Re: My Tuesday Morning/Afternoon

2009-12-22 Thread Eric Woodford
Last time a former employer had a full black server room, 3 servers came back up with dead hard drives. One of those servers was my Exchange server and the raid-5 lost 2 of the 3 drives. On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.comwrote: So here's how my Tuesday

Re: Outlook does not recognize

2009-12-01 Thread Eric Woodford
Do you have 2 mailboxes with the same mailbox alias or LegacyExchangeDN. I get it quite often when there's a new hire with the same first initial last name combo. Two entries in our GAL their name would show, but their properties would be the legacy DN. We had to change our policy on building new

Re: Any suggestions for undeleting emails from a purged Outlook deleted items folder in a pst file?

2009-11-30 Thread Eric Woodford
Mail delivered to mailbox? Check recoverable deleted items. Mail delievered to a PST? Restore from backup?? I dunno On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Hilderbrand, Doug doug.hilderbr...@craneaerospace.com wrote: I was working for an afterhours customer and instinctively emptied their Outlook

Re: NETWORK RUNS SLOW AFTER 5PM

2009-10-27 Thread Eric Woodford
Last guy out the door at 5PM, starts up his torrent client? :) On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Murray Freeman mfree...@alanet.org wrote: Our backups start at 8:30PM. We do very few blast email internally. There might be some anti virus updates and I'm checking those out. Murray

Re: Ammo for apple mac sales pitch

2009-10-23 Thread Eric Woodford
I don't know much myself about Mac's. From my off-hand experience trying to help wife (on her school provided machine), I've found that: 1. It appears that they don't logon to an AD domain. Maybe just the schools implementation of low bandwidth to schools. 2. Entourage (Mac Exchange client) uses

Re: User who doesn't like logging off / shutting down

2009-10-22 Thread Eric Woodford
Sorry, can't help. I hate to logoff my pc because the security team has our AV do a full scan each time I logon. It takes a good 2 hours of 100% processing on my machine. The easy fix is to disable the AV, but... Maybe they just need to remove a few apps out of their startup, so it boots faster.

Re: Outlook 2007, constant hard disk thrashing.

2009-10-21 Thread Eric Woodford
Nah, you just have a BIG pst. On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Phillip Partipilo p...@psnet.com wrote: Upgrading from Outlook 2003 to Outlook 2007. I went through the SP2 update, where it thrashes your PST file for a while, upgrading it to a newer format. Then upon opening each folder, it

Re: How to split a local distribution list :-)

2009-09-17 Thread Eric Woodford
Trying to fix a similar issue, but the recipient's mail server only accepts 20 concurrent recipients.. :( On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:32 AM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote: In case anyone is wondering, if you’ve got a **local** distribution list that’s too big to go out through

Re: Paging the Powershell gurus

2009-08-18 Thread Eric Woodford
Brian, may I suggest http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/winpsh/convert/default.mspx It was essential in my conversion from VBScript to Posh. On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: Late to the game but some additional resources

Re: Obsolete Tech

2009-08-17 Thread Eric Woodford
never had a phone installed in car, but work provided one of those brick sized cell phones that had the enormous black power cables. Didn't have a cig lighter in my first car, so couldn't charge it. laser disk - never owned, but the list says 'watched' and have done that. My wife's classroom

Re: Salary rant

2009-08-12 Thread Eric Woodford
So take it out of the pockets for all the employees for one of the largest employers in the state. In turn, we spend less, and contribute less to the sales tax base for everyone. Dominoe effect - We have small businesses that are forced to close because the state employees are not there 3 days a

Re: Blackberry Server question.

2009-08-05 Thread Eric Woodford
BES also equals: - 1 Windows server, plus SQL or MSDE to support. If BES 4 (not 5), also one more server running the Exchange admin tools. - higher utilization on your Exchange server, 1 BB = 2.5 users - headache of having one more service account with god-level rights to every

Re: Google Home Page Today

2009-07-24 Thread Eric Woodford
Check out the new themes though... http://www.google.com/help/ig/comicsthemes/ On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: aye, for me too in the past hour. -- ME2 On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.comwrote:

Re: Remote Desktop server list reordering?

