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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Office 365
by Ryan Shugart 27 Jun '13

27 Jun '13

Really odd. I got a free Office 365 subscription as part of my MSDN subscription. So, I just tried your trick to get OWA lite working with that, and it didn't work. I kept getting the full theme. I poked around in the options screen, and there is a theme there called "lite." I switched to it, but nothing happened, unless OWA lite itself is barely usable in Exchange 2013. I know you said it looked like Microsoft had customized the OWA experience for Office 365 and possibly broke something, and OWA lite isn't supported anyway, so its not a big deal but just wanted to give the heads up that it may not always work On a random side note, by the way, my subscription also gives me a Windows Azure account, and that web site is actually pretty accessible, if busy. I haven't explored everything Azure does, quite frankly I don't understand half of what it does, and I think its more developer focused than system admin focused. But, I do have a VM running in the Azure cloud with Window-Eyes on it and am successfully able to connect to it over RDP. Ryan. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 1:23 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] MS Forefront Protection for Exchange Hi, Just checked now I am at work and OWA lite does seem to stick on when you enable it, again I think I have issues at home with my Passport account being different from my Office 365 account. All in all I think I will move to this at home as well, it is working out slightly cheaper than my current provider and will probably give me a better service. I will probably do the migration in August/September. Thanks. Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Blind-sysadmins [blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org] on behalf of Ryan Shugart [rshugart(a)pcisys.net] Sent: 20 June 2013 07:30 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] MS Forefront Protection for Exchange Thanks Andrew: The Powershell stuff sounds really cool actually, I've heard you can control Office 365 through Powershell but haven't seen much on how to do it. Granted I haven't looked much since I don't have an account to play with yet. The OWA lite stuff is good info, I use OWA lite primarily as well, I'm a tad surprised Microsoft wouldn't make that easier to enable, especially since they want governments and educational institutions to switch to the service. With OWA in Exchange 2007 and 2010, there's an accessibility tab under options where OWA lite can be forced on. Is this gone in 2013? Do you need to use your work around each time you log into OWA or just the first time? Thanks. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 5:03 PM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] MS Forefront Protection for Exchange Hi Ryan and all, I have recently been given the opertunity to move a charity domain to the service under the non-prophit scheme. I mainly wanted it to get a decent email service with antispam, and for that I think we will have a good service. The main parts of the service I have used include the administrative console, and the OWA service. The administrative console is usable with speech, however, when you get to more complex areas, such as the user list, or the Exchange Online views, you start running into issues. I believe that MS have tried to make it as usable as possible, for example, when using the Exchange Online consoles, you can arrow through lists of users, use first letter navigation etc. However, somehow this doesn't tally up with the keyboard navigation in Jaws. One thing I have found is you can connect to your account using PowerShell, and access the Exchange commands using that. This is pretty much how I have built up the Exchange environment currently, by getting a list of commands and using PowerShell to run these. In this regard, I believe that Office 365 gives you a much more manageable environment than any other Exchange hosting company is able to offer. The real major problem I have though which is holding me back at the moment is OWA access. I use OWA pretty much when at work and other places to access email. I use the OWA lite version, because it gives me really simple access to mail using JFW navigation keys. Currently OWA Lite in Office 365 is a real pig to get at. It officially isn't supported (according to the help), though if you access your Office 365 account, there is an option to enable OWA lite as the default when you log into OWA. The problem is, that when you log into OWA, I believe Microsoft have customised it for Office 365, and this is getting in the way of the standard OWA stuff, which is preventing the OWA lite from being accessed. I have found probably an unofficial workaround for this, by playing with a test Exchange 2013 setup, which means you need to enter in a different URL on the address bar as follows: Log into your Office 365 portal, when at the OWA full feature screen, remove everything after the /owa and enter in the following text: ?layout=lite So my OWA session URL is now: https://pod51049.outlook.com/owa/?layout=lite I haven't had much luck saving this as a favourite, something in the authentication gets screwed up somewhere. I think this may be partly down to my Office 365 email account being under a different email address than my logged in Passport account in Windows 8. I can't get a standard OWA login screen, everything seems to be tied down to Passport logins with Office 365. Any this is my experience so far. Thanks. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Shugart Sent: 19 June 2013 22:31 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] MS Forefront Protection for Exchange Andrew: What are your thoughts on Office 365 and Forefront Protection for accessibility? I'm considering moving my Exchange hosting to Office 365. How is OWA in Exchange 2013? Thanks. Ryan ________________________________________ From: Blind-sysadmins [blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson [andrew(a)hodgsonfamily.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:29 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] MS Forefront Protection for Exchange Hi, I use a cloud based AV/AS system at work, although the one we use is quite expensive: www.mimecast.com I don't like AV on the Exchange server as it creates supporting headaches when applying updates in case the AV solution breaks something, I much prefer to leave it to a dedicated email scanning solution. Some other cloud based solutions I have used are as follows: Postini: www.postini.com - This is included in my hosted Exchange account. Spamtitan: www.spamtitan.com - this is a software spam appliance solution which works very well if you have an older machine you can dedicate to this. Sophos UTM: www.sophos.com - this is a very capable firewall product which can do a range of stuff including email scanning. I use this at some remote sites at work. I should also add that I am trialing Forefront for Exchange with bcab.org.uk as part of an Office 365/Exchange online solution. Thanks. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Mika Pyyhkala Sent: 19 June 2013 17:30 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] MS Forefront Protection for Exchange Hi, We have used cloud based solutions to guard against spam and viruses, instead of doing it on our Exchange server. A message first hits the cloud filtering gateway provider, is inspected, and only sent on to us if it passes the spam and virus filters. The message also never hits our environment if it is sent to a user without a valid email address. We used to use Postini, which is now part of Google. They appear to be changing the Postini service, so I'm not sure how it will work going forward, it seems like its being intigrated more with Google apps. The Postini administrative interface was quite accessible. We now use IronPort appliances by Cisco. We have our IronPort appliances in a Cisco cloud, so it is completely hosted by Cisco, although you can also have an appliance as your site. The IronPort appliance is in sync with our Active Directory LDAP, so we don't need to create users in IronPort. The IronPort appliance administrative interface is useable, although to access certain menus you have to route the jaws cursor to a link and mouse click on it. Best, Mika Pyyhkala Neighborhood Health Plan -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of George Bell Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:14 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] MS Forefront Protection for Exchange I seem to be drawing a complete blank finding anyone who knows anything about Microsoft Forefront Protection for Exchange Server. Do any of you guys know anything at all about it? ESET is due a hefty fee for renewal soon, and at $1 per month, per user, this appears to be a decent solution. BTW, it's taken since the New Year, but we look like having resolved our SBS 2010 performance issues. It seems that the Exchange 2010 part did not like having one Outlook 2003 client for a short period early on, and messed up the RPC binding order. Just a pity that the error reports didn't point in that direction. 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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Office 365
by Ryan Shugart 26 Jun '13

