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ITT Minute - Professional Development Sponsored by listeners like you A while back we ran a professional development series. A new year is just around the corner. Be sure to check out a professional association to further your IT career. Links mentioned in this podcast: League of Professional System Administrators - http://lopsa.org/ Association for Computing Machinery - http://www.acm.org/ Association of Information Technology Professionals [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ITT Minute - Removing Shadow Copy Previous Versions Tab Sponsored by listeners like you Want to use Volume Shadow Copy Services on your Microsoft server for that extra layer of easy backup? But you don’t trust your users not to hose things up on their own? Here is a command to remove the previous versions tab from a PC for all users of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Learning is a never ending adventure. Sponsored by listeners like you Turns out I didn’t go solo after all. Kevin joins me one more time because I had told him about some elearning material with Microsoft. It got him on a roll. I will be touching base with Anthony and Jason to see what good stuff they have been up to while [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ITT Minute - VMWare Server Backup Sponsored by listeners like you Steve Giovanni tells us about a great way to backup VMWare images using the Windows Volume Shadow Copy service. The product is ViceVersa Pro from TGRMN Software. Links mentioned in this podcast: ViceVersa Pro Tags: VMWare Backup, ViceVersa Pro, Steve GiovanniDownload Standard Podcast Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Post MCSE Bootcamp Report Sponsored by listeners like you Kevin joins me this show to talk about my mcse bootcamp and some other certification discussion.  We also talk about his final transition out of IT into his new position. Links mentioned in this podcast: MCSE Bootcamp CISSP Requirements Change CCNA Exam Changes Certified Computer Examiner Tags: MCSE, CCNA, CISSP, CCE, George Starcher, Kevin DevinDownload Standard PodcastDownload [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sigler is Back! Oh yeah baby! Scott Sigler’s next audio novel is coming out Midnight Eastern Time on Halloween. You can even win a death part in the story. I am so there. This promo of his novel isn’t kid safe. Also coming soon is the Friends in Tech Halloween 2007 Special. Watch friendsintech.com for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Security Topics Abound Sponsored by listeners like you Chuck Herrin returns for a long show. We always get a on roll when we get together. I figure you won’t mind since it has been two weeks since the last show and I will be in MCSE bootcamp for two weeks before I can record the next show. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Is it a real conversation if its on a virtual phone? Sponsored by listeners like you Jason Watkins is back for another show. He makes it despite being a new father. We cover a variety of topics from VOIP to VMware. Links mentioned in this podcast: SurfControl Clean Ad Blocking Paypal Security Token Verisign PIP Asterisk for Mac Trixbox VMware Asterisk Appliance iPhone early adopter credit MX record query tool VMWare Central Control Vista SP1 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Attack of the Hacker Crickets Sponsored by listeners like you Anthony (back for a second show) and I get together to talk storage, training, surf control and drive encryption. I really was frustrated by something in Surf Control that breaks HTTPS pages when using a deny all rule at the bottom of my rule set. Links mentioned in this podcast: MCSE Bootcamp Pauldotcom [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sit Kerberos, Sit. Sponsored by listeners like you Our next Co-Host candidate Jason Watkins joins me tonight. Some listener feedback, talk about Kerberos and other IT issues from the past week. Links mentioned in this podcast: WGA Meltdown Article from Computerworld TMU Drobo Setup Video Windows Junction Point Windows Hard Link Make Post - Flash Diffuser AD & Macs Trixbox Callcentric Shoretel Junction Networks Pingtel Other sites mentioned in this podcast: Drobo.com Typical [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | On the Air and the Air is On. Sponsored by listeners like you Anthony Gartner joins me this episode as co-host #1. We cover the gambit of stuff. Enjoy! Links mentioned in this podcast: Virginia Tour De’ Port Results posted online throughout the race Cisco WPA Settings Great explanation on “Free WIFI” security problems. Hacking Exposed: Wireless Asterisk VM Appliance Asterisk Digium Asterisk Trend Micro Housecall MediaWiki Other sites mentioned in this podcast: Pauldotcom Podcast Career Opportunities T ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The show that was not. Sponsored by listeners like you Well darnnit. I had a few audio glitches. Anthony Gartner (our first co-host candidate) and I had a great full show recorded. Turns out my levels had gone to max when going to file and I didn’t know it. SO instead here is the Cisco Corner I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Interview - Chuck Herrin - The Big C and a 5 Million Dollar Laptop Sponsored by listeners like you Chuck Herrin and I talk about his final leap into the CISO position and the challenges going forward. We toss in some of the Roll Call segment questions to spice it up. Not that our Caber tossing friend needs much to get him on a roll.  