October 2017 - Blind-sysadmins - lists.hodgsonfamily.org

windows and virtual environments
by Kelly Prescott 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

I have read threads on this from time to time. Here is my situation: I may soon be in a work situation where I need to setup windows 2012R2 from the ground up. This will be on a VmWare server. I have successfully installed windows server in a vmware workstation environment. Sound with workstation works because I am on the same physical machine and I get speech in the PE disk. How do you or can you get speech durring a install when the install is on a VmWare server? If you can't get speech, how can you use the system? For a bonus, Later I will be asked to setup windows server images in the ec2 cloud. I use the Linux systems there just fine, but can those systems be used? Also, I have a Xen server as well I can use if that works better. I use Xen with multiple types of Unixhish systems and have work arounds to access those systems. If anyone has any experience at all, I would appreciate it. I suspect I will have to do a lot of customizing for this to even work at all. Thanks in advance for any thoughts. -- Kelly Prescott

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server tools
by Marvin Hunkin 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

Hi. Does any one know of any resource, for system admin tools. Just curious, what people are using. Thanks. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Digital Ocean control panel issue?
by Chris Turner 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

Hi list. Anyone else had trouble with the DO panel, using JFW? Specifically, Using JFW16 and IE 11. I'm trying to create a monitoring policy. I've filled out all the form fields but the create button at the bottom is still grey'd out. I then tried the same thing in Google Chrome but Chrome doesn't seem to present the whole webpage to JAWS> All I get is a button to view a tutorial on one of Digital Ocean's other other features. Nothing appears in JFW's link list. Wonder what's going on. Thanks. Chris Turner --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Migrate from Office365 to Outlook.com
by Andrew Hodgson 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

Hi, For those of us who use Office365 as Exchange accounts for personal use, you may like to know that outlook.com is now powered by Exchange Online and has the same features as Office365. You need to subscribe to Outlook Premium and pay a domain adding fee yearly to get this, but that gives you 5 email addresses. For those of us with 5 Office365 subscriptions that is quite a saving. I haven't done the migration as I pay annually for my subscription, and still may continue with it at the moment. From what I have read there is downtime as you need to delete your domain from the Office365 control panel and then add it into Outlook to make sure everything migrates across, there is apparently a nasty situation if you cancel the account without doing this where your domain is in limbo for 90 days in the database. That gives you an outlook.com and a domain email, you can then invite 4 more outlook.com members to sign up for your domain, giving you 5 addresses in total. If I don't do anything else I will be migrating to the Office365 personal next year instead of paying for the Office software as part of the subscription as it works out cheaper and gives you 1GB of OneDrive space per account which is actually quite useful as other apps use OneDrive personal and can't access OneDrive Business. Just thought it would be interesting for people. Let me know if you do it, Andrew.

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Migrate from Office365 to Outlook.com
by Andrew Hodgson 02 Oct '17

02 Oct '17

Hi, For those of us who use Office365 as Exchange accounts for personal use, you may like to know that outlook.com is now powered by Exchange Online and has the same features as Office365. You need to subscribe to Outlook Premium and pay a domain adding fee yearly to get this, but that gives you 5 email addresses. For those of us with 5 Office365 subscriptions that is quite a saving. I haven't done the migration as I pay annually for my subscription, and still may continue with it at the moment. From what I have read there is downtime as you need to delete your domain from the Office365 control panel and then add it into Outlook to make sure everything migrates across, there is apparently a nasty situation if you cancel the account without doing this where your domain is in limbo for 90 days in the database. That gives you an outlook.com and a domain email, you can then invite 4 more outlook.com members to sign up for your domain, giving you 5 addresses in total. If I don't do anything else I will be migrating to the Office365 personal next year instead of paying for the Office software as part of the subscription as it works out cheaper and gives you 1GB of OneDrive space per account which is actually quite useful as other apps use OneDrive personal and can't access OneDrive Business. Just thought it would be interesting for people. Let me know if you do it, Andrew.

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