26 Jun '13

Really odd. I got a free Office 365 subscription as part of my MSDN subscription. So, I just tried your trick to get OWA lite working with that, and it didn't work. I kept getting the full theme. I poked around in the options screen, and there is a theme there called "lite." I switched to it, but nothing happened, unless OWA lite itself is barely usable in Exchange 2013. I know you said it looked like Microsoft had customized the OWA experience for Office 365 and possibly broke something, and OWA lite isn't supported anyway, so its not a big deal but just wanted to give the heads up that it may not always work On a random side note, by the way, my subscription also gives me a Windows Azure account, and that web site is actually pretty accessible, if busy. I haven't explored everything Azure does, quite frankly I don't understand half of what it does, and I think its more developer focused than system admin focused. But, I do have a VM running in the Azure cloud with Window-Eyes on it and am successfully able to connect to it over RDP. Ryan. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 1:23 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] MS Forefront Protection for Exchange Hi, Just checked now I am at work and OWA lite does seem to stick on when you enable it, again I think I have issues at home with my Passport account being different from my Office 365 account. All in all I think I will move to this at home as well, it is working out slightly cheaper than my current provider and will probably give me a better service. I will probably do the migration in August/September. Thanks. Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Blind-sysadmins [blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org] on behalf of Ryan Shugart [rshugart(a)pcisys.net] Sent: 20 June 2013 07:30 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] MS Forefront Protection for Exchange Thanks Andrew: The Powershell stuff sounds really cool actually, I've heard you can control Office 365 through Powershell but haven't seen much on how to do it. Granted I haven't looked much since I don't have an account to play with yet. The OWA lite stuff is good info, I use OWA lite primarily as well, I'm a tad surprised Microsoft wouldn't make that easier to enable, especially since they want governments and educational institutions to switch to the service. With OWA in Exchange 2007 and 2010, there's an accessibility tab under options where OWA lite can be forced on. Is this gone in 2013? Do you need to use your work around each time you log into OWA or just the first time? Thanks. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 5:03 PM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] MS Forefront Protection for Exchange Hi Ryan and all, I have recently been given the opertunity to move a charity domain to the service under the non-prophit scheme. I mainly wanted it to get a decent email service with antispam, and for that I think we will have a good service. The main parts of the service I have used include the administrative console, and the OWA service. The administrative console is usable with speech, however, when you get to more complex areas, such as the user list, or the Exchange Online views, you start running into issues. I believe that MS have tried to make it as usable as possible, for example, when using the Exchange Online consoles, you can arrow through lists of users, use first letter navigation etc. However, somehow this doesn't tally up with the keyboard navigation in Jaws. One thing I have found is you can connect to your account using PowerShell, and access the Exchange commands using that. This is pretty much how I have built up the Exchange environment currently, by getting a list of commands and using PowerShell to run these. In this regard, I believe that Office 365 gives you a much more manageable environment than any other Exchange hosting company is able to offer. The real major problem I have though which is holding me back at the moment is OWA access. I use OWA pretty much when at work and other places to access email. I use the OWA lite version, because it gives me really simple access to mail using JFW navigation keys. Currently OWA Lite in Office 365 is a real pig to get at. It officially isn't supported (according to the help), though if you access your Office 365 account, there is an option to enable OWA lite as the default when you log into OWA. The problem is, that when you log into OWA, I believe Microsoft have customised it for Office 365, and this is getting in the way of the standard OWA stuff, which is preventing the OWA lite from being accessed. I have found probably an unofficial workaround for this, by playing with a test Exchange 2013 setup, which means you need to enter in a different URL on the address bar as follows: Log into your Office 365 portal, when at the OWA full feature screen, remove everything after the /owa and enter in the following text: ?layout=lite So my OWA session URL is now: https://pod51049.outlook.com/owa/?layout=lite I haven't had much luck saving this as a favourite, something in the authentication gets screwed up somewhere. I think this may be partly down to my Office 365 email account being under a different email address than my logged in Passport account in Windows 8. I can't get a standard OWA login screen, everything seems to be tied down to Passport logins with Office 365. Any this is my experience so far. Thanks. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Shugart Sent: 19 June 2013 22:31 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] MS Forefront Protection for Exchange Andrew: What are your thoughts on Office 365 and Forefront Protection for accessibility? I'm considering moving my Exchange hosting to Office 365. How is OWA in Exchange 2013? Thanks. Ryan ________________________________________ From: Blind-sysadmins [blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson [andrew(a)hodgsonfamily.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:29 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] MS Forefront Protection for Exchange Hi, I use a cloud based AV/AS system at work, although the one we use is quite expensive: www.mimecast.com I don't like AV on the Exchange server as it creates supporting headaches when applying updates in case the AV solution breaks something, I much prefer to leave it to a dedicated email scanning solution. Some other cloud based solutions I have used are as follows: Postini: www.postini.com - This is included in my hosted Exchange account. Spamtitan: www.spamtitan.com - this is a software spam appliance solution which works very well if you have an older machine you can dedicate to this. Sophos UTM: www.sophos.com - this is a very capable firewall product which can do a range of stuff including email scanning. I use this at some remote sites at work. I should also add that I am trialing Forefront for Exchange with bcab.org.uk as part of an Office 365/Exchange online solution. Thanks. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Mika Pyyhkala Sent: 19 June 2013 17:30 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] MS Forefront Protection for Exchange Hi, We have used cloud based solutions to guard against spam and viruses, instead of doing it on our Exchange server. A message first hits the cloud filtering gateway provider, is inspected, and only sent on to us if it passes the spam and virus filters. The message also never hits our environment if it is sent to a user without a valid email address. We used to use Postini, which is now part of Google. They appear to be changing the Postini service, so I'm not sure how it will work going forward, it seems like its being intigrated more with Google apps. The Postini administrative interface was quite accessible. We now use IronPort appliances by Cisco. We have our IronPort appliances in a Cisco cloud, so it is completely hosted by Cisco, although you can also have an appliance as your site. The IronPort appliance is in sync with our Active Directory LDAP, so we don't need to create users in IronPort. The IronPort appliance administrative interface is useable, although to access certain menus you have to route the jaws cursor to a link and mouse click on it. Best, Mika Pyyhkala Neighborhood Health Plan -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of George Bell Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:14 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] MS Forefront Protection for Exchange I seem to be drawing a complete blank finding anyone who knows anything about Microsoft Forefront Protection for Exchange Server. Do any of you guys know anything at all about it? ESET is due a hefty fee for renewal soon, and at $1 per month, per user, this appears to be a decent solution. BTW, it's taken since the New Year, but we look like having resolved our SBS 2010 performance issues. It seems that the Exchange 2010 part did not like having one Outlook 2003 client for a short period early on, and messed up the RPC binding order. Just a pity that the error reports didn't point in that direction. George. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins This message contains information from Neighborhood Health Plan that may be confidential or privileged. This message is directed only to the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this email is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message and any attachments. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins

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MS Forefront Protection for Exchange
by George Bell 20 Jun '13

20 Jun '13

I seem to be drawing a complete blank finding anyone who knows anything about Microsoft Forefront Protection for Exchange Server. Do any of you guys know anything at all about it? ESET is due a hefty fee for renewal soon, and at $1 per month, per user, this appears to be a decent solution. BTW, it's taken since the New Year, but we look like having resolved our SBS 2010 performance issues. It seems that the Exchange 2010 part did not like having one Outlook 2003 client for a short period early on, and messed up the RPC binding order. Just a pity that the error reports didn't point in that direction. George.

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End user passwords
by Barry Toner 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

Hi folks, I'm just curious, how do you approach this. Do you have all end-users enter their own passwords for every circumstance within yoru I T departments staff? Or do certain people have access tot eh passwords. EG. Crisp Manager can give their password to the chocolate I T Manager, but not to the Jelly Tots Placement Student. Or does yoru company implicitl tryust the I T staff? Barry Barry Toner ICT Assistant ICT Department Clanmil Housing Northern Whig House 3 Waring Street Belfast BT1 2DX Tel: 02890 876000 Fax: 02890 876001

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End user passwords
by Barry Toner 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

Hi folks, I'm just curious, how do you approach this. Do you have all end-users enter their own passwords for every circumstance within yoru I T departments staff? Or do certain people have access tot eh passwords. EG. Crisp Manager can give their password to the chocolate I T Manager, but not to the Jelly Tots Placement Student. Or does yoru company implicitl tryust the I T staff? Barry Barry Toner ICT Assistant ICT Department Clanmil Housing Northern Whig House 3 Waring Street Belfast BT1 2DX Tel: 02890 876000 Fax: 02890 876001

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Installing Exchange 2010 RM tools
by Barry Toner 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