2009-07-23 Thread Eric Woodford
+1 for RoyalTS. On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:07 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: RoyalTS. No way to do it with the built-in remote desktop tool as I know itthe reason I am testing MRemote is because I am trying to get past the limitations of RoyalTS 2009/7/23 Kim Longenbaugh

Re: Windows 7 Pricing and Pre-order

2009-06-26 Thread Eric Woodford
pre-order on amazon now! http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw_1_8?url=search-alias%3Dapsfield-keywords=windows+7sprefix=windows+sprefix=windows + $49 - home $99 - pro $219 - ultimate On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.comwrote:

Re: OT: Scripting Games

2009-06-25 Thread Eric Woodford
The lack of 'competition' didn't spark my interest this year.. On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote: Anyone submit? http://blogs.technet.com/heyscriptingguy/archive/tags/2009%20Summer%20Scripting%20Games/default.aspx Chris Bodnar,

Re: OT: Michael Jackson dead?

2009-06-25 Thread Eric Woodford
dead. Heart attack. Front page of CNN.com On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.comwrote: I heard heart attack, that's all. -Original Message- From: Peter van Houten [mailto:peter...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 5:04 PM To: NT System Admin

Re: PowerShell in Bellevue, WA

2009-06-15 Thread Eric Woodford
Great way to practice... Compete in the scripting games.. http://blogs.technet.com/heyscriptingguy/archive/2009/06/14/hey-scripting-guy-2009-scripting-games-event-6-details-released-beginner-and-advanced-110-meter-hurdles.aspx On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Ziots, Edward ezi...@lifespan.org

Re: Handy Gadget - Good Price

2009-05-22 Thread Eric Woodford
I picked up this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812161002 from Fry's for about the same price, and it includes PATA for those nasty laptop hard drive upgrades.. On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Roger Wright rwri...@evatone.com wrote:

Re: BES 5?

2009-05-11 Thread Eric Woodford
We have it installed in the lab. Biggest changes that we are loving here... - Blackberry manager is a web page, instead of an application to be installed. No need for Exchange System Manager to be installed, it uses the MAPICDO package for connectivity. - You can create new admin

Re: Outlook 2007 Exchange status notifications

2009-05-07 Thread Eric Woodford
I thought Cached Mode hide most of those... On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 3:10 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Anyone know if you can disable the Exchange server status notifications in Outlook 2007? By that I mean the pop-ups that come up indicating that connection to Exchange has

Re: Annoying MS Access Error

2009-05-07 Thread Eric Woodford
I've had the same issue with VBScripts running across network shares. Had to start running them locally. Agreed I do believe it's an IE security setting, but haven't researched it enough to actually remove the issue. On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Tom Miller tmil...@hnncsb.org wrote: Hi

Re: Rackable 'lights' etc

2009-05-03 Thread Eric Woodford
usb powered led lights. Plug them into the free slots and aim them at all the shiny things in the box.. plus no heat generation. On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Benjamin Zachary - Lists li...@levelfive.us wrote: I have a client that just purchased several 3u and 4u servers to go in a couple

Re: anybody collect old processors ?

2009-04-02 Thread Eric Woodford
Actually, I'd be interested. I'll add it to my little display with a 386, 387 (mathco) and p4 processors. Contact me offlist. ericwoodford at gmail.com On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Jacob ja...@excaliburfilms.com wrote: I have some Pentium Pro 150/200s laying around also.. Any takers? ;-)

Re: Windows Powershell - adds to start menu?!?!?!

2009-03-30 Thread Eric Woodford
remove the link from the %userprofile%\start menu\programs folder?? On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:14 AM, David Mazzaccaro david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com wrote: Ok, anyone else have WSUS and push out the Windows Powershell 1.0 for Windows XP KB926139? I didn't realize that it adds itself the

Re: Running 32bit OS on 64bit hardware

2009-03-30 Thread Eric Woodford
Like John said, no problems, except for memory limitations. I have similar setup at home, but with the 32bit Vista Media Center release on my Quad core. Until all their home apps have 64bit versions, there's not a big advantage. On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:39 AM, David Mazzaccaro

Re: DNS info

2009-03-26 Thread Eric Woodford
nwtools.com has most everything dnsStuff provided without cost. On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Joe Heaton jhea...@etp.ca.gov wrote: What do you guys use to check DNS reports? I used to go to dnsstuff.com, but they’re charging now. Anyone know of a good, free service out there? Joe

Re: ADUC Query Question

2009-03-25 Thread Eric Woodford
Check out my blog post on a similar topic. Thanks to Google's Cached Pages, you can read the post even though the server is being rebuilt. http://tinyurl.com/cwj4zy On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:22 AM, John Hornbuckle john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us wrote: Being a small shop, I don't use ADUC

