RE: problem subscription to new list

2013-05-03 Thread Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 8:07 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: problem subscription to new list That's where it's been sent to. I get nothing back indicating acceptance to the list. Christopher Bodnar Enterprise Architect I,

RE: The list?

2013-05-02 Thread Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
Dinner? Joe Heaton Enterprise Server Support CA Department of Fish and Wildlife 1807 13th Street, Suite 201 Sacramento, CA 95811 Desk: (916) 323-1284 -Original Message- From: Paul Maglinger [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 9:10 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife

RE: End of month plan B for list shutdown.

2013-04-30 Thread Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
, Joseph@Wildlife; NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: End of month plan B for list shutdown. Nah... 3 years from now you can just send a bunch of msgs to the list saying "How do I get off this list??" and "Unsubscribe me NAO!" And then when you finally DO get the instructions

RE: End of month plan B for list shutdown.

2013-04-29 Thread Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: End of month plan B for list shutdown. You can also sign-up using these instructions... 1. Create a new, blank email. 2. Address the email to: comm...@lists.myitforum.com 3. Skip all the way down to the BODY of the new email (leaving the

RE: Bad symbolic link in registry

2013-04-28 Thread Joseph L. Casale
> How about a rename? When I recreate the target so I can access it, if I rename the symlink, it accepts its, renames the target, but reverts after a refresh leaving the target renamed? I am remote and its a vm for which I dont have console access to, what a pita this turning out to be. jlc ~

RE: Bad symbolic link in registry

2013-04-28 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Running regedt32 with elevated credentials? Ensured no running services are >holding the key open? Yeah, no luck... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: ht

RE: ALERT : NTSYSADMIN LIST MIGRATION

2013-04-26 Thread Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
Or even communal battering... Joe Heaton Enterprise Server Support CA Department of Fish and Wildlife 1807 13th Street, Suite 201 Sacramento, CA 95811 Desk: (916) 323-1284 From: Don Guyer [mailto:dgu...@che.org] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 6:08 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; NT System Admin

RE: ALERT : NTSYSADMIN LIST MIGRATION

2013-04-25 Thread Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
PM To: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ALERT : NTSYSADMIN LIST MIGRATION Any reason we shouldn't jump into the new world? Like https://plus.google.com/communities/105379670851238376600 Or build our own? On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Kurt Buff mailto:kurt.b...

RE: Startup processes

2013-04-25 Thread Joseph L. Casale
If you can query for the process, can you not query the network? Lookup the gateway and ping it... From: kz2...@googlemail.com Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 6:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Startup processes On a Windows system, is there a proce

RE: Cluster Server Boot Config

2013-04-24 Thread Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
problems, so far. Joe Heaton Enterprise Server Support CA Department of Fish and Wildlife 1807 13th Street, Suite 201 Sacramento, CA 95811 Desk: (916) 323-1284 From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 7:30 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; NT System Admin Issues

RE: Need to create a csv through Powershell/Exchange Shell

2013-04-19 Thread Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
95811 Desk: (916) 323-1284 From: Don Guyer [mailto:dgu...@che.org] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 10:34 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Need to create a csv through Powershell/Exchange Shell Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | Where {$_.PrimarySmtpAdd

RE: Need to create a csv through Powershell/Exchange Shell

2013-04-19 Thread Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
th [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 5:41 PM To: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Need to create a csv through Powershell/Exchange Shell Then you will need to use a function or a filter to select the proper email addresses. Who do you know which

RE: Synchronize booksmarks?

2013-04-18 Thread Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
, 2013 2:28 PM To: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Synchronize booksmarks? No, the problem is when you uninstall Chrome. It leaves some "stuff" in the registry that needs to be cleaned up, otherwise you can't open links in Outlook. From: Heaton,

RE: Synchronize booksmarks?

