December 2020 - Blind-sysadmins - lists.hodgsonfamily.org

server core and accessibility
by Ryan Shugart 17 Dec '20

17 Dec '20

Hi everyone: I wanted to throw a question out to those of you who regularly work with Windows servers. When setting up a new server, do you go for server core or the full desktop experience? Are your reasons accessibility based at all, AKA would you use server core more if you could run a screen reader directly on the server, even built in AT such as Narrator? If you need to use servers running Server Core in your job, how do you do so today and what are your concerns around this method? Is remote access through tools like Powershell, server manager, Windows Admin center enough for day to day use or is not having normal console access an issue? Do you use Emergency Management Services<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-comm…> to get serial console access or is that approach you’d take if you needed it? Thanks a lot for your help. Ryan

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Re: Virtual machine access.
by Ryan Shugart 15 Dec '20

15 Dec '20

Unfortunately, Hyper-V on the desktop still presents some challenges. Namely at this point, there is no audio passthrough during the initial install phase so getting an OS up and running is still a challenge. I recommend sticking with Workstation for the immediate future. Thanks. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Darragh Ó Héiligh <d(a)digitaldarragh.com> Reply-To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Date: Saturday, December 12, 2020 at 7:59 PM To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: Virtual machine access. Thanks Ryan, What about HyperV? I'm very happy with moving over to HyperV for this if it has improved. -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Shugart <rshugart(a)ryanshugart.com> Sent: Saturday 12 December 2020 07:12 To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: Virtual machine access. Hi: I haven't used VMWare Workstation in a number of years, but back when I used it I didn't have any problems. I don't know if things have changed since though. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Darragh Ó Héiligh <d(a)digitaldarragh.com> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2020 7:17 AM To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Virtual machine access. Hello, I probably know the answer to this before I even ask it. Bu ton the off chance something changed in the past year, How is Jaws with VMware workstation? Specifically, while using a laptop, am I going to be able to pass through the capslock, insert and control keys to the guest VM? Or every time I press the caps lock key, is the local running instance of Jaws going to tell me the capslock is enabled? Thanks _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org

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Virtual machine access.
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 13 Dec '20

13 Dec '20

Hello, I probably know the answer to this before I even ask it. Bu ton the off chance something changed in the past year, How is Jaws with VMware workstation? Specifically, while using a laptop, am I going to be able to pass through the capslock, insert and control keys to the guest VM? Or every time I press the caps lock key, is the local running instance of Jaws going to tell me the capslock is enabled? Thanks

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Software KVM
by Andrew Hodgson 12 Dec '20

12 Dec '20

Hi, Has anyone tried a software KVM for using the same keyboard and mouse on 2 machines with the host and client machines both using JFW? My company have blocked using personal devices from connecting to some services so I need to use my laptop for all work stuff from now on. I want to use the keyboard and mouse from my desktop on the laptop so I don't have to keep switching keyboards, but worried about JFW issues using it this way. Anyone tried this? Thanks. Andrew.

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Office 365 scripts or plugins
by Fernando Botelho 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

Hi everyone, Work is bringing me back to windows after 12 years or so on Linux, and it is a process just as painful as it was to move in the other direction, so far. There are some nice surprises, such as improvements to the accessibility of Office. One desktop application on Office 365 which is still giving me trouble, is Teams. It seems as difficult with Jaws as it is with NVDA, so I am wondering if anybody has scripts or plugins to recommend, as I am starting to suspect that the problem might be between the keyboard and the chair! Thanks, Fernando

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Lastpass.
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

Hello, Is anyone using Lastpass? I find the web UI to be really clunky. Also adding new items is not accessible as the drop downs aren't accessible to me. There are chrome plugins but these just dump you back to the web UI after logging in. Regards Darragh Ó Héiligh Performing, Promoting and Sharing traditional Irish music Performance: www.darraghpipes.ie<http://www.darraghpipes.ie> Music at the Gate: www.musicatthegate.ie<http://www.musicatthegate.ie> Ceol FM: www.ceol.fm<http://www.ceol.fm> Tel: 00353(0)877670464 Email: darragh(a)ceol.fm

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tls domain aggragate report from google
by David Mehler 08 Dec '20

08 Dec '20

Hello, I keep getting google tls aggragate reports for one of my domains. All that's in it is a zipped json file. I'm very leiry about this, any ideas? Thanks. Dave.

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oreintation
by Marvin Hunkin 07 Dec '20

07 Dec '20

Hi. Have my windows server orientation set to landscape. Cannot seem to change to portrait. Got windows server 2019 essentials data centre, 1809. And went into system, display. And it only tells me landscape. So no way to change to portrait. Thanks.

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Re: Microsoft Planner and guests
by Ryan Shugart 07 Dec '20

07 Dec '20

Thanks Andrew, I think that's what I will go with for those exact reasons. I did some tests last night with a fake account and it worked just as I expected. I agree I've heard of tenants getting really messy and people loosing track of all the external users and just what they have access to, but you're right in my case I don't have that many and can keep an eye on it. Thanks again. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Hodgson <andrew(a)hodgson.io> Reply-To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Date: Sunday, December 6, 2020 at 3:21 AM To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: Microsoft Planner and guests Hi, I would go with option 2 as its going to be easier for the users. I've seen these tenants become a bit messy with external users getting added over time with different users messing about with stuff like this on their own, however if you know these users are being added and with the scale of your tenant I don't think you need worry too much. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Shugart <rshugart(a)ryanshugart.com> Sent: 05 December 2020 20:01 To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Microsoft Planner and guests Hello all: I was looking for some advice on how to proceed from some other admins who work with Office 365, I have two approaches I can take to this and was wondering which people thought was best. I’m working on a personal project with some people who do not have accounts in my Office 365 tenant, and their organization does not use Office 365 at all. . I want to start using Planner to track the tasks in this project, as I’m starting to see we need some task tracking to keep people on the same page. I’ll need to bring these people into Planner as guests, and I’m finding two ways to do that and was wondering which people who had done this seem to think was better. 1. Add them as guests in the underlying M365 group that Planner creates when making a plan. 2. Create a team in Microsoft Teams, add planner as a tab and then add the guest accounts through Teams. At first approach 1 is what I would aim for as it would give access to just what we need and at first glance seems to be the simplest. That said in reading through documentation I gather it may not be as simple as at first believed as there is manual permissions setup for some features to work properly, and there may be a higher than normal training curve for the external users as they will need to go to odd URLs in their web browser. On the other hand if I set it up through Teams, the permissions all get configured automagically, and they can access everything through the Teams client or Teams web site without having to worry about strange URLs. For me personally admin overhead aside both approaches would work the same as I can always get to Planner through the app or web site so I really don’t care, I was just wanting the approach that would be easiest for people all round, so was wondering if anyone has done this before and if they had a preference? Thanks. Ryan _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org

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Microsoft Planner and guests
by Ryan Shugart 06 Dec '20

06 Dec '20

Hello all: I was looking for some advice on how to proceed from some other admins who work with Office 365, I have two approaches I can take to this and was wondering which people thought was best. I’m working on a personal project with some people who do not have accounts in my Office 365 tenant, and their organization does not use Office 365 at all. . I want to start using Planner to track the tasks in this project, as I’m starting to see we need some task tracking to keep people on the same page. I’ll need to bring these people into Planner as guests, and I’m finding two ways to do that and was wondering which people who had done this seem to think was better. 1. Add them as guests in the underlying M365 group that Planner creates when making a plan. 2. Create a team in Microsoft Teams, add planner as a tab and then add the guest accounts through Teams. At first approach 1 is what I would aim for as it would give access to just what we need and at first glance seems to be the simplest. That said in reading through documentation I gather it may not be as simple as at first believed as there is manual permissions setup for some features to work properly, and there may be a higher than normal training curve for the external users as they will need to go to odd URLs in their web browser. On the other hand if I set it up through Teams, the permissions all get configured automagically, and they can access everything through the Teams client or Teams web site without having to worry about strange URLs. For me personally admin overhead aside both approaches would work the same as I can always get to Planner through the app or web site so I really don’t care, I was just wanting the approach that would be easiest for people all round, so was wondering if anyone has done this before and if they had a preference? Thanks. Ryan

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