http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968929 to acquire the proper update.
Only advice I've got.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 11:22 AM
To: NT Sy
What does netdiag say? (I don't have 2000 ANYWHERE anymore, but there should be
a secure channel test.)
What DC is the secure channel set to? (netdom verify)
Are there any replication failures? (replmon/repadmin)
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
What is the actual value of user-account-control for the DC?
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Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
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-Original Message-
From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 12:21 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Yes, that is the right value.
Hrmph.
Last idea I've got: compare dsacls for the weird one and one that isn't weird.
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Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
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-Original Message-
From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.
Sure. The one in your "sent items" from gmail and the one that the listserv
sent you.
You can disable the one the listserv sends you on your posting options console
at sunbelt.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Origin
On the "bad" system, you should be able to stop netlogon, remove netlogon.dns,
start netlogon, ipconfig /registerdns, force replication. That should take care
of it.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
Fro
Sqlcmd -E -S -Q"exec stored-procedure-name"
Put it in a bat/cmd file with a shortcut on their desktop. They'll need the
tools installed locally, or use psexec to run it remotely.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-O
You will not be allowed to increase the domain functional level as long as you
have Windows 2000 DCs in your domain.
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Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Juned Shaikh [mailto:jsha...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday
quot;. But if you've never
scripted, I wouldn't start with Payette.
All IMHO. I have no financial connection to any of these people. :-)
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
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-Original Message-
From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea.
Put it in a batch file and use dsquery or adfind instead of ADUC.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Robert Smith [mailto:exch...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 6:44 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Use a better tool.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Robert Smith [mailto:exch...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 8:02 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: LDAP Query across Multiple OU&#
Disk2vhd from sysinternals.
Sysprep built into windows.
Etc.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com]
Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 10:27 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Ghosting server
There are a number of VSS rollups for 2003... you might want to check those
out, depending on what OS and what SP you are on.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com]
Sent: Friday
Wow, shades of the past...
Aren't you running SP4? Then what your boss did is fine.
A reboot will be enough. (Actually you can stop netlogon, remove netlogon.dns,
restart netlogon, then do an ipconfig /registerdns, if you don't want to reboot
- a reboot might be easier.)
Regards,
ndows 2000 - I don't remember 100% though) dump the zone
and hunt for the record. Otherwise, search through the file on disk.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com]
Sent: Mo
Wellyou can in later versions of the dnscmd. :-P
Windows 2000 was a LONG TIME AGO. :-)
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 12:00 PM
Mobile, so i can't reply in detail, but that won't work. Temporarily disable
ADI and made standard primary zones, is easiest.
Sent from my HTC Tilt™ 2, a Windows® phone from AT&T
-Original Message-
From: Michael Leone
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 3:09 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Sub
n the case of certain SFU and
certain specific iNetOrgPerson changes, it IS possible that the schema upgrades
can fail. You need to protect yourself from that.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Mic
ed -
just enable the NIC.
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Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 10:00 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Demote a DC that is primary
Your reverse DNS doesn't match your forward DNS and your reverse DNS is
"spammy" (66-237-146-66.static.pah.org). Have your ISP fix the rDNS to
something unspammy.
HAHAHAHAHAHA. I just went and looked. Your "isp" is Punxsutawney Phil's
hospital? :)
Regards,
M
I'm in Charlottesville. We've had records broken all over the place for
snowfall. Ridiculous!
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 10:24 AM
To: NT Sy
Aren't you off windows 2000 yet? :-/
I think you are correct. On more modern OS's, there is a "clear log" action in
the Event Viewer MMC.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Michael
I use polymon extensively. Unlike Servers Alive, it works just fine on Server
2008 and Server 2008 R2. It also allows you to use PowerShell scripts for your
probes, which is darned useful.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Ralph Smith
I think DA absolutely rocks. So does BitLocker. And AppLocker. And BranchCache.
And RODCs.
All incremental evolutionary improvements - but they make the environment
easier to use and more secure.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
Ya got me. Did you read here?
http://eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=4010&eventno=791&source=DNS&phase=1
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
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-Original Message-
From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesd
nal to Win7, but they require Server 2008 and above, so they
are a feature worth mentioning. Comes for free with the rest of it. :-)
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
S
Well, then I wouldn't concern myself. It isn't a MAJOR error -- dcdiag,
netdiag, and dnslint are happy. Do your upgrade and let's clean up the other
stuff later.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message
Microsoft dpm ?
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Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Bill Lambert [mailto:blamb...@concuity.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 8:28 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Backup App recommendations
I've had it with Symantec. Working
OLPC-XO laptop. For example:
<http://cgi.ebay.com/XO-OLPC-Laptop_W0QQitemZ290409294930QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLaptops_Nov05?hash=item439dbe2c52>
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Wilhelm, Scott [mailto:swilh...@mcs.k12.ny.us]
Sent: Th
There are others available on ebay who don't have bad batteries :-P
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 9:58 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OT: Touchs
They have a "stylus area". Close enough!
Hey...the OP wanted less than $200 - can't have EVERYTHING !! :)
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010
They sure were. But they aren't.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 10:08 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT: Touchscreen Netbook/Device
But - we
You should.
