RE: Webinar connect to Polycom

Kurt just jogged my memory, we have used this. http://www.polycom.com/products/telepresence_video/telepresence_solutions/personal_telepresence/cma_desktop.html -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 3:37 PM To: NT System Admin Iss

RE: OT: Favour to ask

s the problem really the size or complexity of the penetration testing report? ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Kennedy, Jim mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org>> wrote: I've seen

RE: OT: Favour to ask

CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org<mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org> From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]<mailto:[mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 4:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issue

RE: System Center 2012

ailable to the catalog once, and it's available to anyone (pending approvals, of course). From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]<mailto:[mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 4:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: System Center

RE: OT: Favour to ask

Yes, we all should have sandboxes for this kind of thing. From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 4:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Favour to ask Andrew...you are of course correct! Thankfully we are not our end-users! LOL! On Mon, Apr 2, 201

RE: System Center 2012

And on my action pack subscription downloads. From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 2:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: System Center 2012 It is on the main TechNet download page for me. Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional

RE: Adding an Exchange 2003 Front End server?

With all due respect, I think you should rethink your plan on putting Exchange in the DMZ. If you want to move the connections out to the DMZ then put a proxy out there that relay's the requests back to your inside server. For example an ISA server/Forefront Threat Management Gateway. From: "i

RE: IE9 GP Admin Templates

ix an existing GPP." On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Kennedy, Jim mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org>> wrote: I put it everywhere I could think of. I was so po'd at the whole IE9 gpp/IE maint issue that I lost it. Plus the KB is a bit vague on where it goes, but I do not

RE: OT? usb to scsi adaptor

While blasting "'Dang' it feels good to be a gangsta" in the background. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 1:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT? usb to scsi adaptor .44 magnum comes to mind. -Original

RE: IE9 GP Admin Templates

Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com<http://www.carlwebster.com/> From: "Kennedy, Jim" mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org>> Subject: RE: IE9 GP Admin Templates I put it everywhere I could think of. I was so po'd at the whole IE9 gpp/IE maint issue tha

RE: IE9 GP Admin Templates

uster...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 12:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: IE9 GP Admin Templates You put the hotfix on the desktops also? On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Kennedy, Jim mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org>> wrote: Got it on all my servers and des

RE: IE9 GP Admin Templates

morning, though I'm a little hesitant to install a hotfix. On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Kennedy, Jim mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org>> wrote: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2530309 From: James Hill [mailto:falc...@gmail.com<mailto:falc...@gmail.com>] Sent: Monday, Ma

RE: IE9 GP Admin Templates

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2530309 From: James Hill [mailto:falc...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 5:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IE9 GP Admin Templates GPP for IE 9 & 10 are in the Win Server 8 beta. I don't know If it is possible to use the file from there on

RE: DCDiag and IPv6 Root Hints

What does the cache.dns file show? From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 3:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DCDiag and IPv6 Root Hints Trying to understand why on one Server 2003 Std Edition SP2 domain controller, the following shows up in DCDiag:

RE: GPO puzzle solved, but why.

Life Insurance Company of America www.guardianlife.com<http://www.guardianlife.com/> From: "Kennedy, Jim" To:"NT System Admin Issues" Date:03/23/2012 03:10 PM Subject:GPO puzzle solved, but why. I have

RE: GPO puzzle solved, but why.

ornetet 812.482.8499 To err is human - to moo, bovine. From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 2:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: GPO puzzle solved, but why. I have had a bit of a puzzle today, I have it solved but I don't know

RE: In case anyone didn't see this on the Patch Management list...

09:23, Kennedy, Jim wrote: > WSUS. Set to download but not install. Then I RDP and hit install. Saves > quite a bit of time since they are already downloaded. An improvement over > what you are doing, but still not perfect of course. But I am in full control > that way. We are smaller

RE: Worth some consideration...

