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System Center 2012
by Ryan Shugart 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

Hi all: I was wondering what other people on this list's plans were for rolling out various System Center 2012 products? The release date is getting ever closer, and there's a few features in SCCM 2012 in particular I'd be interested in taking advantage of, but so far I've not gotten the install to work accessibly even, so I have no way to set this up in a test lab. Has anyone else taken a look at this yet, and does anyone have any tips? When do you plan to start investigating an upgrade? Thanks. Ryan

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independent backup and restore of a windows system
by David Mehler 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

Hello, What's everyone use for independent backup of home windows boxes these days? Way way back I used ghost with a floppy and a batch file, but that option has gone away. I've got a new machine that I've customized and now I'd like to take an image of it preferably before something happens to it so that in the event of something unexpected in the future I can restore it. I'm looking for ease of use and quick recovery time. Thanks. Dave.

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independent backup and restore of a windows system
by David Mehler 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

Hello, What's everyone use for independent backup of home windows boxes these days? Way way back I used ghost with a floppy and a batch file, but that option has gone away. I've got a new machine that I've customized and now I'd like to take an image of it preferably before something happens to it so that in the event of something unexpected in the future I can restore it. I'm looking for ease of use and quick recovery time. Thanks. Dave.

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Best VNC Package?
by Ben Mustill-Rose 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Hi, Does anyone have a suggestion for a good VNC package to use that supports audio? There seem to be quite a few but the differences aren't really obvious just by reading about them. I need to be able to press things like control alt del to kill processes although if this isn't possible I can just do it via the command line instead. RDP is out of the question since it starts a new session when you remote in which isn't really what I want. Cheers for any pointers. Ben.

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Best VNC Package?
by Ben Mustill-Rose 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Hi, Does anyone have a suggestion for a good VNC package to use that supports audio? There seem to be quite a few but the differences aren't really obvious just by reading about them. I need to be able to press things like control alt del to kill processes although if this isn't possible I can just do it via the command line instead. RDP is out of the question since it starts a new session when you remote in which isn't really what I want. Cheers for any pointers. Ben.

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next Windows Xp accessible live environment for visually impaired system administrators and users
by Mgr. Janusz Chmiel 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Dear users and system administrators, Here is next awailable LIVe Pe based project, which have been developed by Mr Peter Schlang and others excelent members of Rebootpro community. Before You will use this project, take on mind The following necessary prerequisites. 1. Windows XP based live project can be created only, if You will execute The project from Windows XP. 2. ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver must be installed to run project successfully. 3. USB headsets must be used to have universal sound device awailable for all computers. 4. OEM XP sources extracted from I386 folder of OEM preinstalled computer will not work with this project. Resulted .iso will not work correctly. Project positives. This project is supporting NVDA as a portable or allready installed NVDA. You can use Driverimport PE from Kario technologies fo import sound drivers, i have noticed, that even PCI Sound blaster 16 can be theoretically used, but it is not easy to switch between USB headsets and this kind of devices. But it it possible. Multipe project is supporting virtualisation sound and other devices support. So You can run resulted .iso image from Virtualisation solutions. Even from Linux live systems, which will include virtualisation solution, if You will have enough free RAM awailable. But You will not be able to access shared folders by using Vmware ETC, but You can try this project also from running Linux live system with virtualisation solution. Project is including Windows service application, which is even able to import list of system services of The remote XP host and theoretically, those services could be executed successfully. But i do not know, how to understand this program to run The services from offline host operating system. Latest awailable project, which is according to my opinion not working can be downloaded from here. http://multipe.winbuilder.net/Complete/multiPE_23.zip Because The ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver must be installed before You can use this project successfully, The direct download link for The newest available installer of this utility is here. http://www.ltr-data.se/files/imdiskinst.exe When You will extract The .zip archive, You will be able to run winbuilder.exe. You will notice, that ammazing Mr Peter Schlang given visually impaired users The chance to press special button to prepare The project so NVDA would be theoretically incorporated to The resulted .iso image with all necessary setup steps and with integration of necessary components. But i can not say, that it is working. If somebody will have The success with this button, let Me know. For compare, here is direct download link to The multipe project version, which is able to integrate NVDA successfully. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15279728/multiPE_12.zip This version is able to work correctly, if You will find The Accessibility and my NVDA script, You must switch The radio button, which will specifi, if NVDA will be integrated from The running host or from The portable path. So if portable NVDA will be integrated, specifi portable NVDA from path by set The radio button to this position. USB headsets will work by default, The script is integrated and driver will be automatically incorporated to The resulted .iso image. -- Mgr. Janusz Chmiel

