RE: Advanced Format Drives 512e

2011-07-28 Thread Joe Tinney
Are you running SP1 on the system you're talking about? I'm not familiar with this type of format but perhaps the improvements in SP1 for this may be what you need.

RE: Final PS noob question for the week, I promise

2011-07-12 Thread Joe Tinney
Check the value of $entry while in your loop (for diagnostic purposes). I'm betting it is an object and you're looking for the Name property to pass to Get-Process. Foreach ($entry in $list) { Get-Process -computername $entry.name } That worked for me - well, once it hit a machine I had

RE: Be Very Wary of The Cloud...

2011-06-29 Thread Joe Tinney
http://translate.google.com/#la|en|pies%20lesu%20domine%20dona%20eis%20requiem Oh Lord Jesus pies? From: Mathew Shember [mailto:mathew.shem...@synopsys.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 11:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Be Very Wary of The Cloud... *Hands him a great big bible*

RE: RE: RE: windows 7 forensics

2011-06-10 Thread Joe Tinney
I've used and had fantastic results using the SIFT workstation from SANS Institute: http://computer-forensics.sans.org/community/downloads/ I take a DD image of the drive and then develop a SUPER Timeline:

RE: OT:usb to serial cable driver

2011-06-06 Thread Joe Tinney
I usually plug the device in, go to Device Manager and view the Properties, then the Details tab and search for the VEN and DEV combination. That usually turns up some results. -Original Message- From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 12:49 PM

RE: Win 7 IE Temp Environment variable woes Outlook cannot create the work file

2011-05-10 Thread Joe Tinney
In ProcMon, view the Properties of the process and flip to the Process tab. There is a command line field that shows the full command used to start SVCHOST. You may be able to discern which service SVCHOST was acting on behalf of to do that work just by looking A quick PowerShell line can help

RE: Win7 x64, Office 2003 and blu-tooth

2011-04-19 Thread Joe Tinney
. Good luck, Joe Tinney From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 7:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Win7 x64, Office 2003 and blu-tooth Did for me On 19 April 2011 04:28, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote

RE: Strange - Outlook 2010 AutoArchive isn't

2011-04-05 Thread Joe Tinney
if they meet your AutoArchive criteria. Also, check to see if there are any GPOs configured for Outlook 2010 that may be controlling or superseding his AutoArchive settings. Best of luck, Joe Tinney From: Sean Rector [mailto:sean.rec...@vaopera.org] Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 11:14 AM To: NT

RE: PowerShell scripts in PrimalScript

2011-04-01 Thread Joe Tinney
Powershell.exe will return an exit code for the script when you use the -command or -file parameter. How are you calling PowerShell? I have a few provisioning scripts written in PowerShell that I use the Kace KBOX agent to run. Syntax is very similar to this blog:

RE: CPUCount tool

2011-02-16 Thread Joe Tinney
I'm not exactly sure of your requirements, but I'll assume this is a Windows OS. The WMI object Win32_Processor should have a listing for each physical processor in the machine. PowerShell one-liner (if you don't count the semicolon as a new line): [array]$ProcList = Get-WMIObject

RE: Unlock a Win7 PC

2011-01-06 Thread Joe Tinney
You should be able to view the other logged in users in Task Manager under the Users tab, IIRC. You can log them off from there. From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 3:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Unlock a Win7 PC So anyway, I ran into

RE: web cam with sound

2010-12-01 Thread Joe Tinney
+1 - about 20 of these in deployment. Quality is great - especially with Skype. It is one of the approved high quality cameras and will let you jack up the quality a notch. From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 12:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

Adobe Reader X

2010-10-18 Thread Joe Tinney
Adobe posted an announcement for the next version of Reader/Acrobat: http://blogs.adobe.com/adobereader/2010/10/announcing-adobe-reader-x.htm l The interesting tidbit for me was the new Protected Mode (initially said to prevent writes to the system per some set of rules). This is a Microsoft

RE: PSTs on file cluster

2010-10-11 Thread Joe Tinney
Digging around in some links given by the Performance Team (which alludes that there are things you can do) I found: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/228766/ http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;312362 Original Link:

