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MDM
by Barry Toner 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

Hi folks, I've been asked to lead our MDM in work. I've looked at two systems, Airwatch and Meraki. After testing both systems I've opted for Meraki. A Because it's free for a MDM Systems management and B because it's much more simple to implament. I've some questions I'd like to bounce around regarding Profiles, Tags, and Apple ID's and would love to speak to anyone who's designed an MDM. I've my questions written down and can post to the list or am happy to speak to people offline. Any takers? 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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Remoting into Citrix Thin Clients Desktops
by Barry Toner 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

Folks, I know we've been here before but I can't' remember without trowling through archives and having been in here now 3 months I'm allot more clued in on our infrastructure. if there was a solution offered. Is it possible using JFW and it's Remote licence to take control of a users Desktop through the above setup? This isn't for Admin tasks as I believe I can use the console. If this is possible what would be the setup? I'm not asking for a complete hand-holding just a couple of bullet points, you need this on that, and that on the other. How about if we have a couple of hops between the Server Citrix is installed on to the thin clients? I presume this would hamper if not block use with a Screen Reader? Finally, is JFW's Remote lience designed to be used by an admin, is is it meant for an end-user who has to use a thin client as part of their job? Thanks, Barry. 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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A course for those interested in Linux Server Administration
by Darren Brewer 28 Jan '13

28 Jan '13

Hi list This is sort of off topic, but I know there are Linux users on here who might be interested in honing their skills and taking one of the courses which are due to commence in February at the Cavi institute. It doesn't matter where in the world you live as everything can be done over the internet. The name of the course is: Intro to Linux Server Administration, a course that covers command line Ubuntu basics and server administration There is also an advanced course for those who are not complete beginners. As I know very little myself I thought it would be interesting to take this course and because it is completely aimed at people with visual impairments, there is no problem with accessing material and labs etc. The website states that the courses are $500 per semester, but after contacting them it appears that if you are paying for yourself then it's only $150 which seems exceptionally good value for a completely accessible course. Apparently the intake for the Linux courses are a little low this year and so I thought I'd bring it to the attention of those on the list who might be interested. Main website is: http://www.cavitraining.com/ Here you can find out more detailed information about the course and download a brochure and application form. Darren.

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hardware detection win7
by David Mehler 25 Jan '13

25 Jan '13

Hello, I've got a win7 box that is not showing everything hardware wise. This machines experience index I believe it is is showing 4 out of 8 cores and 24 out of 32 gigabytes of ram. It's had all the windows updates. I am wondering if I have a hardware/motherboard issue? Thanks. Dave.

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hardware detection win7
by David Mehler 25 Jan '13

25 Jan '13

Hello, I've got a win7 box that is not showing everything hardware wise. This machines experience index I believe it is is showing 4 out of 8 cores and 24 out of 32 gigabytes of ram. It's had all the windows updates. I am wondering if I have a hardware/motherboard issue? Thanks. Dave.

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IOS/Exchange/Calendar syncing
by Barry Toner 24 Jan '13

24 Jan '13

Hi folks, I'm scratching my head over this one. I'm heading our Mobile Device Management in work. I've been using a great MDM solution, http://www.meraki.com Everything's working great, accept an engineer's just come to me because their calendar isn't synchronising. I've checked under settings/mail, calendar, contacts, it's turned on. I've checked under the calendar app and selected the Exchange server. Their mail and contacts are coming over fine. I don't' have anything configured under their MDM profile through Meraki to restrict this. On my personal iPhone I've the ability to select what calendar I want to use under settings/mail, contacts, calendar, but I suspect this is because I've two mailboxes set up? I don't expect this to be related to the profile because the Exchange settings were entered manually, and after the profile was loaded. Anyone got a suggestion? 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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IOS/Exchange/Calendar syncing
by Barry Toner 24 Jan '13

24 Jan '13

Hi folks, I'm scratching my head over this one. I'm heading our Mobile Device Management in work. I've been using a great MDM solution, http://www.meraki.com Everything's working great, accept an engineer's just come to me because their calendar isn't synchronising. I've checked under settings/mail, calendar, contacts, it's turned on. I've checked under the calendar app and selected the Exchange server. Their mail and contacts are coming over fine. I don't' have anything configured under their MDM profile through Meraki to restrict this. On my personal iPhone I've the ability to select what calendar I want to use under settings/mail, contacts, calendar, but I suspect this is because I've two mailboxes set up? I don't expect this to be related to the profile because the Exchange settings were entered manually, and after the profile was loaded. Anyone got a suggestion? 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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32 and 64 bit xp/7, multi-boot or vm?
by David Mehler 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

Hello, This is going to be quite interesting to try to explain. I've got a friend who had an older box, still good, it was a 32 bit athlon64 machine. It ran xp something I can't remember which was left on it and as I said the sata drive is good. He got a new box, also sata, this one a 64 bit also an AMD processor, this one a multi-core. This one is running 7 home premium. He wants to have both systems available. I reconnected the old sata drive and that's browsable so he can get to his old files, but he was wanting to try something else. I don't think doing this next would make the old drive stable, but if I set up a multiboot configuration, which I haven't done since the 98 dys, where he gets a boot manager and selects which OS he wants, would it be possible to put in the needed 64 bit drivers for chipset, motherboard, video, audio, networking, basically so the new drive would operate on the new hardware, and make it stable? My gut says no this is not doable. Failing that, can I somehow get this drive to run in a vm like vmware server? Thanks. Dave.

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32 and 64 bit xp/7, multi-boot or vm?
by David Mehler 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

Hello, This is going to be quite interesting to try to explain. I've got a friend who had an older box, still good, it was a 32 bit athlon64 machine. It ran xp something I can't remember which was left on it and as I said the sata drive is good. He got a new box, also sata, this one a 64 bit also an AMD processor, this one a multi-core. This one is running 7 home premium. He wants to have both systems available. I reconnected the old sata drive and that's browsable so he can get to his old files, but he was wanting to try something else. I don't think doing this next would make the old drive stable, but if I set up a multiboot configuration, which I haven't done since the 98 dys, where he gets a boot manager and selects which OS he wants, would it be possible to put in the needed 64 bit drivers for chipset, motherboard, video, audio, networking, basically so the new drive would operate on the new hardware, and make it stable? My gut says no this is not doable. Failing that, can I somehow get this drive to run in a vm like vmware server? Thanks. Dave.

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securing a standalone xp machine
by David Mehler 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

Hello, I'm needing to secure as much as possible a standalone xp pro machine. First of all, currently it auto logs in as administrator, which I need to change. I need to give the admin a password. Would that be: net user administrator * and enter a password twice? If that admin user then logs out they're presented with a list of accounts on the box. One of them, while he was logged on as administrator, gave his account admin rights. This was bad enough, but he then proceeded to trash the box, it's performance frankly is abysmal right now. The first thing I need to do is clean said box, it needs both a software cleaning as well as an open the box and clean it out inside. Next, I'd like to prevent this from happening again, securing the admin account is the first step, having everyone else change their passwords is second, downgrading this user from admin in local users and groups is third. Which group do you recommend I place this user in? I want to limit his ability to do much to this box. Finally, and I don't know if this is doable, I'd like to lock just that user down with a GPO. For example, I don't want him to be able to even see certain icons in control panel, or on the desktop and I'd really like to put him in a box. I only want this to effect this one user, not the others, is this doable? I do not think it is but I'd love to be proven wrong. Thanks. Dave.

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