RE: DFSR

x27;t DFSR to load balance, I do it for uptime. All of the shares are referral ordered to just one server. To date, we have not had any double edit issues. Although I probably just jinxed myself. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 5:18 PM To: NT Sy

RE: DFSR

The big deal with DFS (IMO) is the "double-edit" issue. Two people can edit the same file at the same time and the last one that saves the file "wins". From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 5:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DFSR I resolved my DFS issu

FW: Potential List Move

I posted this on the Exchange list, and I might as well post it here too. Just in case someone has missed it. :) From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 12:50 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Potential List Move Folks - As was mentioned here

RE: End of month plan B for list shutdown.

Would you also do one for Exchange ? From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 10:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: End of month plan B for list shutdown. Done. Link is here: http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/services/email-lists/ Rod Trent

RE: Bad symbolic link in registry

How about a rename? -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 2:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Bad symbolic link in registry I have a symlink in the registry of a 08r2 server that I can not remove which is preven

RE: _Lumina_822_phone

that back and asked for another Android. I think he is going to end up with a S4. On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Michael B. Smith mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote: Not questioning your choice – but what didn’t you like about the Lumia? From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.co

RE: _Lumina_822_phone

a lumia on sprint) Sent from my Windows Phone ____ From: Michael B. Smith Sent: 4/27/2013 9:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: _Lumina_822_phone Not questioning your choice - but what didn't you like about the Lumia? From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@

RE: _Lumina_822_phone

Not questioning your choice - but what didn't you like about the Lumia? From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2013 10:20 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: _Lumina_822_phone I got one from work and was pretty excited until I actually started using it.

RE: ALERT : NTSYSADMIN LIST MIGRATION

I will not use a google property for something that has a business purpose for me. I'm only one person, but I doubt I'm the only one that feels that way. From: G.Waleed Kavalec [mailto:kava...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 5:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: ALERT : NTSYS

RE: ALERT : NTSYSADMIN LIST MIGRATION

It was normal for 20 years, until Outlook didn't do it and it gained primacy. All of the other clients followed along. -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 5:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ALERT : NTSYSADMIN LIST

RE: ALERT : NTSYSADMIN LIST MIGRATION

Can't whip up a function until I know how to do it meself... From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 3:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ALERT : NTSYSADMIN LIST MIGRATION Web- Call MBS and he'll whip you up a function From: Webster [mailto:webs...@ca

RE: Startup processes

If you need powershell "ping", let me know. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 9:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Startup processes I do love a bit of batch scripting :-) Unfortunately I can only use JScript (!), VBScript or PowerShell in

RE: Need to create a csv through Powershell/Exchange Shell

e the help. There's some tweaking that I'd like to do to it, to filter out disabled accounts, but I'll just play with it on my own. Joe Heaton Enterprise Server Support CA Department of Fish and Wildlife 1807 13th Street, Suite 201 Sacramento, CA 95811 Desk: (916) 323-128

RE: Need to create a csv through Powershell/Exchange Shell

I GREATLY prefer the "teach a man to fish" paradigm, but to do this one properly requires some fairly in-depth knowledge of the AD PowerShell module and how Exchange stores information in AD. To do it efficiently needs an LDAP search and using a filter in PowerShell. So that it can be exported

RE: Need to create a csv through Powershell/Exchange Shell

Then you will need to use a function or a filter to select the proper email addresses. Who do you know which ones are the right ones? From: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife [mailto:joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 4:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Need to create

RE: Can you do this with .CMD?

PowerShell would allow you to use Win32 to fake input, to use WPF to fake input, and Windows Forms to fake input. And - same as vbscript - wscript method sendkeys. :) :) :) -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 5:08 PM To: NT Sy

RE: Can you do this with .CMD?

He said no PowerShell. Search “wscript method sendkeys”. From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 4:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Can you do this with .CMD? I haven't done something like this for a while, back in the day I did

RE: On the subject of security...

