Re: Tool to simulate a poor network connection?

I 've used Shunra some years ago. Worked great for me. http://www.shunra.com/projects/satellite-network-testing On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Derrenbacker, L. Jonathan < jderrenbac...@kshgs.com> wrote: > I see there are a few tools out there, but curious if anyone know which > ones work the b

OT - Triple Monitor Setup

Hello Everyone, I'm looking into building a new PC for my home office and I'm contemplating a triple monitor setup. I would like to have a single desktop across 3 monitors (probably 24"). That way I could have an RDP session to my lab on 1, create/edit docs on the 2nd and surf/email/media on the 3

Re: Having 3 TV's / Flat screens showing Airport like info.

This should do the trick for about $20. http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=101&cp_id=10104&cs_id=1010402&p_id=3570&seq=1&format=2 On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Stefan Jafs wrote: > The company would like to have a spreadsheet showing on 3 screens about 50" > screens, this is a

Re: OT - SCCM contractors in the Chicago area

You might want to take a look at http://www.intrinsic.net/packaging/ Mark On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Al Lilianstrom wrote: > Does anyone out there have any leads for a SCCM contractor in the Chicago > area? Short term op (under 6 months) for someone experienced in packaging > software for

Re: W2K8 R2 failing to backup to external USB HD

> > *John W. Cook* > > *System Administrator* > > *Partnership For Strong Families* > > *5950 NW 1st Place* > > *Gainesville, Fl 32607* > > *Office (352) 244-1610* > > *Cell (352) 215-6944* > > *MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, V

Re: W2K8 R2 failing to backup to external USB HD

sville, Fl 32607* > > *Office (352) 244-1610* > > *Cell (352) 215-6944* > > *MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, VSP**4, VTSP4* > > ** ** > > *From:* Mark Smith [mailto:winsysad...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Monday, June 20, 2011 11:35 AM > *To:* NT Sy

W2K8 R2 failing to backup to external USB HD

I have 2 servers at home running W2K8 R2. 1 has a 3TB Buffalo Ext USB connected to it and the other has 3TB WD My Book Ext USB connected. I try having the built-in Windows Backup software backup each server to it's connected USB drive. Both servers fail with the error: The backup operation that sta

Virtual Routing and Hyper-V

Hi All, I have a small server running Server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V and RRAS (NAT & Routing options) roles installed. My server has 2 physical NICS. I'm trying to create multiple subnets and have the VM's on all the subnets communicate. So I've created 5 virtual networks (subnets) within Hyper-V

Re: Recommendations - Laptop for Virtualization

count. You can use an ultrabay adapter > to replace DVD drive with a hard drive. > > Bill > > Mark Smith wrote: > >> Hi All, >> I need to purchase a laptop to run a virtualized test environment on. >> So it will need a CPU that supports VT of course. I'

Recommendations - Laptop for Virtualization

Hi All, I need to purchase a laptop to run a virtualized test environment on. So it will need a CPU that supports VT of course. I'm thinking quad core would be best to handle the VM load. I'd like to have the option of running an SSD for the primary drive and a large SATA drive for storage. I'm ha

Re: Computer Ghost Imaging software taking 5 hours to image to Portable USB Drive

Why not attach the USB drive directly to the PC your imaging? Would be simpler and eliminate the network as a potential bottleneck IMHO. Also, I've found Acronis to be much faster than Ghost 11.5, in my experience. On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Darin McHenry wrote: > I know this is a little

24 port SAS RAID 6 Card?

Hello Everyone, I'm thinking of building a storage server for a test environment. So performance and availability don't have to be the best. I'm considering this case http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811219038&cm_re=24_bay_case-_-11-219-038-_-Product Trying to keep the costs d

USB Drive not showing in XP

A friend replaced the hard drive in his PC. The Old drive was C:, CD Drive was D: and external USB Drive was E: Now he has new drive partitioned as C: and E:, CD Drive is D and external USB does not show in Explorer, Disk Management or Device Manager. E: is the boot drive and so I am unable to chan

Folder transfer over WAN via BITS???

