RE: Exchange 2010 System Public Folders

2011-07-26 Thread Crawford, Scott
done with all your normal PFs, you can get rid of the system ones too. I did this for a customer recently - to be quite honest it's a PITA with limited savings. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com w - 312.625.1438 | c   - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Crawford, Scott

RE: Vipre console hangs server on reboot

2011-07-27 Thread Crawford, Scott
Three cheers for REO...no, make that 4. BUT, they stole the line from Groucho Marx...and technically, they didn't say it, they just used it as an album title :) From: Gasper, Rick [mailto:rickgas...@kings.edu] Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 8:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vipre

RE: Vipre console hangs server on reboot

2011-07-27 Thread Crawford, Scott
Throw on a couple monitors and you're getting close to John's $2500 esitmate. From: Robert LeBlanc [mailto:robert.lebl...@aanmpc.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 4:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vipre console hangs server on reboot I just bought an optiplex990 I7Quad, 16GB Ram,

RE: Vipre console hangs server on reboot

2011-07-27 Thread Crawford, Scott
A Toyota's a Toyota. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 4:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Vipre console hangs server on reboot I have a 5 yo Toyota. On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Steve Ens

RE: Exchange 2010 System Public Folders

2011-07-28 Thread Crawford, Scott
said it wasn't supported. If Brian has a supported mechanism, I'm all ears. :-) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 1:09 AM To: NT System

Weird robocopy /mir bug?

2011-07-28 Thread Crawford, Scott
I'm having some strange problem where robocopy /mir doesn't actually, well...mirror. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with short file names. The files that are causing problems are named: Short name Long name OLIVER~1.WPD OLIVER-M.GD2.wpd OLIVER-M.GRD OLIVER~3.WPD

RE: Weird robocopy /mir bug?

2011-07-28 Thread Crawford, Scott
: Thursday, July 28, 2011 6:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Weird robocopy /mir bug? Turn off short filenames? On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 15:51, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: I’m having some strange problem where robocopy /mir doesn’t actually, well…mirror.  I’m pretty sure

RE: Sys Admin Day

2011-07-29 Thread Crawford, Scott
If you just think of your normal work day, its easy to remember. I generally work 7 to 9. 7-29 - easy peasy. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 10:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sys Admin Day I need to somehow know when this day is coming up,

RE: Sys Admin Day

2011-07-29 Thread Crawford, Scott
Uhh, nevermind. I just looked at how it was calculated :) From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 11:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sys Admin Day If you just think of your normal work day, its easy to remember. I generally work 7 to 9. 7

RE: Weird robocopy /mir bug?

2011-07-29 Thread Crawford, Scott
Turns out that this issue was a known issue that was fixed in W2K SP3 and NT SP5. Unfortunately it seems to be back. Maybe I should spin up a W2K box to do this copy :) Anybody have any better options? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/195144 -Original Message- From: Crawford, Scott

RE: Weird robocopy /mir bug?

2011-07-29 Thread Crawford, Scott
jamming me up. -snip- md CollisionTest cd CollisionTest echo a xx~1.xxx echo a xx.xxx md new copy /y *.* new dir new -snip- -Original Message- From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Friday

RE: Weird robocopy /mir bug?

2011-07-29 Thread Crawford, Scott
not a desperation measure, it's a good tuning measure. Kurt On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 17:33, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edumailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: You mean short name generation on the server? That's on my list of desperation ideas, mainly cuz I've never done it so I'm not sure

RE: Weird robocopy /mir bug?

2011-07-29 Thread Crawford, Scott
Win7/Win2k8. On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 13:41, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edumailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: Turns out that this issue was a known issue that was fixed in W2K SP3 and NT SP5. Unfortunately it seems to be back. Maybe I should spin up a W2K box to do this copy :) Anybody have

RE: Weird robocopy /mir bug?

2011-08-01 Thread Crawford, Scott
.10).aspx Jeff On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edumailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: If you'd like to play along, the batch file below demonstrates the problem. Note that we're creating two files, copying them to a new folder, but only one ends up at the end

RE: Weird robocopy /mir bug?

2011-08-01 Thread Crawford, Scott
to them to see if it can get fixed for vNext. Fast! :-P Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu]mailto:[mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 4:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: DPM disk usage.

