RE: Helpdesk software

2011-05-25 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Sysaid http://www.ilient.com/ We just got done testing a bunch of them, and this one blew them all away. Implementation has been a dream. The company is awesome to work with too, got a question...just hit their live chat and you get real answers and help instantly. From: Mark Robinson

RE: Helpdesk software

2011-05-25 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Oh, and you can get a 30 day trial and convert it to live no problem. From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 8:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Helpdesk software Sysaid http://www.ilient.com/ We just got done testing a bunch of them

RE: Helpdesk software

2011-05-25 Thread Kennedy, Jim
MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 8:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Helpdesk software Sysaid http://www.ilient.com/ We just got done testing a bunch of them, and this one blew them all away

RE: Helpdesk software

2011-05-25 Thread Kennedy, Jim
If you are referring to SysAid, you can turn off the icon push during the install setup. We did it that way since 'trouble tickets' from students would be a nightmare. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 9:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Free vulnerability management software

2011-05-25 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Free for 7 days if this is a onetime thing, Metasploit. http://www.metasploit.com Backtrack www.backtrack-linux.org Fasttrack http://www.thepentest.com/ in the downloads section. From: Haritwal, Dhiraj [mailto:dhiraj.harit...@ap.sony.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 9:27 AM To:

FTP and Share perms

2011-05-19 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Reality check on this one. I think this is right, just want more opinions. I have an anonymous FTP running, that only accepts connections from a single IP address and that IP address is at my ISP. There is no mapping to the rest of the world. It is for a data transfer from an application they

RE: FTP and Share perms

2011-05-19 Thread Kennedy, Jim
care if the share is visible, though? Might need to consider access based enumeration, or using blat to email the file at appropriate interverals. On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.orgmailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org wrote: Reality check on this one. I think

RE: Configuring Hyper-V Server R2

2011-05-09 Thread Kennedy, Jim
You manage the host machine itself as you would any other host. You don't do anything to it via the Hyper V manager. One little tibit of info that is hidden. If you intend to put more hard disks in the host and give them to VM's.take the hd offline in the hostthen assign it via Hyper-V

RE: Introducing 2008 R2 DC into Domain?

2011-05-06 Thread Kennedy, Jim
COLLEGE From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 8:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Introducing 2008 R2 DC into Domain? Yes, it really is that easy. I didn't believe it either. Just double check your DNS and replication between existing DC's

RE: Introducing 2008 R2 DC into Domain?

2011-05-06 Thread Kennedy, Jim
: Introducing 2008 R2 DC into Domain? Is this introducing the 2008 R2 DC or just the adprep? Presumably for normal GPO operations this isn't a big deal and it's only if you have stuff in there? From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: 06 May 2011 15:05 To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Exchange move

2011-05-05 Thread Kennedy, Jim
SMTP fixup on a Cisco firewall in the mix here? If yes, turn the SMTP fixup off. Also take a peek at this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/818222 From: Cameron Cooper [mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com] Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 11:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Cc:

RE: Trigger Script Remotely?

2011-05-05 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Genius idea Erik. This looks promising: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306108 From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 12:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Trigger Script Remotely? Triggered via receipt of a specific email to a specific box

RE: Trigger Script Remotely?

2011-05-05 Thread Kennedy, Jim
So you have replaced yourself with a script? Congrats, I guess. ☺ From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 2:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Trigger Script Remotely? The accounting folks always need to run manual, random, point in time backups of

RE: BLOCKING end-users from ATTACHING and EMAILING...

2011-05-04 Thread Kennedy, Jim
I bet you got a cell phone with a camera too. From: Martin Blackstone [mblackst...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 5:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: BLOCKING end-users from ATTACHING and EMAILING... I have a pencil and paper.

RE: Password complexity

2011-05-03 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Personally, I'd be shocked if any user ID or password was allowed to have a space in it. From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 8:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Password complexity Using 2008 R2 with password complexity set to true. A space

RE: Password complexity

2011-05-03 Thread Kennedy, Jim
complexity Why? Ever heard of pass-phrases? They are more secure than passwords, IMHO On 3 May 2011 14:36, Gary Whitten li...@undiscoveredworlds.commailto:li...@undiscoveredworlds.com wrote: Personally, I'd be shocked if any user ID or password was allowed to have a space in it. From: Kennedy, Jim

RE: Password complexity

2011-05-03 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Spaces won’t make it any easier to crack because they don’t know where the spaces are…so they can’t dictionary attack it. They are left with a brute force attack. The article below does not answer your question directly but it goes a long way to explaining password complexity vs hack times. And

