RE: Paging the parents.

There are 9. You forgot the twins. J Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php From: gswe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.

RE: Child Domain

1] None. Sites are forest-wide, not tied to a particular domain. 2] You've still gotta upgrade the forest schema to win2008 to support a win2008 DC at any level in the forest. Any other impact is minimal. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog:

RE: Paging the parents.

HAH. J OK, we call those "diaper disposals" J Yet another American vs. British differing usage. Like this: http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2437622 Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blo

RE: MS DPM

t either open file agents or VSS. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php From: Phil Thompson [mailto:ph...@wpiinc.com] Sent: Monday, Jan

RE: Paging the parents. (UNCLASSIFIED)

As far as the kids are concerned, it is just "our family". But no, we are quite blended. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php

RE: MS DPM

I'm investigating. I suspect I know why, but I'll try to get a definitive answer. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php

RE: Exchange question

Just create an SMTP connector scoped to that particular domain. If you need to use something like TLS along with that, create a separate SMTP virtual server that requires TLS to go along with the SMTP connector. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http

RE: program for last accessed?

Windows Explorer. Just add the column to the view. (Note that this depends on you having NOT made the registry change which suppresses the storage of lastAccessTime.) Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I&#x

RE: SMB question..

ouldn't do herself. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -Original Message- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Tuesday,

RE: SMB question..

In SBS 4.5 (?? Whichever one had Exchange55), there were changes to the products themselves (small, but they were there), for both Exchange and SQL. That turned out to be a disaster for PSS. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs

RE: SMB question..

I'm sure not questioning that the integration components are a big deal. They are. So are the migration components. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/

RE: MS DPM

This is because DPM is intended to be run on a dedicated server. The designers could not imagine that someone would "waste" a data-center license for a dedicated DPM server. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blo

RE: MS DPM

Sure, absolutely. Why would you want to for a DPM VM? Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.

RE: SMB question..

ExBPA correctly tells you how to set up your boot.ini; regardless of whether you are SBS, standalone, DC/GC, or whatever. It takes all of those into account. It also tells you lots of other things. I recommend it. :-) Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http

RE: Why is the min. rec. paging file size 1.5x?

"Multi-file hack" isn't required on x64 systems. Minimum size should be 10 MB. On Exchange servers the recommendation is RAM + 10MB. Personally, that's what I set on all servers. 1.5x is a carry-over from 32MB systems and Win95. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/

RE: Why is the min. rec. paging file size 1.5x?

The 2mb/10mb addition is to give room to relocate enough memory for the dump routines to execute. The default settings for the current OS's is "system managed". Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I&#x

RE: Why is the min. rec. paging file size 1.5x?

true that it's possible to run workloads in which you need both significantly more virtual memory and workloads in which you need significantly less. Any guideline is just that - a place to start your own evaluation. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MV

RE: Why is the min. rec. paging file size 1.5x?

is sometimes a PITA - I hate dead links). So if you can make a specific complaint or specific recommendation for improvement - there is a good chance that it'll show up in 3-6 months. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/mi

RE: Why is the min. rec. paging file size 1.5x?

ny cores" work being done. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tue

RE: Speaking of page file

Jkdefrag is free and fast. But like Micheal, my pagefiles are single contiguous files. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -Original Message

RE: Training -- Where do you go?

ME ME ME ME! J Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 20

RE: Thin Client Longevity

I used Virtuozo in an "earlier life" (i.e., when I was working for someone else). I was VERY impressed with the performance and the control available in that environment, both for Linux and Windows. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My

RE: Speaking of page file

prime benefits jkdefrag gives you with its "default" optimization criteria. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -Original Mes

RE: Speaking of page file

No clue whatsoever. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.

RE: Speaking of page file

rag it. It is supported. I must admit though, the thought had never crossed my mind. I should go play with that some. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index

RE: Speaking of page file

In Server 2008, the OS automatically aligns new partitions. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -Original Message- From: Scott Kau

Service Pack Blocker Expiration Announcement

The expiration date (that is, that date at which the blocker will no longer "block" installation of the service pack) for the Service Pack Blocker Tool for Windows Vista SP1 is April 28, 2009; for Windows XP SP3 the expiration date is May 19, 2009. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MC

RE: Ipswitch WUG MSP edition

OpsMgr, Altiris, Tivoli, SMS, the list goes on and on. At this point, I'm remind that "you get what you pay for". Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! htt

RE: SMTP Virtual Server, access, connection control entries

There is a COM object that makes those things available via vbscript. Google for exipsec. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php From: Ja

RE: DPM Prerequisite software

.NET Framework is all I can think of. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: Tuesday, F

RE: SUSPECT: RE: MCSE question

Bah. You should think of certs and degrees merely as ways to get you entry. I work with lots of banks and educational institutions; and subcontract to other consulting firms. Certs and degrees are the price of entry. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My

RE: Virtual PC

This (built in) is available to you as a part of MDOP. If you have SA. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -Original Message- From: Came

Windows Server Foundation Edition

Has anyone actually SEEN this SKU for sale anywhere? Dell, HP, Ingram Micro, and CDW don't have it. Or claim not to. Anyone have a source? Thanks, M ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

RE: Windows Server Foundation Edition

120 G5 DL320 G5p Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 Active Directory, 4th Ed - http://www.briandesmond.com/ad4/ Microsoft MVP - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Brian From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 12:

RE: Windows Server Foundation Edition

Todd Lemmiksoo [mailto:tlemmik...@all-mode.com] Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 11:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows Server Foundation Edition Is this version only for the HP models below? ____ From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: M

RE: Password Policy - - how do you handle this?

I don't think the behavior is as you expect. Fire up a virtual AD and check. :-) But I still think it's silly. YMMV. From: Jeremy Anderson [jer...@mapiadmin.net] Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Password Policy - - how do

RE: Question on Terminal Server 2008 Session Broker

I don't understand your question. (Not that I could answer it, but I know the authors of the TS resource guide, and I'm happy to ask them.) From: Tom Miller [tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Question

RE: Windows Internal Database on SBS

look at the created databases to decide. however, in general, the two you name are the only ones involved. From: Jonathan Link [jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 11:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows Internal Database on SBS M

RE: Shadow Copy Management

You didn't say what server OS version - but the diskshadow tool in Server 2008 can help you with this. From: Steph Balog [validemai...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 10:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Shadow Copy Management Is there any t

RE: LDAP Authentication

that depends to a certain degree how you are going to do it. for example, using OpenDSObject() would just fail if the passed username and password aren't proper. but a strict answer to your question is "read" i believe. From: Kennedy, Jim [kennedy...@elyriaschoo

RE: Disabling NETBIOS

That article should be taken out and SHOT. Microsoft doesn't change it because it's easier for PSS to say "install WINS" than it is to explain how to properly configure short name resolution. This is the key paragraph - throw the rest of it away: Exchange 2003 uses Windows name resolution APIs

RE: Disabling NETBIOS

27;s easy to get along without WINS. From: Ben Scott [mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 11:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Disabling NETBIOS On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > That article should be taken out and SHOT.

RE: BITS question

Absolutely. JUst FYI, if you ask me 'how', I'll point you at technet/msdn. :-) From: Sam Cayze [sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 11:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: BITS question Curious, can other Apps use BITS? ___

RE: BITS question

there?!?! IMO they should be using it. :) From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 11:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: BITS question Absolutely. JUst FYI, if you ask me 'how', I'll point

RE: Memory Dumps on large RAM OS

Yes, and they take a damn long time to transfer too. Best practice for pagefile size on 64-bit Exchange Servers is RAM + 15 MB. And page file space is only loosely correlated to "paging out". I've got a great presentation on this topic that was made in a closed forum by Mark Russinovich (of sys

RE: Memory Dumps on large RAM OS

ble. Do you need Secret Squirrel level clearance? -- ME2 On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Michael B. Smith mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com>> wrote: Yes, and they take a damn long time to transfer too. Best practice for pagefile size on 64-bit Exchange Servers is RAM + 15 MB. And page file

RE: Steve Riley - good bye and good luck

I find that truly unexpected and shocking. If I were to guess - he was ready to move on. From: Ken Schaefer [...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 8:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Steve Riley - good bye and good luck http://blogs.technet.