2011-08-02 Thread Crawford, Scott
Yup. Each recovery point is only storing the *blocks* that have changed since the last recovery point. So, if you have a relatively static source, the recovery points can be quite small. Sent from my Palm Pre on the Now Network from Sprint On Aug 2, 2011 8:12

RE: find duplicate files

2011-08-03 Thread Crawford, Scott
How big of a volume have you tried it on? Mine choked on about 2tb. I can't really imagine how it would handle 20. From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 10:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: find duplicate files

RE: find duplicate files

2011-08-03 Thread Crawford, Scott
about it...as I was just checking my home directory shares (approx 1tb) On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edumailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: How big of a volume have you tried it on? Mine choked on about 2tb. I can't really imagine how it would handle 20. From

RE: SMB firewall (was RE: VLAN N00b)

2011-08-04 Thread Crawford, Scott
Are you saying that av/content filtering is you least important criteria of all on a FW? Or that's it's the bottom of your must haves? From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 12:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SMB firewall (was RE: VLAN

RE: RDX Removable Disk Drive

2011-08-04 Thread Crawford, Scott
This is basically our scenario, but you're still unprotected from a rogue admin or virus connecting to both DPM servers and wiping out all your backup. A removable device at least puts an air gap to protect you from any damage that can be done over the network. For that, I've been basically

RE: SMB firewall (was RE: VLAN N00b)

2011-08-04 Thread Crawford, Scott
/Andrew.S.Baker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edumailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: Are you saying that av/content filtering is you least important criteria of all on a FW? Or that's it's the bottom of your

RE: Text Editor for Windows WAS: SQL for File Storage?

2011-08-05 Thread Crawford, Scott
It was actually edit.com, but it's not on my Win7 install, prolly cuz its 64-bit. Why wouldn't you want to use notepad though? I miss edlin :) From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 5:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Text Editor for Windows WAS:

RE: Text Editor for Windows WAS: SQL for File Storage?

2011-08-05 Thread Crawford, Scott
Edlin...which is still available on at least W2K3 From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 5:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Text Editor for Windows WAS: SQL for File Storage? It was actually edit.com, but it's not on my Win7 install

RE: RTFM Advice

2011-08-08 Thread Crawford, Scott
RE: +MAX_INT Nice :) -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 1:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RTFM Advice On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 9:10 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: LOL. that's what I use this list is for. I

RE: Text Editor for Windows WAS: SQL for File Storage?

2011-08-08 Thread Crawford, Scott
Except it should really not go into HKCR. If you want it machine wide, put it into HKLM\Classes and if you want it just for you, but it into HKCU\Classes. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 1:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: Drive mapping via login script

2011-08-08 Thread Crawford, Scott
The version of ifmember that I'm using is from 2003 from a resource kit. Anyway, it still works fine on Win7-64. I don't believe it came as part of any OS so I'm not sure what this blog post is referencing. Note that Net User doesn't do recursive group searching like ifmember.exe does. So,

RE: Drive mapping via login script

2011-08-08 Thread Crawford, Scott
circumstance does IFMEMBER not work? It's working just fine for me on Win7 x64 ASB http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edumailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: The version

RE: Drive mapping via login script

2011-08-08 Thread Crawford, Scott
8, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edumailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: The version of ifmember that I'm using is from 2003 from a resource kit. Anyway, it still works fine on Win7-64. I don't believe it came as part of any OS so I'm not sure what this blog post

RE: Drive mapping via login script

2011-08-08 Thread Crawford, Scott
was wrong? On the internet? OB xkcd: http://xkcd.com/386/ On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edumailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: I think the post was just misguided. He prolly had the resource kit installed on XP and when he tried ifmember on win7, he got a file

RE: Drive mapping via login script

2011-08-08 Thread Crawford, Scott
machines... Waitaminnit. What version of Win7? i386 or x64? We're rolling out x64 exclusively. Kurt On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 13:39, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edumailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: The 12/2/99 version works for me also. From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b

RE: Drive mapping via login script

2011-08-08 Thread Crawford, Scott
if it makes a difference, tomorrow, when he brings a new user on line. Kurt On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 13:57, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edumailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: Both the 1999 and 2003 versions work on Win7 64. From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.commailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com

RE: Text Editor for Windows WAS: SQL for File Storage?

2011-08-08 Thread Crawford, Scott
for Windows WAS: SQL for File Storage? On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: Except it should really not go into HKCR.  If you want it machine wide, put it into HKLM\Classes and if you want it just for you, but it into HKCU\Classes. HKCR *is* HKLM\Classes

RE: Text Editor for Windows WAS: SQL for File Storage?

2011-08-08 Thread Crawford, Scott
COLLEGE -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 5:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Text Editor for Windows WAS: SQL for File Storage? On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: Except

RE: Drive mapping via login script

2011-08-08 Thread Crawford, Scott
Make sure to evaluate if group nesting could be an issue. I’m sure PS has a way of handling it, but it's something to be aware of. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 5:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Drive mapping

RE: The U in UPS stands for...?

2011-08-10 Thread Crawford, Scott
I had a what the heck moment after reading the first line. It's so ridiculous, you almost have to think you're misunderstanding something. I guess the assumption is that the power fails more often than the battery so it's a net gain for uptime. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott

RE: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords

2011-08-10 Thread Crawford, Scott
to remember and probably stronger? --Steve On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edumailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: Interesting. I'd like to understand how the bits of entropy are calculated though. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.commailto:asbz

RE: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords

2011-08-10 Thread Crawford, Scott
characters, when the latter would be easier to remember and probably stronger? --Steve On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edumailto:crawfo...@evangel.edumailto:crawfo...@evangel.edumailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: Interesting. I'd like to understand how

RE: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords

2011-08-10 Thread Crawford, Scott
+1 for stupid. It seems like it'd be harder to code in the limitations than to just let you use as long of a password using any characters desired. From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 9:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Almost, but not

RE: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords

2011-08-10 Thread Crawford, Scott
easier, since the naturalness of typing a sentence is more comfortable than trying to type rather random sequences. But, whatever works, I suppose. Kurt On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 15:52, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edumailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: Thx. Now, I realize that the little gray

RE: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords

2011-08-10 Thread Crawford, Scott
Thanks for the info. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 8:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote

RE: Almost, but not quite OT: Passwords

2011-08-11 Thread Crawford, Scott
nice. Reminds me of an old roommate, I clean the shower every six months whether it needs it or not. Sent from my Palm Pre on the Now Network from Sprint On Aug 11, 2011 7:42 AM, Webster webs...@carlwebster.com wrote: I change my passwords religiously every

RE: windows 7 - sysprep and domains

2011-08-11 Thread Crawford, Scott
Yeah, it's really a question of whether the files are re-ACLed at deployment or not. Even apart from the domain, you can add domain SIDs to ACLs with a variety of tools. From: Guyer, Don [mailto:don.gu...@fiserv.com] Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 7:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject:

RE: The U in UPS stands for...?

2011-08-11 Thread Crawford, Scott
Maybe they thought it was called Smart Oops From: Rene de Haas [mailto:rene.deh...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 1:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: The U in UPS stands for...? Sorry, but I can't call that a smart ups either. What are they thinking? René Op 10 aug.

RE: Very OT quick favour to ask any Facebook users

2011-08-11 Thread Crawford, Scott
Like a bell -Original Message- From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 5:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Very OT quick favour to ask any Facebook users They find them a-pealing. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott

RE: FYI: Free Windows Admin Tools

2011-08-12 Thread Crawford, Scott
I'd be interested in seeing that if you can figure out which version that was. From: G.Waleed Kavalec [mailto:kava...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 10:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: FYI: Free Windows Admin Tools I remember an MSDos version that would say Format

Re: dnscmd vs. DNS Manager

2011-08-14 Thread Crawford, Scott
have you compared the two lists to see which ones are missing to see if there's some sort of pattern? Sent from my Palm Pre on the Now Network from Sprint On Aug 12, 2011 5:50 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting thing I'm seeing This

RE: FYI: Free Windows Admin Tools

2011-08-15 Thread Crawford, Scott
[mailto:kava...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 5:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: FYI: Free Windows Admin Tools This would have been circa 1992. On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edumailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: I'd be interested in seeing

Re: Weird dll files on boot

2011-08-16 Thread Crawford, Scott
sounds rootkit-ish. MS has a boot cd to run Security Essentials. Sent from my Palm Pre on the Now Network from Sprint On Aug 16, 2011 7:19 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Yes, but I don't have much faith in the AV software of choice (Trend).

RE: Blackberry BES Image Vulnerability

2011-08-16 Thread Crawford, Scott
What are these release notes you speak of? From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 8:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Blackberry BES Image Vulnerability The first page of the release notes clearly answer this:

RE: Install fonts w/out admin on Vista; bypass UAC on a DLL?

2011-08-17 Thread Crawford, Scott
Can you directly copy the ttf to the Fonts folder? -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 12:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Install fonts w/out admin on Vista; bypass UAC on a DLL? Win Vista with current SP/updates.

RE: Install fonts w/out admin on Vista; bypass UAC on a DLL?

2011-08-17 Thread Crawford, Scott
1:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Install fonts w/out admin on Vista; bypass UAC on a DLL? On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: Can you directly copy the ttf to the Fonts folder? In my experience, Windows won't see them properly until

RE: Install fonts w/out admin on Vista; bypass UAC on a DLL?

2011-08-17 Thread Crawford, Scott
Hmmm 1999, so a bit old, but if it still works, then this bat is a little more generic. You can just drag a font onto it and it will create the reg, copy the file, import the reg and then delete the reg. One problem is that it won't pull the actual name of the font, instead it will use

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

2011-08-17 Thread Crawford, Scott
Cheap and dirty, but might do the trick. Usage is: PingResponse IP AcceptableTime For example, PingResponse google.com 10 would repeatedly ping google and if it was ever over 10 milliseconds, blat will email you. Note that there's only 5 lines so watch wrapping. Also, this will not message you

RE: Install fonts w/out admin on Vista; bypass UAC on a DLL?

2011-08-17 Thread Crawford, Scott
dialog from Vista? It's unchanged since Windows 3.1, maybe even older. Not saying the whole subsystem is that old but it's weird one part went for so long with little attention. -- Mike Gill -Original Message- From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Wednesday, August 17

RE: Taking ownership of a file at login

2011-08-18 Thread Crawford, Scott
Take Ownership is not the same as Give Ownership From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 10:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Taking ownership of a file at login I thought Full Control encompassed RWXDPO (where P was Change Permissions and O

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

2011-08-18 Thread Crawford, Scott
. -server mailserver.com -f m...@self.com -subject Ping failed. -to m...@self.com goto top ---PingResponse.bat--- From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 5:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Need a free ping monitor with email notification

RE: Why not failwords?

2011-08-19 Thread Crawford, Scott
Hello spoiler From: William Robbins [mailto:dangerw...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 11:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Why not failwords? Cause that worked out well in Demolition Man :) - WJR On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:37, John Aldrich

RE: Why not failwords?

2011-08-19 Thread Crawford, Scott
System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Why not failwords? Wow, it's a nearly 20 year old film. Presumably if one hasn't seen it, one isn't interested in it, at this point. On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edumailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: Hello spoiler From: William

RE: Why not failwords?

2011-08-19 Thread Crawford, Scott
:) nice From: William Robbins [mailto:dangerw...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 2:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Why not failwords? That movie was spoiled long before me. - WJR On Friday, August 19, 2011, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edumailto:crawfo

RE: Did you know...

2011-08-22 Thread Crawford, Scott
As long as you're on a journey of discovery, start . is the reverse process. :) From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 4:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Did you know... You can paste folder names in a command-prompt windows by

RE: [Microsoft support] Is it me...

2011-08-23 Thread Crawford, Scott
However, there are ways to handle this Such as? My plan is to migrate from ESX3.5 to Hyper-V and I *planned* on joining the hosts to the virualized domain. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 6:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE:

RE: Symantec Endpoint Protection and Exclusions

2011-08-24 Thread Crawford, Scott
Absolutely. I'd go further and say they just need to be isolated from running non-approved code. A file server can have its shares full of viruses, but its not a problem for the system if nobody executes the code ON the server. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent:

RE: Orginizational Q

2011-08-24 Thread Crawford, Scott
I loved it. Most satisfying movie I can remember. Not necessarily the best, but it was everything I wanted it to be. Incorporating all the elements of the show without being blatant ripoffs. From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 10:28 AM To: NT System

RE: [Microsoft support] Is it me...

2011-08-24 Thread Crawford, Scott
From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu]mailto:[mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 8:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [Microsoft support] Is it me... However, there are ways to handle this Such as? My plan is to migrate from ESX3.5 to Hyper-V

RE: [Microsoft support] Is it me...

2011-08-24 Thread Crawford, Scott
://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu]mailto:[mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 2:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [Microsoft support] Is it me... Thanks. That makes sense. So, really there's no issue as long as you have a local

RE: [Microsoft support] Is it me...

2011-08-25 Thread Crawford, Scott
I'm curious why not. The more I think about it, the more it seems like a good idea. 1. It completely negates the issue of virtualizing a DC or having a separate physical DC 2. Second, a potential problem with running services on the host is that it could starve the guests for

RE: [Microsoft support] Is it me...

2011-08-25 Thread Crawford, Scott
/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edumailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: I'm curious why not. The more I think about it, the more it seems like a good idea. 1. It completely negates

RE: [Microsoft support] Is it me...

2011-08-25 Thread Crawford, Scott
that the Hyper-V host should do basically nothing else but host, and if they can be server core then even better. I run one full OS Hyper-V host and all other hosts are server core. Interesting discussion here though. I love this list. Dave From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu

RE: [Microsoft support] Is it me...

2011-08-25 Thread Crawford, Scott
need IE, WMP etc patches, but who really uses IE or WMP on their servers? From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu]mailto:[mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Thursday, 25 August 2011 11:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [Microsoft support] Is it me... Isn't the attack

RE: [Microsoft support] Is it me...

2011-08-25 Thread Crawford, Scott
access to all hosts would be granted, not just a vulnerable VM. ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edumailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: Isn't the attack surface

RE: [Microsoft support] Is it me...

2011-08-25 Thread Crawford, Scott
, depending on your environment, consume significant amounts of memory and processor resources. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu]mailto:[mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011

RE: Just a reminder to double check your long distance costs!

2011-08-25 Thread Crawford, Scott
This kinda stuff infuriates me. Do they pay penalties on the over charges sufficient to pay her salary as well? From: Osborne, Richard [mailto:richard.osbo...@wth.org] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 12:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Just a reminder to double check your long

RE: [Microsoft support] Is it me...

2011-08-25 Thread Crawford, Scott
Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu]mailto:[mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 12:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [Microsoft support] Is it me... Are you saying that AD can over

RE: IIS 6 SMTP virtual server relay restrictions

2011-08-25 Thread Crawford, Scott
Just passing through, but netsh might help. From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 5:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: IIS 6 SMTP virtual server relay restrictions Anyone still out there? I've got 4 boxes that I need to add about 40

RE: hard drive repair/data recovery vendor

2011-08-26 Thread Crawford, Scott
Reseating the board and/or rubbing the contacts where it attaches to the drive with a pencil eraser worked for one of our guys here last week. From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 6:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: hard drive repair/data

RE: How to determine a host's IP range

2011-08-30 Thread Crawford, Scott
On the other hand, if it's doing reverse dns on every ip that hits the firewall, it could work. You're assuming they do that only once at rule creation. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 12:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: How to determine a host's IP range

2011-08-30 Thread Crawford, Scott
Subject: Re: How to determine a host's IP range On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: From their description, what that does is look up the name to IP address(es), and then uses that to drive the firewall rule. Which is useful, don't get me wrong

RE: Looking for cable

2011-08-31 Thread Crawford, Scott
I like anything other than Belkin for KVM. I was converted to Cybex, now Avocent, by ASB ~10 years ago. -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 1:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Looking for cable Yeah...

RE: OT - Triple Monitor Setup

2011-08-31 Thread Crawford, Scott
Winning From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 4:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT - Triple Monitor Setup Ok, here we go... I spent almost $400 bucks for an ATI EGA Wonder video card that would display EGA graphics on a CGA

RE: OT - Triple Monitor Setup

2011-08-31 Thread Crawford, Scott
2x CDROM made 7th Guest scream From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 6:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT - Triple Monitor Setup I spent over $800 on a 2x CD rom back in 1994 ish? I worked my butt off at $4.50 an hour during the summer to

RE: OT - Triple Monitor Setup

2011-08-31 Thread Crawford, Scott
I've heard rumor of software that would let you cut a screen like that up into virtual monitors so you could do things like maximize into a quarter of the screen or some such. Anyone heard of such a thing? -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent:

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

2011-09-02 Thread Crawford, Scott
+1 -Original Message- From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 2:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: When DNS for your ISP goes down... On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote:  +53 I see what you did

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

2011-09-02 Thread Crawford, Scott
: When DNS for your ISP goes down... I'm going to -2 to keep us on topic. On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edumailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: +1 -Original Message- From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.commailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday

RE: OT - Triple Monitor Setup

2011-09-02 Thread Crawford, Scott
a window management application named Divvy. It's very simple and works well. http://mizage.com/divvy/ On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Nope. Wouldn't surprise me though. On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 16:10, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: I've heard

RE: OT - Triple Monitor Setup

2011-09-02 Thread Crawford, Scott
Oops, nm. The big button that says Windows didn't show on my Palm Pre. -Original Message- From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 3:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT - Triple Monitor Setup Anything like it for the PC

RE: HKCU permissions change via GPO?

2011-09-08 Thread Crawford, Scott
Well, when you get to the GPO that's making this setting, remove it and the setting will go away without modifying the registry...that's (one of) the beauty (^Hies) of GPOs. The RSOP tool in GPMC will be able to show you which GPO is setting that. From: Bernard, Norm

RE: password questions

2011-09-09 Thread Crawford, Scott
Back in the day, L0pht would be completely ineffectual against such a password, even if you included said character in its character set. I emailed L0pht at the time and they said they didn't support cracking alt-char passwords. I've heard that this is not the case with other password

RE: password questions

2011-09-09 Thread Crawford, Scott
Administrator Partnership for Strong Families From: Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edumailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.commailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Fri Sep 09 13:59:00 2011 Subject

RE: password questions

2011-09-09 Thread Crawford, Scott
questions On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: There's a quite dated, yet relevant, article at sysopt about some of my findings at http://www.sysopt.com/tutorials/article.php/3532756. Scott: That entire analysis is based on the scenario where you have

RE: DigiNotar compromise

2011-09-09 Thread Crawford, Scott
Too bad rational human beings don't exist. From: William Robbins [mailto:dangerw...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 1:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DigiNotar compromise I think this is relevant here:

RE: DigiNotar compromise

2011-09-09 Thread Crawford, Scott
Might wanna restrict that to whole numbers or even counting numbers. Rational includes negatives :) From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 2:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DigiNotar compromise + some random rational number. ASB

RE: password questions

2011-09-09 Thread Crawford, Scott
...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 3:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: password questions 2011/9/9 Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu: However, the point remains that incorporating an alt-char vastly increases the brute-force space and therefore makes them harder to crack

RE: password questions

2011-09-10 Thread Crawford, Scott
questions On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: I don't think that's true. Point me to a rainbow table that has that large of a keyspace. I can't say I've looked exhaustively, but I've not been able to find one that even exhausts the entire ascii space

RE: password questions

2011-09-10 Thread Crawford, Scott
I tend to agree with what I think you're saying. But, the original question was whether adding an alt-char to your password would make you safer and/or your password harder to crack. I think the answer to this is absolutely. -Original Message- From: Steve Kradel

RE: password questions

2011-09-10 Thread Crawford, Scott
: password questions On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote: I don't think that's true.  Point me to a rainbow table that has that large of a keyspace.  I can't say I've looked exhaustively, but I've not been able to find one that even exhausts the entire

RE: App compatability

2011-09-12 Thread Crawford, Scott
Standard users already have read access to that key. Registry virtualization is automatically on in Windows 7 with UAC enabled. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 9:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: App compatability Using LUA Biglight which

RE: Web Server networking question

2011-09-12 Thread Crawford, Scott
You should also keep in mind that in browsers with a combined address/search bar, a single word such as helpdesk will get interpreted as a search term and will take you to an internet search for that term. In ie9 and Chrome, you need to type either http://helpdesk; or helpdesk/ to get it to

RE: Default user runonce

2011-09-14 Thread Crawford, Scott
If its hitting the current user hive, you shouldn't need to run elevated. -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 10:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Default user runonce We are in a bit of a pickle and

RE: Default user runonce

2011-09-14 Thread Crawford, Scott
for example. -Original Message- From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 12:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Default user runonce If its hitting the current user hive, you shouldn't need to run elevated. -Original Message

RE: Default user runonce

2011-09-14 Thread Crawford, Scott
Talking it out really helped. Yup, many a time have I tried to explain to someone this ridiculous behavior with no explanation only to figure it out mid-explanation. -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 12:09 PM

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