RE: Google Drive

2013-04-10 Thread James Hill
Skydrive works really well. I was using Live Mesh until they killed it but have found Skydrive to be very reliable so far. James. -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Thursday, 11 April 2013 3:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Goo

RE: UPS vs Switch Sanity Check

2013-04-08 Thread James Hill
Maybe being difficult simply means you stop and think before you leap. Being difficult can be a good thing. James. From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:bill.m...@pittcountync.gov] Sent: Tuesday, 9 April 2013 6:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: UPS vs Switch Sanity Check Thanks all

RE: Fortigate as a WIFI Controller

2013-04-08 Thread James Hill
ly when not > using Fortinet Access Points. I didn't know the Fortigate could manage 3rd party APs. Where are you getting such information? --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: James Hill [mailto:falc...@gmail.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:nt

RE: OT: Just A Bunch of Noise, or The Beginning of The End?

2013-04-05 Thread James Hill
Ahh yes, especially the Visionaries or Leaders quadrants. I've seen so many products from major vendors in those quadrants that were buggy piles of you know what. I don't care how forward thinking Gartner may think they are, it means nothing if it doesn't actually work. These days if Gartner say

RE: Office 365

2013-04-04 Thread James Hill
Yes that's correct, there is a Download Software link. OWA 2013 is the web based option provided on new plans from now on (Wave 15 was recently made available). Existing customers are being moved over but it will take some time until it is completed. James From: Don Kuhlman [mailto:drk

RE: RT devices?

2013-03-25 Thread James Hill
I understand what you are saying. There are “some” Group policies but there doesn’t appear to be any that allow you to programmatically add or remove tiles. This I find to be unacceptable, just like how you couldn’t (and still can’t) manage pinned items on the taskbar in Windows 7 via Group

RE: Advice on setting up a Win2012 RDS environment - Progress!

2013-03-21 Thread James Hill
s. James. -Original Message- From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 22 March 2013 3:07 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Advice on setting up a Win2012 RDS environment - Progress! On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 7:53 PM, James Hill wrote: > Get a cert from a public

RE: Printer ignor paper size and type.

2013-03-20 Thread James Hill
If you are lucky there will be setting in the printer that allows this. If you are lucky. Otherwise:- "There are seldom technical solutions to behavioral problems." - Ed Crowley. James. -Original Message- From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Wednesday, 20 March 2013 1:

RE: Advice on setting up a Win2012 RDS environment - Progress!

2013-03-20 Thread James Hill
Get a cert from a public CA. Far less hassle and they are very inexpensive. Why do you want to separate the web front end? James. -Original Message- From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 21 March 2013 4:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Advice on

RE: Non-corp desktops and RDS

2013-02-17 Thread James Hill
+1. It comes with 2008 and above, is easy to setup and it just works. I find it difficult to find any reason to provide vpn access for home users when a thin approach like RD Gateway is available. James. From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, 16 February 201

RE: Weird RDS thin client issue

2013-02-17 Thread James Hill
The Save As looks for available paths so I that might be an angle to look at? James. From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Saturday, 16 February 2013 2:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Weird RDS thin client issue All severs 2008 R2: Got (3) Hype

RE: Fortigate (was Guest network security)

2013-02-17 Thread James Hill
ASB <http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker> http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) for the SMB market. On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:03 PM, James Hill mailto:falc...@gmail.com> > wrote: I came across the same issue

RE: Fortigate (was Guest network security)

2013-02-14 Thread James Hill
I came across the same issue with a recently purchased 40C and was also disappointed. The 60C (soon to be 60D with 2 x the performance) has the traffic shaping option and pretty much everything else. Maybe I didn't look hard enough but it certainly isn't made obvious on their website that t

RE: Here we go again, another Apple screwup

2013-02-11 Thread James Hill
ticket or call the helpdesk @ 610-492-3839. From: James Hill [mailto:falc...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 1:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Here we go again, another Apple screwup :) I can't keep up with the lists I'm on and so I stopped subscribing to

RE: GPP drive mapping 'reconnect'

2013-01-12 Thread James Hill
Never ever used reconnect. I always use a "Replace" policy and it has always worked. I use GPP in many places for drive mappings and other things. James. -Original Message- From: Elijah Buck [mailto:elijah.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, 12 January 2013 5:45 AM To: NT System Admin Is

RE: washable keyboard and mouse?

