tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10792886587639300282011-11-27T19:29:56.379-05:00Everyday problems, solutions and thoughtsOne Man IT Shophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06319136799048155466noreply@blogger.comBlogger581100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1079288658763930028.post-14348610860181245812009-11-09T16:17:00.003-05:002009-11-09T16:43:13.386-05:00

Firefox came to our world 5 years ago and how big of a difference did it make!For me it wasn't easy but I was able to convert more then 75% of my users off IE and onto Firefox. I was never able to make the Firefox adm work in my Active Directory environment so I had to find another way.Chris Ilias wrote a Locking Mozilla Firefox Settings manual in his blog. The concept is changing the preferences

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I wanted to test my Internet speed at the office. I asked Verizon to provide the data but since they have time and more then 3 month later I'm still waiting, I started playing with some online tools. I picked speakeasy's speed test as my testing tool and found some puzzling results...I used my PC to test different browsers (FireFox 3.5.4 & IE6) using different path (firewall as default gateway &

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During the weekend I was working with my development team on a new Oracle based app installation.The part that interested me was a problem they had getting connections work with our remote backup location. This location has a 2nd Oracle server which we sync to the main production machine in our NY office.The problem seem to be DNS related and not being able to resolve names from that machine we

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I manage an ApplicationXtender server which is used to manage documents for compliance and accounting purposes. We used to work with a local user database but few years back we switched to the AD synced mode which uses the local logged user. This way I win twice: The password is more secure since it is changed by the domain policy AND the user is not prompt with login screen for

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I was at a new site for a consulting job and found so many security holes that I had the need to write down few basics for those who didn't know or already forgotten.When you configure a new router you should decide on a security method that will keep it as secured as possible. Keep in mind that doing nothing is NOT a method.Working for a small to mid-size shop you're the only one handling the

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We're using an AVAYA S8400 server going out to 3 lines:2 PRIs for local and long distance calls T1 for International calls2 weeks ago users started to complain about static on the line on local and long distance calls. At first when it was one or two users I thought it might be the phone though you expect a failed hardware to fail at all times and the static was random.Then more and more users

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Security is the reason Domino Server require all ID files to recertify once every 2 years (that is the default, can be changed manually).When the expiration date get close Domino is kind enough to notify the user and there is your problem...Typically there are 3 groups of users:Some users will actually read the message that ask them to forward it to an administrator (a one click action). Most of

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A while back I told my HP Printers backorder story. In short, I've been waiting for my HP 2035 since August because it was back ordered. The good news is that I received a notification email that the printer has been shipped and will be here Monday. Hooray

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We have a Global Crossing line. It is a dual router BGP setup with HSRP between the local routers in my office and BGP fall back on the Global Crossing infrastructure.This morning, few minutes before the opening bell the primary circuit died. As a result the connection failed over to the backup line, which is what you'd expect. The problem started when the primary line started to bounce. Whenever

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Today, just as I got ready to leave for the day my CEO popped from nowhere and said "I need your help". Thank you very much!He walked into his office and asked me to look at his Lotus Notes. One of our sale guys sent an invite to few clients where the CEO was Cc'd but the attachment only showed a pdf icon but had no real file attached to the mail.Since it was late afternoon in the US and the

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Check this Oct 9th 1:36pm scary message from Omgeo, a financial data service provider:Due to a fire in a transformer in Boston, our Boston Data Center has been shut down. Additionally, the switch which enables us to migrate direct connect customers from the primary to backup connections has been damaged in the fire. All leased line client connections via Thomson Reuters Network are currently down

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A user called in with a problem: she can't open her Yahoo! Mail account. She does log in and see the main template, it show "3 unread messages" at the screen title but the messages are not loading.When I stepped to her desk I noticed that her iexplorer.exe process uses 99% of the CPU. I killed it and asked her to try again. Same problem, same solution. I tried a different approach and used my

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Cisco released IOS 15.0. This is the next major release after 12.4. It’s been over 4 years since Cisco has delivered a major release of IOS code - 12.4 was released in May of 2005.Looking at the list of new features there are few interesting items but none of them appeal to the average SMB.the one feature we might find useful at the SMB level is Cisco DHCP FORCERENEW which enhances security by