RE: VOIP design questions

2011-05-02 Thread Kennedy, Jim
If you have the unused bandwidth then your current network can do it. VIOP data is not as much as you think. I would however segregate with VLAN's and prioritize the voice packets. I am not a big fan of plugging the computers into the phones, I would re-patch if you can budget for that. What

RE: Spamhaus Lookup

2011-04-27 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Spamhaus is working, I see it blocking in our logs right now. Zen.spamhaus.org isn't a domain name or host, so you won't be able to ping it or look it up. It is a DNS Zone. Beyond that, I got no advice on your issue. -Original Message- From: Level 5 Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us]

RE: Color issues

2011-04-26 Thread Kennedy, Jim
You have to calibrate the monitor. I do this for my photography. I have always preferred the Spyder calibrators but there are others. http://spyder.datacolor.com/product-mc.php Now, you have one more variable. Is your camera accurately capturing the color and is your software properly

RE: Color issues

2011-04-26 Thread Kennedy, Jim
And I should point out just to be sureyour color will only be correct on the calibrated monitor after this is all done. -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 1:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Color

RE: Color issues

2011-04-26 Thread Kennedy, Jim
of calibrating the monitors... will that work with a multi-monitor system using different brands of monitors? -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 1:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Color issues You have

RE: Color issues

2011-04-26 Thread Kennedy, Jim
The human eye is a tricky thing. That designer's eyes probably do think it is calibrated. Our eyes adjust to bad color and light to make it look correct, it's a weird phenomena but true. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 2:18 PM To: NT System

RE: SIDs

2011-04-21 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Don't think so, that just purges the cookie for group membership/client targeting and then tells it to check in and detect updates. Gotta hit the registry keys to to reset the wsus sid. From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 12:11 PM To: NT System

msDS-MaximumPasswordAge

2011-04-19 Thread Kennedy, Jim
So I have a 2008 granular pw policy set on an OU, it applies to a security group properly and all of the settings in the policy work except the Max Password Age. It is set to (never). Yet in a year like clockwork the password expires and the account is prompted to change the password. There are

RE: Windows 7 deployments - MAK or KMS keys?

2011-04-19 Thread Kennedy, Jim
+1 to both. -Original Message- From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 3:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 deployments - MAK or KMS keys? Depending on your company size? We used KMS here since we were doing a

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-07 Thread Kennedy, Jim
+ 1 billion -Original Message- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 If you don't have a hot spare then NO! If you do have a hot spare, then it should have kicked

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-07 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Then do NOT fail a second drive before the first is finished rebuilding. -Original Message- From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 No hot spare. John W. Cook Systems

RE: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5

2011-04-07 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Nice to hear someone else doing that. When I go out of town for training or conferences I also take my bike. -Original Message- From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Opinion on rebuilding Raid 5 Well

RE: Drawing a blank - need help

2011-04-05 Thread Kennedy, Jim
You manage it in 2008/R2 with the often ignored Share and Storage Management MMC. Hit the properties of the share in that MMC and it is under Shareing/Advanced. Although it looks like it is turned on by default in R2 -Original Message- From: Joseph Heaton

RE: Creating home directories - Best method?

2011-04-05 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Not a direct answer to your question, but this is my favorite KB article of all time and it might prove helpful to your migration. Once you decide the method of how to assign them this will let the users auto create them on first login. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/274443 -Original

RE: GPO tattooing (Resolved)

2011-04-04 Thread Kennedy, Jim
There is a setting on the power plan on the common tab. 'remove this item when it is no longer applied'. With that unchecked I am confident I am good to remove. From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 12:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject

RE: UPS won't turn on

2011-04-01 Thread Kennedy, Jim
+1 I think it has been laying around for a while because someone forgot to throw it away. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 2:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: UPS won't turn on Not necessarily. IME, UPS's with bad batteries will turn

RE: Windows 7 Imaging

2011-03-31 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Make sure your ghost is up to date so that ghostwalker works properly. And it is even more important to use ghostwalker on Win 7 than it was in XP. What problems is he having? I am guessing it is with preparing the image...getting the default profile right? From: Tom Miller

RE: Win2008 R2 not writing crash dump file

2011-03-30 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Not a direct answer to your question but something to look at..did you just install the Feb updates...look for 393802 and MAYBE 2264207. One of them, probably the first one has some issues with video card drivers that were written badly. See if there are updates for your vid card drivers or