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windows update cache
by David Mehler 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Hello, Does anyone know where windows stores it's updates and cache files on both xp and vista/7 machines? I just did a fresh install of a machine, it runs xp and windows update gave me ie8, didn't ask just did, which i uninstalled because it slows this machine down to a crawl, but now I have 2 gb of stuff that I want to get rid of before I image the thing. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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windows update cache
by David Mehler 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Hello, Does anyone know where windows stores it's updates and cache files on both xp and vista/7 machines? I just did a fresh install of a machine, it runs xp and windows update gave me ie8, didn't ask just did, which i uninstalled because it slows this machine down to a crawl, but now I have 2 gb of stuff that I want to get rid of before I image the thing. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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linksys inaccessibility
by David Mehler 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

Hello, It's obviously been a while since I went to cisco/linksys's page, because in my opinion it's accessibility has gone down. I was trying to find drivers for a linksys wpc54g version3 pc card for xp, and got nowhere with it. If there's some techniques for doing this or if anyone has these drivers I'd appreciate knowing about it. Thanks. Dave.

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linksys inaccessibility
by David Mehler 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

Hello, It's obviously been a while since I went to cisco/linksys's page, because in my opinion it's accessibility has gone down. I was trying to find drivers for a linksys wpc54g version3 pc card for xp, and got nowhere with it. If there's some techniques for doing this or if anyone has these drivers I'd appreciate knowing about it. Thanks. Dave.

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anyone have any contacts at yahoogroups?
by David Mehler 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '12

Hello, Long shot, but thought I'd ask. I'm getting email from a yahoo group that I didn't subscribe to. First, I thought this was not possible, I thought everyone was on the you had to confirm you wanted a subscription plan. I've checked the full headers of the message and it's not coming in on a mailing list. I have atempted unsubscription and checked out this group on yahoogroups it's like something citizens for global warming, but I got resubscribed. As far as I'm concerned once can be an accident, twice is not, I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions on what to do? Thanks. Dave.

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anyone have any contacts at yahoogroups?
by David Mehler 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Hello, Long shot, but thought I'd ask. I'm getting email from a yahoo group that I didn't subscribe to. First, I thought this was not possible, I thought everyone was on the you had to confirm you wanted a subscription plan. I've checked the full headers of the message and it's not coming in on a mailing list. I have atempted unsubscription and checked out this group on yahoogroups it's like something citizens for global warming, but I got resubscribed. As far as I'm concerned once can be an accident, twice is not, I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions on what to do? Thanks. Dave.

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rescue cd
by Ibraam Wahib 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

hello friends do you tried this rescue CD? http://www.sysresccd.org/ another question please, which one of these support audio driver win-pe or bart-pe. thanks for your help ibraam

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Windows Recovery Environment (Win 7), keystroke solution
by Barry Toner 14 Jan '12

14 Jan '12

Hi folks, I posted the other day, that my machine kept booting up in the WRE. Really because of a few improper shutdowns. I thought that it's UI was like the Boot menu with F8. i.e. 1, then return would boot in normal mode. I've since got some eyes on the case and to boot in normal mode if you get yourself stuck in the WRE, it's down cursor once, then return. No numbering at all. By default it's sat on launch repair or somesuch. Which presumably brings up further windows. I thought I'd pass this along, as there was no responses and this might help out folks in future. Regards, Barry.

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Windows Recovery Environment (Win 7), keystroke solution
by Barry Toner 14 Jan '12

14 Jan '12

Hi folks, I posted the other day, that my machine kept booting up in the WRE. Really because of a few improper shutdowns. I thought that it's UI was like the Boot menu with F8. i.e. 1, then return would boot in normal mode. I've since got some eyes on the case and to boot in normal mode if you get yourself stuck in the WRE, it's down cursor once, then return. No numbering at all. By default it's sat on launch repair or somesuch. Which presumably brings up further windows. I thought I'd pass this along, as there was no responses and this might help out folks in future. Regards, Barry.

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Windows 7/Image For Windows/Viruses
by Barry Toner 12 Jan '12

12 Jan '12

Hi folks, i'm embarrassed to say but I've just gotten a virus that's taken out my Desktop Windows 7 machine down. Had all updates installed, and was running Eset Smart Security, www.eset.com I said on Twitter today that I noticed TCp/IP ping requests triggering my Firewall. I denied these access, then all of a sudden a mysterious setup.exe was trying to communicate witha remote computer. I denied this access as well then became concerned. So i then ran an in-depth scan of the local disk. It found two viruses, but could not clean them. I then rebooted my computer and it gets to the User Account log-in screen, freezes half-way throughthe startup chime, then reboots. This then just loops. Thankfully I have the machine imaged from about 2 months back, all media etc is on external drives and documents are backed up on external drives and Dropbox. It's more about getting a working system back up and running now as I had servers configured etc on this Windows install. I have two images on external drives that I created using Image For Windows by Terabyte, but how do I restore these without sighted help? And even then with sighted help if it becomes necessary? Is there a boot disk for Image For Windows so I can get in and select the image files to restore, and if so how to I get this? i still have my seriel etc in a file on DropboxI need as close to step by step as you can manage. i will then take this information, collate it and create a document ont he blindsys admins web site. As we really need to have this sortive of thing documented. ,smiles> for Image For Windows. Regards, Barry.