I would also say that the below is better than using the same password over and over all over the place. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 1:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Worth some consideration... Better the pi

RE: In case anyone didn't see this on the Patch Management list...

t;patching now, please log off". At least I have most weekends to do > this kind of thing... > > Kurt > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 07:24, Kennedy, Jim > wrote: > > I am all done!  Neeener neener.  :) > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Kur

RE: In case anyone didn't see this on the Patch Management list...

Interesting. The code on the Chinese website is exactly the same as the code that was sent to MS 10 months ago in the PoC. -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 10:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: In case anyone didn't see this on the

RE: In case anyone didn't see this on the Patch Management list...

I am all done! Neeener neener. :) -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 10:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: In case anyone didn't see this on the Patch Management list... Yeah, I'm pushing this out as fast as I can - I

RE: list delays

Dang it, I was going to do that but had to go to a meeting. Well done sir. From: William Robbins [mailto:dangerw...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 2:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: list delays I'm sure you're safe in your anonymity... 1993 Lawrence Brownlee Trom

RE: Proxy server and ISA

+1 From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 3:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Proxy server and ISA Because IE Maint policy is total bunk and it's way better to figure out the keys involved and use GPPs to manage them. I refuse to enter that branch of the

RE: H: (homedrive)

Just to add to this, here is a neat little trick I use to move the 'share' names paths and permissions. Even if you change the paths on the new serve it is pretty easy to edit that in regedit after you do the import. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/125996 From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin.

RE: MagicJack

Exactly what I went through a few years ago with Dish. When I called to cancel THEN they had a deal. That last month when I went from Cox Cable to ATT…same thing…Cox had no deals until I was calling to cancel. It is maddening. From: Don Kuhlman [mailto:drkuhl...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, March 0

RE: MagicJack

In my experience with them once I got my first set of free receivers from them getting new ones a few years later was not cheap. 'We only do that for new customers' was what I was told several times until I called to cancel, but at that point it was too late for them. I had cable put back in at

RE: (homedrive)

A single share with each of their folders in there. \\server\users\%username% Self-created with this spiffy MS KB. My favorite KB of all time since we need 7000 new folders every August. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/274443 From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, March

RE: Do any of you auto-cleanup AD?

Yes, I let it do the cleanup...about twice a year. But I don't delete the computer objects I disable them. Then move them to their own OU and wait for the phone to ring. -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 2:50 PM To: NT System

RE: windows accounting

: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: windows accounting Yes, forgot about the cheap licensing...so SCOM with ACS is an option. On 22 February 2012 15:11, Kennedy, Jim mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org>> wrote: The events happen on those servers,

RE: windows accounting

The events happen on those servers, so one way or another you are going to need to monitor them. So next step is to aggregate them back to a central management console. SCOM for example. Are you on a school agreement? If so SCOM is very cheap for you. From: Thomas Mullins [mailto:tsmull...@wis

RE: Limiting DHCP

Yea, don't do static's. It will haunt you sooner or later. DHCP reservations for existing stuff, then an exclude from the scope for all the unused addresses. You can real quick turn off that exclude when you get new devices until they get an addressthen you can easily create a reservation f

RE: Limiting DHCP

I think they are saying...since guests now have wireless access I want to completely stop them from plugging into our regular network with a patch cable. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 12:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Limitin

OT Friday Funny email from my mom.

Got this earlier this week from my Mom. While I applaud her problem solving abilities it really cracked me up. She is in Aruba on vacation. I am having computer problems. Ralph spilled a drink on it. Since it has dried out everything now works except the question mark and the last letter of

RE: Installing software on a server

Right click run as an administrator only works if you are logged in as an administrator. Shift right click run as a different user and supply the creds. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 1:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Installing software o

RE: Help w/TFTP

More people should try them. The really make that OS fly!! From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 11:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Help w/TFTP Windows Feathers are cool On 16 February 2012 16:17, Kennedy, Jim mailto:kennedy

