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disabling SD Card access & optical Access
by Barry Toner 15 Nov '12

15 Nov '12

Hi folks, I'd love to be able to do this with a GPO, but these are for machines who won't be connecting to Active Directory. I've managed to disable USB Storage access by omitting everyone but Admins from usbstor.inf and usbstor.pnf. The laptop has an SD Card slot. Is there a way to disable this at a local level? I could log as Admin then delete the driver, but Plug n play would only re-install it again after a reboot? I'm waiting on confirmation from the Net Admin about disabling access to the DVD drawer as well. Basically these laptops are being used as a temporary device for presentations. The users log-in through their Citrix session and access their presentation files from their Network drive. Going forward we'll be using iPads. 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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disabling SD Card access & optical Access
by Barry Toner 15 Nov '12

15 Nov '12

Hi folks, I'd love to be able to do this with a GPO, but these are for machines who won't be connecting to Active Directory. I've managed to disable USB Storage access by omitting everyone but Admins from usbstor.inf and usbstor.pnf. The laptop has an SD Card slot. Is there a way to disable this at a local level? I could log as Admin then delete the driver, but Plug n play would only re-install it again after a reboot? I'm waiting on confirmation from the Net Admin about disabling access to the DVD drawer as well. Basically these laptops are being used as a temporary device for presentations. The users log-in through their Citrix session and access their presentation files from their Network drive. Going forward we'll be using iPads. 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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Telephony systems
by Andrew Hodgson 14 Nov '12

14 Nov '12

Hi all, Our current Call Manager 4.x servers are creaking under their age, and we are looking at replacing this either with a new Cisco telephony system or a completely new system altogether. The system has to use IP as the connection to the handsets, as we don't want to add in more cables. Has anyone any experience in deploying a new Call manager setup, or a similar telephony system, and how was the accessibility? Thanks. Andrew.

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Compressing pics
by Barry Toner 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

Hi folks, What tools are you using if you need to do this? I'm talking about compressing the pic to a lower resolution, not putting into a compressed archive. I've had a look at picasa3, but the menus aren't even reading. I need to be able to batch compress instead of using something like Paint to compress individually. 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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Compressing pics
by Barry Toner 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

Hi folks, What tools are you using if you need to do this? I'm talking about compressing the pic to a lower resolution, not putting into a compressed archive. I've had a look at picasa3, but the menus aren't even reading. I need to be able to batch compress instead of using something like Paint to compress individually. 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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FBI ransomware?
by David Mehler 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

Hello, Has anyone had unfortunate cause to deal with a system infected by the FBI ransomware? If so, how did you eraticate that outbreak? I've just started preliminary reading on this and I've not seen the machine so I don't know how this infection hit it. Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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FBI ransomware?
by David Mehler 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

Hello, Has anyone had unfortunate cause to deal with a system infected by the FBI ransomware? If so, how did you eraticate that outbreak? I've just started preliminary reading on this and I've not seen the machine so I don't know how this infection hit it. Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] NVDA as part of Windows unattended setup?
by Isaac 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

example of this would be put nvda in the run once section of the winnt.sif by calling %systemdrive%\nvda\nvda.exe or c:\nvda\nvda.exe and then placing an already installed copy of nvda on the drive by putting nvda in the following folder on the install disk $oem$\nvda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Isaac" <bigikemusic(a)gmail.com> To: "Blind sysadmins list" <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 3:54 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] NVDA as part of Windows unattended setup? > what about running an already installed nvda which would allow you to then > install nvda and other apps, and if you only wanted to install other apps > then when you delete the nvda folder from the users machine the nvda is > gone? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Mehler" <dave.mehler(a)gmail.com> > To: "Blind sysadmins list" <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> > Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 3:21 PM > Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] NVDA as part of Windows unattended setup? > > >> Hi, >> >> Right now for this install I'd like to do it for xp. The next one will >> be for 7 home premium in about a week. >> >> I think my issue right now is getting the install commandline, the >> --install while it is working pulls up a dialog i'd prefer it if it >> were totally silent. I'm trying this in winnt.sif under the gui run >> once section.. >> >> Thanks. >> Dave. >> >> >> On 11/7/12, Ben Mustill-Rose <ben(a)benmr.com> wrote: >>> Steps for XP and 7 are completely different unfortunately. >>> >>> On 11/7/12, Isaac <bigikemusic(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>> you should use the $oem$ structure and add nvda as a run once command >>>> in >>>> the >>>> >>>> winnt.sif file! >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "David Mehler" <dave.mehler(a)gmail.com> >>>> To: "Blind sysadmins list" <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> >>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 11:31 AM >>>> Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] NVDA as part of Windows unattended >>>> setup? >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hello, >>>>> >>>>> Thanks to everyone for your responses. While right now I am doing an >>>>> xp install, I want this to work with 7 as well. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks. >>>>> Dave. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 11/7/12, Ben Mustill-Rose <ben(a)benmr.com> wrote: >>>>>> I should have said that my instructions were xp based because I know >>>>>> that Dave is working on an xp unattended install sorry. >>>>>> >>>>>> On 11/7/12, Ben Mustill-Rose <ben(a)benmr.com> wrote: >>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Off the top of my head (Because I don't have time to double check >>>>>>> the >>>>>>> exact steps), research the $oem$ folder and the folders that you can >>>>>>> put inside them. Essentially, you could make setup copy NVDA to the >>>>>>> root of the installation drive or anyware else you wanted and have >>>>>>> it >>>>>>> start the first time, or every time you log in. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>>> Ben. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 11/7/12, Barry Toner <Barry.Toner(a)clanmil.org.uk> wrote: >>>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I know it can but not how. You can customise the installs to have >>>>>>>> passes to install any application automatically for you. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I'd also be interested in solutions or a howTo on this. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Regards, >>>>>>>> Barry. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>>>> From: Blind-sysadmins >>>>>>>> [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf >>>>>>>> Of >>>>>>>> David Mehler >>>>>>>> Sent: 07 November 2012 15:31 >>>>>>>> To: blind-sysadmins >>>>>>>> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] NVDA as part of Windows unattended >>>>>>>> setup? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hello, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> This might be a little off topic, but I was wondering if it was >>>>>>>> possible to install NVDA as part of a Windows unattended install? >>>>>>>> Ideally I'd like to have the desktop come up since I set my >>>>>>>> unattends >>>>>>>> to automatically log in at least once, and then either put in an >>>>>>>> external USB sound card or the local driver works. I'd like to pull >>>>>>>> up >>>>>>>> run and launch NVDA or do it with the keyboard shortcut, and have >>>>>>>> speech. Also, would like to get the sound volume jacked all the way >>>>>>>> up. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Can any of this be done in an unattended install? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thanks. >>>>>>>> Dave. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>> 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 >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Blind-sysadmins mailing list >> Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org >> http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins >> >

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NVDA as part of Windows unattended setup?
by David Mehler 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

Hello, This might be a little off topic, but I was wondering if it was possible to install NVDA as part of a Windows unattended install? Ideally I'd like to have the desktop come up since I set my unattends to automatically log in at least once, and then either put in an external USB sound card or the local driver works. I'd like to pull up run and launch NVDA or do it with the keyboard shortcut, and have speech. Also, would like to get the sound volume jacked all the way up. Can any of this be done in an unattended install? Thanks. Dave.

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Windows Server 2003 Admin Tools on Windows 7?
by Barry Toner 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

Hi folks, Can these be installed on Win7? I downloaded the msi, but am told it has known issues when I run it. I click to get solutions but no Microsoft site ever loads. 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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