And you should be getting warnings on your DNS servers about it not being
possible to register pointer records for Windows computers (unless you've
suppressed the warning via GPO).
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchang
Don't read my blog, eh? That'll teach you! :-)
<http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2008/02/29/finding-services-using-non-system-accounts-with-powershell.aspx>
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-
esn't list everything using "Local System" or "Network Service". You
really don't care about those! :-)
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com]
S
Powershell -command "{& ./showservers-and-accounts.ps1}"
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Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 10:49 AM
To: NT System Admin
Right. I agree. I meant the specific scenario presented by the OP: "we need to
change a password on an account we use to run services with".
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Free, Bob [mailto:r.
Congratz EdZ!
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Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 1:09 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: There is a new Certification
Yeah, this isn't that easy.
I'd recommend you use adfind with the -excldn argument.
Otherwise what you actually have to do (which adfind does internally) is
compare each result to ensure that it doesn't match the distinguishedname for
the excluded OU.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
http://www.microsoft.com/ebs/en/us/default.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/essentialbusinessserver/archive/2010/03/05/new-it-trends-bring-change-to-mid-market-product-line.aspx
http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2010/03/ebs-has-left-the-building.html
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange
Builtin\administrators require one step - which I'm not going to document here
- to make themselves a domain admin.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 11:39 AM
T
I deploy my SBS customers now as a VM. They don't know the difference - but I
sure do. :)
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com]
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 12:47 PM
To: NT System Admin I
H? Hyper-V is free.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 12:56 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: EBS (Essential Business Server) is Dead
Oh yeah? That is
in using local users
- which you can't do on a DC that isn't in recovery mode or safe mode - and
assigning permissions to local (Builtin) groups; which you absolutely CAN do.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Glen Johnson
Dsacls.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 2:50 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: DumpSEC...but for ADUC?
Anyone know of a tool that can dump permissions of ADUC
I just had a server BSOD with 0x3f and the service in the dump callstack was
Vipre.
Granted, the server was having issues - a volume had just filled up.
Is there a known issue with Vipre and full volumes?
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
No, unfortunately. I tend to either move them "whole" (like you did below) or
do a 2003 -> 2008 migration at the same time. It's hard to do any pre-building
in either of those scenarios.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.co
Heh. Sorry. It wasn't either a boot or system volume; it was a file volume. I
should've said that. My bad.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Friday, Marc
s where it makes
sense. Very few and far between. But they exist.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us]
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 8:39 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exch
up understanding the format of an Exchange
database as well as Microsoft does. To that I say "hah!"
If DIR is enabled, then items stay in DIR even if the users delete those items
from their Deleted Items folder. They can then be recovered by using "Recover
Deleted Items" from Out
That registry setting is not required in Outlook 2007 or above. (And in fact,
its meaning has changed over the years, but that's a topic for an entire
article, not a mailing list post.)
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: p
This capability for a user to purge an item in DIR goes away in Exchange 2010
with "Dumpster 2.0".
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 12:06 PM
To: NT Sy
Are you directing that question that to me?
For SBS I use pass-through disks (DAS).
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: David Baca [mailto:dbaca.gr...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 12:53 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re
.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 1:22 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: DNS Server service shuts down shortly after the DC boots
Curious thing, started a few
vents"
all this time. That must be the default, I don't recall ever changing it.
Carl
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 1:39 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: DNS Server service shuts down shortly after the DC boots
This would
Oh, sorry. I can remember when I worked for an ISP, once you said that, that we
had issues with the authoritative servers coming up quickly and it eventually
got fixed.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house
AD Integrated is the key, I think.
Background loading applies to standard primary/secondary zones.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Tim Evans [mailto:tev...@sparling.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 3:59 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Outsourcing, SaaS, cloud computing, application service providers, hosted
solutions - they've been around since at least the 1970's.
Those who don't study the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them. :-)
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Ex
Sorry, I haven't been following this entire thread, but just thought I'd throw
this in...SQL Management Studio Express Edition (SMSEE) is also available - for
"free" - from Microsoft.com/downloads.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheE
I would install the one for sql express 2005.
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=5d76230d-580d-4874-8c7d-93491a29db15>
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:r
-from-in-house-exchange-to-hosted-exchange.aspx>
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Ralph Smith [mailto:m...@gatewayindustries.org]
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 9:33 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE
No. You used to have to fill out a form (which was basically contact
information that Microsoft uses in case of finding critical bugs in a piece of
software). I suspect that that is still true, but it's been a long time since I
worked for an ISV.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultan
It must be a CMD file launched from diskshadow.
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Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 2:44 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Diskshadow exec script
I
He's a busy boy.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 12:44 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Virtual Server Tra
You should do it with transport rules so a message can be re-signed. In my
opinion.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Jeff S. Gottlieb [mailto:jeff.s.gottl...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 11:35 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Yes.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Kevin Lundy [mailto:klu...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 12:04 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: VIPER: NO Disclaimers in email (caused by email digital
certificates)
That would
Actually, it's an Exchange MVP who is a reseller of the GoDaddy certificates
(GoDaddy has a pretty nice reseller program). He helped popularize GoDaddy as a
provider of UCC (SAN) certs early on in the Exchange 2007 startup era.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
I'm going to say "yes", but I'm still not exactly sure what you are going for
there. Look at "-match", "findstr", and "select".
