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 Coordinator

RE: Management of laptops

2010-07-11 Thread Tom Miller
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 br...@briandesmond.com 7/9/2010 4:39 PM How big of an org are you? Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c – 312.731.3132 From:Tom

RE: Management of laptops

2010-07-11 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 br

Re: Management of laptops

2010-07-11 Thread justino garcia
. * * * *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:* RE: Management of laptops About 900 users, but probably 200 or so

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 tmil...@hnncsb.org wrote: Folks, Any

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 rhw...@gmail.com wrote: How about using OpenDNS and their dynamic IP client? Then just give those machines

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 jgarciaitl...@gmail.com 7/11/2010 6:15 PM Also you can purchase hamachi pro, and use that vpn to

Re: Management of laptops

2010-07-10 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

RE: Management of laptops

2010-07-10 Thread Malcolm Reitz
McAfee has a product called Site Advisor. It has an optional web filtering plugin that lets you set a PC-based filter policy for web browsing. The filtering is pretty effective (the policy lives on the PC and it does URL categorization lookups to a McAfee server over the Internet). It works as a

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

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 Raper, Jonathan - Eagle
: Friday, 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

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 ATT From: Andy Shook andy.sh...@peak10.com Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 4:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Management of laptops

Re: Management of laptops

2010-07-09 Thread Andrew Levicki
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 you?* * * *Thanks,* *Brian