RE: Office Printers

> Ah, I see. Some ideas: /snip Yeah, that's why I was intending on using procmail and scan-to-email so attachments would never see my exchange server. Pretty sure I could whip something up based on who they email it to (Themselves). A better solution so they don't even have to leave the doc on

RE: Office Printers

> I don't get it. What's the issue? Because they scan sensitive/private stuff and unless it works like it used it to with the old office scan app where they save it to their desktop, they won't want it in a publicly accessible folder. As per my other thread about perms, I haven't crafted a w

RE: Office Printers

> Wouldn't it make more sense to scan-to-FTP/SMB/whatever, and just have the > copier drop the file there, rather than futz around with email filters? > That's what we do; works great. Sure, if I can get it to go where I need:) With a generic account that it will likely use to access the resou

WSUS and non public patches

Possible to addin hotfixes you manually download from MS? I have a few I need to apply across the board... Thanks! jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http:

Perms issue

I have a file server with a share whose perms are as follows: - CREATOR OWNER - Full Control (Apply onto: Subfolders and Files Only) - Everyone - Create Folder/Append Data (Apply onto: This Folder Only) - Everyone - List Folder/Read Data (Apply onto: This Folder Only) - Everyone - Read Attributes

RE: Office Printers

either showing their age or long in the tooth. But, we use Aficio's, and they seem just fine. Kurt On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 08:58, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > We have some Canon iR’s that are showing their teeth and the proposed > replacements by a couple reps are either Ricoh Ficio MP

RE: Office Printers

I'd imagine Canon has come a long way, but our two iR's broke down often and the software was lame. I do like the Xerox, I'll look into this one further. Thanks! jlc -Original Message- From: Graeme Carstairs [mailto:loonyto...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2010 1:16 PM To: NT Syst

Office Printers

We have some Canon iR's that are showing their teeth and the proposed replacements by a couple reps are either Ricoh Ficio MP 5000SP or a Xerox WorkCenter 5790. I always hated the Canons software as it wasn't msi based and needed write perms to the %ProgramFiles% directory it was installed in..

RE: Vista and printing gpp

So this turns out to be something specific w/ Vista, the Win7 machines work as it wasn't a driver issue. So long as an Admin installs the printer first, its fine after. Point and Print is set as per MS docs? Anyone seen this behavior even with the p&p set right? Thanks! jlc From:

Vista and printing gpp

I have Win7 machines working perfectly, the print server initially had 2008r2/win7 (x86/64) drivers installed on it. I added Vista drivers but the vista clients still say they need a driver update, and the gpp hangs them on logon if its applied? Anyone know the nuances surrounding this? Thanks

RE: Barracuda VoIP (Cudatel)

While I haven't used it, I have used the open source product it uses, Freeswitch at one shop I look after. The dev team are very active and helpful, I would certainly choose it if I was after a commercial option. jlc From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 21, 20

RE: Group Policy Pref's Issue

: Re: Group Policy Pref's Issue What does gpresults say? -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Motorola Droid On Oct 20, 2010 6:19 PM, "Joseph L. Casale" mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com>> wrote: > So it looks like I may have tracked down one of a million iss

RE: Group Policy Pref's Issue

say? -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Motorola Droid On Oct 20, 2010 6:19 PM, "Joseph L. Casale" mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com>> wrote: > So it looks like I may have tracked down one of a million issues here: > > On all the Vista machines, it seems if

RE: Sysprep issue

I dunno, as many times as HP did it, and once here. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 3:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sysprep issue Curious, how many times has this image been SYSPREPed? From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas

Group Policy Pref's Issue

So it looks like I may have tracked down one of a million issues here: On all the Vista machines, it seems if I create a new user with a roaming profile or anything else he can log in no problem as long as he is not in the OU I need him to be, the one with my GPP gpo. It does the following: 1.

RE: Switch Issue?

? Time to call HP. See if you can take advantage of that lifetime warranty. On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Joseph L. Casale mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com>> wrote: BTW, Firmware is up to date. I think the switch has just gone plain flakey... jlc -Original Message- From: Jo

RE: Switch Issue?

