[info-tech] True Aim Website
The Department of Education website for AIM (Accessible Instructional Materials) has officially been launched. All forms and resources relating to NIMAS AIM may be found at this site as well as FAQ's. http://trueaim.iowa.gov/ As a reminder, by law, any student who requires print in an alternative format is to have it on the first day of school or the same time as other students. Donna Sennert Assistive Technology Coordinator Prairie Lakes AEA 8 500 NE 6th St., PO Box 802 Pocahontas, IA 50574 712-335-3588 x 2019 or 866-540-3858 x 2019 712-335-5871 - Fax Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass.. It's about learning to dance in the rain. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this email. You are asked to notify the sender immediately by email if you have received this email by mistake and delete this email from your system. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Prairie Lakes Area Education Agency. Prairie Lakes Area Education Agency accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email.
[info-tech] Fw: IEC Update: Microsoft offers SharePoint Designer 2007 to schools free...
IEC Update: Microsoft offers SharePoint Designer 2007 to schools free...Forwarded information from the IEC...Harriet SharePoint Designer 2007 is available as a free download starting April 2, 2009! Summary SharePoint Designer 2007 is a free product available as a download at www.microsoft.com/spd. This change is being made in order to help customers get the most value out of their investments in SharePoint and to promote even more customizations on the platform. Microsoft will remove SharePoint Designer 2007 from the April 2009 Volume Licensing price list. Customers with active Software Assurance on SharePoint Designer 2007 as of April 1, 2009 will get rights to Expression Web. The next version of SharePoint Designer will also be available as a free download, and will ship simultaneously with the next release of SharePoint.
[info-tech] icn
Say Jim Kerns, What's the best door to use in access the icn room at Spencer. I'll be parking on the south side since the Maverick Relays are today. Murray Gafkjen Clay Central Everly
Re: [info-tech] icn
The easiest is the northwest door, but if you are on the other side, you will need to go straight west once you enter the building, it is in that hallway, but almost all the way at the other end of the building. If you want, just give me a call once you get here. 712-240-9086. Jim Murray Gafkjen mgafk...@clay-everly.k12.ia.us 4/3/2009 11:36 AM Say Jim Kerns, What's the best door to use in access the icn room at Spencer. I'll be parking on the south side since the Maverick Relays are today. Murray Gafkjen Clay Central Everly --- [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] icn
I'll be the one in red, I was concern with it clashing with all that purple. Thanks, Murray -Original Message- From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us [mailto:info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us] On Behalf Of Jim Kerns Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:05 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: Re: [info-tech] icn The easiest is the northwest door, but if you are on the other side, you will need to go straight west once you enter the building, it is in that hallway, but almost all the way at the other end of the building. If you want, just give me a call once you get here. 712-240-9086. Jim Murray Gafkjen mgafk...@clay-everly.k12.ia.us 4/3/2009 11:36 AM Say Jim Kerns, What's the best door to use in access the icn room at Spencer. I'll be parking on the south side since the Maverick Relays are today. Murray Gafkjen Clay Central Everly --- [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]help before i got completely insane
I need help from anyone that can help me. We recently bought a mobile lab cart with 30 hp laptops and have nothing but problems with them. They came loaded with Vista Business and have plenty of RAM and processor speed to do what we need. Just never have any luck with printing to the printer on the cart, accessing the internet, loading up students personal drives and the mapped drives. I will log in as administrator, fix the wireless card and than log off and hand it to a student and then it will lose the connection. I log back on as administrator and will have to repair the wireless again. Anyone out there have some suggestions on what to try or can tell me who has no issues with wireless that i could come visit them before i decide to start throwing these laptops and not joking about them. PLEASE HELP ME BEFORE I GO NUTS Mitch Mueller Network Administrator Emmetsburg Community Schools Emmetsburg, Ia 50536 mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us P: (712)852-2966 C: (712)298-0596
Re: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane
Is there wireless software on them, like Belkin (?), or something that is taking control of the wireless instead of the Windows administration of the wireless? We ran into that here. All I did was either remove or disable that software, and then Windows took over control of the wireless, and I had no more problems. Sarah Sarah M. Freking, District Technology Director Storm Lake Community School District Storm Lake, IA 50588 Phone: 712-732-8100 Fax: 712-732-8101 I see, I forget. I hear, I remember. I do, I understand.--Chinese Proverbs info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us writes: I need help from anyone that can help me. We recently bought a mobile lab cart with 30 hp laptops and have nothing but problems with them. They came loaded with Vista Business and have plenty of RAM and processor speed to do what we need. Just never have any luck with printing to the printer on the cart, accessing the internet, loading up students personal drives and the mapped drives. I will log in as administrator, fix the wireless card and than log off and hand it to a student and then it will lose the connection. I log back on as administrator and will have to repair the wireless again. Anyone out there have some suggestions on what to try or can tell me who has no issues with wireless that i could come visit them before i decide to start throwing these laptops and not joking about them. PLEASE HELP ME BEFORE I GO NUTS Mitch Mueller Network Administrator Emmetsburg Community Schools Emmetsburg, Ia 50536 [ mailto:mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us ]mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us P: (712)852-2966 C: (712)298-0596
RE: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane
I agree with Sarah, make sure it is using windows wireless, third party drivers can cause problems. Murray Gafkjen From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us [mailto:info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us] On Behalf Of Sarah Freking Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:19 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: Re: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane Is there wireless software on them, like Belkin (?), or something that is taking control of the wireless instead of the Windows administration of the wireless? We ran into that here. All I did was either remove or disable that software, and then Windows took over control of the wireless, and I had no more problems. Sarah Sarah M. Freking, District Technology Director Storm Lake Community School District Storm Lake, IA 50588 Phone: 712-732-8100 Fax: 712-732-8101 I see, I forget. I hear, I remember. I do, I understand.--Chinese Proverbs info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.usmailto:info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us writes: I need help from anyone that can help me. We recently bought a mobile lab cart with 30 hp laptops and have nothing but problems with them. They came loaded with Vista Business and have plenty of RAM and processor speed to do what we need. Just never have any luck with printing to the printer on the cart, accessing the internet, loading up students personal drives and the mapped drives. I will log in as administrator, fix the wireless card and than log off and hand it to a student and then it will lose the connection. I log back on as administrator and will have to repair the wireless again. Anyone out there have some suggestions on what to try or can tell me who has no issues with wireless that i could come visit them before i decide to start throwing these laptops and not joking about them. PLEASE HELP ME BEFORE I GO NUTS Mitch Mueller Network Administrator Emmetsburg Community Schools Emmetsburg, Ia 50536 mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.usmailto:mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us P: (712)852-2966 C: (712)298-0596
[info-tech] USF Audit
...and so the audit process continues. Now I am into the complaince phase of my last year USF audit, I have 15 days to respond and they want me to tell them how i fixed those issues in year 2007 and 2008 and since my audit was LAST year for 2006, I am not sure how they want me to fix it for years that are already over! I love the FCC (incase they are reading my emails)! :) Thanks! Jon W. Hueser- MSE, Ed. S MS/HS Principal Technology Director East Greene CSD 405 12th Street South Grand Junction, IA 50107 515-738-5721 x201 Fax: 515-738-5719
RE: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane
Are these N-draft cards? If so, we had an issue with those dealing with fragmentation/RTS thresholds. We had some old b cards that did not like large Frag/RTS thresholds so we had them set low. The N-Draft cards do not like them that low and exhibit behavior similar to what you are describing. So, to fix it we increased the Fragmentation threshold to 2048 and the RTS threshold to 2049 and now all is well with the N-draft cards. However, the old b cards no longer function, which is mostly ok for us since we no longer use those devices except for 1 old palm pilot to program the door locks. Thanks, Chad Frerichs Director of Technology Okoboji Community Schools Milford, IA 51351 From: Murray Gafkjen [mailto:mgafk...@clay-everly.k12.ia.us] Sent: Fri 4/3/2009 12:35 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane I agree with Sarah, make sure it is using windows wireless, third party drivers can cause problems. Murray Gafkjen From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us [mailto:info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us] On Behalf Of Sarah Freking Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:19 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: Re: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane Is there wireless software on them, like Belkin (?), or something that is taking control of the wireless instead of the Windows administration of the wireless? We ran into that here. All I did was either remove or disable that software, and then Windows took over control of the wireless, and I had no more problems. Sarah Sarah M. Freking, District Technology Director Storm Lake Community School District Storm Lake, IA 50588 Phone: 712-732-8100 Fax: 712-732-8101 I see, I forget. I hear, I remember. I do, I understand.