Re: ALERT : NTSYSADMIN LIST MIGRATION

2013-05-04 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I never got the "separate message" as well, so I assumed this was spam. Is the list actually being shut down? On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Phil Hershey wrote: > Stu, > > ** ** > > Never got a thing. I did just see your message about problems with Google > Groups, so now I don’t have a

PKI big picture?

2012-08-23 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I want to use PKI for SCCM 2012, and it's a nice to have for other servers. QUESTION: If I were to purchase a certificate from an outside trusted vendor like Verisign, could I skip the internal Enterprise server CA and import the purchased certificate directly to my SCCM server? >From what I hav

Re: PC power management

2012-04-12 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I use SCCM, but I've done all of this with free products, it just depends on how automated you'd like to get with it. shut down PCs after inactivity, Shutdown Screensaver (configure local or delivery via almost any management product) starting at a certain time of the day, BIOS settings to

Re: Training for Unix Support?

2012-01-30 Thread Stephen Wimberly
Thank you for all the comments. I have started playing with CentOS in our virtual environment. I feel badly continuing this in an NT support list, is there a good list for *nix support? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: Training for Unix Support?

2012-01-27 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I believe I have everyone talked out of the entire idea of "in house" hosting. As it turns out, this came up only because one client had a desire to use a particular template that just doesn't work on a Windows based web server. It looks like that one client's site will be hosted elsewhere. I st

Re: Training for Unix Support?

2012-01-27 Thread Stephen Wimberly
Flavor?  Our web developer wants to host a web site "in house" rather than with shared Unix hosting. When I asked what flavor he wants to use, he asked me!  He even suggested that I download and learn a free one like CenOS and then we purchase an Enterprise one like Red Hat or SUSE Linux Enterpris

Training for Unix Support?

2012-01-26 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I have supported Microsoft products since 1992. I am now being asked to support our first Unix box. Aside from the occasional install to play around, I have ZERO Unix exposure. What training would you request from an employer that wants me to branch out into Unix support? Thank you ~ Finally,

Re: Need a free ping monitor with email notification for a handful of devices

2011-08-17 Thread Stephen Wimberly
Servers Alive used to monitor 10 for free http://www.woodstone.nu/salive/features.php ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/rea

Re: RAID1 moved to new System Board

2011-06-12 Thread Stephen Wimberly
Thanks for all the feedback, I eventually found my way to testkit. (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk) which was able to open the 'invalid' drive and modify the metadata! Applying the new values allowed the drive to show up as a standard basic disk after restart. ~ Finally, powerful endpoin

RAID1 moved to new System Board

2011-06-11 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I had an old computer with a hardware RAID1 data disk. My system board died and I am moving the two physical disks to a new system board. The RAID setup on the new board is different and does not recognize the two disks. So my new system (Windows 7 Home Premium Edition) has two physical disks li

www.DomainName.com

2011-05-05 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I have a Windows domain that someone named "company.com" Now they have a web site called "company.com" which no one in the company can get to! Aside from the fact that the windows domain should never have been set up this way, is there a way to keep the existing DNS entries for Active Directory A

Re: How do you deploy AV?

2011-02-18 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I use SCCM (SMS) to push SEP11 and monthly pull reports from Active Directory, SEP11 console, DNS Server WSUS and SCCM to ensure all machines are reporting. Pull all reports into Excel with a bunch of formulas to ensure they are current on each system. We have about 500 machines in this environme

Re: DFS for "private" folders?

2011-02-14 Thread Stephen Wimberly
That's a _huge_ "it depends." For example I have users in two domains, for one domain when I type "\\server\share\%username%" in ADUC and hit OK, then it creates the user's home directory 'automatically' with all appropriate permissions when the user logs in for the first time. I'm sure part of t

Re: SEP Symantec Endpoint Protection

2011-02-11 Thread Stephen Wimberly
We saw seriously slow installs when we had not removed the previous antivirus. We upgraded the servers from SAV 10 to SEP 11 and our expectation was that the install would upgrade the existing, which it did, but at a time cost. It was much faster to uninstall SAV10, restart and then install SEP 1

Re: DFS for "private" folders?