BTW, Firmware is up to date. I think the switch has just gone plain flakey... jlc -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 2:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Switch Issue? No, only one big switch. Can&#

RE: Switch Issue?

com] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 1:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: Joseph L. Casale Subject: Re: Switch Issue? Is your iSCSI on a seperate physical switch? Most iSCSI deployments I do are on their own isolated switch so if that's the case, I can't see your iSCSI storage issue being

Switch Issue?

So here's my array of problems: 1. Exchange 2003 db's corrupt (block storage provided by iSCSI). Fix that. 2. Activesync shits the bed? Still busted 3. Buy OVS from ms, migrate everything (fresh). Activesync still busted. 4. Mail to postfix gateway having issues? 5.

RE: Sysprep issue

e MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 2:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sysprep issue I don't know what is causing the issues then, I am having trouble with an Office 2010 install no

Powershell Help

Guys, I need a golden nugget here, lol (I am about to hit a brick wall:) from exhaustion). I misplaced an old dos script I used, so I am writing it in powershell. How do I search a path for all files of type '*.abc' and then loop through and execute a command using the full path of each occurre

RE: Sysprep issue

r 2008/2008 R2/Win7 Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 1:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Sysprep issue I have an vista image from HP that I apply,

Sysprep issue

I have an vista image from HP that I apply, boot, update to sp2 and continue to apply all updates there after. I install drivers etc... I then sysprep /generalize /oobe /shutdown and image and upload into my wds server. This image applies with some of the drivers missing and generally is proble

Scan software

We have some Canon B&W iR's that use Network Scangear and install twain driver. Since Office 2010 did away with the scanning component, even after install NSG windows 7 scan app doesn't work with our machines. Anyone know a free/opensource app that can simply scan, no ocr with these canons? Than

RE: Bar Code Thermal Printing Ware

r old version to something current, especially since it's running on a virtualized Win2k Pro box with a parallel port dongle on an ESX3.5 box Kurt On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 17:10, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Can anyone make a reco, I have several old seats I need to upgrade and > consolid

Bar Code Thermal Printing Ware

Can anyone make a reco, I have several old seats I need to upgrade and consolidate into one app version so all the labels are compat. The newest I have is Teklynx I think, is that good stuff? Worth to go forward with? Thanks! jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog!

RE: Print Drivers

ndesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c   - 312.731.3132 From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 8:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Print Drivers I have a 2008r2 print server w/ x86/x64 drivers for several printers, I have a GPP that applies

Print Drivers

I have a 2008r2 print server w/ x86/x64 drivers for several printers, I have a GPP that applies mapped printers on Win7 clients. Problem is it forces the map in the users context and unlike older windows, the drivers don't just install. How does one get around this? Thanks! jlc ~ Finally, powe

RE: SBS2003 Migration Question

I know nothing of SBS, but you say you have not transferred any fsmo's then shutdown the server with them and you have issues? Did I miss something? -Original Message- From: Shawn Everett [mailto:sh...@tandac.com] Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2010 9:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: Win 7 WDS Unattended Domain Join

Turned out to be an image issue, I manually deployed it then sysprep/captured it… jlc From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 8:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win 7 WDS Unattended Domain Join Hey Brian, Thanks for following up! I

RE: Win 7 WDS Unattended Domain Join

MAC? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com<mailto:br...@briandesmond.com> w – 312.625.1438 | c – 312.731.3132 From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 7:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Win 7 WDS Unattended Domain Join R

Win 7 WDS Unattended Domain Join

Reading through technet and the part that attempts to point to more documentation on this is actually a circular link:( It states that Win7 etc needs an unsecure domain join, I am prestaging my accounts using the mac so I can control naming. Anyone know the black magic here to get the domain jo

RE: Win7 and WDS automated deployment

yment Is MDT2010 out of the question? T typed slowly on HTC Desire On 15 Oct 2010 05:07, "Joseph L. Casale" mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com>> wrote: > The chm that comes with the AIK is pretty clear in what it requires to fully > automate the setup and I have done thi

