RE: Management of laptops

2010-07-14 Thread Maglinger, Paul
There's a policy against inappropriate questions?!? Since when? From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:jra...@eaglemds.com] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 3:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Management of laptops Wow. Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordi

Re: Management of laptops

2010-07-11 Thread Tom Miller
Thanks for your suggestions folks. We already use Vipre here so premium might be a good option. SCCM as far as I know won't do content filtering, which is one thing I want. >>> justino garcia 7/11/2010 6:15 PM >>> Also you can purchase hamachi pro, and use that vpn to manage those laptops.

Re: Management of laptops

2010-07-11 Thread justino garcia
Also you can purchase hamachi pro, and use that vpn to manage those laptops. And yes opendns would also work. But hamachi would be great. On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Roger Wright wrote: > How about using OpenDNS and their dynamic IP client? Then just give > those machines static DNS entrie

Re: Management of laptops

2010-07-11 Thread Roger Wright
How about using OpenDNS and their dynamic IP client? Then just give those machines static DNS entries and you're set. Not 100% failsafe but 100% free and quite effective. Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Tom Miller wrote: > Folks, > > Any suggestions on p

Re: Management of laptops

2010-07-11 Thread justino garcia
t; * * > > *Thanks,* > > *Brian Desmond* > > *br...@briandesmond.com* > > * * > > *c – 312.731.3132* > > * * > > *From:* Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] > *Sent:* Sunday, July 11, 2010 1:36 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* R

RE: Management of laptops

2010-07-11 Thread Brian Desmond
Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 1:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Management of laptops About 900 users, but probably 200 or so of them are nomadic and those laptops use air cards and sometimes wired/wireless network. >>> Brian Desmond

RE: Management of laptops

2010-07-11 Thread Tom Miller
From:Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 3:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Management of laptops Folks, Any suggestions on products to manage laptops? We have a number of nomadic users who use their issued laptops with aircards. Sometimes they have a

RE: Management of laptops

2010-07-10 Thread Malcolm Reitz
browser helper object on IE or as a plug-in on Firefox, so a determined user could get around it. -Malcolm From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 15:00 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Management of laptops Folks, Any suggestions on products to manage

Re: Management of laptops

2010-07-09 Thread Phil Brutsche
Don't forget Windows 7 Enterprise as well. On 7/10/2010 12:24 AM, Andrew Levicki wrote: > Hi Tom, > > DirectAccess will address this, but as it requires a Windows Server 2008 > R2 AD infrastructure, IPv6 and PKI, it may or may not be > appropriate depending on the size of your org, so Brian's que

Re: Management of laptops

2010-07-09 Thread Andrew Levicki
Smith wrote: > Says the dominatrix of probity... > > Sent from my HTC Tilt™ 2, a Windows® phone from AT&T > > -- > From: Andy Shook > Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 4:46 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: RE: Management of la

RE: Management of laptops

2010-07-09 Thread Michael B. Smith
Says the dominatrix of probity... Sent from my HTC Tilt™ 2, a Windows® phone from AT&T From: Andy Shook Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 4:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Management of laptops Not an appropriate question… Shook From: Brian Des

RE: Management of laptops

2010-07-09 Thread Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
y, July 09, 2010 4:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Management of laptops Not an appropriate question... Shook From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 4:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Management of laptops How big of an org are yo

RE: Management of laptops

2010-07-09 Thread Andy Shook
Not an appropriate question... Shook From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 4:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Management of laptops How big of an org are you? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Tom

RE: Management of laptops

2010-07-09 Thread Brian Desmond
How big of an org are you? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 3:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Management of laptops Folks, Any suggestions on products to manage laptops? We have

Management of laptops

2010-07-09 Thread Tom Miller
Folks, Any suggestions on products to manage laptops? We have a number of nomadic users who use their issued laptops with aircards. Sometimes they have a wired or wireless connection, but not at any of my locations (these staff work off-site). Staff don't have much access, they are all "us