RE: Need opinion on Blade Servers

2008-04-22 Thread NTSysAdmin
] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 7:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Need opinion on Blade Servers At the price a 3 server ESX license can be got for now, (less than the price of a mid range server), it makes a lot of sense to go the ESX route. Learning curve

RE: Need opinion on Blade Servers

2008-04-22 Thread NTSysAdmin
I had the same issue with our largest vendor. I asked them why not and they couldn't give me a good enough reason. We informed them that as we were moving to a totally virtual infrastructure with ESX, that we would have to change vendors. Lo and behold, same afternoon we received a call from

RE: ISA 2004 LOGGING

2008-04-21 Thread NTSysAdmin
IE tries anonymous connections first. You can't stop that. What type of clents? SecureNat? FW client instaled? From: Chris Ruci [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 4:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: ISA 2004 LOGGING I just configured ISA 2004 and we are getting

RE: Hyper-v Networking

2008-04-17 Thread NTSysAdmin
Only for testing. Never put a live firewall in a VM. S From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 9:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hyper-v Networking Ken, I think I arrived at that last night, but I simply disabled the virtual NIC created

RE: Hyper-v Networking

2008-04-17 Thread NTSysAdmin
No problem then... From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 10:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hyper-v Networking Yea, it is a lab environment... jlc From: Steve Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin

RE: Naming convention for Servers

2008-04-14 Thread NTSysAdmin
He only needs 5 seconds :) -Original Message- From: Andy Crellin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 12:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Naming convention for Servers My point is, if he only has 29 seconds then you have mitigated that particular

RE: Autologon with a Ghost boot disk

2008-04-08 Thread NTSysAdmin
You need a username in there too S From: Bahm, Terry M. (HSC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 12:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Autologon with a Ghost boot disk Thanks for the reply. I think it got us going in the right direction but we're still

RE: SSL FTP Through ISA ?

2008-04-02 Thread NTSysAdmin
http://www.isaserver.org/articles/How_the_FTP_protocol_Challenges_Firewall_Security.html Scroll down, near to the end. Item 6 HTH S From: Kelsey, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 10:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SSL FTP Through ISA ? All you ISA gurus

RE: SSL FTP Through ISA ?

2008-04-02 Thread NTSysAdmin
Sorry, Item 5.. S From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 11:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SSL FTP Through ISA ? http://www.isaserver.org/articles/How_the_FTP_protocol_Challenges_Firewall_Security.html Scroll down

RE: MS eOpen website - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-04-02 Thread NTSysAdmin
hah..I had to wait 6 weeks for SBS media from them.never again... S From: Jesse Rink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 4:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MS eOpen website - [EMAIL PROTECTED] No... I don't have one. My customer is getting really upset.

RE: MS eOpen website - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-04-02 Thread NTSysAdmin
passport and download ISO's from there as well. I used to use eopen all the time, but for downloading I go there. From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 4:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MS eOpen website - [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Public TS - opinions?

2008-04-01 Thread NTSysAdmin
Tell that to Tim...:) S -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 6:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Public TS - opinions? But without a username, TSGrinder isn't going to get you anywhere. The builtin Administrator

RE: /3GB switch question

2008-03-28 Thread NTSysAdmin
That is probably related to the isalogs. There is a tool to detach the logs from ISA on isatools.org somewhere. S From: Todd Lemmiksoo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 1:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: /3GB switch question Because I am having memory resource

RE: Network drive mappings using Registry

2008-03-27 Thread NTSysAdmin
Map them manually and select reconnect at logon. S From: Rankin, James R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 8:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Network drive mappings using Registry Here's a rather ridiculous question I need an answer to for one PITA account - Is

RE: Network drive mappings using Registry

2008-03-27 Thread NTSysAdmin
that, I would be on a winner. These users have mandatory profiles. From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: 27 March 2008 11:28 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Network drive mappings using Registry Map them manually

RE: OT: Thursday Funny: Computer gender

2008-03-27 Thread NTSysAdmin
Seems to be a bit brain deadhe needs an offline defrag. S From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 2:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Thursday Funny: Computer gender Bro, what is it about OT Friday's that you dont seem to

RE: OT: Thursday Funny: Computer gender

2008-03-27 Thread NTSysAdmin
Cross posted too... From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 3:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: Thursday Funny: Computer gender Seems to be a bit brain deadhe needs an offline defrag. S From: Micheal Espinola Jr

RE: Favor - telnet

2008-03-27 Thread NTSysAdmin
Fine here S From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 6:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Favor - telnet Can someone please: telnet mx1.comcast.net 25 for me please and verify you get a response, so I can be assured that have not gone mad? Thanks!

