Re: Keeping 550+ systems maintained

2013-03-12 Thread Christopher Bodnar
My guess is that it will come down to Dell/Kace or SCCM 2012, and possibly Altiris IT Management Suite. I've never used one, but from what I have heard Kace might be a better fit for a smaller shop with less requirements than an SCCM installation. But SCCM is more full featured, but requires

Re: Keeping 550+ systems maintained

2013-03-12 Thread Robert Cato
In my experience the Users are local admins. bullet is going to add to the manpower hours. You probably already know this first hand and unable to change it, but it does add to the manpower requirements. We have roughly the same number of workstations, and our helpdesk breaks down like this 1 FTE

Re: Gateway Controls for Wireless

2013-03-12 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Greg Sweers gswe...@acts360.com wrote: Anything out there that will just sit in front of all those devices, hand out DHCP and present a AUP page requiring them to accept before allowing out to the internet. This is called a captive portal, FYI. This is a

RE: Keeping 550+ systems maintained

2013-03-12 Thread David Lum
Tools in place: SMS (yes, SMS, not SCCM) KACE 1000 and 2000 (effectively replacing SMS for software distribution) McAfee ePO, including an Agent Handler in the DMZ to update remote clients not connection via VPN WSUS VMWare vCenter Protect (was Shavlik) We have two SE's and four Level1/2 tech's

Re: Gateway Controls for Wireless

2013-03-12 Thread John Cook
IIRC the Meraki AP will do this. You can get a freebie John W. Cook Network Operations Manager Partnership for Strong Families - Original Message - From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 12:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: Keeping 550+ systems maintained

2013-03-12 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 7:39 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: Scenario: · 550 Windows workstations, with 100+ of them remote. · Active Directory (W2K8R2 and W2K3 DCs). · Windows 7 and Windows XP. · Users are local admins. · Some remote

Interesting article on configuring IPSec natively for Win 7

2013-03-12 Thread Kurt Buff
[HowTo] - Windows IPSec VPN without 3rd party IPSec client http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=55754.0 It can probably be made to work with IPSec connectionsother than pfsense/racoon as well. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~