Security COncern, Files deleted from Server
Good morning to all, and hope everyone is dooing well. I have a security issue, and need help solving this. Someone in my company within Engineering staff deleted an entire group of folders. Unfortunately it was on a project that ended, and it was discovered this morning. I have luckily a back up tape of [...]
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| January 24, 2005 10:21 AM
Auditing, Compliance, CRM, DataCenter, Disaster Recovery, Hardware, Intrusion management, Managed security services, Policies, Risk management, Security, Security management, Security Program Management
Good morning to all, and hope everyone is dooing well. I have a security issue, and need help solving this. Someone in my company within Engineering staff deleted an entire group of folders. Unfortunately it was on a project that ended, and it was discovered this morning. I have luckily a back up tape of [...]
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| January 24, 2005 10:21 AM
Auditing, Compliance, CRM, DataCenter, Disaster Recovery, Hardware, Intrusion management, Managed security services, Policies, Risk management, Security, Security management, Security Program Management
Best Practice for EX-emplyee data storage/handling HELP!!
Hello world! I need help here … your expertise on what you do with the data when someone leaves the company… This is where i’m at currently: 1) Created a RetiredEmployee share. 2) when user JDoe leaves I create a JDoe folder in that share 3) I copy the data of their personal network drive, [...]
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| January 13, 2005 11:30 AM
Backup & recovery, Career development, Networking, Storage
Hello world! I need help here … your expertise on what you do with the data when someone leaves the company… This is where i’m at currently: 1) Created a RetiredEmployee share. 2) when user JDoe leaves I create a JDoe folder in that share 3) I copy the data of their personal network drive, [...]
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| January 13, 2005 11:30 AM
Backup & recovery, Career development, Networking, Storage
Access to security log in Windows 2000
In my company we want to give full access to the security log of Windows 2000 only to the security manager, but we want to give only read access to the support people, Is there how to do it ?
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| January 12, 2005 3:29 PM
Biometrics, Compliance, configuration, CRM, DataCenter, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, Identity & Access Management, Managed security services, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, provisioning, Risk management, Security, Security management, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Single sign-on, Tech support, vulnerability management
In my company we want to give full access to the security log of Windows 2000 only to the security manager, but we want to give only read access to the support people, Is there how to do it ?
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| January 12, 2005 3:29 PM
Biometrics, Compliance, configuration, CRM, DataCenter, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, Identity & Access Management, Managed security services, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, provisioning, Risk management, Security, Security management, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Single sign-on, Tech support, vulnerability management
Setting up an extended fabric over DWDM
A SearchStorage.com reader recently asked: I am attempting to set up an extended fabric over DWDM. I have two 32-port Brocade 3900 switches on either end, both running version 4.1.2 Fabric OS. We have two Nortel OPTera Metro 5200 (DWDM) cards on either end. Unfortunately, I have found out that these cards do not provide [...]
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| September 26, 2008 2:31 PM
Brocade Switches, Dense wavelength division multiplexing, DWDM, Extended fabric, SFP, Switches
A SearchStorage.com reader recently asked: I am attempting to set up an extended fabric over DWDM. I have two 32-port Brocade 3900 switches on either end, both running version 4.1.2 Fabric OS. We have two Nortel OPTera Metro 5200 (DWDM) cards on either end. Unfortunately, I have found out that these cards do not provide [...]
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| September 26, 2008 2:31 PM
Brocade Switches, Dense wavelength division multiplexing, DWDM, Extended fabric, SFP, Switches
DOS attack, DNS question
My question has two parts, first: today at the place where i work we lost the internet, and after checking the firewall (sonicwall, this is a non profit organization so they cant afford the best stuff) i discovered it was more than likely a DOS attack. nobody could access the internet, and i could not [...]