2013-04-18 Thread Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
eaton, Joseph@Wildlife; NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Synchronize booksmarks? Mongo says, "Chrome BAD!" If you have the misfortune to accidently install it, then uninstall it, it jacks up the ability for Outlook to open links in email From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent:

RE: Need to create a csv through Powershell/Exchange Shell

2013-04-18 Thread Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
nclude addresses that I don't want, as well as those that I do. Joe Heaton Enterprise Server Support CA Department of Fish and Wildlife 1807 13th Street, Suite 201 Sacramento, CA 95811 Desk: (916) 323-1284 From: Candee [mailto:can...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 4:37 AM To: Heato

RE: Endpoint backups

2013-04-17 Thread Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
eaton Enterprise Server Support CA Department of Fish and Wildlife 1807 13th Street, Suite 201 Sacramento, CA 95811 Desk: (916) 323-1284 From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 6:57 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; NT System Admin Issues Subject: Endpoint backups D

RE: SCCM 2012 quick question

2013-04-17 Thread Joseph L. Casale
scclient.exe From: James Rankin Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 6:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SCCM 2012 quick question Anyone know what the executable name for Software Center in SCCM 2012 is? I've seen it suggested as scclient.exe and ccmsetup.exe,

RE: BSOD patch, Microsoft urges removal.

2013-04-15 Thread Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
, Joseph@Wildlife; NT System Admin Issues Subject: BSOD patch, Microsoft urges removal. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9238371/Microsoft_urges_Windows_7_users_to_uninstall_Blue_Screen_of_Death_patch Sounds like fun for all. Greg Sweers CEO ACTS360.com<http://www.acts360.com/> P.O. Bo

RE: PowerShell - Dependent parameters

2013-04-12 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>but I can't figure out how to tell it one parameter *depends* on another. Create your parameter set, then set the few that depend on each other to be mandatory? There are some neater things you can do with compiled code, otherwise you sometimes have to do more exotic validation after the param b

RE: Wildcard cert Q

2013-04-11 Thread Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
Street, Suite 201 Sacramento, CA 95811 Desk: (916) 323-1284 From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 2:22 PM To: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; NT System Admin Issues Subject: Wildcard cert Q If you have a wildcard SSL cert for *.mycompany.com would there be any reason t

RE: Query help

2013-04-11 Thread Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife 1807 13th Street, Suite 201 Sacramento, CA 95811 Desk: (916) 323-1284 From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 12:29 PM To: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Query help Is this an

RE: Manage JAVA updates

2013-03-25 Thread Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
That was it. I don't run with my admin account either. It was under that account's folders. Thanks From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 2:16 PM To: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Manage JAVA updates I'

RE: Manage JAVA updates

2013-03-25 Thread Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
Hmm, followed those directions, but there's nothing in the folder under Appdata. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 1:43 PM To: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Manage JAVA updates http://www.java.com/en/download

RE: Manage JAVA updates

2013-03-25 Thread Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
Where do you get the .msi? I didn't see that option on the website. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 9:18 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Manage JAVA updates "turn off that annoying prompt to install the A

Forefront client security

2013-03-21 Thread Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
How is this different from SCEP? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunb

RE: Running Powershell script as scheduled task fails with 0x1

2013-03-08 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Sorry to reply out of thread order (dont have the original). No need to sigh, ditch the bad posts on the net and run `powershell /?` A ps1 "file" is not a command. You need to invoke the "script". -Original Message- From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com

RE: Remote control software

2013-02-27 Thread Joseph Schvarcz
We use TightVnc instead of VNC on windows 7, works great.. -Original Message- From: Nigel Parker [mailto:nigel.par...@ultraframe.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 5:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Remote control software Hi We are finally moving to windows 7 however one

RE: Recommendations for DNS/SSL provider

2013-02-25 Thread Joseph L. Casale
> There is currently some discussion about moving away from them due to various > concerns around them (not just technical issues). Alright, you can't just leave us there:) What's the issue? I have a few companies setup with them? jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a r

RE: Installing .net 4.5 redistributable within a ps remoting session

2013-02-25 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>It wants a console host.  > >Your solution of scheduling +1 minute is what I have done. Good to know, thanks. If you used a scheduled job, I don't feel so bad:) How thorough were you in handling this, did your use case require further work depending on the success of the .Net install which r