RE: Memory Dumps on large RAM OS

; doesn't have a new major release number (i.e 7.0), and is still within the 6.x cycle. -- ME2 On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Michael B. Smith mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com>> wrote: what you commonly see in the non-public presentations is "why" something is the wa

RE: Email rejecting

It's a "wrapping" issue. Lyris doesn't know how to properly expand an OWA RTF'ed MIME reply. But guess what - I'm using OWA 2010 and it works fine because they went to straight HTML email... :-) From: Tim Vander Kooi [tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Thursday

RE: Email rejecting

but you are neither blond nor a bimbo! :-) From: Free, Bob [r...@pge.com] Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 1:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Email rejecting I'll venture :-) Winmail.dat attached by OWA that Lyris doesn't like Bring it on MBS :-

RE: Memory Dumps on large RAM OS

c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 3:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Memory Dumps on large RAM OS Yes, and they take a damn long time to transfer too. Best practice for pagefile size on

RE: Dumping users and groups from AD into csv

why powershell? adfind -default -f "(&(objectcategory=user)(objectclass=person))" samaccountname memberof -csv -nodn (and believe me, if I thought that PowerShell was the best tool for the job, I would tell you.) adfind is available at http://www.joeware.net _

RE: AD groups search to find out where group is all applied in domain

It could be written...but it would be "expensive" in terms of processing resources. From: James Rankin [kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 7:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AD groups search to find out where group is all applied in

RE: AD groups search to find out where group is all applied in domain

One of my clients has something called "Varonis" that tracks security changes to file systems. They like it because it allows them (among the security changes) to see when a user has, for example, picked up a folder and moved it under another folder. I do AD and Exchange for them, I'm not invol

RE: Shadow Copy Management

Using "vssadmin list shadows" or diskshadow "list shadows all" provides you output that can be easily parsed via PowerShell to get you the creation dates. Then, you can use either of those two utilities to delete the shadow copies. From: Steph Balog [vali

RE: OT:70-640 Test

Not when I took it. From: Brumbaugh, Luke [luke.brumba...@butlerahs.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 3:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT:70-640 Test Was most of this test, Certificate services and Federation? That’s most of the questions in trancen

RE: OT:70-640 Test

e for 70-640 based on the test's objective domain. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Monitoring Exchange w/OpsMgr now available http://snurl.com/45ppf From: Brumbaugh, Luke [luke

RE: OT-RE: Account Unknown profiles

mgmt = dip $sh1T$ sr. mgmt = dip $sh1T$ + dumb $sh1T$ (having been sr. mgmt twice in my career, I'm qualified to say that.) From: Andy Shook [andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 9:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT-RE: Accou

RE: 17,5 mill Hard Drive

There is always a PEAPing Tim VK around here... From: Micheal Espinola Jr [michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 5:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: 17,5 mill Hard Drive Two PEAPing Tom's in my Windows... -- ME2 On Wed, May 27, 20

RE: Amusing

1 / 5.6 = 17%; pretty average for a SIS factor. Compression of content will more than make up for it. Wherever possible, E14 will compress content prior to storing it into the mailbox database. The cost of doing this is far less than the cost of the extra I/O. As Brian notes - JBOD containing

RE: Amusing

The general plan here is to improve performance when you have large mailboxes. "Most", but not all (granted) folks would say that it's OK to use more disk space if that effectively removes a key performance blocker. SIS was designed and implemented when Exchange supported a SINGLE database and

RE: Amusing

uires constant regression testing, and which bean counters wanted culled? I'm shocked... :-) Cheers Ken ____________ From: Michael B. Smith [mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Monday, 1 June 2009 1:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Amusing The gen

RE: Dos Nested FOR Loops

You said it yourself: use CALL. CALL /? for more information. From: Joseph L. Casale [jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 1:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Dos Nested FOR Loops Hey guys, how comes this doesn't execute the sec

RE: Google Aps

you need to look at, i swear, the "total value proposition". i don't generally talk in marketing speak, but in this case - you get what you pay for. what parts of exchange do you use? what email client? how does that feature set compare within GA? are those features even available? (think deleg

RE: OT: Google Aps

Google sells HARD toward select medium-sized businesses. They go in and talk about backups and infrastructure and expensive administrators and how, with a Google solution, you don't have to have any of those. That speaks to management where in counts - in the P&L statement. That's why I said a