RE: Win2008 R2 not writing crash dump file

2011-03-30 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Nice. I would just do it now and blame it on the ongoing crash problem. :) -Original Message- From: Mike Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 12:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Win2008 R2 not writing crash dump file My co-worker found an HP

RE: Adobe Illustrator (CS3) crashes on save

2011-03-29 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Reset his preferences in Illustrator. Find the file AIPrefs and move it or rename it (just in case you need it later). Nuking preferences in CS products is always a good place to start when you weirdness going on. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich

RE: Adobe Illustrator (CS3) crashes on save

2011-03-29 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Adobe CS products like to have what they often call a 'scratch partition'. A dedicated partition that they can go wild on all to their own. It certainly helps with performance if you are hammering the program hard but it is not needed. Where it is pointed to will be on the preferences

RE: Adobe Illustrator (CS3) crashes on save

2011-03-29 Thread Kennedy, Jim
to virtualize. Imagine trying to sequence something like that! On 29 March 2011 14:16, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.orgmailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org wrote: Adobe CS products like to have what they often call a 'scratch partition'. A dedicated partition that they can go wild on all

RE: OT - Parental Controls

2011-03-29 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Not accusing your children of anything..but working in a school district I can tell you that many children have two facebook accounts. One for their parents as you describe and the real one for their friends and real activities. Just a heads up to check the history and usage but it sounds like

RE: Flash install and/or update via GPO

2011-03-29 Thread Kennedy, Jim
First with ORCA you don't want to modify the msiyou want to create a transform for the msi. Then store the two together and on the advanced settings for the gpo (as you create it) apply the transform. On the boxes that have 9.x on them you are probably better of using the exe with a script

RE: USB Drive not showing in XP

2011-03-29 Thread Kennedy, Jim
This is my first bet. MB drivers to get the USB hub working correctly...it may not even show up fubar'd in device manager, I have often seen them hiding until you get the board drivers in there. On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Jeff Steward jstew...@gmail.commailto:jstew...@gmail.com wrote:

OT Little Cisco Pix help.

2011-03-29 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Got a PIX running 7.0(2) With the following static set up to direct outside traffic being sent to 184 from the outside to 184. static (inside,outside) 10.55.1.184 10.55.1.184 netmask 255.255.255.255 I want to send it off to 15. And I always forget and get it backwards, but I think I want:

RE: OT Little Cisco Pix help. (Resolved)

2011-03-29 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Nevermind. My interfaces are set up backwards. Oh the joy I just inherited. Anyway I just flipped a coin, set and tested it and got it. From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 3:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT Little Cisco Pix help

RE: Ted ATTN: LIST ADMIN

2011-03-22 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Nuke Ted's subscription please. His challenge response PoS is killing us. TIA From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 5:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ted My point is he should turn that feature off, at least for messages from the

RE: Qutoa's for home folders.

2011-03-22 Thread Kennedy, Jim
might be an option. - Sean On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.orgmailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org wrote: I am building new file storage, as you may recall from my previous DFS/Cluster questions. I am pondering the easiest way to do storage quotas. I will end

RE: Qutoa's for home folders.

2011-03-22 Thread Kennedy, Jim
with more storage, direct attach, NAS/SAN? - Sean On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.orgmailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org wrote: Yep, can certainly do it that way...and that is on my list of possible solutions. Not seeing anything third party that will fill

RE: Qutoa's for home folders.

2011-03-22 Thread Kennedy, Jim
that DFS was not intended for Roaming Profile environments and that they could no longer support our configuration. It sounds like you're setting up a much simpler and logical environment though :) - Sean On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy

RE: Qutoa's for home folders.

2011-03-22 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:52:06 -0800 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: Qutoa's for home folders. What is your storage solution? Is this just a new server with more storage, direct attach, NAS/SAN? - Sean On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy

RE: Qutoa's for home folders.

2011-03-22 Thread Kennedy, Jim
/5550762524/sizes/l/ -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 1:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Qutoa's for home folders. I am probably not saying it right. I have the root share set to 5 GB for example. Set

RE: Qutoa's for home folders.

2011-03-22 Thread Kennedy, Jim
- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 10:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Qutoa's for home folders. Here, maybe this screen shot will show my issue better. I have a 100 MB FSRM quota on e:\staff\* When I try and apply a higher 250

RE: Win 7 configuration options?

2011-03-21 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Lock them down until the scream then back off a little at a time until the screaming stops. But seriously we go with your gut feeling. The only thing we customize is the default user profile so their initial desktop experience is what we want for them...after that it is all handled via GPO's

RE: Good way to prevent logon under certain conditions?