Hi folks, We've finally upgraded in work and I want to try the RM tools. Each time I go to install it though I get the following, Summary: 3 item(s). 2 succeeded, 1 failed. Elapsed time: 00:00:36 Configuring Prerequisites Failed Error: The following error was generated when "$error.Clear(); if($RoleInstallWindowsComponents) { # Install any Windows Roles or Features required for the Management Tools role Install-WindowsComponent -ShortNameForRole "AdminTools" -ADToolsNeeded $RoleADToolsNeeded } " was run: "The system cannot find the file specified". The system cannot find the file specified Click here for help... http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms.exch.err.default(EXCHG.141).a… Elapsed Time: 00:00:01 Management Tools Prerequisites Completed Elapsed Time: 00:00:32 Languages Prerequisites Completed Elapsed Time: 00:00:02 AD Tools is installed under Windows Features... Am I missing something? Cheers, Barry. Barry Toner ICT Assistant ICT Department Clanmil Housing Northern Whig House 3 Waring Street Belfast BT1 2DX Tel: 02890 876000 Fax: 02890 876001

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Team viewer
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

Hello, I posted on Friday about using Team viewer. Here is where I am with this now. 1. Jaws works really well with the Team viewer application. Of course, it cant provide any feedback from the remote system but we'd expect that. 2. Sound is sent from the remote system via Team viewer so you can hear what's happening on the remote computers. 3. NVDA has a portable version that when extracted is 63MB. This works reasonably well on the remote computer. There's a bit of a lag and the clarity of the synthesizer leaves a lot of room for improvement but that's just the joy of using a remote connection. 4. I've been able to get NVDA down to 12.6MB compressed with a self extracter. This dumpsthe portable files into the tempdirectory and automatically starts NVDA. 5. This portable version is available in the archive at www.blindsysadmins.com/portable.exe<http://www.blindsysadmins.com/portable.exe> 6. This portable executable is not signed. I also don't have a trusted cert so I have no way of signing it. Therefore I have a problem runningthis remotely without assistance. It also presents a warning box that from an unsuspecting end users perspective looks very dodgy. Therefore until I find a way of signing this somehow, it's not an acceptable solution. So. There you have it. I'm almost there. If I can just get this to run without prompting the user to trust it then I'll be laughing. I've cut this down from 63MB to 12.5 MB by removing support that wn't be needed when providing help to someone over a remote connection. For example, you won't need Braille or access to messenger, AOL, sound forge or all the other applications in this category. I'm also about to write a Jaws script for team viewer that cuts out some of the extra verbosity spoken by Jaws when in the team viewer window. It would also be nice to press one letter on the keyboard to establish a remote connection without needing to tab around to find the right button. Efficiency for me is the key here. If I could find a way of getting the NVDA portable package down to a better size I'd be delighted but I'd probably need some input from the developers. For example, the portable package may be used to install NVDA onto a users PC. For the purposes of remote assistance, this functionality really isn't required. That might get rid of quite a lot of dependencies and make the archive even smaller. The aim is that within one minute of getting remote access you can read the remote systems interface.

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Installing Exchange 2010 RM tools
by Barry Toner 11 Jun '13

11 Jun '13

Hi folks, We've finally upgraded in work and I want to try the RM tools. Each time I go to install it though I get the following, Summary: 3 item(s). 2 succeeded, 1 failed. Elapsed time: 00:00:36 Configuring Prerequisites Failed Error: The following error was generated when "$error.Clear(); if($RoleInstallWindowsComponents) { # Install any Windows Roles or Features required for the Management Tools role Install-WindowsComponent -ShortNameForRole "AdminTools" -ADToolsNeeded $RoleADToolsNeeded } " was run: "The system cannot find the file specified". The system cannot find the file specified Click here for help... http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms.exch.err.default(EXCHG.141).a… Elapsed Time: 00:00:01 Management Tools Prerequisites Completed Elapsed Time: 00:00:32 Languages Prerequisites Completed Elapsed Time: 00:00:02 AD Tools is installed under Windows Features... Am I missing something? Cheers, Barry. Barry Toner ICT Assistant ICT Department Clanmil Housing Northern Whig House 3 Waring Street Belfast BT1 2DX Tel: 02890 876000 Fax: 02890 876001

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Team viewer
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 11 Jun '13