2011-02-11 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I have been using %username% in the path of DFS shares since Windows Server 2000 came out. Back then each volume could only have one DFS root share so it was a lengthy \\domain\share\userhome\%username%. In short the environment variable is resolved at the workstation and then sent to the server

Re: DNS latency

2011-01-31 Thread Stephen Wimberly
Thanks gang! A couple of those tools were _exactly_ what I needed! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or sen

DNS latency

2011-01-29 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I have an Active Directory domain, which means I have my own DNS environment. For any name resolution that is not in my domain, my DNS server must pass the request up to our ISP for resolution. Is there a way to measure how long the added delay might be to gain a reply? In other words how much f

Re: AD Migration from 2003 to 2008

2011-01-27 Thread Stephen Wimberly
Make sure you have DVD drives! We did an in place upgrade of all our domain controllers to get the fine grained password policies; recently one of the domain controllers hosed up and the repair from the DVD would have been a very helpful utility, but without a DVD ROM in the server we were left to

Re: Installing SC OM2007 - SQL Server question

2011-01-04 Thread Stephen Wimberly
Going from memory I believe when you install SCOM with a SQL 2008 you need to create the database first, then install SCOM. I need to do this, but I've been putting it off! The migration we have to SQL 2008 has been pushed off several months so I'm not actively keeping up, but that might point yo

Re: RE: Redirect folders to network

2011-01-01 Thread Stephen Wimberly
ey are in a home folder or a > roaming profile folder. > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Jeffrey and Mary Jane Harris > > VIPCS > > > > _ > > From: Stephen Wimberly [mailto:riverside...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, December 31, 2010 1:31 PM > T

Re: Redirect folders to network

2010-12-31 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I love both roaming profiles and folder redirection, but have been burned by offline files in the past (Windows 2000 server and pro) and just don't want to go there again even though improvements have been made! We like the Keep It Simple principal, we redirect the My Documents folder to the user'

Re: document sprawl

2010-12-03 Thread Stephen Wimberly
> Me too. When I arrived here eight years ago, we had 32 gigs of data. Now we > have over 2 TBs... > > Just buy larger servers... > > -Original Message- > From: Stephen Wimberly [mailto:swimbe...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 12:17 PM > To: NT S

Re: document sprawl

2010-12-03 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I have attempted to tackle this issue before, I like to call it "encourage spring cleaning!" but my words always seem to fall on deaf ears. Lately every time I bring it up we end up buying more hard drives for the server! I give up. Maybe I'm just too cheap? On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:50 AM, J

Re: Carpet

2010-12-02 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I suddenly find that my job sounds dull and boring! (Education, but then again there is eye candy here at times ;) I should mention it's College Education before anyone starts to call me names!) On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 7:22 AM, James Kerr wrote: > No, nothing that exciting, I work for a health c

Re: 2008 R2 RDS (was Terminal Server)in DMZ to 2K3 DC in LAN

2010-12-02 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I have servers and workstations in three areas separated by firewalls. Instead of "making swiss cheese" of the firewall I have always used IPSEC for any Domain Controller connection, this way all the authentication between the box in the DMZ and the domain controller is over port 500 rather than 1

Re: Random poll: GPO count

2010-11-05 Thread Stephen Wimberly
ight be any performance hit from this. > > On 5 November 2010 12:22, Stephen Wimberly wrote: >> >> We did the same kind of thing a while back, but a different point of >> view.  We wanted to limit the number of objects that a particular >> computer would run, we did com

Re: User last login info

2010-11-05 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I thought the last login date was sent to the domain controller running the role "PDC"? I have always used the csvde.exe from the resource kit as: csvde.exe -r "(&(objectCategory=Person)(objectClass=User))" -p Subtree -f C:\path\to\file.csv Then open the csv in Excel and use a formula to convert

Re: Random poll: GPO count

2010-11-05 Thread Stephen Wimberly
We did the same kind of thing a while back, but a different point of view. We wanted to limit the number of objects that a particular computer would run, we did combine some policies but we also used security filtering to limit the number of objects that a particular computer would run. For examp

Re: Patch Management

2010-11-01 Thread Stephen Wimberly
WSUS and SCCM 2007. We can't beat the license agreement our company has! On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Brumbaugh, Luke wrote: > Now that I have figured out how to update adobe. > > My next question is what do you guys use for patch management. > > > > What do you think of EminentWare for wsu

