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

Re: Exchanged cached mode

2008-02-27 Thread Eric Woodford
The limits on the store are fairly high, like 70gb for Exchange 2003 Standard. (IIRC). At one former employer, they allowed the C-class to have basically limitless mailboxes. Warning and Send limits (at 2gb), but no cap on receive. Using Mailbox management, to clear deleted Items folders, and very

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: > Any

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, y

RE: Wiki for Windows

2008-02-23 Thread Eric Woodford
Not a wiki, but my site runs with Drupal (a CMS) with an apache server backend on Win2k3. Apache actually handles renaming/redirecting paths much better than IIS. http://www.ericwoodford.com Eric Woodford [EMAIL PROTECTED] (916) 351 0410 -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr

Re: html show file mod. date?

2008-02-14 Thread Eric Woodford
HTML doesn't provide for it, but you could (as ME2 said) do it via an embedded script. May need some tweaking, but you could try, where filespec is the full path of your file.. Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set f = fs.GetFile(filespec) document.write f.DateLastModified On

Re: PST Files on network share

2008-02-13 Thread Eric Woodford
Set them up in Cached mode. That creates an OST instead.. On Feb 13, 2008 9:27 AM, Angus Scott-Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 13 Feb 2008 at 10:36, Sam Cayze wrote: > > > > > Block PST creation in Outlook with a GPO. > > How would that affect roaming laptop users? Don't they need rem

Re: Script to list users

2008-02-10 Thread Eric Woodford
http://www.ericwoodford.com/tool_export_dl_membership On Feb 10, 2008 4:18 PM, mck1012 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Ken > > Would you by chance have an example of the function and subroutine. I have > been having problems with those. > > > Thanks > > > > > - Original Message > F

OT: Friday Funny

2008-02-08 Thread Eric Woodford
Not sure if you've seen this, but here's your 5 minute management course.. Lesson 1: A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower, when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and

Re: Big log file

2008-02-06 Thread Eric Woodford
Are recovery store's an option for SBS? Or standard version? On Feb 6, 2008 3:59 PM, Steven Peck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We just use the recovery database method We planned for enough > space on the drives to allow for this. > > On Feb 6, 2008 3:56 PM, Jim Majorowicz <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Big log file

2008-02-06 Thread Eric Woodford
mailbox got corrupted, I'd restore from tape. Lost a single email/contact/meeting/folder, recover it from DIR (not even going to try.) On Feb 6, 2008 3:39 PM, Joe Heaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not saying that it happened Don, I'm simply trying to figure out > what/how I should be bac

Re: OT: Certs + Experience + which degree?

2008-02-06 Thread Eric Woodford
I would personally (and have started) a MIS/CIS degree. Typically the focus on the financial and personnel (hiring and management of people) aspects of IT. These degrees are typically taught by the business department and only have enough computer work to get you comfortable. Seemed a nice complim

Re: Are you a geek if...?

2008-02-06 Thread Eric Woodford
t; > > On Feb 6, 2008 5:38 PM, Joe Heaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Nice Office Space referencegreat movie! > > > > Joe Heaton > > > > > > -- > > *From:* Eric Woodford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: Are you a geek if...?

2008-02-06 Thread Eric Woodford
lots of "flare"? On Feb 6, 2008 11:13 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I prefer mine to be quite serious, and have lots of buttons. > > On Feb 6, 2008 2:02 PM, Michael B. Smith > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And you don't need a silly mouse! > > > > Regards, > > > > Mich

Re: Computer Haikus

2008-02-06 Thread Eric Woodford
I googled for it.. Don't remember the site... I reposted my copy to http://www.ericwoodford.com/files/Eject%20Remote%20CD.zip On Feb 6, 2008 12:23 PM, Andy Shook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Where did you get ejected.exe? > > > > Andy > ---

Re: Computer Haikus

2008-02-06 Thread Eric Woodford
I use this to pop out the cd drive on servers to locate them in the rack (when not labeled correctly). Could be used for fun on an unsuspecting co-worker... psexec \\hisPC -c "\\server\c$\ejectcd.exe" On Feb 5, 2008 9:10 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > R U serious? He has always been a lit

Re: Big log file

2008-02-05 Thread Eric Woodford
I personally like to use the MS SMS Trace32 (part of the toolkit). It allows you to open large and live log files. Especially nice cuz doesn't screw up my scripts if I watch the log file.. :) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sms/bb676787.aspx On Feb 5, 2008 12:01 PM, Joe Heaton <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Tracking user logins

2008-02-01 Thread Eric Woodford
Hey Joe, Can you add a line to the logon script of the users? echo %DATE% %TIME% %USERNAME% >> \\server\logon$\%COMPUTERNAME%.log Then you can just audit the log files generated.. On Feb 1, 2008 8:43 AM, Joe Heaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would like to be able to see when User X lo

Re: Rack Servers and installing into Rack...

2008-01-28 Thread Eric Woodford
It's probably too late, but getting the racks that work specifically with your server brand is key. I remember one of my former employers that had cheap no-name brand racks that didn't support HP servers. You had to get out the drill, and grind the rails to mount new servers into these hunk-o-junks

Re: OT - Now it's cold...

2008-01-25 Thread Eric Woodford
the ice (cream) and snow (cones) came delivered by a guy driving a truck playing dixie land music over the loud speaker and a bunch of kids running after him... On Jan 24, 2008 2:32 PM, Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some places in LA got ice/snow this morning. > > > > > > *From:* Rick

Re: Question about Exch2k03 and EV6/SP3

2008-01-24 Thread Eric Woodford
If I remember right, EV replaces messages with a HTTP link to the item stored in the databse. It is no longer using the standard IPM.NOTE form. So, I would guess that the stubs would still be there. On Jan 24, 2008 1:22 PM, Matthew McComas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We run Enterprise Vault 6

Re: Tech Resume

2008-01-23 Thread Eric Woodford
t; > >> > > >> -Original Message- > > >> From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 3:47 PM > > >> To: NT System Admin Issues > > >> > > >> Subject: Re: Tec

Re: Tech Resume

2008-01-23 Thread Eric Woodford
s may be valuable for the recipient - .pdf, .doc, > .swf, etc. > > For a technology position, do you need to include on your resume that > you deployed DOS6.0 on 286s back in the last millennium? > > > On Jan 23, 2008 12:37 PM, Eric Woodford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > &g

Re: OT: MATH

2008-01-23 Thread Eric Woodford
Trick in understanding the difference is that my kindergarten-aged daughter is now solving these types of problems.. So underlining the number 20 is appropriate, but she is quickly moving to that high-school math from the 70's. :) On Jan 23, 2008 1:49 PM, Tom Strader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: Tech Resume

2008-01-23 Thread Eric Woodford
I disagree with one page limit nowadays. Personally most employer's I've dealt with, scan your resume to an electronic format or only except electronic submissions. Limiting yourself to one page makes for limiting your experience. In the last 10 years, I've worked 4 jobs. To go into any detail, I'd

Re: OT: Visual Jobshop

2008-01-22 Thread Eric Woodford
nope, but db issues can be a bugger. Patch levels, permissions issues, even cluster vs non-clustered all seem to play an important part.. On Jan 22, 2008 5:54 AM, Christopher J. Bosak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone have experience with Visual Jobshop? I'm coming across an > error t

Re: Outlook Junk Mail Oddness

2008-01-22 Thread Eric Woodford
I know when we used Trend Scan Mail for Exchange, it had the option for some of the actions to put mail into a spam folder. Maybe you have a rule setup in that 3rd party tool to move certain types of spam to the junk Mail folder, and it's not Outlook at all. OR If it was a few people, possibly tha

Re: OT: Snow Resort in Fort Worth, TX?

2008-01-18 Thread Eric Woodford
Looking at the developer's website, the snow will actually be layers of polymer. Interesting, but if you crash do you get rug burns? http://www.snowflex.com/snowflex.html On Jan 18, 2008 7:12 AM, Sherry Abercrombie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A man in the UK invented a snow/ice type substan

OT: Color Laser Printer recommendations??