--Chinese Proverbs info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us writes: I need help from anyone that can help me. We recently bought a mobile lab cart with 30 hp laptops and have nothing but problems with them. They came loaded with Vista Business and have plenty of RAM and processor speed to do what we need. Just never have any luck with printing to the printer on the cart, accessing the internet, loading up students personal drives and the mapped drives. I will log in as administrator, fix the wireless card and than log off and hand it to a student and then it will lose the connection. I log back on as administrator and will have to repair the wireless again. Anyone out there have some suggestions on what to try or can tell me who has no issues with wireless that i could come visit them before i decide to start throwing these laptops and not joking about them. PLEASE HELP ME BEFORE I GO NUTS Mitch Mueller Network Administrator Emmetsburg Community Schools Emmetsburg, Ia 50536 mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us mailto:mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us P: (712)852-2966 C: (712)298-0596 winmail.dat
RE: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane
I might add that Aaron Bennis said Akeny was having a similar issue with different APs and had to apply a patch to fix it. Chad Frerichs Director of Technology Okoboji Community Schools Milford, IA 51351 From: Murray Gafkjen [mailto:mgafk...@clay-everly.k12.ia.us] Sent: Fri 4/3/2009 12:35 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane I agree with Sarah, make sure it is using windows wireless, third party drivers can cause problems. Murray Gafkjen From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us [mailto:info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us] On Behalf Of Sarah Freking Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:19 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: Re: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane Is there wireless software on them, like Belkin (?), or something that is taking control of the wireless instead of the Windows administration of the wireless? We ran into that here. All I did was either remove or disable that software, and then Windows took over control of the wireless, and I had no more problems. Sarah Sarah M. Freking, District Technology Director Storm Lake Community School District Storm Lake, IA 50588 Phone: 712-732-8100 Fax: 712-732-8101 I see, I forget. I hear, I remember. I do, I understand.--Chinese Proverbs info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us writes: I need help from anyone that can help me. We recently bought a mobile lab cart with 30 hp laptops and have nothing but problems with them. They came loaded with Vista Business and have plenty of RAM and processor speed to do what we need. Just never have any luck with printing to the printer on the cart, accessing the internet, loading up students personal drives and the mapped drives. I will log in as administrator, fix the wireless card and than log off and hand it to a student and then it will lose the connection. I log back on as administrator and will have to repair the wireless again. Anyone out there have some suggestions on what to try or can tell me who has no issues with wireless that i could come visit them before i decide to start throwing these laptops and not joking about them. PLEASE HELP ME BEFORE I GO NUTS Mitch Mueller Network Administrator Emmetsburg Community Schools Emmetsburg, Ia 50536 mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us mailto:mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us P: (712)852-2966 C: (712)298-0596 winmail.dat
Re: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane
Do they have SP1 on them? I would assume so since they are newer, but thought I would ask. There were several wireless issues resolved in SP1. Jim Mitch Mueller mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us 4/3/2009 12:19 PM I need help from anyone that can help me. We recently bought a mobile lab cart with 30 hp laptops and have nothing but problems with them. They came loaded with Vista Business and have plenty of RAM and processor speed to do what we need. Just never have any luck with printing to the printer on the cart, accessing the internet, loading up students personal drives and the mapped drives. I will log in as administrator, fix the wireless card and than log off and hand it to a student and then it will lose the connection. I log back on as administrator and will have to repair the wireless again. Anyone out there have some suggestions on what to try or can tell me who has no issues with wireless that i could come visit them before i decide to start throwing these laptops and not joking about them. PLEASE HELP ME BEFORE I GO NUTS Mitch Mueller Network Administrator Emmetsburg Community Schools Emmetsburg, Ia 50536 mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us P: (712)852-2966 C: (712)298-0596 --- [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]help before i got completely insane
