Jason Taylor's questions

We have a Squid transparent proxy running, it's great, awesome dare I say. The problem is when some very random sites seem to hate squid. Cox.com is one in particular. Right now we just set an IPtables rule to forward requests to that IP, and not send it to the squid cache.

It would be awesome to have an ACL of "bad" sites that we can setup in squid so that if a client asks for one of these sites, it lets them access it directly, avoiding the squid proxy altogether. Is that possible? Or is iptables the best solution?

We have two domains in separate forests and need to merge/migrate them. I believe a simple migration with ADMT will move all the local user profiles over, and will not be a problem. The potential problem is that all the users in domain2, have identical user accounts (same user/pass) in domain1 so that they can have exchange mailboxes.

If we do a migration with ADMT, will we have any issues since the users need to be merged, whereas computers and local profiles need to be migrated?

I have a user that frequently saves items (or even forgets to save) to places that he forgets. Usually a simple search finds them, but not always. Is there any way to log/track the most recently saved files? It would be great to be the last "saved" files as the recent documents feature is unreliable if he constantly opens documents in his search for the file he just saved.

Alternatively, any ideas on how to control this situation?

We use external USB drives for backups, and they have to be stored offsite at the end of the week. Right now we have your standard external USB drive inside an enclosure. We were thinking about moving to a USB dock, and dock a bare HDD for backups, rather than having various sized and types of enclosures. If we were to do this, the drives need protection while being transported to/from the safety deposit box.

Is there any kind of hard drive carrier that would let us slide two drives into it, and it would provide protection while the drives are carried around by non-technical people? I'm afraid such a product doesn't exist, but perhaps someone knows of something?

I have an installation of Outlook 2003 that won't print emails as of this morning. It can print calendars, and every other program can print fine.

Outlook won't print the emails to any printer, not even a PDF creator. As soon as you hit "Print" nothing happens, there's no notification that the print job was sent or anything. The print server never receives a request to print from the computer.

EDIT: I've re-installed the printers, rebooted, re-registered DLL's related to IE/Outlook, deleted outprn files.

As far as I know, nothing was installed, and there's no errors being reported anywhere. I'm planning on re-installing/repairing Office in the morning. It's just such an odd thing to suddenly happen.

We have around 70 current employees, but 178 accounts in ActiveDirectory. The prior administrators never removed old accounts, and sometimes they weren't even disabled.

As it is, I am considering manually reviewing each account to determine if it can be removed. Is there an easier way to remove accounts based on a condition? Such as, remove (or at least disable or flag in some way) users that haven't logged in within the last month or so?