Re: Certification time?

2012-09-18 Thread IS Technical
Hi folks, I'm looking for recommendations for a small desktop page scanner which has built in eMailing capabilities OR can invoke a command line mailer (such as Blat) on the system to which it is connected. Thanks. Regards, Charles --- Charles Figueiredo PhD

Re: Another tablets question

2012-02-23 Thread IS Technical
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:39:21 -0500, Tom Miller wrote: Hi All, I'm about to purchase a few tablets for testing. I already have an iPad and it works fine for accessing e-mail (I use NotifyLink to deliver e-mail and calendaring to phones/tablets) as well as using the Citrix agent for accessing

gmail outages

2011-07-07 Thread IS Technical
Can anyone tell me if there have been any major Gmail outages in the last week. One if my customers uses gmail on his home system and claims that service has been down or intermittent in the last week. I haven't seen any news confirming this on the usual websites I monitor for this kind of

Backup Exec problems backing up SharePoint

2011-07-04 Thread IT Technical
Hi All, We are using Symantec Backup Exec 12.0. Whenever we backup SharePoint 3.0, we get errors as below. Error : e000fe30 - A communications failure has occurred. Agent used : Yes Advanced Open File Option used : Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)

Re: Backup Exec problems backing up SharePoint

2011-07-04 Thread IT Technical
before the database can be backed up. Final error category: Resource Errors On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:24 AM, IT Technical icttec...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, We are using Symantec Backup Exec 12.0. Whenever we backup SharePoint 3.0, we get errors as below. Error : e000fe30

MS Outlook error when opening without Admin rights

2011-06-28 Thread IT Technical
Hi All, We are experiencing a strange problem with Ms Outlook. Unless a user is made a local admin, Outlook gives the following error and will not open, Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. Making a user a member of the local admin works, but we want to remove these

Re: Personal laser printers

2011-05-05 Thread IS Technical
John, On Thu, 5 May 2011 14:04:23 -0400, John Aldrich wrote: What do y'all like in a small, personal mono laser printer? One of our ladies is going to be going on maternity leave and working from home and wants something that'll print quickly and high-quality. Preferably a good balance

Re: PDF Reader recap

2011-03-23 Thread IS Technical
+1 On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:38:11 -0400, Bill Humphries wrote: I like PDF-Xchange viewer. Fast and has lots of advanced features. Bill Erik Goldoff wrote: There was a relatively recent discussion on PDF readers that I'm unable to search right now... I use FoxIT reader on my home XP

Re: free PDF printer

2011-01-19 Thread IS Technical
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:22:22 -0500, John Aldrich wrote: PDRedirect is excellent. What do you guys like for creating PDFs? ISTR that someone recommended PrimoPDF. Is that still a good one or is there something better? It appears one of my users is having problems with incompatibility between

RE: free PDF printer

2011-01-19 Thread IS Technical
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:10:16 -0500, John Aldrich wrote: Well I was in a hurry so I went to CNET Downloads and found PDF Redirect. I'm gonna give that a shot and if it doesn't make the user happy, I'll try PDF Creator. PDF Redirect had the best reviews for both CNET Editors and end-users so

RE: System Tool 2011 malware

2010-12-15 Thread IS Technical
John, On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:20:24 -0500, John Aldrich wrote: Not trying to get argumentative here, but what tool would you use to replace SpyBot's ability to see *everything* in the system startup? As I said, this didn't show up in the MSCONFIG display, and I know SpyBot does a good job of

Re: Personal USB drives

2010-11-10 Thread IS Technical
+1 On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 12:48:36 -0500, Matt Cross wrote: I prefer seagate -- Matt Cross mailto:mrforkl...@gmail.com On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Jon Harris jk.har...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for the cross post but it has been a long time since I was in the market to get a personal

Re: Freeware PDF creator?

2010-11-10 Thread IS Technical
PDF-Redirect On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:59:23 -0500, John Aldrich wrote: Is there a freeware app that can create PDFs, similar to the way one does with Adobe Acrobat, but with fewer bugs? :-) I like SumatraPDF that someone suggested on this list awhile back, and I got to wondering if there were

RE: 3rd Party Defrag Utilities

2010-10-14 Thread IS Technical
+1 On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:08:04 -0500, Jay Dale wrote: MyDefrag Jay Dale Senior Systems Administrator c:832.373.7883 From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 3:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: 3rd Party Defrag Utilities Didn't

Re: PST viewer

2010-09-27 Thread IS Technical
Bill, On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:53:20 -0400, Bill Humphries wrote: OK, need to provide some emails to lawyers for parent company of client. Parent company uses lotus notes. Anyone know of a decent preferably free PST viewer that would allow them to open, browse a PST and print to paper or

Re: OT: Photo catalog software

2010-09-27 Thread IS Technical
Bob, On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 20:09:10 -0400, Bob Fronk wrote: This is my hand down favourite. http://www.fototime.com/fotoalbum Today while looking for an old digital picture, I realized that simple folders and subfolders just does not work when trying to keep up with personal pictures. Anyone

Re: sending large files

2010-09-01 Thread IS Technical
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 09:28:59 -0400, John Aldrich wrote: What solution do y'all use when you absolutely have to send large files? One of my regional sales managers sent out two 15 meg pictures yesterday, clogging up at least one mailbox. I'm aware of YouSendIt, but what other options are there

