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Windows Home Server
by Ryan Shugart 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

Hi: I'm thinking of purchasing a Windows Home Server machine, probably the HP Media Smart Server X470 or something similar. I was wondering if anyone else on the list has played with one of these machines and has any comments. I've heard the management tools can be made accessible but you have to go about it in an odd way and you have to use Window-Eyes to do it, which for me is fine. I think at its hart WHS is just Windows Server 2003 with some customized software preinstalled. The full PC backup interests me, and I've heard you can get some add-ons to integrate it with internet offsite backup. Any comments on this system? Anyone using one of these now? Ryan

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jfw with advanced active directory permissions, server 2003
by Dave 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

Hello, I'm trying to modify special permissions in active directory. I've got a user, added to a group, go to properties of the group, add in the user, go to the advanced button, uncheck the inherit permissions button then i tab to the list of permissions that one can set. All i hear is something like allow this object and all child objects repeated, arrowing down repeats the same information, visually i've been told that arrowing from item to item changes the display as the items are arrowed over. Some urgency! Thanks. Dave.

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible windows pre-execution environment
by Angelo Sonnesso 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

It is supposed to but I have my doubts. I will try it as soon as I can. Angelo Sonnesso M.A. M.S. Social Worker for the Blind -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:49 AM To: blind-sysadmins Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible windows pre-execution environment Hi, So does this include sound support? I thought the PE environment didn't work with sound - not because of the driver issues, but because some of the other components to provide the sound output are missing. That is what I read in some of the forums anyway last time I tried this. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Angelo Sonnesso [mailto:Angelo.Sonnesso@pcdss.com] Sent: 23 October 2008 15:41 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible windows pre-execution environment Importance: High Add NIC and Drive Controller support for virtually every piece of hardware under the sun to your BartPE CD, here's how: First, get the latest collection of drivers from the DriverPacks project.(http://www.driverpacks.net/DriverPacks/) Download the LAN DriverPack and unpack it into the Drivers\Net folder in your PEBuilder directory. Download the MassStorage Driverack and unpack it into the Drivers\SCSI folder in your PEBuilder directory. There are a few drivers that have .inf files with quirks that cause errors and warnings when building your disk. To fix the issues, find the folders that seem to have missing files buy browsing the error log. Most of the missing file errors can be corrected by making a copy of a file already in the driver directory and renaming it. (For example, there are numerous instances looking for bdco1ins.dll and the actual file is named bdco1.dll.) The remaining missing files are ide/atapi related and can be fixed by copying files from your windows\system32\drivers directory, or extracting them from cabs. Once completed, PEBuilder will automatically incorporate all of these drivers into your build, giving access to virtually all hardware in existence! Well I will let you know I will get to it this weekend. -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Shugart Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:03 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible windows pre-execution environment Hi: Does Bart PE use Windows PE as its core OS or is it really making a bootable Windows XP? If the latter then I don't see why you couldn't incorporate any sound driver that works with XP. I've heard rumors that someone managed to make a bootable Windows XP using Windows XP Embeded, a version of Windows XP used in set top boxes and the like, and managed to get full sound and speech working on that. I didn't learn anymore, and I have no clue how one gets their hands on Windows XP Embeded. I have MSDN and just don't see it listed there as available to download. I'd be very interested in such a talking bootable environment as well, a lot of tools are moving or have moved from dos boot disks to Windows PE boot disks. I've used GRML, and its certainly usable for what it does, but for a primarily Windows environment having Windows tools would be nice. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of White, Matt Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 7:45 AM To: blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible windows pre-execution environment Importance: High This is the approach that I thought would be most likely to work--just haven't had the time/inclination to make it happen. With some sort of USB sound integrated in, something like NVDA would probably work--at least that is my pipe dream. Matt On Thu, October 23, 2008 09:39, Angelo Sonnesso wrote: > You can add a driver directory to the Bart PE environment. > If I can find a USB headset. I will try to make an disk image. > > > Angelo Sonnesso M.A. M.S. > Social Worker for the Blind > > -----Original Message----- > From: blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org > [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of > Andrew Hodgson > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:19 AM > To: blind-sysadmins; dave.mehler > Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible windows pre-execution > environment > > Hi, > > I don't believe there exists such a thing as an accessible PE > environment, as I don't believe any sound is an option in such an environment. > > The only thing I would try is to get an accessible Speakup disk from > somewhere and boot off that, but you would be issuing commands in Linux. > > Someone a while back gave me a Windows 98 disk with NTFS support on > the disk (this was sort of not fully legit), but I did think if this > could work, and we could either get a dos screen reader or JFW > installed in that environment with software speech, it would be very > nice. However, it didn't come with any sound drivers enabled out of > the box, so it would have to be customised for the PC you were using it with. > > Andrew. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave [mailto:dave.mehler@gmail.com] > Sent: 23 October 2008 14:03 > To: 'Blind sysadmins list' > Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible windows pre-execution > environment > > Hello, > I'm trying to clean off a laptop that has been infected with a trojan. > It's > an xp machine, and the trojan has replaced the lsass.exe program along > with another .dll file in the windows\system32 directory. I was > wondering if anyone had either an accessible copy of WinPE or BartPE > environment or a way i could make it work with speech? Or, any other > alternatives, a reinstall is not an option for this situation. > Thanks. > Dave. > > > _______________________________________________ > Blind-sysadmins mailing list > Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org > http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins > > > -- > allpay.net Limited, Fortis et Fides, Whitestone Business Park, > Whitestone, Hereford, HR1 3SE. > Registered in England No. 02933191. UK VAT Reg. No. 666 9148 88. > > Telephone: 0870 243 3434, Fax: 0870 243 6041. > Website: www.allpay.net > Email: enquiries(a)allpay.net > > This email, and any files transmitted with it, is confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is > addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the > allpay.net Information Security Manager at the number above. > > _______________________________________________ > Blind-sysadmins mailing list > Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org > http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.549 / Virus Database: 270.8.2/1741 - Release Date: > 10/23/2008 > 7:54 AM > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.549 / Virus Database: 270.8.2/1741 - Release Date: > 10/23/2008 > 7:54 AM > > > _______________________________________________ > Blind-sysadmins mailing list > Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org > http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins > _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.549 / Virus Database: 270.8.2/1741 - Release Date: 10/23/2008 7:54 AM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.549 / Virus Database: 270.8.2/1741 - Release Date: 10/23/2008 7:54 AM _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins -- allpay.net Limited, Fortis et Fides, Whitestone Business Park, Whitestone, Hereford, HR1 3SE. Registered in England No. 02933191. UK VAT Reg. No. 666 9148 88. Telephone: 0870 243 3434, Fax: 0870 243 6041. Website: www.allpay.net Email: enquiries(a)allpay.net This email, and any files transmitted with it, is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the allpay.net Information Security Manager at the number above. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.549 / Virus Database: 270.8.4/1751 - Release Date: 10/27/2008 10:44 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.549 / Virus Database: 270.8.4/1751 - Release Date: 10/27/2008 10:44 PM

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2003 child domain
by Dave 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

Hello, I'm running server 2003 in a vmware environment. I've got two servers, one primary running dhcp, dns, wins, rras, etc. It is acting as the master for a test domain i'll call it example.com. I want now to add in a child domain called for example purposes child.example.com on the second server. I run dcpromo on the box and it completes successfully, yet i'm getting slowness when the two machines are talking to each other, they are on the same subnet. I'm not sure if i'm dealing with a replication or dns issue or something else. For example, i create a user on the second server then from an xp client try to log on as that user, selecting the child.example.com as the logon to. My issue is it takes about three minutes or longer to find the user and log on. In another example i've created a global group on the child domain, and am wanting to add it to the domain local on the primary so that those users can access shared folders, this is not working at all. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks. Dave.

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accessible windows pre-execution environment
by Dave 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

Hello, I'm trying to clean off a laptop that has been infected with a trojan. It's an xp machine, and the trojan has replaced the lsass.exe program along with another .dll file in the windows\system32 directory. I was wondering if anyone had either an accessible copy of WinPE or BartPE environment or a way i could make it work with speech? Or, any other alternatives, a reinstall is not an option for this situation. Thanks. Dave.

