Re: Looking for options... Mobile workforce and central resources

2012-07-24 Thread Kramer, Jack
Honestly, it really does sound like either a Citrix solution (XenApp?) or a VDI solution would be your best bet for application access. (I'm partial to VMware View, but I also have a substantial VMware investment already.) Combine with a tool for remote account unlocks and password resets (we us

Re: moving to virtual

2012-07-17 Thread Kramer, Jack
com>] Sent: 16 July 2012 9:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: moving to virtual Yes, 64GB per server. From: Kramer, Jack [mailto:jack.kra...@cabs.msu.edu] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 3:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: moving to virtual I think you'll be fine

Re: moving to virtual

2012-07-17 Thread Kramer, Jack
I'd second John on the maintenance of a physical DC, since your vCenter will almost always be AD-integrated—it makes life vastly easier. We also maintain a physical vCenter in case of whole-datacenter shutdown. We have four production hosts here with about 110 VMs (Server 2003, 2008, 2008R2, Wi

Re: moving to virtual

2012-07-16 Thread Kramer, Jack
Oh, before I forget—look at 10Gb Ethernet while you're setting everything up. It handily takes care of storage and VM networking needs—we've been able to cut back to a dual-port 10GbE card on each VM host here plus 2 normal gigabit ports for iKVM and backup management. 10 gig is expensive for su

Re: moving to virtual

2012-07-16 Thread Kramer, Jack
I think you'll be fine with 6-core processors. Make sure you have as much RAM as your licensing permits in your hosts—you'll use RAM a lot faster than CPU. Jack Kramer Manager of Information Technology Communications and Brand Strategy Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4

Re: Redirecting front-to-back airflow in a server rack?

2012-06-05 Thread Kramer, Jack
Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 3:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Redirecting front-to-back airflow in a server rack? On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Kramer, Jack mailto:jack.kra...@cabs.msu.edu>> wrote: We have several Dell 42u ra

Re: Commvault Training

2012-04-25 Thread Kramer, Jack
We installed it at the beginning of the month and rather than doing training we opted to have an on-site engineer for the installation and initial config. Saved us time, learned a lot, and as a bonus if something didn't work we had the vendor to blame. :-D Jack Kramer Manager of Informatio

Re: CyberLink PowerDirector is a buggy piece of sh!t

2012-04-24 Thread Kramer, Jack
Have you tried Premiere? They have a cheap version now. Sony Vegas is okay too if you don't mind the codec limitations—I couldn't get it to work with MPEG4 last time I tried. Jack Kramer Manager of Information Technology Communications and Brand Strategy Michigan State University w: 517-884

Re: Automated Account Password Reset Programs

2012-04-17 Thread Kramer, Jack
We're using Desktop Authority Password Self-Service from Scriptlogic. Jack Kramer Manager of Information Technology Office of Communications and Brand Strategy Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: , Edward mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org>> Reply-To: NT System Admin Is

Re: Looking for an odd item

2012-04-17 Thread Kramer, Jack
stem Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>> Subject: Re: Looking for an odd item Jack, You may be right. My issue with that is if the controller has USB Driver for Windows 98 SE. Daniel On Apr 17, 2012 11:57 AM, "Kramer, Jack" mailto:jack.kra...@ur.msu.edu>>

Re: Wireless controller for 2 APs?

2012-04-17 Thread Kramer, Jack
If you want them to be a mesh network you probably need a controller, but it sounds like you might be just as well off with an access point in each conference room and calling it good. Put them on their own VLAN and make sure they're feeding into separate interfaces on your router. You don't eve

Re: Hooray, I'm moving to VMware!

2012-04-17 Thread Kramer, Jack
Just catching up on the list, and like everyone else I'm going to say it depends on your specs. We have 81 VMs spread across 4 hosts, 2 of which are 2x6 cores (12 cores total) with 96 GB RAM, one 2x4 core (8 core total) with 96GB RAM, and one 2x4 core with 48 GB RAM. We have vSphere Enterprise s

Re: Hyjack - Linux in the Enterprise/Schools (was RE: Sophisticated Phising attempt?)

2012-03-29 Thread Kramer, Jack
Here's another shout-out for Kerio and the like—they have a lot of interesting products out now and I've been using their mailserver (now Kerio Connect) for my personal business for a while. It's actually a pretty solid competitor to Exchange and it ties nicely to things like BES and ActiveSync

Re: List Speed?

