DeDuplication months ago. This allowed us to (1) perform a litmus test on our backup system and (2) have an back-out plan if it fails. Our email is on a database (Exchange), so are

Re: Dedupe Thoughts?

2011-02-08 Thread Devin Meade
We have an almost identical setup as Jack's except we have a Dell MD1200 on RAID6 giving us 18TB of storage. The client side dedupe is very nice, our fulls run almost with no network activity. We get dedupe on ESXi (no client side dedupe though). We do D2D2T and it really helps... especially

Re: Was Simple routing now is NEEDED - Sonicwall Pro firmware

2011-01-25 Thread Devin Meade
Phil, I can probably get these off of some old tape from around 2002 or 2003, but it could take a while. Le me know if you need this and I can start the process. Devin On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Andrew Laya andrew.l...@gmail.com wrote: I have a couple of old firmware files for

Re: Was Simple routing now is NEEDED - Sonicwall Pro firmware

2011-01-25 Thread Devin Meade
:51 AM, Devin Meade devin.me...@gmail.com wrote: Phil, I can probably get these off of some old tape from around 2002 or 2003, but it could take a while. Le me know if you need this and I can start the process. Devin On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Andrew Laya andrew.l...@gmail.comwrote

Re: OT: Home RAID enclosure recommendations?

2010-12-22 Thread Devin Meade
I was planning on looking into this after Christmas but here are a few things I have run into. 1. The WD Y drives (the TLR limited, RAID specific ones ... both RE2 and RE3 version) performed much slower than Hitachi Ultrastar A7K2000, by far. This was on WS2003 32bit, WS2008R2 and ESXi 4 using

Re: Old user data

2010-08-18 Thread Devin Meade
We just revamped this process. The user prep's an exit folder. The user's supervisor makes a pass through it to cull any contract docs etc out. The the IS dept head does the same. Then we burn a CD or DVD fur the user. Before this is done, we make a separate image of their workstation, user

Re: Old user data

2010-08-18 Thread Devin Meade
If you were asking me ... we do have a Workstation and User Retirement checklist. It has a number of conditions as in if the employee is terminated and how long the computer will remain in service. It has Active Directory checklist, mailbox checklist (ie if the email addy will be redirected), we

Re: Old user data

2010-08-18 Thread Devin Meade
Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org email%3aezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 *From:* Devin Meade [mailto:devin.me...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, August 18, 2010 12:03 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Old user data We just revamped this process. The user

Re: ssh publishing on ISA

2010-08-09 Thread Devin Meade
ISA 2004 - firewall policy - use the New server publishing wizard: Enter the internal server IP address. Make a custom protocol with TCP / outbound / port 22. Select External I dont think you want the Web server publishing wizard as it requires a listener. Same goes for the other new rule

Re: online backup systems

2010-07-19 Thread Devin Meade
Forget about elephant drive (pun intended). I never could get the backup to work on a vista and Two XP boxes for home. No response from them either. I let it expire Devin On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Tobie Fysh tobie.f...@freebridge.org.ukwrote: JungleDisk is pretty good in my

Re: Do you all like fewer or more servers?

2010-07-19 Thread Devin Meade
We have about the same environment. We keep most services separate for the reason you state. We decided to not not virutalilze large file servers. That definition keeps changing though. Anything else is a candidate for a VM. I really like having one (maybe two) services per server, it has

Re: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT)

2010-06-17 Thread Devin Meade
Same story here. We have a check scanning setup which must be on XP. No Vista or Win 7. On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:33 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote: I just got off the phone with the help desk at our bank. We have a new Vista computer and the software we use to view our

Re: Password policy enforcement after a change

2010-06-15 Thread Devin Meade
Hmm we did that ~ 2 yrs ago. We used to assign passwords but *finally* sold it to upper mgt to do it via Active Dir and the built in complexity policy (2003 native mode). It went pretty well, nobody lost access, they had to change their passwords at next logon. We announced it well before hand