2013-01-09 Thread James Hill
HP sell a good quality washable keyboard and mouse. I've got one in use in an area that has a mixture of dirt, steam etc and it has worked well so far. http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06c/A10-51210-69998-3965920-69998- 4284247-4284248-4287205.html James. From: Christopher

RE: Trying to install RDS on Server 2012, as a VM under VMware ESX 5.0 ..

2013-01-04 Thread James Hill
Yes you can do all of that with Server 2012 (can do it with Server 2008 R2 as well) and RemoteApp is required. Install all the RDS roles except for the virtualisation host. James. -Original Message- From: Michael Leone [mailto:oozerd...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, 5 January 2013 6:43 AM

RE: GPO Printers always showing as default

2013-01-04 Thread James Hill
...@g2support.com] Sent: Friday, 4 January 2013 8:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: GPO Printers always showing as default Already set to Replace :( On 4 January 2013 07:34, James Hill mailto:falc...@gmail.com> > wrote: Is the GPP set to create, update or replace? If it

RE: Trying to install RDS on Server 2012, as a VM under VMware ESX 5.0 ..

2013-01-03 Thread James Hill
You can install a Remote Desktop Session Host on a VM (whether it is Hyper V, or Vmware etc), that is supported. You can't (well it isn't supported though there are hack methods) install VDI on a VM which is what you have attempted to do. When you run the Add Roles and Features Wizard select the

RE: Server login reporting

2012-12-06 Thread James Hill
Instead of trying to use the event log use a scheduled task with the triggers "at logon" and "on connection to user session" to start a script. Here is a bit of powershell that I stole and it needs improving as it always gives the user name of the account that is set to run the scheduled task r

RE: Outlook web access MAC

2012-12-04 Thread James Hill
No no, he's just come up with justification to upgrade! James. -Original Message- From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu] Sent: Wednesday, 5 December 2012 2:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook web access MAC We'll he's boned. :) That version of Outloo

RE: DR planning

2012-12-04 Thread James Hill
Don't go changing versions. If you have exchange 2003, restore exchange 2003. The last thing you want in a DR situation is to add unknowns and making version changes may cause all sorts of problems. Moving forward having live DR is the ultimate goal and virtualisation makes it much easier. Hype

RE: small office and branches setup

2012-11-29 Thread James Hill
Another option is to purchase a Windows Server 2012 license. Run one VM as file, print DC etc. and the other VM as a Remote Desktop server. With such a small number of users at each site it may be better to go with a Thin solution so that all the data is centralised and you don't have to worry ab

RE: Windows Server 2012 - Remote Control has been removed!

2012-11-21 Thread James Hill
Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com <http://www.carlwebster.com/> From: James Hill [mailto:falc...@gmail.com] Subject: RE: Windows Server 2012 - Remote Control has been removed! Thanks Rene but I’m referring to Remote Control

RE: Window 8 on your PC

2012-11-21 Thread James Hill
[1] Log on as an administrator, open task manager, make sure show all processes is ticked and then on the users tab right click the user and select log off. James. -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Thursday, 22 November 2012 3:03 AM To: NT S

RE: Window 8 on your PC

2012-11-21 Thread James Hill
t;figure it out"? Shutdown, Restart, Logoff, Sleep, Standby, Hibernate were all in one place before, and it worked for all the hundreds of millions of people using Windows. Why change it? -Original Message----- From: James Hill [mailto:falc...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 21 November 2012 9:50 PM

RE: Window 8 on your PC

2012-11-21 Thread James Hill
admins. Ugh. Phil -- Phil Randal Infrastructure Engineer Hoople Ltd | Thorn Office Centre | Hereford HR2 6JT Tel: 01432 260415 | Email: phil.ran...@hoopleltd.co.uk -----Original Message- From: James Hill [mailto:falc...@gmail.com] Sent: 21 November 2012 08:44 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE

RE: Window 8 on your PC

2012-11-21 Thread James Hill
The location of log off and the shutdown menu are both a nuisance. I have a 6 year old and a 4 year old that were placed in front of Windows 8 and were installing apps from the store, playing games etc without any tuition. I showed them how to do a shutdown and that was about it. James. -Or

RE: windows phone 8

2012-11-15 Thread James Hill
When I first saw that list I was amazed by the features and then equally amazed by how few are actually implemented, particularly on Windows Phone. James. -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 16 November 2012 6:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subje

RE: Wow, who knew?