2012-03-14 Thread Kramer, Jack
I'd be willing to do the same, and we have plenty of bandwidth and CPU here in higher-ed land. Jack Kramer Manager of Information Technology University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: Ryan Finnesey mailto:r...@finnesey.com>> Reply-To: NT System A

Re: New to virtualization

2012-03-13 Thread Kramer, Jack
Our cluster isn't too far off of your planned one—we built our own SAN using Open-E (which is a software iSCSI target package) and Supermicro hardware with very good performance, though we did pack it very very full of spindles (111 spindles including hot spares) at about twice the cost you're l

Re: MagicJack

2012-03-09 Thread Kramer, Jack
Remember that fax isn't supposed to work on VoIP anyways without fax-aware endpoints and infrastructure. (For anyone interested, voip-info.org has a nice writeup on T.38 VoIP fax—you vasically intercept the fax at the adapter end, packetize it, send it, and then unpack it and recreate the origin

Re: Windows 2008 DC getting AAAA records instead of A records for DNS

2012-02-27 Thread Kramer, Jack
be advertising as an ISATAP router. I’d look at one of the workstations ipconfig /all and see what network has the 2002:2308 address. Most likely it will be one of the tunnel adapters. From: Kramer, Jack [mailto:jack.kra...@ur.msu.edu] Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 4:30 PM To: NT System Admin

Re: Windows 2008 DC getting AAAA records instead of A records for DNS

2012-02-27 Thread Kramer, Jack
ted to what I just went through. We had unblocked the ISATAP dns entry which was allowing our machines to activate ipv6 address via a tunnel adapter. Re-added the ISATAP dns entry, disable, then re-enable the nic and no more ipv6 registrations. From: Kramer, Jack [mailto:jack.kra...@ur.msu.edu] Se

Re: Another tablets question

2012-02-23 Thread Kramer, Jack
I believe a copy of Lion Server will let you do policy enforcement in greater depth than you can with just ActiveSync. Jack Kramer Manager of Information Technology University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: Tom Miller mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org>>

Re: Group calendar question

2011-07-22 Thread Kramer, Jack
There's some company who goes around selling this – they hit me up a couple weeks ago but we already grew a solution for use on the MSU homepage and so were no longer interested. I'll dig through my inbox and see if I can figure out who they were. Jack Kramer Manager of Information Technol

Re: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes

2011-07-14 Thread Kramer, Jack
Remember, there are downgrade rights – you can buy vSphere 5 licenses and downgrade to the 4.1 version. Jack Kramer Manager of Information Technology University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: "Michael B. Smith" mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> Rep

Re: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes

2011-07-14 Thread Kramer, Jack
Based on the documentation provided at launch you are correct – vRAM is configured RAM, not used RAM, by all powered VMs across any vSphere of the same edition on one vCenter. (So you can't cheat and buy Standard licenses to expand the vRAM quota on your Enterprise boxes.) I'm hoping we'll see

Re: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes

2011-07-13 Thread Kramer, Jack
unbelt-software.com>> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:55:17 -0400 To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>> Subject: RE: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes What does FT mean to you? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchan

Re: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes

2011-07-13 Thread Kramer, Jack
nbelt-software.com>> Subject: Re: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes Since it's going to be running vRam that shouldn't matter. Or are you exceeding HA constraints? Most orgs run their clusters at N+1 or even N+2 for large clusters. -Anders Sent from my iPhone On 13 jul 2011, at 16:2

Re: vSphere 5 - Big License Changes

2011-07-13 Thread Kramer, Jack
Depends on your licenses. vSphere Standard will only support 24GB per socket of usable RAM (you can have as much installed as you like), Enterprise supports 32GB, and Ent+ is 48GB. (Also, your Advanced licenses are now Enterprise.) So if you have anything less than Ent+ you'll need an additional

RE: Citrix/RDP Alternatives?

2011-07-06 Thread Kramer, Jack
Your View VMs are normal VMs as far as vCenter is concerned. If you use Composer to automatically generate your VMs it will kindly put them in a vCenter folder for you so it's not cluttering up your landscape but you can still see them directly with vCenter. View can also hand out connections t

Re: Win7 UAC - is your on or off?