I decided to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Interview - Paul Mancuso - Cisco Certification Sponsored by listeners like you I had a great talk with my CCNP instructor, Paul Mancuso. We cover the recent changes in the various Cisco tracks, studying BEFORE bootcamp and general IT field discussion. Links Mentioned: National IT Training and Certification Institute CBT Direct LearntoSubnet.com Cisco Program Updated 06/25/07 Cisco Certified Entry Network Technician Cisco Certified Network Professional RunAs [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Happy Trails Sponsored by listeners like you We discuss lots of different items this week. Great listener feedback, user management, surf control and some stupid user stories. A big announcement at the end of the show. Also have a Happy Fourth of July to our US listeners! We did have a audio glitch and had posted this for about [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Surf is up, and we’re late Sponsored by listeners like you Yes… this should have been released a week ago. But here it is nonetheless. George has been swimming in his Surf Control setup and we chat about Comcast experiences — good and bad and some of the observed SysAdmin experiences of Zooomr. Links mentioned in this podcast: Friends in Tech Show Flier Seagate [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ITT - Minute - Missing Registry Permissions Sponsored by listeners like you! This weekend I was cleaning up a Home XP machine that was infested with trojans etc for someone’s kid. Cleaning it was not so hard. Particularly using eEye’s new Blink product. Found stuff nothing else did. Howver, I ran into something I have seen before but did [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ITT - Minute - Microsoft Download Andy Helsby of absoblogginlutely.net gives us an ITT Minute on Microsoft Download and keeping up with what they make available. Links Mentioned: http://thundermain.com/rss  Tags: Microsoft Download, Andy HelsbyDownload Standard Podcast Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | More integration in to Big Corp IT Sponsored by listeners like youAnother solo cast this week, George should be back behind the mic for the next show. A very busy two weeks it has been and I share with you some issues I’ve run in to with our efforts to hand over IT to corporate and in to an outsourced scenario. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ITT Minute - GeekTool Sponsored by listeners like you!Another brief tip for your IT career. This one introduces you to the GeekTool. A very nifty little utility for displaying certain types of information on your OS X screen — like pictures, log files, and script output.Links Mentioned:GeekToolTags: GeekTool, Cacti, RRDToolDownload Standard Podcast Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ITT Minute - HDD Rock Sponsored by listeners like you!Another brief tip for your IT career. This one introduces you to the HDD Rock. A tool for recovering hard drive read blocking level passwords.It’s a new month. If you like the show please drop us a review in iTunes! Or share the flier to the right [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Flying Solo Sponsored by listeners like youWell… Since I’ve been tied up with family things, George is behind the stick with a solo show this time. I’ll have plenty to share when I return, but George has plenty to chat about with his return from Europe.Links mentioned in this podcast:PRTG MonitoringCisco AP PrimerAtempo Backup SoftwareD-Link [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SNMPv3 and you Sponsored by listeners like youAnother long cast, to try and make up for the week we missed.  George provides a Cisco Corner segment on the use of SNMP v3 on your Cisco devices.  We also chat about its use within apps like Cacti and other monitoring tools.  We also chat a little about a couple [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | George has been tinkering… Sponsored by listeners like youHey! We’re back… again! A nice two-week breather for both George and myself. While George went nuts tinkering with all kinds of techie things, I took the time off and played with my new digital SLR. Great listener feedback this week, and thank you for your generous contributions! Hope you all [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sox - Auditors, Controls and the voice of reason. In this episode George interviews Chuck Herrin about his Sox experience. Chuck is a former internal auditor and now is on the other side working for AIG. We discuss the burden placed on IT by unreasonable auditors and how to educate yourself so you can properly push back and keep controls within reason.Links [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Scam Slam Sponsored by listeners like you!A rather long show this week… This week George and I cover some scripting bits that George put together to track down a problem with Exchange as well as a little more on George’s LogParser script. We respond to listener feedback concerning