2012-10-30 Thread James Hill
I had the exact same thing. Was amazed when I saw it. James. From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 31 October 2012 5:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wow, who knew? I was years into my IT career before I was shown you can drag an executable i

RE: Office 2013 RTM

2012-10-24 Thread James Hill
I had a look at the beta but after 30 mins my eyes begged for mercy from all the white. I never run Beta code on my production machine anyway but once it hits RTM I jump in. Outlook has some nice features. Right now I’m noticing how it handles imap so much more nicely! James. From:

RE: SOLVED RE: Deploying Printers in Group Policy not working for non-admins

2012-09-05 Thread James Hill
That is bad. Worse is when you find a post about the problem you are looking for a solution for only to have the final post being "Figured it out" and no further info supplied. James. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 6 September 2012 1:26 AM To: NT Syste

RE: Death of the Desktops?

2012-08-24 Thread James Hill
This man sees and speaks the truth. -Original Message- From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Saturday, 25 August 2012 5:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Death of the Desktops? These "initiatives", death of the desktop, cloud, BYOD, etc., etc. are just vendor

RE: Laptop with Serial Port?

2012-08-24 Thread James Hill
Very true. I've had good results with Aten's http://www.aten.com/products/productItem.php?model_no=UC232A on 32 and 64bit OS's. James. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Saturday, 25 August 2012 3:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Laptop with Serial Port? I

RE: network drives show disconnected W7 and XP

2012-08-03 Thread James Hill
How are the drives mapped now? If it was manually with the "Reconnect at logon" ticked I recommend you either use a GPP or script to map the drives at login. It will make the problem go away and also map the drives if it is a new profile. Double win. James. From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:jt

RE: Gartner says Win8 is "bad"

2012-07-24 Thread James Hill
I never had a problem with WinME but I only used it as a consumer. Vista with decent drivers is also good. James. From: Daniel Chenault [mailto:dchena...@lgnetworksinc.com] Sent: Wednesday, 25 July 2012 3:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Gartner says Win8 is "bad" Vista s

RE: Gartner says Win8 is "bad"

2012-07-24 Thread James Hill
I'm sure I read somewhere that the RTM would have a tutorial at the start that isn't in the CP or RP. James. From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 24 July 2012 11:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Gartner says Win8 is "bad" I found this comment f

RE: Rant: local ISP and DNS entries for Office365

2012-07-20 Thread James Hill
This is the biggest road block in an Office365 migration for me as well. When possible I transfer the domain to a registrar that has free and decent DNS tools so that I can make all the changes myself. Trying to get the required SRV records created properly for Lync by a 3rd party using who kno

RE: attempted break in via RDP

2012-07-19 Thread James Hill
Use a RD/TS Gateway or a VPN. Direct RDP access is bad. James. -Original Message- From: Laurence [mailto:laurence.chi...@jalapeno-bs.co.uk] Sent: Friday, 20 July 2012 8:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: attempted break in via RDP Hi All I have a small client that runs server 2

RE: No more SBS

2012-07-07 Thread James Hill
. Ben M. Schorr Roland Schorr & Tower <http://www.rolandschorr.com> www.rolandschorr.com | <http://www.officeforlawyers.com> www.officeforlawyers.com | Twitter: @bschorr From: James Hill [mailto:falc...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 15:52 To: NT System Admin Issues

RE: No more SBS

2012-07-06 Thread James Hill
uch a thing, but my never having heard of it don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 6:59 PM, James Hill wrote: You’re talking about download speeds there Ken and you are talking best case scenario (ie, in a Capital City when it isn’t overly busy). So i

RE: No more SBS

2012-07-06 Thread James Hill
You’re talking about download speeds there Ken and you are talking best case scenario (ie, in a Capital City when it isn’t overly busy). So it’s 15Mbps download (not upload) on 3G and on 4G (LTE) here is the figures from the carrier’s website:- http://www.telstra.com.au/mobile-phones/cove

RE: No more SBS

2012-07-06 Thread James Hill
We have similar constraints here in Australia. Office 365 for us means a data centre in Singapore. The connection is slow and moving GB’s of data via slow upload DSL services is painful. I’m moving a small client at the moment with only 4 staff but quite large mailboxes and it will take days and

RE: How many in your company can join systems to domain

2012-06-20 Thread James Hill
I second that. I also think that the majority of the devices that have pushed in have been ipads. Microsoft haven't had anything good enough to compete with them. Soon there will be Surface and it will fill that hole. James. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.