2011-06-30 Thread Kramer, Jack
I have it off specifically because of scripts – we run Desktop Authority and DA will get into fights with UAC and hang forever on login. Jack Kramer Manager of Information Technology University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: David Lum mailto:dav

Re: OT: looking for favorite Network Engineer interview questions

2011-03-25 Thread Kramer, Jack
d by >a circuit or PDU level outage. Career limiting move to skip this in the >places I've seen it done right. It also saves the unfortunate side >effects of these little voltage mismatch mishaps. > >--brian > > > >Thanks, >Brian Desmond >br...@briandesmond.com &

Re: OT: looking for favorite Network Engineer interview questions

2011-03-25 Thread Kramer, Jack
setting that switch constantly! They do it often enough >now, but the end result is that the computer doesn't turn on. if they >made a loud pop... Yeah, that would be way to much fun for the little >darlings to resist. Sm:)e. > > >--Matt Ross >Ephrata School Distr

Re: OT: looking for favorite Network Engineer interview questions

2011-03-25 Thread Kramer, Jack
Also known as the "does he swear when things make loud popping noises" test? Or is that only 115 plugged into a 230 circuit? Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 On 3/25/11 3:35 PM, "Jacob" wrote: >He

Re: Android phones

2011-03-25 Thread Kramer, Jack
To the best of my knowledge it will depend on how pliable your Verizon or Sprint service rep is. The phone itself will have to be told to look for the Verizon towers instead of the Sprint ones and someone at Verizon will need to add your phone's ESN to their database in order to provision it for se

Re: Virtual Phone Service

2011-03-25 Thread Kramer, Jack
Another Vitelity customer here – very pleased with their services. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: Brian Desmond mailto:br...@briandesmond.com>> Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin

Re: Ted

2011-03-21 Thread Kramer, Jack
Looks like my server-side filter is blocking these before they even hit the spam folder. Interesting. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: "Michael B. Smith" mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> Reply-To: N

Re: Getting SQL 2008 to use 16GB RAM

2011-03-16 Thread Kramer, Jack
A 32-bit application will consume a max of 3GB of ram per process. PAE will allow multiple apps to exist within a larger-than-3GB space without paging; however your individual programs are still memory limited. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State Uni

Re: R: DNS Issue

2011-03-16 Thread Kramer, Jack
Local firewall on the machine itself? Do newer versions of the Windows Firewall block accesses from outside their own subnet? Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: Bob Hartung mailto:bhart...@wiscoind.

Re: Folder permissions for redirected profiles

2011-03-16 Thread Kramer, Jack
snaps in their home drive though. Unless you have safeguards against that kind of thing. On 16 March 2011 13:45, Kramer, Jack mailto:jack.kra...@ur.msu.edu>> wrote: No – that's the point of the "exclusive control" checkbox. They're not kidding about it being exclusive. R

Re: Folder permissions for redirected profiles

2011-03-16 Thread Kramer, Jack
No – that's the point of the "exclusive control" checkbox. They're not kidding about it being exclusive. Remember that you can still take ownership of the folder on the server side and then re-grant yourself permissions to view; however, this will be reset the next time the user logs in and re-a

Re: Missing appointments in Outlook

2011-03-16 Thread Kramer, Jack
It sounds like he somehow got it on his local device calendar instead of the Exchange calendar. Does he have any other calendar-synching accounts on the device (mobileme, gmail, etc)? That's where I'd start looking. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan Stat

Re: Licensing question

2011-03-15 Thread Kramer, Jack
As far as I know applications are licensed on a per-seat and not a per-device basis when they're used in a Citrix or Terminal Server environment (since otherwise you could theoretically buy only one license for your Citrix/Termserv and share it out to everyone). The per-device licensing is when

Re: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

2011-03-14 Thread Kramer, Jack
VIPRE catches a lot of infection attempts too, either through known malicious EXEs or through infected PDFs. It definitely doesn't get all of them but I've been happy with the performance. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-123

Re: OTish: Network monitoring tools

2011-03-11 Thread Kramer, Jack
How about Op5? Nagios based but fully supported and a pretty slick interface. They offer appliances as well. We're looking to deploy here. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 On 3/11/11 12:10 PM, "Kurt B

Re: OT New home PC

2011-03-10 Thread Kramer, Jack
Build it. Your specs sound like they'd be about $1200 + OS. I would also recommend against a tuner in an x16 slot – tuner cards are almost all x1 anyways, so why waste a second x16 slot on one? Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-88

Re: Upgrade O/S or GPU?