RE: Create Rule to notify when a daily email doesn't show in my inbox/folder

That's pretty good. You can (i.e., the royal "you", the OP) do what you want with OpsMgr. If an e-mail didn't get sent - generate an alert. It's pretty easy. But if you don't have OpsMgr - well, forget my idea. :-P From: Jacob [ja...@excaliburfilms.com] Sent: Mo

RE: server monitoring

Someone else mentioned it, but I'm using (more and more, but not exclusively) Polymon. It's pretty darned good. Especially for free! From: Erik Goldoff [egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 4:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: server monito

RE: Semi-OT: PowerShell

I wrote a five-part series on my blog on using PowerShell for accessing different database platforms. http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2008/01/07/multi-platform-database-access-with-powershell.aspx Using those routines, it should be trivial to adapt to PostgresSQL.

RE: NewSID

As I did then, I still will now - respectfully disagree. There are use cases that newsid addresses which sysprep does not. In the best of all possible worlds, sysprep is the right answer.But I often don't live in the best of all possible worlds. From: Br

RE: NewSID

There is a machine SID which is unique to a machine, that is generated during installation. That never changes. There is also a domain SID that is generated when a machine joins a domain (for the computer account). From: John Hornbuckle [john.hornbuc...@t

RE: NewSID

No, it shouldn't. The "generalize" process should generate a unique SID for every non-cloned installation. From: Joe Heaton [jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 1:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NewSID Could be...that would do it

RE: NewSID

rnbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 2:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NewSID Is there a problem with having duplicate machine SIDs, so long as the domain SIDs are unique? -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: F

RE: My OS is better than your OS

Why do you think Win7 is any different? It has the same security model as Vista. It has the same driver model as Vista. Vista RTM had challenges. Modern Vista really doesn't. Win7 may be marginally faster than Vista (I see a slightly snappier GUI - but I don't see any compute intensive tasks g

RE: Google Mail

Not true. The entire SMTP session is available to administrators with Exchange. GMail doesn't make that information available to ANYone. From: Ben Scott [mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 5:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: G

RE: Diskshadow Script

I would do the test in a script that executes immediately before your diskshadow execution. Use VSSADMIN LIST SHADOWS to look at the existing shadows. With PowerShell, parsing the messy output is a snap. Again using VSSADMIN, delete the "bad" shadowcopies. Alternately, you could run something

RE: Recording webinars - what do you use?

Camtasia - which isn't free but does like a gazillion things. (Note: there is a CamStudio which is free, but has much less feature content) I also use "Debut Video Capture Software" of which there is a free version. From: Eric Wittersheim [eric.wittersh...@gmail.

RE: EDB to PST conversion Tools

So do Quest, Lucid8, and AppAssure. (Note: I've reviewed software from all of these companies for compensation, in the past.) And shockingly, it only takes a few thousand lines of MAPI code to do it for yourself. :-) (For a mount-able database. Being able to do it with a database that will NOT

RE: EDB to PST conversion Tools

I did get it taken care of, didn't I? Haven't you looked at the change in behavior as of about UR6/7 to sp1? Or am I mis-remembering the specific issue we discussed? From: Joseph L. Casale [jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 2:26 PM T

RE: EDB to PST conversion Tools

It WILL work with Exchange 2007, given the caveat of "ANSI PSTs vs Unicode PSTs". However, it is not supported. And don't get me started on thatI can write 500 or so lines of C++ MAPI that will do the same thing as ExMerge (well, just for the export piece) and that IS supported, but ExMerg

RE: Google Mail

hey - they need SOME reason to get you to upgrade. From: Ben Scott [mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 8:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Google Mail On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Brian Desmond wrote: >> HHOS. If someone

RE: Licensing question

Unless it's SQL Express. But there is now a SQL Server Web Edition that is "approximately" equivalent to SQL Server Workgroup. From: Joe Heaton [jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 1:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Licensing q

RE: Filter Vista security log to show only audit failures?

Eh, the main changes in Vista (and Server 2008, and Win7 and Server 2008 R2, etc. etc.) were to provide the "programmer" with more control and fewer limitations. For example, you no longer have an effective 300 MB limit on the size of event logs, as you did pre-Vista. For example, you can have

RE: Filter Vista security log to show only audit failures?

ter Vista security log to show only audit failures? On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > Eh, the main changes in Vista (and Server 2008, and Win7 and Server 2008 R2, > etc. etc.) were to provide the "programmer" with more control and fewer > limitations.

RE: OT: Meanwhile, in the real world...

With the current administration? I doubt it. (Darn it, I broke my general rule to stay out of political discussions.) From: Kurt Buff [kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 7:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Meanwhile, in the r

RE: Bleep'n window server 2008 terminal server

Interesting. I've got literally thousands of HP printers running the UPD (v5). From: Phil Brutsche [p...@optimumdata.com] Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 6:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Bleep'n window server 2008 terminal server Tried it. Don'

RE: Confused a bit re: sbs.

SBS assumes - for good reason - that you've followed their procedures and their wizards and their setup lists for configuring your server. IF you do that, you won't get that message. You can also go through the console and specify that you've already done that to suppress the message.

RE: GPO's and remote servers

boys boys boys... relativistic time is still only a hypothesis. while it apparently describes certain events that occur in the universe, until a human object is accelerated to relativistic speeds, decelerates, and then returns to earth (with or without an additional relativistic interval during

RE: Exchange stuff

The Sunbelt Exchange list is the highest volume list around. There are also several Yahoo Lists that have volume and good folks. MSExchange.org also runs an Exchange list. Outside of those, you have the Microsoft forums. Now, most of the issues you report are SBS issues. And yep, they can be p

RE: Terminal Services question

RDP in Vista (and above) and Server 2008 (and above) provide the capability of TLS-encrypting the RDP sessions - built in. The updated RDP client is available for XP/2003 via Microsoft Update. From: Ben Scott [mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 0

RE: Terminal Services question

And you've now re-invented Remote Web Workplace, available in SBS 2003 and EBS/SBS 2008... From: mikeMitchell [its.m...@analogy.ca] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 2:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Terminal Services question I set up a TS Gat

RE: Network Monitor

NTOP and WireShark are good choices...but don't forget Microsoft's Network Monitor 3.3. I think it has the best protocol analyzer's available. And it's free. From: Cameron Cooper [ccoo...@aurico.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 10:46 AM To: NT System Admin Iss

RE: troubleshooting website performance

I would start with web analytics software so you can determine which transactions are specifically at issue, concurrent with that - what does perfmon have to say? From: Andy Shook [andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 4:44 PM To: NT System Admin I

RE: Terminal Services question

009 5:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Terminal Services question On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > RDP in Vista (and above) and Server 2008 (and above) provide the capability of > TLS-encrypting the RDP sessions - built in. That's not what I was

RE: Terminal Services question

Shookie-pooh. From: Webster [carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 5:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Terminal Services question > -Original Message- > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] >

RE: Import-mailbox duplicate behaviour

My advice to you (and all other readers) - don't depend on default behavior. Specify all available parameters. From: Oliver Marshall [oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 4:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Import-mailbox duplicate b

RE: Gmail

Oh? And what fully-featured Email/PIM do you find to be more stable than Outlook? From: David Lum [david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 3:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Gmail So has Outlook…. From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@g

RE: Gmail

admin for many years, many versions. (Exchange admin as well but I can't say Exchange didn't go down, but I hear 2010 is real good.) >>> "Michael B. Smith" 7/7/2009 7:35 PM >>> Oh? And what fully-featured Email/PIM do you find to be more stable than Outlook?

RE: Firefox 3.5 Silent Install.

A power user is an admin who hasn't bothered to make themselves an admin - yet. From: Stephen Wimberly [riverside...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 7:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Firefox 3.5 Silent Install. Actually to install FireFox,

RE: Win2003 DC on Win2000 domain

Most of my customers are SMBs. I've walked away from a LOT of business over the years, primarily for the reason you mentioned. I won't work for a company that refuses to take even the most basic steps to take care of themselves. They can find someone that charges half my rate and spends three o

RE: CAL Licensing Question!

IANAL/B/S (lawyer/barrister/soliciter) - and as far as I know, no one else here is either. I can make some guesses on how I would pursue this, but there is more information required than you state in your email. http://microsoft.com/licensing - you'll find telephone numbers for your locality, y

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