RE: Powershell to get all users details from AD

2010-09-23 Thread Joe Tinney
.NET in PowerShell (no additional tools or modules needed): http://www.sapienpress.com/downloads/ADChap5_secure.pdf AD Syntax for all users is: Get-aduser -filter * -properties * Quest Syntax for all users: Get-QADUser * -IncludeAllProperties From: KenM

RE: Visio Viewer FAIL

2010-09-16 Thread Joe Tinney
What version are you using? Visio Viewer 2007 SP2 is required to function, per the FAQ on the Security Bulletin for the Killbits article you referenced, when this security update has been applied: I had been using Microsoft Office Visio Viewer 2002 or Microsoft Office Visio Viewer 2003

RE: DFS Quandary

2010-07-28 Thread Joe Tinney
I happened to be in the DFS FAQ earlier today and ran across this: From http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc773238%28WS.10%29.aspx#BKMK _006: Can more than one folder be replicated on a single server? Yes. DFS Replication can replicate numerous folders between servers. Ensure that

RE: Outlook 2007 Calendar Log Viewer

2010-07-22 Thread Joe Tinney
unfortunately. PSS doesn't release the utility. You send them a log, they decode it, and then they are happy to send you the decoded report while they analyze the issue. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Joe Tinney [mailto:jtin

Outlook 2007 Calendar Log Viewer

2010-07-21 Thread Joe Tinney
We have one user who is complaining of 'rampant' calendaring issues and is really making a big fuss about this to all the right people. We've done a slew of troubleshooting and are continuing to do so. As part of this, we ran across the Enable Logging

RE: Outlook 2007 Calendar Log Viewer

2010-07-21 Thread Joe Tinney
LoL, yeah, you caught me! ;-) From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 3:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook 2007 Calendar Log Viewer Did you mean (*cough*MBS*cough*) ? J From: Joe Tinney [mailto:jtin...@lastar.com] Sent: Wednesday

RE: Internet Proxy - Group Policy Question

2010-07-12 Thread Joe Tinney
+1. That's how we do it here and we don't have issues with off-site browsing. Just works! -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 10:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Internet Proxy - Group Policy Question IMHO, this is

RE: wireless transmit to projector

2010-07-09 Thread Joe Tinney
Disclosure: I work for Cables To Go. You could try the Cables To Go TruLink Wireless VGA products: http://www.cablestogo.com/product_list.asp?cat_id=3808 I've used the USB to VGA products and they worked okay for 2D stuff. Video playback was poor. This was about 2 years ago after initial

RE: access point recommendations

2010-06-29 Thread Joe Tinney
DDWRT has multiple SSID and VLAN support. http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=214284sid=569f4946dc099ed0 cc812f913452ff71 From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 3:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: access point recommendations

RE: virtual ethernet service

2010-06-29 Thread Joe Tinney
No, this explains that. What does nothing for that about this. From: David McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 3:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: virtual ethernet service But if that explained this then what explains that?

RE: TrueCrypt

2010-06-25 Thread Joe Tinney
If the entire drive is encrypted how would SpinRite be able to correctly identify the filesystem type and update the appropriate entries when it moves data? -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 10:47 PM To: NT System

RE: TrueCrypt

2010-06-25 Thread Joe Tinney
System Admin Issues Subject: Re: TrueCrypt On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Joe Tinney jtin...@lastar.com wrote: If the entire drive is encrypted how would SpinRite be able to correctly identify the filesystem type and update the appropriate entries when it moves data? SpinRite

RE: Helpdesk software

2010-06-21 Thread Joe Tinney
The keyword you would need to ask about is Organization. With the new license plan, all customers get what they call the Organization module. FWIW, Kace has recently welcomed Dell as their new corporate overlords. I believe that has been mentioned here before. Regarding Segregation: The

RE: RANT: STUPID Help Desk! (OT)

2010-06-17 Thread Joe Tinney
Say it ain't so! I just had to install this AND one of the people who use it just got a Windows 7 machine. I'll have to get that software from my user and see what's going on. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 2:22 PM To: NT System

RE: Windows 7 UAC and Scripting -- What's everyone doing?

2010-06-16 Thread Joe Tinney
I'd check out the links below regarding scripting and elevation. They will allow your scripts to trigger UAC when necessary instead of just flailing about. Initial article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2007.06.utilityspotlight.asp x Updated article with full downloads:

RE: Patch Management - again

2010-06-11 Thread Joe Tinney
+1 Prior to that we used WSUS for the workstations. On the servers, we use WSUS to auto-download and do a manual install. WSUS is really rock solid. From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 11:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Patch Management -

RE: More pain on the Windows front, possible 0 day

2010-06-10 Thread Joe Tinney
The article Susan linked had a mitigations section. The one I am most interested in was the temporary disabling of the hcp protocol handler in the registry. http://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/b10a58b75029f79b5f93f4add3ddf992/ADVISORY From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Thursday,

RE: More pain on the Windows front, possible 0 day

2010-06-10 Thread Joe Tinney
in HKCR? On 10 June 2010 13:31, Joe Tinney jtin...@lastar.com wrote: The article Susan linked had a mitigations section. The one I am most interested in was the temporary disabling of the hcp protocol handler in the registry. http://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/b10a58b75029f79b5f93f4add3ddf992/ADVISORY

RE: OTish: Wireless network configuration

2010-06-09 Thread Joe Tinney
: OTish: Wireless network configuration I wonder how you verify the security of such an arrangement? On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 19:20, Joe Tinney jtin...@lastar.com wrote: While I'm not the one that configured them, our Cisco wireless access points are configured with two SSID's: one on a VLAN

RE: OTish: Wireless network configuration

2010-06-09 Thread Joe Tinney
anything to prevent random people outside your office from connecting to your guest wireless network? -Malcolm -Original Message- From: Joe Tinney [mailto:jtin...@lastar.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 21:21 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: Wireless network configuration While

RE: OTish: Wireless network configuration

2010-06-09 Thread Joe Tinney
, June 09, 2010 2:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: Wireless network configuration Understand that - how do you verify it that it works as designed? On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 06:33, Joe Tinney jtin...@lastar.com wrote: Access control and routing is done by our core firewall and router

RE: OTish: Wireless network configuration

2010-06-08 Thread Joe Tinney
While I'm not the one that configured them, our Cisco wireless access points are configured with two SSID's: one on a VLAN that goes to our transparent proxy and without access to our other networks and the other on a VLAN that functions just like our client wired network segment. The first one

RE: Announcements from our sponsor!

2010-04-23 Thread Joe Tinney
for personal, but not commercial use (check the EULA). Alex From: Joe Tinney [mailto:jtin...@lastar.com] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 8:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Announcements from our sponsor! Does anyone know if the Malware Bytes

RE: Announcements from our sponsor!

2010-04-22 Thread Joe Tinney
Does anyone know if the Malware Bytes download referenced on that page is truly free for all to use like VIPRE Rescue is? I'm specifically interested in corporate/business use. From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 8:41 AM To: NT

OT: Anyone been to a presentation by G Mark Hardy?

2010-04-22 Thread Joe Tinney
I just got a call about a local security seminar coming up in a few weeks and was wondering if anyone had been to a presentation by G. Mark Hardy and what they thought about it or if they found it worth their while to attend. Many thanks, Joe ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T

RE: Announcements from our sponsor!

2010-04-22 Thread Joe Tinney
/advertising partnership. Carl From: Joe Tinney [mailto:jtin...@lastar.com] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 8:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Announcements from our sponsor! Does anyone know if the Malware Bytes download referenced on that page is truly free for all to use like

RE: Any seen this at startup KADxMain.exe

2010-04-19 Thread Joe Tinney
That software comes with some of our Dell Latitude laptops. Name: KADxMain.exe File Name: KADxMain.exe File Description: IntelliSonic Systray Control (KADxMain) File Version: 2, 1, 0, 12 Product Name: IntelliSonic Systray Control Product Version: 2, 1, 0, 12 Company Name: Knowles Acoustics

RE: Bug in Win7 dir command

2010-04-14 Thread Joe Tinney
later. That's what makes life using the cloud so much fun, the incredible reliability of it all... Carl From: Joe Tinney [mailto:jtin...@lastar.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 2:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bug in Win7 dir command +1 - Offline Folders enabled

RE: Bug in Win7 dir command

2010-04-14 Thread Joe Tinney
even have an answer... http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7files/thread/93de3eb8 -dd8c-4aba-ad44-03e2bf1f174e?lc=1033 Carl From: Joe Tinney [mailto:jtin...@lastar.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 3:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bug in Win7 dir command

RE: msvcrt.dll error: _except_handler4_common

2010-04-13 Thread Joe Tinney
You might try Process Explorer and using the Find function to find msvcrt.dll. That would at least tell you the processes that are using it. This usually works for me whenever the erroring application actually hangs and doesn't just exit and note the error. If it just continues on and actually

RE: Outlook 2007 Strangeness

2010-04-09 Thread Joe Tinney
Cameron, What is the entire error message? Thanks, Joe From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 3:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Outlook 2007 Strangeness Hello all, Exchange 2003 Outlook 2007 I have one user that when she

RE: Roaming profiles issue

2010-04-08 Thread Joe Tinney
The document below suggests that it is available on Windows 2000 and Windows 2003, but is unclear if it means on the hard drive or the media: http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/8/5/98558ea1-3754-4650-9e8d-8c1 72649f351/E2k3TransnRouting.doc I could not find it on the system drive of a

RE: Roaming profiles issue

2010-04-08 Thread Joe Tinney
It is on the Windows 2003 Server CD in: \SUPPORT\TOOLS\SUPPORT.CAB\ Installing SUPTOOLS.MSI should get you there. -Original Message- From: Joe Tinney [mailto:jtin...@lastar.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Roaming profiles issue

RE: Office install audit

2010-03-23 Thread Joe Tinney
ProduKey. Has command line parameters to generate different types of files and can use a computer list or the entire domain. From: Gavin Wilby [mailto:gavin.wi...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 11:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Office install audit Hi, I need to

RE: Installing Win2K8 Server as DC Issue

2010-03-19 Thread Joe Tinney
I’d try running RSoP against the machine while it is joined to the domain and review the policies/settings that are being applied to it. Best of luck, Joe From: John Bowles [mailto:john.bow...@wlkmmas.org] Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 10:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE:

RE: Determining Password Complexity Requirements

2010-03-19 Thread Joe Tinney
John, Try running secpol.msc (Local Security Policy) and looking at Account Policies Password Policies and see if that differs from the information you are seeing in gpedit.msc (Local Group Policy). I can’t recall if they are different or if they operate independently, but it

RE: Firefox forms issue

2010-03-16 Thread Joe Tinney
FWIW, I've been using Vista Home Premium at home for 2 years and use Firefox religiously. It's seen version 2 and every upgrade since and I've not seen a problem on my home machine, or any machine. Good luck! From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 5:40

RE: Win7 licensing question

2010-03-10 Thread Joe Tinney
Kurt, We just inked an EA with MS at the start of the year and were told by our CDW rep that Enterprise was only available when you engaged into a Microsoft Enterprise (or similar, I'm sure) Agreement. The SKU for Enterprise Edition with MDOP and SA: M7D-5 Description: EntDsktpwMDOP

RE: Password Change History

2010-03-01 Thread Joe Tinney
A colleague of mine has found that they can use the 'additional account info' DLL in MMC 32-bit. You can launch mmc in 32-bit mode by using the /32 switch: mmc.exe /32 Personally, I use LockoutStatus.exe (from MS available on their site). It doesn't invoke AAM when UAC is on so you may have to

RE: Reader, Acrobat, and Flash security updates

2010-02-12 Thread Joe Tinney
It's only necessary to stay compliant to their licensing requirements. For what it's worth, posting those links violates their licensing agreements for that software as well. From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 2:50 PM To: NT System Admin

RE: Need Website Tested

2010-02-12 Thread Joe Tinney
Have you tried putting quotes around the path to iexplore.exe? I wouldn't expect it to view that path as a single argument. From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 1:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Need Website Tested

RE: Google-Fu=Fail: Shockwave player scripted uninstall

2010-01-29 Thread Joe Tinney
David, What is in the UninstallString key for Shockwave in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall? If it is a MSIEXEC command you can pretty easily and silently (most of the time) uninstall it by issuing: MSIEXEC.EXE /X {GUID-FROM-UNINSTALLSTRING} /qn /quiet

RE: GPO Best Practices

2010-01-20 Thread Joe Tinney
The blog that Andy O linked to seems to indicate that, depending on how you apply this, you can actually append the local admin list and not erase it. Has anyone tried this out following this guidance? From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 20,

RE: Powershell return values

2010-01-19 Thread Joe Tinney
My gut would be to use variables, but then you need to create variables with a scope such that the variables exist outside of the function. http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/04/14/controlling-the-scop e-of-variables.aspx Running 'Get-Help Set-Variable' led me down this rabbit hole,

RE: Powershell return values

2010-01-19 Thread Joe Tinney
Alright, using your example your variable is available while inside the function. I tested this (Win 7, so Powershell v2) by creating your function: function my_function { set-variable -name backupstatus -value 1; $backupstatus} Then I ran your function: my_function

RE: psexec and WMIC

2010-01-13 Thread Joe Tinney
I've never been able to use WMIC with PSEXEC. Same message/behavior. I usually use PowerShell's Get-WmiObject (GWMI for short) cmdlet since it can connect to a remote machine and run WMI queries. From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010

RE: WSUS

2009-12-31 Thread Joe Tinney
David, I've never seen this issue myself so these are just troubleshooting ideas running through my brain: 1. Does running 'wuauclt /reportnow' on the affected clients resolve the issue for the client? 2. Is it the last report date that you are not seeing getting

RE: WSUS

2009-12-31 Thread Joe Tinney
we would have so many working and not. David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Joe Tinney [mailto:jtin...@lastar.com] Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 1:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: WSUS David

RE: Search strangeness

2009-12-18 Thread Joe Tinney
Have you checked the HOSTS file? From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 3:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Search strangeness One of my users is unable to get to any search engine. I tried loading FireFox on there as well as IE

RE: OT Kinda: Interesting Message on Web Page

2009-12-09 Thread Joe Tinney
I doubt that admins are the target audience for those messages. In fact, this thread pretty much proves that. :-) I'm just guessing, but I bet the target for that is for those true users looking for answers via a search engine and coming across a KB article for Windows (enter ancient version

RE: Black Screen woes could affect millions on Windows 7, Vista and XP

2009-12-02 Thread Joe Tinney
MSRC Team response: http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2009/12/01/reports-of-issues-with- november-security-updates.aspx -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 2:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Black

RE: Powershell and enumerating/removing group membership

2009-11-30 Thread Joe Tinney
This should just return the name of the manager of a user. Get-QADUser (Get-QADUser user).Manager | Select Name -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 3:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Powershell and

RE: Anyone Seeing Weird WSUS behavior with Root Cert Updates this morning?

2009-11-24 Thread Joe Tinney
+1 on all accounts here. Two machines at least right now. I tried restarting the Automatic Updates services and removing the SoftwareDistribution folder but no dice. It still came back. From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 8:41 AM

RE: Anyone Seeing Weird WSUS behavior with Root Cert Updates this morning?

2009-11-24 Thread Joe Tinney
I got the issue to go away by declining all of the superseded updates for 931125. The latest one is still approved for install. Honestly, they should have been anyway. I'd been warned of this by my predecessor and this is the first time I've seen the updates fight. From: James Rankin

RE: A bit OT: home networking quirk

2009-11-23 Thread Joe Tinney
The icon you are talking about is for shared media, etc. Sounds like the Windows 7 machines options for sharing media (in Vista, this option is controlled from within Media Player Library Sharing or something like that). That is all well and good, but that is really a function of allowing the

RE: Moving LOCAL users from one computer to another

2009-11-19 Thread Joe Tinney
Microsoft USMT (User State Migration Tool) will scan and move all users or a list of users to another machine, both local and domain users. You can configure what USMT moves by editing the XML files it uses. Definitely read up about it on TechNet as they will give you example command lines and

RE: Disk benchmark

2009-11-09 Thread Joe Tinney
Microsoft SQLIO. No reboot, single executable. Command line. From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 1:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Disk benchmark I've got a couple servers here that don't seem to be as responsive as I think they should

RE: Trying to get IAS to log to SQL

2009-11-05 Thread Joe Tinney
What version of SQL? From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 10:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Trying to get IAS to log to SQL Got it all set up. ODBC connection to my SQL server on another box. Nothing. From: Chris Orovet

RE: NewSID retired - The Machine SID Duplication Myth

2009-11-05 Thread Joe Tinney
The verbage was that SID regeneration was _optional_ in new versions of sysprep. See the section of the article marked The New Best Practice: Microsoft's official policy on SID duplication will also now change and look for Sysprep to be updated in the future to skip SID generation as an option.

RE: Smartboard Software Recommendations

2009-11-03 Thread Joe Tinney
a day. Ok, not that much but it seems like it. From: Joe Tinney [mailto:jtin...@lastar.com] Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 2:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Smartboard Software Recommendations Guys and gals, I'm looking for suggestions/options

OT: Smartboard Software Recommendations

2009-10-30 Thread Joe Tinney
Guys and gals, I'm looking for suggestions/options on smartboard software. I've been tasked with the planning (on the IT side of things) on how to implement two smart boards, a SMART brand mobile board and a wall mounted Promethean board. I am a total n00b to this so any general

RE: Smartboard Software Recommendations

2009-10-30 Thread Joe Tinney
it. From: Joe Tinney [mailto:jtin...@lastar.com] Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 2:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Smartboard Software Recommendations Guys and gals, I'm looking for suggestions/options on smartboard software. I've been tasked with the planning

RE: Smartboard Software Recommendations

2009-10-30 Thread Joe Tinney
or 15 times a day. Ok, not that much but it seems like it. From: Joe Tinney [mailto:jtin...@lastar.com] Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 2:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Smartboard Software Recommendations Guys and gals, I'm looking for suggestions/options

RE: Kace KBOX systems

2009-10-29 Thread Joe Tinney
We just bought the Virtual KBOX 1100 and are currently going through their training and implementation. Anything specific you are looking for? So far, everything is working as advertised and it hasn't ruined the 11 machines I have the agent on. I'm pleased with it so far. From: tony

RE: Kace KBOX systems

2009-10-29 Thread Joe Tinney
and it's slower than an elephant in a tarpit. Have you played much yet with deploying apps/patches or the reporting aspect of it? Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com From: Joe Tinney jtin...@lastar.com

RE: Kace KBOX systems

2009-10-29 Thread Joe Tinney
Jimmy, Any issues in particular that you've had that you can share with regards to managing Macs? We have a handful that will be going on the KBOX. During our 'Test Drive' I upgraded one of them to the latest release of 10.5 without issue but I didn't do anything fancy. TIA,

RE: Post instead of Send button in Outlook 2007?

2009-10-23 Thread Joe Tinney
You can post to any mail folder in Outlook. I'm not sure how you would have gotten it when doing a reply but you can go to New Post in this Folder and see the behavior described by Mike. From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 4:35 PM To: NT System

RE: Outlook 2007, constant hard disk thrashing.

2009-10-22 Thread Joe Tinney
. On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: These PST/OST files, they are located on the Client, or on the Server? Joe Tinney answered this pretty well, I'll just add that starting with Outlook 2003, by default, the OST (Offline Store) is used to keep

RE: Outlook 2007, constant hard disk thrashing.

2009-10-21 Thread Joe Tinney
PST = Personal Storage File. This is a file created by the user to store mail to 'locally'. That is, not on the server. If you aren't using Exchange, then all of your mail in Outlook goes into a PST. If you are using Exchange, you move your mail there when you hit your quota. OST = Offline

RE: Constantly getting locked of 2003 domain

2009-10-21 Thread Joe Tinney
A colleague of mine recently encountered this with his account. It turned out that he had stored his credentials on the machine and then, after he had to change his password, he started getting locked out. For Windows XP, there seem to be user-level and system-level stored passwords. You view

RE: Disable F keys

2009-09-10 Thread Joe Tinney
Michael, Short of someone knowing this out and out you could use Sysinternals' Process Monitor (procmon) to view the changes being made while you run the programs. Generally, you would just filter on the executable name that is making these changes for you. HTH, Joe From: Owens,

RE: Remote desktop changed?

2009-09-04 Thread Joe Tinney
I've seen this behavior on machines with UltraVNC on them. I'm not sure what order the connections have to occur but using VNC in conjunction with RDP has resulted in the station being unlocked AFTER the RDP session had been closed (and I assume it was unlocked during the session). From: Russ

RE: File replication query.

2009-09-02 Thread Joe Tinney
Because Office 2010 made pulling it up so easy: /\ -Original Message- From: Ian Roche [mailto:iro...@curamsoftware.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 4:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: File replication query. I may have a requirment

RE: New Attack Cracks WPA in a Minute

2009-08-28 Thread Joe Tinney
I'd turn broadcasting on (with WPA2) and change my SSID to creepy messages like: I'm watching you and This backseat is so comfy. From: Murray Freeman [mailto:mfree...@alanet.org] Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 11:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: New Attack Cracks WPA in a Minute

RE: New Attack Cracks WPA in a Minute

2009-08-28 Thread Joe Tinney
Regarding the 'Public WiFi' SSID you always see being broadcast as an ad hoc network: http://www.nmrc.org/pub/advise/20060114.txt. In short, once you try and join one of those ad hoc networks your system then begins to rebroadcast that SSID. That is what I attribute to the constant 'Free Public

RE: Slow desktop logons.

2009-08-21 Thread Joe Tinney
WMI Filters enabled for GPOs? -Original Message- From: Jon D [mailto:rekcahp...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 8:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Slow desktop logons. Wireless service disabled? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: The network path not found

2009-08-11 Thread Joe Tinney
Take this for what it's worth, I've not messed with Vista much in a managed environment too much and just use it at home primarily. However, I do recall that Vista maintained different firewalls for different 'locations' (domain, private, public, etc). Have you went into the Windows Firewall

RE: Home drive mapping quizzler

2009-08-11 Thread Joe Tinney
+1. Was XP SP2 in a 2003 domain. The issue persisted building moves (all clients and servers moved to a new location, existing infrastructure equipment was kept but new wiring, of course). Wve not had it happen since we���ve moved our home drive mappings from AD to a kix login script.

RE: Network link state slow to propagate; UI freezes

2009-08-11 Thread Joe Tinney
I've not noticed this behavior in our E5500 but frequent disconnecting/reconnecting isn't something that it typical in my environment (docking station, so the whole system is wacky for a bit after dock/undock). If Dell reports anything I would be very interested in knowing and I'll be sure to test

RE: Home drive mapping quizzler

2009-08-11 Thread Joe Tinney
We are using the command USE: http://www.scriptlogic.com/Kixtart/htmlhelp/Commands/use.htm Also looks like we delete the connection if it exists (using USE) and then delete the registry key for the remembered connection from HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Network\. From: Eisenberg, Wayne

RE: Exiting from a Start command

2009-08-07 Thread Joe Tinney
I believe you are looking for the command START. From the help: Starts a separate window to run a specified program or command. START [title] [/Dpath] [/I] [/MIN] [/MAX] [/SEPARATE | /SHARED] [/LOW | /NORMAL | /HIGH | /REALTIME | /ABOVENORMAL | /BELOWNORMAL] [/WAIT] [/B]

RE: Scheduled Tasks/Batch logons, etc

2009-08-07 Thread Joe Tinney
Christopher, If you scroll beneath all the advertisements on the Experts Exchange page you can see the responses, typically. If that doesn't work then send me the link and I'll send you the responses to see if they help. Have you used Process Explorer to verify the credentials

RE: The Duh Question of the Day 8/4/09

2009-08-05 Thread Joe Tinney
I'm betting that the mounting infrastructure alone is more than I'd want to pay for a setup like that. From: Gavin Wilby [mailto:gavin.wi...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 10:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: The Duh Question of the Day 8/4/09

RE: The Duh Question of the Day 8/4/09

2009-08-05 Thread Joe Tinney
She got a big rock. ;-) ..for 97 seconds. -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 12:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: The Duh Question of the Day 8/4/09 Hehe... ya. Got mine as a anniversary gift from the

RE: Favorite Tools

2009-08-03 Thread Joe Tinney
..trying.. to resist.. googling.. !!! From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 4:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Favorite Tools iVibe Rabbit is a big hit around our house. From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:cbusitl...@gmail.com]

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

2009-07-31 Thread Joe Tinney
For a moment I thought I was going to avoid death from all of this.. but then your summary email came and smacked me right in the head with some death. Thanks. :-) From: Devin Meade [mailto:devin.me...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 5:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Black

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