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| January 13, 2005 6:07 PM
Compliance, configuration, CRM, Disaster Recovery, Firewalls, Forensics, Incident response, Information risk management, Intrusion management, IT architecture, Managed security services, Network security, Networking, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, Product/service procurement, Risk management, Security, Security management, Security products, Security Program Management, Tech support, VPN, vulnerability management, Wireless
My question has two parts, first: today at the place where i work we lost the internet, and after checking the firewall (sonicwall, this is a non profit organization so they cant afford the best stuff) i discovered it was more than likely a DOS attack. nobody could access the internet, and i could not [...]
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| January 13, 2005 6:07 PM
Compliance, configuration, CRM, Disaster Recovery, Firewalls, Forensics, Incident response, Information risk management, Intrusion management, IT architecture, Managed security services, Network security, Networking, patching, PEN testing, Platform Security, Policies, Product/service procurement, Risk management, Security, Security management, Security products, Security Program Management, Tech support, VPN, vulnerability management, Wireless
Slow boot-up in win xp home edition
My notebook(40gb HDD, 256mb RAM)with win xp home edition has become dramatically slow in last 1-2 months. It takes more than 5 minutes to boot even after I removed everything from startup group using msconfig. The initial screen (win XP home) stays atleast 2-3minutes. How can I manage this? Is there something wrong with HDD [...]
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| November 2, 2011 4:24 AM
Administration, Application software, Clarify Inc., Data analysis, Data center operations, Database Management Systems, DataCenter, Desktop management applications, Desktops, Disaster Recovery, ERP, FAT and NTFS, Graphical User Interfaces, Hardware, Help Desk, Information risk management, Installation, IT architecture, Microsoft Windows, Network management software, Networking, Operating system platforms, Power management, Registry, Servers, Service and support, Services, Software, Storage, System utilities, Tech support, Third-party services, Vendor support, Vulnerability Assessment & Audit, Windows, Windows 2000 desktop, Windows 95/98, Windows client administration and maintenance, Windows XP
My notebook(40gb HDD, 256mb RAM)with win xp home edition has become dramatically slow in last 1-2 months. It takes more than 5 minutes to boot even after I removed everything from startup group using msconfig. The initial screen (win XP home) stays atleast 2-3minutes. How can I manage this? Is there something wrong with HDD [...]
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| November 2, 2011 4:24 AM
Administration, Application software, Clarify Inc., Data analysis, Data center operations, Database Management Systems, DataCenter, Desktop management applications, Desktops, Disaster Recovery, ERP, FAT and NTFS, Graphical User Interfaces, Hardware, Help Desk, Information risk management, Installation, IT architecture, Microsoft Windows, Network management software, Networking, Operating system platforms, Power management, Registry, Servers, Service and support, Services, Software, Storage, System utilities, Tech support, Third-party services, Vendor support, Vulnerability Assessment & Audit, Windows, Windows 2000 desktop, Windows 95/98, Windows client administration and maintenance, Windows XP
Restricted access to win XP professional
I have a small WORKGROUP with windows 2000 server and 5 windows XP professional systems. All computers can read/write each other. Now I want to make one XP client secure/restric access, so that no other computer can access that except only other XP computer. How can I do that? Please advise. Thanks in advance!
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| December 29, 2004 2:48 AM
Administration, Application security, Compliance, CRM, Database, DataCenter, Desktop management applications, DHCP, Disaster Recovery, DNS, Encryption, Exchange, Firewalls, Forensics, Help Desk, Implementation, Incident response, Information risk management, Instant Messaging, Intrusion management, Management, Network monitoring, Network security, Networking, Networking services, Physical security, Policies, Remote management, Remote users, Risk management, Secure Coding, Security, Security management, Security Program Management, Servers, System utilities, Tech support, Third-party services, VPN, Windows, Windows 2000 Server, Wireless
I have a small WORKGROUP with windows 2000 server and 5 windows XP professional systems. All computers can read/write each other. Now I want to make one XP client secure/restric access, so that no other computer can access that except only other XP computer. How can I do that? Please advise. Thanks in advance!