Re: Weird Windows icon

2009-03-25 Thread Eric Woodford
you replicating this folder to a network drive? On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:36 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Mornin’ all Over the last few weeks I have been seeing this icon on the Windows folder on my own PC Anyone have any idea what this means? My Google-fu reveals

Re: ADUC Query Question

2009-03-25 Thread Eric Woodford
=user)(objectClass=user)(!memberOf=Some\Group))) Where “Some Group” is the group I’m looking at. But this query isn’t working; it’s giving me a list of all users rather than just the users who are not members of “Some Group.” *From:* Eric Woodford [mailto:ericwoodf...@gmail.com] *Sent

Re: Is it possible to pinpoint a WIFI connection

2009-03-18 Thread Eric Woodford
wireless laptop and software like netstumbler helped locate homes in my neighborhood. BTW, friend says he's got an open hotspot in his neighborhood called poopypants. On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Mark A. Ross ma...@sdppayroll.com wrote: Does anyone know of a piece of hardware or software

Re: Free dvd/cd burning ware

2009-03-17 Thread Eric Woodford
+1 It's also great for creating the ISO's for later burning. On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Joe Tinney jtin...@lastar.com wrote: IMGBurn works fine for me on Vista. It complains/won’t work if you have Windows Media Player or Windows Media Center open (by design). *From:* Joseph L.

Re: Extract Email Addresses from AD

2009-03-12 Thread Eric Woodford
Powershell - with Quest Active Roles: get-qaduser -sizelimit 0 | select displayname, email | export-csv -patch c:\all-active-users.csv - with Exchange 2007: get-mailbox -resultsize unlimited | select displayname, primarysmtpaddress | export-csv -patch c:\all-active-users.csv On Thu, Mar 12, 2009

Re: Hiding words in an outlook form

2009-03-05 Thread Eric Woodford
Heck a white font on white body text has the same overall effect (as long as not viewed in plain-text mode). Former employer, had similr trick for encrypting messages leaving the domain. So most customer service simply put the encryption word in their signatures. On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:24 AM,

Re: Viewing log files in realtime

2009-02-22 Thread Eric Woodford
The free Microsoft SMS Toolkit has a tool called Trace32 which is great. See any log files in real-time, it auto-highlights line containing the words error and warning and allows you to search the file. On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:05 AM, cs chr...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a tool that can can

Re: Primary Group Membership

2009-02-13 Thread Eric Woodford
Powershell with the quest tools: get-qaduser -sizelimit 0 | ?{$_.primarygroupid -ne 513} On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Jeremy Anderson jer...@mapiadmin.netwrote: My google FU seems to be failing. I need a quick n Dirty script to run against all users in the domain and list their UPN

Re: Del *.bak after 7 days

2009-02-11 Thread Eric Woodford
Copy and paste the gibberish to a text file. Rename the extension to UUE. UUE opens in WinZip containing the contents of his email messages. On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Eric Wittersheim eric.wittersh...@gmail.com wrote: I can't be the only one getting this gibberish can I? On Wed,

Re: Disable Wireless when LAN connected

2008-12-29 Thread Eric Woodford
Talk to the Admin at that location and suggest they lock it down. :) It would require visiting each machine, but I am fairly certain that there's a checkbox to not allow unsecured connections on my wireless adapter at home. On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Michael Tellson

Re: Flash Mounts as Folder

2008-12-19 Thread Eric Woodford
Mine doesn't seem to recognize network drives, so I need to specifically map the flash to an unused drive letter. Typically I pick A or B since don't have floppy drives in these machines. On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Joe Heaton jhea...@etp.ca.gov wrote: Whenever I've had that happen, it

Re: locating phish domains

2008-12-12 Thread Eric Woodford
I believe OPENDNS.com has a search engine.. Something like phishtank.com http://www.opendns.com/enterprise/solutions/anti-phishing/ On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:50 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Can't you just use Google? Google supports use of the syntax inurl:joesfinancial - it

OT: Friday Humor - Doghouse

2008-12-05 Thread Eric Woodford
http://bewareofthedoghouse.com/video.aspx ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~

Re: Fri OT

2008-11-17 Thread Eric Woodford
Driving by the auto-mail this morning, the large tele-prompter off the freeway had a C:\ prompt displayed. Wish I had my camera.. On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in

Re: Fri OT

2008-11-17 Thread Eric Woodford
your cell phone doesn't have a camera? On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Eric Woodford [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Driving by the auto-mail this morning, the large tele-prompter off the freeway had a C:\ prompt displayed. Wish I had my camera.. On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL

Re: OT: Earthquakes Hit Dallas/Fort Worth

2008-10-31 Thread Eric Woodford
As NorCal native, I'd say a 3.0 = my 6yo jumping on the bed then stopping really quick. On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow! I've always wondered what that would be like... -- ME2 On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Sherry Abercrombie [EMAIL

Re: Going back to XP?