2008-01-15 Thread Eric Woodford
We had been recommending the HP Color LaserJet 2600n, up until we found that HP does not suggest setting it up on a Windows print server. "Set everyone to print to the IP address directly", HP said. This makes management for mid-size departments difficult. What do you suggest for a mid-size netwo

Re: Strange problem on my laptop

2008-01-14 Thread Eric Woodford
First glance, it sound like an issue with SSL protected sites? On Jan 12, 2008 10:57 AM, Oliver Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi chaps, > > > > Can i pick the collective sub-conscious for a moment ? I have a problem > with viewing some websites on my laptop running Vista business, th

Re: Program to create a txt file?!?

2008-01-11 Thread Eric Woodford
call a vbscript that looks for command line variables or reads environment variables.. On Jan 11, 2008 2:40 PM, Sam Cayze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sounds easy, huh? *Caveat:* It has to be able to run silently in the > background, and It *can't* be a dos command like echo, it has to be a

Re: Blackberry

2008-01-11 Thread Eric Woodford
visually on the bb, have the user see if the 'caps lock' is turned on. On my old nextel it showed as a bean shape in the upper right hand corner. Did a bunch of Enterprise Activations after users destroyed them after 10 unsuccessful attempts becuase they missed the caps lock being on. Something lik

Re: Activesync issue - WM5

2008-01-10 Thread Eric Woodford
What version of Exchange? SP? I'd say its a phone/exchange issue without knowing anything else. Exchange has a few quirks where immediately is within the next few quarter hour. An hour is a bit longer than usual. I believe Exchange 2003 SP2 has quite a few improvements in the activesync functional

Spoiler: OT Humor - Marketing

2008-01-10 Thread Eric Woodford
spoiler: nice rube goldberg machine using their housewares.. On Jan 10, 2008 3:33 PM, Kurt Buff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's in flash, which is evil, so it's not installed on my machine, and > therefore I can't watch it. > > On Jan 10, 2008 3:04 PM, Devin Meade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: File Size

2008-01-08 Thread Eric Woodford
I've use both WinDirStat (grid of different size files - color coded by type) http://windirstat.info/ and scanner (pie chart of percent usage) http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/ On Jan 8, 2008 2:47 PM, Malcolm Reitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I still use the old version of SpaceMonge

Re: OT- Network Job Postings

2008-01-07 Thread Eric Woodford
Not sure on canada coverage, but I was checking craigslist, dice and careerbuilder for IT jobs when searching last.. On Jan 7, 2008 3:40 PM, Tony Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any good locations to post a job opening for Senior Level > Network Admins (CCNA, CCNP) in Canada? Our H

Re: copy files from destination folder by UNC path to new folder

2008-01-07 Thread Eric Woodford
I'd change the robocopy line to: robocopy "\\server\share" "\\destination\share" "%file%" /ZB /R:3 /ZB does a restartable copy then straight copy if unsuccessful /R:3 sets retries to only 3 times. On Jan 3, 2008 10:22 AM, Bill Krumel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am I supposed to leave the

Re: Can't run or copy remote "setup.exe"

2008-01-04 Thread Eric Woodford
group policy? On Jan 4, 2008 10:55 AM, Angus Scott-Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All > > Does anyone know what program might be blocking the ability to run or copy > "setup.exe" from remote drives yet allow you to copy a bit-for-bit > identical > copy named XXsetupXX.ZIP, rename it (locall

Re: Outlook 2003 Public Folders/Favorites

2008-01-02 Thread Eric Woodford
I believe your PF Favorites are tied to your profile. If you've had to recreate your profile when you moved your mailbox, you lost them... There's a favorites file that maintains that info. On Jan 2, 2008 2:02 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Exchange 2003 > > Outlook 2003 > > I moved my mailbo

Re: Looking for a DNS provider

2007-12-28 Thread Eric Woodford
Basically. You can create subdomains (www.domain.com, webmail.domain.com) inside a single zone.. On Dec 28, 2007 8:30 AM, David Mazzaccaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does 1 "zone" = 1 "domain"? > > > > > -- >

Re: Looking for a DNS provider

2007-12-28 Thread Eric Woodford
I second Zoneedit. You can host up to 5 zones for free. On Dec 28, 2007 6:58 AM, Mark Boersma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > www.zoneedit.com > > I've been using it for many many years. It's free and easy. > > > > Mark > > - > > Two rules to succes

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