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| December 29, 2004 2:48 AM
Administration, Application security, Compliance, CRM, Database, DataCenter, Desktop management applications, DHCP, Disaster Recovery, DNS, Encryption, Exchange, Firewalls, Forensics, Help Desk, Implementation, Incident response, Information risk management, Instant Messaging, Intrusion management, Management, Network monitoring, Network security, Networking, Networking services, Physical security, Policies, Remote management, Remote users, Risk management, Secure Coding, Security, Security management, Security Program Management, Servers, System utilities, Tech support, Third-party services, VPN, Windows, Windows 2000 Server, Wireless
No bootup with W2k – after “Verifying DMI pool data”
I had a working Win 2k OS running smoothly on Drive C, with a small D partition. I tried Norton 2004 Ghost and backed up Drive D to a CD. Ghost created a bootable CD with the proper backup file to restore D. I booted with the CD and restored Drive D as a test [...]
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| December 31, 2004 5:45 AM
Backup & recovery, Desktops, Hardware, Servers, Storage, Storage products and equipment, Tech support, Windows client administration and maintenance
I had a working Win 2k OS running smoothly on Drive C, with a small D partition. I tried Norton 2004 Ghost and backed up Drive D to a CD. Ghost created a bootable CD with the proper backup file to restore D. I booted with the CD and restored Drive D as a test [...]
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| December 31, 2004 5:45 AM
Backup & recovery, Desktops, Hardware, Servers, Storage, Storage products and equipment, Tech support, Windows client administration and maintenance
Windows 2000 won’t give LKGC option
I had a working Win 2k OS running smoothly on Drive C, with a small D partition. I tried Norton 2004 Ghost and backed up Drive D to a CD. Ghost created a bootable CD with the proper backup file to restore D. I booted with the CD and restored Drive D as a test [...]
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| December 29, 2004 4:05 AM
Backup & recovery, DataCenter, Hardware, Servers, Storage
I had a working Win 2k OS running smoothly on Drive C, with a small D partition. I tried Norton 2004 Ghost and backed up Drive D to a CD. Ghost created a bootable CD with the proper backup file to restore D. I booted with the CD and restored Drive D as a test [...]
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| December 29, 2004 4:05 AM
Backup & recovery, DataCenter, Hardware, Servers, Storage
How to remove Bad sectors from Hard Disk
Hello i have a spear hard disk of 20 GB which have some badsectors in it. It is working fine and bad sectors are marked but probelm is that i want to sell it and no one is buying the Hdisk due to its bad sectors. Plz can someone tell me the procedure to completely [...]
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| October 31, 2011 6:44 PM
Backup & recovery, Storage
Hello i have a spear hard disk of 20 GB which have some badsectors in it. It is working fine and bad sectors are marked but probelm is that i want to sell it and no one is buying the Hdisk due to its bad sectors. Plz can someone tell me the procedure to completely [...]
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| October 31, 2011 6:44 PM
Backup & recovery, Storage
Microsoft: Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT)
Hi, I want to migrate a couple of users, computers and groups from an Windows NT 4.0 Domain to Active Directory (Windows 2003 NATIVE MODE Domain). The migration is not for the entire NT Domain, is only a group of users and computers from this one. I had used ADMT on a single forest to [...]
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| December 25, 2004 11:01 AM
Active Directory, Administration, Application management, Application software, Backup, Client management, Clustering/High availability, Database issues, DataCenter, DataManagement, DHCP, Disaster Recovery, DNS, Exchange, Exchange 2003, Exchange 5.5, Help Desk, Installation, LDAP, Lotus Domino, Maintenance, Microsoft Windows, Migration, Networking services, Outlook, Software testing, Software testing tools, Storage management, Tech support, Third-party services, Vendor support
Hi, I want to migrate a couple of users, computers and groups from an Windows NT 4.0 Domain to Active Directory (Windows 2003 NATIVE MODE Domain). The migration is not for the entire NT Domain, is only a group of users and computers from this one. I had used ADMT on a single forest to [...]