11 Jun '13

Hello, I posted on Friday about using Team viewer. Here is where I am with this now. 1. Jaws works really well with the Team viewer application. Of course, it cant provide any feedback from the remote system but we'd expect that. 2. Sound is sent from the remote system via Team viewer so you can hear what's happening on the remote computers. 3. NVDA has a portable version that when extracted is 63MB. This works reasonably well on the remote computer. There's a bit of a lag and the clarity of the synthesizer leaves a lot of room for improvement but that's just the joy of using a remote connection. 4. I've been able to get NVDA down to 12.6MB compressed with a self extracter. This dumpsthe portable files into the tempdirectory and automatically starts NVDA. 5. This portable version is available in the archive at www.blindsysadmins.com/portable.exe<http://www.blindsysadmins.com/portable.exe> 6. This portable executable is not signed. I also don't have a trusted cert so I have no way of signing it. Therefore I have a problem runningthis remotely without assistance. It also presents a warning box that from an unsuspecting end users perspective looks very dodgy. Therefore until I find a way of signing this somehow, it's not an acceptable solution. So. There you have it. I'm almost there. If I can just get this to run without prompting the user to trust it then I'll be laughing. I've cut this down from 63MB to 12.5 MB by removing support that wn't be needed when providing help to someone over a remote connection. For example, you won't need Braille or access to messenger, AOL, sound forge or all the other applications in this category. I'm also about to write a Jaws script for team viewer that cuts out some of the extra verbosity spoken by Jaws when in the team viewer window. It would also be nice to press one letter on the keyboard to establish a remote connection without needing to tab around to find the right button. Efficiency for me is the key here. If I could find a way of getting the NVDA portable package down to a better size I'd be delighted but I'd probably need some input from the developers. For example, the portable package may be used to install NVDA onto a users PC. For the purposes of remote assistance, this functionality really isn't required. That might get rid of quite a lot of dependencies and make the archive even smaller. The aim is that within one minute of getting remote access you can read the remote systems interface.

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Just an Intro and a question about computer security.
by Lexi Aitkens 07 Jun '13

07 Jun '13

Hi, all. I am currently a student studying at Northumbria University in the UK. My degree is Ethical Hacking for computer Security and as part of the degree it heavily relies on security and pennitration testing using Linux and windows. I am hoping to use this degree as a way to gain employment within the Sys Admin field. Can anyone advise of the accessibility of Kali Linux or provide me with some idea of the accessibility of the applications used for network tasks? thanks Lexi

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system rolout
by Sean Randall 05 Jun '13

05 Jun '13

Hi folks, I’m joining an ICT team where they’re about to buy in several new laptops to add to our network. I’ve not gotten a chance to see the setup yet but was wondering if any particular software is used for cloning and rollout in enterprise environments, what the access implications are etc. From a home user point of view, I’ve set up win7 machines without eyes to help, using narrator then installing JFW or whatever. One would assume some form of unattended installation takes place for a larger number of systems. It’ll be win 7 of some description, so any advice or input anyone has would be helpful; especially if I can get in before they have firmed up their procedures so I can build in access from the ground up. Cheers, Sean.

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system rolout
by Sean Randall 05 Jun '13

05 Jun '13

Hi folks, I’m joining an ICT team where they’re about to buy in several new laptops to add to our network. I’ve not gotten a chance to see the setup yet but was wondering if any particular software is used for cloning and rollout in enterprise environments, what the access implications are etc. From a home user point of view, I’ve set up win7 machines without eyes to help, using narrator then installing JFW or whatever. One would assume some form of unattended installation takes place for a larger number of systems. It’ll be win 7 of some description, so any advice or input anyone has would be helpful; especially if I can get in before they have firmed up their procedures so I can build in access from the ground up. Cheers, Sean.