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible windows pre-execution environment
by Angelo Sonnesso 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

You can add a driver directory to the Bart PE environment. If I can find a USB headset. I will try to make an disk image. Angelo Sonnesso M.A. M.S. Social Worker for the Blind -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:19 AM To: blind-sysadmins; dave.mehler Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible windows pre-execution environment Hi, I don't believe there exists such a thing as an accessible PE environment, as I don't believe any sound is an option in such an environment. The only thing I would try is to get an accessible Speakup disk from somewhere and boot off that, but you would be issuing commands in Linux. Someone a while back gave me a Windows 98 disk with NTFS support on the disk (this was sort of not fully legit), but I did think if this could work, and we could either get a dos screen reader or JFW installed in that environment with software speech, it would be very nice. However, it didn't come with any sound drivers enabled out of the box, so it would have to be customised for the PC you were using it with. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Dave [mailto:dave.mehler@gmail.com] Sent: 23 October 2008 14:03 To: 'Blind sysadmins list' Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible windows pre-execution environment Hello, I'm trying to clean off a laptop that has been infected with a trojan. It's an xp machine, and the trojan has replaced the lsass.exe program along with another .dll file in the windows\system32 directory. I was wondering if anyone had either an accessible copy of WinPE or BartPE environment or a way i could make it work with speech? Or, any other alternatives, a reinstall is not an option for this situation. Thanks. Dave. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins -- allpay.net Limited, Fortis et Fides, Whitestone Business Park, Whitestone, Hereford, HR1 3SE. Registered in England No. 02933191. UK VAT Reg. No. 666 9148 88. Telephone: 0870 243 3434, Fax: 0870 243 6041. Website: www.allpay.net Email: enquiries(a)allpay.net This email, and any files transmitted with it, is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the allpay.net Information Security Manager at the number above. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.549 / Virus Database: 270.8.2/1741 - Release Date: 10/23/2008 7:54 AM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.549 / Virus Database: 270.8.2/1741 - Release Date: 10/23/2008 7:54 AM

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible windows pre-execution environment
by Angelo Sonnesso 23 Oct '08

23 Oct '08

Add NIC and Drive Controller support for virtually every piece of hardware under the sun to your BartPE CD, here's how: First, get the latest collection of drivers from the DriverPacks project.(http://www.driverpacks.net/DriverPacks/) Download the LAN DriverPack and unpack it into the Drivers\Net folder in your PEBuilder directory. Download the MassStorage Driverack and unpack it into the Drivers\SCSI folder in your PEBuilder directory. There are a few drivers that have .inf files with quirks that cause errors and warnings when building your disk. To fix the issues, find the folders that seem to have missing files buy browsing the error log. Most of the missing file errors can be corrected by making a copy of a file already in the driver directory and renaming it. (For example, there are numerous instances looking for bdco1ins.dll and the actual file is named bdco1.dll.) The remaining missing files are ide/atapi related and can be fixed by copying files from your windows\system32\drivers directory, or extracting them from cabs. Once completed, PEBuilder will automatically incorporate all of these drivers into your build, giving access to virtually all hardware in existence! Well I will let you know I will get to it this weekend. -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Shugart Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:03 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible windows pre-execution environment Hi: Does Bart PE use Windows PE as its core OS or is it really making a bootable Windows XP? If the latter then I don't see why you couldn't incorporate any sound driver that works with XP. I've heard rumors that someone managed to make a bootable Windows XP using Windows XP Embeded, a version of Windows XP used in set top boxes and the like, and managed to get full sound and speech working on that. I didn't learn anymore, and I have no clue how one gets their hands on Windows XP Embeded. I have MSDN and just don't see it listed there as available to download. I'd be very interested in such a talking bootable environment as well, a lot of tools are moving or have moved from dos boot disks to Windows PE boot disks. I've used GRML, and its certainly usable for what it does, but for a primarily Windows environment having Windows tools would be nice. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of White, Matt Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 7:45 AM To: blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible windows pre-execution environment Importance: High This is the approach that I thought would be most likely to work--just haven't had the time/inclination to make it happen. With some sort of USB sound integrated in, something like NVDA would probably work--at least that is my pipe dream. Matt On Thu, October 23, 2008 09:39, Angelo Sonnesso wrote: > You can add a driver directory to the Bart PE environment. > If I can find a USB headset. I will try to make an disk image. > > > Angelo Sonnesso M.A. M.S. > Social Worker for the Blind > > -----Original Message----- > From: blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org > [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of > Andrew Hodgson > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:19 AM > To: blind-sysadmins; dave.mehler > Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible windows pre-execution > environment > > Hi, > > I don't believe there exists such a thing as an accessible PE > environment, as I don't believe any sound is an option in such an environment. > > The only thing I would try is to get an accessible Speakup disk from > somewhere and boot off that, but you would be issuing commands in Linux. > > Someone a while back gave me a Windows 98 disk with NTFS support on > the disk (this was sort of not fully legit), but I did think if this > could work, and we could either get a dos screen reader or JFW > installed in that environment with software speech, it would be very > nice. However, it didn't come with any sound drivers enabled out of > the box, so it would have to be customised for the PC you were using it with. > > Andrew. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave [mailto:dave.mehler@gmail.com] > Sent: 23 October 2008 14:03 > To: 'Blind sysadmins list' > Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible windows pre-execution > environment > > Hello, > I'm trying to clean off a laptop that has been infected with a trojan. > It's > an xp machine, and the trojan has replaced the lsass.exe program along > with another .dll file in the windows\system32 directory. I was > wondering if anyone had either an accessible copy of WinPE or BartPE > environment or a way i could make it work with speech? Or, any other > alternatives, a reinstall is not an option for this situation. > Thanks. > Dave. > > > _______________________________________________ > Blind-sysadmins mailing list > Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org > http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins > > > -- > allpay.net Limited, Fortis et Fides, Whitestone Business Park, > Whitestone, Hereford, HR1 3SE. > Registered in England No. 02933191. UK VAT Reg. No. 666 9148 88. > > Telephone: 0870 243 3434, Fax: 0870 243 6041. > Website: www.allpay.net > Email: enquiries(a)allpay.net > > This email, and any files transmitted with it, is confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is > addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the > allpay.net Information Security Manager at the number above. > > _______________________________________________ > Blind-sysadmins mailing list > Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org > http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.549 / Virus Database: 270.8.2/1741 - Release Date: > 10/23/2008 > 7:54 AM > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.549 / Virus Database: 270.8.2/1741 - Release Date: > 10/23/2008 > 7:54 AM > > > _______________________________________________ > Blind-sysadmins mailing list > Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org > http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins > _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.549 / Virus Database: 270.8.2/1741 - Release Date: 10/23/2008 7:54 AM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.549 / Virus Database: 270.8.2/1741 - Release Date: 10/23/2008 7:54 AM

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Sales Force
by Bobo, Greg 21 Oct '08

21 Oct '08

Hello everyone, My company has moved to a CRM package called Sales force. Can anyone tell me about any real big pitfalls of using it with JAWS 9+? So far it seems to be behaving but I am trying to cover my bases. Thanks, Greg B. Greg L. Bobo Customer Service Matrix Systems, Inc. 7550 Paragon Rd. Dayton, OH 45459 937.438.9033 x2228 office 937.438.0900 fax www.matrixsys.com

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memory ram configuration?
by Ibraam Wahib 20 Oct '08

20 Oct '08

hello friends: please need a reason for this problem, i've an asus p4 533-x mother board, and 1.7 mhz intel celeron cpu. i got 2 ram sticks, each one 512MB, both of 2 ram, and its soquts are working. but when installing both rams, my pc not work, why? any help well be appreciated. ibraam

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active directory logon hours dialog accessibility
by Dave 14 Oct '08

14 Oct '08

Hello, Setting up new users in an active directory domain i want to give them specific amounts of hours they can log on. The issue is the logon matrix is not accessible, has anyone got a workaround with this issue? Thanks. Dave.

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