2011-03-10 Thread Kramer, Jack
rsity Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 On 3/10/11 4:23 PM, "Ben Scott" wrote: >On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Kramer, Jack >wrote: >> If money is a huge concern you could always build something from >> components on Newegg, too.

Re: Upgrade O/S or GPU?

2011-03-10 Thread Kramer, Jack
If money is a huge concern you could always build something from components on Newegg, too. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 On 3/10/11 4:17 PM, "Cameron Cooper" wrote: >Also, check out Dell's Outle

Re: UPGRADING FROM WIN XP TO WIN7

2011-03-06 Thread Kramer, Jack
You can upgrade from XP to Vista and from Vista to 7 if you absolutely can't afford to reinstall. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 On Mar 6, 2011, at 6:44 PM, MMF wrote: I've done some "research" on the

Re: Seeking secure e-mail options

2011-03-04 Thread Kramer, Jack
+1 for ProofPoint. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 On Mar 4, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Sean Martin wrote: I believe Barracuda introduced e-mail encryption with firmware version 5.x. Are there specific capabil

Re: Backups/deduplication

2011-03-01 Thread Kramer, Jack
Please god don't use Backup Exec if you have an environment that you want to be at all reliable. Mysterious problems with backups hanging forever in queue once you hit 9TB or so on your dedup folder, plus size limits and the limit of one dedup folder per media server which, as it turns out, can

Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader latest version released ! Upgrade Available Now

2011-03-01 Thread Kramer, Jack
They are now! (yes, I'm easily amused.) Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: James Rankin mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com>> Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>

Re: OT: VOIP issues

2011-02-23 Thread Kramer, Jack
Also, the general rule for VoIP bandwidth - 128k per simultaneous standard-codec call (you can cut that to 25k or so with G.729 but there are license costs involved for the codec). Those 6 phones are going to want 50% of that T1 guaranteed on both the downstream and upstream. Jack Kramer Comp

Re: OT: VOIP issues

2011-02-23 Thread Kramer, Jack
I moved away from Netgear products in all of my VoIP installations due to issues running SIP traffic through them - I'd get random call drops, jitter, etc. I was able to solve some of it by reducing the MTU on the network device (my going theory behind that was it was buffering less so it had a bet

Re: Help with a Juniper Netscreen firewall

2011-02-21 Thread Kramer, Jack
The port forward is done as a VIP - the policy enables that VIP to actually forward the traffic. You need both for it to work. The custom service looks okay. It's "in use" because it's listed in a policy/VIP - the in use prevents it from being deleted. Check your VIP settings for your WAN interface

Re: Dell battery replacement still giving warning

2011-02-21 Thread Kramer, Jack
endor and we'll see...but I >thought maybe there might be a way to reset the "counter" or something. > > > > >-Original Message- >From: Kramer, Jack [mailto:jack.kra...@ur.msu.edu] >Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 1:29 PM >To: NT System Admin Issue

Re: Dell battery replacement still giving warning

2011-02-21 Thread Kramer, Jack
Isn't there a standard 1-year warranty on the D-series batteries? We usually go through the battery's life every year and a half to two years. If it's already failing I'd call Dell and have them get you a new one. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State Un

Re: Monday morning not-so-funny

2011-02-21 Thread Kramer, Jack
Had something like that on campus recently – the physical plant sent an email telling us they were cutting power to our building to replace our power meter at 6:45am, estimated time of repair about an hour. I show up at 6:20 and power down everything, and then sit there and wait for the power to

Re: Windows 7 Licensing Question

2011-02-16 Thread Kramer, Jack
Yes – been there, done that with a set of 15 new Dells. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: Mike Gill mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com>> Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunb

Re: Scanner recommendations please

2011-02-16 Thread Kramer, Jack
Just got a Fujitsu snapscan s1300 (their portable model) for $280 and am very happy with it. Their desktop model is faster and runs about 400-500 - the S1500. Double-sided sheetfed scanning at something like 20ppm. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State U

Re: [semi-OT] Last IPv4 address blocks assigned

2011-02-14 Thread Kramer, Jack
..@superamart.com.au>] Sent: Monday, 7 February 2011 11:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [semi-OT] Last IPv4 address blocks assigned It's always amazed me that universities don't seem to know how to configure NAT. If all of the uni's and big businesses that have

Re: OT: desktop network switches

2011-02-04 Thread Kramer, Jack
Trendnet is usually cheap on newegg. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: Sam Cayze mailto:sca...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>> Date: Fri,

Re: Dedupe Thoughts?