RE: Friday (kinda) Funny

2012-06-12 Thread James Hill
y, 13 June 2012 9:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Friday (kinda) Funny Out of curiousity... did anyone suggest you reach down and turn it off? :) On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:09 PM, James Hill wrote: I'm not the biggest fan of APC units but I have seen one continue to

RE: Friday (kinda) Funny

2012-06-12 Thread James Hill
I'm not the biggest fan of APC units but I have seen one continue to power equipment whilst it was standing in 2-3 foot of water. It was beeping as if something was wrong though. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, 10 June 2012 5:54 AM To: NT Sy

RE: SBS Standard 2011 or Server 2008 R2

2012-06-06 Thread James Hill
There are many cases where SBS makes sense, including when handled by clueful IT professionals. It's a very good product and when used and administered the way it was designed to be there is no issue. Problems arise when clueful IT professionals who know AD, Exchange etc. (but not SBS) try and us

RE: SBS Standard 2011 or Server 2008 R2

2012-06-06 Thread James Hill
How many offices are there? If there are many then integration makes even more sense. Just because the network is connected doesn't mean they can't appear to run independent. There are benefits to central administration/management. James. -Original Message- From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:jt.

RE: 2008 R2 SP1 GPO Drive Mappings

2012-06-04 Thread James Hill
Time to turn the logging on as per Brian’s email. From: chipsh...@comcast.net [mailto:chipsh...@comcast.net] Sent: Monday, 4 June 2012 10:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: 2008 R2 SP1 GPO Drive Mappings User on both servers are running as local and domain admins. Share has ful

RE: Time for new core switches

2012-05-20 Thread James Hill
Haven't used Enterasys for a long time but one thing I really liked about them was that each line in the config was numbered. It made it so easy when removing a bunch of lines as you could just use the negate cmd and specify the line numbers/range. From: Derek Harris [mailto:dhar...@panoramaor

RE: TCP/IP stack reset

2012-05-17 Thread James Hill
The use of "In windows" and "a Microsoft technology" by a software vendor sends off alarm bells for me. Every time I hear them talking like that they are *nix positive and Windows negative and generally find any issue with their software to be due to the *flawed* software that Microsoft creates.

RE: Microsoft Office 2010 KMS Host License Pack

2012-05-17 Thread James Hill
That's correct. Office KMS isn't supported on Windows 2008 Server. Having said that Office KMS is a bit nicer to work with compared to Windows KMS. From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Friday, 18 May 2012 6:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Microsoft

RE: r...@walkermartyn.co.uk - Re: r...@walkermartyn.co.uk - Re: Which Server In A TS Farm? - Found word(s) farm in the subject - Found word(s) farm in the subject

2012-05-09 Thread James Hill
Maybe it's having difficulty reading the name/ip entered due to the font size so it takes a guessa and hence you get a random result. From: Robert Jackson [mailto:r...@walkermartyn.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, 9 May 2012 6:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: r...@walkermartyn.co.uk - Re:

RE: UAC and local admin rights

2012-05-01 Thread James Hill
admin rights On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 9:54 PM, James Hill wrote: > Whilst investigating a new clients environment I found a group policy > created by the previous MSP that disabled UAC on all computers and > granted all users local admin rights. What's wrong with that? It

RE: A moment of silence for the passing of another giant

2012-04-10 Thread James Hill
I sold my C64 so I could use the cash towards buying my Amiga. I loved that Amiga. From: Guyer, Donald [mailto:dgu...@che.org] Sent: Wednesday, 11 April 2012 4:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: A moment of silence for the passing of another giant LOL I sold my C64 years ag

RE: GPP Drives Maps Not Updating Or Replacing

2012-04-07 Thread James Hill
When Windows 2008 first came out I came across this same issue and found it quite frustrating. I ended up only using Replace as Update was unreliable. I found that I had to make sure that Replace was used from the start. If it wasn't I had to Delete the drive mappings and then use Replace fro