RE: Help w/TFTP

Programs and features then turn windows feathers on/off. You have to add it, it isn't installed by default. From: Richard McClary [mailto:richard.mccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 11:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Help w/TFTP Greetings! I need to copy some router f

RE: Group Policy problem

+1 'always wait for network at computer startup' ftw. From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 8:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Policy problem I had a very similar problem a couple weeks ago. We only have one little application we push

RE: spamhaus

I see plenty of blocks from it here in the last few seconds. From: S Powell [mailto:powe...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 12:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: spamhaus Has anyone noticed spamhaus failing to work? Our DNS seems to be working and our other RBLs are working (n

RE: DNS Partial zone CNAMEs?

I really appreciate this and hate to impose more butdid anyone have any ideas how to skin this cat. Bottom line is I need to CNAME www.google.com to nosslsearch.google.com without having to run all of Google's DNS in house manually. I skin this cat or I kill Google Docs for our students, an

RE: DNS Partial zone CNAMEs?

considered resource records? Because that is all that is in that zone. From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 1:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DNS Partial zone CNAMEs? On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Kennedy, Jim mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.o

RE: DNS Partial zone CNAMEs?

and NS records I had no other records to remove. The behavior on this seemed to have changed starting with 2003 and up. From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 11:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DNS Partial zone CNAMEs? On Mon, Feb 13

RE: Mobile phone management

Moto is being bought by Google. So I don't see Moto making any moves until the Google purchase is approved and then the deal is finalized. If Moto added RIM right now that would start the process of Justice Dept. approval all over. From: Guyer, Donald [mailto:dgu...@che.org] Sent: Monday, Februa

RE: DNS Partial zone CNAMEs?

ks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com<mailto:br...@briandesmond.com> w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org<mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org>] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 9:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: DNS Partial zone CNAMEs?

there? Let us know what you get figured out, I am certainly curious. On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Ben Scott mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Kennedy, Jim mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org>> wrote: > To utilize this solution, your s

RE: DNS Partial zone CNAMEs?

7;t see how this is scalable. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com<mailto:br...@briandesmond.com> w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org<mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org>] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 9:45 A

RE: CN format question

mailto:br...@briandesmond.com> w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]<mailto:[mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 11:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: CN format question I know this is an impossible

RE: CN format question

the cn is just reflecting the name on the object. You don't even really have to have a first/last name combo-it could be "elmo", if that was the name of the object. What would the app do then? From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]<mailto:[mailto:kennedy

RE: CN format question

scaped comma in the DN at all, that's an application bug, not a problem with the directory data. IMHO, "CN=logonid" is a better way--this is how most non-AD directories roll--but I guess since ADUC slops the name fields into CN / RDN, that approach persists in AD generally. --Stev

RE: CN format question

us looks normal to me for Microsoft AD. The \ is there to escape the comma that follows. Maybe their app can't deal with that? http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=101405&seqNum=7 From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]<mailto:[mailto:kennedy...@elyri

RE: Wireless bridge between buildings.

Another option is to bore new conduit. We are having that done now at 14 buildings. Kinda cool, they basically dig a hole at each end and put a machine in one hole and it just tunnels all the way to the destination. Thing will go up and down around corners. Very cool to watch. It makes very tigh

RE: Threatened by Anonymous, Symantec tells users to pull pcAnywhere's plug - Computerworld

This was a 2006 breech that Symantec knew back then that it happened and knew what exploits that breech exposed. It took a threat from Anonymous for them to actually fix the exploits that have been there all this time. I am also told you should REALLY reconsider your use of Symantec's PGP if yo

RE: Windows 7 Copy Default Profile

create the unattend.xml file and apply it using sysprep ? On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Kennedy, Jim mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org>> wrote: Anything other than copyprofile set to true in a sysprep unattend.xml file will lead to a disaster that will haunt you for months. You will end