2011-02-04 Thread Kramer, Jack
This is what we do here - I have BE2010r2 with dedup and have my backup controller attached to a 10TB array built on a Dell MD1000. It's pretty quick and does a great job of dedup - I've eliminated incrementals from my schedule and only run fulls now and let dedup handle the overlap. Beware the RAM

Re: [semi-OT] Last IPv4 address blocks assigned

2011-02-04 Thread Kramer, Jack
Original Message- >From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] >Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 6:55 AM >To: NT System Admin Issues >Subject: RE: [semi-OT] Last IPv4 address blocks assigned > >out of curiosity, how many computers does that serve? > >

Re: [semi-OT] Last IPv4 address blocks assigned

2011-02-04 Thread Kramer, Jack
The nice thing about being at a public university ­ 520,000 IP addresses. (Michigan State has 35.8 through 35.15.) I wonder if we can sell them? It'd help make up for state budget cuts. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c

Re: iSCSI SANs vs FibreChannel SANs

2011-02-01 Thread Kramer, Jack
I use Openfiler in production and am pretty happy with it – two servers, one 42TB and one 21TB (2tb and 1tb disks). Performance has been good. The system is attached to Windows Server hosts, both 2003 and 2008. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State Uni

Re: AD Migration from 2003 to 2008

2011-01-26 Thread Kramer, Jack
I just promoted the new DCs (you'll get warning messages that you'll have to correct about prepping your domain and forest using tools on the 2008 DVD) and then demoted my old 2003 DC. Once done I raised the functional level using the management tools and all was well. Don't know if that's exact

Re: Intel developing security 'game-changer'

2011-01-26 Thread Kramer, Jack
m Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>> Subject: Re: Intel developing security 'game-changer' Why is it a slippery slope? ASB (My Bio via About.Me<http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio>) Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... On Wed, Jan 26,

Re: Intel developing security 'game-changer'

2011-01-26 Thread Kramer, Jack
Something like this is a step on the slippery slope to running signed software only as well – you can effectively guarantee you wouldn't have malicious software if you only run things that you've whitelisted on your system. Of course, you can do that today and it also won't save you if you've wh

Re: Moving VM's between vCenter clusters?

2011-01-26 Thread Kramer, Jack
It definitely works - I would guess it reads the actual allocation table of the filesystem and doesn't collapse areas of the vmdk that are marked as occupied by files. Another thing I haven't seen mentioned yet is that there's a small but definite performance hit to having a thin-provisioned vmdk

Re: Web filter?

2011-01-24 Thread Kramer, Jack
Doesn't stop someone from entering an ip address manually… Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: Erik Goldoff mailto:egold...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbel

Re: USB to Serial interface

2011-01-24 Thread Kramer, Jack
+1 – used the RadioShack one for a serial-only vinyl cutter and it worked great. It's insanely long – 5 feet on the minimum. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: Richard Stovall mailto:rich...@gmail.c

Re: OT:So...our data centre is under water

2011-01-21 Thread Kramer, Jack
Of course, it has to be asked – did they have fricken' laser beams on their heads? Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: Sean Martin mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues ma

Re: NAS USB-Gigabit adapter with Samba support

2011-01-07 Thread Kramer, Jack
Sheevaplug? Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: Carl Houseman mailto:c.house...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 14:59

Re: Network Battery Backup

2011-01-07 Thread Kramer, Jack
You could always go refurb - refurbups.com is one vendor. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 On 1/7/11 10:51 AM, "greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net" wrote: >Thx, we were trying to find something under 50

Re: PC Migration / Time Estimate?

2011-01-05 Thread Kramer, Jack
2 hours per machine sounds pretty good. Obvious economies of scale in power-up for initial image since I can unbox and power several machines at once if I'm provided with enough working space. The longest components are usually backups and reinstallation/migration since that can range wildly dep

Re: Small/Mid Firewall?

