What about earthquakes? On Wednesday, November 10, 2010, Joseph Heaton <jhea...@dfg.ca.gov> wrote: > Bad weather event? wow, the rivers would have to be really over the banks > for that to happen here in Sacramento. No snow, no tornados, man we don't > get any of that fun stuff. > >>>> David Lum <david....@nwea.org> 11/10/2010 2:31 PM >>> > PC's will be online during the day of the 17th, the org is taking this > opportunity to treat it as a "bad weather" event to simulate the weather > being too bad for 95% of the folks to get into the office. > > From: Malcolm Reitz [mailto:malcolm.re...@live.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 1:50 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Terminal Server or VPN? > > I would never, ever, allow non-company-managed PCs to connect to our VPN. As > you think, that's just asking for all kinds of trouble. > > Since most of your home users won't have MS Office on their home PCs, they'll > get more done if you give them TS access to your standard corporate suite of > applications. I'm not sure how you could give the users RDP to their actual > desktop PCs if the PCs are in a moving van headed to your new offices. > > -Malcolm > > From: David Lum [mailto:david....@nwea.org] > Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 15:17 > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Terminal Server or VPN? > > In a few weeks (Dec 17th) we'll be having a massive "work from home" day > (200-ish users, because we're moving our office to a different city) and we > have the option of standing up some Terminal Servers or just running with > VPN. Most users are expected to just want MS Office apps and Internet > Explorer. Several (a couple dozen) will also want RDP access to their > desktops. > > We have 3 TS servers now (1 2K8, 2 W2K3) but have the capability to stand up > more 2008 TS servers. I have no experience setting up TS farms or getting > them available for ability to his via Internet, although both of these appear > to be pretty straightforward. I am also under the impression that TS via > Internet uses less bandwidth than a straight-up VPN connection. > > VPN is already established but we'll certainly have many users using their > home PC that don't currently have VPN configured and would much rather have > them connect via Terminal Server than install, configure and then connect an > unknown system - from a security/patched/AV standpoint - to VPN. > > I think it's kind of six of one half dozen of another as far as overall > effort, but I REALLY don't want unmanaged home PC's connecting via VPN... > David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER > NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION > (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to > listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to > listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > >
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