RE: Xerox Phaser 6280 DN review

2012-03-24 Thread James Hill
I mentioned Xerox Phaser 3428's and 3435's in one of those discussions and I stand by what I said then. As good as the trusty HP Laserjet 4000/4050 imo. Glad to hear one of their other models is solid as well. At the time Xerox really meant "photocopier" here so we hadn't even considered them fo

RE: Proxy server and ISA

2012-03-12 Thread James Hill
Over the years I've tried a number methods for making changes to those and the proxy settings. The best by far IMO is using wpad. Browsers that have the "Automatically detect settings" tick box enabled look for http://wpad/wpad.dat. Wpad.dat is a file that is essentially just a renamed .pac file

RE: Employee Remote Access to Desktop

2012-03-11 Thread James Hill
David L and I just went through this and I'm sure it doesn't. I'd love to be proven wrong though. Which version has Gateway support? From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Saturday, 10 March 2012 7:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Employee Remote Access to D

RE: A Little Help Needed

2012-03-08 Thread James Hill
There isn't anything else to it. You obviously have the necessary routing in place so just go ahead and activate that DHCP scope and deactivate the old 192.168.101.x one. It IS that simple. From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 9 March 2012 12:47 AM To: NT System

RE: Win 8 CP - Initial thoughts?

2012-03-05 Thread James Hill
I've started playing with Server 8. I like the new server manager already but haven't used much else yet. From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 6 March 2012 12:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Win 8 CP - Initial thoughts? I keep looking up and the sky is

RE: Employee Remote Access to Desktop

2012-03-05 Thread James Hill
vall [rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 7:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Employee Remote Access to Desktop Is there a Mac RDP client that works with RDG? On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 2:39 PM, James Hill wrote: Remote Desktop Gateway is an easy solution. You can then contr

RE: Employee Remote Access to Desktop

2012-03-02 Thread James Hill
. _ From: Richard Stovall [rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 7:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Employee Remote Access to Desktop Is there a Mac RDP client that works with RDG? On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 2:39 PM, James Hill wrote: Remote Desktop Gateway is an easy solution

RE: Employee Remote Access to Desktop

2012-03-02 Thread James Hill
[mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, 3 March 2012 11:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Employee Remote Access to Desktop Is there a Mac RDP client that works with RDG? On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 2:39 PM, James Hill wrote: Remote Desktop Gateway is an easy solution. You can then

RE: Employee Remote Access to Desktop

2012-03-02 Thread James Hill
Remote Desktop Gateway is an easy solution. You can then control who can access which desktops. No special client software needed (unless they are using a Mac). From: Guyer, Donald [mailto:dgu...@che.org] Sent: Saturday, 3 March 2012 5:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Employee R

RE: Do you think the security industry exaggerates the threat of mobile malware?

2012-03-02 Thread James Hill
If anything it isn't taken seriously enough. Smartphones are a gold mine of information and an ever increasing access mechanism into company networks. -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Saturday, 3 March 2012 4:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: D

RE: Another tablets question

2012-02-23 Thread James Hill
t;Not right now but we will have something shortly when Windows 8 ships". I think we all know they will. It's a matter of when the updates will be available to us. From: James Hill [mailto:falc...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 3:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subje

RE: Another tablets question

2012-02-23 Thread James Hill
blets question Yes.by the time Win8 devices are available CM2012 will be able to manage them. From: James Hill [mailto:falc...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 5:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Another tablets question I agree on waiting until later in the year when

RE: Another tablets question

2012-02-23 Thread James Hill
I agree on waiting until later in the year when Win 8 lands, if possible. There will be more choices then and hopefully much better management tools (I'm hoping SCCM 2012 will be able to manage Win 8 devices (including Win 8 phones).. Rod?) From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Fri

RE: Wyse terminals and 3+ monitors

2012-02-22 Thread James Hill
WYSE in this config, but the new HP thin clients run 3 or more monitors just great. Sent from my SR-71 Blackbird _ From: "James Hill" Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:24:43 +1000 To: NT System Admin Issues ReplyTo: "NT System Admin Issues" Subject: Wyse terminals a

