RE: GFI LanGuard

I looked at it briefly quite frankly it looked a bargain when you consider the licensing model doesn't say "Oh you want to patch a server, that'll be 30x the cost of a workstation license". Looked a decent product and something I'm considering quite strongly. From: Bob Hartung [mailto:bhart.

RE: Moving VM's between vCenter clusters?

t and our guest systems are thick format. Occasionally we miss one setting change when deploying new guests so we smotion them to correct it. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Paul Hutchings wrote: My understanding is that when migrating to vsphere 4.1 that the

RE: Moving VM's between vCenter clusters?

: Ken Cornetet [mailto:ken.corne...@kimball.com] Sent: 26 January 2011 16:34 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving VM's between vCenter clusters? I don't think the thin provisioning is relevant. The vmdk files will be moved as they are. From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:p

Moving VM's between vCenter clusters?

I have a new SAN and vCenter server and vSphere hosts which I'm finalizing testing. One thing I've not been able to easily try is how to get the VM's off my existing hosts and onto the new hosts. My understanding is that I should be able to simply join the current vSphere boxes (ESX 3.5) to

RE: Cannot delete files

I've found that often rebooting the server will fix this - seems to be down to some odd sort of lock on the files (it won't show in Server Manager though). Also sometimes deleting from the console from the command line using the 8.3 filename(s) seems to work. Paul -Original Message- From

RE: vSphere on HP Proliant G7 Series

Also make sure to install the HP NMI driver and ESXi offline bundle (both can be done via Update Manager) DAMIEN SOLODOW Systems Engineer 317.447.6033 (office) 317.217.6851 (fax) HARRISON COLLEGE From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011

RE: RE: Backing up an important file every X minutes?

rr & Tower > www.rolandschorr.com<http://www.rolandschorr.com/> > b...@rolandschorr.com<mailto:b...@rolandschorr.com> > > From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] > Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 07:15 > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Backing up an i

RE: Backing up an important file every X minutes?

;ve done it. Ben M. Schorr Chief Executive Officer __ Roland Schorr & Tower www.rolandschorr.com <http://www.rolandschorr.com/> b...@rolandschorr.com <mailto:b...@rolandschorr.com> From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi..

RE: Blacklist avoidance

+1 to outsource. Of course in theory if you're using confirmed opt-in there's no problem as you'll have records that everyone opted in, but in practise that's no use if your whole email setup is dysfunctional whilst you try to provide proof to some rbl operator. From: itli...@imcu.com [mail

RE: ProCurve Compatible/Refurb SFPs?

neric gigabit SFPs. Their formerly-3com offerings might be more lenient. On 12/18/2010 7:26 AM, Paul Hutchings wrote: > Has anyone any experience with HP "compatible" and "refurbished" SFPs? > > I need some for some ProCurve connectivity and the HP pricing is not > p

ProCurve Compatible/Refurb SFPs?

Has anyone any experience with HP "compatible" and "refurbished" SFPs? I need some for some ProCurve connectivity and the HP pricing is not pleasant. I looked around online and a few places seem to sell "refurbished" and "compatible" SFPs. I guess you get what you pay for, but it's hard to

RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home

Citrix or some form of VDI combined with an access gateway or VPN with host checking? From: Fergal O'Connell [mailto:foconn...@curamsoftware.com] Sent: 08 December 2010 12:07 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote access - Allow employees work from home Might have a look at that –

Exclaimer Signature Manager

OK so before I go suggest we splunk the cash on this, is there anything out there that I'm overlooking that will allow similar control/granularity over signatures whilst keeping some degree of control with the end user? I've looked at a couple of server side solutions but they all lose out the

RE: vSphere Networking

want your iSCSI network to be accessible in your LAN? I was confused initally that you were out of NICs based on your design and wanted your VM Mgmt in your iSCSI network. On Dec 5, 2010 2:23 AM, "Paul Hutchings" wrote: 12 NICs is m

Re: vSphere Networking

12 NICs is more than enough- I got 12 simply as it's easier to have surplus from day one. As for assignments, tbh I think there will be some trial and error there, but I'm leaning towards something along the lines on each host of: vSwitch1 3 NICs (1 onboard and one on each quad card) Port Group