Re: Agentless hardware inventory tool

2010-07-22 Thread IS Technical
Many thanks to everyone who responded to my query. Regards, Charles --- Charles Figueiredo PhD Integrated Solutions - Enhancing Small Business Systems --- ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Agentless hardware inventory tool

2010-07-21 Thread IS Technical
Can anyone recommend an agentless tool (freeware or not) which will inventory system on a network and generate a hardware report of systems on the network. All systems run Windows (various versions). A scriptable tool is preferred but tools with GUIs are OK. Many thanks. Regards, Charles

Acronis Backup Recovery Advanced Workstation 10

2010-07-12 Thread IS Technical
Has anyone been able to get Acronis Backup Recovery Advanced Workstation working. I've installed all the components of the licensed version a number of times on various machines without success. I've even tried various builds including the latest one without success. The persistent problem

RE: OT: DVD burning software

2010-05-28 Thread IS Technical
+1 On Thu, 27 May 2010 14:10:04 -0400, David Mazzaccaro wrote: cdburnerxp From: Manuel Santos [mailto:nel...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 2:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: DVD burning software I would suggest you AShampoo,

RE: Windows 7 problem (Home user)

2010-02-04 Thread IS Technical
John, On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 08:29:28 -0500, John Aldrich wrote: Thought about that. Not exactly sure what the URL is for that. Do you have the proper URL for MBAM-RULES? This is the one I use: http://mbam.malwarebytes.org/database/mbam-rules.exe -Original Message- From: IS Technical

RE: Windows 7 problem (Home user)

2010-02-03 Thread IS Technical
John, On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 16:27:09 -0500, John Aldrich wrote: Thanks. I'll forward this to myself at home so I can review it. I'm not exactly a novice malware fighter. just a novice at fighting it on Windows 7. J I *really* dislike Windows Vista and Windows 7. It really is a pain the way that

RE: NewSID not needed....Wow

2009-12-30 Thread IS Technical
+1 On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:38:33 -0600, Sam Cayze wrote: I've been imaging systems for over 10 years now; never used/needed NewSID... Sam From: jbech...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:jbech...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 10:07 AM To:

RE: Firefox for corporate use?

2009-11-20 Thread IS Technical
+1 On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:42:31 -0600, Sam Cayze wrote: Ages ago. They love it. No regrets. They use many of the features, and I have found a few Extensions that have greatly increased their productivity. Sam Cayze Information Technology Administrator ROLLOUTS ONSITE * ON DEMAND

Re: OT: Side work

2009-11-09 Thread IS Technical
+1 On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 14:43:31 -0500, Matt Plahtinsky wrote: I make customers read and sign a relase form. Also 9 times out of 10 I'll do a disk image of the computer before I work on it so worst case scenario I still have the data to recover from. Matt On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:35 PM, John

RE: Large File transfer

2009-10-22 Thread IS Technical
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:39:53 -0400, Bob Fronk wrote: Easy to use. LOL. You don't have some of my users! We have an FTP site, but users struggle with it. I am looking to limit IT involvement in these transfers. An internal web form of some sort with send to from and attach file would

Re: Changing MY DOSS location using script or batch file after log in

2009-06-08 Thread IS Technical
\Personal, U:\My Documents, REG_SZ oShell.Run oShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings(%windir%\system32 \rundll32.exe user32, UpdatePerUserSystemParameters ,1 ,True) Mike Wiebke Rapid Fire Solutions - Original Message From: IS Technical ist...@intsolcan.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysad

Changing MY DOSS location using script or batch file after log in

2009-06-05 Thread IS Technical
Anyone know if it possible to change the location of MY DOCUMENTS on-the-fly after a user logs in using a batch file or script? This is for a Windows XP Pro machine running on a network with no DC. I've tried importing the relevant reg keys from a script but this doesn't seem to work.

Re: Changing MY DOSS location using script or batch file after log in

2009-06-05 Thread IS Technical
this. Didn't work. I'vwe tried using these keys: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion \Explorer\User Shell Folders\Personal HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion \Explorer\Shell Folders\Personal 2009/6/5 IS Technical ist...@intsolcan.com Anyone know

RE: Changing MY DOSS location using script or batch file after log in

2009-06-05 Thread IS Technical
Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 -Original Message- From: IS Technical [mailto:ist...@intsolcan.com] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 4:05 PM To: NT

RE: VIPRE - I like it

2008-11-20 Thread IS Technical
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:33:28 -0500, Sean Rector wrote: Nice to hear...I'm going to be removing the Embassy software from our systems (we're not using it), and have been thinking of using TrueCrypt. Does anyone on the list have experience with TrueCrypt? I use it extensively on client system

OT: Sunbelt contact

2008-11-12 Thread IS Technical
Does anyone have the name of a Sunbelt contact who I can call directly who would be able to answer some specific technical Vipre-related questions. FYI, I've tried to get to the right person using Sunbelt's general numbers but have been playing telephone tag with someone who never seems

Re: Good text editor

2008-10-06 Thread IS Technical
#What's the best text editor out there for writing code and scripts and such? I'd like to find #one that does line numbering obviously, and does some formatting to keep things neat. #Like color coding expressions, functions, etc. I'm trying to learn JavaScript, and using #Notepad and