RE: Moving Exchange 2003 into a DMZ

You answered your auditors. Because you only have to open 25 and 443 to make your way work. Their way you will have all kinds of ports open. And if that box gets owned it is part of your domain and will have all that access to your inside assets. If you want more isolation pop an ISA server(or

RE: Windows 7 Copy Default Profile

Anything other than copyprofile set to true in a sysprep unattend.xml file will lead to a disaster that will haunt you for months. You will end up with registry keys for your users that show their desktops and folders set up as c:\users\LocalAdminThatYouUsed\desktop for example. Instead of %u

RE: SpiceWorks -- Too good to be true?

n M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer __ Roland Schorr & Tower www.rolandschorr.com -----Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 7:12 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SpiceWorks -- Too good to be true? We were a

RE: SpiceWorks -- Too good to be true?

We were a big fan of it but had to replace it. It just couldn't handle the size of our inventory and I threw a lot of hardware at it trying to get it to work. So if you are a smaller sized org or won't be using the inventory it is a wonderful product. -Original Message- From: Jay Kulsh

RE: Whoa...wkikpedia.

+1 The CanSpam act is proof of your theory. From: Brian Desmond [br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 6:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Whoa...wkikpedia. I’m not one to get into politics discussions, but, our elected la

RE: Microsoft Silverlight

You using the 64 bit IE which I don't think uses silverlight yet. So you keep putting it in and fixing it then firing up the 64 bit instead of the 32 bit browser? From: Troy Adkins [tadk...@house.virginia.gov] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 5:15 PM To:

RE: Size of this NT admin list

I never make these lists. From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 11:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Size of this NT admin list At least two: me and you. Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.c

RE: Phone / data plan / consultants

The mobile hotspot on VZ will cost extra FYI. Direct usb tether is hit or miss on their phones as far as being free. Currently free on my Bionic but previous system you had to have the mobile hotspot. Don't know which was a mistake or if there has been a policy change. 4G is not a requirement fo

RE: File rights issue

Nuke the Creator Owner permissions on the folder. You will often find Creator Owner with Full Control on Subfolders and Files Only under special permissions. So yes as the owner they have full control. From: Bob Hartung [mailto:bhart...@wiscoind.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 11:15 AM To:

RE: PC that can't Google

I think that one should say ::1 Localhost which is IPV6speak for 127.0.0.1 Localhost. There must have been something else in there that was causing this. Gotta be. From: Bob Hartung [mailto:bhart...@wiscoind.com] Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 12:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: P

RE: PC that can't Google

Check for add-ons in IE. From: Bob Hartung [mailto:bhart...@wiscoind.com] Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 6:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: PC that can't Google One of our VPs brought in his company-supplied home PC (Dell Optiplex WinXP Pro SP3

RE: OT Gmail rant

That's all I got. :) From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 9:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT Gmail rant Yep. Thanks for the link. I don't suppose you have for the SafeSearch as well? From: Kennedy, Jim [mail

RE: OT Gmail rant

This will fix the predictions as long as you continue to go to the link to use google. https://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0&hl=en Are you clicking save on the bottom of the settings page when you change your safe search settings? I have never had it reset on me. From: Maglinger, Paul [mail

RE: Fun with Hyper-V - and failover hardware Q's

You could attach the Buffalo NAS to the front end of a Windows Server. The server will handle ntfs for you. ISCSI Initiator is what you are looking for on the server. Don't know the Buffalo NAS's to say they support it, so check into that part. Basically is just a network SCSI connection to the

RE: Related to my Domain Admin thread

Split it in two. Interns or a vendor setting up new computers won't need to make user accounts. Maybe someday you will want HR to make new employee user accounts. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 12:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Related

RE: Domain Admin accounts

Procmon on the services they are running comes to mindfigure out what processes they are using in task manager and filter Procmon to monitor those processes. That will give you a list of what they are doing, which you can look at and see what perms are required to do that. It will be a bit t