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Cisco IP phone 7942
by Chamandeep Singh Grover 01 Jun '13

01 Jun '13

Hello, I am sorry for the off topic post, but i wanted to know if someone has any experience with the above cisco IP phone and its accessibility. The company i am working for have just roled these phones out to everyone and seeing as they have a range of features, is there a way to make this functionality accessible? The phone that has been given to us is the Cisco IP phone 7942. I know that there are third party applications that can be installed on this phone, but i would be grateful for any more information on how to go about this. Regards, Chamandeep Singh

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Cisco IP phone 7942
by Chamandeep Singh Grover 20 May '13

20 May '13

Hello, I am sorry for the off topic post, but i wanted to know if someone has any experience with the above cisco IP phone and its accessibility. The company i am working for have just roled these phones out to everyone and seeing as they have a range of features, is there a way to make this functionality accessible? The phone that has been given to us is the Cisco IP phone 7942. I know that there are third party applications that can be installed on this phone, but i would be grateful for any more information on how to go about this. Regards, Chamandeep Singh

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Belkin f9k1001 router and hard setting IP addresses
by David Mehler 11 May '13

11 May '13

Hello, I've got this device it's running Belkin's latest firmware. I'm wanting to set up some static ranges, i've got some network devices that when they come up on the network i'd like for them always to get the same ip address and outside my dhcp pool. I have not found this feature, if anyone has this router please let me know. Thanks. Dave.

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Belkin f9k1001 router and hard setting IP addresses
by David Mehler 11 May '13

11 May '13

Hello, I've got this device it's running Belkin's latest firmware. I'm wanting to set up some static ranges, i've got some network devices that when they come up on the network i'd like for them always to get the same ip address and outside my dhcp pool. I have not found this feature, if anyone has this router please let me know. Thanks. Dave.

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Seagate Goflex home 3TB drive?
by David Mehler 10 May '13

10 May '13

Hello, Has anyone dealt with this drive? I'm trying to hook it up to my network and let the various computers on the network see it and put files on to it. Thus far it is not working and if anyone has this drive i'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks. Dave.

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Active Directory, Exchange and IOS
by Barry Toner 10 May '13

10 May '13

Hi folks, The above mix is great when it works, but a pain when one breaks down. I cant' seem to find a way for a user with an IOS device to get the prompt to change their AD password after a reset. I'll try and explain ina brief scenario. Customer rings Helpdesk, have forgotten their password. Helpdesk resets the password in AD, and enables the pfor the user to change it upon their enxt log-in. This is fine if the user is in front of their computer they log-on to the domain, as Windows will prompt them. However, if they're accessing their emails through Exchange and IOS and the above scenario take splace they wont' get this change password prompt. Therefore the Helpdesk will have tos et a permanent password. Not good. Has anyone came across this and if so found either a workaround or a solution, on have any theories on this? Thanks, Barry. Barry Toner ICT Assistant ICT Department Clanmil Housing Northern Whig House 3 Waring Street Belfast BT1 2DX Tel: 02890 876000 Fax: 02890 876001

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Active Directory, Exchange and IOS
by Barry Toner 10 May '13

10 May '13

Hi folks, The above mix is great when it works, but a pain when one breaks down. I cant' seem to find a way for a user with an IOS device to get the prompt to change their AD password after a reset. I'll try and explain ina brief scenario. Customer rings Helpdesk, have forgotten their password. Helpdesk resets the password in AD, and enables the pfor the user to change it upon their enxt log-in. This is fine if the user is in front of their computer they log-on to the domain, as Windows will prompt them. However, if they're accessing their emails through Exchange and IOS and the above scenario take splace they wont' get this change password prompt. Therefore the Helpdesk will have tos et a permanent password. Not good. Has anyone came across this and if so found either a workaround or a solution, on have any theories on this? Thanks, Barry. Barry Toner ICT Assistant ICT Department Clanmil Housing Northern Whig House 3 Waring Street Belfast BT1 2DX Tel: 02890 876000 Fax: 02890 876001

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Seagate Goflex home 3TB drive?
by David Mehler 10 May '13

10 May '13

Hello, Has anyone dealt with this drive? I'm trying to hook it up to my network and let the various computers on the network see it and put files on to it. Thus far it is not working and if anyone has this drive i'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks. Dave.