2011-03-17 Thread Kennedy, Jim
An if exists to a file on their home drive as the next step after you map the H drive in your bat file...if it errors screen pop your message? From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 11:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Good way to prevent

Now DoubleTake was Clustering for noobs.

2011-03-17 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Upon further reflection I am thinking since I have two identical servers with their own storage clustering is not the way to go for a file server. Double Take may be a better bet. It used to get rave reviews, anyone still using it and have an opinion? From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy

RE: Now DoubleTake was Clustering for noobs.

2011-03-17 Thread Kennedy, Jim
: Now DoubleTake was Clustering for noobs. IMO you should be looking at enterprise DFS. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 1:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Now DoubleTake was Clustering for noobs.

2011-03-17 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Wo...target priority to create a hot standby. You got me to look harder. I love you man, thanks!! From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 1:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Now DoubleTake was Clustering for noobs. Looking that way

RE: Now DoubleTake was Clustering for noobs.

2011-03-17 Thread Kennedy, Jim
different ways to get to the same file, but you don't have to worry about whether someone else has it open or which server you're getting it from. That seems to have solved OUR problem. Whether that will work for you or not, I don't know. From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org

RE: Now DoubleTake was Clustering for noobs.

2011-03-17 Thread Kennedy, Jim
As long as the cat is ok it is all good. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 1:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Now DoubleTake was Clustering for noobs. You owe me a new monitor. On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy

RE: [OT] Obama birth certificate

2011-03-17 Thread Kennedy, Jim
I think it points more towards the autonomy of the States. For many things, the States can do as they wish. The US born requirement for our President was part of our founding Constitution. Another part of that Constitution delegates a great deal of self-rule to the individual States. As they

RE: FW: Hacking Cars with MP3 Files

2011-03-17 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Tom Baker was the last real Doctor, Pertwee was my favorite. The rest are just wanna be's. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 4:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: FW: Hacking Cars with MP3 Files I

RE: FW: Hacking Cars with MP3 Files

2011-03-17 Thread Kennedy, Jim
17, 2011 4:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: FW: Hacking Cars with MP3 Files What about Peter Crushing? He played a good Doctor Who. On Mar 17, 2011 4:26 PM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.orgmailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org wrote: Tom Baker was the last real Doctor, Pertwee

RE: OT Rooting Android phones

2011-03-16 Thread Kennedy, Jim
I will add overclocking and using custom ROMS which can be used to make the 'desktop' your own or different experience. Tethering without paying and running Gingerbread now and on a phone that maybe won't ever get it. Good place to go figure it all out: http://www.droidforums.net/

RE: Sysvol perms in 2008

2011-03-15 Thread Kennedy, Jim
encountered or heard about. Were these in-place upgrades or an addition of new R2 DC's? -- ME2 On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.orgmailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org wrote: I am having GPO weirdness. Desktops are getting denied on accessing my Software

RE: Sysvol perms in 2008

2011-03-15 Thread Kennedy, Jim
in a previous job. On 14 March 2011 17:39, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.orgmailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org wrote: I am having GPO weirdness. Desktops are getting denied on accessing my Software Policies. I THINK this started with our upgrade to 2008 R2 DC's. Did perms change somewhere

RE: KMS licensing question

2011-03-15 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Just need to watch your licensing Groups. That one caught me. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff793412.aspx And remember, you do NOT put a license key in the clients. Just in the KMS host. If you add them to the clients it makes them KMS Hosts, and you have lots of little KMS hosts

RE: Child Domain or Not?

2011-03-10 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Up until this part I was all for one domain. But now I got questions. With that there will need to be some users that can log into either from their pc. Ok, that statement contradicts the requirement that the two domains need to be kept separate. If someone needs to log into both from the same

RE: Child Domain or Not?

2011-03-10 Thread Kennedy, Jim
stored on the domains separate. From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 12:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Child Domain or Not? Up until this part I was all for one domain. But now I got questions. “With that there will need to be some

RE: Child Domain or Not?

2011-03-10 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Now, maybe there is a hidden agenda here. Maybe they are going to spin one of the companies off some day or want to be prepared for that possibility. I just thought of that…… From: Kennedy, Jim Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 3:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Child Domain

RE: Workstation DNS cache weirdness

2011-03-08 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Are you running multiple DNS serversand are the effected computers using the same one...and those that are not are using a different one? Rogue DHCP server handing out bad DNS servers in the scope? Do an nslookup on an effected computer and hit the PTR record for the bogus IP address.

