RE: Redirect Outlook Recover Deleted Items

How about just doing a system recovery from a previous date? Regards, Dave From: Todd Arnett [mailto:tarn...@lastar.com] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 2:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Redirect Outlook Recover Deleted Items Does anyone know of away to redirect Recover delete

RE: DHCP bad_address issue

I have seen this issue when a system is connected to an external test board (engineering shop). The system the board is connected to hands out or picks up an address for the board. We also see this on our PBX management console PC. It seems to try to pick up addresses for the PBX ports for some rea

RE: Symantec NetBackup vs Iron Mountain's Connected Backup/PC

I tested their Puredisk product in house and was unable to get it to backup a Linux or Solaris host at all. Tech support was unacceptable. On the other hand, my experience with Iron Mountain was also bad but we did not use them for anything other than off site tape and document storage. They cou

Java applets via a Proxy

We have occasionally had an issue where a user will try to run a java web application such as GoToMeeting and the application will not run even though the user already has the client installed locally. By not run I mean the user cannot connect to an existing meeting or start a new one. We have seen

RE: Impression on AVAMAR from EMC

Ditto for Data Domain. We had an eval unit in house for a couple of weeks backing up a copy of our 1.2 TB of data. Compression was 50:1 after the 3rd for 4th backup. Also only unique, compressed data gets transferred across the wire to the main office. Excellent product. Regards, Dave _

RE: How to logon to 2 domains question

If the link goes down, each system will have cached the login ID and access rights(SID). This will allow you to login to the system. You can verify this by disconnecting from the WAN. Your SID at that time of WAN interruption still has your access rights for any local resources in the local trusted

RE: Web Server Spec Question...

Where is the content coming from? Local drives or back end servers? We have a frontend server hosting the web site on mirrored disks with redundant backend servers serving up the content. Traffic on the site is on the low end but still no issues with performance or down time. We only bring the serv

RE: File Archive + Aging Software Recommendations

I am about to test some software from a new company in the next week or two. I will let you know how it goes. I can't remember the company name right now but when I get back to the office I will forward it on. By the way CommVault does this but it can be pricy. Regards, Dave

RE: Mac on 2003 Domain

Our policy is that if the user wants a non standard system, he is on his own for support. We give him the tools like VPN clients, and access information but beyond that, it is his/her problem. Our management backs that approach, they don't want us spinning our wheels and the user loosing productivi

RE: Word Crashes

Crashes Try deleting the normal.dot and see what happens From: Edwards, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 2:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Word Crashes I have an issue where when executing MSWord 2003 I get the error MSWord has encountered a problem

RE: preventing users from hiding files

In my opinion, letting users view hidden files is an invitation delete what they want. Not good. Better make sure they have only User rights and nothing more powerful. I would find out what they are hiding and then block those file types using the 2003/8 File Server Resource Manager. That way they

Word Crashes

I have an issue where when executing MSWord 2003 I get the error MSWord has encountered a problem and needs to close. I then have the option to Send error Report or Don't send. Then I get a Recovering Word Documents progress bar and then again I get an error that word must be closed. I have logged

RE: Terminal Server Cals issue

How do you have the server configured for licensing, User or Device? Device CALs are tracked by the license server, User CALs are not. Your on the honor system for those. I would think that if you have it configured for User, a Device CAL would not be issued. Regards, Dave __

RE: Remote Control Application

with UltraVNC, I can remote connect to any computer with or without the end user being there. From: Edwards, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 9:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote Control Application Assumin

RE: Remote Control Application

Assuming you have VPN or some sort of remote connectivity to their network, RDP works great. I use it daily from home and remote locations to access my work computer. Also it is free and supported by MS. Make sure the remote computer does not have any power saving, sleep mode, etc. enabled. Re

RE: Sharepoint in the DMZ

Good question. I have been dealing with MS on some licensing issues and it seems that there is a client license (CAL) for everything. There is a CAL for Server that would need to be purchased for every user/device you expect to connect to this system plus the server license itself. I believe they h

RE: Sharepoint in the DMZ

You will need to license the server properly with Microsoft to be legal. They have additional licensing rules for Internet facing Sharepoint Systems. Accounts can be created in Sharepoint outside of AD. Regards, Dave From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: WebEx alternatives

You can also check out www.webduddle.com . The even let you download and setup your own hosting server if you want. Not as pretty as the others but functional. Regards, Dave From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesd

RE: Outlook 'anywhere' (aka nowhere) and Exchange 2007

Oliver, When you try to connect, if you hold down the Ctrl key and right click the Outlook icon on the system tray, select Connection Status. There you will see what is connecting and what is not. You will need to make sure that you can connect to a GC server/DC and that the ports for both are op

RE: File Server Migration Question

If your running W2k3 or higher, all you need to do is "import" foreign disk that are discovered on boot or a rescan. Initialize will definitely wipe out data. We did the same process with our file server, all data, rights where maintained on the SAN disks. The cut over only took a few minutes. Re

RE: mapped drives - having no FREE space

as a drive was an interesting question...unfortunately the user has no such devices connected. Thanks. - Jeff >-Original Message- >From: Edwards, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 2:28 PM >To: NT System Admin Issues >Subject: RE: mapped driv

RE: mapped drives - having no FREE space

What if the user logs into another system? Has the user loaded any software that supports mounting ISO images as drives or maybe a USB drive/s is installed and is acquiring the same drive letter/s as the mapped drive? Regards, Dave -Original Message- From: Jeff Gottlieb [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Looking for a recommendation on a power cycle device

You could use an APC PDU that has Ethernet built in. We have one that has 8 outlets, each outlet can be turned off or on remotely via a web interface. http://www.apc.com/products/family/index.cfm?id=70 Regards, Dave From: Lee, Damon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Commvault resumability question

They wouldn't let you do an onsite demo? My Austin area rep had no problem with it. I am nearing the end of my POC with them and some other vendors. They have been very helpful in proving that their software will do what they say it will. You should push them on that one. But to answer you question

RE: NTFS take ownership question

Are you connecting remotely to view security or locally. Do you have a backup? Regards, Dave -Original Message- From: Juned Shaikh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 1:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: NTFS take ownership question Hi, Need help in resolvin

RE: My most ignorant question to date.

So what I picture in my mind of your configuration is simply two RAID arrays on one channel. Each drive having a different SCSI ID yet grouped together into two separate arrays. I assume you are not also mirroring the two arrays (RAID 10) and they contain different data. In my experience with Com

RE: Proxy server configurations

PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 11 March 2008 11:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Proxy server configurations On 3/10/08, Edwards, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have some issues with traveling users that have to manually > switch the proxy setting while not connected to t

RE: Desktop/laptop backup solutions

e to their machines. In the world of road warriors where they are connecting remotely for various reasons, there's little reason to not keep the most recent copy of their work on a user/group/etc share; one that is backed up regularly. ____ From: Edwards, David

Proxy server configurations

We have been using a proxy server for years to access the Internet. We have some issues with traveling users that have to manually switch the proxy setting while not connected to the corp network and then back again when connecting via VPN or directly. We use a .pac file for auto config while conne

Desktop/laptop backup solutions

Looking to find out what everyone else is doing to backup desktop/laptop systems in the enterprise. We have had a few systems crash and needed to send some hard drives off for recovery. We want to investigate a more proactive solution. Any input is appreciated. David Edwards ~ Upgra

RE: Roles on Windows 2003 Server

If only 5 workstations, I would leave the DHCP role on the router. We have our remote offices setup as DC, DNS, FS, PS with no issues. Of course they are reasonably fast system with 4 GB of memory. Regards, Dave -Original Message- From: Anthony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, F

RE: Good Friday Morning

When we moved our data center a few years ago, we left the servers intact and moved them. After making Full backups of each system, we had a "Data Center Specialist" moving company come in and pack the servers and move them to the new site. They unload them and placed them in the computer room. We

VoIP and OSS

We are investigating a VoIP solution to connect our remote offices over our existing IP network. Asterisk looks promising and seems to be well supported by the OSS community. I know there are companies out there that will sell me a name brand solution but we want to keep the cost down as much as po

RE: Disable wireless when connect to LAN

Another trick is to open Network Connections/Advanced Menu/Advanced Settings. Under Adapters and Bindings tab, move the preferred NIC to the top of the list. Regards, Dave -Original Message- From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 9:57 AM To: NT