RE: Expaning Subnet again

Yes, but just to be clear you would have one subnet, one usable range. 192.168.0.1 - 198.2.168.3.255 Download SolarWinds free Subnet Calculator. You have to provide an email address but I do not recall ever getting spammed by them. http://www.solarwinds.com/register/registrationshort.aspx?prog

RE: OT Gmail rant

I love you man! Thanks much. From: Mike Sullivan [mailto:neog...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 11:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT Gmail rant If you like the classic inbox style hover your mouse over the inbox just under the COMPOSE button. You will see a down arrow,

RE: OT Gmail rant

For me that arrow does not stick. I have to hit a dropdown and select 'show more messages' then that big arrow is there. But log out and back on the arrow is gone...have to do that every time. Then when you do hit it, the unread/inbox goes away. I should just IMAP it to outlook and be done with

OT Gmail rant

Interesting, I just change mine back to the old format...on the settings 'gear' on the right side. Must not be my turn to be borged yet. My biggest complaint on the new layout is getting to older emails beyond page one is a pita. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, Ja

RE: Huge Security Breach At Security Firm Symantec No Threat To Consumers, Analyst Says | Fox News

I would guess to meet their militaries requirements for security/safety Symantec had to provide it. I would expect that is a pretty standard practice across most governments. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 3:53 PM To: NT S

RE: Expanding a subnet

Yes, but it will eat your 10.100.10.x It would be 10.100.10.x with a subnet of 255.255.254.0 and would have the range of 10.100.10.x through 10.100.11.x http://www.subnet-calculator.com Can you migrate it all up the scale to 10.100.15.x? Or further in my opinion, leave yourself lots or room

RE: Network folders renaming themselves

e MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message----- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 1:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Network folders renaming themselves This is freaky. 2003 R2 file server serving files to staff. These are their re-d

RE: Network folders renaming themselves

Ok, delete the desktop.ini file inside each folder fixes it. Question is how is the bad one getting there. -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 1:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Network folders renaming

Network folders renaming themselves

This is freaky. 2003 R2 file server serving files to staff. These are their re-directed My Documents folders. Clients are a mixture of XP and Win 7. I have one share that contains 10 users in a department. The folders are all LastnameFirstname. Only the user, domain admins and local administ

RE: GPO reset of local non-builtin accounts

The 2003 servers don't have the latest updates for GPP installed would be my bet. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 11:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: GPO reset of local non-builtin accounts Any reason this wouldn't work with 2003 servers?

RE: GPO reset of local non-builtin accounts

Then convert it to an exe or encrypt it to help keep prying eyes out of it. http://www.abyssmedia.com/quickbfc/ -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 1:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: GPO reset of local

RE: Neat tip of the week

Just to amplify what you saidyou need to start devmgmt.msc from the same command prompt that you issue the set command from, so it picks it up. -Original Message- From: Anders Blomgren [mailto:chanks...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 4:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Sub

RE: Win 7 Public Documents

ments You have a couple of options. Use the "Disable Known Folders" GPO. User Config/Admin Temp/Windows Comp/Windows Explorer and specify the value as FOLDERID_CommonDocuments. Or you can try http://www.greycube.com/help/other/windows_7/ James. -Original Message- Fro

Win 7 Public Documents

Anyone have an approved way or a way that won't break things to keep users from seeing or being able to use 'Public Documents' in Windows 7. I need to take that 'feature' away from students. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Hyper-V VM's and backups

Correct. Just when you futz with the NICS watch for phantom NICS left over from the old server. You will get warnings on IP addresses still in use on these phantom nics if you use the same static IP address. http://www.happysysadm.com/2011/01/removing-ghost-nics-after-p2v.html From: David Lum

RE: RDS/TS and flash.

I'd rather be your washroom cleaner :) Curious, what's the QuickTime for? Do you have certain in-house requirements for it? From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]<mailto:[mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 11:21 AM To: NT System

RE: RDS/TS and flash.

We do now. We need an Flash/Shockwave/Quicktime/Reader install specialist. :) From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 12:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RDS/TS and flash. Damn. Got any job openings? :) From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy

RE: RDS/TS and flash.

Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com<http://www.carlwebster.com/> From: "Kennedy, Jim" mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org>> Reply-To: NT Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:46:06 -0500 To: NT Issues mailto

RE: WMI filter help

I am not going to be able to help you skin it the way you want via IP. But maybe some alternatives that come to mind may get you where you are going. Use security filtering on the GPO and only give that specific machine rights to that GPO. So on the scope tab of GPM modify the Security filtering

RE: WMI filter help

I am not going to be able to help you skin it the way you want via IP. But maybe some alternatives that come to mind may get you where you are going. Use security filtering on the GPO and only give that specific machine rights to that GPO. So on the scope tab of GPM modify the Security filtering

RE: Collecting various metrics

Run PSSDIAG as a scheduled task at startup with proper creds. From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 10:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Collecting various metrics I have a Win7 laptop with a Kiosk application that starts a cisco anyco

RE: IE9 No Print - Some Users

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973479 From: Mark Boeck [mailto:netadmin...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 3:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: IE9 No Print - Some Users Yes, there are printers in "devices and printers". The users that can't print in IE9 can print from an

RE: Corporate Bullying is a wee bit harder in the 21st century...

Yea, they try. My kid got a cease and desist from a major player for some exploits he found in their software. He contacted them repeatedly and they ignored him. So he published his findings and they fixed it right away. Then they sent him the letter. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmai

RE: Moving on, leaving the list for a bit

Congrats, and hurry back man! -Original Message- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 3:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Moving on, leaving the list for a bit I just wanted to reach out to the list, that I am going to be moving on from

RE: Sharepoint as file storage

I think it's awesome, assuming you have the server horsepower to service it. And I suspect you do since it doesn't take much. Clean easy to use web interface, check in/check outversion history area for notes by each users. What's not to love :) The only thing to watch is bringing back a sin

RE: Cat6 Brain Fart

Each switchport will negotiate the fastest speed that the PC is capable of. Assuming both the PC and the switchport are set to autonegotiate. AND the wire between them is capable of Gig speed. So you will end up with a mixture based upon the speed of the PC NIC. -Original Message- From

RE: OT - converting a VMware VM back to a physical box

/15/2011 10:08 AM, Kennedy, Jim wrote: It really sounds like this app server is very mission critical. Restore one of your DC’s to a test domain. Seize all the rolls, metadata cleanup for all the missing DC’s. Copy your VM over to that domain, bring it up and test both plans. I have a test

RE: Disabling but not deleting AD accounts unil Jan 1

And change the password, just in case someone accidently enables it. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 12:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Disabling but not deleting AD accounts unil Jan 1 +1 ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing

RE: Whitelisting Pros & Cons?

I am a huge fan of this tactic and I suspect the day will come when we seriously consider doing it for email and web surfing also. We were a full Cisco CAS shop here, districtwide 3000 desktops. It was wonderful. Ran it in audit mode for a few monthscreated the rules and whitelists and put i

RE: Creating an .ADM file

You can also just create the key on a test machine and import it from there via GPO. Computer Configuration\Preferences\Registry and User Configuration\preferences\Windows Settings\Registry From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 3:54 PM To: NT System Admin I

RE: iPhone user can still send emails after being disabled in AD

010 as well From: Kennedy, Jim<mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org> Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 1:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues<mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Subject: RE: iPhone user can still send emails after being disabled in AD +1 Is it still turned on by

RE: Console Logon via RDP

Did you get the syntax right? I think you have to specify the servername in the original command:mstsc /v:servername /console From: Dave Vantine [mailto:dvant...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 11:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Console Logon via RDP I have a specfic

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