RE: Remote Desktop Server (Formerly known as Terminal Server)

2013-02-25 Thread Joseph L. Casale
A few options from a google search: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winserverTS/thread/2d07a7fe-be2a-424a-8b64-2d80c5bce8c8 From: Ziots, Edward Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 6:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote Desktop Server (For

RE: Powershell question

2013-02-14 Thread Joseph L. Casale
you? Convert-* don't work for you? I'm a little confused as to what you want to do... From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 7:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Powershell question Hey guys, I have a System.Xml.Xm

RE: Java

2013-02-08 Thread Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
wednet.edu] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 2:03 PM To: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Java Don't know about the latest vulnerability, but there is a v6u39 available that was released at the same time as 7v13 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downl

RE: Java

2013-02-08 Thread Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
, February 08, 2013 12:50 PM To: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Java 7 13 is better than 6 38, but I won't say it is 'fixed' since it isn't. There are still problems and will be for years to come, imho. From: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife [mailto:joseph.he

RE: Anyone heard of Meraki?

2013-02-06 Thread Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
s not involved in any way in research, testing, or procurement. -Joe From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@sfgtrust.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 6:02 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; NT System Admin Issues Subject: Anyone heard of Meraki? Anyone heard of or use Meraki wireless? It's part of

RE: MS site?

2013-02-01 Thread Joseph Schvarcz
Works for me From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 9:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: MS site? Anyone else having trouble getting to this link? http://support.microsoft.com Christopher Bo

RE: Networking stuff.....oo-er

2013-01-26 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>        yum update all  That syntax hasn't been around in ages:) The 'all' keyword is no longer used. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt

RE: Help with this script

2013-01-23 Thread Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
Thanks guys. I did google parameter SearchScope but didn't get any useful info. From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 2:10 PM To: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help with this script http://technet.microsoft.com/

RE: Help with this script

2013-01-23 Thread Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
Are OneLevel and SubTree the only options for the SearchScope parameter? From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 1:18 PM To: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help with this script Yep. The line $OUlist = @(Get

RE: Help with this script

2013-01-23 Thread Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
Awesome. Thanks Damien. I really do intend to learn Powershell one of these days, honest. From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 1:18 PM To: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help with this script Yep. The line

Re: McAfee agent handlers

2013-01-16 Thread joseph palmieri
https://kc.mcafee.com/resources/sites/MCAFEE/content/live/PRODUCT_DOCUMENTATION/22000/PD22508/en_US/ePO_4.5_Agent_Hander_White_Paper.pdf --- On Tue, 1/15/13, David Lum wrote: From: David Lum Subject: McAfee agent handlers To: "NT System Admin Issues" Date: Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 10:22 AM

Re: Patch management recommendations

2013-01-16 Thread joseph palmieri
look at LANDesk security suite (not cheep) it has all the functionality you need and more...only downside is tech support reps look to close trouble ticket without resolving issue --- On Wed, 1/16/13, Charlie Kaiser wrote: From: Charlie Kaiser Subject: Patch management recommendations To: "NT

RE: Max Password Age

2013-01-09 Thread Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
effective in-house. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2013 7:39 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Max Password Age I would have thought the latter BTW that sounds like an interesting place to work! On 9 January 2

RE: Installing Microsoft Update Standalone Packages Silently question

2013-01-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Cool, here's an interesting tidbit: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/how-to-install-multiple-windows-updates-and-or-hotfixes-in-a-time.aspx From: Webster Sent: Tuesday, January 1, 2013 2:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Instal

RE: Installing Microsoft Update Standalone Packages Silently question

2013-01-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Does someone actually use wordpad for anything? My guess, character set and wordpad bungles it up. Use notepad, or a real editor like vi :) From: Webster Sent: Tuesday, January 1, 2013 9:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Installing Microsoft Update Standa