Re: Map drive across domains & forests via Windows XP

2010-10-27 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I'm sure I've left out other very important details, but in short each user has an active account in both domains, the local "divisional" domain and the "enterprise" domain. User accounts are utilized for different applications. At times it would b nice to have drives mapped to shares in each dom

Re: Map drive across domains & forests via Windows XP

2010-10-27 Thread Stephen Wimberly
gt; > On 27 October 2010 13:40, Stephen Wimberly wrote: >> >> I have never seen much stability when I map a network drive from a >> Windows XP box in one Active Directory domain to a file share in >> another Active Directory domain when the two domains are in diff

Map drive across domains & forests via Windows XP

2010-10-27 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I have never seen much stability when I map a network drive from a Windows XP box in one Active Directory domain to a file share in another Active Directory domain when the two domains are in different forests and there is no trust relationship between the two domains. At some point the drive shows

Re: WSUS and non public patches

2010-10-26 Thread Stephen Wimberly
Apparently either System Center Configuration Manager 2007 or System Center Essentials 2007 are required. I found one page that talks about the API requirement (it's not just licensing, there are SCCM or SCE files used by SCUP) and I have found a good many pages that talk about deploying with SCCM

Re: Deploying Printers via GPO

2010-09-17 Thread Stephen Wimberly
10 9:38 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Deploying Printers via GPO > > If you come up with the article, please post.  This could be a huge problem > for us implementing W7 for student labs.  Don't think we've tried it yet. > > -Original Message

Re: Deploying Printers via GPO

2010-09-17 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I moved all our network printers to GPP with security groups as described above and love it! although now that we have started to deploy Windows 7 I find that it doesn't work on Windows 7. I don't have the article handy that explains why, but a word of caution to test your newly created GPP on so

Re: File Renaming Utility

2010-09-15 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I like http://www.fauland.com/af5.htm. It isn't aimed at audio, just files. I use it for vacation pictures, to change the pictures to the nickname of the vacation. On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Manuel Santos wrote: > It's not that you *must* use powershell for everything, but sometimes, it

Re: Hyper-V and 'Default Gateway'

2010-08-03 Thread Stephen Wimberly
nnected *at the other > end* to a single switch port that needs to be connected to a single VLAN or > router interface. In that case, they need to be on the same subnet. > > Cheers > Ken > > -----Original Message- > From: Stephen Wimberly [mailto:swimbe...@gmail.com] &g

Re: Hyper-V and 'Default Gateway'

2010-07-30 Thread Stephen Wimberly
Thanks for the replies! Now I just need to beg our network team for addresses in the same subnet!!! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

Hyper-V and 'Default Gateway'

2010-07-30 Thread Stephen Wimberly
Is it possible to use a different default gateway on one Hyper-V guest than the Hyper-V host is using? What I have is a situation where we have multiple IP ranges within the "same network" meaning there is no router nor firewall between the different IP segments, but each IP subnet is different so

Re: DPM, SCCM AND SCOM on same box???

2010-05-17 Thread Stephen Wimberly
hose three together. > > Thanks, > Brian Desmond > br...@briandesmond.com > > c   - 312.731.3132 > > > -Original Message- > From: Stephen Wimberly [mailto:swimbe...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 10:13 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: DPM, SC

DPM, SCCM AND SCOM on same box???

2010-05-17 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I am pricing out a DPM box which we are likely to purchase. Dell R510 16 GB RAM 2 146GB RAID1 for OS 12 2TB RAID5 for database & storage pool The question is: Would you put SCCM and SCOM on the same box??? SCCM and SCOM would use a remote SQL server rather than the same internal storage. We hav

Re: KB974417 Patch Failures

2010-03-10 Thread Stephen Wimberly
On one workstation I did the complete set of instructions, uninstalled .Net, stopped the wuauclt service, removed the software distribution files, etc etc etc. Reinstalled .Net from the microsoft download site and then it wanted to install kb974417 again, and again failed. (I was working from a k

Re: Virtual Server Training?

2010-03-10 Thread Stephen Wimberly
3 PM, Erik Goldoff wrote: > So you thinking Hyper-V or vmWare ? > > > Erik Goldoff > IT  Consultant > Systems, Networks, & Security > > '  Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' > > > > -Original Message- > From: Stephen

Re: Virtual Server Training?