2008-10-30 Thread Eric Woodford
BTW, World of Warcraft runs wonderfully on Vista. On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Evan Brastow [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Thanks very much to everyone for all of the answers. It feels like I should be able to call Microsoft and downgrade as long as a I have XP media and as long as I check with

Re: Blackberry question

2008-10-28 Thread Eric Woodford
I personally don't like the pearl. Something about a roller ball on a handheld just doesn't work for me. I have an 8703 and it works beautifully. Yes, I have a wheel, but it makes sense. Handheld software can be downloaded from: http://vzw.smithmicro.com/blackberry/download.aspx?ct=corporate On

Re: Force expire of passwords

2008-10-27 Thread Eric Woodford
what if you check the user must change password at next logon (or have a script do it) for all your users? On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 7:47 AM, Gavin Wilby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Windows 2003 server, sinngle domain. I want to expire everyones password tonight, so they are all forced

Re: Vbscript being dumb?

2008-10-27 Thread Eric Woodford
Some things are just easier in DOS/CMD. DEL %TEMP%\*.* /Y should do the same thing, and never ask for permission.. Well, unless you don't have it, like the application has the file open (Word temp file, etc.) On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Damien Solodow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm

Re: Win2k VB script

2008-10-23 Thread Eric Woodford
Can you update your WMI on the 2K machine? On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know a Win2k friendly way of doing this: Set colNetwork = WMICompSystem.ExecQuery _ (Select * from Win32_Printer Where Network = 'True') It looks like

Re: Export Global Address List?

2008-10-23 Thread Eric Woodford
If they are on your network, they should be able to configure LDAP queries against your AD. On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Webb, Brian (Corp) [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: You could create an ADAM instance and load the GAL data in it - then point Windows Address Book (or some other LDAP client)

Re: Export Global Address List?

2008-10-23 Thread Eric Woodford
and point to server.domain.com and use port 389? What would the search base be, or how would I determine that? -- *From:* Eric Woodford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Thursday, October 23, 2008 2:44 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Export Global

Re: Export Global Address List?

2008-10-23 Thread Eric Woodford
a directory service in Outlook and point to server.domain.com and use port 389? What would the search base be, or how would I determine that? -- *From:* Eric Woodford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Thursday, October 23, 2008 2:44 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues

Re: Win2k VB script

2008-10-23 Thread Eric Woodford
of an update for Win2k? Searching the web didn't yield anything? jlc *From:* Eric Woodford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:37 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Win2k VB script Can you update your WMI on the 2K machine? On Wed, Oct 22, 2008

Re: Stopping users emailing out internal docs

2008-10-21 Thread Eric Woodford
At a former employer, they had attachments delayed with suspicious titles for a number of hours (especially anything dealing with their pending merger)This allowed the admins to review the quarantined email before it was sent. This was done on the Anti-spam solution.. On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at

Re: weird display issue

2008-10-17 Thread Eric Woodford
Is your laptop configured to hook up to another monitor? Maybe it thinks those windows are showing up over there. Try right clicking tool bar and select cascade windows. On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:12 AM, wjh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, maybe a bit OT, but this is driving me bonkers...as it is

Re: can't remember the fix

2008-10-02 Thread Eric Woodford
I think Visio over-writes files necessary for Outlook and it is attempting to fix the two applications. finishing the installer quest had fixed it. On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Mike Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Run Outlook as an administrator once and see if it's a permissions problem.

Re: Scheduled message to user

2008-09-24 Thread Eric Woodford
I'd think this could be easily coded in a VBS startup script. Check network folder, if a file exists in this folder, display it. heck, that can be done in a simple DOS Batch file. On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Tom Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know you're the intended recipient.