RE: Win7 and Outlook 2010

2012-02-22 Thread James Hill
and Outlook 2010 Perhaps, but it's a shame we haven't kept up with the times. I seriously want to work on application whitelisting - don't know if I'll get the chance. On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 18:32, James Hill wrote: You’ve taken the best approach imo. No apps need to

RE: Win7 and Outlook 2010

2012-02-21 Thread James Hill
might have helped, but I took the more direct apporach, and gave read/write permissions to the CRM's install directory under c:\Program Files (x86). Kurt On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 14:03, James Hill wrote: Definitely need more information but I'll take a wild guess and suggest it may be

RE: Win7 and Outlook 2010

2012-02-21 Thread James Hill
Definitely need more information but I'll take a wild guess and suggest it may be something that ClickYes Pro or Redemption can help with? http://www.contextmagic.com/ http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/home.htm -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] S

RE: dns issue with browser (OS X)

2012-02-21 Thread James Hill
The proxy settings look good on the browser. Just not sure how a reboot would temporarily fix it. If I see this problem tomorrow, I will just wipe and reinstall. -Original Message----- From: James Hill [mailto:falc...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 5:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issu

RE: dns issue with browser (OS X)

2012-02-19 Thread James Hill
This sounds like the most likely cause. Or even some type of Malware. *gasp... did he just say that!? -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Saturday, 18 February 2012 3:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: dns issue with browser (OS X)

RE: Home Antivirus

2012-02-16 Thread James Hill
Lol! It's still an issue if the keyboard and mouse are plugged in though J From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, 17 February 2012 7:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Home Antivirus You forgot "get a Mac" :-) On 16 February 2012 20

RE: Home Antivirus

2012-02-16 Thread James Hill
Which seems to be the current trick of some of the malware these days. I've seen a Win 7 machine with the user not a local admin and UAC enabled appear to be "hosed" by malware. It is only for the current profile though. But tricks like setting the hidden flag on every folder and file it can mak

RE: Printer/Copier/MFP Contract Renewal

2012-02-09 Thread James Hill
You raise a good point. Driver reliability and availability can be crucial. Particularly as any contract entered into now would be current when an organisation might be deploying Windows 8. Admittedly as far as I know this won't be as big a change as XP ->Vista in regards to printer drives but it

RE: OT - ugh!

2012-02-08 Thread James Hill
LOL.. Are you able to give us some of the stats Jacob? They'd be very interesting I'm sure. James. -Original Message- From: Jacob [mailto:ja...@excaliburfilms.com] Sent: Thursday, 9 February 2012 5:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT - ugh! 1 million views? That is a

RE: South Florida position.

2012-02-02 Thread James Hill
I'd be calling the local zoo, see if they have any spare monkeys. -Original Message- From: gro...@beachcomp.com [mailto:gro...@beachcomp.com] Sent: Friday, 3 February 2012 3:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: South Florida position. Folks, I truly hope this is allowed and that I

RE: Microsoft VM - 5 ways of backing up?

2012-02-02 Thread James Hill
With DC names like that one should definitely ensure they have a good backup strategy in place. -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 3 February 2012 9:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Microsoft VM - 5 ways of backing up? On Thu, Feb

RE: Corporate IM

2012-02-02 Thread James Hill
Lync is supported on Mac's with the Lync for Mac 2011 client. It doesn't have all of the features of the windows client though http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg425836.aspx -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Friday, 3 February 2012

RE: OT - ugh!

2012-02-01 Thread James Hill
I feel for you. But try and look at this way. If they can't see the value you can offer now then it would only be a continual uphill fight if you were employed by them. You are better off with an employer that shares your values. -Original Message- From: Jacob Kisner [mailto:jbdkis...@g

RE: Patch management software...

2012-01-31 Thread James Hill
I doesn't list SBS as a supported OS though, which is a concern. From: ntsysadmin [mailto:ntsysad...@rccs.org] Sent: Wednesday, 1 February 2012 4:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Patch management software... Thanks for all of the replies. I'm looking over the recommended apps

RE: Corporate IM

2012-01-31 Thread James Hill
Lync. If you have core cal's you are already covered on the client side for standard edition licensing. Or if you don't want to set it up in-house there is always Office 365 (although that is probably overkill just for Lync). From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Wednesday, 1 Fe

RE: Lync

2012-01-24 Thread James Hill
Good Advice. I'd recommend installing the Archiving role as well. It doesn't take long before management wants to be able to review Lync communications. As long as you have the relevant policies in place etc. From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 25 January 2012 8:

RE: SBS 2011 Premium Add-on

2012-01-24 Thread James Hill
er from their website, you have to order CAL's from them (or somewhere else) separately. Dave From: James Hill [mailto:falc...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SBS 2011 Premium Add-on So I've spent a rai

RE: did i screw up? need to fix fast

2012-01-23 Thread James Hill
Good idea. I've seen forgotten snapshots cause all sort of problems in a large Vsphere environment. The time it takes to remove them in a situation like this thread and the subsequent waiting and waiting adds more stress than anyone needs. From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent

RE: VM Backups and SQL

2012-01-18 Thread James Hill
Yes. From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 19 January 2012 4:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VM Backups and SQL I want to say yes but I'm not 100% sure, hell I might be totally wrong. When I backup a VM with backup execs hyper-v agent it will backup an SQ

RE: World IPv6 day...

2012-01-18 Thread James Hill
We have one ISP here in Australia now providing IPv6 for all of their customers and it isn't either of the two main ISP's http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/412683/internode_first_take_ipv6_plunge/#closeme At the current rate I'd be very surprised if the majority of ISP's were ready by 6 June. T

RE: GPO reset of local non-builtin accounts

2012-01-05 Thread James Hill
E: GPO reset of local non-builtin accounts Any reason this wouldn't work with 2003 servers? The don't seem to be picking it up. W2K8 is no problemo. I copied the GPO we use that works on XP/Win7 and modified it to point to the added account and server OU only, no WMI filtering is

RE: GPO reset of local non-builtin accounts

2012-01-04 Thread James Hill
1. You'd still have a local admin account. I prefer to used restricted groups GPO so that it forces the local admin memberships. 2. Yes, not sure how really effective it is though apart from being one more step to take when attempting a breach. From: David Lum [mailto:david@nw

RE: GPO reset of local non-builtin accounts

2012-01-04 Thread James Hill
There certainly is (with GPP). It can be used to create, update or delete local users Computer Configuration/Preferences/Control Panel Settings/Local Users and Groups Create a new Local User and fill in the details:- This is a great GPP to do a domain wide change of the local Admin p

RE: Remote Support with UAC

2012-01-03 Thread James Hill
Subject: RE: Remote Support with UAC I dunno, it has always just worked for me under xp to win7/08r2? I just run this http://download.mikogo4.com/mikogo-starter.exe on mine and the users wkst. From: James Hill [mailto:falc...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 7:33 PM To: NT System

RE: Remote Support with UAC

2012-01-03 Thread James Hill
to start a new session with basic features. Clicking on that results in the app crashing. From: James Hill [mailto:falc...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 4 January 2012 12:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Remote Support with UAC Thanks Joseph. I'm testing it now. Fr

RE: Remote Support with UAC

2012-01-03 Thread James Hill
o the exact same thing with it to prevent divulging local admin creds etc. jlc _ From: James Hill [falc...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 5:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Remote Support with UAC I'm trying to find a reasonably priced remote support tool

RE: Remote Support with UAC

2012-01-03 Thread James Hill
ssues Subject: Re: Remote Support with UAC On 4 Jan 2012 at 10:09, James Hill wrote: > I´m trying to find a reasonably priced remote support tool for remote > controlling client pc´s over the internet. The tricky part is that I > want something that works with non admin

RE: Folders in AD

2011-12-21 Thread James Hill
SCCM definitely does. From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov] Sent: Wednesday, 21 December 2011 1:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Folders in AD Ya, they are definitely not something you want to mess with too much. There's some stuff you have to do in System for Exchan

RE: Folders in AD

2011-12-21 Thread James Hill
Tingly sounds good, I might try it. Thanks for the tip! -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 21 December 2011 6:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Folders in AD On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 1:10 PM, David Lum wrote: > Actually no, I ha

RE: Win 7 Public Documents

2011-12-21 Thread James Hill
:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Win 7 Public Documents The GPO is working very well. Dunno why I couldn't find anything like that via google. Thanks a bunch for the help. JK -Original Message- From: James Hill [mailto:falc...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011

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