RE: [info-tech] JMC Meeting
Scott, Having it at Algona would be great. In fact, May 19th would be fine because we will be getting ready for the new year. The 11th of March would be open here for a different user's group. We're centrally located and since there's no school, everything is basically open, including all of the labs. I don't know how many are running Exchange Server but that's one topic I could learn a lot from a users group. Thanks, George -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Fosseen Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 5:14 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: [info-tech] JMC Meeting I am working with Jackie Fonley at Algona and we are planning on a JMC agenda at the May Info-Tech Meeting May 19th in Algona. We are planning on having JMC come down and tell us of the new features of JMC, and could also add a Q&A session or even a workshop. I have not contacted JMC yet but do expect so soon. _ Scott Fosseen - Systems Engineer -Prairie Lakes AEA http://fosseen.us/scott _ Research by the U.S. Navy has determined that water freezes in cold weather. - Southfield Michigan newspaper _ - Original Message - From: "George Tuttle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 2:52 PM Subject: RE: [info-tech] neat tools Steve, We don't want to take the valuable time at our tech coordinators meetings to go over something that not everyone is using. To me, the tech coordinators meeting is for introduction of different products and other topics that apply to everyone. We use JMC and we don't have school on March 11th so we would be willing to look into hosting that as well. Maybe we could get someone from JMC to attend. Anyway, that's food for thought. George -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Scarbrough Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 2:37 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: Re: [info-tech] neat tools George Tuttle wrote: > > > Several of us using Microsoft's products at different times have talked about getting together and going over STUFF. Sounds like a Tech Coordinator's Meeting Agenda item to me. I'd note that similar "users groups" might be beneficial. Consider JMC, for example. Lots of users, lots of stuff that's unpublished. Steve Scarbrough Technology Coordinator Storm Lake Community School District 712.732.8100 fax:8101 --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ - --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ - --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ - --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ -
[info-tech] JMC Meeting
I am working with Jackie Fonley at Algona and we are planning on a JMC agenda at the May Info-Tech Meeting May 19th in Algona. We are planning on having JMC come down and tell us of the new features of JMC, and could also add a Q&A session or even a workshop. I have not contacted JMC yet but do expect so soon. _ Scott Fosseen - Systems Engineer -Prairie Lakes AEA http://fosseen.us/scott _ Research by the U.S. Navy has determined that water freezes in cold weather. - Southfield Michigan newspaper _ - Original Message - From: "George Tuttle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 2:52 PM Subject: RE: [info-tech] neat tools Steve, We don't want to take the valuable time at our tech coordinators meetings to go over something that not everyone is using. To me, the tech coordinators meeting is for introduction of different products and other topics that apply to everyone. We use JMC and we don't have school on March 11th so we would be willing to look into hosting that as well. Maybe we could get someone from JMC to attend. Anyway, that's food for thought. George -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Scarbrough Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 2:37 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: Re: [info-tech] neat tools George Tuttle wrote: Several of us using Microsoft's products at different times have talked about getting together and going over STUFF. Sounds like a Tech Coordinator's Meeting Agenda item to me. I'd note that similar "users groups" might be beneficial. Consider JMC, for example. Lots of users, lots of stuff that's unpublished. Steve Scarbrough Technology Coordinator Storm Lake Community School District 712.732.8100 fax:8101 --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ - --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ - --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ -
[info-tech] Microsoft Exchange Tools...
Good afternoon- I was curious for those people using Microsoft Exchange if they had any neat tools for monitoring and management of your Exchange server. Looking for anything, hopefully to tell me about my resource utilization, top users, top hosts, normal things that are useful in using. Would appreciate any information if you are using something and it is working well for you. Haven't begun looking, so I thought I would ask before I re-invent the search for a good tool. Thanks for any information. Jeremy ___ Jeremy PearsonNetwork Administrator / Computer TechnicianFort Dodge Community School District104 South 17th StreetFort Dodge, Iowa 50501 http://www.fort-dodge.k12.ia.us (515)574-5676 voice(515)574-5324 fax
RE: [info-tech] neat tools
Steve, We don't want to take the valuable time at our tech coordinators meetings to go over something that not everyone is using. To me, the tech coordinators meeting is for introduction of different products and other topics that apply to everyone. We use JMC and we don't have school on March 11th so we would be willing to look into hosting that as well. Maybe we could get someone from JMC to attend. Anyway, that's food for thought. George -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Scarbrough Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 2:37 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: Re: [info-tech] neat tools George Tuttle wrote: > > > Several of us using Microsoft's products at different times have talked about getting together and going over STUFF. Sounds like a Tech Coordinator's Meeting Agenda item to me. I'd note that similar "users groups" might be beneficial. Consider JMC, for example. Lots of users, lots of stuff that's unpublished. Steve Scarbrough Technology Coordinator Storm Lake Community School District 712.732.8100 fax:8101 --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ - --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ -
Re: [info-tech] neat tools
George Tuttle wrote: > > > Several of us using Microsofts products at different times have > talked about getting together and going over STUFF. Sounds like a Tech Coordinator's Meeting Agenda item to me. I'd note that similar "users groups" might be beneficial. Consider JMC, for example. Lots of users, lots of stuff that's unpublished. Steve Scarbrough Technology Coordinator Storm Lake Community School District 712.732.8100 fax:8101 --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ -
Re: [info-tech] neat tools
Title: Re: [info-tech] neat tools George, I would very much like to attend such a session. I know we are in the dark ages here -- we just put in our first microsoft server -- and I can sure use all the info I can get on tools and problem solving. thanks, Bill Day TRV Schools on 2/7/05 2:12 PM, George Tuttle at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Techs, If you¹re using Windows, below is a list of some really neat tools. The one I really like is log parser 2.2 which breaks down most of Microsoft¹s logs into a readable format. I also used the IIS toolkit to tighten a IIS server. There¹s also a link to their anti-virus and anti-spyware utilities if you haven¹t seen them. Several of us using Microsoft¹s products at different times have talked about getting together and going over STUFF. I looked at our school calendar and we don¹t have school on the 25th of this month so we would be willing to host a meeting. We would spend from 9:30 to 12:30 discussing Microsoft stuff in general and from 1:30 to 3:00 discussing tabletpc issues since there are a number of schools using those now. I would welcome specific topic suggestions and would like to know if you are interested so I know how many to prepare for. If you¹re wondering if Microsoft is here to stay, they just had their best second quarter ever. Their server division was up 18%. Don¹t take what I¹m saying wrong. I don¹t own any Microsoft stock and am not pushing their products. What I am saying is ³I don¹t plan on changing in the near future.² George ENTERPRISE WINDOWS: OLIVER RIST Monday, February 7, 2005 Time to restock your sys admin toolbox The new year has already yielded some nicely polished Microsoft utilities By Oliver Rist February 04, 2005 January turned out to be quite the month for Microsoft utility downloads, as well as third-party utility releases. For those of us who've wiped the New Year's fuzziness from our eyes and survived the first month's inevitable oddities, an update to our sys admin tool chests seems like a good idea, especially because I've already highlighted Microsoft's new anti-virus and anti-spyware downloads. So I've looked at a bunch of new and useful utilities, most of which were released in January, and most of which are also downloadable from Microsoft. NEWSLETTER SPONSOR Enterprise portals offer many benefits. Implementing enterprise portal solutions allows one to seamlessly aggregate relevant information and applications for consistent presentation to customers, partners and employees. Join InfoWorld CTO Chad Dickerson in this webcast: "7 Biggest Oversights in Enterprise Portal Development" to learn more about portal possibilities and benefits for your organization http://www.infoworld.com/2516 At the top of my list, for those souls using Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0, is the newly updated IIS 6.0 Resource Kit Tools. This is a highly useful collection of utilities designed to make administering and especially securing IIS servers a task for humans rather than Cylons reeking of the misty northwest. Packaged in this bundle of joy are tools to deploy SSL certificates, manage and query IIS log files, and migrate from Apache (for the adventurous). It also includes a variety of troubleshooting tools and even a stress test utility. If you're running an IIS server, even if it's only behind the firewall, this is a toolkit addition you can't miss. Check it out at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/. Another truly cool Redmondian-spawned utility is Log Parser 2.2, which is an absolute spine-tingler in time savings. Log Parser acts as a sort of universal front end to as many Microsoft-spawned log file sources as possible, which includes the XML and CSV formatted basics, but also all the Windows OS logs (such as event log and registry, for instance) and especially Active Directory. The really cool part is that your query results can be formatted any way you like, including text, Syslog, or even SQL. You've got to try it to appreciate the interface, a new definition for flexibility. You can also find this one at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/. Next, check out the once-again-revised Microsoft Scriptomatic, a utility designed to write WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) scripts for you. In its latest 2.0 incarnation, Scriptomatic still does all its WMI creation and education magic, but now doesn't limit itself to VBScripts. Scriptomatic can now write scripts in languages as diverse as JScript, Perl, and Python. Scriptomatic 2.0 also handles arrays and can talk to all WMI classes on the installed machine. Data output is also beefed up, including HTML and XML. Scriptomatic 2.0 is located at Microsoft's download site, plus there are several Scriptomatic educational documents available should you choose to search for them. On the third-party front, I've bumped into several new releases during the last few weeks, both commercial and freeware. Fo
[info-tech] neat tools
Techs, If you’re using Windows, below is a list of some really neat tools. The one I really like is log parser 2.2 which breaks down most of Microsoft’s logs into a readable format. I also used the IIS toolkit to tighten a IIS server. There’s also a link to their anti-virus and anti-spyware utilities if you haven’t seen them. Several of us using Microsoft’s products at different times have talked about getting together and going over STUFF. I looked at our school calendar and we don’t have school on the 25th of this month so we would be willing to host a meeting. We would spend from 9:30 to 12:30 discussing Microsoft stuff in general and from 1:30 to 3:00 discussing tabletpc issues since there are a number of schools using those now. I would welcome specific topic suggestions and would like to know if you are interested so I know how many to prepare for. If you’re wondering if Microsoft is here to stay, they just had their best second quarter ever. Their server division was up 18%. Don’t take what I’m saying wrong. I don’t own any Microsoft stock and am not pushing their products. What I am saying is “I don’t plan on changing in the near future.” George ENTERPRISE WINDOWS: OLIVER RIST Monday, February 7, 2005 Time to restock your sys admin toolbox The new year has already yielded some nicely polished Microsoft utilities By Oliver Rist February 04, 2005 January turned out to be quite the month for Microsoft utility downloads, as well as third-party utility releases. For those of us who've wiped the New Year's fuzziness from our eyes and survived the first month's inevitable oddities, an update to our sys admin tool chests seems like a good idea, especially because I've already highlighted Microsoft's new anti-virus and anti-spyware downloads. So I've looked at a bunch of new and useful utilities, most of which were released in January, and most of which are also downloadable from Microsoft. NEWSLETTER SPONSOR Enterprise portals offer many benefits. Implementing enterprise portal solutions allows one to seamlessly aggregate relevant information and applications for consistent presentation to customers, partners and employees. Join InfoWorld CTO Chad Dickerson in this webcast: "7 Biggest Oversights in Enterprise Portal Development" to learn more about portal possibilities and benefits for your organization http://www.infoworld.com/2516 At the top of my list, for those souls using Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0, is the newly updated IIS 6.0 Resource Kit Tools. This is a highly useful collection of utilities designed to make administering and especially securing IIS servers a task for humans rather than Cylons reeking of the misty northwest. Packaged in this bundle of joy are tools to deploy SSL certificates, manage and query IIS log files, and migrate from Apache (for the adventurous). It also includes a variety of troubleshooting tools and even a stress test utility. If you're running an IIS server, even if it's only behind the firewall, this is a toolkit addition you can't miss. Check it out at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/. Another truly cool Redmondian-spawned utility is Log Parser 2.2, which is an absolute spine-tingler in time savings. Log Parser acts as a sort of universal front end to as many Microsoft-spawned log file sources as possible, which includes the XML and CSV formatted basics, but also all the Windows OS logs (such as event log and registry, for instance) and especially Active Directory. The really cool part is that your query results can be formatted any way you like, including text, Syslog, or even SQL. You've got to try it to appreciate the interface, a new definition for flexibility. You can also find this one at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/. Next, check out the once-again-revised Microsoft Scriptomatic, a utility designed to write WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) scripts for you. In its latest 2.0 incarnation, Scriptomatic still does all its WMI creation and education magic, but now doesn't limit itself to VBScripts. Scriptomatic can now write scripts in languages as diverse as JScript, Perl, and Python. Scriptomatic 2.0 also handles arrays and can talk to all WMI classes on the installed machine. Data output is also beefed up, including HTML and XML. Scriptomatic 2.0 is located at Microsoft's download site, plus there are several Scriptomatic educational documents available should you choose to search for them. On the third-party front, I've bumped into several new releases during the last few weeks, both commercial and freeware. For those poor sys admins with a load of roamin
[info-tech] Feb Meeting Update
Through requests I have added Payschool to the agenda for our February 17th meeting. RevTrak will now be from 1-2pm and Payschool from 2-3pm. I have updated the web version of the Agenda and will add more to the Payschool item as I receive it. http://www.aea8.k12.ia.us/en/technology/tech_meetings/ This meeting is open to school personnel who would like to attend. _ Scott Fosseen - Systems Engineer -Prairie Lakes AEA http://fosseen.us/scott _ Never test the depth of the water with both feet. _ --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ -
[info-tech] High School:Iowa Learning Online Classes
Administrators, Counselors, Teachers! Online Classes Iowa Learning Online, a Department of Education initiative, is currently developing an online network of high school classes to be shared across district lines. Each class undergoes a series of course reviews and is taught by an Iowa certified teacher. Current Classes Over 40 Iowa schools have accessed Iowa Learning Online classes in our first six months. Students dealing with credit recovery, scheduling conflicts, teacher shortages, and credit advancement are benefiting from these online learning options. You may view these classes, their course descriptions, the teacher bios, and methods of talking directly with ILO instructors on the Iowa Learning Online Web site at http://iowalearningonline.org/classes.cfm . Courses under Development for Summer ‘05 American Government and Politics American History Calculus English 10 World History Courses under Development for Fall ‘05 American Government and Politics American History Anatomy and Physiology Calculus Chemistry Physics Spanish I Spanish II On-line Registration Registration for any ILO class may be completed online by your district’s high school counselor, secondary principal, or district administrator. On-site Coaches Every participating district must provide a “coach” (an adult student advocate) to work closely, on-site, with the student to encourage, assist, and address accountability issues; the coach must be an employee of the school and proactively be involved in the student’s learning process throughout the course. Please contact us if you would like a school visit or short informational presentation. Arlan Thorson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 515 238-4765 http://IowaLearningOnline.org To Post: Send message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To manage your subscription: http://www.aea11.k12.ia.us/site/listserv/listserv.html Address any concerns/problems to: Vaughn Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea5.k12.ia.us] -- Nancy Movall Technology & School Improvement Consultant 824 Flindt Drive Storm Lake, IA 50588 712-732-2257 "When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for." --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ -
