RE: SSL VPN options

2013-02-11 Thread Rick Berry
I don't disagree with the subsequent 'just use RAS' answers, but we have probably 30 ASA 55xx's in play across the USA and do similar things and don't really have issues. Nor do we have issues with the Sonicwalls that we have doing same thing ... hit a webpage, authenticate via AD, click on a l

RE: dell servers

2013-01-21 Thread Rick Berry
Poweredge 520/620/720 can all approximate that range of servers. We go through a lot of them, YMMV but we're happy with what we use and I prefer Dell support to HP support personally when it comes down to RMAs/issues. I think all of the Poweredge can come with the 'Internal SD Module' which is

RE: emergency sharepoint 2007 file dump?

2012-12-19 Thread Rick Berry
document libraries (and other supported lists). You can then cut-n-paste the lot out to a folder on your local disk. Cheers Ken -----Original Message- From: Rick Berry [mailto:rbe...@elevativenetworks.com] Sent: Wednesday, 19 December 2012 7:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: emergency sh

emergency sharepoint 2007 file dump?

2012-12-18 Thread Rick Berry
I'll preface this by saying it's all approved by legal entities involved ... Customer is declaring Chapter 7, yet has sharepoint information that needs to be dumped off to files and shared with a variety of stakeholders. I'm generalizing, but basically: http://sharepoint/sites/site1 document

RE: Looking for Insight on Registrars

2012-12-12 Thread Rick Berry
I also dislike GoDaddy. But if I'm going for *cheap* SSL, especially for UCC, then I'll invariably use www.certificatesforexchange.com which belongs to Simon Butler and which qualifies as a shameless (uncompensated) plug for his site ... which is a GoDaddy storefront. I love Digicert for SSL,

RE: Cisco ASA question

2012-11-13 Thread Rick Berry
If you’re just using it so their AD credentials are being referenced for AnyConnect/etc, it’s just a matter of changing the IPs in ASDM … highlight the AAA server group on the top that contains those old DCs and then add the new ones down below in the ‘servers in the selected group’ section (pre

RE: Church email

2012-10-25 Thread Rick Berry
That sounds like Google Apps. One of those Gmail accounts will be the 'admin'. You need to identify which one and get logged in as them, from there's it's kind of easy. It's probably the net admin's account, if he had one on their domain. From: itli...@imcu.com [mailto:itli...@imcu.com] Sent:

RE: semi-OT: installing hyper-v 2012 as Layer 1 on PERC based dell server

2012-09-06 Thread Rick Berry
riginal Message- From: Rick Berry [mailto:rbe...@elevativenetworks.com] Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2012 4:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: semi-OT: installing hyper-v 2012 as Layer 1 on PERC based dell server I have a lab PE R900 that used to run ESXi 4.x off a USB stick with 8x146G

RE: 30-second Flash Survey

2011-12-29 Thread Rick Berry
Sorry, but your 30-second flash survey exceeds my span of attention. -Original Message- From: Stu Sjouwerman [mailto:s...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 11:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: 30-second Flash Survey Hi, we have a very quick question for you

RE: RDS/TS and flash.

2011-12-12 Thread Rick Berry
Ninite.com ftw? From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 12:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: RDS/TS and flash. We do now. We need an Flash/Shockwave/Quicktime/Reader install specialist. :) From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]

RE: fake-out NetBIOS

2011-09-29 Thread Rick Berry
Lmhosts? Not even sure it still exists on 7, but I know to edit hosts you have to run cmd as administrator. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: fake-out NetBIOS How do I go about having a Windows client (XP

RE: Backup / Archive Replacement

2011-09-08 Thread Rick Berry
'what's the backup flavor of the month' = a loaded question! You're just looking to replace the software elements, and keep the media infrastructure? (disks and the LTO2 library) Or are you looking to improve on what you have at the same time (blowback image backups to VMs instead of bare metal

RE: When DNS for your ISP goes down...

2011-08-31 Thread Rick Berry
Dyndns ftw. www.dyndns.com Easydns also ftw, www.easydns.com From: Mike Sullivan [mailto:neog...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 11:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: When DNS for your ISP goes down... Yesterday I stayed home s

RE: Registering "keywords"

2010-11-24 Thread Rick Berry
IMHO it's just an extension of the fishing expeditions out of China/Hong Kong looking for cash. Tear it up, throw it away, and ignore it. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 8:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Sub

RE: Anyone use The Training Consortium for online training?

2010-02-10 Thread Rick Berry
not me, but i've used insidertraining.com which is similar. From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 3:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone use The Training Consortium for online training? Typoed the URL. ttclive.com _

RE: Bankofamerica.com

2010-01-29 Thread Rick Berry
it's been problematic for me from Virginia for last 2.5 hours i just presumed 'attack' From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 3:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Bankofamerica.com Seems to be fubar from here. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint securi

RE: HP to acquire 3com

2009-11-12 Thread Rick Berry
Patent portfolio has value, I'm certain. From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 5:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: HP to acquire 3com Meh. I'm not sure what the value proposition is. 3C509's and 3C905's were _THE_ nics back in the d

RE: Foxit Reader

2009-10-28 Thread Rick Berry
Foxit reader saves me a lot of pain in Windows TS2008. From: James Hill [mailto:james.h...@superamart.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Foxit Reader I was a bit late to the party with this one. This looks like quite a nice little Acrobat Reader

RE: Win 7 issue

2009-08-06 Thread Rick Berry
It's on msdn as well. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 1:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win 7 issue +1 From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 10:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win

RE: Favorite Tools

2009-08-03 Thread Rick Berry
Here's one of my favorites, heh. Torx too! (damn you HP) 20-in-1 Telescoping Magnetic Screwdriver http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0206265 From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:cbusitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 9:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Su

RE: Slightly OT Cisco ASA book recommendation

2009-06-22 Thread Rick Berry
Relatively new title on amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Cisco-Configuration-Networking-Professionals-Library/dp/0071622691/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245679733&sr=1-2 Richard Deal has written a ton of prior Cisco stuff. This one is brand-spanking-new I think, I have no insight on quality.

deny restart local policy?

2008-12-10 Thread Rick Berry
does the Local Policy/User Rights Assignment/Shut Down The System part of policy encompass a restart as well as shutdown? need to deny folks on a particular TS box that require local admin rights the ability to reboot it. i don't recall if explicit denial of "shut down the system" also means "y

RE: Stupid DNS question...

2008-10-09 Thread Rick Berry
Is it the exact same domain name inside and out? (mycompany.com is your AD domain AND your public domain, as opposed to mycompany.local vs. mycompany.com) I *think* if they're the same you're unable to do it. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, O

RE: ARGH! *** Hey Stu - can you remove this guy? ***

2008-09-12 Thread Rick Berry
Up until Nov 3rd too, that's just awesome. -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 9:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: ARGH! *** Hey Stu - can you remove this guy? *** We're not required to resend our email, but he's

OT: stupid kvm question

2008-06-11 Thread Rick Berry
are the dongles used with KVM-over-IP devices universal? for example, is it reasonable to think that a dell/belkin/avocent Cat5-to-ps2/vga/usb dongle from any vendor would function nominally in another vendor's device? i cannot ascertain if there's something baked into those puppies that is so

RE: capture users to timesheet automagically?

2008-05-29 Thread Rick Berry
as that is a whole other issue and technology cannot help you much there. -----Original Message- From: Rick Berry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 3:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: capture users to timesheet automagically? I have a need for some way to forcibly push p

capture users to timesheet automagically?

2008-05-28 Thread Rick Berry
I have a need for some way to forcibly push people onto their IE-based timesheet somewhat automagically ... basically, the finance folks want me to provide a mechanism by which they can capture the 'late' timesheet people and force them onto their timesheet prior to opening outlook/files/other w

RE: RapidSSL?

2008-04-04 Thread Rick Berry
Yes, I use RapidSSL for quick ssl, and they work great for Windows Mobile/Exchange environments because their root trusts are already baked into everything Microsoft (unlike godaddy, for example) I use Digicert for Exchange 2007, because they sell UCC certs that work for autodiscover/etc ... th

seeking corroboration, server 2008 std is SP1 already?

2008-03-24 Thread Rick Berry
I've just installed a shiny new pair of Windows Server 2008 x64 machines from VL media. Computer properties shows the OS as Service Pack 1 ... I found that strange. Can anyone here doublecheck their own new shiny 2008 and see if I'm just seeing things? curious, Rick ~ Upgrade to Next Genera

RE: Desktop/laptop backup solutions

2008-03-11 Thread Rick Berry
i love mozy pro as well, but they've just jacked prices way up. thanks EMC. From: Sam Cayze [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 9:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Desktop/laptop backup solutions I too use and love Mozy Pro on laptops that

RE: Bomgar remote control appliance

2008-03-06 Thread Rick Berry
We've owned one since the company was Network Streaming ... we love it. Does a fantastic job as a helpdesk tool ... easy on end users, we do a lot of our 'out of town exec' support through it. From: Eric E Eskam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 3:58 PM To: NT System Admi