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Remote assistance
by Christian 05 May '13

05 May '13

Hi all, have just subscribed to this list and have done some searching, but just want to be sure that I am not missing anything here. I need to configure a Windows 7 based system remotely, but the person doesn't have JAWS or Window-Eyes, although he can install it. Are there any other alternative I should look into? I have read about Seroteks RIM, but are there any other solutions as of today? Many thanks for any info, Christian

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ram not right
by David Mehler 04 May '13

04 May '13

Hello Everyone, I've got a new machine and I maxed out it's ram. The board can take 32 GB of ram and that's what it has. It's running win7 professional 64 bit, (I checked Microsoft and that can take 192 GB of ram), and it's not showing ram right. In system information I'm seeing total physical ram 24 gb, a full 8 short, usable physical ram 16 GB, and available when I look is 14.7 GB. I don't think these numbers are right. The board is a gigabyte GA970-d3 rev 1.4. I believe it's dual channel. I took out the ram chips in pairs so instead of four the system had two, numbers were still not right, got 12 gb of total ram instead of 16. The ram is g.skill 1866 clockspeed I believe but in the bios that's only at 1333. I can't believe I've got four bad chips, or since this came in two separate orders one bad chip per order. I'm now wondering if it's a timing issue, if the ram can't clock down from 1866 to 1333 usually in my experience hardware can clock down one level but not two. I'm going to try a grml 64 USB disk when I return later today see what that shows, and I read it had a ram tester I'll give that a go. I'd appreciate any thoughts or suggestions. Thanks. Dave.

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ram not right
by David Mehler 02 May '13

02 May '13

Hello Everyone, I've got a new machine and I maxed out it's ram. The board can take 32 GB of ram and that's what it has. It's running win7 professional 64 bit, (I checked Microsoft and that can take 192 GB of ram), and it's not showing ram right. In system information I'm seeing total physical ram 24 gb, a full 8 short, usable physical ram 16 GB, and available when I look is 14.7 GB. I don't think these numbers are right. The board is a gigabyte GA970-d3 rev 1.4. I believe it's dual channel. I took out the ram chips in pairs so instead of four the system had two, numbers were still not right, got 12 gb of total ram instead of 16. The ram is g.skill 1866 clockspeed I believe but in the bios that's only at 1333. I can't believe I've got four bad chips, or since this came in two separate orders one bad chip per order. I'm now wondering if it's a timing issue, if the ram can't clock down from 1866 to 1333 usually in my experience hardware can clock down one level but not two. I'm going to try a grml 64 USB disk when I return later today see what that shows, and I read it had a ram tester I'll give that a go. I'd appreciate any thoughts or suggestions. Thanks. Dave.

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SCCM 2012 SP1
by Ryan Shugart 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

Hi: Who here has SP1 installed in their SCCM 2012 environments? Microsoft told me last month there were major accessibility improvements in this version, but its taken me a while to get a test environment up and going. Our production environment is still on 2007 for obvious reasons, so I had to start from scratch in a test domain. Anyway, I'm not seeing a huge improvement in 2012 SP1 and was wondering if it was just me? Some of the controls that were not labeled before are now properly labeled. The ribbon still doesn't work at all but Microsoft admitted that to me. Quite a few lists, such as the all systems list and the list of boundaries don't read at all now. However, I'm wondering if this is an issue introduced in Window-Eyes 8.2, as this works properly in Narrator. In fact, the only lists that don't read properly now in Narrator are lists with only one item in them. And, that's another thing Microsoft admitted still wasn't working. So, I'd like to hear from others, particular other screen reader users, as to their experience with this? I'm going to go to GWMicro and find out why this no longer works in 8.2 anyway, but if it works fine in other screen readers, that is more of a push to them to fix this. Again, the lists I've tested are the list of all systems under device collections, and the boundary list under hierarchy configuration. Thanks. Ryan

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Exchange 2010
by George Bell 28 Apr '13

28 Apr '13

Are any of you administering Exchange 2010 and had memory issues? Seems that store.exe goes off and grabs whatever memory it can. I'd be interested to know what solution (if any) you applied that actually worked. George.

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