Re: vSphere Networking

Thanks. It also seems "C" is a lot neater if I want the P4000 to be able to set its time via NTP and send email alerts etc. Also if I do "C" I don't need to bother with "B" as the admin VM would have access via the firewall, though "B" would still be useful as a backup I guess. ~ Finally, pow

Re: vSphere Networking

You can configure one of the NICs on each node as a dedicated management port, but this would reduce the NIC count by 50% which isn't a penalty I'm prepared to pay. Thanks, Paul ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

vSphere Networking

Currently planning the network layout for a new small vSphere cluster that I have to start building next week. Hardware will be HP DL380 Servers, P4000 SAN nodes, 2910al switches. I'll have 12 NICs available per host the 2910's are dedicated for iSCSI and anything else I want kept off the m

RE: GPO Loopback Processing - What am I missing?

th the same loopback flag set in it. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 5:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: GPO Loopback Processing - What am I missing? Ah

RE: GPO Loopback Processing - What am I missing?

s Joe Bloggs is in the OU with the computer he won't. Are your users and computers in the same OUs? I try to keep them separate wherever possible. However you should be able to filter by computer in the GPO with loopback policy processing enabled, as I remember. On 24 November 2010 11:20, Paul

RE: GPO Loopback Processing - What am I missing?

Admin Issues Subject: Re: GPO Loopback Processing - What am I missing? Shouldn't you apply it to the users you want to receive it, as it is a user setting you are deploying (albeit with loopback)? On 24 November 2010 11:12, Paul Hutchings wrote: I have a group of PC's that I want

GPO Loopback Processing - What am I missing?

I have a group of PC's that I want to have certain user settings, regardless of who is logged on. So, I setup a GPO with the following settings: Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/System/Group Policy - Merge User Configuration/Administrative Templates/Control Panel/Personaliza

RE: First Steps into the SAN Arena

Having just been through this exercise, my thoughts are that unless you have very distinct needs, most products will do what you want them do (SAN vs. NAS fundamentals aside). Do look at the licensing, and do look at the expansion options. Equallogic and Lefthand do require you to buy "nodes",

RE: First Steps into the SAN Arena

Have a look at P4000 too. Block only so if you want CIFS and NFS they don’t do it without a NAS head (which is really just a Windows 200x based server). They are fairly cheap though, and the scalability/architecture is interesting. From: Chad Leeper [mailto:c...@capitalcityfruit.com] Sent: 19

RE: Software Auditing/Inventory?

ecking due to the signature block of the message I initially replied to!) ____ From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: 17 November 2010 16:27 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Software Auditing/Inventory? What do you all use for this p

RE: Software Auditing/Inventory?

eaglemds.com http://www.eaglemds.com/> ____ From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 11:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Software Auditing/Inventory? What do you all use for this please? We're looking fo

Group Policy - Where do you store .adm files?

As subject really. For newer applications (Office being the typical one), where the templates are available as .admx files I put them in the Policydefinitions folder in SYSVOL. I'm a little unclear though where I'm supposed to put the older .adm templates for things such as Office 2000 - I'm s

Software Auditing/Inventory?

What do you all use for this please? We're looking for something and of course you have lots of products all of which promise a lot. The sort of things we're looking to do is run regular scans of PC's to capture installed software, recognised, unrecognised software, keep track of how many inst

RE: DNS question

You want your internal clients to use your DC's for their DNS, and your DC's to do root hint lookups or use your ISP's (or Google, or OpenDNS or whoever's) DNS servers as forwarders. From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: 17 November 2010 16:19 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DNS

RE: Workstation names and who it belongs to

As requested, I can't claim the credit for this, I forget where but I stumbled upon it somewhere and modified it to suit with the variables I wanted: '- 'Sets the AD Computer Description to the User/Dept '-

RE: Workstation names and who it belongs to

We have lots that are shared, that's one of the main drivers for doing it that way, it doesn't matter who logs on, if you know you need machine XYZ but that's all you know, you can just look in ADUC and see who is/was on it, not have to consult a spreadsheet/database and still only know who you