the problems I was having with my [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | FiT Christmas Special 2006 OK, Friends in Tech have done it again… Come December 18th, FiT will be releasing the 2006 Christmas Special, “Lucky the Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Geeks”If you haven’t done so, be sure to subscribe to the FiT RSS feed to get the special the as soon as its released!Tags: FiT, Xmas Special, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Networking and Auditing I spent my week tracking down and correcting network issues while George focused on his SOX auditing solution. We received several pieces of listener feedback regarding George’s search, and even a lame joke. Also… Looking for any listeners in the Las Vegas area who might want to meet up for a Geek Dinner or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The jettsetter is back! Sponsored by listeners like you!George and I hook up this week and go over his trip to Europe as well a few other things. All this as we prep for PME this next week. Great listener feedback this week — keep it coming!Links mentioned in this podcast:JavaScrypt: Browser-Based Cryptography ToolsShadow copies may be [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | You get a chance to catch up! I get feedback all the time from folks who state they love the show, but they are always playing catch up. So here’s your chance!Actually, George and my schedules simply didn’t match up this weekend due to family committments and other matters. So… we’re saving the content until next week when we’ll [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Trip Planning, Upgrades, and DTS Jobs Sponsored by listeners like you! George preps for his last-minute business trip to Europe, Kevin has a fun time upgrading an R&D machine to FC4 with i2o drivers, and also has issues with Perl and DTS jobs on a MS-SQL box. Lots of listener feedback in this show — again, and a Roll Call Segment with [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An empty house and George’s new toy Sponsored by listeners like you! George joins us from his baren new man-cave attic and tells of his new breathing apparatus as well as his new forensics tool. We go over plenty of good user feedback, and I have a nice Roll Call segment with Jed Reynolds. NOTICE: I’m releasing this now and will follow up [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An IT Manager’s Perspective Sponsored by listeners like you! Lenny is at it again! Chuck Tomasi joins me while George is out of town and has to run Lenny out of his studio. A busy week in preparation for my trip to Cleveland this next week — seems the flood gates were opened wide. Problems with FSTW — awesome WHEN [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Happy SysAdmin Day! Sponsored by listeners like you! To all SAs out there in this big networked world… Happy SysAdmin Appreciation Day to you all! It’s more of a SysAdmin self-indulgent cast this week. I share my experiences at work regarding the day of celebration. With all of the power-related incidents in the news, we started to make [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Busy, Busy Week Sponsored by listeners like you! Quite the busy week for both George and I, for different reasons as we point out in the cast. George is prepping for teaching his SANs course this next week and I’ve been overrun with a couple of foster kids. George provides a “live” Cisco Corner, and we cover [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Feedback Loop Sponsored by listeners like you! Man, did the feedback come flowing in this week. George and I cover most of it, George provides another Cisco Corner, and, as promised, we announce the winner of the Name That Segment contest. Thanks to ALL of you who submitted name suggestions. I was truly blown away [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Prickly Podcast Sponsored by listeners like you! Prickly in that George and I both got the Cacti bug this past week and began implementing it in our environments. SO MUCH EASIER than MRTG. You owe it to yourselves to check it out if you have a need for network monitoring. George provides another Cisco Corner, this week [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Secure your data! Sponsored by listeners like you! George is back this week… both for the conversation as well as with another Cisco Corner - this time on basic ACLs. Carol Andrew from the U.K. joins me for another Trench Segment — not only is Carol a female in IT, but she prefers UNIX!! — , and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Trench this… Trench that… Sponsored by listeners like you! George took a little PTO this week so I was solo again. It seemed to be a Trench Segment-centric cast for some reason. Due to the heat, I had my office window open. At least I was able to hush the dogs… unfortunately, I couldn’t do anything [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Interview with Ian Berry - creator of Cacti Sponsored by listeners like you! MANY MANY thanks to Jonathan Strine for putting nearly every aspect of this interview together. Jon approached George and myself asking if we’d be interested in an interview with Ian Berry, the creator of Cacti, of course, we weren’t going to turn down his offer. Links