RE: Morale killer...

2011-03-04 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Did the promotion also include more money? The answer could be an excuse for lack of funds. Howeversee more broad scoped project proposals...sounds like she is looking for things that, in her mind, have a more direct impact on the business model. All the things you did make it easier for

RE: Social Engineering Survey - Win the new iPad II

2011-03-03 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Exactly. Ditto indicates Old School!! From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 3:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Social Engineering Survey - Win the new iPad II Ditto was +1 before +1 was even born. On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Micheal

RE: Tracking stolen laptop via IP address (internet)

2011-03-03 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Can it be done...yes it is possible. Highly unlikely, very improbable. You won't be able to get the police to move fast enough and you need that to happen to get the ISP to give you the location. Imagine calling the San Francisco PD and trying to get to someone that understands what you are

RE: WSUS - deleted computer accounts remain in WSUS?

2011-02-16 Thread Kennedy, Jim
It would be nice if the domain told WSUS when a computer account was deleted. Not a big deal, just one of life's minor annoyances. 30 days of old computers isn't a big deal, plus it reminds you to run the server cleanup wizard which is a good thing. From: Andrew S. Baker

RE: WSUS - deleted computer accounts remain in WSUS?

2011-02-16 Thread Kennedy, Jim
+1 A computer that doesn't reappear in WSUS is a problem. It isn't patched. Is it a road warrior running all over the place connecting to open hot spots with unpatched vulnerablilities? From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 8:54 AM

RE: WSUS - deleted computer accounts remain in WSUS?

2011-02-16 Thread Kennedy, Jim
a network search (I refer again to much maligned McAfee because they have a rogue detection tool that scans the network and can push the agent to machines without an AD entry if you have the credentials to the non-domain machine). Dave From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent

RE: Anonymous strikes back at HBGary with stolen emails | Leak prevention - InfoWorld

2011-02-16 Thread Kennedy, Jim
My son is pretty big in the white hat scene, we were talking about this over the weekend. I don't condone what Anonymous is doing but HBGary really messed this one up. If you penetrate a hacker group you don't announce how cool you are in the press, you turn the info over to the FBI and

RE: Windows 7 Licensing Question

2011-02-15 Thread Kennedy, Jim
When you use KMS you don't use keys on the desktop. That key goes ONLY on your KMS Server. That server then creates a special dns record. When the computer starts up it sees the dns record and contacts your KMS server to make sure it is legit. KMS is really very simpleread up on it but

RE: Windows 7 Licensing Question

2011-02-15 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Oh, and you will get access to special KMS versions of Windows 7, that is what you build your image with... -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 10:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7

RE: Copying user profiles in Windows 7

2011-02-14 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Disclaimer. This method leaves the computer in an unsupported state per Microsoft. That said we have done hundreds this way with no issues. So you get the profile set up the way you want. Reboot and log in as a local admin, other than the profile you want to copy. Hit C:\users and change the

RE: (un)Enforcing Default Domain Policy

2011-02-14 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Can you get a machine in the remote location into a test OU and go from there? From: Guyer, Don [mailto:don.gu...@fiserv.com] Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 10:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: (un)Enforcing Default Domain Policy Yes, I'm following. The issue we're having is we're

RE: (un)Enforcing Default Domain Policy

2011-02-14 Thread Kennedy, Jim
took out the explicit deny. Don Guyer Windows Systems Engineer Datasafe Platform Fiserv Enterprise Technology Fiserv don.gu...@fiserv.commailto:don.gu...@fiserv.com Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 Fax: 610-293-4499 www.fiserv.comhttp://www.fiserv.com/ From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy

RE: (un)Enforcing Default Domain Policy

2011-02-14 Thread Kennedy, Jim
...@fiserv.commailto:don.gu...@fiserv.com Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 Fax: 610-293-4499 www.fiserv.comhttp://www.fiserv.com/ From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 10:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: (un)Enforcing Default Domain Policy

RE: (un)Enforcing Default Domain Policy

2011-02-14 Thread Kennedy, Jim
before I got here. I've been modifying GP using individual GPO's but I'd really like to have DDP reset. Sean Rector, MCSE From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 10:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: (un)Enforcing Default Domain Policy

RE: (un)Enforcing Default Domain Policy

2011-02-14 Thread Kennedy, Jim
-7282 x 1673 Fax: 610-293-4499 www.fiserv.comhttp://www.fiserv.com/ From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 10:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: (un)Enforcing Default Domain Policy Then there has to be a setting in the DDP