2010-03-10 Thread Stephen Wimberly
emi-local training on their product. > > Jon > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Stephen Wimberly > wrote: >> >> What training would you consider 'recommended' for a server admin >> going into virtual servers for the first time?  We have used Microsoft >

Virtual Server Training?

2010-03-10 Thread Stephen Wimberly
What training would you consider 'recommended' for a server admin going into virtual servers for the first time? We have used Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 before, but did not care for the setup. We are currently looking at a recommendation from Dell which covers two server host boxes, one storag

Re: GPO Best Practices

2010-01-20 Thread Stephen Wimberly
Servers and workstations "should" be in different OU's for a variety of reasons, GPO is one of the best reasons. We used to use restrictive groups for the local Administrators group, but yes this does delete all contents and replace with the contents of the GPO. If you have Server 2003 Domain con

Re: NET SEND?

2010-01-20 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I had a similar situation; all our workstations involved are still Windows XP and the service is still there, but is disabled by a service pack or security patch or something, I forget the details. In order to allow the old fashioned and insecure "net send" command I created a Group Policy Object

Re: FSRM Quota Email Notifications user is NT Authority/System???

2009-10-13 Thread Stephen Wimberly
though that if it's working for a single user, it works every time; where if it's broken for a user it's broken every time a file is saved. What can cause the Event log to capture the wrong file owner??? TIA (Thanks In Advance!) On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Stephen Wimberly wro

Re: RSAT For windows 7 RC

2009-10-06 Thread Stephen Wimberly
Try this: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=7d2f6ad7-656b-4313-a005-4e344e43997d I saved this from my windows 7 x64 install and it's working just fine! On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Don Guyer wrote: > Jason, > > > > X86 or 64-bit? I’ll

FSRM Quota Email Notifications user is NT Authority/System???

2009-09-19 Thread Stephen Wimberly
We have been using the Quota system in Windows Server 2003 R2 FSRM and it's been working perfectly up until Thursday of this past week when we applied two updates via our WSUS server, "update Microsoft Silverlight 3.0.40723.0" and "update Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 update KB963707" and restar

Re: Windows 7

2009-08-21 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I am currently testing an interesting method based on this same thought process. Create a vb script on a file server; shared to the machine accounts only and named %computername%.vbs, which does nothing but import these registry entries. Assign the GPO to the machine account so that it runs at st

Re: Firefox 3.5 Silent Install.

2009-07-08 Thread Stephen Wimberly
arious Add-Ons. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming wrote: > On 5 Jul 2009 at 11:57, Stephen Wimberly wrote: > > > The NTT sounds great, but can a non-admin run it and upgrade any > > update??? > > No, you have to be admin to update any program exce

Re: Firefox 3.5 Silent Install.

2009-07-05 Thread Stephen Wimberly
The NTT sounds great, but can a non-admin run it and upgrade any update??? On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 3:07 AM, Angus Scott-Fleming wrote: > On 1 Jul 2009 at 11:04, Sam Cayze wrote: > > > Force Firefox extensions to work in the latest version > > > > When Firefox updates to a new version, some exte

Re: Firefox 3.5 Silent Install.

2009-06-30 Thread Stephen Wimberly
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Sam Cayze wrote: > Thanks! > > (A little fast on the deployment, aren't we? :) > > I'm liking it so far. Most all my extensions worked too. > > ------ > *From:* Stephen Wimberly [mailto:riverside...@gma

Firefox 3.5 Silent Install.

2009-06-30 Thread Stephen Wimberly
Mozilla changed the Silent install for FireFox 3.5. Now the switch is "-ms" rather than the old "/S" Just thought I'd pass that alone if you're like me you've been doing "/S" all morning! Now on to create my SMS package! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: Clone an OS/2 Disk

2009-06-10 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I have used Ghost to clone O/S 2 WARP HPFS drives MANY times, but this was over ten years ago... my current employer doesn't have much use for OS2, but my last employer was almost entirely os2! I can't imagine they would have done anything to kill the HPFS library within Ghost, but if it doesn't w

Re: NET SEND alternatives for Vista XP environment.

2009-05-13 Thread Stephen Wimberly
Nice idea, and if these were actual "users" that would work... although in this case we are sending messages to sales cashiers to a Point of Sale station. Yes, they are 'real people', but the level of expertise is not there to handle something as sophisticated as an instant messenger window. What

NET SEND alternatives for Vista XP environment.

