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[Keith] Welcome to the Mind Of Root. I'm Keith Albright

[Steve] and I'm Steve Murawski.

[Keith] This is Episode 72 recorded on October 22nd, 2008.

Chit-Chat - What's going on with you?

[Steve]

  • I've been in ITIL v3 Foundations training all last week. Just found out I passed the test.. And this week I'm in Network Security training. It's been busy.

[Keith]

  • Podnutz and Great Tech Debate appearance this past Saturday. Not sure on the release schedule.
  • Used Second Life for the Great Tech Debate. First time I was in there.

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Housekeeping Items

[Steve]

  • I'm sorry I missed last week. I was just listening to the show and found myself wanting to chime in on the VPN and DNSSec? conversations. Oh yeah.. Ciscoz in da House! :)

[Keith]

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  • ITIL v3 [STEVE]
-For those that are not familiar with ITIL, it is the Information Technology Infrastructure Library, which consists of five books describing the foundations of the framework for frameworks for IT Service Management.
-The five core volumes consist of Service Strategy, Service Design, Service Transition, Service Operation, and Continual Service Improvement.
-One of the major benefits I see for this framework is providing a common language in dealing with suppliers, other business units in your enterprise, and when transitioning to other employers.
-Another major benefit is that it really focuses the application of IT Services to make them align with the business needs and provide flexibility as these needs change.
-You can dive as deep into this process as you would like.
-Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITIL_v3
-Link: http://tinyurl.com/37oqc3
  • Recent News [STEVE]
-Windows 7 will be called Windows 7
-Windows 7 FAQ on Paul Thurrott's SuperSite?
-Link: http://www.winsupersite.com/faq/windows_7.asp
-Link: http://tinyurl.com/2daq6b
-Silverlight 2 RTM
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-Link: http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/
-Link: http://tinyurl.com/2u4nte
  • Solarwinds Free VMWare ESX Server Monitor App [KEITH]
-I don't have an ESX server up, so I couldn't test it.
-I was notified of this after I downloaded their free Exchange monitor app. It does not work too well with Exchange 2007 due to some of the app architecture changes since 2003. It is a pretty neat utility though.
-Registration should be required, but....If you look at the links in the show notes, each one has a unique number for the program ID. If you go to the download section on SolarWinds?, find a package you want and hover over the 'download' button, you will see the program ID in the URL down in the status bar of your browser. Now, cut and paste one the URLS below and change the number to the one you want. It bypasses the registration. I hate registering over and over for fear I will get more than one customer notification, etc.
-Link: http://www.solarwinds.com/register/MoreSoftware.aspx?Program=864 ESX Monitor
-Link: http://tinyurl.com/3eeghl
-Link: http://www.solarwinds.com/register/MoreSoftware.aspx?Program=825 Exchange Monitor
-Link: http://tinyurl.com/6m963v
  • More about Hyper-V [STEVE]
-What is Hyper-V
-James O'Neill has a great post talking about what exactly Hyper-V Server is.
-At the base of it are some Windows subsystems, but it it is not Windows.
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-Link: http://blogs.technet.com/jamesone/archive/2008/10/20/hyper-v-server-what-is-it-exactly.aspx
-Link: http://tinyurl.com/5vdcc4
-Hyper-V PowerPack?
-Kirk Munro (from Quest Software) has been hard at work on a PowerPack? for Hyper-V
-It is amazing. I've had the opportunity to work with the pre-release version for about a week, while setting up some Hyper-V Servers for my test environment. There is very little that you cannot do with the PowerPack? that you can do with the MMC.
-Link: http://poshoholic.com/2008/10/22/powergui-now-with-100-more-hyper-v/
-Link: http://tinyurl.com/55p6s8
-Microsoft releases Systems Center: Virtual Machine Manager
-Designed for managing virtual machines running on Windows Server® 2008 Hyper–V™ and Microsoft Hyper-V Server.
-Virtualization support for virtual machines running on Microsoft Virtual Server and VMware? ESX.
-Link: http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/virtualmachinemanager/en/us/default.aspx
-Link: http://tinyurl.com/6reqdn
-From out friend Greg Shields at Concentrated Technology:
-With the release of SCVMM 2008, they have also released a few clinics (2 hour online training)
-One is on Hyper-V and the other on SCVMM 2008.
-Link: http://concentratedtech.com/content/index.php/2008/10/microsoft-releases-scvmm-2008-get-your-free-training/
-Link: http://tinyurl.com/5crktg
  • Cyber Security for Critical Infrastructure [STEVE]
-This training is put on by the Cyberterrorism Defense Institute. CDI was developed and is administered by the Cyberterrorism Defense Analysis Center (CDAC) of the Criminal Justice Institute (CJI), University of Arkansas System. CDI is funded by a cooperative agreement from the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Training and Exercise Integration/Training Operations (TEI/TO).
-Personnel can come from public safety, law enforcement, state and local government, public utilities, colleges and universities, and health care providers. Depending on classroom space, consideration will also be given to other individuals working within agencies and organizations considered as a part of our nation's critical infrastructures.
-There are four classes, and if you are in the US and work for one of the described agencies or are a member of Infragard, look in to these classes.
-Link: https://www.cyberterrorismcenter.org/index.html
-Link: http://tinyurl.com/6lb6yw
  • Service Accounts - Local vs. Domain [KEITH]
-In what context do you create your service accounts? Domain level, local SAM, or both?
-I use a combination. If the service/application needs access to domain level resources, I use a domain account. If not, I keep it on the local box. My thought is that it keeps rogue programs isolated and doesn't aid in privilege escalation.
-If you do use domain accounts, be sure to remove the account from membership in all groups including 'Domain User'. It is not needed to log on and prevents accidental access.
-Never use an adminstrator account. Password change problems.
-Link: http://www.liebsoft.com/whitepapers/pdf_files/Service_Account_Management_in_Microsoft_Windows_Servers.pdf Little out-dated
-Link: http://tinyurl.com/yhu96h
-Link: http://www.brainlitter.com/archives/2008/03/best-practices.htm
-Link: http://tinyurl.com/684byf

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Listener Feedback

From listener....Justo Morales from the Pepe Show

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[KEITH] Justo is absolutely right. I mis-spoke when I said you can run it on the destination host on the port in question. If that service is already up, the port is already in use and listening. As Justo mentioned, you can shut down the service, but why bother. Just test to the actual service.

Frappr

Thanks to MSaltzFirst? and undefined for posting a pin on the Frappr Map. Our Frappr Map is great; a kid on the toilet and undefined people. Only IT Geeks could accomplish this.

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Last Call

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Closing

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