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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:33:23 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>E-mail Tracking for Outlook</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26869389</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hi Everyone,

I have been using Outlook now for about 10 years to respond to e-mails from our customers. We get about 300 per day.  This is through the use of rules, quick parts etc.  In short, I am using all the tools available in Outlook and it actually has been working very well. 
The problem I am encountering is that when an e-mail is forwarded internally to other areas, I dont have a way of knowing if they responded or not. Whenever we receive complaints from someone indicating no response was received, it ends up being an e-mail forwarded to another area.

We have already attempted to resolve this issue from a training perspective but I would much rather have a technical solution in place. In fact, I have been given the task to resolve this through technology. Do you guys know of any way of tracking e-mail internally and reporting on them as well? Any software?
We are looking at purchasing e-mail management software from some of the big vender&#146;s but I find that it is a loose fit besides the obscene high cost. 

Thanks]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-08 13:54:24</pubDate>
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<title>Recycle Bin Corrupt / Windows XP</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26870178</link>
<description><![CDATA[I have two computers that state "The Recycle Bin on C:\ is corrupt or invalid" when the user tries to delete a file.

I have the latest service pack and I've applied the hotfix from here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297760

This worked temporarily, but the problem came back: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/restorerecyclebin.reg

Emptying the recycle bin makes the problem go away, but then it comes back a few days later.

I've tried rd /s c:\recycler - this time the problem took longer to come back; about 3 weeks.

Someone suggested a virus could be messing with the recycle bin but my scans turned up clean and there are no other symptoms.

I heard about a corrupt info2 file but that doesn't apply to us because we use NTFS, not FAT32.

The two computers in question have completely different hardware, but the same software.  Other computers with the same hardware do not have the problem.

We are not using any third-party undelete utility.

If anyone has some advice, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks,
Mango]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-08 16:36:51</pubDate>
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<title>Windows 2008R2 Domain and time sync</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26864036</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hello,

I have 2 Domain controllers, a few member servers and several client members. All the clients sync their times with the Domain, however, the member servers are out of sync. 

Are all the members of a domain supposed to sync their time with the  Domain? Or is this something i have to manually setup in 2008r2??

Thanks]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-07 11:41:28</pubDate>
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<title>On the lighter side - corporate buzzwords</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26842484</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ah, this brings back memories of Monday morning staff meetings, Project rollout sessions and Friday lunch executive pep talks to the company cube rats in the cafeteria. This is the stuff that inspired bullshit bingo. 

The next time you feel the need to reach out, touch base, shift a paradigm, leverage a best practice or join a tiger team, by all means do it. Just don&#146;t say you&#146;re doing it.

If you have to ask why, chances are you&#146;ve fallen under the poisonous spell of business jargon.  ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/groupthink/2012/01/26/the-most-annoying-pretentious-and-useless-business-jargon/ 

Enjoy, and feel free to recount your favorites. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-01 22:50:32</pubDate>
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<title>Credentials evaluation</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26850935</link>
<description><![CDATA[Has anyone done IT related Credentials Evaluation?

Could you describe the process? Did you take a test? etc..

I m considering doing a credentials evaluation to complete my AS to a BS.

Any info is appreciated.

Thanks.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-03 16:44:25</pubDate>
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<title>Help Desk Ticketing Software &#x26;amp; Accounting Software</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26706610</link>
<description><![CDATA[What do you guys use for Help Desk Ticketing software and what do you use for Accounting software for your business?

We currently use Zendesk for our Help Desk and Freshbooks for our Accounting but we would like to switch to something that we can host at our location and don't have to pay by the month for.

Any suggestion are greatly appreciated.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2011-12-29 11:27:33</pubDate>
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<title>remote desktop type support</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26770415</link>
<description><![CDATA[What do you guys use for remote desktop type support? 

we were using vnc but it does work on windows 7 which i am deploying now
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<pubDate>2012-01-14 20:52:28</pubDate>
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<title>CCENT/CCNA in Florida</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26845462</link>
<description><![CDATA[Anyone attended a CCENT/CCNA bootcamp, specifically in Florida that they would recommend?

I'd like a 1-2 week course, focused with hands-on training,  not a lecturing/book memorization session.

I'm guessing a $5-7k budget.
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<pubDate>2012-02-02 14:34:46</pubDate>
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<title>Desktop Imaging Software</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26831342</link>
<description><![CDATA[What do you guys use to image laptops?

We have a relatively small shop with about 200 desktop/laptops.  We have been using Norton Ghost v11.5 to image XP machines and that's worked well.

Window 7 machines on the other hand have given us problems as it doesn't not want to work.  Is it Ghost v11.5 or should I look at other imaging applications?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-01-30 14:47:29</pubDate>
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<title>Learning SQL query writing</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26849845</link>
<description><![CDATA[An opportunity has presented itself at work. Long story short, my boss quit. With his departure goes his sole but very lucrative skill; SQL programming.

I'm a tech support/server admin/network guy and I've worked in IT at this capacity for 13 years. In fact, I went through great lengths in recently getting my Cisco CCNA to see if it would get me somewhere at my current job or elsewhere. To this day, at least in New York City, my particular skill set has proven to yield shit. No surprise there. In this city, one must have already come from a background where you ran the show and are a super genius, or know someone who can groom you towards that.

In hopes of doing something with myself at my current job before ditching it all to hell, I was considering to learn SQL programming. I'm not aiming to become a superstar and quickly fill my boss' shoes. But over time, considering that it could benefit me greatly here and elsewhere, I was hoping to become sufficiently proficient in SQL so that I can at least add another skill to my knowledge bank.

So now that I've rambled enough about why I'm posting this topic, I wanted to know if perhaps Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Programming For Dummies is a solid book to get started in learning this. Or perhaps is there another book for SQL noobs like me that's better?

TIA]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-03 13:07:18</pubDate>
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<title>Shopping Cart</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26857846</link>
<description><![CDATA[does anyone know of a shopping cart or setting i can add one a shopping cart that only allows people in X zipcode to place an order?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-05 20:44:03</pubDate>
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<title>Drive Copy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I'm trying to copy a drive for a customer, Thecus Support recommended Acronis True Image however the darn thing wont allow me to select the destination disk it's just grayed out. 

I've got a 1.5 TB SATA drive that was in a RAID environment on a thecus NAS, I can select the failed drive that has bad sectors as the source but can't select the matching new 1.5 TB drive as the destination. 

So does anyone have recommendations for software that actually works to copy a drive with a block copy one for one? Formatted in the Linux file system 
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http://edricksmith.com]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-04 22:20:56</pubDate>
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<title>Corporate monitoring/keylogger software.</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26849078</link>
<description><![CDATA[One of my clients is preparing to terminate a long-time employee who is computer savvy and holds a lot of passwords and other documents that could cause problems if they were to be released. I've been tasked with cloning the employee's hard drive (easy) and with capturing all activity made on his system for the next few days. Can you guys recommend some software to capture keystrokes and perform overall monitoring of the system? Something we can buy and download immediately is preferable since this has to be in place by the weekend. 
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irc.removed.us - #dslr]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-03 10:42:58</pubDate>
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<title>IT pay</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26854848</link>
<description><![CDATA[I have been wondering how do decision makers determine how much a new employee will make? Let's say the range is 43,000 to 69,000 and they place you at 50,000 with the overall environment being no yearly increases why not start this person @ the max?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-04 19:50:44</pubDate>
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<title>[Other] Advanced: Link aggregation, MPIO, iSCSI MC/S</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26843971</link>
<description><![CDATA[I am trying to find the proper way of accomplishing the following.

I would like to provide 2Gb/s access for clients accessing a fileserver guest vm on a ESXi server, which itself access the datastore over iSCSI. Therefore the ESXi server need 2Gbps connection to the NAS. I would also like to provide 2Gbps directly on the NAS.

Looks like there are three technology which can help. Link aggregation (802.3ad, LAG, Trunk), Multi Path IO (MPIO), and iSCSI Multiple connection per session (MC/S).

However each have their own purpose and drawbacks, Aggregation provide 2Gbps total but a single connection (I think it's based on source/dest MAC address) can only get 1Gbps, which is useless (I think for iSCSI for example which is a single stream), MPIO seem a good option for iSCSI as it balance any traffic on two connection however it seem to require 2 IPs on the Source and 2 IPs on the DEST, I am unsure about MCs.

Here is what I would like to archive, however I am not sure of the technology to employ on each NIC pair of 1Gbps.

I also think this design is flawed because doing link aggregation between the NAS and the switch would prevent me from using MPIO on the ESX as it also require 2 IP on the nas and I think link aggregation will give me a single IP.

Maybe using MCs instead of MPIO would work?

Here a diagram:

 [att=1] ]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-02 10:21:58</pubDate>
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<title>FTP Server with web interface needed</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26846756</link>
<description><![CDATA[I'm looking to upgrade my FTP server software at work, to one that will also allow clients to log in via web browser and upload files in addition to standard FTP.

I've looked at several options Including Serv-U FTP, WS-FTP, Wing FTP Server, etc, and all are extremely expensive, at like $2000+, which seems ridiculous...

It doesn't have to be very fancy, All I need is the ability to host up to 200 user accounts (not concurrent) and the ability for each user to have an access to their own directory, and that the same account could be used for regular FTP or with a web based upload form, preferably one that would let you select multiple files in the browser to upload at once.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
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GO LEAFS GO!]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-02 18:47:19</pubDate>
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<title>W2K8 DC in W2K3 Domain/Forest</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26846133</link>
<description><![CDATA[I've just walked into this project the previous person left it hanging, and now I have to clean it up.

So the client has a W2K3 server as their DC, the previous person bought them a new server and made it a W2k8 R2 DC, or did they?

Both servers are setup as GC's both servers show in the AD as domain controllers.

However I noticed that the Sysvol and netlogon shares are not on the W28R2 server when I type in //w2k8r2 server.

It also fails DCDIAG , something along the lines of advertising(sorry don't have access this very moment and working from memory).

The W2K3 box has a DNS pointing to 127.0.0.1 ? while the W2K8R2 server has it pointing to it's primary address and the W2K3 server.

The W2K3 Server has a domain functional level of Windows 2003 but a forest level of 2000 (don't recall if mixed or native).

My plan of attack was to role back the DC role from the W2K8 box and do it again , in case there were warnings and somebody ignored them.

Or is my issue that the Forest level is too low?
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No, I didn't. Honest... I ran out of gas. I... I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake....... ]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-02 16:41:15</pubDate>
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<title>...Or am I just being too cheap?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26805251</link>
<description><![CDATA[Continuing on from my, ahem, less than good experience with D-Link and their 'support' for what is supposed to be their 'enterprise' level switches, I'm looking at other devices for my rack/lab at home.

The current contenders are a powerconnect 5324 or procurve 2824.

Normally, all things being equal, I'd jump on the 2824 in a heatbeat, but in this case, the HP would mean an approx 100 dollar US price premium.

Asking Mr. Google and checking with some of my cow-orkers, I'm not finding much that paints the Dell in a bad light.  I know that I get what I pay for, but still, 100 dollars is a 100 dollars.

What say you?  Is it worth the extra 100?  Or am I just being too bleeding cheap?
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<pubDate>2012-01-23 20:39:19</pubDate>
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<title>Old RAM..??</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26678987</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hello,

What do you guys do with your servers' old RAM..?? We just upgrade all our blades from 8GB to 32GB and now we have all this extra RAM and i m not sure what to do with it...

Any ideas? I have 32x 1GB PC2-5300 that came with the system we bough back in 2006/2007.

(other than maybe upgrading the RAM on some of the PCs around)

Thanks ]]></description>
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<pubDate>2011-12-20 15:39:38</pubDate>
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<title>Win 7 Desktop Icons Policy?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26845615</link>
<description><![CDATA[I'm green when it comes to Group Policy Manager.
Server 2008

I'm trying to keep the workstation desktop icons from being deleted by students.  

The article I found to help me with this says the settings for this
should be in  User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Control Panel\Personalization

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee617164%28WS.10%29.aspx

I don't have a Personalization folder under Control Panel folder.

Is there a setting in some other location?
Is there an updated set of templates I need to apply?
Did I head down the wrong road and need to go in another direction for this?

I have a folder of shortcuts on the desktops that some not nice kiddos keep deleting.  
Just trying to lock it down now so they can't delete or move the desktop icons around.

Thanks]]></description>
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<pubDate>2012-02-02 15:03:34</pubDate>
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