RE: XP PCs aren't connecting to WSUS Server

2011-02-11 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Those computers should also be showing up in your WSUS console too. From: Bob Hartung [mailto:bhart...@wiscoind.com] I've scanned the windowsupdate.log files on a couple of the XP machines and found references to accessing the local WSUS server so the GPO settings have been successfully

RE: RBL issues

2011-02-11 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Trying to resolve the spamhaus.org zones to an A record will not work, it is a defensive measure against DoS attacks. So that test is a red herring and you can ignore that. Beyond that I have nothing to add, we don't use Vipre. -Original Message- From: S Powell

RE: RBL issues

2011-02-11 Thread Kennedy, Jim
, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.orgmailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org wrote: Trying to resolve the spamhaus.orghttp://spamhaus.org/ zones to an A record will not work, it is a defensive measure against DoS attacks. So that test is a red herring and you can ignore

RE: RBL issues

2011-02-11 Thread Kennedy, Jim
they have no choice but to list the server ips.  Otherwise they'd list the sender's. -Bill On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.org wrote: Bingo. And in the original post he mentioned with spamcop turned on by itself it still did this. I just did some

RE: Update for Autorun functionality on Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 2008

2011-02-10 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Yea, I don't normally go out of my way to bash MS, overall I like them a lot, but this is way late. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 8:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Update for Autorun functionality on Windows XP, Vista, and

RE: Licensing Q.

2011-02-10 Thread Kennedy, Jim
First, I do not believe that it is humanly possible to be compliant with Microsoft Licensing. Even with 50 full time employees who only check licensing requirements in an environment of only 49 computers there would still be some kind of weird violation. You are building a box to test and will

RE: Folder transfer over WAN via BITS???

2011-02-04 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Robocopy can do anything. I am thinking of an auto responder for the list that just replies to the list with 'Use Robocopy. I love Robocopy. Shame it is so broke in 2008 R2. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 11:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: Folder transfer over WAN via BITS???

2011-02-04 Thread Kennedy, Jim
over WAN via BITS??? What? I haven't gone to 2008 R2, yet. Please to be explaining. On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.orgmailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org wrote: Robocopy can do anything. I am thinking of an auto responder for the list that just

RE: RE: Patch management, revisited

2011-02-04 Thread Kennedy, Jim
One thing I am doing with Systems Center is going slow...just doing a part at a time starting with the most important part. And there are a boatload of good webinars and labs on MS's website about it that have been extremely helpful. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent:

RE: Folder transfer over WAN via BITS???

2011-02-04 Thread Kennedy, Jim
to achieve what you need? ASB (Find me online via About.Mehttp://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.orgmailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org wrote: They have pretty much broken copying

RE: Interactive White board recommendation

2011-01-29 Thread Kennedy, Jim
in a conference room. Save my work. Go back to my office and open the document from a sharepoint site. --Tigran On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Kennedy, Jim kennedy...@elyriaschools.orgmailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org wrote: +1 for smartboards. Part of the key is the software that comes

RE: Interactive White board recommendation

2011-01-28 Thread Kennedy, Jim
+1 for smartboards. Part of the key is the software that comes with it. Yea you can continue to use crappy boring powerpoint on it and it will do just fine but using Smart Notebook with a smartboard is a very cool thing to see. The early models failed somewhat, replacements and all of the 2nd

RE: Cisco Switch as VM?

2011-01-27 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Have not used them in a few years but Boson was/is the king of that kind of simulation software. www.boson.comhttp://www.boson.com From: Wilhelm, Scott [mailto:swilh...@mcs.k12.ny.us] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 12:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Cisco Switch as VM? Does

RE: How do I get to a Microsoft tech bulletin

2011-01-26 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Dunno what you are doing wrong but here ya go. Note the formatyou can sub any KB number you want...or punch KB number into google. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977695 From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 12:33 PM To: NT System Admin

RE: How do I get to a Microsoft tech bulletin

2011-01-26 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Could Silverlight be an issue, or the lack of it? From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 1:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How do I get to a Microsoft tech bulletin I'm getting blank pages on all KB articles when using IE8 under Win7 x64

RE: Web filter?

2011-01-24 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Anything you can do to go the free route might be a prudent choice. I don't know your environment but a revolt from the masses and management caving in to their demands could be a possibility. Also the list of 'allowed' sites could grow really fastso a roll your own DNS or hostsfile

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