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wiki.iavit.org
by John G. Heim 10 Jan '12

10 Jan '12

The wiki at wiki.iavit.org is finally up and running. I wrote an entry on installing Windows 7 via the Windows Automatic Installation Kit. I'd be interested in feedback. http://wiki.iavit.org/index.php/Installing_Windows_7

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Windows Recovery Environment (Win 7)
by Barry Toner 10 Jan '12

10 Jan '12

Hi folks, My laptops booting in to the WRE, but I suspect alls fine. A few in-proper shutdowns probably caused it. I've verified it's in WRE with the iPhone App VIZWIZ. Any keystrokes to get it booting normally? Can I tap for example f8 when booting & have some clue whent he startup menu pops up? With 1 being start normally, so hit 1, then return? I'll not have any eyes on this for a few days so if I can get it sorted before hand that would be great. Regards, barry.

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Windows Recovery Environment (Win 7)
by Barry Toner 10 Jan '12

10 Jan '12

Hi folks, My laptops booting in to the WRE, but I suspect alls fine. A few in-proper shutdowns probably caused it. I've verified it's in WRE with the iPhone App VIZWIZ. Any keystrokes to get it booting normally? Can I tap for example f8 when booting & have some clue whent he startup menu pops up? With 1 being start normally, so hit 1, then return? I'll not have any eyes on this for a few days so if I can get it sorted before hand that would be great. Regards, barry.

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Access with Microsoft SCCM
by Barry Toner 07 Jan '12

07 Jan '12

Hi folks, No, not the Microsoft Database, cauf, cauf, the adaptive type... Are any of you currently using SCCM with any Screen Reader? if so how are you finding it? i used it's predecessor, SMS with JAWS. Some containers in the msc didn't read great. At least with 2003. Some folks in the company I worked for found a VB solution and I was able to access all controls that I needed for basic admin via the browser. Pushing software, checking add/remove inventory, system specs, other functions I can't recall. I may have a leed for the company I worked for and wondered if at least with this piece of technology it might be a goer. Thoughts? Regards, Barry.

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Access with Microsoft SCCM
by Barry Toner 07 Jan '12

07 Jan '12

Hi folks, No, not the Microsoft Database, cauf, cauf, the adaptive type... Are any of you currently using SCCM with any Screen Reader? if so how are you finding it? i used it's predecessor, SMS with JAWS. Some containers in the msc didn't read great. At least with 2003. Some folks in the company I worked for found a VB solution and I was able to access all controls that I needed for basic admin via the browser. Pushing software, checking add/remove inventory, system specs, other functions I can't recall. I may have a leed for the company I worked for and wondered if at least with this piece of technology it might be a goer. Thoughts? Regards, Barry.

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Windows 7/Image For Windows/Viruses
by George Bell 23 Dec '11

23 Dec '11

Hi Barry, Did you contact ESET? They are very proud of their record for stamping on such things, and may well have something in the pipeline not yet released. If not, they'd certainly want to know about this. George. -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Barry Toner Sent: 22 December 2011 23:52 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Windows 7/Image For Windows/Viruses Hi folks, i'm embarrassed to say but I've just gotten a virus that's taken out my Desktop Windows 7 machine down. Had all updates installed, and was running Eset Smart Security, www.eset.com I said on Twitter today that I noticed TCp/IP ping requests triggering my Firewall. I denied these access, then all of a sudden a mysterious setup.exe was trying to communicate witha remote computer. I denied this access as well then became concerned. So i then ran an in-depth scan of the local disk. It found two viruses, but could not clean them. I then rebooted my computer and it gets to the User Account log-in screen, freezes half-way throughthe startup chime, then reboots. This then just loops. Thankfully I have the machine imaged from about 2 months back, all media etc is on external drives and documents are backed up on external drives and Dropbox. It's more about getting a working system back up and running now as I had servers configured etc on this Windows install. I have two images on external drives that I created using Image For Windows by Terabyte, but how do I restore these without sighted help? And even then with sighted help if it becomes necessary? Is there a boot disk for Image For Windows so I can get in and select the image files to restore, and if so how to I get this? i still have my seriel etc in a file on DropboxI need as close to step by step as you can manage. i will then take this information, collate it and create a document ont he blindsys admins web site. As we really need to have this sortive of thing documented. ,smiles> for Image For Windows. Regards, Barry. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Windows 7/Image For Windows/Viruses
by George Bell 23 Dec '11

23 Dec '11

Hi Barry, Did you contact ESET? They are very proud of their record for stamping on such things, and may well have something in the pipeline not yet released. If not, they'd certainly want to know about this. George. -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Barry Toner Sent: 22 December 2011 23:52 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Windows 7/Image For Windows/Viruses Hi folks, i'm embarrassed to say but I've just gotten a virus that's taken out my Desktop Windows 7 machine down. Had all updates installed, and was running Eset Smart Security, www.eset.com I said on Twitter today that I noticed TCp/IP ping requests triggering my Firewall. I denied these access, then all of a sudden a mysterious setup.exe was trying to communicate witha remote computer. I denied this access as well then became concerned. So i then ran an in-depth scan of the local disk. It found two viruses, but could not clean them. I then rebooted my computer and it gets to the User Account log-in screen, freezes half-way throughthe startup chime, then reboots. This then just loops. Thankfully I have the machine imaged from about 2 months back, all media etc is on external drives and documents are backed up on external drives and Dropbox. It's more about getting a working system back up and running now as I had servers configured etc on this Windows install. I have two images on external drives that I created using Image For Windows by Terabyte, but how do I restore these without sighted help? And even then with sighted help if it becomes necessary? Is there a boot disk for Image For Windows so I can get in and select the image files to restore, and if so how to I get this? i still have my seriel etc in a file on DropboxI need as close to step by step as you can manage. i will then take this information, collate it and create a document ont he blindsys admins web site. As we really need to have this sortive of thing documented. ,smiles> for Image For Windows. Regards, Barry. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins

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Windows 7/Image For Windows/Viruses
by Barry Toner 22 Dec '11

22 Dec '11

Hi folks, i'm embarrassed to say but I've just gotten a virus that's taken out my Desktop Windows 7 machine down. Had all updates installed, and was running Eset Smart Security, www.eset.com I said on Twitter today that I noticed TCp/IP ping requests triggering my Firewall. I denied these access, then all of a sudden a mysterious setup.exe was trying to communicate witha remote computer. I denied this access as well then became concerned. So i then ran an in-depth scan of the local disk. It found two viruses, but could not clean them. I then rebooted my computer and it gets to the User Account log-in screen, freezes half-way throughthe startup chime, then reboots. This then just loops. Thankfully I have the machine imaged from about 2 months back, all media etc is on external drives and documents are backed up on external drives and Dropbox. It's more about getting a working system back up and running now as I had servers configured etc on this Windows install. I have two images on external drives that I created using Image For Windows by Terabyte, but how do I restore these without sighted help? And even then with sighted help if it becomes necessary? Is there a boot disk for Image For Windows so I can get in and select the image files to restore, and if so how to I get this? i still have my seriel etc in a file on DropboxI need as close to step by step as you can manage. i will then take this information, collate it and create a document ont he blindsys admins web site. As we really need to have this sortive of thing documented. ,smiles> for Image For Windows. Regards, Barry.

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let's talk Backup Exec
by Ryan Shugart 21 Dec '11

21 Dec '11

Hey everyone: I just got a promotion at work, and with the goodness of a promotion comes more responsibilities. I'm now in charge of our backup infrastructure. We run Backup Exec 12.5, and have 16 or so media servers in various branch offices around the world. While Backup Exec used to be very accessible, over the last two versions accessibility seems to have gone into something of a decline, I already use scripts just to read the main table of jobs, and might need more just to get around the scheduling window so I can actually schedule a job. I'd consider the rest of the program accessible but clunky, tabbing doesn't always bring you where you think it will, on some screens tab order seems to be dynamic. Backup Exec also has an odd way of bringing up alert windows and grabbing your focus, even when you tell it specifically not to. While clunkyness is OK on one server, when you have fifteen individual servers to manage and no way to do it in a centralized fashion clunkyness is less acceptable. This is also less than a quarter of my new responsibilities as well. The current admin has the remote desktop console setup with all the Backup Exec servers in his favorites, stays logged into each server with a Backup Exec window open, and flicks from screen to screen and can easily glance at the output from each job. For us screen reader users, that doesn't work well. I've already got e-mail alerts set up and am using some Outlook rules to sort failure jobs out from successes, but was wondering if there's anything else I can be doing? I'd think people in really large environments with hundreds of media servers aren't logging into each server on a daily basis, so there has to be better ways to handle this. Any ideas? Thanks. Ryan

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