RE: Thursday Funny

2008-03-27 Thread NTSysAdmin
Actually, you have offended many more people than Mr espinola. S From: Tom Strader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 6:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Thursday Funny Hail HITLER! This is for you Mr. Espinola... have a good day and enjoy what little is

RE: DNS Wildcard zones for malware protection

2008-03-18 Thread NTSysAdmin
Yeah, you can do it in ISA. I have some zipped block lists at www.isaserver.bmhttp://www.isaserver.bm S From: Tim Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 8:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: DNS Wildcard zones for malware protection I've been looking at

RE: Drive upgrade

2008-03-14 Thread NTSysAdmin
Works with any raid controller. From: Glen Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 9:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Drive upgrade There was some talk on here in the last week or two about upgrading drives in a raid array on a dell server. One procedure was to

RE: Stop WSUS updates

2008-03-12 Thread NTSysAdmin
The hubs will update over the t 1's then, only the main wsus should be using your internet connection and as I said, not a big download last night...10 mins max over a T1. At least that's how long mine took. S From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008

RE: IT Salary Survey

2008-03-10 Thread NTSysAdmin
25 years in this game. Always looked on it as a hobby with tremendous benefits. I have worked for Compaq, Digital, Experian, Gateway and a few others Now in Bermuda, got my own 3 man IT business since 2004 and we all earn in the high six figures, most of the time I work from my boat

RE: Exchange to blackberry synch service

2008-02-23 Thread NTSysAdmin
The phone's service contract provider should have one...or set it up on the= BB using blackberry's web page. S -Original Message- From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 5:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Exchange to blackberry synch

RE: Wiki for Windows

2008-02-23 Thread NTSysAdmin
I've been running them in tandem for yearsjust need to unpool the ip addresses. S -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 9:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wiki for Windows Err, Apache on Windows with

RE: Time oddity

2008-02-07 Thread NTSysAdmin
Net time /setsntp:servername S From: MarvinC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 4:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Time oddity I haven't come across a way to configure this to point to the correct server? Is it possible to manage this or should I somehow

RE: PPTP connections and lack of ping

2008-02-07 Thread NTSysAdmin
Were the SP's installed in the correct order. And were all the relevent SP's installed? S -Original Message- From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 4:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: PPTP connections and lack of ping I've got a

RE: Installing a Terminal Server

2008-01-29 Thread NTSysAdmin
the motion. Unless you know all drivers and apps work with x64. Mike Original Message: - From: Tom Strader [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:28:46 -0500 To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Installing a Terminal Server I would stay with x32 Jim. My 2

RE: P2P migration, now no USB on W2K

2008-01-27 Thread NTSysAdmin
VMWare doesn't support usb S From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 12:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: P2P migration, now no USB on W2K This is a W2K SP4 system: Just did a P2P migration using PowerConvert. Everything went fine but W2K

RE: IP Chimneys

2008-01-27 Thread NTSysAdmin
http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2008/01/03/more-issues-with-the-windows-server-2003-scalable-networking-pack.aspx S -Original Message- From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 3:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: IP

RE: Vista weirdness

2008-01-26 Thread NTSysAdmin
: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Per conto di NTSysAdmin Inviato: venerdì 25 gennaio 2008 13.53 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: Vista weirdness One of my sites has a weird issue with 3 Vista Business machines and printers. When browsing the network to find printers, they see none. When

Vista weirdness

2008-01-25 Thread NTSysAdmin
One of my sites has a weird issue with 3 Vista Business machines and printers. When browsing the network to find printers, they see none. When browsing AD they see the printers, but cannot connect. It's an SBS 2003 domain. All pc's are Domain members. They have no issues with anything else.

RE: topless or tube top

2008-01-25 Thread NTSysAdmin
Took a lot of spunk to write that!! -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 2:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: topless or tube top Sele = z -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Vista weirdness

2008-01-25 Thread NTSysAdmin
the printers. It is a separate process and has to be turned on. Jon On Jan 25, 2008 10:58 AM, NTSysAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Indeed... When browsing the network, all shares, etc are visible usable. The printer folder on the server, however, when viewed from

RE: Vista weirdness

2008-01-25 Thread NTSysAdmin
Subject: RE: Vista weirdness What about if you do \\servername from the run command box on the start menu, do all the shares and printers show up? Shook http://www.linkedin.com/in/andyshook From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent

RE: Vista weirdness

2008-01-25 Thread NTSysAdmin
25, 2008 11:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vista weirdness Have you tried disabling the firewall? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 10:52

RE: Vista weirdness

2008-01-25 Thread NTSysAdmin
software from a vendor running the Diagnosis and Repair usually fixes whatever the issue is. Jon On Jan 25, 2008 7:53 AM, NTSysAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of my sites has a weird issue with 3 Vista Business machines and printers. When browsing the network to find

RE: Use laptop as external kbd/monitor?

2008-01-25 Thread NTSysAdmin
IP KVM -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 5:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Use laptop as external kbd/monitor? On 25 Jan 2008 at 12:33, Mike Gill wrote: Out of curiosity, what can't you do via SSH? Lots

RE: OT Vista Media Center Problems

2008-01-22 Thread NTSysAdmin
No issues here with Nero 7. Vista Ultimate 64bit. S From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT Vista Media Center Problems Nero is bad mojo on Vista MCE Remove Nero and all of your problems will cease... On

RE: permissions problem

2008-01-20 Thread NTSysAdmin
DNS is a required service for Active Directory. You need to configure a windows DNS server and load your domain zone. S From: Len Hammond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 3:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: permissions problem Yes, I had checked those first

RE: permissions problem

2008-01-20 Thread NTSysAdmin
workstations built. On Jan 20, 2008 2:33 PM, NTSysAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DNS is a required service for Active Directory. You need to configure a windows DNS server and load your domain zone. S From: Len Hammond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Lucci Backup

2008-01-06 Thread NTSysAdmin
Cool. S From: Nitsan Reznik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 9:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Lucci Backup Hi Eveyone, Today From 16:30 Until 17:00 there'll be Full backup to Lucci system, therefore you should close LUCCI program proprely. Thank for

RE: SonicWall NAT'ing question

2007-12-31 Thread NTSysAdmin
that we've all done 100's times in the last 10 years. (My Gawd people, we *HAVE* been answering questions on this list for 10 *YEARS* We're getting old...) And it seems that you and I are taking that bait. From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Monday, December 31

RE: IIS PERMISIONS !!

2001-09-25 Thread !NTSysAdmin
]] Posted At: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 9:13 AM Posted To: NTSysAdmin Conversation: IIS PERMISIONS !! Subject: IIS PERMISIONS !! I have a website that has a message board. I have set permisions on the Hard Drive and on the MMC to allow read and write etc It still prompts to enter a password

RE: Question about Active Directory and Win 2k

2001-09-25 Thread !NTSysAdmin
Title: Question about Active Directory and Win 2k Assuming you mean change it to a Domain controller, as a stand alone server and member server are one in the same. You run DCPROMO.exe to promote a server to Domain controller and thus make it a member of active directory. To change roles

Terminal Service Software Installation

2001-09-25 Thread !NTSysAdmin
I have read in numerous places that you can install applications for multi-user mode using Add/Remove programs and selecting All users begin with common application settings on the Change User Option page. I do not see this option anywhere, on any server. All servers are Win2k, sp2 running

RE: New virus on the loose

2001-09-24 Thread ntsysadmin
Title: New virus on the loose I would like to see any file erase your harddrive.. Since I have enough problems writing software to up date half of Microsoft's DLL, because of Access violations!!! It may delete core files, but erase your harddrive? Never! -Original Message-From:

RE: IEAK again

2001-09-21 Thread SPTBG-NTsysadmin
UpdateEXPERT (formerly SPQuery): http://www.sunbelt-software.com/product.cfm?id=357 Gerald W. Gaston -Original Message- From: William Schwartz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 8:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IEAK again Steve; Do you have a

RE: Reporting Hackers?

2001-09-21 Thread ntsysadmin
I do when their are obvious about it. I busted someone from France trying to get into our FTP server by using some application that queried for known holes in FTP. I took the log and sent it to the ISP that he was using. -Original Message- From: Kim Kruse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: IIS with SQL?

2001-09-21 Thread ntsysadmin
Sounds like you need to change the DSN on the NT machine from NT authentication to SQL authentication. -Original Message- From: David James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 4:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IIS with SQL? It sounds like that

RE: Mac to PC

2001-09-12 Thread ntsysadmin
Get the book. This book has step by step instructions on how to do this. Mastering Windows NT 4. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0782126936/qid=1000312525/sr=1-1/ref= sc_b_1/002-2106894-2076060 Mastering Windows 2000 Server.

RE: DIRECTORY REPLICATION

2001-09-12 Thread !NTSysAdmin
Title: DIRECTORY REPLICATION It seems that if you use the /XF switch, i.e "robocopy C:\source d:\destination /mir /xf*.txt" the mirror will not copy or delete text files from the source or destination. Of course you can replace *.txt with any file, directory or wildcard. Not sure it that

RE: NewYork Terrorist Attack

2001-09-11 Thread ntsysadmin
Title: Message I say we need to level Bin Lauden's backyard and give the Ethiopians a new home. Save two for the price of one. US - Dallas Gavin -Original Message-From: Michael Plotsker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mikelist (E-mail)Sent: Tuesday, September 11,

Terrorist Attack

2001-09-11 Thread ntsysadmin
Title: RE: Everybody get back to work.. Stupid Terrorist waste us too mu ch t ime.. Let FBI take care it.. I was in the Marine Corp during the Gulf and I know what is going on through military minds right now. They were up and on a PT run before this happen. They were coming in about the

hack or virus?

2001-09-06 Thread ntsysadmin
We have someone that came to us about hosting a site for them. When we went to look at their site, before we moved it over to us, we found it wasn't what they had put on their site. http://www.e-z-learning.com is the site. Is this a hack or a virus? I have seen this before on someone's site

RE: NT 4.0 Scripting dilemma

2001-08-31 Thread ntsysadmin
Is this VBScript or what? I would do this, because it's easy to get confused with nested IF statements. Select Case False Case Len(Dir(c:\dir\file.1)) = 0 If MsgBox(Prompt, vbYesNo, title) = vbYes Then FileCopy Source, Distination Else FileCopy

RE: NT 4.0 Scripting dilemma

2001-08-31 Thread ntsysadmin
Here is something even more optimized (this is of course if the file names are like you displayed!): Dim bFound, i bFound = False For i = 1 To 3 If Len(Dir(c:\dir\file. i)) = 0 Then bFound = True If MsgBox(Prompt, vbYesNo, title) = vbYes Then

RE: New Accounts from ASP

2001-08-30 Thread ntsysadmin
Title: RE: New Accounts from ASP Thanx.. To be more specific here is what I found. Download ADSI for NT4: http://www.microsoft.com/NTWorkstation/downloads/Other/ADSI25.asp Code to create User (C++ and VB):

RE: Dell servers vs. Compaq

2001-08-30 Thread ntsysadmin
I don't know about Dell, but I know that Compaq has some awesome remote administration tools as well as some sweet objects for creating your own web stats. We have a website that goes and queries 2000+ servers and displays status information in 2 to 3 seconds. One of our NT Admins made this

RE: New Worm on the loose

2001-08-29 Thread ntsysadmin
Talking about worms, you guys want to hear something real funny. We have a SQL server that we didn't know a previous employee had put IIS5 on it. So we got hit by the code red virus. (there are no domains so we are unknowing how the hell codered found it!) Anyway one day I logged into SQL

New Accounts from ASP

2001-08-29 Thread ntsysadmin
Maybe a dumb question, but while I'm searching for it, I thought I would post to see if I get a response, before I find it. How do I go about creating new accounts on the fly from a web page? IIS4 and IIS5. I wrote a ATL DLL that could create accounts within NT, but when I try using it from

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