Re: Password policy enforcement after a change

2010-06-15 Thread Devin Meade
Okay ... we had no problems maybe because we had assigned pw's which the users could not change. We only had one VPN user - that never used it :-\ Now we have about 20 VPN users. We also executed the Group Policy and went thru AD and checked force pw change at around 10PM and announced it many

Re: basic wiring question

2010-05-25 Thread Devin Meade
+ 1,000 BTDT Now no voice guys are allowed near our data cables. EVER! GRRR! We do all cabling now with a Fluke Cable IQ. On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Phil Brutsche p...@optimumdata.com wrote: +1 My coworkers gave me a good ribbing when I spent $1k on a Fluke Networks cable

Re: sig pad for Word

2010-05-14 Thread Devin Meade
Running behind on my ntsysadmin reading, but we use sign it from www.cic.com to sign PDF contract docs. They might have something for ms word. hth, Devin On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:46 PM, James Kerr cluster...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone recommened a inexpensive USB signature pad for signing

CMAK preventing display of last user name in GUI

2010-05-10 Thread Devin Meade
We have some common use laptops and we are using the CMAK to deploy VPN to them. They are Vista SP2. I want to to prevent the User name field from pre-populating in the GUI. It remembers the last user name. I do have a group policy for the regular login screen, just not the CMAK/VPN window. I

Re: Internet Policies

2010-05-04 Thread Devin Meade
Up until last month we blocked all the social networking sites. Now our firm is marketing on them. We are adjusting our policies for this. It will be on a user-by-user basis though. Devin On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:38 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote: What restrictions, if

Re: Internet Policies

2010-05-04 Thread Devin Meade
:20 PM, Devin Meade devin.me...@gmail.com wrote: Up until last month we blocked all the social networking sites. Now our firm is marketing on them. We are adjusting our policies for this. It will be on a user-by-user basis though. Devin On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:38 AM, John Aldrich jaldr

Re: Internet Policies

2010-05-04 Thread Devin Meade
technologies. -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:11 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: How did you block them? Do you have an appliance or did you put in some sort of DNS entries? [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] *From:* Devin Meade

Re: Dell MD1000

2010-04-29 Thread Devin Meade
We just deployed a file server with a MD1220. It's on a PowerEdge R610 with a Perc H800 - no problems since Saturday! Devin On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Richard Stovall rich...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone have one (or more) of the Dell MD1000s? Any comments, good or ill? I'm thinking about

Re: Officially Unemployed

2010-04-26 Thread Devin Meade
Sherry, I truly wish I knew of an opening in DFW. I would recommend you in a heartbeat. Like others have said, unwind for a week or so and jump back in the pool. This happened to me and I got a much better position about 2 mos later. That was ... let me count... 13 yrs ago... Keep a stiff

Re: UPSes

2010-04-23 Thread Devin Meade
I would agree on the cable issue. I have a box with APC Cables don't touch upon pain of death written on it. That said our Symettra LX is a tank. Ours has a management card and it works with APC Network Shutdown software which is free on our windows servers. The Symettra sends a shutdown signal

Re: UPSes

2010-04-23 Thread Devin Meade
The Symettra sends a shutdown signal should really say The Symettra sends status to the windows servers and they are set to react to this status. Hmm must read my own posts before sending... Devin On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Devin Meade devin.me...@gmail.com wrote: I would agree

New boss hot on Dell Switches

2010-04-15 Thread Devin Meade
I have been wanting to replace our aging Dell Switches with HP Procurve for ages. Enter a new boss. So the new boss now wants to replace the Dell switches with Dell switches. He says they are half the cost - that's true. He wants to do it right freaking now with absolutely no research. So I

Re: question on cat-6 and 480V together

2010-04-07 Thread Devin Meade
I spent about 6 mos in the ceiling of our office moving bundles of cat5/6 cables off of florescent ballasts and making sure they were 12-18 inches away from power circuits. Also verified that no parallel runs for data and power were left. My cable guy said long parallel runs (say ~10ft or more)

Re: recover initialized drive

2010-04-06 Thread Devin Meade
Does the drive have mission critical data on it? Trying to recover the drive with lowcost/free solutions just may be destructive. That's your call though. Decide how important it is ... if it warrants it you might just send it off to Ontrack. We did this many moons ago and they got all the

Re: Adaptec RAID 3405 Any used this raid card?