RE: Win7 and WDS automated deployment

just to a fresh install from the W7 media, customize my image and run sysprep with my unattend.xml in %systemroot%\Panther\Unattend. Not sure if they helps you with your question. Jimmy From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 9:07 PM To: NT S

Win7 and WDS automated deployment

The chm that comes with the AIK is pretty clear in what it requires to fully automate the setup and I have done this with vista numerous times but the boot image was automated as well. Is it expected that if you don't automate the boot image as well, even if you have the applicable WinPE sectio

RE: Group Policy Prefs

won't copy it again when the action is create, replace, or update. I would put the delete at #1. From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 6:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Group Policy Prefs Preparing to do away with a logon sc

Group Policy Prefs

Preparing to do away with a logon script as it looks like GPP's will do all I need wrt this script. I do have a question about File/Folder prefs, we have some access db's that get copied from a master red only location to a folder created for a user if he is member of a Sec Group. One pain is c

RE: KMS Best Practices

ssues Subject: RE: KMS Best Practices Didn't think about Office 2010 - the activation threshold there is 5. -Malcolm From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 18:39 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: KMS Best Practices Ah, misunderstood

RE: KMS Best Practices

mapped to a specific KMS key) before the KMS activates against MS. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com<mailto:br...@briandesmond.com> c - 312.731.3132 From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 7:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues S

KMS Best Practices

Getting ready to roll out a bunch of new stuff at a shop as they now have their OVS keys. I am reading up on setting up a KMS and as trivial as this appears, are there any concerns by people who have set these up that might not be outlined in TechNet? At the place in question, they have ~6 serve

RE: 3rd Party Defrag Utilities

Didn't you get all the replies this thread received? If you are using Windows 2003 and up, just script it? Free... Do you (as in, you more than the rest of the world) really need something better? I know LOTS of shops that don't even do this, and in some cases it can be disastrous. Defrag a drive

RE: AV Opinions

ating usernames and the browser had bugs, sigh... What makes a software company release an app with a list of "Known Problems" so long? How is that acceptable? Thinking about not wanting more headaches than I have so I am going to demo Avira, but it was more money. jlc From: J

RE: Procurve Routing Issue

> To the best of my knowledge, simply sending or receiving full frames >at gig speeds is enough to stress most PCs, let alone forwarding them. > The bottleneck is usually bus bandwidth or interrupt load. While I >don't know, I would expect the routing on the 2800 to be done on the >management CP

RE: Procurve Routing Issue

> I would not use the 2824 as a router for anything serious, and >"bandwidth reasons" makes it sound serious. Do you know what it takes to route even at gig speeds? It doesn't need to be serious at all to desire to route faster than most routers:) Its iSCSI traffic, letting even a 2824 pass it ar

Procurve Routing Issue

I have a 2824 with two vlans, 100 for prod and 103 for ip san. It's not currently in routed mode, but I want assign ips to the two vlans and set it up in routed mode so the switch can route traffic between servers and the san vlan for bandwidth reasons. My issue is the lack of acl's, any client o

RE: Multiple net segments on W2k8r2

mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 11:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Multiple net segments on W2k8r2 You don't need to have Microsoft File Sharing on this NIC at all, right? ASB On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Joseph L. Casale mailto:jcas...@act

Multiple net segments on W2k8r2

I have some configuration changes I am planning for and this involves adding a NIC to a W2k8r2 box that's untagged into a Storage vlan on a different segment. So long as that interface is not set to register itself in DNS (it will never be addressed by this ip) is there anything else I need/shou

RE: AV Opinions

st/pilot users it has been perfect) when pushing it out. It includes device control (want to block USB storage devices...2-3 clicks and you are done), a NAC component, and a firewall. It also includes clients for Mac/Linux and with each corporate license, you get a free at-home license. NFI -

Redeploying Vista with WDS

I have a specific image I must use that only has SP1, well my current WAIK setup needs that image to have SP2 for me to accomplish what I want to the wim before I load it into my WDS server. Any ways to get around the reference computer buildout and `sysprep /oobe /generalize /reboot` then capture?