Re: Workstation names and who it belongs to

I have our logon script set to automatically populate the machine description in ADUC to the username, department, and date and time of the logon, so we always have a pretty good idea who should know where a machine is. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Screensaver & Wallpaper Policies/Options?

useful but then you'd have to deal with open applications/data being in view. Maybe there's a way to force all applications to minimize when the screensaver is activated? - Sean On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Paul Hutchings wrote: I can't say I think it's a fantastic idea,

RE: Screensaver & Wallpaper Policies/Options?

health & safety suit. It's one thing to say "you will /not/ display the following..." but it's absolutely ridiculous to dictate a desktop setup to folks that spend the day in front of the system (i.e. for kiosks it would be different). Fro

RE: Backup solution options

anced reporting, Enterprise Vault Tracker (point-in-time backups, for monthlies, etc) >>> Paul Hutchings 11/10/2010 9:29 AM >>> We use Commvault 8 and all of that is news to me. When you say you're not being forced to change you've confused me, as if that's the case why d

Screensaver & Wallpaper Policies/Options?

At long last we may be going to bring in company wallpaper and screensavers. I'm aware you can do this via GPO but I've not had cause to do more than the basics so far. One thing that's been mentioned is being able to display news/events info as part of either the wallpaper or screensaver.

RE: Backup solution options

We use Commvault 8 and all of that is news to me. When you say you're not being forced to change you've confused me, as if that's the case why don't you just stick with the model you're on, or are you saying you can never move from 8 to 9 without moving to the new model? Paul -Original Messa

DBAN with FC HBA's?

Does anyone know if DBAN works with FC HBA's or only with "traditional" IDE/SATA/SAS controllers? I would test it but the boxes I'll be wanting to boot it on are in use and I don't have a spare. Thanks. -- MIRA Ltd Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in Eng

Windows Patch Management

We currently use WSUS for patch management, however we're at the point where I think I'd like a little more granularity than WSUS provides when it comes to patching servers. Basically whilst you can do it, it's not the most intuitive product IMO if you want to configure some servers to update a

RE: Virtualization of file server - storage recommendations.

You really don't want to be taking snapshots of that kind of data volume at VMDK level. The IO when you delete the snapshots and it does the merge will be simple horrific. RDM or MS iSCSI from within the guest would get my vote (I'll be making the same decision in a couple of months just with

RE: Virtualization of file server - storage recommendations.

That's the fun part, it's all anecdotal, I can find nothing in black and white from vmware but I can't figure out why a vendor would tell me that either, so make of it what you will I guess, just something to throw into the mix. -Original Message- From: Ian Roche [mailto:iro...@curamsoft

RE: Virtualization of file server - storage recommendations.

I've seen comments and have been advised by a couple of vendors that vmware don't support MPIO from within the guest, so if you want to do MPIO to the LUNs you might be faced with using VMDK or RDM. I've never pinned them down on a black and white source for this, but I can't see why they'd mak

RE: Adobe acrobat reader updates

You should find you can deploy the MSI via Group Policy and it'll take care of everything for you. Take a look at the Adobe Customization Tool as well as you can disable things like checking for updates. From: Brumbaugh, Luke [mailto:luke.brumba...@butlerschein.com] Sent: 28 October 2010 13:

RE: DNS providers

so that should fix things. If it doesn't, I can always give EasyDNS a try. -Original Message- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 3:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DNS providers +1 on EasyDNS. They've been fla

RE: VMWare vs Hyper-V

other) drivers before you can bring your virtual environment online? ASB (My XeeSM Profile) <http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker> Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Paul Hutchings wrote: That's exactly my point though, you can en

RE: VMWare vs Hyper-V

g the Dell PowerEdge driver package for Windows. -Malcolm -Original Message- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 10:52 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare vs Hyper-V That's exactly my point though, you can end up so

RE: VMWare vs Hyper-V

have the drivers you need from the vendor. 2) I can't speak to paid support from non-EA Microsoft customers, but there's a large and growing amount of Hyper-V knowledge available in the community. -Malcolm -----Original Message- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co

re: VMWare vs Hyper-V

Personally I'd go with vsphere and look at one of the Essentials bundles as that will give you cluster capability as well as central control from vCenter. I don't have anything against Hyper-V as I've never actually used it, but my reservations and reasons for not doing so are two-fold: 1) Har

RE: Collaborating with external partners - document sharing?

ke it would work pretty well. You can retrieve previous versions and more than one person can work on a file at once. That's about the extent of collaboration tools though. On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Paul Hutchings wrote: If you have projects that, in an ideal world, you want bot

Collaborating with external partners - document sharing?

If you have projects that, in an ideal world, you want both internal and external people to be able to collaborate on, what solution do you use? We have a need, admittedly not too clearly defined yet, and I'm just batting about for solutions. Sharepoint is a little OTT possibly, FTP/web int

RE: Office 2000 SP1

John, I think I have it here, a folder on one of our old distribution shares called SR1 with around 350mb of stuff and a "o2ksr1a.exe" in the root. Let me know off-list if it's any use. Paul -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: 19 October 20

SSL Intermediate Certs

Have to admit I'm thoroughly confused by these. I totally get the idea that if I buy a cert from Globalsign their CA is what forms the "trust" so I need their CA installed on my PC. Where I'm getting a bit lost is intermediate certificates. More and more vendors instruct you to install the

RE: P4000 Owners - Multi-Site Question

No-one? From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: 09 October 2010 15:31 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: P4000 Owners - Multi-Site Question Those of you with a P4000 and vSphere setup that is split over two sites, can I get a breakdown of how you have things

Most manageable and useable corporate smartphone?

I'm asking both lists as I guess Exchange compatibility is just as important as general management. So, which smartphones would you choose assuming things like mobile network coverage weren't an issue. I've no direct experience of Blackberry, I have (sadly!) too much Nokia experience, and i

RE: PSTs on file cluster

There's your problem... From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: 11 October 2010 15:57 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PSTs on file cluster x86 On 11 October 2010 15:55, Brian Desmond wrote: Is this an x64 or x86 cluster? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briande

P4000 Owners - Multi-Site Question

Those of you with a P4000 and vSphere setup that is split over two sites, can I get a breakdown of how you have things configured with your switches and subnets please? Thanks. -- MIRA Ltd Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 VA

RE: How'd this for a bad day? AKA bad me

Being slightly serious for a moment, it's a pretty good illustration of how something like a SAN in isolation is no use :-) -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: 08 October 2010 13:43 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How'd this for a bad

RE: AV Opinions

integrate if at all with AD? Thanks! jlc From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 1:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AV Opinions Avira Antivir is very good. I tend to take the view of layers so I rely a lot on having very goo

RE: AV Opinions

Avira Antivir is very good. I tend to take the view of layers so I rely a lot on having very good URL filtering in place so that hopefully the A/V doesn't need to do much, but I still rate the product very highly. From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: 07 October 2

RE: outbound smtp broke (connection to host lost)

If you were on a DNS blacklist I would expect you to get a clean 5xx reject, not a disconnect. I'd be looking at your firewall. Do your Exchange servers go out through the same rule as your PC does? Do both servers talk happily enough to each other or is it only when it's to external servers?

RE: Consultants

I'm not saying "don't get good advice", but I am suggesting don't necessarily rush into paying someone to come in and put together a plan. I'm also looking for a replacement SAN, my approach has been to look at options, which has come down to researching the hell out of them via the documentati

re: Consultants

Not sure if it differs in the US but I'm a bit unsure why you're talking about "hiring" consultants? Why not just invite in a bunch of VAR's, go through your needs and ask them to quote on a solution? And to echo others thoughts, manufacturers will obviously have an agenda, resellers will have

Re: Calculating SAN TCO?

Thanks Don, appreciate that. I have those points covered thankfully (at least with the vendors who have visited so far). I suspect I'll end up sat in front of Excel tomorrow trying to come up with some figures for some different change scenarios over 3-4 years between a couple of the key conte

Re: Calculating SAN TCO?

Oh I'm asking all of that and compiling numbers and making sure I have like for like costs for support, are license perpetual or model specific and so on, so I'd like to think I have all that covered. My question was more how you then "track" vendor A's figures against vendor B's figures for an

RE: Calculating SAN TCO?