IOW: Security is for the MANAGEMENT of risk and MITIGATION of same. For real world systems, and usage of them, there is no such thing as perfect security. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 2:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues S

RE: PowerShell noob help

Description: Description: InfoService-Logo240] From: Candee [mailto:can...@gmail.com<mailto:can...@gmail.com>] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 10:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PowerShell noob help Thanks! I will see if I can figure out how. :) On Wed, Apr 17,

RE: PowerShell noob help

I don't use the QAD tools, but my guess is that New-QadUser does not return employeeNumber as one of the attributes of the resulting object. You would need to add that. From: Candee [mailto:can...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 8:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PowerSh

RE: Volume Activation with Windows Server 2012

Enter feedback on the technet pages. From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 8:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Volume Activation with Windows Server 2012 Not really a question here, just curious if others found themselves confused as

RE: PowerShell noob help

min Issues Subject: Re: PowerShell noob help On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > This should help. "msg" is just a function that logs all of its > arguments to a text file. Hey... this is kind of a threadjack, but your sample code here makes me think

RE: PowerShell noob help

Issues Subject: Re: PowerShell noob help Thanks for the pointers Is it just me getting old or do newer scripting languages always look so much more complicated at first glance? :-) Cheers, JR On 16 April 2013 17:14, Michael B. Smith mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote: This should help

RE: PowerShell noob help

$result = $clientOS.SubString( 9 ) From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 12:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PowerShell noob help I've managed to use Select-String to get my output and my variable, it's splitting the variable up (from someth

RE: PowerShell noob help

sday, April 16, 2013 11:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PowerShell noob help The problem I've got is that I have to call out of the console I am using to the command script file. If I write the same task in PowerShell, well the console natively supports it so it's easier fo

RE: PowerShell noob help

Start-Process gives you complete control over executing a separate task. If you don't need complete control, but just the text output, you don't need to do anything. $result = CTXCliOS.exe ^ | find "ClientOS" You can make it more PowerShell, if you want, but there isn't much val

RE: Some interesting thoughts about network security

I've had several issues with his thinking in the last couple of years. Don't get me wrong - in his subject area (which I typically think of as VDI/RDS/Citrix) he's a really smart cookie. But he's been veering into the wild blue yonder on other things... -Original Message- From: Kurt Buf

RE: PowerShell - Dependent parameters

Admin Issues Subject: Re: PowerShell - Dependent parameters On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > What you are missing is the DefaultParameterSetName. Ahhh... that did it! Thanks for the clue! Finished code, for those so interested: http://pastebin.com/dQbDDqKN It e

RE: PowerShell - Dependent parameters

Not necessary. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2013 7:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PowerShell - Dependent parameters On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Jeff Bunting wrote: >>> I think you need sets that aren't dis

RE: PowerShell - Dependent parameters

: Re: PowerShell - Dependent parameters On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > You do this with parametersets. Caught you skimming. :) See original message below. :) I've tried using parameter sets, and even posted code declaring the parameter set, but I can'

RE: PowerShell - Dependent parameters

You do this with parametersets. If that isn't enough of a hint, let me know; and I'll send you some examples. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 5:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: PowerShell - Dependent parameters Hey a

RE: Query help

PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Query help Can't you do all that with a few lines of dsadd group, dsmod group -c and some dsquery? Just asking. Thanks Webster From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Subject: RE: Query help PowerShell? :) This sounds like a great

RE: Query help

PowerShell? :) This sounds like a great thing for me on which to write a blog post. I'll do so tonight. To do this efficiently, you have to combine the usage of Exchange and AD cmdlets. The basic process is: Does group already exist? No - creat

RE: AD Simple LDAP authentication question

image001.jpg@01CE350D.D6F15430] The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America www.guardianlife.com<http://www.guardianlife.com/> From:"Michael B. Smith" mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> To:"NT System Admin Issues" mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.s

RE: AD Simple LDAP authentication question

+1 My question was directed more to the fact that any "Authenticated User" has pretty much full read-access to AD anyway. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 8, 2013 7:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AD Simple LDAP authentic

RE: POSH PtH - this is...

+1 PowerShell really didn't add anything here. In every case, psexec or winrm could be used instead. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 8, 2013 7:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: POSH PtH - this is... On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at

RE: AD Simple LDAP authentication question

What benefit do you think there would be to disable it? From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Monday, April 8, 2013 4:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: AD Simple LDAP authentication question I know that AD supports both Simple and SASL methods for LDAP binds:

RE: Quick Powershell question

The issues generally only appear when you specify other flags. ☺ For v2, what you’ve suggest is the proper way. From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 10:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Quick Powershell question Powershell 2.0 on Win 7 / 2008 R2

RE: How easy is it to crack passwords?

Not to my knowledge. -Original Message- From: Ken Cornetet [mailto:ken.corne...@kimball.com] Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 10:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How easy is it to crack passwords? Speaking of which, is there any way to remove lanman hashes from user objects wit

RE: OT: Career and Social Media

ame here... > > > > > > *ASB > **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* <http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker>* > **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information > Security) for the SMB market…*** > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:

RE: Space and Beyond:

When I was a teenager and a ham radio operator we would have fun by tuning into Voyager and other transmissions. It was doable then even with hastily constructed directional antennas. If I remember correctly, the Voyager radio is about 25 watts. With good antennas, that is easily enough for EVM

RE: OT: Career and Social Media

Most of my engagements today come because of social media. ☺ And then repeat business, of course. From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 11:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: Career and Social Media My last two jobs have come about because of

RE: RT devices?

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: 20 March 2013 15:57 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RT devices? I'm very fond of GPOs and full application support. From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 11:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issu

RE: RT devices?

I'm very fond of GPOs and full application support. From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 11:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RT devices? Why is the RT not appropriate for business? From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcon

RE: RT devices?

The Pro is very slick and I've got a hospital client that is testing them. So far, they are very happy with them. I don't think the RT is appropriate in a business environment. Just IMHO. From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 8:32 AM To: NT System Admin I

RE: Internet Census 2012: Port scanning using insecure embedded devices

Indeed (tm). -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 10:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Internet Census 2012: Port scanning using insecure embedded devices On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:28 AM, Andrew S. Baker wrote: > > T

RE: Automate DCDIAG and e-mail results

I have something very similar set up for several clients. It gets more interesting when you start analyzing the results automagically. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 12:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Automate DCDIAG and e-mail results Are any

RE: Difference between port forwarding and DMZ

+1 -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 2:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Difference between port forwarding and DMZ Put an SSL reverse proxy in the DMZ and tunnel that to the RDS Gateway -Original M

RE: Running Powershell script as scheduled task fails with 0x1

Message- > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] > Subject: RE: Running Powershell script as scheduled task fails with > 0x1 > > Easier to change a BAT than change something in task scheduler. I'm lazy. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN&

RE: Running Powershell script as scheduled task fails with 0x1

eally? I run all mine natively with powershell.exe in the task scheduler. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, March 7, 2013 1:40 PM To: NT System Admin I

RE: Running Powershell script as scheduled task fails with 0x1

I always wrap powershell in a BAT and schedule the BAT. -Original Message- From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 7, 2013 2:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Running Powershell script as scheduled task fails with 0x1 Sorry; this is Win 2008 R2.

RE: Semi-OT: Vsphere shutdown

Funny. ☺ From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 6, 2013 1:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Semi-OT: Vsphere shutdown In that case, you will need MBS’ site! ☺ Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com

RE: Details of the February 22nd 2013 Windows Azure Storage Disruption

But at the most basic level - it was a human error (as I read it). "Someone" didn't mark the update package as a critical update. Arguably (and I can see this), because the package had 5 weeks before it was required... From: Tim Evans [mailto:tev...@sparling.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 12

RE: Powershell advice - matching an AD user to a value in an array

ser to a value in an array On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > How many users do you have? How many users are in the CSV file? > > Approximate, in both cases, is fine. CSV users = 1300. AD users = <1100. What I am most interested in: AD users NOT in CSV file. Th

RE: Powershell advice - matching an AD user to a value in an array

How many users do you have? How many users are in the CSV file? Approximate, in both cases, is fine. -Original Message- From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 10:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Powershell advice - matching an AD user to a

RE: Lync issue - something I don't quite understand...

Having multiple DGs is wrong. There can only be one default. Windows behavior is non-deterministic when you have specified multiple default gateways. Almost certainly, the interior one needs to be eliminated and replaced by either a routing table or a set of manual routes. -Original Messag

RE: Ping by name tool

Here is my "enterprise ready" ping-in-powershell...take out all the log statements. function test-ping ([string]$server) { [string]$routine = "test-ping:" trap { # we should only get here if the New-Object fails.

RE: Servers in remote locations

I've recently helped a company build out several branch offices and one to deploy a remote datacenter. We virtualized everything. Absolutely everything. -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 12:24 PM To: NT System Admin I

RE: Installing .net 4.5 redistributable within a ps remoting session

I wasn't in a rush. I ran another job the next day to see if the install worked. If it didn't, I looked into it. I had very few problems. -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 10:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subj

RE: Installing .net 4.5 redistributable within a ps remoting session

It wants a console host. Your solution of scheduling +1 minute is what I have done. -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 10:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Installing .net 4.5 redistributable within a ps re

RE: Slightly OT: RE: Migrate DHCP from 2003 to 2008 R2

03 to 2008 R2 I was definitely commenting on the extremity of the process, and the tit-fot-tat mindset, not change control as such. Kurt On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > ECC is not an intrinsically bad thing. In large environments it is a > requirement. > &g

RE: Slightly OT: RE: Migrate DHCP from 2003 to 2008 R2

ECC is not an intrinsically bad thing. In large environments it is a requirement. Even with ECC, look how human error has caused issues with Microsoft's online services, Google's online services, etc. It could be far worse. However, there is no reason for it to take as long as has been reporte

RE: Books about software

gly Stupid Software"? That's totally unfair... :) On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > No. As long as you do not slander or libel the software in the title. > > "Fair Use" the US doctrine. I don't know what it might be called for you

RE: Books about software

NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Books about software If you were using the software name in the book title, do you need some form of permission? --Original Message-- From: Michael B. Smith To: NT System Admin Issues ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Books about software Sent:

RE: Books about software

It generally helps. But no, the vendor's involvement is not required. -Original Message- From: kz2...@googlemail.com [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 2:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Books about software If you want to write a book about a par

RE: Tech support call from "Microsoft"

A little slow - but very funny))) From: Daniel Rodriguez [mailto:drod...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 9:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Tech support call from "Microsoft" This came across my email the other day. Quite funny as it goes with the original post of this t

RE: Zultys VOIP?

Click to dial is very common. -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 1:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Zultys VOIP? Matt, thanks for your input. If you're curious about the click to dial... Our ops team does tons of ou

RE: Server 2012 failover DHCP

I've set it up in the lab, and plan on deploying it at a client in late March. But I don't have a real-world implementation yet. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 10:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Server 2012 failover DHCP Is anyone running a

RE: Powershell question

ToString() doesn't work for you? Convert-* don't work for you? I'm a little confused as to what you want to do... From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 7:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Powershell question Hey guys, I have a System.

RE: Backup to cloud?

As Ken pointed out, certain governmental organizations have begun defining exactly what a cloud means to them. The US government now adheres to a specific definition of "a cloud". At least, there is a proposed specific definition. From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Thursday, Fe

RE: OT: MCM certification

07-6459 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 christopher_bod...@glic.com [cid:image001.jpg@01CE09DA.AF586750] The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America www.guardianlife.com<http://www.guardianlife.com/> From:"Michael B. Smith" mailto:mich...@smithcons.co

RE: OT: MCM certification

Microsoft loses money on the Exchange MCM classes. I suspect they do for all of the MCM tracks. The fee is to ensure that only serious people apply plus to cover the cost of the labs, meeting rooms, and presentation materials. Big companies need people with big experience. I don't pass the scr

RE: file limitation error

I don't think there is any meaningful limit. (2**31) - 1 I would guess. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 4:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: file limitation error Um, maybe... If you simply increment with a batc

RE: Exchange 2003 to Office 365

Interesting. Pretty limited, but I wasn't aware that any one was doing it. Thanks for the info. From: Rick Berry [mailto:rbe...@elevativenetworks.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 1:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2003 to Office 365 Intermedia does. From: Mich

RE: Exchange 2003 to Office 365

You found a cloud provider that offers Public Folders? Which one? From: itli...@imcu.com [mailto:itli...@imcu.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 7:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2003 to Office 365 I have Exchange 2003 standard in a 2008 Active Directory Domain. We are l

RE: Here we go again, another Apple screwup

We've already discussed this extensively on the Exchange List. :P Keep up! From: James Hill [mailto:falc...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, February 9, 2013 4:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Here we go again, another Apple screwup No doubt they'll try and blame Microsoft again. http://eigh

RE: Passsword Meter

Subject: Re: Passsword Meter On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: >> Ideally, password meters should measure entropy, but that's hard to deduce. > > Not so much, actually, as long as you control what you mean by entropy. > > http://xkcd.com/936/ :)

RE: Passsword Meter

Not so much, actually, as long as you control what you mean by entropy. http://xkcd.com/936/ :) See the response here by Akton: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/167235/how-can-i-estimate-the-entropy-of-a-password -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail

RE: Exchange Server 2013: Not quite ready for the data center - Computerworld

Tsk tsk tsk From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2013 7:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Exchange Server 2013: Not quite ready for the data center - Computerworld Funny thing is, I remember him posting that article, and I bookmarked it, but I

RE: Exchange Server 2013: Not quite ready for the data center - Computerworld

---Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 12:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Exchange Server 2013: Not quite ready for the data center - Computerworld H If you don't, perhaps we should start a campaign... Ku

RE: Exchange Server 2013: Not quite ready for the data center - Computerworld

What? You didn't read my initial post on January 6? I'm insulted! :) From: Guyer, Don [mailto:dgu...@che.org] Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2013 3:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange Server 2013: Not quite ready for the data center - Computerworld Reading that just reaffirms ou

RE: Exchange Server 2013: Not quite ready for the data center - Computerworld

guessing... Kurt On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Michael B. Smith mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote: > I think that article has made the Exchange team very mad at me. > > > > Apparently, not such a big deal when the MVPs blog it and it gets put into > Redmond magazine

RE: Exchange Server 2013: Not quite ready for the data center - Computerworld

I think that article has made the Exchange team very mad at me. Apparently, not such a big deal when the MVPs blog it and it gets put into Redmond magazine or WindowsIT Pro magazine - but hitting ComputerWorld has caused a lot of angst. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thu

RE: OT: Guest network security

Colubris is at least one. Thanks for saying that, it jogged my memory. -Original Message- From: kz2...@googlemail.com [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2013 2:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Guest network security I remember seeing a solution

RE: Anyone heard of Meraki?

My company doesn't do hardware (we are a software and services shop), but one of the partner organizations we work with is a Ruckus reseller and the products are very impressive. They installed it in a large soccer stadium that wanted to offer free WiFi to attendees, with about 30,000 active con

RE: Rename 2003 domain

ay, February 05, 2013 1:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Rename 2003 domain Wow, Webster Desmond and MBS recommend against it. ...and I thought a couple of SBS swings were high on the "things could go horribly wrong" scale... From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smith

RE: Rename 2003 domain

thing in particular I should check to verify that all is well? From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 9:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Rename 2003 domain Don't rename the domain. Just Say No. There is no need.

RE: Rename 2003 domain

Don't rename the domain. Just Say No. There is no need. Sent from my Windows Phone From: David Mazzaccaro Sent: 2/1/2013 9:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Rename 2003 domain Thx I Just read through that thread. One comment was that you never need to

RE: Robocopy reliability

You are new around here aren't you? :) He's been saying that since at least 1998 or 1999... From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Monday, February 4, 2013 5:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Robocopy reliability And I think I need to trademark your new slogan: "T

RE: Robocopy reliability

There is a switch for that. From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Monday, February 4, 2013 5:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Robocopy reliability Would be tough to verify terabytes of data didn't have any errors ;) From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.or

RE: Robocopy reliability

If the network breaks, robocopy breaks. If the hardware breaks, robocopy breaks. I'd like to know one utility whether either of those are NOT true? I don't know of ANYTHING that is more reliable than robocopy. What did he suggest? From: Tigran K [mailto:tigr...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, Februar

RE: Favorite VPN solution?

Server 2012 setup is a dream. And it deals much better with IPv4-only solutions. Also any VPN provided as part of RRAS (just RAS in Server 2012) has built-in clients for Windows. This includes PPTP and L2TP VPNs. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wedn

RE: Dumping DHCP to a File

Yes... I've got powershell scripts that post-process this file, but that's where the data has to come from... From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 1:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dumping DHCP to a File Try "netsh dhcp server

RE: on-premises storage application

, 2013 5:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: on-premises storage application On 24 Jan 2013 at 19:11, Michael B. Smith wrote: > > I have a client that wants something like SkyDrive or DropBox - but they > want to host it onsite - no cloud storage. They also want the com

RE: on-premises storage application

Thanks folks. Of the responses, DataNow and ownCloud seem to be very close to the client's needs. I will present those options (neither of which I had come up with on my own!). Thanks to all of you for your responses. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thu

RE: DC's and VM's

's always start 120 secs after host start and other VM's 300 secs after that. Server 2012 redundant DHCP...oh NICE! From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 8:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DC's and VM's That is correc

RE: DC's and VM's

2012 also helps this problem since you can have redundant DHCP servers without splitting the pool? ____ From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DC's and VM's Unl

RE: DC's and VM's

Unless you have a fully Hyper-V 3.0 infrastructure and your DCs are all Windows Server 2012. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DC's and VM's Is this still current thinking? "Note: Always have at least one DC

RE: FoxIT reader vulnerability

I learned Forth when I was 17, in 1980. It blew my mind. Before that, I knew WATFOR, UCSD Pascal, 6502 assembler, and 8008 assembler. Forth's RPN and its low-level power made me feel as if I could do anything! :) -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tues

RE: Trying to get a .PFX file from a .CER file in Windows 2008

stuff for a few months and forget everything. Z Edward E. Ziots, CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization ezi...@lifespan.org -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 2:19 PM To: NT System Admin

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