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto
.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com]
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 4:48 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Powershell Question
Hey Michael,
Here is some of the output of two snapped dri
As long as they aren't SBS.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 4:09 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: 2 Domains on same subnet?
I have a network where I&#x
Xcacls will do it (although depending on what OS you are running you might want
to download the update from Microsoft downloads).
However, icacls has an easier syntax (which is less powerful but should meet
your needs in this case). Take a look at it.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and
Yes, this is true.
At least as of today - their UCC certificates are LESS than the published price
on GoDaddy.com itself.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com]
Sent
Diskpart.exe
Select volume 1
Assign letter=Z
Quit
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 5:01 PM
To: NT System Admin
True. It was intended as an example. I probably should've noted that.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 5:36 PM
To: NT System
Please be aware that 2008 and 2008 R2 are very different in this regard - they
are as different as Vista and Win7 are in desktop appearance.
Install the Print Server role and read the documentation/help file that comes
with it. It goes into detail how to migrate.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
nd 2008 R2.
Now, in 2008 R2, if the Windows Firewall won't start, then it WILL generate an
error in one event log or another. You need to track that down and fix it! :-P
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: John Bowles [mailto
Send'em an email and have them change their passwords remotely. You don't
mention whether you have Exchange or not, but the change-password capability is
built into OWA. You can also using IISADMPWD if you don't have Exchange.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Ex
How so?
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 9:20 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Remote user password expire
With one caveat to add - doing this through an SSL
I think you'll have to audit object access to get that.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org]
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 10:43 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Computer account creation
So.
But they can immediately reconnect with the new password, can't they?
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 9:25 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Remote
No, shouldn't be a consideration.
Have you verified your event log is clean? I truly expect you should be getting
information about a service startup failure.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: John Bowles [mailto:joh
Do you have a CA on the same side of the firewall as this new DC?
I think I'd demote this server, remove it from the domain, re-add it, and then
repromote. Assuming you do have an available CA. Otherwise - you are going to
need access to a CA!
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exc
ing rate for.
Still, it was cheaper and faster than the old "washing machine" removable disk
drives.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us]
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 12:57
Exchange 2010 requires you to be at a Windows 2003 DFL/FFL, and other than that
it just doesn't care.
If you CAN upgrade your DCs, I would upgrade to 2008 R2 and never look back.
But unless your DCs are already overburdened, there is no requirement to do so.
Regards,
Michael B.
Yep. I'm giving one "from the field" presentation on 2003 -> 2010 upgrades and
a pre-conference workshop on HA in 2010 for all server roles (not just MB).
Gonna see you there?
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: F
ut the pre-conf workshop, it's an awful of hands-on.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 12:06 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: dell rant [OT reply]
Ha Ha
x
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org]
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 12:33 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Windows Server 2008 R2 Data Center Per-Proccessor Quest
Pick one printer to start with. Make sure that the driver you have installed
for that printer on the 2003 server is ALSO compatible with 2008. Export
it/import it. See if that works.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message
x27;t come
across.
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Michael B. Smith
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From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 10:16 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Problems importing printers from
I went through this recently...PN actually disappeared a couple of versions ago.
The last version that supported Program Neighborhood was 11.0.150. So, remove
the new one and install the old one.
Webster helped me find it. I'm sure he can provide more details.
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Michael B.
I think a lot of this turns out to be about the tools and the effort involved
in generating "help" in different formats.
We've had this discussion with the Exchange team several times now. (Where "we"
means "Exchange MVPs".)
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Michael B. Smi
at generates as much "help" as MSFT - it's a big deal.
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Michael B. Smith
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From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 9:21 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Decide on
When I worked for an ISP several years ago we did this then. We had trouble
getting publics to hand-out even then. So, we had a business-class and a
home-class solution. Business-class came with public (and cost more).
Home-class didn't.
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Michael B. Smith
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Technical question - will that work without that web thingie set up on the
citrix server? :-P
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Michael B. Smith
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From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 10:52 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
There are Outlook forums on Yahoo Groups, Experts Exchange, and MS-Technet.
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Michael B. Smith
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From: Justino Garcia [mailto:jgarciaitl...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 6:26 PM
To: NT System
<http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2010/01/29/a-brief-history-of-time-ok-ok-let-s-go-with-quot-an-introduction-to-the-windows-time-service-quot.aspx>
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From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto
My blog post links to the vmware best practice papers.
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Michael B. Smith
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From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 1:11 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: NTP, VM's
VI
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From: tony patton [mailto:tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com]
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 1:00 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: [OT]: Script Editors
Slightly OT, but
Ttthhht
:-)
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Michael B. Smith
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From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com]
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 1:39 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: : Script Editors
On 26 Mar
Hyper-V is "free". :-)
R2 performs significantly better than Hyper-V 1.0.
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Michael B. Smith
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From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 8:20 AM
To: NT Sy
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