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Mcafee SIEM and EPO
by Paul O'Rahilly 27 Jul '16

27 Jul '16

Hello Folks Has anyone any experience using Mcafee SIEM and / or EPO ? SIEM is a security manager, and EPO is an e-policy orchestrator. In particular, are they accessible ? I have no useful sight. Experience using JAWS / NVDA and orca. Interview coming up next week, with a company that uses these products. All input much appreciated. Thanks, Paul

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Hello !!!!!
by Paul O'Rahilly 27 Jul '16

27 Jul '16

Hello Is anybody listening ? The last two emails I have posted do not appear to have been circulated. Please explain. Thanks, Paul

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Mcafee SIEM and EPO
by Paul O'Rahilly 26 Jul '16

26 Jul '16

Hello Folks Has anyone any experience using Mcafee SIEM and / or EPO ? SIEM is a security manager, and EPO is an e-policy orchestrator. In particular, are they accessible ? I have no useful sight. Experience using JAWS / NVDA and orca. Interview coming up next week, with a company that uses these products. All input much appreciated. Thanks, Paul

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Accessibility in the work place
by Billy Irwin 25 Jul '16

25 Jul '16

Guys, I've had to write a report based on my job that I referenced earlier. Here is a very rough draft but I wanted to get this out to my fellow SysAdmins. Beginning on June 20th, 2016, I started an internship with VC3 Inc. who provides Information Technology services for various local governments and private companies in the Southeast U.S. These services include but are not limited to Virtual Desktop Interfaces and Physical Systems Administration. The internship promised to end with full time employment as a Systems Engineer with their South Carolina Team. This position was exactly what I was looking for long term. This position was responsible for Server Administration, Network Administration and Design for over 200 different agencies over 3 or so states. Unfortunatley, when I started the postion, accessibility became to be a large barrier in completing my dutires. I first started out by training in the First Call Resolution Team that is responsible for taking the initial calls from customers with their various technical issues like resetting passwords and creating user accounts. While in this team, I was t training on the billing and ticketing system known as ConnectWise. I found this software completely inaccessibile to JAWS and Zoomtext. I spent several days trying to use different techniques that I thought would work in order to allow me full access to this fotware. Eventually, I I found and App for the Apple IOS and tried it with no success. One application would allow for limited access to some features and the other wouldn't. While working through those issues I was introduced to another application called Labtech which is responsible for remotely administering all systems maintained by VC3. This software too was very inaccessible and was virtually useless to me. As before, I began experimenting with it's settings and with no luck again, found myself really struggling to do anything productive. During all this, I reached out to the software vendor along side VC3. At the end of the internship, we were unable to get the software vendor to see how important this issue is for my employment. The only good thing that came from this internship is networking with other individuals that are in my field. They were able to see that I am well versed in my field of Information Technology. Sadly at this time, I am unable to recommend others to attempt employment at VC3 who have a visual impairment.

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Accessibility in the work place
by Billy Irwin 22 Jul '16

22 Jul '16

Guys, I've had to write a report based on my job that I referenced earlier. Here is a very rough draft but I wanted to get this out to my fellow SysAdmins. Beginning on June 20th, 2016, I started an internship with VC3 Inc. who provides Information Technology services for various local governments and private companies in the Southeast U.S. These services include but are not limited to Virtual Desktop Interfaces and Physical Systems Administration. The internship promised to end with full time employment as a Systems Engineer with their South Carolina Team. This position was exactly what I was looking for long term. This position was responsible for Server Administration, Network Administration and Design for over 200 different agencies over 3 or so states. Unfortunatley, when I started the postion, accessibility became to be a large barrier in completing my dutires. I first started out by training in the First Call Resolution Team that is responsible for taking the initial calls from customers with their various technical issues like resetting passwords and creating user accounts. While in this team, I was t training on the billing and ticketing system known as ConnectWise. I found this software completely inaccessibile to JAWS and Zoomtext. I spent several days trying to use different techniques that I thought would work in order to allow me full access to this fotware. Eventually, I I found and App for the Apple IOS and tried it with no success. One application would allow for limited access to some features and the other wouldn't. While working through those issues I was introduced to another application called Labtech which is responsible for remotely administering all systems maintained by VC3. This software too was very inaccessible and was virtually useless to me. As before, I began experimenting with it's settings and with no luck again, found myself really struggling to do anything productive. During all this, I reached out to the software vendor along side VC3. At the end of the internship, we were unable to get the software vendor to see how important this issue is for my employment. The only good thing that came from this internship is networking with other individuals that are in my field. They were able to see that I am well versed in my field of Information Technology. Sadly at this time, I am unable to recommend others to attempt employment at VC3 who have a visual impairment.