2011-01-04 Thread Kramer, Jack
Definitely been in your shoes – my first SSG-5 is a little over a year and a half old now and setting that thing up was an experience to end all experiences. You may benefit from trying it on the command line – simple policies make a lot more sense written out. Also swing for Tier-2 support as

Re: OT: SIP WIFI phones

2010-12-27 Thread Kramer, Jack
Avoid F1000 phones - limited software and kind of crappy connectivity. F1000G should be okay if you can find someone selling them - the vendor that said they had F1000Gs turned out to actually have F1000s which I realized after they had been delivered. (In F1000G boxes, of course) Otherwise I'v

Re: OT: Problem loading W7 on new HD

2010-12-22 Thread Kramer, Jack
Drive formatted as MBR or GPT? Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: Christopher Bodnar mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com>> Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.c

Re: Blacklist avoidance

2010-12-22 Thread Kramer, Jack
+1 on either outsourcing OR spending the money to do it properly in-house. We send a weekly newsletter to about 100k addresses as well as several other smaller mailings on a fairly regular basis, but we purchased the hardware and software to do it right. We use a StrongMail messaging appliance w

Re: Buffalo - was Re: Home RAID enclosure recommendations?

2010-12-22 Thread Kramer, Jack
What's your AD functional level? Also do you have (iirc) secure authentication or whatever it's called turned on? (Default is on in 2003 and newer functional levels) Sometimes the problem is that the often-SAMBA-based SMB/CIFS components on these little things can't handle the newer password ha

Re: sort of OT: using GRUB or LILO to boot windows XP

2010-12-21 Thread Kramer, Jack
e Windows installation continue! Anything wrong/missing here? Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA jra...@eaglemds.com<mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com> www.eaglemds.com -Original Message- From: Kramer, Jack [mailt

Re: sort of OT: using GRUB or LILO to boot windows XP

2010-12-21 Thread Kramer, Jack
You're on the right track so far. According to the Ubuntu documentation GRUB2 isn't meant to have its grub.cfg edited by hand; instead, you're supposed to edit /etc/default/grub. I'm not 100% sure that file will still exist based on how you're doing your install but even if you edit it on the LiveC

Re: LSI SATA RAID issue

2010-12-15 Thread Kramer, Jack
See if you can get them to sign something acknowledging that they're aware their thriftiness is putting their data at risk. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 On 12/15/10 3:47 PM, "Bill Humphries" wrot

Re: System Tool 2011 malware

2010-12-15 Thread Kramer, Jack
Don't forget combofix - taken care of some things that can't be cleaned otherwise. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 On 12/15/10 10:37 AM, "John Aldrich" wrote: >Thanks for the info, guys... I downlo

Re: System Tool 2011 malware

2010-12-15 Thread Kramer, Jack
+1 on drive-by downloading - had a couple users here get nailed maybe 4 months ago thanks to embedded PDFs. Some JS code in a malicious banner ad served up the PDF, the Acrobat plugin launched, and that's all she wrote. Had to wipe both machines. VIPRE blocks the same attack 3 or 4 times a week now

Re: Small/Mid Firewall?

2010-12-10 Thread Kramer, Jack
Juniper SSG-5 Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: Ben Schorr mailto:b...@rolandschorr.com>> Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:2

Re: Remote access - Allow employees work from home

2010-12-09 Thread Kramer, Jack
RDS web access uses some ActiveX control I believe which basically spawns a copy of the Terminal Services client inside the browser window. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: David Lum mailto:david.

Re: Distributing TV over IP

2010-12-09 Thread Kramer, Jack
on On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Kramer, Jack mailto:jack.kra...@ur.msu.edu>> wrote: Have you ever heard of MythTV? It's a linux program (which has since spawned several media specific distributions) that acts as sort of a distributed DVR - you have a "backend" with tuners

Re: Distributing TV over IP

2010-12-09 Thread Kramer, Jack
Have you ever heard of MythTV? It's a linux program (which has since spawned several media specific distributions) that acts as sort of a distributed DVR - you have a "backend" with tuners and storage and then as many "frontends" as you want which display the content. You would need as many tuners