RE: AV Opinions

so I rely a lot on having very good URL filtering in place so that hopefully the A/V doesn't need to do much, but I still rate the product very highly. From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: 07 October 2010 00:09 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: AV Opinions At

RE: AV Opinions

eal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 1:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AV Opinions I use and recommend NOD32+Malwarebytes. http://www.eset.com/press-center/awards -- ME2 On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Joseph L. Casa

Way to funny

http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627+1286411476658+28353475&threadId=1450597 A Telus user, I shudder... Lets all call:) ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~ ---

RE: AV Opinions

..2-3 clicks and you are done), a NAC component, and a firewall. It also includes clients for Mac/Linux and with each corporate license, you get a free at-home license. NFI - just a very satisfied customer so far. Jim From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto

RE: AV Opinions

sbtn.com/> - Sean On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Joseph L. Casale mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com>> wrote: At one of the shops that I look after, I have been asked to change the AV to something new and current. Vipre and Forefront excluded (I know enough about those already), what else ar

AV Opinions

At one of the shops that I look after, I have been asked to change the AV to something new and current. Vipre and Forefront excluded (I know enough about those already), what else are you guys using that's good? It's been a while since I looked at all the other vendors, I have such little time

RE: Adobe Reader

Cool, let me know if you successfully disable/remove the services and update with the Adobe Customization Wizard and whatever else you use. The last deployment I did on 9.3.4 I think left them in, I was going to wait until the next package to trouble shoot this... Thanks! jlc -Original Mess

Office 2010 Deployment

Hey guys, Couple questions on deploying Office 2010, technet shows a batch file for this, any resources with anything more elegant? Technet also shows some old adm templates methods for configuring Outlook w/ GPO's, I was going to use the OCT and make a prf, is that the best way? Thanks! jlc ~

RE: Visio Network Stencils

ocafe.com> is a good starting point. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com<mailto:br...@briandesmond.com> c - 312.731.3132 From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2010 5:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Visio Network Stencils N

Visio Network Stencils

Never having used Visio for this, I was hoping to hit the ground running with a suggestion on the best stencils to get for a net diagram of vmware/ms/rhel items... Thanks! jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Online backup downselect

Dropbox, does what you want. At a few sites I look after, they have a very small infrastructure with a user at each working from home and office and wanting several gig of docs/pics available in realtime at both, sigh... I redirected the personal/pics/favs etc into a Dropbox folder. While she is

RE: Open value

Just in the middle of moving to Open Value now, and you guessed it, Office is the hold up. OVS doesn't do Office Std, just Pro. OVS can assume your existing licenses though. I don't know how you purchased Std within OV as that's all we want and MS pointed me to the FAQ on the licensing site tha

RE: SIS

I thought that the RIS/WDS groveler only impacted the shares specified for RIS/WDS, but I don't have time to investigate that. I could surely be wrong. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenet

RE: SIS

Not that I ever would, but he's right. According to MS docs, *anything* you put on the _volume_ that RIS was installed into was subject to the SIS groveler. So you could have leveraged it intentionally this way, but... From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 1

RE: Windows server defrag tools

>Anyone have a favorite, that just blows away anything else you've used? I don't know what makes one better than the other, but scripting the builtin defrager is what I do, if I even need to. One such example, many more here: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ScriptCenter/en-us/fc687f47-bac9-4

RE: Bink.nu | Free Microsoft Security Essentials Coming for Small Businesses - Bink.nu

I use Forefront and MSE at home etc and while I like Microsoft (I don't wear any fanboy hats for any OS/Vendor) I can say at least this: 1. Their security software isn't as good as most other top vendors, it misses much more (from experience, not opinion). 2. I migrated away from a

RE: WSUS 3.0 SP2 on R2 w/ windows internal database

se and the front-end server are on the same computer. This configuration scales to support several thousand clients. There is no advantage to using SQL rather than WID in this configuration. -Jeff Steward On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Joseph L. Casale mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com>> w

WSUS 3.0 SP2 on R2 w/ windows internal database

Can anyone comment on the maximum client size this scales to? We are moving to Open Value Subs here and may not get a sub for SQL as we are turfing our ERP app which has SQL 2k so no need to update. jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: ESXi fun

Not unless it has java. It doesn't have read support for vmfs . See my earlier post... -Original Message- From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:cbusitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 1:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESXi fun Would it be possible to boot to a kno

RE: OpenSource Network/Systems Monitoring

I like snmp, I hate installing software on servers to do what it can already do natively. That being said, I use Icinga (Nagios fork) now but always wanted to migrate to OpenNMS. As far as I am concerned it's the most enterprisable and robust but has a steep learning curve. jlc From: Andrew S.

RE: ESXi fun

>You know you could just put the drive in a working esxi system and mount the >datastore and files ... Given how easy that is, I wouldn't disagree but if you insist on some other way to recover the data, you can always mount the vmfs partitions in windows or Linux. http://code.google.com/p/vmfs/

RE: ESXi box failing to start

Known behavior from experience and vmware community posts. From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 6:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ESXi box failing to start Out of curiosity, why does a logical volume manager problem make

RE: ESXi box failing to start

AFAIK ESXi wont start w/o a nic at all. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 1:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: ESXi box failing to start I've got an ESXi box failing to start that stops with an error of "failed to load lvmdriver". All my Go

Resume's

I have an opportunity coming up and want to make a decent looking resume but really don't know what's currently the accepted format etc. Anyone have any pointers or examples they wouldn't mind sharing? I'd be eternally grateful! Thanks, jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a re

RE: OT: Paging, Bell and Intercom Systems?

>Are there Voip-to-Analog gateways that handle multiple analog endpoints in a >single device? Can you give an example of such a device? Only the good ones do:) http://www.patton.com/products/pe_products.asp?category=5#catshow http://www.audiocodes.com/CPE Rule of thumb: If it does one port, it's

RE: OT: Paging, Bell and Intercom Systems?

>> Is there a system that can use existing analog >> speakers, but the "head-end" is IP Addressable? > > FWIW, I know Asterisk can do at least some of this, and knowing it's >nature, it can probabbly do all that and more. Asterisk, boo You can get IP based intercoms where the actual intercom

RE: Friday Funny (NSFW): Mongo DB is Web Scale

Lol, that made my week! -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 3:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Friday Funny (NSFW): Mongo DB is Web Scale http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6995033/ I am laughing so hard I'm

RE: RE: Alternative VoIP Solutions

M, "Joseph L. Casale" mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com>> wrote: > Check out FreeSWITCH, quite a few guys have scaled it up to 200cps, the > design/configuration is brilliant... > > I was an asterisk convert and & I love it. We use pots fax machines to send > fax

RE: Alternative VoIP Solutions

Of course it supports analog cards like asterisk, I have been using an actual Digium card for ages... See FreeTDM. -Original Message- From: Ken Cornetet [mailto:ken.corne...@kimball.com] Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 6:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Alternative VoIP S

RE: Alternative VoIP Solutions

Check out FreeSWITCH, quite a few guys have scaled it up to 200cps, the design/configuration is brilliant... I was an asterisk convert and & I love it. We use pots fax machines to send faxes through an analog gateway that coverts the dialed number into an email and uses our fax/email service. V

RE: Powershell Question

o: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Powershell Question I think you can try this: $sfDesktop = [Environment]::GetFolderPath("Desktop") If(!(test-path $sfDesktop)) { write-host "Something's wrong" } Else { write-host "It worked" } On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at

RE: Powershell Question

el B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 2:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Powershell Question Hey Rubens, I am not too concerned wi

RE: Powershell Question

al Message- From: Rubens Almeida [mailto:rubensalme...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 12:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Powershell Question I'd try something like this: $sfDesktop = $env:USERPROFILE + "\desktop" On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Joseph L.

Powershell Question

Hey Guys, What's the most simple and elegant way to trap for the following variable assignment: Eg. $sfDesktop = [Environment]::GetFolderPath("Desktop") Should I assign it like this, and test for a proper value when using (skip otherwise while I cycle through all the ones I need to)? If so, how

RE: slow transfers:was MSA30 woes

Firstly, I will say the 6400 is slow, I had one... Just for the fact you said 6400/msa30, I am sure your bottle neck lies there, but if you had good hardware throughout I would have these thoughts: 1. Trunking in switches set right wrt the trunk config in the adapter team? I've been blown away b

RE: Old .Net App Broken

NET 4 gets installed... Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 11:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Old .Net App Broken Dunno yet, it works with

RE: Old .Net App Broken

] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 7:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Old .Net App Broken How is recompiling the app going to fix your problem? What actually is broken? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com<mailto:br...@briandesmond.com> c - 312.731.3132 From: Joseph L.

RE: Old .Net App Broken

Nyah! Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 6:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Old .Net App Broken I have an old >net 2.0sp2 'ish era app that fi

Old .Net App Broken

I have an old >net 2.0sp2 'ish era app that finally stopped working. I have the source from the original dev. As I don't know sh!t about programming, looking at the files in vi I guess they are VB.NET, I don't have a compiler, shall I just tell the big wigs I need Visual Studio Pro (I think that

vipre rescue unquarantine

So how does one unquarantine a file from vipre rescue? Thanks! jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

Snap Server 730i powersupply

I have an old snap server that is showing a failed power supply, while I can halt any io to it, an unmount any fs's that would need to, I don't want to log off all the ini's connected to it but I really don't know which is "Power Supply 1" (the reported failed unit) and both have green lights?

RE: Website for finding developers

-Original Message----- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 2:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Website for finding developers Anyone know a website like nextsprocket.com but obviously with some successful results where I can pos

Website for finding developers

Anyone know a website like nextsprocket.com but obviously with some successful results where I can post a job request? For anyone interested, I need a web based interface that can access the live feed from this camera and interact with the Audio, specifically we need to be able to communicate with

RE: Interesting VMware guest behaviour

>I've quickly implemented a GPO to hide the icon again, but I'm slightly >concerned that a user with standard privileges could initiate an installation, >and a restart, to boot. That's a pet peeve of mine, but there is a more secure solution than yours, sorry I don't have the time to find the o

RE: The arrrgghhhness of it all...

e trunking question or not. Kurt -- Forwarded message ------ From: Joseph L. Casale Date: Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 18:34 Subject: RE: The arrrgghhhness of it all... To: NT System Admin Issues I saw something very similar a while ago:) What's your esx vswitch and nic config and if you&#x

RE: The arrrgghhhness of it all...

I saw something very similar a while ago:) What's your esx vswitch and nic config and if you're using trunking, what switch and how's it configured? jlc -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 6:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Sub

RE: Anyone Using Nagios?

I use Icinga (the new fork of Nagios) and use pnp4nagios on a CentOS box. Works very well... jlc From: Robert Jackson [mailto:r...@walkermartyn.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 12:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Anyone Using Nagios? I'm looking at setting up a Solaris 10 (x86) Na

RE: Possible Rogue device on the network

You don't have managed switches, you cant follow the mac from trunk to trunk etc until you get to the ingress port? From: Fergal O'Connell [mailto:foconn...@curamsoftware.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 8:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Possible Rogue device on the network Still

RE: iSCSI and shared volumes

Hasn't anything at all to do with the ini, it's the filesystem that the target exports. iSCSI is not a file sharing protocol, you likely have already corrupted the ntfs filesystem on the 5tb volume you have done with this. Although the ini often needs to support scsi reservations (ms ini does) t

RE: Server raid config ponderings

I would do R10 with 2 groups of 4 and leave 2 drives for hotspares if needed. R5 sucks for this application... From: Ben N [mailto:bennordlan...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 3:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Server raid config ponderings I have a new Dell R710, with 10 (2.5inc

RE: Passwords on paper? Seriously?

> What would be really nice is links like that for Acrobat Reader. You apply for distro rights [1], they email you a link. Reader is packaged like sh!t, updates are msi patches and they are always messing with the stupid thing so that every version is an exercise in customization. I've never fou

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