2009-05-13 Thread Stephen Wimberly
Are there free alternatives to the old "NET SEND" command that could be sent from a Vista workstation to multiple Windows XP workstations such that a free form message could be displayed to the end user at the remote XP or Vista workstation? So far our only thought was a vbs script that could echo

Re: Adding users as Admins

2009-04-11 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I have done this in two ways: 1. GPO: There is a policy that will wipe out all current members of the Administrators Group and replace it with what you have in the GPO. Just be sure to include EVERYONE you would like listed, the local Administrators group even. I find this handy for machines tha

Re: File Server Security; Best Practice.

2009-04-01 Thread Stephen Wimberly
/user/etc. can gain access. > > Regards, > > Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP > My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael > Monitoring Exchange w/OpsMgr now available http://snurl.com/45ppf > > -- > *From:* Stephen

File Server Security; Best Practice.

2009-04-01 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I have two file servers, each Windows 2003 R2, and use DFS replication to keep the DFS shares in sync... I have a Windows Server 2003 R2 domain in a single domain forest. if that matters. I have always shared folders to a group and maintained the members of those groups to allow specific access.

Scripting: How to tell if login was cached or domain?

2009-02-05 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I have a script that I want to run, but only when the user login was cached. Is there a way to tell whether the current user login was cached or verified by a domain controller? I _thought_ I'd use the %logonserver% variable, but apparently it shows the domain controller that last authenticated th

RE: PKI Infrastructure / GPO Auto Enroll over Firewall fails.

2008-12-03 Thread Stephen Wimberly
he firewall. Jon On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Stephen Wimberly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have figured out how to get the auto-enroll working! YEAH! Although; when it comes to SCCM the site server seems to require the same "client" certificate as the actual 'client

RE: PKI Infrastructure / GPO Auto Enroll over Firewall fails.

2008-12-03 Thread Stephen Wimberly
ues Subject: RE: PKI Infrastructure / GPO Auto Enroll over Firewall fails. I'm glad to hear that you go it figured out. ...Tim > -Original Message----- > From: Stephen Wimberly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 10:47 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Su

RE: PKI Infrastructure / GPO Auto Enroll over Firewall fails.

2008-12-01 Thread Stephen Wimberly
It's always the simple stuff... I had forgotten to open the Windows Firewall to certsrv.exe on the sub CA. I now have auto enrollment working like a charm -Original Message- From: Stephen Wimberly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 8:57 AM To: NT S

RE: PKI Infrastructure / GPO Auto Enroll over Firewall fails.

2008-12-01 Thread Stephen Wimberly
e certificates - you only need it if you want to make changes to the templates of the certs that are issued. ...Tim > -Original Message- > From: Stephen Wimberly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2008 3:34 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subjec

RE: PKI Infrastructure / GPO Auto Enroll over Firewall fails.

2008-11-27 Thread Stephen Wimberly
cate templates and modify the defaults, you need windows enterprise for the intermediate CA that actually issues the certs. Our root CA is standard, but the intermediate CA is enterprise. ...Tim > -Original Message----- > From: Stephen Wimberly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesd

PKI Infrastructure / GPO Auto Enroll over Firewall fails.

2008-11-26 Thread Stephen Wimberly
The plan was to user our SQL Server (the only Enterprise level server we have) to issue the root CA, publish it to Active Directory and use GPO to push the computer certificate to the workstations. The plan _almost_ works The workstation fails on auto enrollment because it is sending out a re

RE: GPO settings for power management?

2008-09-18 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I have been using EZ GPO for years, just for turning off the monitor on Windows 2000 and Windows XP machines. Recently we have been using it to be a bit more aggressive, put the computer to sleep... my challenge was _not_ to turn off those computers that are used by users off campus for remote des

Computer GPO at startup over wireless?

2008-09-18 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I have some laptop and wireless workstations that are not on the network at the time the user logs on, but later once they get a desktop they can create a vpn which will give them full server access. At the time they boot up, they get a 'guest wireless' connection which does not allow them to o

RE: Local admins?

2008-08-28 Thread Stephen Wimberly
There are going to be times when custom software will require the installing user to be the one using it later. Right now Blackberry desktop is a pain for me. For those we've done this: 1. Create a GPO to modify the BUILTIN\Administrators group on the local workstations such that the local adm

RE: AV on *all* servers...or no?

2008-08-28 Thread Stephen Wimberly
I used to say no, not all servers, but I have been hit with virus/worms that infect via open ports rather than email or web browsing so now I'm more inclined to install AV on all servers. Yes it has to be configured a bit different on a server than a workstation, but that is more 'a cost of doing

RE: Disconnected on a schedule???

2008-08-14 Thread Stephen Wimberly
rn to PSS (and maybe sooner if there are still no leads). -Original Message- From: Stephen Wimberly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 11:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disconnected on a schedule??? Sorry I didn't make that clear, when this started we were r

RE: Disconnected on a schedule???

2008-08-06 Thread Stephen Wimberly
tml Looks like s/he had to disable the DFS Service altogether to get the problem to quit. Are you seeing anything in the DFS Replication event logs? I wonder if there's a way to turn up the logging on the service... -Bonnie -Original Message- From: Stephen Wimberly [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

RE: Disconnected on a schedule???

2008-08-06 Thread Stephen Wimberly
so far, which was in the process of being built/installed from scratch--haven't done any "live" systems--but the one I did went fine. -Original Message- From: Stephen Wimberly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: Disconnected on a schedule???

2008-07-29 Thread Stephen Wimberly
ll my data. That was not a fun day. I was current with patches (Netware) and firmware/bios updates. >>> "Stephen Wimberly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 7/24/2008 12:06 PM >>> Here is a twist! Today I was connected to the console of the file server at the very moment the p

RE: Disconnected on a schedule???

2008-07-24 Thread Stephen Wimberly
B traffic? If so, you could try to find what's causing it. -Original Message- From: Stephen Wimberly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 2:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disconnected on a schedule??? This just gets more fun... Our network team

RE: Disconnected on a schedule???

2008-07-22 Thread Stephen Wimberly
s failures. -Original Message----- From: Stephen Wimberly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 8:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disconnected on a schedule??? When we ping the file server and any server in the same network a 'normal' reply would be either

RE: Disconnected on a schedule???

2008-07-17 Thread Stephen Wimberly
imple like a Ping to that server to see if the Pings timeout, or are slower at the time of the slowdowns? Just might help to figure out if it is network related or not. -Original Message- From: Stephen Wimberly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 1:34 PM To: NT System

RE: Disconnected on a schedule???

2008-07-17 Thread Stephen Wimberly
riginal Message- From: Stephen Wimberly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 1:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disconnected on a schedule??? We will "un-team" in the next couple of days as a test; but keep in mind the SQL Server is teamed using the same NI

RE: Disconnected on a schedule???

2008-07-16 Thread Stephen Wimberly
ny software firewalls? -Original Message- From: Stephen Wimberly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 8:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disconnected on a schedule??? All the registry entries are as you have them Although; my "Broadcom BCM5708C NetXtreme

RE: Disconnected on a schedule???

2008-07-16 Thread Stephen Wimberly
rstand that can change it w/out needing a server reboot. -Bonnie -Original Message- From: Stephen Wimberly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 7:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Disconnected on a schedule??? Thanks Bonnie! The TCP Chimney options ar

RE: Disconnected on a schedule???

2008-07-16 Thread Stephen Wimberly
say this would happen like clockwork, have you already disabled the Chimney/SNP network options on those servers? -Bonnie From: Stephen Wimberly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 5:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Disconnected on a schedule??? We have wo

Disconnected on a schedule???

2008-07-16 Thread Stephen Wimberly
We have workstations that appear to be losing connection to the file share on the server at almost precise times, every six hours. 7 AM, 1 PM, 7 PM, 1 AM; Repeat. The event logs on the workstation and servers are clean, Domain controllers and file share server. So I assume the loss is not lon

RE: Can \\pc1\user has rights to \\pc2\share\folder1?

2008-06-23 Thread Stephen Wimberly
user has rights to \\pc2\share\folder1? Strange... What level AD are you running(2000, 2003?), and what OS for the PC1 desktop (2000, XP, Vista) ? You got me curious now, gotta try this in a lab or VM environment to see -----Original Message- From: Stephen Wimberly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Se

RE: Can \\pc1\user has rights to \\pc2\share\folder1?