Re: Troubleshooting Server 2008 Reboots

2008-09-24 Thread Eric Woodford
oddly I am sitting in a Win2008 class, and the instructor is covering this. How about checking the new Perf Mon functionality... reliability manager and see if there's anything on the server going on.. ?? On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:57 PM, John Hornbuckle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a

Re: VBScript Issue

2008-09-23 Thread Eric Woodford
how about using the array index? colDisks(0) On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to monitor the disc space on a specific drive, I am using: Set objWMIService = GetObject(winmgmts:\\ strComputer \root\CIMV2) Set colDisks =

Re: VBScript Issue

2008-09-23 Thread Eric Woodford
= objWMIService.ExecQuery(SELECT * FROM Win32_LogicalDisk Where DeviceID = strSomeVar) Then my function would be SomeFunc('L:') as the DeviceID needs to be 'L:' for example? Thanks, jlc *From:* Eric Woodford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Tuesday, September 23, 2008 12:04 PM *To:* NT System

Re: Fake popup study sadly confirms most users are idiots

2008-09-23 Thread Eric Woodford
sounds like a story I heard about a tech telling a client his network was slow due to the kink in the cable.. sorry this piece of furniture was slowing the bits, I've straightened it out for you.. The client was pleased with his new-found network bandwidth. On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Phil

Re: Cable Modem + Wireless router

2008-09-15 Thread Eric Woodford
never say never.. Fridge and freezer TV and 50 LCD monitor for gaming (when spouse not watching) Microwave and a clock On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Christopher J. Bosak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same. Never a 2-in-1 device. Never any multi-device in my house. Except for the remote.

Re: create iso

2008-09-12 Thread Eric Woodford
http://www.imgburn.com gui, but you can (also) create an iso from a folder. On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Tim Vander Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I like ISO Recorder available here: http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm TVK -Original Message- From: Tigran K

Re: OT: Windows Messenger Sign-In Down?

2008-09-11 Thread Eric Woodford
my live msngr is working.. it's just you. On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:46 AM, John Hornbuckle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've not been able to log into Windows Live Messenger from home or work today. Haven't see anything about an outage on the Internets, though. Is it just me? John

Re: Outloot Limit on messages per folder

2008-08-14 Thread Eric Woodford
Here's a very good collection of MS Tech articles relating to Outlook performance. The number of items in the suggested folders is listed there at 3000 - 5000, with suggestions around 2,000. http://www.blkmtn.org/outlook-settings-and-considerations On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 4:40 AM, Fergal

Re: Free tool?

2008-07-24 Thread Eric Woodford
Thought I'd add one more to the list. DOS batch command for /f %%a in (c:\listofIPAddresses.txt) do ping %%a c:\PingLog.txt On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Bill Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, everyone for the tips! Lots to choose from and I'm sure one of them is exactly what I

Re: PST Hell

2008-07-21 Thread Eric Woodford
Possible that the PST location is accessible via registry key.. http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/48228/changing-the-default-location-for-ost-and-pst-files.html Maybe you could modify that.. On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Roger Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're dealing with the

Re: Outlook 2007 crashes new email

2008-07-18 Thread Eric Woodford
Had this problem with old version of Adobe Acrobat installed (when first came out). Removed Acrobat, put in freeware PDF reader. Then again with when AV scanner mucked with install. Uninstalled AV of workstation... then reinstalled version that supported 2007. On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 8:52 AM,

Large Environment Backup solutions, was WMI Query

2008-07-09 Thread Eric Woodford
And, the fact that that has held true for over 15 years and has never improved is sad testament to the product. Tivoli was created for the consulting industry – not for the regular Admin. From: Eric Woodford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 6:10 PM To: NT System Admin

Re: WMI Query

2008-07-08 Thread Eric Woodford
FYI: Wscript.echo is a command to echo (or display) the information that comes after it. I think you more want to do an IF statement. If objItem.Name = Tivoli Storage Manager then ' echo the contents to the screen end if BTW, Sorry about Tivoli, that product is a major PIA to administer.

Re: Standalone applet to create an open port?

2008-07-08 Thread Eric Woodford
=Not compressible (default). Copyright 1999-2002 Marty List, [EMAIL PROTECTED] *From:* Eric Woodford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Tuesday, July 08, 2008 6:23 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Standalone applet to create an open port? I am looking to prove the network team wrong

Re: Standalone applet to create an open port?

2008-07-08 Thread Eric Woodford
. Smith MCITP:EM/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com *From:* Eric Woodford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Tuesday, July 08, 2008 6:23 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Standalone applet to create an open port? I am looking to prove the network team wrong

Re: Standalone applet to create an open port?

2008-07-08 Thread Eric Woodford
8080 If it opens – well, the port is open! Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:EM/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com *From:* Eric Woodford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Tuesday, July 08, 2008 6:35 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Standalone applet

Re: Get fired for using outlook

2008-07-07 Thread Eric Woodford
Was the decision not to buy full Office licenses for each workstation? On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Jeff Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So... management does not like the fact the some people use Outlook... because the formatting looks different and some other BS. Now... management

Re: Looking for new Robust utility

2008-07-03 Thread Eric Woodford
We're installing InTrust here, one of it's purposes is to track logons to servers.. Sorry, I have no more info for ya'.. On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 5:42 AM, RITA KAUR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everyone, I am looking for a robust and user friendly tool to be installed on the server, which

Re: Server Room - Suggestions on rack enclosures

2008-07-01 Thread Eric Woodford
From my experience, get the rack enclosures that work with your servers. Worked at a company that had to file down the rails in order to fit the holes on the racks.. On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Tim Wagerle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I came to this job with a basement room 13'x20' filled to

Re: Server Room - Suggestions on rack enclosures

2008-07-01 Thread Eric Woodford
have no cooling functionality.. On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Steven Peck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That was because they've ordered non-standard rails for 20 years and refuse to order new ones that actually follow the darn standards. On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Eric Woodford [EMAIL

Re: Server Room - Suggestions on rack enclosures

2008-07-01 Thread Eric Woodford
PROTECTED] wrote: Sometimes that's easier said than done. Not everyone has all their servers the same exact brand. Eric Woodford [EMAIL PROTECTED] previously uttered: From my experience, get the rack enclosures that work with your servers. Worked at a company that had to file down the rails

Re: Neverfail feedback

2008-06-26 Thread Eric Woodford
Just installed NF here for BES. Really interesting product, but haven't had the chance to test in a disaster situation. 2 servers - one is identical mirror of second (same SID, same IP, etc.). Data and logs are replicated between the two servers. When the NF agent sees a change in the heartbeat

Re: BES on VM?

2008-06-25 Thread Eric Woodford
Bes will run on vm, seen it, supported it, 100 users on a dl360. Issue happens when you add other apps to that vm. Bes can quickly consume all the bandwidth on a virtual nic. On 6/25/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/24/2008 05:56:20 PM: Sorry if

Re: Can \\pc1\user has rights to \\pc2\share\folder1?

2008-06-23 Thread Eric Woodford
IMO, it sounds like his domain account had inherited admin rights on that server and they were removed. Now he only has basic access rights and cannot modify folders.. On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Stephen Wimberly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I am on a computer, call it \\pc1 and map a

Re: AD reports

2008-06-12 Thread Eric Woodford
I've used this tool with decent success.. I think it is more Exchange focused, but might do your job for AD groups too.. Otherwise PowerShell and something like *get-qadGroup Groupname* could do it in a rough format.. http://www.imanami.com/products/smartr/ On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:58 AM, wjh

Re: preventing users from hiding files

2008-05-22 Thread Eric Woodford
How about turning on the permission that says show hidden files for everyone?.. That way its pointless to do so. On 5/22/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an easy way (group policy perhaps?) to prevent people from hiding files? I beleive it can be done from NTFS

Re: CTRL + Scroll wheel

2008-05-16 Thread Eric Woodford
If this is outlook. I'd say html vs richtext vs plaintext format. The mouse wheel option is an IE function I believe, hence only html formatted msgs would resize. On 5/16/08, Jim Majorowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is going to sound stupid, but I'm dealing with a very demanding, very

Re: Speaking of server heat...

2008-04-30 Thread Eric Woodford
Not heat related, but do any of these servers you run receive email for the company? My current contract has changed the default ttl on outgoing email to only 1 day, down from the typical 3. Your servers being off for 4 days, may mean a lot of bounced msgs... On 4/29/08, John Hornbuckle

Re: Basic Exchange outgoing file blocking

2008-04-25 Thread Eric Woodford
File blocking has to be file type aware, otherwise your users simply rename the file and it will still go out. Trick I use to email scripts out of outlook which already blocks vbs and hta files. On 4/25/08, Miller Bonnie L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure where the affordable part lies with

Re: xobni invites

2008-04-24 Thread Eric Woodford
I'll take one! Looks promising... On 4/24/08, Sherry Abercrombie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so no invites on mine so far. On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Christopher J. Bosak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the bottom of the pane. J Christopher J. Bosak Vector Company c.

Re: Dump of All Groups and Their Membership

2008-04-17 Thread Eric Woodford
Have you tried my script? http://www.ericwoodford.com/tool_export_dl_membership On 4/17/08, Terri.Esham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the best utility to use to export all Active Directory Groups and their membership? I know how to do it by doing each group separately, but I'd like a

Re: Sync Public Folders

2008-04-11 Thread Eric Woodford
In the 4.x version of bes, I don't think it is possible to sync pfs any longer. I had a contact folder setup in 3.6 with all bes users, lost it when upgraded to 4.1 It might be fixed but I thought rims response was NEVER! Testing it now just in case a miracle happened... On 4/11/08, Benjamin

Re: Script to add permissions

2008-04-04 Thread Eric Woodford
I have a 2 step process for this.. 1. Assign one person with these permissions, then run this script to extract the values necessary to set the ACL. http://www.rlmueller.net/Programs/DACL.txt 2. I've modify the code of this script to match the permissions I want to grant.

Re: Program to Extract Certain Events from Event Viewer

2008-03-26 Thread Eric Woodford
logparser (www.logparser.com) works great also. Command line query would be something like: logparser select * into eventInfo.csv from server1,server2, server3 /i:evt /o:csv Run this in a BAT file and schedule dumps on regular basis.. On 3/26/08, Justin Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Cluster, virtual servers, or traditional?

2008-03-26 Thread Eric Woodford
How 'business critical' is having email? If your 400 users can live while email is down for several hours, clustering would definitely be overkill. As Steven said, it is 'cool' but it complicates a simple install. IMO, you wouldn't want to cluster your servers AND run multiple processes like

Re: Bluetooth, Activesync and Smartphones

2008-03-25 Thread Eric Woodford
Sounds like the bt link isn't actively connecting to the device. Is there an option to reconnect automatically? On 3/25/08, Mike Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does Bluetooth just not perform reliably in this role? I just bought my wife a Blackjack II which has WM6 installed, and put in a good

Re: Pop Quiz

2008-03-21 Thread Eric Woodford
This script might be a good start. It queries all live pcs for actively logged on user accts. http://www.visualbasicscript.com/m_37477/tm.htm On 3/21/08, Matt Plahtinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would be the quickest way to find out what workstation a user is logged into, Other than

Re: Email deleting itself

2008-03-17 Thread Eric Woodford
I am liking the outlook junk mail filter. Could have added the sender to the blocked sender list and set it to delete all spam mail instead of deliver to junk mail folderm On 3/17/08, Christopher Boggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had multiple times where the user turned on auto archive with

Re: IT Salary Survey

2008-03-10 Thread Eric Woodford
Since everyone else did it... BS in Comp Sci No Certs, unless you count my expired MCP in Win2k or my CCA where the instructor gave use the questions before hand. Just started a 1 yr contract making $47/hr. (possible time off after 6mos good behavior!) *From:* Scot Parsons

Re: IT Salary Survey (Cost of living)

2008-03-10 Thread Eric Woodford
surfer slangDon't blame your southern neighbors duuude. Like, Sacra-tomato's /can't take the surfer slang seen a 4x price in similar homes over the last 10 years. Bought my show-room new 1500sf home 10 years ago for $160k, 3 yrs ago it's up to $500k and is now almost back down to $350. Pay $2k

Re: Official time: 1 hour 3 minutes

2008-03-05 Thread Eric Woodford
2hrs is nothing compared to my last experience with t2 support at RIM, but that's not fair to symantec Then the scripted answer you need to apply the cdo patch ? 2 mins. Lousy web knowledge base On 3/5/08, Micheal Espinola Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's still TBD. I'm stll

Re: Exchanged cached mode

2008-02-27 Thread Eric Woodford
IMO, Cached mode is ideal for corporate employees sitting at their desk. It creates an identical copy of their mail, that is accessible even when their server is down. Outlook 2003+ requires cached mode if you want to use their junk mail filters. Note: the first time you connect with cached mode,

Re: Bizarre Outlook behaviour

2008-02-27 Thread Eric Woodford
In Outlook, does their calendar show two months at at time? I am guessing they are clicking the small arrows above the mini calendar on the side? Or maybe their clicking the mouse button assigned to double-click!?! On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:34 AM, Rankin, James R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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