Ok. I applied that patch and still hasn't done anything. When I did that patch though, VISTA would give me an error that it didn't install correctly. Also how do you do any of that frag. settings? Mitch Mueller Network Administrator Emmetsburg Community Schools Emmetsburg, Ia 50536 mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us P: (712)852-2966 C: (712)298-0596 From: Frerichs, Chad cfreri...@okoboji.k12.ia.us Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:47 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane I might add that Aaron Bennis said Akeny was having a similar issue with different APs and had to apply a patch to fix it. Chad Frerichs Director of Technology Okoboji Community Schools Milford, IA 51351 From: Murray Gafkjen [mailto:mgafk...@clay-everly.k12.ia.us] Sent: Fri 4/3/2009 12:35 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane I agree with Sarah, make sure it is using windows wireless, third party drivers can cause problems. Murray Gafkjen From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us [mailto:info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us] On Behalf Of Sarah Freking Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:19 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: Re: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane Is there wireless software on them, like Belkin (?), or something that is taking control of the wireless instead of the Windows administration of the wireless? We ran into that here. All I did was either remove or disable that software, and then Windows took over control of the wireless, and I had no more problems. Sarah Sarah M. Freking, District Technology Director Storm Lake Community School District Storm Lake, IA 50588 Phone: 712-732-8100 Fax: 712-732-8101 I see, I forget. I hear, I remember. I do, I understand.--Chinese Proverbs info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us writes: I need help from anyone that can help me. We recently bought a mobile lab cart with 30 hp laptops and have nothing but problems with them. They came loaded with Vista Business and have plenty of RAM and processor speed to do what we need. Just never have any luck with printing to the printer on the cart, accessing the internet, loading up students personal drives and the mapped drives. I will log in as administrator, fix the wireless card and than log off and hand it to a student and then it will lose the connection. I log back on as administrator and will have to repair the wireless again. Anyone out there have some suggestions on what to try or can tell me who has no issues with wireless that i could come visit them before i decide to start throwing these laptops and not joking about them. PLEASE HELP ME BEFORE I GO NUTS Mitch Mueller Network Administrator Emmetsburg Community Schools Emmetsburg, Ia 50536 mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us P: (712)852-2966 C: (712)298-0596
Re: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane
Yes they do have SP1. Mitch Mueller Network Administrator Emmetsburg Community Schools Emmetsburg, Ia 50536 mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us P: (712)852-2966 C: (712)298-0596 From: Jim Kerns jke...@spencer.k12.ia.us Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:52 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: Re: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane Do they have SP1 on them? I would assume so since they are newer, but thought I would ask. There were several wireless issues resolved in SP1. Jim Mitch Mueller 4/3/2009 12:19 PM I need help from anyone that can help me. We recently bought a mobile lab cart with 30 hp laptops and have nothing but problems with them. They came loaded with Vista Business and have plenty of RAM and processor speed to do what we need. Just never have any luck with printing to the printer on the cart, accessing the internet, loading up students personal drives and the mapped drives. I will log in as administrator, fix the wireless card and than log off and hand it to a student and then it will lose the connection. I log back on as administrator and will have to repair the wireless again. Anyone out there have some suggestions on what to try or can tell me who has no issues with wireless that i could come visit them before i decide to start throwing these laptops and not joking about them. PLEASE HELP ME BEFORE I GO NUTS Mitch Mueller Network Administrator Emmetsburg Community Schools Emmetsburg, Ia 50536 mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us P: (712)852-2966 C: (712)298-0596 --- [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]help before i got completely insane