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| December 25, 2004 11:01 AM
Active Directory, Administration, Application management, Application software, Backup, Client management, Clustering/High availability, Database issues, DataCenter, DataManagement, DHCP, Disaster Recovery, DNS, Exchange, Exchange 2003, Exchange 5.5, Help Desk, Installation, LDAP, Lotus Domino, Maintenance, Microsoft Windows, Migration, Networking services, Outlook, Software testing, Software testing tools, Storage management, Tech support, Third-party services, Vendor support
Recovering data from hard drive
Hi all I did something stupid the other day. Scenario: My system has 2 hdd: 40G and 80G Both with a several partitions on. My system got screwed with installing and removing stuff and I decided to use my XP Pro Cd to additionally install XP for duel booting. I had W2kP as my OS. [...]
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| December 23, 2004 5:42 PM
DataCenter, Security, Storage, Tech support
Hi all I did something stupid the other day. Scenario: My system has 2 hdd: 40G and 80G Both with a several partitions on. My system got screwed with installing and removing stuff and I decided to use my XP Pro Cd to additionally install XP for duel booting. I had W2kP as my OS. [...]
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| December 23, 2004 5:42 PM
DataCenter, Security, Storage, Tech support
Storage Products
I a currently evaluating storage products from IBM (8100) and HDS (Tagma Store) and I am interested in hearing other people’s experiences with either of these products. Is one better than the other? How easy are they to manage? Any information is greatly appreciated and thank you in advance. Dave
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| February 3, 2008 7:19 AM
Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, Storage
I a currently evaluating storage products from IBM (8100) and HDS (Tagma Store) and I am interested in hearing other people’s experiences with either of these products. Is one better than the other? How easy are they to manage? Any information is greatly appreciated and thank you in advance. Dave
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| February 3, 2008 7:19 AM
Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, Storage
how DNS works
hello everybody, can you tell me ,how DNS works? i know the theorotical aspects that it is a large database distributed on a no. of servers etc. but i don’t know how practically it is implemented,what softwares are used to implement it and how can i access it ,if i have it implemented.i have heard [...]
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| December 22, 2004 10:54 PM
Active Directory, Backup & recovery, Bind, DHCP, DNS, Hardware, Installation, Intel servers, LDAP, Linux, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Networking services, Servers, Storage, Tech support, Toubleshooting, Unix, Unix Servers
hello everybody, can you tell me ,how DNS works? i know the theorotical aspects that it is a large database distributed on a no. of servers etc. but i don’t know how practically it is implemented,what softwares are used to implement it and how can i access it ,if i have it implemented.i have heard [...]
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| December 22, 2004 10:54 PM
Active Directory, Backup & recovery, Bind, DHCP, DNS, Hardware, Installation, Intel servers, LDAP, Linux, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Networking services, Servers, Storage, Tech support, Toubleshooting, Unix, Unix Servers
How can I resolve a GUID name to its CN Object Name?
Hello. I’m a System Administrator on a network with 190 Sites. When I make diagnostic for domain partition replication with “repadmin” tool. I got some sites with old replication date. But it only show the GUID name for those old dates. For example my last diagnostic give back this: Caching GUIDs. .. ab6e1002-ac6c-47db-937b-c443cfbf12a1 @ USN [...]
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| December 15, 2004 3:47 PM
Active Directory, Bind, Distributed File System, DNS, Exchange 2003, LDAP, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Monitoring, NFS, Windows, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows tools/WSRM
Hello. I’m a System Administrator on a network with 190 Sites. When I make diagnostic for domain partition replication with “repadmin” tool. I got some sites with old replication date. But it only show the GUID name for those old dates. For example my last diagnostic give back this: Caching GUIDs. .. ab6e1002-ac6c-47db-937b-c443cfbf12a1 @ USN [...]