mentioned in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Take 1, take 2, no… take 3, and VNC Sponsored by listeners like you! A small, but humerous, stumble out of the blocks this week. George seemed to carry most of the show this week… I’ve been tied up with a new tasking that I can’t quite discuss just yet, but I will be in the future. Good listener feedback on the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The train wreck show… almost Sponsored by listeners like you!We started out attempting to do a “Live event” at the last minute using Skype’s new Skypecast beta… but that indeed was a train wreck. So… as soon as we were finished, we went ahead and re-created the show… a “do-over” if you will.Not a whole [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Special Discount on Acronis True Image We now have the 20% discount for Acronis True Image version 9 available to ITT listeners. We are spreading this out among all Friends in Tech member sites, or at least those who wish to participate. To pick up your copy of Acronis True Image 9.0 at a 20% discount, simply follow this url: http://www.acronis.com/podcast/technewsradio/ For those [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A little Cisco, a cool automation tool, and welcome back to Outlook Sponsored by listeners like you! In an effort to simply get this episode out, I’m publishing this one without the show notes. It’s been quite a busy weekend complete with a wild wind storm, 12-hour power outage, a fallen cedar tree, and a wiped out fence. Oh yeah… and a certain football [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Good Bye 2005 - an A2A piece on e-mail certs and volume expansion at MS Supported by listeners like you. Happy New Year! Hope you all have an awesome 2006! In this final podcast of 2005, George and I go over some more great user feedback and thank you all you for the great feedback as well as financial support over this past year. George provides us with another Admin-to-Admin segment [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A quick year-end tip Take this opportunity while co-workers are enjoying the holidays at home to schedule maintenance. And who says all of it has to occur with you present — schedule some of it. Links mentioned in this tip: System Scheduler Download libsyn.com/media/inthetrenches/ITT-20051229.mp3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ITT Security Alert - Zero Day Exploit in the Wild The Internet Storm Center at SANS.ORG has raised the alert level to yellow in response to a new zero-day exploit in the wild. The exploit, being tagged as the W32/PFV-Explot.A, .B, and .C, comes in the form of malicious WMF files being served currently from a handful of websites. A list of sites [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Ton of MS info, and the return of Show Us Your Rack! Supported by listeners like you. Yes… this cast is late. But that’s what happens when life gets in the way. A great pre-Christmas show with lots of feedback. Keep it coming! We’re loving it! Along with plenty of feedback, we have a LOT of Microsoft info in this cast, much of which [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | USB policies, a CLI goody, and protecting your identity and data Supported by listeners like you.Another week wrapped up, though it seemed typical of a Monday rather than a Friday. George and I share some user feedback regarding USB policies, a command line goody using WMIC, and protecting your identity AND your data regarding stolen laptops.We also go over some Microsoft issues, JetDirect cards, issues [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Another truckcast about some command line goodness Sponsored by Gotomeeting.com and GoDaddy.comIt’s been a while since I’ve done a truckcast, so I decided to pull out the iRiver and rig up the Truck Studio again and bust one out on my way home from work today.I came up with a batch file this week to help me identify users of machines that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Network profiles on the Mac, some software updates, and VPN stuff Sponsored by Gotomeeting.com and GoDaddy.comGeorge and I were all over the place this evening… Pretty much just a general chat. George shared some of his joys of network profiles on his new powerbook, I share a little bit on a NetSH script that I wrote with a VB.Net wrapper, and we also covered [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | nc8230 problems, AITP, A2A on BGInfo Sponsored by GoToMeeting.comWhat would we do without Mondays? What would we do without users? (besides be out of a job.) Tonight I covered some minor irritations I’ve experienced with users lately and an interesting problem with a Compaq nc8230 laptop.George provides us with another Professional Development piece, this time on the Association of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Show #98, a contest for show 100, BartPE, UBCD4Win, and a book tip Sponsored by Swinging Ape Media - www.swingingapemedia.comThis weekend it dawned on me that I had to be getting close to show #100, and sure enough, this is #98! Guess I should have been paying closer attention. In honor of show #100, we’re having a drawing for copies of XPlay2 for Windows and MacDrive6 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |