RE: How do you deploy AV?

ditto From: John Hornbuckle [john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 8:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How do you deploy AV? We use Microsoft’s Forefront Client Security. It’s pushed down and updated via WSUS. No muss, no f

RE: How do you deploy AV?

11:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How do you deploy AV? How does the licensing costs of FCS compare to Vipre, do you know? BF From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 10:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How do you dep

RE: OT: Windows XP Mode Question

Oh come on. We're nerds. Details are interesting. From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 12:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: Windows XP Mode Question It's basically a configuration thing within the software. If you're logg

RE: How do you deploy AV?

If you're disconnected from the LAN, you'll still get updates direct from MS over the internet. Note the "Check for updates on Microsoft Update when WSUS is unavailable" option on the Advanced tab of the policy editor. From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Friday

RE: How do you deploy AV?

I've vetted them. From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 2:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How do you deploy AV? If you're disconnected from the LAN, you'll still get updates direct from MS over the internet. Note the &

RE: How do you deploy AV?

t is a great way to get on the net." - Bob Dole > > > > > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Bob Fronk wrote: >> How does the licensing costs of FCS compare to Vipre, do you know? >> >> >> >> BF >> >> >

RE: How do you deploy AV?

&version=HCSB :-) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 3:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How do you deploy AV? I woul

RE: RE: RE: Windows 2008 R2 - Default NTFS Permissions on new drive

I'm not familiar with %work%. Why do you surround it with percent signs? From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 9:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RE: RE: Windows 2008 R2 - Default NTFS Permissions on new drive Yes, we most certainly are. I

RE: RE: RE: Windows 2008 R2 - Default NTFS Permissions on new drive

em Admin Issues Subject: Re: RE: RE: Windows 2008 R2 - Default NTFS Permissions on new drive Expandable environment variable reference - basically it is populated with whatever your current job is On 21 February 2011 16:57, Crawford, Scott mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu>> wrote: I'm not famili

RE: Windows 2008 R2 - Default NTFS Permissions on new drive

Not quite. You can create a separate process with "explorer /separate". This works great in XP with runas for creating an explorer window under a different security context. It still works in Vista/7/2K8 to create a separate process, but it still gets created without admin group in the token.

RE: Dell battery replacement still giving warning

Counter? The battery physically degrades over time. If you're seeing decreased run time, the solution is a new battery. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 12:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell batte

RE: double hop RDP

Are you needing more than "Start/Windows Security" gives you? From: Kevin Lundy [mailto:klu...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 1:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: double hop RDP Success. That worked with the ctrl-alt-end combination. Thanks. Yes, Eric you are right, this

RE: Windows 2008 R2 - Default NTFS Permissions on new drive

Yeah, UAC and Explorer is a major pain. It's basically completely broken. Just like the OP, I have drives permissioned with only Administrators:F and System:F. When opening that drive, one would expect to get a UAC prompt, but none is to be found. I recently came across http://blogs.technet.com

RE: File Copier with GUI?

Dir /ad will return only directories. I agree - the For /F option is ideal here. If you want something a little more permanent, create a batch file with ---robo.bat For /F %%i in (DirectoriesToCopy.txt) do robocopy /mir %%i %1 ---robo.bat To use it, run dir /ad/b > Direc

RE: Windows 2008 R2 - Default NTFS Permissions on new drive

o slow to load. Explorer pops right up - subsecond. Explorer++ takes a couple of second - and I hate that. :-P Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 3:28 PM To: NT S

Re: Windows 2008 R2 - Default NTFS Permissions on new drive

.html > > > > Carl > > > > From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] > Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 1:24 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Windows 2008 R2 - Default NTFS Permissions on new drive > > > > Not quite. You can create a

RE: Windows 2008 R2 - Default NTFS Permissions on new drive

-Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 9:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 2008 R2 - Default NTFS Permissions on new drive Just kill explorer once - as soon as you log in. :) On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 18:17, Crawf

RE: Windows 2008 R2 - Default NTFS Permissions on new drive

ve letter for x:) explorer . If the cd /d worked, then the explorer . should also work and is now showing you the drive contents. If the cd /d failed, then either your cmd prompt is not elevated or there are other issues with that drive. Carl -Original Message- From: Crawford, Scott

RE: Windows 2008 R2 - Default NTFS Permissions on new drive

--Original Message----- From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 4:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 2008 R2 - Default NTFS Permissions on new drive Yeah, the cmd is elevated as demonstrated by your test, but explorer isn’t. Have you

RE: Windows 2008 R2 - Default NTFS Permissions on new drive

- as soon as you log in. :) On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 18:17, Crawford, Scott wrote: > Yeah, that definitely works, but killing explorer every time you want to > switch contexts gets tedious. You can kill it with task manager too for the > same effect. > > > > Sent from my Palm P

RE: Windows 7/2008R2 SP1 available

As I understand, when going through Windows Update, it doesn't have to download the bits that you may already have as part of previous patches. So, the more up to date you are, the smaller the download for SP1. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 201

Re: Dell battery replacement still giving warning

Cmon mon; that's uncalled for. Sent from my Palm Pre on the Now Network from Sprint On Feb 23, 2011 7:41 PM, Gary Slinger wrote: It absolutely blows my mind that someone employs you in any technical fashion whatsoever. -Original Message- From: "John

RE: Windows 2008 R2 Clustering, and SQL 2008

You may have missed the thread earlier about explorer and UAC. If so, let me sum up: Explorer and UAC is broken :) I don't want to miss a solution you may have so let me restate my test case: Create a drive permissioned at the root with ONLY Adminstrator:F and System:F Try and open said drive w

RE: Can you hear me now, Microsoft?

"Press control what?" :) Just saw this WP7 is coming to Sprint http://www.ppcgeeks.com/2010/10/11/new-wp7-device-coming-to-sprint-soon-hct-7-pro/ From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 12:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Can

RE: MSI deployment software

The -d switch on psexec causes it to run non-interactively so you could start the process on a bunch of machines at once. My preferred method by far is with group policy though. What seems heavy handed about it? The beauty is that you just apply it once and you're done. If you add a new machine

RE: MSI deployment software

You can also wrap a legacy install inside of an MSI. That would allow you to do your command line install with GPO. -Original Message- From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 12:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MSI deployment software Rece

RE: MSI deployment software

nstallation/scripting technology can do that. SMS Installer will do that… http://myitforum.com/cs2/files/folders/sms2003/entry125224.aspx From: Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com<mailto:hbo...@gmail.com>] Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 1:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: Crawf

RE: WSUS no seeing W7 SP1

But SPs can? From: Eric Wittersheim [mailto:eric.wittersh...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 10:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: WSUS no seeing W7 SP1 Hot fixes can't be entered into the catalog. On Feb 26, 2011 9:39 AM, "Crawford, Scott" mailto:crawfo

RE: WSUS no seeing W7 SP1

ilies From: Crawford, Scott To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Sat Feb 26 15:24:56 2011 Subject: RE: WSUS no seeing W7 SP1 But SPs can? From: Eric Wittersheim [mailto:eric.wittersh...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 10:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: WS

RE: eSATA PCI-E card

er it 3rd party. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 12:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: eSATA PCI-E card On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Crawford, Scott wrote: > Any recommendations for brands?  I'm looking sp

RE: Limit user to running one script on a server

Yeah, disabling logon locally works and doesn't interfere with RDP. You'll also need to deny rights to access the computer from the network and specify the server in the "Log On To" box. This sounds like a good place to start to take care of "normal" use. But, the whole scenario sounds like a b

RE: Limit user to running one script on a server

I think you're gonna have a hard time identifying all the holes, if its possible at all. Giving a user DA creds just seems dangerous. From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 5:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Limit user to running one script o

RE: Outlook really...

Keep in mind that if you can decipher this, it will only return the values for the current user. You'll need to enumerate all the profiles on the machine and inspect this key in each profile. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 2:16 PM To: NT System Admin Is

Re: And now: Fun with login scripts.

Instead of MyDC, you can use domain.com to eliminate the "always the same DC" problem. You can also use %logonserver%. I'm not sure why you're mapping at all. Can't you just call \\MyDC\Netlogon\usefulexecutable.exe? Finally, do you only want outlookplaceholder.cmd as a flag

RE: ost to pst

Also check out http://www.krollontrack.com/software/powercontrols/ There's a free trial and depending on your goal, you'll be able to read anything it finds in the file...just not export it. -Original Message- From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Thursday, March 10,

RE: Hide specific tabs in Task Manager

Wow. They can't come up with anything better for you to do than this? :) I would just tell management that it's not realistically possible and rather pointless anyway. One option might be Process Explorer. Obviously it has WAY more UI than task manager, but it *might* have some option for disa

RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement

++ From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 10:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus Vendor Replacement We're happy Forefront users here. Easy to deploy and update via WSUS, if you already have WSUS in place. John Hornbuckl

RE: Disk checking tool for Windows

"All you're out is the time"...which can be considerable if you have a lot of bad sectors on the drive. I once ran it for over a week and it was still stuck trying to read the first block/sector - whatever each individual icon represents. -Original Message- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [m

FW: Hacking Cars with MP3 Files

Sounds like they need a good whitelisting solution ;) Feed: Schneier on Security Posted on: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 6:14 AM Author: schneier Subject: Hacking Cars with MP3 Files Impressive research: By adding

RE: FW: Hacking Cars with MP3 Files

, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Crawford, Scott mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu>> wrote: Sounds like they need a good whitelisting solution ;) Feed: Schneier on Security Posted on: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 6:14 AM Author: schneier Subject: Hacking Cars with MP3 Files Impressive re

RE: FW: Hacking Cars with MP3 Files

stion... On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Kurt Buff mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com>> wrote: Sounds like poor system design. What reason on Earth justified tying the music player to the vehicle control systems? Kurt On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:44, Crawford, Scott mailto:crawfo...@evangel

RE: FW: Hacking Cars with MP3 Files

ke poor system design. What reason on Earth justified tying the music player to the vehicle control systems? Kurt On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:44, Crawford, Scott mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu>> wrote: > > Sounds like they need a good whitelisting solution ;) > > > > Feed

RE: FW: Hacking Cars with MP3 Files

I'm here to serve :) From: Jeff Steward [mailto:jstew...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 5:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: FW: Hacking Cars with MP3 Files That actually made me laugh out loud... -Jeff Steward On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Crawford,

RE: [OT] Obama birth certificate

I thought we were an autonomous collective. From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 1:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT] Obama birth certificate Yeah, we're a Republic, just like in Star Wars! From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Th

RE: [OT] Obama birth certificate

You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gor...@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 3:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT] Obama birth certificate No, you're an anarcho-syndicalist commune :) Paul G. From:

RE: Win 7 configuration options?

Just curious what the issues are with libraries. Maybe you need to upgrade your users ☺ We’ve only started our win7 deploy, but the libraries seem to just need a small amount of explanation and then they become quite useful. If the default location for each library is the location users expect,

RE: Win 7 configuration options?

to:don.gu...@fiserv.com> Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 Fax: 610-293-4499 www.fiserv.com<http://www.fiserv.com> -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com<mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com>] Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 4:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: Large user profiles on server

Delprof fails on windows 7 with antivirus software. AV updates the last accessed attribute on the files so delprof thinks they've been used recently. There's a hotfix available, but the fix is included in SP1. Not sure if that's relevant to your situation, but it bit us. From: Sean Martin [ma

RE: Ted

Jeffrey doesn't appreciate this. From: Doug Hampshire [mailto:dhampsh...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 2:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Ted Quick, Send Amit in to clear the clogged Jeffries Tube! On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Steven M. Caesare mailto:scaes...@caesar

RE: OT Friday Favour

Net cop fail :) This is one of my pet peeves as well. Also, "Does anyone have any info on such and such." followed by "I'd like this info too." repeated ad nauseum. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 8:13 AM To: NT System Admin

RE: wild wild west of small clients.

Unlikely, but malware could change the bios password. From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 2:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: wild wild west of small clients. Yeah. It took a couple of conversations to make her understand that this BIOS s

RE: wild wild west of small clients.

est of small clients. It can certainly SET one if one isn't currently set. That capability is exposed in WMI (although not all vendors may implement the necessary API hooks). Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Crawford, Scott [mail

Re: URGENT: Interrupt chkdsk, not on boot drive

I recently had chkdsk run on a 2tb iscsi volume. I think it took about 5 hours. Sent from my Palm Pre on the Now Network from Sprint On Mar 29, 2011 7:56 PM, Mike Leone wrote: On 3/29/2011 8:41 PM, Jonathan Link wrote: > Then I would down the server. Go to yo

RE: Windows Desktop search 3.01 removal

I've uninstalled that a few times in similar situations and not seen any problems. From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 3:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows Desktop search 3.01 removal Yes from Googeling it seems it should be ok and

RE: Windows 7 Imaging

+1 -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 3:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 Imaging >I wouldn't use WDS on its own, its basically just a PXE server. Right, which can deliver a base, non-customized

RE: Windows 7 Imaging

Nice overview. Thanks. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 3:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 Imaging So, Microsoft doesn't just have a "Windows Deployment Services Server", they have an entire deployment stack. From the most

RE: Windows 7 Imaging

Isn't waik a requirement for installing MDT? Or is there some version specific things I'm overlooking? From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 4:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 Imaging If you are using any higher-level of the sta

RE: Windows 7 Imaging

M To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 Imaging Nope, you can install it. Granted, the list of things you can accomplish without WAIK is small. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.e

RE: Windows 7 Imaging

Yeah, that's the situation we're in. In fact we already have the SCCM license since it's so cheap through our campus agreement ($50/yr maybe). I really haven't even glanced at it yet, but that's my plan for the near future. Is it such that I can load SCCM onto one server with no reliance on a s

RE: Windows 7 Imaging

;s selling itself. If you have the eCAL, there is usually /substantial/ savings with getting FEP (Forefront Endpoint) deployed as part of this. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com<mailto:br...@briandesmond.com> c - 312.731.3132 From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.ed

RE: Windows 7 Imaging

of this. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com<mailto:br...@briandesmond.com> c - 312.731.3132 From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 8:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 Imaging Yeah, that's the situation we're in. In f

RE: AV and malware protection?

Do you have any examples of sites that exploit this? Are other factors at play? Browsing with admin credentials or unpatched vulnerabilities? From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 1:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AV and malware

RE: AV and malware protection?

Oct 7, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Crawford, Scott mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu>> wrote: Do you have any examples of sites that exploit this? Are other factors at play? Browsing with admin credentials or unpatched vulnerabilities? From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.co

RE: Anyone using DPM?

much agreed. its how backups ahould be...and thats coming from 10 years of backup exec. Sent from my Palm Pre on the Now Network from Sprint On Oct 11, 2011 9:18 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: Dpm works differently, and because of that, requires a different thou

RE: Has anyone tried to add a local account on a server to a restrictive Group via GPO?

confirmed -Original Message- From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:bem...@pittcountync.gov] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 3:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Has anyone tried to add a local account on a server to a restrictive Group via GPO? Yes, I have done so. If you type the name

RE: Robocopy Help, please

Add /NFL and /NDL to log only skips/errors. From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 12:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Robocopy Help, please I usually use this command to do an entire drive: ROBOCOPY source dest: /MIR /COPYALL /MT /ZB

RE: Script to fill in last user - ok real Q this time.

You'll need to give uses the rights to modify that field on all computer objects they might log into. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 4:01 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Script to fill in last user - ok real Q this time. O

RE: Zero-day bugs overrated, Microsoft says

72.4 seems a little low. From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 11:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Zero-day bugs overrated, Microsoft says there's a point of reference here ... unless a zero day exploit is EXTREMELY aggressive in propagatin

RE: Zero-day bugs overrated, Microsoft says

The same way Mac users know they haven't been infected with a virus. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 5:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Zero-day bugs overrated, Microsoft says How do know you haven't already b

RE: Remotely enable WOL on lenovo machines

Care to share how you're doing it with the Dells? I'm assuming a script using OMCC, but I'd be interested in the details. From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 1:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Remotely enable WOL on lenovo machin

RE: Script to fill in last user - ok real Q this time.

Description. Make sure you add some error handling so this doesn't pop up an error when it breaks. I assume your environment is pretty small so it's not going to generate noticeable churn. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com<mailto:br...@briandesmond.com> w - 312.625.14

RE: Who was it, and can I get a link...

It was on the activedir list. I believe it was ~eric maybe. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 7:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Who was it, and can I get a link... A long time ago, on a list perhaps fairly near, someo

RE: Possibly a brilliant mistake...

Sounds pretty good, but you can also give it a new name and through the magic of DNS point the old name at the new server as a CNAME. You'll need to disable strict name checking (as was recently discussed), but that gives you a little bit of coexistence time for at least the printers. -Orig

RE: Show lines in a text file that DONT contain OK

>CMD.EXE is not DOS. Who said it was? :) -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 5:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Show lines in a text file that DONT contain OK On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Oliver Marshal

RE: Show lines in a text file that DONT contain OK

er 26, 2011 4:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Show lines in a text file that DONT contain OK On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Crawford, Scott wrote: >>> Any good DOS people here? >> >>   CMD.EXE is not DOS. > > Who said it was? :) A lot of people ref

RE: RE: Script to fill in last user - ok real Q this time.

d to add something like this to the script? http://www.codeproject.com/KB/vbscript/ipaddress.aspx Dave From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu]<mailto:[mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu]> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 2:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Script to fill

RE: Show lines in a text file that DONT contain OK

iginal Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 5:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Show lines in a text file that DONT contain OK On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Crawford, Scott wrote: > But we were on the subject of being pedantic. I&#x

RE: Juniper Networks Switches?

loving extreme here Sent from my Palm Pre on the Now Network from Sprint On Oct 27, 2011 12:00 PM, Paul Hutchings wrote: Thanks Ben. One of the other vendors we're looking at is Extreme Networks. Same question(s) goes if anyone is familiar with them I guess

RE: ADFIND

If all your managers have similar DNs, you could use somethink like below to get down to CN=billybob -replacedn ,OU=Main,CN=Users, DC=nwea,DC=org: Note that you need the trailing colon. Replacedn takes the arguments yyy:xxx where yyy is replaced with xxx so leaving xxx blank effectively deletes

RE: Moving a folder share

By default, permissions won't change with a file move if its on the save drive. From: Rankin, James R [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 2:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Moving a folder share In that case, permissions would seem to be your only issue, as

RE: Moving a folder share

d, but I don't see that to be the case...) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu]<mailto:[mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu]> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 5:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issu

RE: Renaming blank files from cmd line

Alt-255 and Alt-0160 make blank looking file names. Is that what's really going on here though? I thought these were files that actually had no names. If they're just names with an unspecified number of blanks, then this bat should prompt you for each file in the folder and allow you to choose t

RE: Renaming blank files from cmd line

Gary Whitten wrote: Scott, I believe they were asking about making a blank filename to actually test a batch file before letting it loose on a live server. From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 7:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Renaming

RE: Upgrading MSI in group policy.

+~1 I never to upgrades to existing installs. I always check the box to uninstall the software when it falls out of scope of management. That way, whenever a new version comes out, you can just remove the old version from the GPO and add the new version. When the computer reboots, it will unins

Re: Upgrading MSI in group policy.

e: On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Crawford, Scott wrote: > The original install msi gets cached locally so you don't need to keep the old > versions on the network for an uninstall... That's definitely not always the case. I've had updates and uninstalls prompt for original i

RE: Upgrading MSI in group policy.

. On Oct 31, 2011 6:50 PM, Ben Scott wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Crawford, Scott wrote: > The original install msi gets cached locally so you don't need to keep the old > versions on the network for an uninstall... That's definitely not

RE: Ethernet cable testers

I just use the lights on the back of the computer :) From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:mark.rei...@prairie.edu] Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 8:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Ethernet cable testers Folks, Just wondering what you use for testing Ethernet cable testers. I know Fluke is the

RE: [OT] Stats about IT

Completely off topic, but it makes me chuckle so I'm gonna share. I once knew a guy whose parents were both named Kim. From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 12:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT] Stats about IT Who the heck is t

RE: Adobe 8 suppoer dropped- Thoughts

I'd be petrified. Double that if users using it are browsing the internet from the machine with them installed. Triple that if they're browsing as a local admin. Quadruple if they're domain admins. On the other hand, if they're off network (and will stay that way) for some reason, I'd be ok. F

RE: Adobe 8 suppoer dropped- Thoughts

base meets all those criteria…as noted in previous threads, all (eight) of our DA’s (except me) log in and browse as DA’s, and 99.5% of our user base are local admins. From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 3:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subjec

Re: Equallogic & non-Dell drives?

Our plan is to do something similar and I understand that it will work as long as the firmware is current. The only actual experience I have is replacing a Dell 250GB drive with a non-Dell one. Couldn't have been easier. Pulled out the old, inserted the new and auto rebuild ensued. Sent from

Re: Adobe 8 suppoer dropped- Thoughts

can't update our software. On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Crawford, Scott mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu>> wrote: Yeah, on second thought, I wouldn't worry about Adobe at this point. As Al points out, old buggy software is far from your biggest concern. Sent from m

Re: Equallogic & non-Dell drives?

at 9:24 AM, Crawford, Scott mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu>> wrote: Our plan is to do something similar and I understand that it will work as long as the firmware is current. The only actual experience I have is replacing a Dell 250GB drive with a non-Dell one. Couldn't have been easie

RE: How much processing power do you need? (WAS: So, my Mac Mini server arrived today...)

The server 8 stuff sounds like it will automate some of this and largely obviate the need for clustering at all. Have you had a chance to play with it at all? From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 11:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ho

RE: How much processing power do you need? (WAS: So, my Mac Mini server arrived today...)

Heh. I just saw the mention of win8 at the bottom, so nevermind my last message. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 11:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: How much processing power do you need? (WAS: So, my Mac Mini server arrived today...

RE: How much processing power do you need? (WAS: So, my Mac Mini server arrived today...)

Ephrata School District ----- Original Message - From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:27:29 -0700 Subject: RE: How much processing power do you need? (WAS: So, my Mac Mini server

RE: How much processing power do you need? (WAS: So, my Mac Mini server arrived today...)

trict - Original Message - From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:27:29 -0700 Subject: RE: How much processing power do you need? (WAS: So, my Mac Mini server arrived today...) &g

RE: How much processing power do you need? (WAS: So, my Mac Mini server arrived today...)

55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How much processing power do you need? (WAS: So, my Mac Mini server arrived today...) My bad. You are right. MSDN only. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message----- From: Crawf

RE: Posts taking longer to appear after the Lyris upgrade?

I've noticed this too. I've also received this reply, but haven't yet received Paul's original message. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 1:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Posts taking longer to appear after the Lyris upgrade? Gartner repo

RE: How much processing power do you need? (WAS: So, my Mac Mini server arrived today...)

, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Michael B. Smith mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote: My bad. You are right. MSDN only. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu<mail

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