2010-04-01 Thread Devin Meade
Sorry, running behind on reading this list. We have a few of these but only on Server 2003 32 bit. They are are better than consumer grade... I consider their feature set entry level business. They run VERY VERY HOT, get an exhaust fan. hth Devin On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 3:04 PM,

Re: SunGard

2010-04-01 Thread Devin Meade
Back in the early 90's when I worked at a fortune 500 firm (Kerr-McGee), we used a Sunguard site in Philly, PA do perform DR tests every 6 mos. Pack-up a ton of 3480/3490 tapes and off our staff went. This was for a IBM 3090-400J (??) mainframe I was a lowly grunt at that time in the data

Blackberry issues today?

2010-03-29 Thread Devin Meade
I have been on hold with BES support for over 30 min now. That's never happened before (to me). I don't see any newsgroup banter that BB is having issues. Anyone having issues today? Our BES is working, but I am holding for a minor problem with accepting appointments on the hand-held.

Re: Blackberry issues today?

2010-03-29 Thread Devin Meade
of. (Sprint/New England). -- *From:* Devin Meade [mailto:devin.me...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, March 29, 2010 3:42 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Blackberry issues today? I have been on hold with BES support for over 30 min now. That's never

Server 2008 R2 event log limits thoughts

2010-03-24 Thread Devin Meade
So we have a brand new 2008 R2 server. This will be a file server. Our current 2003 SP2 file server has file auditing on, but was disabled due to NewForma Project Center. This is a unique software for architectural firms that integrates with yet another special piece of software for

Re: Has anyone seen BSOD's when applying MS10-015 Patch for Windows Kernel

2010-02-11 Thread Devin Meade
I saw this articlehttp://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9155419/Windows_patch_cripples_XP_with_blue_screen_users_claim?source=CTWNLE_nlt_dailyam_2010-02-11. I deployed it to our test group and they are just fine. This is 9 XP SP3 boxes and 19 Vista SP2 boxes. They all have Office 2007 SP2. We

Re: Too many replies causes Outlook to not send???

2010-01-21 Thread Devin Meade
We use a low cost ISP and they limit the total number of emails for each POP3 account. The ISP is omnis, they verified that it was an antispam tactic. It was set to 200 emails per 24 hr period. They bumped ours up some. I don't remember the failure message but it wasn't very informative. hth,

Re: Required Certs = Study Time at Work?

2010-01-12 Thread Devin Meade
*Sarcasm Alert *You can get a Certified Application Security Specialist here: http://www.asscert.com/ No study time needed and a free logo to boot! On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: 8 days a week Is not enough to show I care. On Tue, Jan 12, 2010

Re: Win7 God mode?

2010-01-05 Thread Devin Meade
Vista Business 32 Bit SP2 w/ latest patches. It works as local admin off the C drive. Also tested as non admin under the users Documents and it works but the applets are still blocked. Devin On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:43 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Anyone?

Re: looking for free helpdesk solution

2009-12-22 Thread Devin Meade
We were going to do an eval of www.sysaid.com in the next month or two. IIRC it was very customizable. It's been a while since the demo :-). It had teaming and quite a bit for free or very low cost. hth, Devin On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Kim Longenbaugh k...@colonialsavings.comwrote: I

Re: 2003 Server R2

2009-12-22 Thread Devin Meade
Hence the old joke that disk two was R2D2. Couldn't resist. Devin On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Jeff Bunting bunting.j...@gmail.comwrote: Unless MS has changed this, disc 1 of R2 is plain old Windows 2003. Disc 2 has the R2 components, so you could just install disc 1 and not have to

Re: Consultant PC on your network

2009-12-07 Thread Devin Meade
We did what Terry did with spare desktops. Also setup wired and wireless internet only access outside our firewall. So far, no exceptions have been required. Our policy is very strict and we have separate labels on the conference jacks for company equipment and for outside equipment - also have

Re: Wtf! [Message clipped]

2009-12-03 Thread Devin Meade
Yeah, me. But just for the Google Public DNS messages though, weird. On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: wtf? [Message clipped] Anyone else getting a bunch of gmail messages as [Message clipped] click to read full message? Steven ~ Finally, powerful

Re: Freakin mondays.

2009-11-23 Thread Devin Meade
FWIW we put a 5 min UPS on all workstations 2 months ago. I explained many times that it allows you to SAVE your (#*$)@ FILE when the POWER GOES OUT. NO MORE! We then had a wind storm that killed power for about 2 blocks around us for about 12 hours. It was totally dark in the office. Major

Compaq nc6400 Laptop OEM ISO download?

2009-11-20 Thread Devin Meade
HP Compaq NC6400 w/ a bad hard disk. It has a recovery partition, but we have no OEM CD's. I want to swap the HDD out. Is there a download from HP on this? I could not find anything but drivers and utilities. Maybe I can clone the recovery partition (which seems to be good) to a new disk.

Re: WSJ Reporter thinks IT departments should allow users to install whatever

2009-11-18 Thread Devin Meade
He will now! On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: I suspect he may have all sorts of network performance issues as well… -sc *From:* Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, November 18, 2009 2:21 PM *To:* NT System Admin

Re: OT: Time estimate needed

2009-11-13 Thread Devin Meade
Somewhat Off Tread but when we donate computer, we make the end user accept any license agreements. They also sign a form (attorney approved) absolving us of licensing issues. Upon purchase of new machines, we snapshot a box before first boot. When it's donated, restore it back and any original

Portal laptop storage

2009-11-13 Thread Devin Meade
We will soon have a Training Lab with 6 laptops. I have seen portable storage shelves that allowed you to power the laptops and lock them up. Anyone use this kind of thing? I want to be able to maintain them without continually setting them up. They are supposed to never leave the premises

Re: Portal laptop storage

2009-11-13 Thread Devin Meade
this is for a school...) *Sam Cayze* Information Technology Administrator *ROLLOUTS** **ONSITE • ON DEMAND** * LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/samcayze Facebook Profile http://www.facebook.com/samcayze -- *From:* Devin Meade [mailto:devin.me

Re: Desktop Management

2009-11-03 Thread Devin Meade
We purchased Landesk management suite with patch management just over a year ago. It has really decreased the time spent on patching. All the friggin adobe deployment problems you hear about... no problem. We *just* purchased the appl virt add-on, have not had time to look at it. This uses

Re: OT error loading ssl cert onto wm 6.1 phone

2009-10-29 Thread Devin Meade
We have had cert problems if the date and time is wrong on the phone. I had one phone that the year was . . . minus 10! hth, Devin On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Sean Rector sean.rec...@vaopera.org wrote: One other thing – my certs were saved as .CER files.  I don’t know if that makes a

Re: What else would you tell this user?

2009-10-27 Thread Devin Meade
+999E999 On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Phillip Partipilo p...@psnet.com wrote: +1 I agree that a certain point is reached where I don’t even want the users money any more.  Sometimes I want to pay them to stay as far away from me as possible. Phillip Partipilo Parametric

Re: Exchange 10 or 7?

2009-10-26 Thread Devin Meade
We plan on moving from Exchange 2003 to 2010. Possibly with two servers doing database replication. Question: I am budgeting Exchange Server CALS and Exchange server itself on new hardware. We currently have Outlook 2007 CALS, will those work with Exchange 2010? We don't plan on upgrading

Re: Exchange 10 or 7?

2009-10-26 Thread Devin Meade
economy of scale. Devin On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.com wrote: What do you plan to use to do database replication? On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Devin Meade devin.me...@gmail.com wrote: We plan on moving from Exchange 2003 to 2010.  Possibly with two

Re: Quick hardware recommendation

2009-10-23 Thread Devin Meade
We have a number of Adaptec 3405 PCIe cards. With Western Digital RE3 SATA 3 drives they can write about 75% as quick as our Poweredge 2900 using SAS drives. Get the optional battery if you use this. Also, the get VERY HOT, we have extra slot fans for these. Devin On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at

Buffalo TeraStation III

2009-10-23 Thread Devin Meade
We are considering this for a NAS device. I see some rave reviews here on this newsgroup and on Amazon. I also see some horrific tech support stories on Amazon reviews. But can you really trust Amazon reviews? I also see a range of bad / good reviews on cnet.com (most from prior to 2008, but

Re: Buffalo TeraStation III

2009-10-23 Thread Devin Meade
Schorr Tower www.rolandschorr.com b...@rolandschorr.com -Original Message- From: Devin Meade [mailto:devin.me...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 9:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Buffalo TeraStation III We are considering this for a NAS device.  I see some rave

Re: Deleting printer from XP

2009-10-02 Thread Devin Meade
Were they deployed via Group Policy? If so, you will get an access denied message when you try to delete it. On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:09 PM, N Parr npar...@mortonind.com wrote: I have a couple XP SP3 workstations that can't delete any printers that are installed and shared on other computers.

Re: Clipboard funkyness

2009-09-29 Thread Devin Meade
Could you have a password manager that clears the clipboard upon exit or minimize? Password safe has this option. Devin On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Candee Vaglica can...@gmail.com wrote: It works for me... XP PRO SP3; Outlook 2007, Word 2007 All SP's/fixes On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at

Re: Block device from DHCP scope

2009-09-16 Thread Devin Meade
You could give it a bogus address, then use an alert system to ping that address (if it will return one) to let you know to go hunting. On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:26 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.comwrote: Cheers, I did have some thoughts down that route, but didn't know whether you

Re: Disk based backup

2009-09-15 Thread Devin Meade
FYI Backup Exec 2010 is to be released in March. This next batch of products from Symantec promises De-Dupe Everywhere. Yep uh-huh it's vaporware from (cough) Symantec... I bet that we are about to see a ton of backup products that will do de-dupe. The quotes we got from Exagrid were 2-3

Re: [OT] Phone number to tell you your phone number.

2009-09-11 Thread Devin Meade
1-800-444- On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Phillip Partipilo p...@psnet.com wrote: In a previous life, I worked in telecom biz.  There was this great phone number we used when we clipped a buttset up and you called this number, and a computer answered and told you the phone number you are

Re: Restores from Incremental backups

2009-09-11 Thread Devin Meade
Palindrome was acquired Seagate was acquired by Veritas was acquired by Symantec. Seagate dropped support for Palindrome about a year after acquisition. That was around 1992? We used the Tower of Hanoi / G/F/S rotation scheme. It would give you a total history of any file by browsing to it.

Re: group policy updating

2009-09-08 Thread Devin Meade
Try RSOP.MSC on the machine in question. hth, Devin On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Joseph Heatonjhea...@dfg.ca.gov wrote: I'm updating a group policy, to add a login banner.  Some of the machines in question had one, but they were added manually either to the Local Security Policy, or

Re: On Topic-ish: 67 terabytes, one box, under US$8k

2009-09-03 Thread Devin Meade
I like the lighter fluid on the laptop video. I was expecting more smoke! On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Maglinger, Paulpmaglin...@scvl.com wrote: Wow, that might acutally satisfy our DBAs... for a year or two...  :-) -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]

Re: dell.com down?

2009-09-01 Thread Devin Meade
Yes. I can't get to the quote page. Gmail was for a while too. C/B they run PowerEdge servers? On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Eldridge, Daved...@parkviewmc.com wrote: Anyone else? This e-mail contains the thoughts and opinions of the sender and does not represent official Parkview

APC vs Dell 19inch racks

2009-08-28 Thread Devin Meade
We will be getting a 19 inch 42u rack for our current PE2950 and future Dell PowerEdge servers. It will house servers and possibly a disk array. Is that considered medium density? We already have some APC metered PDU's (AP7830's) on a 16KVA Symettra UPS. They are 0U' PDU's, which I suppose is

Re: OT: Our profession has been exposed

2009-08-27 Thread Devin Meade
Re-imaging a system that has an unknown problem can part of the problem isolation process. Problem isolation as a part of troubleshooting is a lost art. So is verification that you followed a written procedure, but I do digress... I keep seeing entry level techs that want to fly by the seat of

Re: Monitor: regular or widescreen

2009-08-10 Thread Devin Meade
It depends on the work being done. Our users have two screens. Our CAD jockeys have a a 22 and a 17 and can put more drawing on the 22 w/o the annoyance of two monitors. Some will put the toolbars on the 17. Our E-mail / Word / Excel jockeys use two 17's and like to be able to snap the app to

Re: Monitor: regular or widescreen

2009-08-10 Thread Devin Meade
We purchased one system with a 22 widescreen and 17 normal screen as a demo unit. The first one was sent back and then we got a second one. We tested more than just the dual monitor setup (CPU, vid card, ram, etc...). We had a few select users test drive it for a day or two each and then got

Re: LinkedIn

2009-08-10 Thread Devin Meade
Aaruughhh Deskworks 36 nightmares! I knew just about all the PF key assignments for that little jewel. PF12 we re-calc I think. Press that and everyone takes a coffee break while your spreadsheet re-calculated (then you go fix errors and do it again). I think it had ~8 inch floppy disk

Re: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Devin Meade
Heh, to this day I drive by a UMB Bank branch office I say to myself Upper memory block bank. Nobody gets that except for subscribers to ntsysadmin. QEMM-386 beat the pants of of memmaker any day! Devin On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote: Yep, I'd use

Black Hat / Visual studio / I-phones....

2009-07-31 Thread Devin Meade
This week in conclusion: 1. Any developers that use Visual Studio must patch it, recompile and redistribute all apps. Nice. 1. A. It seems that all our doze boxes have the run time version of this and must get the dev patch, not just the iE patch (done yesterday btw). 2. Patch I.E.

Re: BB outage?

2009-07-31 Thread Devin Meade
Our BES is working well with our 30 BB's - ATT in Oklahoma. -Devin On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 4:56 PM, chosha2...@yahoo.com wrote: No issues here. I'm in TX. --Original Message-- From: wjh To: NT System Admin Issues ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues Subject: BB outage? Sent: Jul 31,

Re: OT: Star Trek Science Fiction?

2009-07-30 Thread Devin Meade
Well just keep your eye on the red shirts, they never live to the end of the episode. On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.comwrote: I refer to TNG as The kinder, gentler Star Trek. Where's the violence, the fist fights, the torn clothing? I WANNA SEE BLOOD AND

Happy birthday NASA

2009-07-29 Thread Devin Meade
From Wikipedia:NASA was established by the National Aeronautics and Space Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Aeronautics_and_Space_Act on July 29, 1958 And no special Google page? - Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Please keep me ON this mailing list

2009-07-17 Thread Devin Meade
This is not the day to leave this list, today's humor alone is worth it! Anyone remember the Way back machine? Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

Re: New IE zero day exploit in the wild

2009-07-09 Thread Devin Meade
Where do your rate Grad School Professors? Below or above Dr's and/or Lawyers (grin)? On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, well... In the medical field, right after doctors, I'd put CCU nurses. Heh. Kurt On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:27, paul

Trend Micro and IE zero day exploit

2009-07-09 Thread Devin Meade
FYI - If you have Trend Micro Office Scan and are using the web reputation feature, you are covered: http://us.trendmicro.com/us/threats/microsoft-mpeg-vulnerability/index.html Trend Micro products with Web Reputation technology currently block malicious URLs associated with this exploit. --

Re: Gmail

2009-07-07 Thread Devin Meade
Refresh took mine out of beta. Hey I only have 96 gmail invites left. What happened to the bazillion I had? On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.comwrote: I guess that shows what they think of you. -sc *From:* Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com]

Re: Poll: Internal temperature of UPS?

2009-07-06 Thread Devin Meade
Heh, that reminds me: On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: \On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:29 PM, David Mazzaccarodavid.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com wrote: Wondering what others typically see their UPS equipment running an internal temp at? My APC 3000XLS has

Re: OT: Filling method guideline

2009-06-29 Thread Devin Meade
Gene, I work for a AE firm. Early this year we revamped (um... I mean created where none existed) our Records Retention and Document Control policies. This has very stringent guidelines for everything. No exceptions. We paid lawyers to QC it (they always trump IT guys, and everyone else too).

Re: Trend Micro Client Outbreak - Need to remove it from Domain ...fast

2009-06-28 Thread Devin Meade
There might be a group policy installing this. Maybe the option to uninstall the software if it falls out of the scope of management was checked on, if so disable the GPO, force a policy update and reboot them. Could it be that the clients are homed to a server that is no more? If so, you may be

Re: Trend Micro Client Outbreak - Need to remove it from Domain ...fast

2009-06-28 Thread Devin Meade
FYI If you need to re-home the servers, you will need to TCP port the clients are using. From my fading memory it could be 8080 or 8090 as the defaults. It depends on the TM version, I think. -Devin On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Devin Meadedevin.me...@gmail.com wrote: There might be a

Re: Cable tester suggestion

2009-06-05 Thread Devin Meade
This also is a tone generator and works with the Fluke probe: http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=783550RecommendedFOREDC=742687RecoType=ACcm_sp=Product-_-RecoAcc-_-Fluke+Networks+IntelliTone+Pro+200+Probe On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Devin Meade devin.me...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Performance problem on VMwareServer2 - gah

2009-05-26 Thread Devin Meade
I played around with VMWare server 2.0 and found the ajax web server sucked all the life out of the host. That was the only thing on a fairly quick machine. Version 1 kills Version 2 performance wise. Throw in AJAX with the rest of your google search terms and read on. -Devin On Sun, May 24,

Re: Disaster Recovery (Was Access Based Enumeration on WS08)

2009-05-21 Thread Devin Meade
We are a much smaller shop. I setup an external disk to replicate our IS fileshare. It's also on tape, but without a tape dirve, well... It has all documentation, keycodes, etc. We also keep an updated offsite DR set that has at least two copies of tested optical media (server, w/s, LOB

Re: Looking for good PCI Express SATA controller

2009-05-20 Thread Devin Meade
We have some Adaptec 3405 cards with Server 2003. They work well. We have two boxes with 4 drives set to RAID 5, three more boxes with two drives set to RAID 1. Get the battery so you can enable the write cache. Card and battery was around $450. The card runs HOT, make sure the box has

Re: 2 Port Ethernet Switches?

2009-05-18 Thread Devin Meade
Somewhere I saw a single-gang wall plate that did that. It replaced a normal wall plate and was a 2 or 3 port hub. I think it was blackbox, good luck. Devin On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:50 AM, richardmccl...@aspca.org wrote: They might.  However, given that the 4-6 port switches have been

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