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Accessible Nas solutions?
by Mobeen Iqbal 22 Jul '16

22 Jul '16

Hello Everyone. Please forgive the cross posting. I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts on the following. I'm thinking of purchasing a nas solution for my home so users files are backed up in real time. Ideally, I'd like a solution where all files are stored locally i.e to internal hard drives, and you can install a dropbox stile app on each computer and specify folders to automatically back up. QNAP, Synology, Netgear, DLink and Buffalo all seem to be manufacturing Nas solutions. I've tried Synology in the past and wasn't a huge fan of their web interface. You couldn't do a lot with it at all which is a real shame as the devices have a lot of functionality. My primary concern is web interface accessibility. It would be nice to have a manufacturer that provides a decent web interface and that take accessibility seriously to the point that they're not breaking things every 2 minutes. I could build my own but i've then got the concern of how reliable the real time backup apps are in a home made solution. So, in short does anyone have any thoughts on which devices you've found to be accessible/reliable? iOS and android access is not essential. What web interfaces have you been able to access with screen readers? I look forward to your thoughts. Many thanks in advance for all comments, I'll do my best to respond but may not respond to everyone individually. All the best, Mo.

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Working for Apple
by Barry Toner 21 Jul '16

21 Jul '16

Hi, I am due to start a job with a company he is contracted happening scenes in customer services on 1 August. I was wondering, if any of you are familiar with apples internal software? And heart accessible or not it is with voice-over. I believe there is a chat software is called Avalon Thanks, Barry. Sent from my iPhone

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Anyone has compiled version of nvda remote server for windows?
by Mario Perčinić 12 Jul '16

12 Jul '16

Hey guys. Some of you on the list are probably familiar with this package available on github: https://github.com/Technow-es/NVDARemoteServer basically it is multi platform nvda remote server which can be run on on windows, linux and mac as well. Does anyone have last version of the program compiled for windows? Thanks. -- Mario Percinic Accessibility consultant mario.percinic(a)gmail.com Skype: acousticman Twitter: @MarioPercinic GSM: +385922630259

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Credential Management
by Billy Irwin 11 Jul '16

11 Jul '16

Hello All, I am new to the list, but I had a question. I am a JAWS user who has been in the I.T. field for over 16 years give or take. I do web hosting on the side as well. I have an accessibility issue which I will address in a different thread, but anyways... For the moment, I was wondering for all you Network/Server Admins did you use any accessibile Password/Credential Managers? A company I worked for used Remote Desktop Manager to do this but I find it very useless using JAWS and I just don't feel like trying to use ZoomText or Magic just for this app. Any thoughts? Thanks Kindly, Billy

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Credential Management
by Billy Irwin 11 Jul '16

11 Jul '16

Hello All, I am new to the list, but I had a question. I am a JAWS user who has been in the I.T. field for over 16 years give or take. I do web hosting on the side as well. I have an accessibility issue which I will address in a different thread, but anyways... For the moment, I was wondering for all you Network/Server Admins did you use any accessibile Password/Credential Managers? A company I worked for used Remote Desktop Manager to do this but I find it very useless using JAWS and I just don't feel like trying to use ZoomText or Magic just for this app. Any thoughts? Thanks Kindly, Billy

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Exam Software
by Greg B. 08 Jul '16

08 Jul '16

Hello everybody, I need to get a Security Plus certification as soon as I can because the lack of it is keeping me from getting a few security administrator positions that I have applied for. I have tried the Test King demo and that just did not work with jaws. Does anyone have something they could recommend? I would be happy with online study exams but I am not opposed to studying pdf material. Thanks, Greg B. Email: gbobo(a)woh.rr.com <mailto:gbobo@woh.rr.com>

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DNN community needs more blind developers and administrators
by Katherine Moss 04 Jul '16

04 Jul '16

Hi all. I just figured I'd throw this out there. I decided to put all my community sites on DNN (formerly DotNetNuke) in order to persuade the DNn community to care more about accessibility as a whole and to learn development skills against in order to develop compliant themes in the forge, or that's my eventual project. Many community members have assisted, so now I need to figure out where they want their contributions, in order that eventually the DNN community will see them as important and replace their own default crappy edit menu (requires a mouse over to activate it, and it's not anything that has keyboard access by default), in the default install. I pln to firther enhance accessibility soon.

