RE: MSCS evicting node

2011-08-18 Thread Level 5 Lists
up live, snapshot-based backups, so I went through the process of recreating everything from scratch on a fresh VM. I don't know if you'll run into this issue, but it may be something look out for. On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Level 5 Lists li...@levelfive.usmailto:li...@levelfive.us wrote

RE: [OT] The infection continues to spread (HP)

2011-08-18 Thread Level 5 Lists
Interestingly enough I just saw a very interesting investor (facebook, linked in etc) who was talking about how Apple makes so much profit in their hardware and how they basically re-wrote the entire hardware model etc etc ... and he was saying money is going back to hardware but more in

RE: Split Scope DHCP on 2008 R2?

2011-08-09 Thread Level 5 Lists
Remember the delay is just so the primary DHCP ack's first. This is the work around so they don't compete. If your DHCP server is sluggish or busy you may have to up the time period a little, and at the same time make sure the clients don't give up (this is quite a while for pc's but sometimes

RE: Dell Lock Code Resource

2011-07-24 Thread Level 5 Lists
That is odd, I recall looking those up a handful of times back in the days... I do agree with you though, we purchased a quad quad core server with 64gb of ram from dell about 8-9 months ago (model escapes me). The 2.5 sas drives didn't come in they were backordered, we overnighted hp drives

iphone multiple device ID

2011-07-23 Thread Level 5 Lists
We recently upgraded Exchange from 03 to 10. We created a whole new domain, I happen to notice that on the CEO's mailbox there are 2 iphone connections. At first I thought maybe he added a new exchange account and hes getting mail twice, but the Apple Device ID's are different. So I went in and

RE: iphone multiple device ID

2011-07-23 Thread Level 5 Lists
, Level 5 Lists li...@levelfive.usmailto:li...@levelfive.us wrote: We recently upgraded Exchange from 03 to 10. We created a whole new domain, I happen to notice that on the CEO’s mailbox there are 2 iphone connections. At first I thought maybe he added a new exchange account and hes getting mail

ex2k7 transport rule

2011-07-07 Thread Level 5 Lists
What am I missing? I created a transport rule to send custom ndr and drop the message. I went and added a custom NDR 5.7.100 for both en\internal\5.7.100 and en\external\5.7.100 . However when the rule gets executed it always sends back the 5.7.0 default message. the custom text from the rule

RE: Another cool tool from MS coming...

2011-07-07 Thread Level 5 Lists
Cool, GFis mail archiver product already has this and you can deploy it over the network. I think the free mail archiva has an import tool but not a discovery tool. GFi's was far the most advanced I had used of the few products. It would deploy an agent to the desktop scan the box for pst,

RE: Mass OOFs

2011-07-01 Thread Level 5 Lists
/exchange-server-2007/management-administration/customising-delivery-status-notification-messages.html This is exchange 2007sp2 (probably a couple of roll ups with it). Thanks From: Level 5 Lists Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 6:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mass OOFs Exchange 2007, I

RE: Mass OOFs

2011-06-30 Thread Level 5 Lists
...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Level 5 Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 9:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Mass OOFs I have a law firm that's being shut down, they are releasing about 700 employees over the upcoming months (@ 350 are gone

RE: Anyone else seeing the Google interface changes?

2011-06-30 Thread Level 5 Lists
I noticed it the other night we couldn't login to HBO Go after True Blood was on, and when I googled it, I saw the tweets coming in a floating window. I thought it was pretty nice and definitely relevant to what I was looking up ... From: Shauna Hensala [mailto:she...@msn.com] Sent: Thursday,

RE: Network Solutions Down?

2011-06-21 Thread Level 5 Lists
Issues Subject: RE: Network Solutions Down? It came up for me - just very slowly. Sean Rector, MCSE From: Level 5 Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 7:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Network Solutions Down? This morning a few of us cannot get into our NSI

RE: security auditing..

2011-06-20 Thread Level 5 Lists
, June 20, 2011 10:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: security auditing.. On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Level 5 Lists li...@levelfive.us wrote: I must be missing something .. I have a share drive w @ 400gb of user data. I enabled Delete files/folders auditing for everyone and pushed

RE: file copying

2011-06-16 Thread Level 5 Lists
/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Level 5 Lists li...@levelfive.usmailto:li...@levelfive.us wrote: I have a client that we need to migrate about 2tb of data. I recently used xcopy gui but it didn't seem to bring a lot

RE: RE: RE: windows 7 forensics

2011-06-09 Thread Level 5 Lists
There are a lot of things to consider. The first being chain of custody, the pulling of the pc with 2 people, and then certifying that it hasn't been tampered with is your primary requirement. After that I would let the real boys handle it (3rd party/legal team etc) I went through something

RE: Vipre/ MS Malware conflicts

2011-06-03 Thread Level 5 Lists
. That might solve at least some of your problems. David On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Level 5 Lists li...@levelfive.usmailto:li...@levelfive.us wrote: We have vipre rolled out at one of our clients, its working okay, but we recently had to turn it from medium to low because it was severly

RE: Fake antivirus

2011-06-03 Thread Level 5 Lists
What about using open dns for a few bucks a year ? you can turn on simple blocking of known malware sites and a few other things and keep it pretty clean. -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 8:02 PM To: NT System Admin

RE: Slow dns lookups?

2011-05-27 Thread Level 5 Lists
Engineer Lifespan Organization Email:ezi...@lifespan.org Cell:401-639-3505 From: Level 5 Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 12:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Slow dns lookups? I have a client with a t1 and cable as a backup for about 50 users and 9 servers

RE: Slow dns lookups?

2011-05-27 Thread Level 5 Lists
to 1. The timeout for sessions was also set to 300 seconds, and I turned that down to 60 seconds. Those actions cleared my problem - don't know if it's the same issue for you, but it might be worth looking at. On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 09:34, Level 5 Lists li...@levelfive.us wrote: I have

FW: Exchange autodiscover 2 domains

2011-05-25 Thread Level 5 Lists
Anyone know why everytime I post to exchange list I get rejected for attachments? .. maybe ill unsub/resub ... From: Level 5 Lists Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 10:13 PM To: 'MS-Exchange Admin Issues' Subject: Exchange autodiscover 2 domains We have 2 different domains, and rpc/https is working

RE: Question on PCI compliance

2011-05-18 Thread Level 5 Lists
you used to be able to still find it if you hit ftp.gfi.comftp://ftp.gfi.com we still use the system integrity monitor, along with a couple of their other tools now for pci compliance (event log monitor, languard). From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011

RE: Sonicwall TZ100 content filtering

2011-05-17 Thread Level 5 Lists
We connected dual Sonicwalls for a 700 client office and did AD integration, it required an app on the DC to run and sync back to the Sonicwall IIRC. It didn't just pull LDAP queries. These were Sonicwall 5000 series on 100MB fiber internet and gig metro-e ports. It did work however, and we did

RE: Encrypting Event Logs

2011-05-10 Thread Level 5 Lists
I have 2 clients that get audited by trustwave annually onsite, and quarterly pen tests. In all the audits I have done with different auditors no one has requested us to do this. We do event log collection into an sql database that is not encrypted. No one has also ever asked that we encrypt

RE: VOIP design questions

2011-05-02 Thread Level 5 Lists
Every voip install we have come across has had completely separate networks only merging at the edge for either multi-office connectivity (iax2 trunks) , firmware updates, and remote access by the pbx vendor. I have a client running an Asterisk box with 75 users on its own network and we still

RE: RPC/HTTPS

2011-04-30 Thread Level 5 Lists
: Level 5 Lists Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 10:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RPC/HTTPS Thanks this is a small shop , 50 users inside, 30 outside ... single exchange server, behind a spam appliance, we didn't do forefront etc, just rpc/https/owa NATed with a UCC cert. I ran

FW: RPC/HTTPS

2011-04-29 Thread Level 5 Lists
Hmm, still no go on posting to exchange going to sub/unsub ... -Original Message- From: Level 5 Lists Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 11:58 AM To: 'MS-Exchange Admin Issues' Subject: RPC/HTTPS We have a client with Exchange 2007 sp3 running for some time now. The other day a few users

RE: RPC/HTTPS

2011-04-29 Thread Level 5 Lists
Auth instead of NTLM enabled for Outlook Anywhere. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c   - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Level 5 Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 12:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: FW: RPC/HTTPS Hmm, still no go

RE: RPC/HTTPS

2011-04-29 Thread Level 5 Lists
-Original Message- From: Level 5 Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 12:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RPC/HTTPS Thanks Brian, the NTLM was what we had just found too, but obviously internally I don't want/need to use rpc ... I did get

RE: RPC/HTTPS

2011-04-29 Thread Level 5 Lists
- From: Level 5 Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 05:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: RPC/HTTPS I did some poking around, it looks like my internal clients are connecting to mx-exchange.domain.com and then flipping

Spamhaus Lookup

2011-04-27 Thread Level 5 Lists
Tried to put this on exchange list, but keeps saying no attachments .. thought I would try it here: Exchange 2010 SP1 . We dropped anti-spam and put spamhaus and spamcop on and enabled. We are still seeing a lot of junk coming through, I went in to test spamhaus

RE: Spamhaus Lookup

2011-04-27 Thread Level 5 Lists
, 2011 1:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Spamhaus Lookup Relying on RBL alone is not a sufficient way to combat SPAM. I use multiple RBLs, RWLs, Vipre and Barracuda. -Original Message- From: Level 5 Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 1:11 PM

RE: Spamhaus Lookup

2011-04-27 Thread Level 5 Lists
Issues Subject: Re: Spamhaus Lookup Many public DNS servers don't reply correctly about lookups at spamhaus. Make sure you are getting your DNS info from your ISP, and not the free public servers. (e.g. 8.8.8.8, 4.4.2.2. etc...) Bill On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Level 5 Lists li

RE: Spamhaus Lookup

2011-04-27 Thread Level 5 Lists
System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Spamhaus Lookup Many public DNS servers don't reply correctly about lookups at spamhaus. Make sure you are getting your DNS info from your ISP, and not the free public servers. (e.g. 8.8.8.8, 4.4.2.2. etc...) Bill On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Level 5 Lists li

RE: Touch screen tablets

2011-04-22 Thread Level 5 Lists
Not sure what you guys paid, I played with the xoom at CES nice! They were talking about 1k retail. Costco had them for 580 on pre-order. Considering my 64gb ipad fetches me about 400 bucks I cant wait to make the switch .. From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April

RE: SIDs

2011-04-21 Thread Level 5 Lists
Well the last time I accidentally connected 5 xp ghosted computers onto a domain I had all kinds of issues. We had issues with authentication, enumerating domain accounts would revert to Unknowns (like Domain Admins in the local Administrators group) and all kinds of weirdness. We troubleshot

RE: Misconfigured Apple?

2011-04-21 Thread Level 5 Lists
be on an early version of iOS4? http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2010/07/01/3410271.aspx On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Level 5 Lists li...@levelfive.usmailto:li...@levelfive.us wrote: I have a small law firm about 20 people. A handful of them are using ipads, iphones , macbooks etc .. So

RE: Looking for secure video conferencing

2011-04-20 Thread Level 5 Lists
Jim, we recently deployed vutelepresence units, they are decent and weren't very expensive (@ 1500/unit with 5 pc clients). We found them because they do 720p conferencing with about 500k of bandwidth. We deployed one to Florida, Penn , and the UK for our client and they all seem to be pretty

RE: Cybernetics san

2011-04-18 Thread Level 5 Lists
Unless they are offering something out of the ordinary I would look at Nexenta's offerings, and just get support direct by either building your own or one of their channel partners. I think pogo makes decent stuff, and those new dual mobo nexenta boxes with the 10gb crossover looks pretty nice

RE: Outlook 2007 credentials

2011-04-18 Thread Level 5 Lists
, the fix is to re-apply the roll up. BF From: Level 5 Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 9:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Outlook 2007 credentials Over the past couple of weeks, I have been getting user complaints at a few different sites that Outlook

RE: USB docking for laptops

2011-04-13 Thread Level 5 - Lists
. Nothing but headaches. Kurt On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 19:35, Level 5 - Lists li...@levelfive.us wrote: Hi all, we have about 10 HP laptops that were purchased with a Toshiba USB Dock. The issue is that many times when the users come into the office and boot the laptop with the device plugged

RE: OT : Rooting Android phones

2011-03-24 Thread Level 5 - Lists
I have the evo rooted, and my wife has the shift and I rooted hers too although there aren't any really good custom things for it yet. I have tried many of the different custom roms, and the wireless tether is the primary reason I rooted mine. Right now I run the MIUI custom rom, it looks

RE: OT : Rooting Android phones

2011-03-17 Thread Level 5 - Lists
if you have an HTC you can goto unrevoked and do the subradio hack which works on all upgrades forever. I use Rom Manager and run the MIUI rom which looks similar to an iphone (some love it , some hate it) but its very polished, the battery lasts forever compared to others .. and yes very

RE: Hosted Exchange and file shares

2011-03-17 Thread Level 5 - Lists
I like intermedia myself it has sharepoint and exchange and crm if you need it. I don't like the MS online stuff because they run it through the Microsoft Messenger and if you logout of that then it drops credentials for Outlook and you have to re-login . From: Bob Fronk

RE: Exchange Database -- VMDK or RAW?

2011-03-15 Thread Level 5 - Lists
My larger client has 4 EQL boxes, and we have 2 running all VMDK and 2 running all RAW. Performance seemed just fine we had Exchange on the RAW and then VMDK for the o/s. We recently upgraded them to Veeam Backups, and wanted to take advantage of all that and migrated the Exchange into a vmdk and

RE: SAN monitoring

2010-12-23 Thread Level 5 - Lists
Coming in late, a buddy of mine moved to Open NMS and he runs 7 or 8 FreeNAS SAN's with about 80TB of storage and he monitors them with this I believe .. From: Derek Johnson [mailto:djohn...@realtors.org] Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 9:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SAN

IIS NLB

2010-11-03 Thread Level 5 Lists
I have setup a few IIS NLB clusters but never really paid too much attention to the load balancing aspects. I currently have 2 2008r2 IIS boxes running NLB, the NLB seems to be working fine except for that it always uses the same primary server unless I reboot it. I was looking at the Multiple

RE: Group Policy Won't Go Away

2010-11-03 Thread Level 5 Lists
Did you try looking here on the local machine: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft There should be GUID's matching the group policy items you want to remove. From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 1:57 PM To: NT System Admin

RE: Group Policy Won't Go Away

2010-11-03 Thread Level 5 Lists
Sorry I think they show up here too if they are user based: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft] [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy Objects] [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies] From: Level 5 Lists

Bandwidth problems

2010-08-25 Thread Level 5 Lists
I have been troubleshooting a bandwidth problem where connections are dropping. We ran some different tests like speedtest and pingtest as well as a trial of visualware. Everything points to tcp max delay (300ms) being a major issue and suggests packet loss. I have run some tracerts for the ISP