2008-06-23 Thread Stephen Wimberly
locally to PC1 to check users and groups to see if anything has been changed or deleted ? -Original Message- From: Stephen Wimberly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 1:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Can \\pc1\user has rights to \\pc2\share\folder1? If I f

RE: Can \\pc1\user has rights to \\pc2\share\folder1?

2008-06-23 Thread Stephen Wimberly
re\folder1? H, could you not just make a group that has the required rights to the share, and then explicitly add the local user from PC1 to the group ? -Original Message----- From: Stephen Wimberly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 12:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issu

RE: Can \\pc1\user has rights to \\pc2\share\folder1?

2008-06-23 Thread Stephen Wimberly
m: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 12:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Can \\pc1\user has rights to \\pc2\share\folder1? Are you *sure* the user is part of the lcoal PC1 security and NOT part of the Domain logging in from PC1 ? -----Original Message-

RE: Can \\pc1\user has rights to \\pc2\share\folder1?

2008-06-23 Thread Stephen Wimberly
.. On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Stephen Wimberly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If I am on a computer, call it "\\pc1" and map a drive to \\SERVER1\share could I then right click a sub folder to the mapped drive, call it \\SERVER1\share\folder1 and look a

Can \\pc1\user has rights to \\pc2\share\folder1?

2008-06-23 Thread Stephen Wimberly
If I am on a computer, call it "\\pc1" and map a drive to \\SERVER1\share could I then right click a sub folder to the mapped drive, call it \\SERVER1\share\folder1 and look at the properties for the folder1, ADD a user or group and then click LOCATIONS to add local users from \\pc1, the computer I

RE: DRAC Issue

2008-06-05 Thread Stephen Wimberly
Not sure if this is relevant since my issue was a PE2650, not a PE2950... they are much different... but if it helps go for it. We had three PE2650 servers and one RAC was flakey from the start, called DELL several times to no avail. The resolution: Upgrade the DRAC firmware via a DOS boot diske

RE: SCOM log review??

2008-05-20 Thread Stephen Wimberly
ions to Server: only select ports are open and SNMP (161) is closed, so SNMP from workstation will be ignored at firewall. ====== Stephen Wimberly == -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

RE: Server Monitor: M$ SCOM or Servers Alive???

2008-05-20 Thread Stephen Wimberly
OM provide that "warm and fuzzy" feeling that the service is actually working like it should. ========== Stephen Wimberly == -Original Message- From: Rankin, James R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday

Server Monitor: M$ SCOM or Servers Alive???

2008-05-16 Thread Stephen Wimberly
We are looking into Server monitoring with the ability to notify us when certain services or applications fail. I have used Servers Alive before, it's inexpensive and fairly easy to configure. Although at the nonprofit higher educational institution I am at we get many Microsoft products at a sev

RE: Dell OMA SNMP community name

2008-02-29 Thread Stephen Wimberly
Related: Is there a way to install SNMP to a Windows XP workstation via GPO, MSI, EXE, etc? Seems each time I must manually configure it via Add/Remove Programs. == Stephen Wimberly == -Original Message

RE: Server room during a rain shower

2008-02-26 Thread Stephen Wimberly
, and everyone else who would not believe my text message! "The server has decided to take a shower, please send towels ASAP." ====== Stephen Wimberly == ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antiv

RE: Backup Exec 12

2008-02-22 Thread Stephen Wimberly
No worries, there is a thread on the support site. It's not updated with version 12 yet, but it will be eventually. I am in no hurry to upgrade ;) ====== Stephen Wimberly == -Original Message- From:

RE: Backup Exec 12

2008-02-21 Thread Stephen Wimberly
ailed." I have tried creating reports in the xml format and saving them to the local server, but this does not stop the error. Any idea if BE12 can backup a DFS share replicated via FSRM? What used to be FRS prior to R2. =====

DNS error 9002 attempting to load zone from Active Directory.

2008-02-05 Thread Stephen Wimberly
reconfigure my existing DNS zone as a flat file and not in the active directory am I going to have downtime or can I do this during "business hours?" (It seems that my "business hours" are actually between 4 AM and 3 AM and during

RE: Altiris, Zenworks, LANDesk, SMS...decisions decisions

2008-01-21 Thread Stephen Wimberly
bution and inventory all products seems rather similar. ====== Stephen Wimberly == -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 12:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

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