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DNN community needs more blind developers and administrators
by Katherine Moss 30 Jun '16

30 Jun '16

Hi all. I just figured I'd throw this out there. I decided to put all my community sites on DNN (formerly DotNetNuke) in order to persuade the DNn community to care more about accessibility as a whole and to learn development skills against in order to develop compliant themes in the forge, or that's my eventual project. Many community members have assisted, so now I need to figure out where they want their contributions, in order that eventually the DNN community will see them as important and replace their own default crappy edit menu (requires a mouse over to activate it, and it's not anything that has keyboard access by default), in the default install. I pln to firther enhance accessibility soon.

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Efficient IP
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 30 Jun '16

30 Jun '16

I'm using an appliance called Efficient IP. Has anyone else used it? It's not Flash or Java but damn it's inaccessible. Unlabelled links and buttons, the developer never heard of alt tags, no tables, dodgy edit fields all over the place. I'm not sure how I'm going to manage this thing yet.

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follow up to Ubiquiti controller setup
by Brian Moore 30 Jun '16

30 Jun '16

Hi all. well, so far, I am pretty damn impressed with these unify AC-PRO access points. Long range, fast response and they seem like good stuff. The controller software is doable but difficult. Version 4x of the software was very accessible and worked beautifully. However, it doesn't implement all the latest features and will not upgrade equipment to the latest firmware. version 5 of the controller software, current is version 5.0.7 is sort of doable with google Chrome but not at all a fun experience and there is a lot of guess work involved. I can kind of make it work with Chrome on windows but it pretty much completely breaks if one uses firefox or internet explorer. on another note, for configuring access points, the iPhone app works beautifully if you only want to configure the basic features. it won't let you do a bunch of the more advanced stuff but for quick setup and go, it works very well and is completely accessible with voice over. Brian. -- Contact me on skype: brian.moore follow me on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bmoore123

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Efficient IP
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 28 Jun '16

28 Jun '16

I'm using an appliance called Efficient IP. Has anyone else used it? It's not Flash or Java but damn it's inaccessible. Unlabelled links and buttons, the developer never heard of alt tags, no tables, dodgy edit fields all over the place. I'm not sure how I'm going to manage this thing yet.

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Accessibility of PFSense web UI
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 27 Jun '16

27 Jun '16

Hello, Has anyone used the PFSense web UI recenetly? The last time I touched it was about 4 years ago and although it was once accessible, it had become completely unusable. I'm looking at a project where it would come in very handy but I will need to look for an alternative if accessibility hasn't changed to the web UI. I know I could use the CLI but it's not really designed for that purpose for day to day administration. Sure, it can be used but the web UI is more efficient. Any feedback / good alternative swould be very appreciated. Thanks Darragh

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Accessibility of PFSense web UI
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 27 Jun '16

27 Jun '16

Hello, Has anyone used the PFSense web UI recenetly? The last time I touched it was about 4 years ago and although it was once accessible, it had become completely unusable. I'm looking at a project where it would come in very handy but I will need to look for an alternative if accessibility hasn't changed to the web UI. I know I could use the CLI but it's not really designed for that purpose for day to day administration. Sure, it can be used but the web UI is more efficient. Any feedback / good alternative swould be very appreciated. Thanks Darragh

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] ubiquiti controller software
by vic.pereira＠ssc-spc.gc.ca 24 Jun '16

24 Jun '16

Hi Brian The Ubiquiti Access Points work with Window-Eyes. A couple of things to note is that you will need to check for a firmware update. For some reason it may not broadcast the SSID until it is happy that you have all available updates. If you have any wireless devices on your network, you will have a couple of options. You can reconfigure them to use the AP, or if you are connecting your AP to a wireless router you can let them stay on the wireless router's LAN segment and not worry about your access point. You'll figure it out I'm sure. The Uibiquiti works very well in open spaces. Indoors they do extend your range quite a bit, however remember that walls, elevator shafts etc. will have an impact on the range. Because the AP transceiver has a little more juice than your typical wireless router it might overwhelm any other wireless networks you have in the same area, but as they say might is right. But if those systems are within range, but further away you will be OK. There was some talk about POE having issues on CAT-6, but I have not encountered any problems. Individually the cost of the long range AP is around $150 to $170 from Amazon. A three pack should be less than $500.00; I haven't checked lately. If you are setting up three of them with the same SSID and channel you will find that they hand off the connections very nicely. I found they do that much better than when setting up multiple wireless home routers with the same SSID and channel. For the price of the Ubiquiti AP I am very impressed. Vic Pereira Project Manager, Networks and End-Users Branch Shared Services Canada / Government of Canada vic.pereira(a)ssc-spc.gc.ca / Tel: 204-781-5046 Gestionnaire de projet, Direction des réseaux et des utilisateurs finaux Services partagés Canada / Gouvernement du Canada vic.pereira(a)ssc-spc.gc.ca / Tél: 204-781-5046 -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Brian Moore Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 12:35 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] ubiquiti controler software Hi all. so I have been asked to help with a wifi installation in a fairly big space. I am tempted to go with the unify ap stuff from Ubiquiti networks. This stuff gets rave reviews and looks quite good. However, their things seem to require using a java based controler software for configuration. I am concerned about how accessible this might or might not be. From reading some of their support stuff, even to enable ssh on an ap to allow configuration requires use of this controler software. It might be usable and not a problem but I don't want to spend like a thousand bucks on stuff I can't configure. Since this will be mostly set it and forget it, I guess I could borrow a pair of eyes to follow my instructions and configure the access points for the first time. Anyone got experience with any of this gear? How did you get access points up and running for the first time? thanks. Brian. -- Contact me on skype: brian.moore follow me on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bmoore123 _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] ubiquiti controller software
by matt.bsa＠wh1t3.net 23 Jun '16

23 Jun '16

I've been using the Ubiquiti Aps at home for about a year; as others have stated, the configuration interface is very usable with a screen reader. I've used Window-Eyes on the PC and Voiceover on OSX. Like other enterprise gear, you can have multiple SSIDs, VLANs, user types, etc. At home, I have 2 Aps connected to a POE switch. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Scott Granados Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 2:49 PM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] ubiquiti controler software Hi Brian, the only reason you’ll need to leave the controller running is if you use captive portal or some sort of enterprise level authentication. IF you use simple PSK and don’t say authenticate with radius there’s no need, everything will take place on the AP hardware itself. Depending on the size of your space you may only need 1 or 2 access points. Good news is each has both automatic or user assignable frequencies so you can place 3 together with one on channel 1, one on 6 and one on 11 and they won’t overlap. Might be over kill but you know your situation best. Good luck and I’ll be checking mail periodically. Feel free to write directly if this is off topic. What ever works for you. Thank you On 6/23/16, 2:39 PM, "Blind-sysadmins on behalf of Brian Moore" <blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org on behalf of bmoore(a)screenreview.org> wrote: Hi Scott. This is exactly the stuff I was looking for. So the Canadian distributor has a current sale on a 3 pack of unify AC pro access points for a really good price. Since this is an office space for a small business with some work space in the back, I thought this might just be the thing. They all will operate off power over Ethernet which is nice. I suspect once they are up and running, can pretty much leave them alone. Once I have configured them with the controller,i.e given them ip addresses, set up ssid channels etc, do I actually have to leave the controller host running? Not a big deal either way and I would think not but I have read a couple of things in forums which indicate tthat I do. Seems a bit odd since the devices are already configured but who knows. This will likely happen over the week end so I will yell at the list if I get stuck. If one can access the controller software either on pc or Mac, the rest seems pretty straight forward. thanks. Brian. , Contact me on skype: brian.moore follow me on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bmoore123 On 06/23/2016 2:23 PM, Scott Granados wrote: > Hi Brian, > Fear not, the ubiquiti stuff is very accessible. Qualifying this, I’ve configured many access points in different settings using a Mac and Voice over and safari. I have also to a lesser degree but successfully used JFW and IE running the controller under windows. > > Here’s what you’ll experience. You’ll install the software on a host of your choice. This software sets up a web server that you then connect to with your browser typically the launcher selects the default browser. You’ll be prompted with a user name and password and then the screens draw with the data in table form. As you know you arrow around with VO on the Mac side or tab around with JFW inside the tables. Access points are auto discovered and then you click on each one’s Mac address and configure it’s settings. Once configured you push the settings and it populates the AP. Access points can be reset and rediscovered using the poker in a hole method to press a reset momentary contact switch. > The devices are fairly good and perform well. They can have issues with some chipsets where you only negotiate half the available bandwidth so say 150 megabits on a 300 megabit 802.11N session but it definitely still works well enough. The long range units also do a good job covering a large area and do well outside. I have not tried the new AC models but the AP and APLR are pretty solid. > > Hope that helps, let me know what specifics you have. I’ve used a lot of the ubiquiti products so can help you out here on several of their product lines. > > Thanks > Scott > > > On 6/23/16, 1:34 PM, "Blind-sysadmins on behalf of Brian Moore" <blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org on behalf of bmoore(a)screenreview.org> wrote: > > Hi all. so I have been asked to help with a wifi installation in a > fairly big space. > > I am tempted to go with the unify ap stuff from Ubiquiti networks. > > This stuff gets rave reviews and looks quite good. > > However, their things seem to require using a java based controler > software for configuration. > > I am concerned about how accessible this might or might not be. > > From reading some of their support stuff, even to enable ssh on an > ap to allow configuration requires use of this controler software. It > might be usable and not a problem but I don't want to spend like a > thousand bucks on stuff I can't configure. > > Since this will be mostly set it and forget it, I guess I could borrow > a pair of eyes to follow my instructions and configure the access > points for the first time. Anyone got experience with any of this gear? > > How did you get access points up and running for the first time? > > thanks. > Brian. > _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins

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ubiquiti controler software
by Brian Moore 23 Jun '16

23 Jun '16

Hi all. so I have been asked to help with a wifi installation in a fairly big space. I am tempted to go with the unify ap stuff from Ubiquiti networks. This stuff gets rave reviews and looks quite good. However, their things seem to require using a java based controler software for configuration. I am concerned about how accessible this might or might not be. From reading some of their support stuff, even to enable ssh on an ap to allow configuration requires use of this controler software. It might be usable and not a problem but I don't want to spend like a thousand bucks on stuff I can't configure. Since this will be mostly set it and forget it, I guess I could borrow a pair of eyes to follow my instructions and configure the access points for the first time. Anyone got experience with any of this gear? How did you get access points up and running for the first time? thanks. Brian. -- Contact me on skype: brian.moore follow me on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bmoore123

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Merger between VFO group and AI Squared.
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 18 Jun '16

18 Jun '16

AI Squared has been merged into VFO group. I'm sure you've heard at this stage. So, what do you think? Are those of you who use Window Eyes worried? Do you see the VFO group retaining both Jaws and Window Eyes? I think this has the potential to be huge news.

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Anecdotal Information Regarding ZoomText and other Magnifiers
by vic.pereira＠ssc-spc.gc.ca 16 Jun '16

16 Jun '16

We haven't done anything formally yet, however it appears as if more and more people who have useable vision are pleased with the magnification features in Windows 7 and 10. Another observation is it seems as if people who have had low vision since birth manage bolt on applications, like ZoomText, more easily than those who had their vision reduce later on in life. The latter seem to be the group who work more comfortably with the included magnification options in the operating systems. May be one day we will see a study on this to confirm if these anecdotal observations have any merit. Vic Pereira Project Manager, Networks and End-Users Branch Shared Services Canada / Government of Canada vic.pereira(a)ssc-spc.gc.ca / Tel: 204-781-5046 Gestionnaire de projet, Direction des réseaux et des utilisateurs finaux Services partagés Canada / Gouvernement du Canada vic.pereira(a)ssc-spc.gc.ca / Tél: 204-781-5046

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Merger between VFO group and AI Squared.
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 15 Jun '16

15 Jun '16

AI Squared has been merged into VFO group. I'm sure you've heard at this stage. So, what do you think? Are those of you who use Window Eyes worried? Do you see the VFO group retaining both Jaws and Window Eyes? I think this has the potential to be huge news.

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Question on SQL 2012 and Relational Joins
by Rajiv Shah 13 Jun '16

13 Jun '16

Dear listers:I am fairly new to using SQL server. I am creating a database with two tables and would like to right-join both tables to one another. With the mouse, this can be done via drag-and-drop. As a keyboard work-around, one could use the query language, but drag-and-drop is far easier if you are just starting out in this area. Has any user found a solution for this? Please reply even if you haven't as this is helpful info also.Thanks.Regards,Rajiv

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