I agree also with the problem with third party wireless management. It seems as though it waits until a user is logged on using cached credentials to enable the wireless connection. With Windows managing the connection, it seems like the connection is active immediately when the laptop is fired up. I don't know why you would want it the other way?? It would not allow a new domain user to log on with a wireless connection. Anyway hope that helps... Chris Koenck Network Specialist Head Wrestling Boys' Tennis Coach Estherville Lincoln Central CSD 712-362-8404-office 712-380-2337-cell From: Murray Gafkjen [mailto:mgafk...@clay-everly.k12.ia.us] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:36 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane I agree with Sarah, make sure it is using windows wireless, third party drivers can cause problems. Murray Gafkjen From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us [mailto:info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us] On Behalf Of Sarah Freking Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:19 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: Re: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane Is there wireless software on them, like Belkin (?), or something that is taking control of the wireless instead of the Windows administration of the wireless? We ran into that here. All I did was either remove or disable that software, and then Windows took over control of the wireless, and I had no more problems. Sarah Sarah M. Freking, District Technology Director Storm Lake Community School District Storm Lake, IA 50588 Phone: 712-732-8100 Fax: 712-732-8101 I see, I forget. I hear, I remember. I do, I understand.--Chinese Proverbs info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us writes: I need help from anyone that can help me. We recently bought a mobile lab cart with 30 hp laptops and have nothing but problems with them. They came loaded with Vista Business and have plenty of RAM and processor speed to do what we need. Just never have any luck with printing to the printer on the cart, accessing the internet, loading up students personal drives and the mapped drives. I will log in as administrator, fix the wireless card and than log off and hand it to a student and then it will lose the connection. I log back on as administrator and will have to repair the wireless again. Anyone out there have some suggestions on what to try or can tell me who has no issues with wireless that i could come visit them before i decide to start throwing these laptops and not joking about them. PLEASE HELP ME BEFORE I GO NUTS Mitch Mueller Network Administrator Emmetsburg Community Schools Emmetsburg, Ia 50536 mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us mailto:mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us P: (712)852-2966 C: (712)298-0596
[info-tech] Sophos
Anyone out there using Sophos Antivirus. I want to move it to a new server. I have it setup correctly according to Sophos Techs but the CID doesn't update. Will not pull files from the parent to populate the Interchk/ESXP shared folder. Checked that Sophos was allowed through the firewall and it does download about 73 megs of DAT files which it uses to build the distribution package but never does the package. Folder rights are correct. It is 2008 server. Anyone seen this? Thanks, Tony Richardson Technology Coordinator Humboldt Community School District trichard...@humboldt.k12.ia.us Phone: (515)332-9706 Learning and Success for All
RE: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane
I run the new 422 from HP for my A.P. I did do the driver update and now I can't even get my LAN card to work so I think I might have messed them all up now. Mitch Mueller Network Administrator Emmetsburg Community Schools Emmetsburg, Ia 50536 mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us P: (712)852-2966 C: (712)298-0596 From: Frerichs, Chad cfreri...@okoboji.k12.ia.us Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 1:28 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane The frag/rts settings would be somewhere in your AP software. I do not know what kind you are running, or even if you can set them. So these are the a/b/g/n-draft cards? I thought Aaron said it was an AP software patch and not a Windows patch. I think it is very dependent on what APs you are running as far as that patch goes. Thanks, Chad Frerichs Director of Technology Okoboji Community Schools Milford, IA 51351 -Original Message- From: Mitch Mueller [mailto:mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us] Sent: Fri 4/3/2009 12:52 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane Ok. I applied that patch and still hasn't done anything. When I did that patch though, VISTA would give me an error that it didn't install correctly. Also how do you do any of that frag. settings? Mitch Mueller Network Administrator Emmetsburg Community Schools Emmetsburg, Ia 50536 mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us P: (712)852-2966 C: (712)298-0596 From: Frerichs, Chad Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:47 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane I might add that Aaron Bennis said Akeny was having a similar issue with different APs and had to apply a patch to fix it. Chad Frerichs Director of Technology Okoboji Community Schools Milford, IA 51351 From: Murray Gafkjen [mailto:mgafk...@clay-everly.k12.ia.us] Sent: Fri 4/3/2009 12:35 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane I agree with Sarah, make sure it is using windows wireless, third party drivers can cause problems. Murray Gafkjen From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us [mailto:info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us] On Behalf Of Sarah Freking Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:19 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: Re: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane Is there wireless software on them, like Belkin (?), or something that is taking control of the wireless instead of the Windows administration of the wireless? We ran into that here. All I did was either remove or disable that software, and then Windows took over control of the wireless, and I had no more problems. Sarah Sarah M. Freking, District Technology Director Storm Lake Community School District Storm Lake, IA 50588 Phone: 712-732-8100 Fax: 712-732-8101 I see, I forget. I hear, I remember. I do, I understand.