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 wrote: Interesting thing I'm seeing This command: dnscmd 192

RE: FYI: Free Windows Admin Tools

2011-08-15 Thread Crawford, Scott
ed Kavalec [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 mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu>> wrote: I'd be interested in s

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 wrote: Yes, but I don't have much faith in the AV software of choice (Trend). According to it, everyth

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: http://docs.blackberry.com/en/a

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
August 17, 2011 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 wrote: > Can you directly copy the ttf to the Fonts folder? In my experience, Windows won't see them properly until th

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 "Generi

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,

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
Ok, here's an improved version that checks for failed pings as well and cleans up the output. Usage is the same as before. Again, watch for wrapping, there should be 14 lines. ---PingResponse.bat--- @echo off :top set PingResponse=PingFailed for /f "delims=mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] S

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 mailto:jaldr...@blueridgeca

RE: Why not failwords?

2011-08-19 Thread Crawford, Scott
2011 11:20 AM To: NT 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 mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu>> wr

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 mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu>> wrote: &

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 dragg

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: [Micr

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: Wednesd

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 Ad

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

2011-08-24 Thread Crawford, Scott
MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com 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" Suc

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

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 reso

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

2011-08-25 Thread Crawford, Scott
dorsement either. ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Crawford, Scott mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu>> wrote: I'm curious why not. The more I think about it, the more it seems like a good

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

2011-08-25 Thread Crawford, Scott
he mindset 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...@e

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

2011-08-25 Thread Crawford, Scott
don't 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...

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

2011-08-25 Thread Crawford, Scott
oit, since 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 mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu>> wrote: Isn't the attack sur

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

2011-08-25 Thread Crawford, Scott
n that can, 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: Thu

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 dista

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

2011-08-25 Thread Crawford, Scott
d. 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 12:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [Microsoft support] Is it me

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 recove

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 Su

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 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

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 monit

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 s

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: Wednesday,

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 wrote: >  +53 I see what you did there. Nice touch. ~ F

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

2011-09-02 Thread Crawford, Scott
NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: 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 mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu>> wrote: +1 -Original Message- From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com<mailto:ri

RE: OT - Triple Monitor Setup

2011-09-02 Thread Crawford, Scott
d using 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 wrote: > Nope. Wouldn't surprise me though. > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 16:10, Crawford, Scott wrote: >> I'v

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 lik

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 [mailto:norm.bern...@nrc-cn

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 crackers,

RE: password questions

2011-09-09 Thread Crawford, Scott
Administrator Partnership for Strong Families From: Crawford, Scott mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu>> To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>> Sent: Fri Sep 09 13:59:00 2011 Subject: RE: password questions Back in the day,

RE: password questions

2011-09-09 Thread Crawford, Scott
ues Subject: Re: password questions On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Crawford, Scott 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 w

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: http://unrforliberty.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Our-Discussio

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 http://Xe

RE: password questions

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

RE: password questions

2011-09-10 Thread Crawford, Scott
, Sep 9, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Crawford, Scott 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 [mailto:skra...@zetetic

RE: password questions

2011-09-10 Thread Crawford, Scott
Admin Issues Subject: Re: password questions On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Crawford, Scott 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

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 help

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

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
s. Regedit 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. -O

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

RE: Windows 8 dev preview video

2011-09-14 Thread Crawford, Scott
Nope. My best so far is ctrl-shft-esc, end task. :) From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 1:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 8 dev preview video Alt-f4? On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Steve Ens mailto:stevey...@gmail.com>> wrote:

RE: Windows 8 dev preview video

2011-09-14 Thread Crawford, Scott
Almost, but the process is still running. From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 1:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 8 dev preview video CTRL- ESC seems to do the trick. On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Crawford, Scott mailto:crawfo

RE: Windows 8 dev preview video

2011-09-15 Thread Crawford, Scott
: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 8 dev preview video CTRL- ESC seems to do the trick. On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Crawford, Scott mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu>> wrote: Nope. My best so far is ctrl-shft-esc, end task. :) From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com<mailto:sep

RE: Windows 8 dev preview video

2011-09-15 Thread Crawford, Scott
Nice: "fondle-slab" :) -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 8:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 8 dev preview video On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > I don't see Metro being deplo

RE: Windows 8 dev preview video

2011-09-15 Thread Crawford, Scott
, Crawford, Scott mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu>> wrote: Nice: "fondle-slab" :) -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com<mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com>] Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 8:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 8 dev pre

RE: Windows 8 dev preview video

2011-09-15 Thread Crawford, Scott
Win-pause is the shortcut to computer/properties. From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 9:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 8 dev preview video I always join by right-clicking "Computer" in Win7 and going from there.

RE: WMI filter help (SOLVED SORTA)

2011-09-28 Thread Crawford, Scott
What happened to queuing your messages in the outbox for a few minutes? :) Glad you found that. I was just looking for where that was documented. Now I don't have to. From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 2:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Su

RE: WMI filter help (SOLVED SORTA)

2011-09-28 Thread Crawford, Scott
Heh. I couldn't remember where I saw it. From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 2:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: WMI filter help (SOLVED SORTA) That was only for the Active Directory list. :) From: Crawford,

RE: Migrating OpenLDAP users into AD

2011-10-03 Thread Crawford, Scott
RE: This is a fairly common model and there's not really anything wrong with it. Why is it such a common model? I see it a lot too, and it always frustrates me that they don't simply use the credentials supplied by the user to attempt to bind to AD. If it fails, obviously the credentials are wron

RE: Migrating OpenLDAP users into AD

2011-10-03 Thread Crawford, Scott
w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu]<mailto:[mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu]> Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 10:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Migrating OpenLDAP users into AD RE: This is a fairly common model and there's n

RE: Migrating OpenLDAP users into AD

2011-10-03 Thread Crawford, Scott
except some unique and rare setups where a bind user is the only one with the perms needed to extract some info that will later be utilized. I have seen this... From: Crawford, Scott [crawfo...@evangel.edu] Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 11:32 AM To: NT System

RE: Migrating OpenLDAP users into AD

2011-10-03 Thread Crawford, Scott
make their integration work right but they're few and far between. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com<mailto:br...@briandesmond.com> w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu]<mailto:[mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu]> Sent: Monday

RE: Anyone using DPM?

2011-10-06 Thread Crawford, Scott
We love it. From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 3:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Anyone using DPM? That's Data Protection Manager Any experiences are welcome. Do you like it? Hate it? How big is your deployment? Any field servers in

RE: AV and malware protection?

2011-10-07 Thread Crawford, Scott
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?

2011-10-07 Thread Crawford, Scott
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?

2011-10-11 Thread Crawford, Scott
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?

2011-10-12 Thread Crawford, Scott
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

2011-10-18 Thread Crawford, Scott
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.

2011-10-19 Thread Crawford, Scott
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

2011-10-19 Thread Crawford, Scott
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

2011-10-19 Thread Crawford, Scott
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

2011-10-20 Thread Crawford, Scott
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.

2011-10-21 Thread Crawford, Scott
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...

2011-10-24 Thread Crawford, Scott
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...

2011-10-25 Thread Crawford, Scott
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

2011-10-26 Thread Crawford, Scott
>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

2011-10-26 Thread Crawford, Scott
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.

2011-10-26 Thread Crawford, Scott
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

2011-10-26 Thread Crawford, Scott
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?

2011-10-28 Thread Crawford, Scott
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

2011-10-28 Thread Crawford, Scott
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

2011-10-28 Thread Crawford, Scott
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

2011-10-28 Thread Crawford, Scott
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

2011-10-29 Thread Crawford, Scott
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

2011-10-29 Thread Crawford, Scott
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.

2011-10-31 Thread Crawford, Scott
+~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.

2011-10-31 Thread Crawford, Scott
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.

2011-11-01 Thread Crawford, Scott
. 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

2011-11-01 Thread Crawford, Scott
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

2011-11-02 Thread Crawford, Scott
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

2011-11-03 Thread Crawford, Scott
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

2011-11-04 Thread Crawford, Scott
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?

2011-11-04 Thread Crawford, Scott
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

2011-11-04 Thread Crawford, Scott
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?

2011-11-04 Thread Crawford, Scott
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

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