Happy Friday Everyone, I have been asked to transfer a folder from 1 Windows 2003 server to another Windows 2003 server over a WAN link. This will be done weekly. The client would like to use BITS and have the copy 'trickle' over a long period of time so as not to saturate the WAN link. The only M

Re: Anal?

I think you've contacted the wrong 'group' buddy. - lol On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 1:33 AM, Santino Codispoti < santino.codisp...@yahoo.com> wrote: > What does the group feel about > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~

Re: OT: TechNet Pro

Very funny. Been there done that. Just thought someone on the list might have a better code than I could find online. On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Sean Martin wrote: > http://tinyurl.com/2768f9w > > > - Sean > > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Mark Smith wrote: &

OT: TechNet Pro

Hello Everyone, Hope you all had a great Christmas. I'm looking to purchase a TechNet Pro subscription. Does anyone know of any promo codes? Thanks, Mark ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~ --- To man

Re: Printers

+1 On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Brian Desmond wrote: > *Also a lot of times this works way better if you do the x86 driver > upload from an x86 box. Go to \\printserver and click printers/faxes, then > right click and Server Properties and you can push the drivers up remotely. > * > > * * >

Re: Malwarebytes 1.50 is available

Does anyone know of a script that can update and run scheduled scans of the free version? On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr < michealespin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > -- > ME2 > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~

Re: Best HD Config for Home Server/Workstation???

ociates, PA* > *jra...@eaglemds.com* > *www.eaglemds.com > ------ > > *From:* Mark Smith [mailto:winsysad...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, November 04, 2010 2:09 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* OT: Best HD Config for Home Server/Workstat

OT: Best HD Config for Home Server/Workstation???

I'm looking at building a server/workstation for home. Workload will mostly be Hyper-V and movie editing. Would like suggestions on best bang-for-the-buck disk subsystem. Such as single SSD or RAID 0 SSD's for OS and single SATA or RAID 0 SATA's for storage? M/B I'm looking at has 6 SATA II connect

Re: OT - Creating deployment media with menu choice of OS, etc.

gt; http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/dd407791.aspx > > On 9 September 2010 19:40, Mark Smith wrote: > > I would like to create bootable media (probably external USB drive) that > would present a menu to select a flavor of Windows OS to install as well as >

OT - Creating deployment media with menu choice of OS, etc.

I would like to create bootable media (probably external USB drive) that would present a menu to select a flavor of Windows OS to install as well as which applications to install, such as MS Office, AntiVirus, etc. Then once selected, would perform an unattended install. Looking for ideas on the ea

Re: iSCSI and shared volumes

ve ESX soo much, don’t have to worry about M$ shared volume issues >> with failover of VM’s and accessing .VMDK and .VMX files from the same >> volume, updating them and likewise. >> >> >> >> Z >> >> >> >> Edward E. Ziots >> >> CISSP, Netwo

iSCSI and shared volumes

I have a few 2008 R2 servers that are stand alone (not clustered) Hyper-V hosts. They are connected via iSCSI to a single 5TB volume on a DELL/Equallogic PE6000 iSCSI target. The idea is to have the VM's for all the Hyper-V hosts in one volume on the PE6000 and have all the hosts access that same v

Re: Programatic way to uninstall patches on 2008 Server???

I now have this working. I used the 'start /w pkgmgr /up:' command from KB940410 and found the package names for the kb's in the C:\Windows\Servicing folder on one of the 2008 servers. Thanks! - Mark On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Christopher Bodnar < christopher_bod...@glic.com> wrote: > Take

Programatic way to uninstall patches on 2008 Server???

Hello Everyone, I'm looking for a way (script, batch, etc.) to be able to uninstall a Microsoft update patch(es) from Windows 2008 servers. Thanks, Mark ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

Re: Remote Desktop Management for School Environment

You should take a look at NetSupport Manager. http://www.netsupportmanager.com/ I've used this in the past and was impressed with it's performance and capabilities. I believe it will do what you want and a whole lot more. I'm not sure what pricing is like though... On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:54 PM

Re: "Professional" NetBooks?

I had a Lenovo X series tablet with a 12" screen. Was very portable, but still powerfull. Would definitely recommend it. On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Carol Fee wrote: > I looked into this a while back and asked the list. The consensus seemed > to be that they are really not fully busine

Re: Windows 7 question

I suggest they use a gadget. Here's a link to a good one. http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=dd868ac7-d4bc-4e0a-ac5b-acda3fe0264a&bt=1&pl=1 On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:59 AM, John Aldrich wrote: > One of my users got a Windows 7 Netbook and said it wouldn’t let her put > any shortcut

SQL 2005&2008 32&64bit on same cluster?

We have a 2003 server 2 node cluster running SQL 2005 32&64bit & SQL 2008 32&64bit. Anyone else doing this? Does anyone know if this configuration is supported by Microsoft? I can't seem to find anything official on the web... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: Increase C: on server

on utility did you use? > > > ------ > *From:* Mark Smith [mailto:winsysad...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 02, 2010 9:39 AM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Increase C: on server > > Take a look at http://www.hirensbootcd.net/ > It's free

Re: Increase C: on server

of E: in the near future, so if I > could take some space from E and move it to C that would be fine. > Little nervous being the system partition though. I'll check out Acronis > Disk Director... know of any free alternatives? > Thx > > > >

Re: Increase C: on server

IMO, cheapest, easiest would be to use a disk partitioning util to increase the size of your C drive by taking some of the free space from E drive. I like Acronis Disk Director, but there are many to choose from. Back up your C drive first, just to be safe. On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:46 AM, David Ma

Re: How to locate/delete DNS A record???

ation Technology > > 2221 University Ave SE #400 > > Minneapolis, MN 55414 > > Office: (612) 625-0961 > > Email: waltonen(at)umn.edu > > > > > > > > *From:* bounce-8824640-8243...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto: > bounce-8824640-8243...@

Re: How to locate/delete DNS A record???

Yes, I've tried that with no luck. Thanks for the suggestion though. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Terry Dickson wrote: > Did you try the ipconfig /flushdns > > > > > > *From:* Mark Smith [mailto:winsysad...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:

How to locate/delete DNS A record???

Hello Everyone. I have a W2K3 Domain in my test environment. I have a member server that I joined to the domain with the wrong IP address. Now pinging the server or running NSLOOKUP replies with the wrong IP. I changed the IP on the server and tried IPCONFIG /REGISTERDNS but I receive an error in t

Re: SMS 2003 Query for IIS Version????

Did you already check myITforum.com for a ready-made query? > > > > *From:* Mark Smith [mailto:winsysad...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 20, 2009 9:45 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* SMS 2003 Query for IIS Version > > > > Hi All, > >

SMS 2003 Query for IIS Version????

Hi All, I need to query SMS to find servers running FTP and what version of IIS is installed. Thanks in advance for your help! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

RE: Backup - recommendation please?

Yes, LiveVault is what you are looking for. Real time backup. http://vs46311.server-store.com/store/page.inetstore?id=3 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: September 28, 2001 9:04 A

RE: [LIST ADMIN MESSAGE] NY ATTACK

Don, I certainly hope you are not suggesting that all Canadians are ignorant. I am Canadian and take offence to you stereotyping a complete country. As for the events that have taken place in the U.S., I have been watching in shock and horror. My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone who has b

RE: Backup

http://www.duncanamps.com/disk2disk/ -Original Message- From: Bigll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: September 12, 2001 1:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Backup I'm looking for backup program, which would work with CDR as a device. I need to run daily backup for small office (