--Chinese Proverbs info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us writes: I need help from anyone that can help me. We recently bought a mobile lab cart with 30 hp laptops and have nothing but problems with them. They came loaded with Vista Business and have plenty of RAM and processor speed to do what we need. Just never have any luck with printing to the printer on the cart, accessing the internet, loading up students personal drives and the mapped drives. I will log in as administrator, fix the wireless card and than log off and hand it to a student and then it will lose the connection. I log back on as administrator and will have to repair the wireless again. Anyone out there have some suggestions on what to try or can tell me who has no issues with wireless that i could come visit them before i decide to start throwing these laptops and not joking about them. PLEASE HELP ME BEFORE I GO NUTS Mitch Mueller Network Administrator Emmetsburg Community Schools Emmetsburg, Ia 50536 mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us P: (712)852-2966 C: (712)298-0596
RE: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane
Does anyone know of a company that would come in and do a network survey and see if there are any issues on our network concerning DNS, DHCP or any other mis-configured network programs. Or if you know of a program that will help me with finding a source to my problem. Mitch Mueller Network Administrator Emmetsburg Community Schools Emmetsburg, Ia 50536 mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us P: (712)852-2966 C: (712)298-0596 From: Mitch Mueller mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 1:52 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane When I try to set the RTS Threshold value i get an error saying The RTS THreshold value must be between 128 and 1540. Also what would be the best channel to have them set at. Mitch Mueller Network Administrator Emmetsburg Community Schools Emmetsburg, Ia 50536 mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us P: (712)852-2966 C: (712)298-0596 From: Frerichs, Chad cfreri...@okoboji.k12.ia.us Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:46 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane Are these N-draft cards? If so, we had an issue with those dealing with fragmentation/RTS thresholds. We had some old b cards that did not like large Frag/RTS thresholds so we had them set low. The N-Draft cards do not like them that low and exhibit behavior similar to what you are describing. So, to fix it we increased the Fragmentation threshold to 2048 and the RTS threshold to 2049 and now all is well with the N-draft cards. However, the old b cards no longer function, which is mostly ok for us since we no longer use those devices except for 1 old palm pilot to program the door locks. Thanks, Chad Frerichs Director of Technology Okoboji Community Schools Milford, IA 51351 From: Murray Gafkjen [mailto:mgafk...@clay-everly.k12.ia.us] Sent: Fri 4/3/2009 12:35 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane I agree with Sarah, make sure it is using windows wireless, third party drivers can cause problems. Murray Gafkjen From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us [mailto:info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us] On Behalf Of Sarah Freking Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:19 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: Re: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane Is there wireless software on them, like Belkin (?), or something that is taking control of the wireless instead of the Windows administration of the wireless? We ran into that here. All I did was either remove or disable that software, and then Windows took over control of the wireless, and I had no more problems. Sarah Sarah M. Freking, District Technology Director Storm Lake Community School District Storm Lake, IA 50588 Phone: 712-732-8100 Fax: 712-732-8101 I see, I forget. I hear, I remember. I do, I understand.--Chinese Proverbs info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us writes: I need help from anyone that can help me. We recently bought a mobile lab cart with 30 hp laptops and have nothing but problems with them. They came loaded with Vista Business and have plenty of RAM and processor speed to do what we need. Just never have any luck with printing to the printer on the cart, accessing the internet, loading up students personal drives and the mapped drives. I will log in as administrator, fix the wireless card and than log off and hand it to a student and then it will lose the connection. I log back on as administrator and will have to repair the wireless again. Anyone out there have some suggestions on what to try or can tell me who has no issues with wireless that i could come visit them before i decide to start throwing these laptops and not joking about them. PLEASE HELP ME BEFORE I GO NUTS Mitch Mueller Network Administrator Emmetsburg Community Schools Emmetsburg, Ia 50536 mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us P: (712)852-2966 C: (712)298-0596
Re: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane
I suggest you make out a trouble ticket and see if Jason Kehoe can help you before seeking outside company help. Jason does a great job for us. Ann Ann Bloomquist Ann Bloomquist Technology Coordinator Dayton Elementary School Southeast Webster-Grand 104 2nd St NW Dayton, IA 50530 Phone: 515-547-2314 Fax:515-547-2213 and Boxholm Middle School Southeast Webster-Grandl 404 Walnut St. Boxholm, IA 50040 Phone 515-846-6214 Fax 515-846-6212 e-mail: a_bloomqu...@se-webster.k12.ia.us alternate e-mail: swebs...@lvcta.com On Apr 3, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Mitch Mueller wrote: Does anyone know of a company that would come in and do a network survey and see if there are any issues on our network concerning DNS, DHCP or any other mis-configured network programs. Or if you know of a program that will help me with finding a source to my problem. Mitch Mueller Network Administrator Emmetsburg Community Schools Emmetsburg, Ia 50536 mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us P: (712)852-2966 C: (712)298-0596 From: Mitch Mueller mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 1:52 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane When I try to set the RTS Threshold value i get an error saying The RTS THreshold value must be between 128 and 1540. Also what would be the best channel to have them set at. Mitch Mueller Network Administrator Emmetsburg Community Schools Emmetsburg, Ia 50536 mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us P: (712)852-2966 C: (712)298-0596 From: Frerichs, Chad cfreri...@okoboji.k12.ia.us Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:46 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane Are these N-draft cards? If so, we had an issue with those dealing with fragmentation/RTS thresholds. We had some old b cards that did not like large Frag/RTS thresholds so we had them set low. The N- Draft cards do not like them that low and exhibit behavior similar to what you are describing. So, to fix it we increased the Fragmentation threshold to 2048 and the RTS threshold to 2049 and now all is well with the N-draft cards. However, the old b cards no longer function, which is mostly ok for us since we no longer use those devices except for 1 old palm pilot to program the door locks. Thanks, Chad Frerichs Director of Technology Okoboji Community Schools Milford, IA 51351 From: Murray Gafkjen [mailto:mgafk...@clay-everly.k12.ia.us] Sent: Fri 4/3/2009 12:35 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane I agree with Sarah, make sure it is using windows wireless, third party drivers can cause problems. Murray Gafkjen From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us [mailto:info-tech- ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us] On Behalf Of Sarah Freking Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:19 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: Re: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane Is there wireless software on them, like Belkin (?), or something that is taking control of the wireless instead of the Windows administration of the wireless? We ran into that here. All I did was either remove or disable that software, and then Windows took over control of the wireless, and I had no more problems. Sarah Sarah M. Freking, District Technology Director Storm Lake Community School District Storm Lake, IA 50588 Phone: 712-732-8100 Fax: 712-732-8101 I see, I forget. I hear, I remember. I do, I understand.--Chinese Proverbs info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us writes: I need help from anyone that can help me. We recently bought a mobile lab cart with 30 hp laptops and have nothing but problems with them. They came loaded with Vista Business and have plenty of RAM and processor speed to do what we need. Just never have any luck with printing to the printer on the cart, accessing the internet, loading up students personal drives and the mapped drives. I will log in as administrator, fix the wireless card and than log off and hand it to a student and then it will lose the connection. I log back on as administrator and will have to repair the wireless again. Anyone out there have some suggestions on what to try or can tell me who has no issues with wireless that i could come visit them before i decide to start throwing these laptops and not joking about them. PLEASE HELP ME BEFORE I GO NUTS Mitch Mueller Network Administrator Emmetsburg Community Schools Emmetsburg, Ia 50536 mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us P: (712)852-2966 C: (712)298-0596
RE: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane
We haven't had a lot of issues with wireless, but we did have some issues with Vista and printers. We found that some of our printers had to be set up as a local printer on the computer or laptop and then we didn't have any more issues on that. Vicki Johnson Computer Tech Coordinator Prairie Valley Comm School 1005 Riddle Street Box 49 Gowrie, IA 50543 515-352-5540 Gowrie 515-548-3253 Callender johns...@gowrie.k12.ia.us mailto:johns...@gowrie.k12.ia.us From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us [mailto:info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us] On Behalf Of Mitch Mueller Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:19 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane I need help from anyone that can help me. We recently bought a mobile lab cart with 30 hp laptops and have nothing but problems with them. They came loaded with Vista Business and have plenty of RAM and processor speed to do what we need. Just never have any luck with printing to the printer on the cart, accessing the internet, loading up students personal drives and the mapped drives. I will log in as administrator, fix the wireless card and than log off and hand it to a student and then it will lose the connection. I log back on as administrator and will have to repair the wireless again. Anyone out there have some suggestions on what to try or can tell me who has no issues with wireless that i could come visit them before i decide to start throwing these laptops and not joking about them. PLEASE HELP ME BEFORE I GO NUTS Mitch Mueller Network Administrator Emmetsburg Community Schools Emmetsburg, Ia 50536 mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us P: (712)852-2966 C: (712)298-0596
RE: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane
One thing that I always had some issues with on Vista with printers was when we turned off UAC. Some printers did not seem to install when UAC was off. If you turned it back on, and went through its UAC process, they would work fine. We only have about 4 Vista machines here, and they are all in use by people who can do their own support. So, they don't seem to ever call us. Have a great weekend everyone, and enjoy the Friday 4:00 ICN session!!! Jeremy From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us [mailto:info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us] On Behalf Of Mitch Mueller Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:19 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: [info-tech]help before i got completely insane I need help from anyone that can help me. We recently bought a mobile lab cart with 30 hp laptops and have nothing but problems with them. They came loaded with Vista Business and have plenty of RAM and processor speed to do what we need. Just never have any luck with printing to the printer on the cart, accessing the internet, loading up students personal drives and the mapped drives. I will log in as administrator, fix the wireless card and than log off and hand it to a student and then it will lose the connection. I log back on as administrator and will have to repair the wireless again. Anyone out there have some suggestions on what to try or can tell me who has no issues with wireless that i could come visit them before i decide to start throwing these laptops and not joking about them. PLEASE HELP ME BEFORE I GO NUTS Mitch Mueller Network Administrator Emmetsburg Community Schools Emmetsburg, Ia 50536 mmuel...@emmetsburg.k12.ia.us P: (712)852-2966 C: (712)298-0596
[info-tech] Vulnerabilities
I always debate with the voices in my head whether to let students know of vulnerabilities such as today's Zero-Day with PowerPoint. I always let staff know of such things, but I have not, as of yet, informed students. I guess I fear the ones that would take it as a challenge to download such a file and exploit it within the network. What are others' thoughts on this? I will be here until my ICN session is done ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON! Who thought that was a good idea? So, feel free to reply well into the afternoon. :-| Chad Frerichs Director Of Technology Okoboji Community Schools Milford, IA 51351
Re: [info-tech] Vulnerabilities
Nobody lives in the western third of the state . . . so why does it matter if you schedule an ICN from 4-5:30 on Friday? yes, I was being sarcastic ;-) On Apr 3, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Frerichs, Chad wrote: I always debate with the voices in my head whether to let students know of vulnerabilities such as today’s Zero-Day with PowerPoint. I always let staff know of such things, but I have not, as of yet, informed students. I guess I fear the ones that would take it as a challenge to download such a file and exploit it within the network. What are others’ thoughts on this? I will be here until my ICN session is done ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON! Who thought that was a good idea? So, feel free to reply well into the afternoon. K Chad Frerichs Director Of Technology Okoboji Community Schools Milford, IA 51351
RE: [info-tech] Vulnerabilities
We don't let our people know, as they would expect us to be around fixing it before their e-mail arrived. See you at the ICN, well I won't, but I will be there with you. From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us [mailto:info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us] On Behalf Of Frerichs, Chad Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 3:06 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: [info-tech] Vulnerabilities I always debate with the voices in my head whether to let students know of vulnerabilities such as today's Zero-Day with PowerPoint. I always let staff know of such things, but I have not, as of yet, informed students. I guess I fear the ones that would take it as a challenge to download such a file and exploit it within the network. What are others' thoughts on this? I will be here until my ICN session is done ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON! Who thought that was a good idea? So, feel free to reply well into the afternoon. :-| Chad Frerichs Director Of Technology Okoboji Community Schools Milford, IA 51351