Jonathan, relatively new yet but I know it's a bit of a sticking point and I've no intention of this being a "what SAN" thread, however the cheapest to buy isn't necessarily the cheapest over a longer term - that's what I'm asking, how the heck do you begin to try and work the long term costs ou

Calculating SAN TCO?

I'll hold my hands up to being a techie and not good at this sort of stuff. I'm looking at different SAN vendors, all of whom will essentially do what we need. There are differences i.e. frame vs. node based, and of course each vendor can show me a presentation that shows they are cheaper than

RE: W2K8R2 Core as external DNS server

Oh, I'm huge...oh wait... We considered that, and may end up doing it in the end, but our ISP wants to charge for changes to records. Which isn't a big deal...unless you do a lot of acquisitions, and we do. - WJR On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 09:12, Paul Hutchings wrote: Unless you're

RE: W2K8R2 Core as external DNS server

Unless you're huge or have hundreds of domains or a pressing need, isn't it going to be cheaper/simpler to just pay someone to host your external DNS? From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: 29 September 2010 14:36 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: W2K8R2 Core as

RE: SIS

ws Storage Server; not in normal Windows Server. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 8:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SIS Ke

RE: SIS

Keep in mind Netapp does it at block whilst I think (could be dead wrong) Windows SIS does it at file level. From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: 29 September 2010 13:41 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SIS Looking for thoughts and opinions on enabling this on server 08 a

RE: Outbound firewall ports

Buy a box (Palo Alto Networks for example), generate a CA on it, install that CA on all your clients, turn on decryption on the Palo Alto and bobs your uncle, your staff visit https://www.xyz.com, the Palo Alto makes the connection, decrypts it, re-encrypyts it and presents it back to the client

RE: Outbound firewall ports

"Standard" will obviously vary, but for PC's (i.e. general usage) http/https/ftp and that's it. From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: 28 September 2010 18:56 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Outbound firewall ports Folks, Anyone have a list of the protocols/ports they allo

RE: Small server

I don't know that app so I don't know how good a candidate it is for virtualization, however, if you are thinking of putting ESXi on the box, make sure you look at the vSphere HCL and get something supported. Typically anything but the very entry level Dell and HP servers are going to be suppor

RE: vSphere Switch Config Query

Stacking is certainly an option. It's tied in with my question about active/active site configs and whilst I wouldn't want to skimp for the sakes of couple of switches, if you're putting a 10gbps link between sites unless you go nuts it seems you're kind of screwed even with a stack if the swit

vSphere Switch Config Query

Looking at vSphere and a bunch of options we don't currently use so I'm investigating switch config. Those of you that are using iSCSI storage, vMotion and Fault Tolerance, what sort of physical switch config are you using please? We're only talking a couple of hosts and somehow it seems like o

re: VNC for Windows 7?

Dameware Mini Remote is very good. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.su

RE: SANs/Sites - Who's doing Active/Active Failover?

teven On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Paul Hutchings wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n3VpfesM8A is a video of a live site failover using vSphere FT and HP/Lefthand P4000. I've been looking at SAN/storage options and had been thinking very much in terms of "Live" and "

SANs/Sites - Who's doing Active/Active Failover?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n3VpfesM8A is a video of a live site failover using vSphere FT and HP/Lefthand P4000. I've been looking at SAN/storage options and had been thinking very much in terms of "Live" and "Backup" sites. Our locations are around 3/4 of a mile apart linked by 1 or 1

RE: D/R and SAN

ch [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: 24 September 2010 17:20 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: D/R and SAN None. -Original Message- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 12:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject

RE: D/R and SAN

what backup software do you use? -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: 24 September 2010 16:51 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: D/R and SAN I appreciate all your input. I have decided to revisit my plan at a later date after I've gotten a be

RE: SAN question

John, this is what we do right now: Site A 2 x ESX hosts into a SAN. Site B 1 x Windows 2003 physical host a long way away with gig Ethernet between both, it has a bunch of disks attached and an LTO autoloader. 1 x ESX host. At sites A and B the ESX hosts run esXpress (from PHD virtual). What h

RE: SAN question

For testing do you even need to bother with RAID (or rather spending the money just to have RAID for testing)? What I would do is try a P4000 VSA and something like the OpenFiler Virtual Appliance which can do NFS, CIFS or iSCSI then you'll have some hands-on with shared storage and you'll be a

RE: SAN question

Have a look at the ESX/ESXi HCL's and get something off there. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an e

RE: SAN question

ith intelligence to expand the storage or will I do better if I just get a 'dumb' tray of drives?" Questions like that are what is making this more difficult. -----Original Message- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 12

RE: SAN question

I still think the best thing you can do John is go buy a server. Get something entry level but half-decent, stick ESXi on it and just download and play with a shedload of storage virtual appliances. FreeNAS, OpenFilter, HP P4000 VSA, EMC Celerra to name but a few. I've actually just got back f

RE: Intel wants to charge to unlock features already on your CPU

#x27;m not in need of justification either. - WJR On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:45, Paul Hutchings wrote: If you think that warrants some of your comments so be it, personally I don't. From: William J. Robbins [mailto:dangerw...@gmail.com] Sent: 22 September 2010 18:42 To: NT System

RE: Intel wants to charge to unlock features already on your CPU

fair fight, your tactics suck." ____ From: "Paul Hutchings" Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:31:47 +0100 To: NT System Admin Issues ReplyTo: "NT System Admin Issues" Subject: RE: Intel wants to charge to unlock features already on your CPU You know I haven't

RE: Intel wants to charge to unlock features already on your CPU

You know I haven't been on this list too long but is this honestly what we want to see? If the guy's "wrong" he's wrong, big deal, life's a little too short to get too hung up on who's right out there on the internet. From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: 22 September

RE: Cheap/Free POP3/SMTP Server?

mails for you, I believe. Also, SpamCop.Net (webmail.spamcop.net) will host your email for about $25/year/mailbox, I think... including spam / virus filtering and spam reporting, if you like. From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 11:04

RE: Leader in Encrypted FTP?

What do you actually want to be able to do? I ask as if it's "encrypted file transfer" between people at your company and external recipients, there are options beyond SFTP/FTPS etc. -Original Message- From: itli...@imcu.com [mailto:itli...@imcu.com] Sent: 20 September 2010 14:03 To: NT

RE: Cheap/Free POP3/SMTP Server?

System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Cheap/Free POP3/SMTP Server? On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Paul Hutchings wrote: > Any suggestions on anything else that is cheap/free and easy to configure? Linux? :) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'

RE: Juniper VPN Tunnel Query

told me so, but IMNSHO it's at least worth a try. Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 10:11 AM To:

RE: Juniper VPN Tunnel Query

RE: Juniper VPN Tunnel Query Are you at the remote 192.168.x.x site ? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Friday, September 17, 201

RE: Juniper VPN Tunnel Query

an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 9:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Juniper VPN Tunnel Query In Juniper terms it's setup as a route based VPN exactly as per Chapter

RE: Juniper VPN Tunnel Query

s to access the main site from the remote site ??? How is the original VPN rule setup ? Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Friday,

RE: Juniper VPN Tunnel Query

going process, not a one time event ! ' From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 7:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Juniper VPN Tunnel Query I'm testing a VPN tunnel between what will be two sites. I have the tunnel working j

RE: Juniper VPN Tunnel Query

IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 7:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Juniper VPN Tunnel Query I'm t

Juniper VPN Tunnel Query

I'm testing a VPN tunnel between what will be two sites. I have the tunnel working just fine between Site A and Site B using a route based VPN, however what I want to do is configure it so that in Site B any traffic for 0.0.0.0 goes over the tunnel so it goes out to the Internet via our main fi

RE: #*&$&% "Security Tools" Malware

Security Tools" Malware So I would replace the ISP's DNS servers in my DCs with ClearCloud's DNS servers, and continue to let the client machines contact the DCs for DNS, right? -Original Message- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, Sep

RE: #*&$&% "Security Tools" Malware

Woah don't do that. You want your AD DNS so that clients point to your domain controllers/AD DNS servers and your DNS servers either use Sunbelt as forwarders, or root hints. Alex, ignoring the IP addresses are those boxes on anycast or something? -Original Message- From: John Aldrich

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