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| December 15, 2004 3:47 PM
Active Directory, Bind, Distributed File System, DNS, Exchange 2003, LDAP, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Monitoring, NFS, Windows, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows tools/WSRM
Information Security
1. Could you please send me a portal policy template as we are about to rollout same. Thanks 2. Please send me FTP policy template. I wil then customize it to our environment
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| December 16, 2004 6:53 AM
Compliance, CRM, Disaster Recovery, Incident response, Policies, Risk management, Security, Security Program Management
1. Could you please send me a portal policy template as we are about to rollout same. Thanks 2. Please send me FTP policy template. I wil then customize it to our environment
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| December 16, 2004 6:53 AM
Compliance, CRM, Disaster Recovery, Incident response, Policies, Risk management, Security, Security Program Management
Upgrade from MS SQL Server 6.5 to SQL 2000 Fails
The upgrade process using Microsoft “SQL Sever Upgrade Wizard” fails at the “Import and Export via Named Pipe” part. With the following Error: Starting MSSQLServer…………………………. Waiting for recovery. Sysmessages # 4002 [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Dirver][SQL Server] Login failed I am using a Network connection between a Windows 2000 Server PC running SQL Server 2000 and [...]
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| December 13, 2004 12:48 PM
Administration, Backup & recovery, Implementation, Installation/Upgrade, Migration, SQL Server, Standard Edition 2000, Tech support, Version 7 and earlier
The upgrade process using Microsoft “SQL Sever Upgrade Wizard” fails at the “Import and Export via Named Pipe” part. With the following Error: Starting MSSQLServer…………………………. Waiting for recovery. Sysmessages # 4002 [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Dirver][SQL Server] Login failed I am using a Network connection between a Windows 2000 Server PC running SQL Server 2000 and [...]
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| December 13, 2004 12:48 PM
Administration, Backup & recovery, Implementation, Installation/Upgrade, Migration, SQL Server, Standard Edition 2000, Tech support, Version 7 and earlier
Dell Poweredge Server 2800
I am running a Windows 2000 network, and recently purchased a Dell Poweredge 2800 Server, the server is running Server 2003. I need some general tips as to how best to configure this server to best optimise it’s capability. One vendor informs me of some of it’s capabilities but I need some additional input.
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| December 8, 2004 7:05 AM
DataCenter, Disk drives, RAID, Storage, Storage products and equipment, Storage servers, Vendor support
I am running a Windows 2000 network, and recently purchased a Dell Poweredge 2800 Server, the server is running Server 2003. I need some general tips as to how best to configure this server to best optimise it’s capability. One vendor informs me of some of it’s capabilities but I need some additional input.
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| December 8, 2004 7:05 AM
DataCenter, Disk drives, RAID, Storage, Storage products and equipment, Storage servers, Vendor support
Does EMC Symmetrix z8530/8000 use a separate backup battery for protecting cache?
A SearchStorage.com reader recently wrote to ask: Does EMC Symmetrix z8530/8000 use a separate backup battery to protect cache, or does it use the full system backup battery?
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| September 26, 2008 1:56 PM
Backup & recovery, EMC, EMC Symmetrix z8530/8000, Storage products and equipment
A SearchStorage.com reader recently wrote to ask: Does EMC Symmetrix z8530/8000 use a separate backup battery to protect cache, or does it use the full system backup battery?
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| September 26, 2008 1:56 PM
Backup & recovery, EMC, EMC Symmetrix z8530/8000, Storage products and equipment
OS/400 descriptions of files in Library QUSRSYS.
Hi There, Does anyone have descriptions of the files and their contained information for the files in Library QUSRSYS. In particular I am looking for where the “Go Backup” and “Go Cleanup” configurations are stored but explanations of the other files in this library will also be extremly usefull for High Availability purposes. Thanks. Best [...]
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| December 6, 2004 9:02 AM
AS/400, Backup & recovery, Hardware, i5, IBM, Installation, iSeries, OS/400, Performance/Tuning, Server consolidation, Servers, tips and tricks, Tools
Hi There, Does anyone have descriptions of the files and their contained information for the files in Library QUSRSYS. In particular I am looking for where the “Go Backup” and “Go Cleanup” configurations are stored but explanations of the other files in this library will also be extremly usefull for High Availability purposes. Thanks. Best [...]
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| December 6, 2004 9:02 AM
AS/400, Backup & recovery, Hardware, i5, IBM, Installation, iSeries, OS/400, Performance/Tuning, Server consolidation, Servers, tips and tricks, Tools