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Yesterday, just after 3pm our Internet connection had some major problems.While browsing and most IM clients died, inbound mail still flowed and MSN Messenger was live at all times.Testing the network I started with the immediate suspect for any Internet failure - the Proxy server. Seconds later, when I realized that Proxy was up and even when I bypass it I can't browse, I started testing my

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Today I want to go over the new Group Policy Preferences that come with 2008 server.I recently added a 2008 server in my shop and the new options are exciting!I think it is a major improvement that worth the upgrade. The fact that you only need one server to use it make it even more appealing.Check this great video to get a first look.The management screen is split to Policies - where most of the

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Using ISA Server as a firewall years back and as my Proxy server for the last few years I learned to appreciate GFI's WebMonitor application.Now it has a FREE version!If you never tried it before because you did not have the budget or just because you never heard of it, this is the perfect opportunity. The monitoring provide data that most small shops do not have about WHO and HOW MUCH. If you do

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A client sent a 6MB email to one of my users and got the following message:This is an automatically generated Delivery Status NotificationDelivery to the following recipient failed permanently:Username@MyDomain.comTechnical details of permanent failure:Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further

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following Gmail's problems of last week I must share this comic from Rosscott.

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This is one of those unbelievable recession stories.One of my users called in with a broken printer. His HP 2015P stopped rolling paper and since new printers cost just like a technician's visit (the printer is over a year old and its warranty already expired) we have a no fix policy for this type of printers.I buy most of my equipment via CDW and when I placed the order for a new HP 2035 (HP2015

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Google is aware that some people are experiencing an e-mail outage. This is becoming a quarterly or even bi-monthly event...at 10:29AM this message was posted:We're aware of a problem with Google Mail affecting a small subset of users. The affected users are unable to access Google Mail, but we've provided a workaround below. We will provide an update by September 24, 2009 11:29:00 AM UTC-4

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Earlier today I've received a call from one of my users asking to recover a file from backup. He explained that last week's power shutdown caused some files mess up in his home directory. Blame it on the network, that's the way to go!I wrote down the file name and exact path and loaded Backup Exec's Restore wizard. Looking at all my weekly full backups I found the Friday prior to the power

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Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) is coming out next month and it is time to take a first look at this new exciting tool.It will be released as part of Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) 2009 R2.The new release include 3 main features you should know about:Multi Forest/Multi Domain SupportAGPM 3.0 does not support multi-forest/multi-domain environments and requires to use import/

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Last night, just before 3AM most of our floor lost power. The first to take the hit where PCs as they do not have any power backups.My servers and routers kept going for additional 90-110 minutes based on the UPS they connected to.I have a bunch of APC UPS systems both from the 2200 & 3000 series. An hour and a half later, just few minutes after most UPS died, the power came back. For most

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I had to make some partitioning changes on few machines. The thought of doing it manually, one by one was depressing. So I spent some time reading and playing with DiskPart and saved myself precious time.DiskPart is a text-mode command that enables you to manage objects (disks, partitions, or volumes) by using scripts or direct input at a command prompt.DiskPart is present in XP, Vista and

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The technical blogosphere is buzzing. BBC, CNET, neowin and everyone else cover the approval of the 802.11n high-throughput wireless LAN standard by the IEEE. It took almost 7 and we have a 6 time faster wireless connection. Most vendors already use it or require a firmware upgrade for the existing hardware. As always, I try to look at the news in the OneManITShop eyes: How would it change MY

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Part I covered the basic concept of Domain Trust. Part II covered the different Trust types. Now it’s time to go over Trust related troubleshooting skillsThe first step is determining the type of Trust. There are few ways to complete this task:Active Directory Domains and Trusts console - The Domain ‘Properties’ box has a Trusts tab with all available Trusts for the DomainActive Directory Users

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Ever had to add users to a local admin group but had no access to the computer? Add a special user account in the Administrator group of every computer on the network for remote administrative functions?Group Policy Restricted Groups enables you - as the administrator - to configure group memberships on the client computers or member servers. Cool. Useful!!!The “Restricted Groups” option allow 2

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After a long weekend and first day of school I walked in today and started my Firefox browser. After few seconds it crashed. up to this point, nothing much to tell about, happen every once in a while.The story is the recovery process. When Firefox crashes it is coming up again and recovering all web pages so other then the irritating process, you do not have a real damage (though it is annoying).

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Early this morning I had a problem on one of my DHCP servers. One scope got messy and I wanted to get it fixed fast enough so ealy birds coming in will not notice the problem.Lucky me i had a recent backup of my DHCP so all I had to do was restoring it to the server.Netsh.exe utility is a functional tool that can be used for many tasks around your domain. my particular task here was importing the

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A simple request from a user made me work a bit before I found this neat solution:Mapped drives at Windows Explorer are display by default as: - (OneManITShop Data on FileServer\ShopData M:)A much easier way to see it, and this users requrested just that is the other way around: (M: OneManITShop Data on FileServer\ShopData)An easy solution (I do not use 'the solution' since some other

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I always struggle with this subject: a user come back from vacation and instead of chocolate, she bring her laptop and want you to fix it. Why? Because she used the hotel WiFi and her unsecured private laptop is now a bag full of viruses.As the cheap (well, more FREE then cheap) available technician I'm the obvious choice for the user but should I provide this service?This is one of the major

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Part I covered the basic concept of Domain Trust. Now it’s time to go over the different Trust types. Two-way trust is the most common type and the easiest to understand. In a Windows forest any 2 domains trust each other both ways and they are transitive trusts. That said, any new child domain you create within the forest is automatically trusted and trusting.The result of a Two-way trust is

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I have a single user working from his home in London. Sharing our services is easy and I hardly ever hear from him. This morning I got a call from this guy and he told me that he will need Microsoft Publisher license for his soon to be expired 60 day trial.Sound like an easy task, right? Wrong!My first thought was going to Amazon and buy a new box, since he already got the software he does not

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This is one of those cases where everything works fine but the end result is failure. Each piece for it self is good but when combined it just doesn’t provide. Our trading floor has 4 flat screen TVs, one per wall. This setup allows everyone to have good view at one screen or more.When we setup this layout we had instructions to hide the cable boxes, both for the space and the clean line of the

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I had to give some users access to specific service on one of my servers but didn’t want them to have full domain admin permissions. Changing a service is not something Microsoft built a solution for so I had to be creative. As always, I checked for available 3rd party tools but ended up using this magical hidden native tool: SubInACL.exeSubInACL is one of those shy command-line tool that not too

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I had this problem on few different XP machines: Firefox crash over and over. When you select the 'restart' option at the crashed message screen it will reopen only to crash again. All the PCs are Windows XP SP2 and they all have a copy of eBlaster 6.0.3084.Surprisingly an upgrade fixes the problem... Installing eBlaster 6.0.3102 (and the required boot) make the problem go away...Nothing on

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Aladdin asked princess Jasmine for her trust and she, by the look of his eyes opened her heart to him and trusts him. Unfortunately real life doesn’t work like tales and we can’t trust anyone we don’t know just because they ask for it, even if they look good…I noticed (on my favorite forums) that this is a repeated subject, not always easy to understand for new administrators and I will try to

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I was at one of those Microsoft TechNet NYC events It wasn’t too fancy (like the launch they plan in Oct) or too crowded. I see it as a big plus because it indicates only people who come to listen are there. Yes, they had few giveaways but unlike those fancy events it was not about or around it.Primarily focusing on live demo and real life scenarios Dan Stolts used a laptop to show Win7 migration

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follow up an old post, Pidgin released an exciting new version.among many changes there is one huge addition:voice support with GTalk and voice and video support with the GMail web clientone more reason to switch!

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I had to restore a file this morning using my B2D job. While I had no problems and everyone is happy I found it to be the perfect opportunity to go over my backup plan. It can’t hurt.I backup 3 data types:Email (Domino Server)User data (aka files)Active DirectoryI’m using Backup Exec for all my backup jobs and most of the time I’m happy with the performance.Domino backup is done using the Domino

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We have a Group Policy that enforces password changes every 90 days.When I implemented it, everyone where synced (more or less) to change passwords at the same time frame. Over time it got more complicated to follow the password changes, mostly because some users change it as they get the 14 day warning and some wait to the last minute.Why do I need to know when users are set to expire? This is a

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I'm on my vacation and for a week now had no 3G (edited - AT&T can say but the facts are different), hardly had phone reception and even the WiFi suck.Upstate NY is much nicer and cooler then the city, the weather is great but it is a technology stone age. Dial up but a slow one!We spent a day on Vermont where locals told me that only 2 cities get 3G and the rest of the state is totally off!!!

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I'm leaving tomorrow for a week. In addition to the excitement of being out with my family and in a beautiful area, I have my concerns for my shop. This is the dark side of the OneManITShop, when you leave there is no backup. No one will be there for you. You have to teach some people basic tasks and mostly pray (also for good weather).I only hope my Firewall crisis covered all bad things for

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This is my personal Tractor Story…Remember how my firewall died? The next morning around 10am Fedex arrived with the new box. I opened the box and wondered if it is the hardware or the power cable. It was the hardware. Not even 2 years old piece of hardware just lost it. I copied the config (finally all those tedious Cisco backups pay back!) and it looked fine. Easy. Maybe too easy.I wanted to

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My firewall lost power around 1:30PM, an out of the blue surprise...Cisco already shipped a new firewall and lucky me, I have my ISA proxy in a working condition just in case. So the case is here!!!15 minutes later and we're up again via ISAStop. Pray. Breathe.

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The world used to split between those who used Internet Explorer and the rest of usNowadays the browsers world is different and if you still insist we can split it to old fashion users (mostly on IE) and the rest of usIn my company the older users and those who fear the computer use IE6. Why IE6? Well, when I tried upgrading to IE7 we had to spend so much time adjusting both to the security

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The other day one of my users went on a private vacation to Rome. While sitting in JFK he lost his thumb drive which contained an important report he was working on. The security was no problem in this case but there was something much more important – he already spent 5 working days on this report and he saved it all on his thumb drive. He never thought about keeping a copy on the network. He

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Did you ever work with Verizon? It is not an easy task as Verizon has many departments which are not synchronized with each other so you’re routed from one place to another.Here is a story I deal with for more then 3 month and the twist from this morning (don’t worry, it is just the beginning)One of my traders has clients in Europe. He is dialing different countries all over West Europe and its

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When Vista came we all heard the bad reviews and wanted to wait. With Windows 7 around the corner the reviews are mostly good and the question is in the air: should we upgrade?Vista had many problems starting with PR but one of the main real set backs was it’s hardware requirements. For organizations who upgraded hardware during the previous 2 years it meant loosing the investment for a crappy OS

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I found this command useful and think it deserve some PR.I know, you can have a full rich IT life without using it or even knowing about it BUT when the day come it can save you hours of work.Ftype is a command line that displays or modifies file types used in file name extension associations. The basic command displays the file types that have open command strings defined. c:\ftype The output is

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Happy SysAdminDay to all of you out thereget some good fun here

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while working on my hardware I find myself Googling for hardware types of slots, ports and adaptersI ran into this link which I founs very useful and I'm sure you can use it toothere is also a full size link

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Did you ever wonder about all the options and sub-options you have to choose from when setting up a RAID array?So I had to do build a new server this morning and wanted to really understand all these terms, once and for all.I’m working with HP servers but the RAID language is (mostly) universal:let's start with the basic, what is RAIDRedundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. Listed are the most

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I was at a party on Saturday night and while talking to a friend who is also in IT I realized that threshold is a very important part of our lives. This friend is part of a 4 guys weekly on call duty and he just finished his round. He is exhausted! His company uses very low thresholds for alerts on any subject, which make his life miserable and got me to appreciate the fact I am the one in charge

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Back in the old days when I made my first steps in this field someone showed me this amazing simple yet descriptive film. I just found out they recently celebrate 10 years, why don't we all enjoy it?! Part IPart II

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IM is part of our life, part of our business.Like any other technology, it can make us more efficient or less productive. It’s all up to how we use it and what we’re using it for.My company has branches around the globe. For us IM is a money saver and a bridge over time zones and languages. Many people find it easier to communicate via IM where your accent is not an obstacle and so is your

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My network get hammered with anywhere between 50,000 to 125,000 SMTP connections per hour (on a 50 mailbox network). Though more then 99% of all connections drop early using email reputation services, my server work hard around the clock and from time to time require some personal attention.To help the poor guy (I’m really attached to this server as we spend many hours together) Monitoring the

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I'm working as a system administrator for 8 years and covered many topics.My day to day life is very interesting but sometimes lonely, I do not have a team mate to share my problems, frustrations and victories.Our Wall St. company managed to survive the financial crisis pretty well but at the same time the money we spend on technology (or anything else) is monitored closer then ever and as the IT

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