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

Do you do URL filtering? I work on the theory A/V should be the last line, stop them getting there in the first place. From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: 15 September 2010 17:20 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: #*&$&% "Security Tools" Malware The "Sec

RE: Resume's

Part of me thinks extra marks for effort - in a strange way it shows more time has gone into it than an email CV bombed to 20 different places. My own pet hate is people who send in Publisher documents. From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: 15 September 2010 15:48 To: NT

RE: LeftHand P4000

have any major issues with it. Scott On Sep 14, 2010, at 2:20 PM, "Paul Hutchings" wrote: Who's got one please? They are looking to be one of my shortlist right now for around 12-15tb usable storage. My concern is performance, n

RE: LeftHand P4000

Craig mind if I ask how you have your switches/ESX setup? I've been reading a few ESX/vSphere guides on multi-pathing and switch config and so forth. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~ --- To manage

LeftHand P4000

Who's got one please? They are looking to be one of my shortlist right now for around 12-15tb usable storage. My concern is performance, not that we need masses, approx 3000 IOPS maximum, I'm just a little wary of iSCSI as it seems (I don't have masses of direct experience) that even if you us

RE: Assistance with eMail footers

containing poor grammar? On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Paul Hutchings wrote: Who's going to do that though? this isn't aimed at Doug as I know what it's like trying to convince marketing folks that something is a really dumb idea, but honestly, if you received an email that had a

RE: Assistance with eMail footers

nes and then see the signature video? -sc From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 9:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Assistance with eMail footers Whilst on a personal note that sounds plain wrong as a default signature, h

RE: Assistance with eMail footers

Whilst on a personal note that sounds plain wrong as a default signature, have you informed them that you may find quite a few companies will actively quarantine/redirect/block mail with "multimedia" stuff on it? Also (and this is just curiosity not aimed at you personally) why would you choose

RE: SAN vendors

The full VSA isn't free. I guess it comes down to what level of redundancy you want. >From what you're saying it sounds like you run everything right now on a >couple of servers with direct-attached storage? If so, you could almost certainly run the whole lot on a single new server, still usin

RE: SAN vendors

a database. I talked to a Kerio rep last week and he assured me that having the mail store on a SAN is very well supported, so I have no qualms about that. Between redirecting people's "My Documents" folders to the network (and by that, I mean a SAN) and email, I expect to use up ½

RE: SAN vendors

John, what do you need? Capacity? Expansion? Features (now and potentially future)? Performance? From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: 13 September 2010 17:49 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SAN vendors Ok, I'm still in the market for a SAN. I got an IBM re

Helpdesk Software?

The software that our Help Desk use is reaching EOL and the vendor has quoted crazy money to upgrade to the latest and greatest, so I've been asked to take a look at what's about, and there's a lot about hence I'd appreciate any personal recommendations. Our list of requirements is pretty simpl

RE: Changing IE Home Page via Group Policy?

r is: User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Internet Explorer > Disable changing home page settings. Admittedly, I am not exactly sure if/how that affects additional home tabs. Bill Mayo From: Paul Hutchings

Changing IE Home Page via Group Policy?

I know how to do this, but... does anyone know what combination of options I need in order to default our home page so it cannot be changed, but, allow users to add their own additional home tabs? Thanks. -- MIRA Ltd Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in Eng

RE: Storage Solutions

Obviously there's a point where size or speed or scalability means you have to "step up" but a DL185 should take various external disk enclosures and these days with 2tb SAS/SATA drives that's 24tb in a 3U cabinet - proviso's being that your RAID controller will handle the spindles etc. -Origi

RE: Google email for corporate use

The first thing I'd do before even looking at the technical stuff is read their terms of service. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: 08 September 2010 16:09 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Google email for corporate use Anyone here using Google for their cor

RE: Connection speed

The switch? The router NIC? Could be anything in theory, could just be an auto negotiation issue? From: HELP_PC [mailto:g...@enter.it] Sent: 08 September 2010 12:27 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Connection speed A customer has a fiber connection that download at 4.5mb/s if connec

RE: SAN Storage

ugh hardware all our software licenses are 100% included from now on, all we need now is extra hardware to expand if we needed. From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 11:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SAN Storage I'll have

RE: How big are your LUNs?

ssues Subject: RE: How big are your LUNs? Make sure your SAN vendor allows you to grow and shrink LUN's on the fly. Same with volumes. That way you can easily reallocate space. From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 9:00 AM To: NT Sy

RE: How big are your LUNs?

happen WAY too many times and explaining how you need to buy a new shelf of disk is not a fun convo with the CFO. From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 8:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: How big are your LUNs? As per my other thr

How big are your LUNs?

As per my other thread I'm looking at SAN vendors. Our main file server has around 8tb on it right now, spread across multiple "thick" LUNs of around 2tb each. Assuming we're going to be running Windows 2008 R2, what are people's opinions on provisioning storage to a file server as multiple sm

RE: SAN Storage

Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Paul Hutchings wrote: OK so I have pricing (albeit approximate) on Lefthand, Equallogic and Dell EMC, still waiting on Netapp. Anyone else care to throw any other vendors into the equation? I'm not c

RE: SAN Storage

line. From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: 31 August 2010 17:56 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SAN Storage Thanks Mark, have to admit I'd been mostly comparing the 16 disk Equallogic trays and the 8 or 12 disk Lefthand. In our case out IOPS profile

RE: sending large files

You could have a look at allardsoft as well. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: 01 September 2010 15:50 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: sending large files JPG files... L From: tony patton [mailto:tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com] Sent: Wednes

RE: sending large files

Accellion are very good. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: 01 September 2010 14:29 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: sending large files What solution do y'all use when you absolutely have to send large files? One of my regional sales managers sent out two 15

RE: SAN Storage

r change rate, retention policy, etc but there is a significant difference between the two. mark From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 4:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SAN Storage One of the things that concerns me about Leftha

RE: SAN Storage

feature licensing is expensive... FC connectivity for VMWare is cheaper on Dell/EMC, and for NAS connectivity, front-ending the EqualLogic boxes offer's more bang for the buck. -sc From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 12:17 PM To: NT S

RE: SAN Storage

relatively speaking the original units were pretty cheap. I'm getting pricing from CDW and a couple of local firms in the next few days, so I don't have a good guess on current pricing, but I'll bet it's still cheaper than the bigger players, in spite of the fact that HP bo

RE: SAN Storage

ing." I know that LeftHand and virtually everyone else I've talked to offers that feature on their SANs. From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 12:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SAN Storage Can you expand a little on &

RE: SAN Storage

Dell sourced EMC's for FC storage for our VM's. We are migrating away from NetApp primarily due to cost. We are spinning up EqualLogics as iSCSI targets for our file servers and backup-to-disk options. Is there something that makes you want to lean towards NFS as a mount technolog

RE: SAN Storage

a Compellent Unit and we couldn't be happier. With their Tiered Tech we were able to get less Fiber and more Sata shelf's which saved us a bundle. Compared to EMC the Setup / management was breeze. I Dmotion'ed all the VM's live and had Zero downtime from SAN to SAN.

RE: Recommendations web tracking

It depends on exactly what you want to achieve. As other have said, OpenDNS is free and does some basic filtering. Moving up a bit, a Juniper (and I'm sure Cisco/Fortinet/Checkpoint etc.) firewall can log all traffic and has a very cheap option to add commercial grade URL filtering, but it wil

RE: SAN Storage

ch the software\licensing costs as you compare solutions. As you license SAN protocols (NFS\CIFS\iSCSI, etc.) and features (replication...) the costs will climb. Also, I'm happy to refer you, or anyone, to a top-notch Dell channel VAR that I've worked with for about seven years.

SAN Storage

Looking for a little feedback folks. We've got a SAN replacement coming up in a few months. We're pretty much a vmware shop except where a service has to run on a physical server (IO cards etc.). The vendors I'm primarily looking at are Lefthand, Equallogic and Netapp, and possibly EMC sin

RE: Javacode Help again

Depends on the size/complexity but as starting points (assuming malware is the focus) if it's a small site maybe pay it a visit with PC's running several different virus scanners. If you have a backup of the folder/pages same thing but do a file scan. If your site has a SQL (or some other DB ba

RE: 2008 DFS Question

r account need permission at? I have both the share and NTFS at 'everyone'. Isn't 'everyone' in fact everyone (including computer accounts) ? From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 1:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: 2008 DFS Question

I think you've answered your own question? To deploy software via GPO to the computer, the computer account needs to have access to the files, so as you said you need to do whatever you usually to assign permissions to a group that contains the computers (or use something like Domain Computers).

RE: Calendar for resources

We just use Exchange with the AutoAccept agent, people send them meeting requests and they reply automatically as appropriate. I've seen various commercial offerings that seem to "glue" things together i.e. you want to book a meeting room but if you use Room X you need to ensure you book a proj

RE: Finding unused/dead groups?

I never would have thought of that - I should be able to use admodify to bulk hide the groups from the GAL. Be interested in any other options simply as it's always good to know there's more than one way to skin a cat, but that sounds like a plan so thanks for that Brian. Michael - A typical e

Finding unused/dead groups?

Is there a recommended way to determine which groups (be it Domain Local or Global) are still in active use in a given domain? Ideal world Microsoft would give groups a "disable" property, but since there isn't, other than at some point hitting "Delete" and waiting for the phone to ring there d

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