Re: CAD Workstation Spec

2010-12-08 Thread Kramer, Jack
SSDs are a great way to quickly discover bottlenecks you never knew you had – like your PCIe interface for example. As the prices get more reasonable I'm finding excuses to deploy them more often; a couple of new workstations that I've deployed have been equipped with SSDs and my Mac Pro has had

Re: App runs from console but not Remote Desktop

2010-12-08 Thread Kramer, Jack
+1 - worked for me when I needed to get Adobe CS3 working on a 2003 Terminal Server. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 On 12/8/10 9:41 AM, "Michael B. Smith" wrote: >Check out the Application Compati

Re: Hosted VoIP recommendations

2010-12-07 Thread Kramer, Jack
Are you sold on hosted versus a low-cost deployment in house? I use Vitelity for call termination ($1.50/month for a DID and 1.5 cents per minute avg.) and host my handsets off of a system running Asterisk on Debian 5.1 with FreePBX as a frontend. (This is for my personal phone system and not th

Re: document sprawl

2010-12-06 Thread Kramer, Jack
ssociates, PA jra...@eaglemds.commailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com> www.eaglemds.comhttp://www.eaglemds.com/> From: Kramer, Jack [mailto:jack.kra...@ur.msu.edu] Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 12:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: document sprawl Why

Re: document sprawl

2010-12-06 Thread Kramer, Jack
Why would the extra copies disappear on a dedup solution? The file markers would exist in multiple places but the common blocks would only be written to disk once, leaving just the individual blocks as extra usage. For a file duplicated many times you'd use only (n-(n-1)+(small amount for descri

Re: OT: integra telecom support in Seattle Portland

2010-12-03 Thread Kramer, Jack
Why not just deploy your own system using some sort of VoIP infrastructure? (Asterisk comes to mind if you're at all technically inclined or otherwise you could use Digium's preconfigured Switchvox product – if you have SIP trunking for voice service it's literally plug and go for both, otherwis

Re: Carpet

2010-12-02 Thread Kramer, Jack
Gotta admit, working at a university has its perks... Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 On 12/2/10 8:58 AM, "Stephen Wimberly" wrote: >I suddenly find that my job sounds dull and boring! (Education,

Re: portable printer

2010-11-25 Thread Kramer, Jack
higan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 On Nov 25, 2010, at 7:45 PM, Kramer, Jack wrote: http://www.walmart.com/ip/HP-Officejet-H470-Mobile-Printer/10250404?sourceid=1503142050&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=10250404 They make a version with internal bluetooth/wifi too I

Re: portable printer

2010-11-25 Thread Kramer, Jack
http://www.walmart.com/ip/HP-Officejet-H470-Mobile-Printer/10250404?sourceid=1503142050&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=10250404 They make a version with internal bluetooth/wifi too I believe. Took a quick peek at other solutions - most black/white only ones are thermal and thus substantially

Re: Linksys WAP54GX withg SRX

2010-11-23 Thread Kramer, Jack
Still has to have an IP for configuration though… Got a linux box handy? NMAP your entire subnet and see what pops up. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: RS mailto:rich...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: NT S

Re: anyone use acronis offsite cloud backup

2010-11-22 Thread Kramer, Jack
center > > On 11/22/10, Kramer, Jack wrote: >> There are companies that guarantee data integrity and security - one I >> work with, i365, encrypts all data on the client side to guarantee that >> only you have access, for instance. >> >> >> Jack Kramer

Re: Hyper-V pass through disks or sharing disks

2010-11-22 Thread Kramer, Jack
I agree that a pass-through disk is what you really want to be doing here – Hyper-V doesn't always have the fastest networking stack and using that stack to pass data between guest and host would not be the way I'd want to do it. You can easily set various LUNs on the RAID-5 set to be passthroug

Re: anyone use acronis offsite cloud backup

2010-11-22 Thread Kramer, Jack
There are companies that guarantee data integrity and security - one I work with, i365, encrypts all data on the client side to guarantee that only you have access, for instance. Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-6

Re: Which router do you like best for this?

2010-11-20 Thread Kramer, Jack
exceeded the design specifications of the devices I have deployed. RS On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Kramer, Jack mailto:jack.kra...@ur.msu.edu>> wrote: RV series isn't bad if you don't mind them failing easily in hotter-than-normal conditions, especially the RV042 and R

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