Re: Instant Messaging

2012-12-27 Thread joseph palmieri
100, Newtown Square, Pa  19073 email: dgu...@che.org Office:  610.550.3595 | Cell: 610.955.6528 | Fax: 610.271.9440 For immediate assistance, please open a Service Desk ticket or call the helpdesk @ 610-492-3839.  From: joseph palmieri [mailto:jpalm...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2

RE: Advice re Workstation Backup Solution

2012-12-19 Thread Joseph Schvarcz
I use Goodsync on windows 7 computers to schedule a mirror backup of changed files once a day to a server. the first client costs $30, but its 9.99 a machine after that. Joseph -Original Message- From: Pierre [mailto:pmcamill...@laferla.com.mt] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 4:49

Adding sql reporting services feature

2012-12-16 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I have an SQL2008R2 server that is fully patched and I need to add the reporting services feature. As the base media only comes in GA, I had a quick look at what it takes to make slipstreamed media and frankly it looks like a hack. Anyone actually do this in production or is the only supported met

RE: SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0

2012-12-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
> I am curious on what the list thinks about an open-source alternative to an > Active Directory > server means to them... I'm sure many here will shrug it off, but for smaller > installs where > money is tight, would you consider Samba 4.0 AD servers? > > I know I am. First off, I'll state I am

RE: File Services Clustering in Server 2012

2012-12-06 Thread Joseph L. Casale
> Yep setting up a cluster just to protect against a service dying is overkill. I think that statement might be a bit to general. What if that service doesn't simply "restart" and 2500 people have their work impacted for 4 hours while its resolved? 2500*$30*4=$300,000.00 as an example... Does tha

RE: windows phone 8

2012-11-19 Thread Heaton, Joseph@DFG
How are you going to manage these devices corporately? Most of the MDM apps out there that I've looked at have almost nothing for managing Windows phones. -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 11:18 AM To: Heaton, Josep

RE: iSCSI with HP/Brocade switches

2012-11-16 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Jumbos on <10GBe can actually slow things down, but everybody things jumbo==sounds good therefor must be. There are a few technical reasons why it doesn't improve generally at those speeds. Some switches need certain characteristics disabled for that type of traffic. Call HP, its free for those s

RE: Anyone have an idea on this one

2012-11-12 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Start the application as an Administrator? runas for example or right click it... From: Ziots, Edward [ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 7:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone have an idea on this one Sorry its Windows 2

RE: DNS?

2012-10-28 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I have added a new Forward lookup zone for IMCU.COM on my local active >Directory. >I have added an ‘a’ record for 10.0.50.4 for mail.imcu.com in that zone. >I do not resolve the mail to the ip. >If I add that record in my hosts file I can browse it easily. >What is wrong in my DNS set up? >Serv

RE: What is your IT department name?

2012-10-26 Thread Heaton, Joseph@DFG
(Information Technology Branch), which covers the helpdesk, server teams (which I'm on), network team, security team, and telecom team. Joe Heaton ITB - Enterprise Server Support From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 2:18 PM To: Heaton, Joseph@DF

RE: System/file monitoring

2012-09-24 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Auditing has been enabled. The MS logfiles are just too "chatty". But >filesystemwatcher looks interesting. Thanks. That's why you need to extract what you are looking for:) Once you decide what it is that interests you, you can script it and automate it. The interface actually provides a means

RE: System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection

2012-09-24 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Are you talking about 2007 or 2012? 2012 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana..

RE: System/file monitoring

2012-09-24 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I have to be honest, I wouldn't pay for such a thing. A quick look has me guessing windows can provide all this info natively. Enabling auditing for example and use a query to mine the relevant info. If you needed to act on a file system event, there is the file system watcher class which you can

RE: System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection

2012-09-24 Thread Heaton, Joseph@DFG
s and applications. Our primary server is a VM, with 32GB RAM, and 8 procs. Our procs are Xeon X5650's. Joe Heaton ITB - Enterprise Server Support From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2012 11:15 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues S

RE: System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection

2012-09-23 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Anders, Just started playing around with this in a lab scenario. Did you install all roles including WSUS on this single server? When I get around to deploying this in production, I have an existing WSUS server, but in reality I wouldn't object to decommissioning it as a result of setting it all

RE: System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection

2012-09-20 Thread Joseph L. Casale
In a super small environment, can you get away with the app and sql server on the same host? They give it away free in OpenValue. jlc From: Brian Desmond [br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 3:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject

RE: System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection

2012-09-19 Thread Heaton, Joseph@DFG
s.org] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 2:23 PM To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues Subject: System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection Hey Guys. I'm looking at System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection (What a mouthful). Anybody using this? Anybody like/dislike it compared to other

RE: Certification time?

2012-09-18 Thread Heaton, Joseph@DFG
Oh no. It's much more inconvenient for everyone involved to just hijack the thread. Joe Heaton ITB - Enterprise Server Support -Original Message- From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 2:38 PM To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin I

RE: This is what I get....

2012-09-18 Thread Heaton, Joseph@DFG
t software already exists. The user gets an automated e-mail when the policy is created, and they are able to install the software. Joe Heaton ITB - Enterprise Server Support From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 7:47 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Ad

RE: Accessing powershell variables from within a scriptblock

2012-09-17 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Lol, Simple solution, I've done it a couple times already. I bet if I hold off a bit and wait for the next request, I can refactor this and the next in one shot and kill two stones with one bird:) From: Michael B. Smith [mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Monday, Septembe

RE: KMS at non-server sites?

2012-09-17 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Set the values in the registry for the kms host. I do this for several PC's that I dont even join to the domain as a result of the lack of control. This works for Office and Windows. I then have a vpn for these with acl's that allow the required traffic and a script which refreshes activation.

RE: Accessing powershell variables from within a scriptblock

2012-09-16 Thread Joseph L. Casale
The scriptblock that contains them is inside the script, when you call this script, it uses it in the scriptblock parameter to Invoke-Command. In this scriptblock, there are several variables, most of which only make sense remotely as some are computed, but there are a few that the user may need

RE: Accessing powershell variables from within a scriptblock

2012-09-15 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Hey Michael, [ScriptBlock]$MySB = ` { $Common = @{ VarA = 'something' VarB = 'something_else' } ... } Problem is that there is actual code that follows so invoking it would break the script that contains it and later sends it out as a job. I was hoping to perform some val

RE: I don't see any problems with this

2012-09-11 Thread Heaton, Joseph@DFG
Skynet, here we come. Joe Heaton ITB – Enterprise Server Support -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 9:48 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues Subject: I don't see any problems with this Do you? Kurt

RE: ESXi and an HP switch

2012-08-22 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>That was it. I looked at the properties of the management port group, >and it had not inherited the IP HASH setting. Once I manually set >that, it worked. > >I'm setting up iSCSI connections and etc. now. > >Thank you! No problem, jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource ho

RE: ESXi and an HP switch

2012-08-22 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>> Port groups can override vswitch >> config, I am guessing your pg that the vmk port resides in is not inheriting >> the >> config you expect... > > Not sure what you mean by this. Look at your vSwitch properties, you will see in Configuration: a vSwitch and one or more Port Groups. They all h

RE: ESXi and an HP switch

2012-08-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I'm not sure it does, but I'll try setting the duplex/speed statically >on the switch and server and see if that gets me anywhere. It is in the vmware NIC config where I had to set it. >Below are two configs of the switch - one that has trunking but >doesn't work, and the other that doesn't have

RE: ESXi and an HP switch

2012-08-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
> went back to the article linked above, and set up NIC teaming with IP >HASH and made sure that all four NICs were active, then tried setting >up the trunk again, and again had no success. > >Does anyone have thoughts regarding what I might be missing? I'm looking at two esxi servers done this ve

RE: Recovering formatted drive

2012-08-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
> First, before doing **ANYTHING** else, make a block-level copy of > the physical disk to a file on another (bigger) filesystem. Under a > nix, the command would be something like: And after you get that, the best tool I have found for this very case is http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk ~

RE: Strange login issue

2012-08-20 Thread Heaton, Joseph@DFG
im Kennedy [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 12:45 PM To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Strange login issue That is normal, ping is not aware of sites. From: Heaton, Joseph@DFG [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]<mailto:[mailto:jhea...@dfg.

RE: Weird issue

2012-08-08 Thread Heaton, Joseph@DFG
There's your first target for testing... They updated it yesterday. Find out what they updated, and what that update changed. Joe Heaton ITB - Enterprise Server Support From: David Lloyd [mailto:da...@future-support.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 7:46 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@DF

RE: Powershell XML issue

2012-08-07 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Some time ago I read an interesting essay to the effect of, "Is the >thing you're sending across the wire much more complex than a string? >Then you have failed; go buy another subscription to MSDN." It >doesn't apply all the time, but it's always good food for thought when >I find myself startin

RE: Powershell XML issue

2012-08-07 Thread Joseph L. Casale
> There’s an InnerXml property on there that might be useful? Turns out the the serialization/deserialization that happens to some types in remoting strips the methods, I rewrote without using attrs to prevent this. That was a tough lesson late in this exercise :( ~ Finally, powerful endpoint se

RE: PS export question

2012-08-07 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Format-Table doesn't play nice with the pipeline past itself. Simply put, ft/fl are for viewing data. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd347677.aspx "Windows PowerShell has a set of cmdlets that allow you to control which properties are displayed for particular objects. The names of

RE: Where did my HD space go?

2012-07-30 Thread Heaton, Joseph@DFG
OMG I hate that directory. Joe Heaton ITB - Enterprise Server Support -Original Message- From: James R Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 11:01 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Where did my HD space go? What about the winsxs

RE: Where did my HD space go?

2012-07-30 Thread Heaton, Joseph@DFG
, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues Subject: Where did my HD space go? Ok, I have a strange one. This is a 64 bit 2008 server with SP2. It is complaining about the C drive being full. The C drive is 98.5 GB in disk management and explorer. Both claim there is only 400 MB of free space. When

RE: Gartner says Win8 is "bad"

2012-07-24 Thread Heaton, Joseph@DFG
Absolutely agree with that statement. Joe Heaton ITB – Enterprise Server Support From: Daniel Chenault [mailto:dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 10:45 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Gartner says Win8 is "bad" I daresay that whe

RE: Gartner says Win8 is "bad"

2012-07-24 Thread Heaton, Joseph@DFG
That doesn’t make those “consumer level” operating systems. Both those OSes were “intended” for business clients. Joe Heaton ITB – Enterprise Server Support From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 10:12 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues Subject

RE: The security database on the server ...

2012-07-19 Thread Heaton, Joseph@DFG
Outlook? What is this you speak of? :P Joe Heaton ITB - Enterprise Server Support From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 3:13 PM To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: The security database on the server ... Does no one on this

RE: Logmein - down???

2012-07-19 Thread Heaton, Joseph@DFG
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/logmein.com shows that it's up. At least http://logmein.com Joe Heaton ITB - Enterprise Server Support From: David L Herrick [mailto:davidherr...@nincal.com] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 11:18 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues Su

RE: Dropbox concerns..

2012-07-19 Thread Heaton, Joseph@DFG
We're blocking dropbox on our Websense. Trying to rein in on the uploading/downloading of department data to the internet. Joe Heaton ITB - Enterprise Server Support From: James R Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 8:29 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT S

RE: moving to virtual

2012-07-17 Thread Heaton, Joseph@DFG
We're completely virtual here with our DCs. Just make sure they're on different hosts, and you should be fine. Joe Heaton ITB - Enterprise Server Support From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonmobility.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 8:52 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG;

RE: Straight Talk mobile service

2012-07-09 Thread Heaton, Joseph@DFG
No, he has 3 phones with AT&T currently. He's looking at switching to StraightTalk. Joe Heaton ITB - Enterprise Server Support From: Richard McClary [mailto:richard.mccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 12:23 PM To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stra

RE: Straight Talk mobile service

2012-07-09 Thread Heaton, Joseph@DFG
bit after around 2GB or so. Doesn't look like they have iPhones, though. Only Android in the smartphone arena. They do offer 4GLTE though. Joe Heaton ITB - Enterprise Server Support From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 12:00 PM To: Heaton,

RE: Monitor or TV for home use

2012-07-06 Thread Heaton, Joseph@DFG
They're still putting out the 720p displays. Maybe he got one of those? Joe Heaton ITB - Enterprise Server Support From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 6:49 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Monitor or TV for hom

RE: Internet Monitoring

2012-07-04 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Nope - that's almost reasonable... > >But he's a Windows bigot to boot - doesn't want us messing with >non-MSFT operating systems at all. I am certainly not a fanboy of either, right tool right job, I like em both... I don't know much about the appliance, but I can safely assume what it runs:)

RE: Internet Monitoring

2012-07-04 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>The FreeBSD/Squid/Apache box I had running didn't have these problems, >but the manager wanted something with commercial support. echo FreeBSD/Squid/Apache |sed 's|FreeBSD|RHEL|' == Commercial Support :) Sorry, couldn't resist... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~

RE: Slow Excel Files

2012-06-27 Thread Joseph Schvarcz
2nd that. I had a client who had dramatic slowdowns for opening excel spreadsheets from a NAS all of a sudden, they actually got a new NAS and they still had the problem. Removing the office file validation fixed the speed issue right away. -Original Message- From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@m

RE: in-depth AD

2012-06-16 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I have most stuff at home – this is what the one ESX box looks like right now: What specs do you run that long list on at home? Thanks! jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~ --- To manage subscript

Re: in-depth AD

2012-06-15 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Ken, How do you find the proc on those things, I assumed it was far to under sized for exchange and ad etc. Also, what's the KVM usability like on the rac? Thanks! jlc On Jun 15, 2012, at 4:19 AM, "Ken Schaefer" wrote: > To be honest, when HP N40L Microservers are $350 each, everyone >

RE: Windows 8 for Business

2012-06-14 Thread Heaton, Joseph@DFG
that goes away. Joe Heaton ITB – Windows Server Support From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 7:14 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 8 for Business That wouldn't take much! PITA process. John W. Cook Network Opera

RE: Dynamic ScriptBlock creation

2012-06-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Get-content -readcount 0 << -- MUCH faster. Me thinks you mean a number higher than 0 right? >Eventing makes this kind of thing much easier. Right except that this log is perpetually growing. How would eventing assist on this one? As far as I know, I might be alerted to it having changed, but

RE: Dynamic ScriptBlock creation

2012-06-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Heh, I wouldn't know where to begin:) You need to write output to stdout to be able to receive it, obviously their is no "Host" for this remote job in terms of the remote script. Get-Content is slow, File.IO doesn't seem to handle open log files, IO.FileStream can but has a lot more overhead in

RE: Dynamic ScriptBlock creation

2012-06-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
naming conventions, consider this naming form for your variables, which can also be used to access methods and properties and special types: ${This is a Valid VaRiAbLe Name, with brace decorations!} = 1 -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.co

RE: Dynamic ScriptBlock creation

2012-06-08 Thread Joseph L. Casale
The problem stemmed from the fact that I have several modes or operations that a script may run against several servers. Almost all of the different operations required some base set of config to be derived by executing various queries on the remote servers locally. All of these jobs required a

Dynamic ScriptBlock creation

2012-06-08 Thread Joseph L. Casale
To overcome some difficulties in passing args and combining script blocks to be sent to multiple hosts, I am using [ScriptBlock]::Create() on a few existing ScriptBlocks and one text here string to populate variables in the ScriptBlock instead of passing args. My issue is expanding certain vari

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