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windows and virtual environments
by Kelly Prescott 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

I have read threads on this from time to time. Here is my situation: I may soon be in a work situation where I need to setup windows 2012R2 from the ground up. This will be on a VmWare server. I have successfully installed windows server in a vmware workstation environment. Sound with workstation works because I am on the same physical machine and I get speech in the PE disk. How do you or can you get speech durring a install when the install is on a VmWare server? If you can't get speech, how can you use the system? For a bonus, Later I will be asked to setup windows server images in the ec2 cloud. I use the Linux systems there just fine, but can those systems be used? Also, I have a Xen server as well I can use if that works better. I use Xen with multiple types of Unixhish systems and have work arounds to access those systems. If anyone has any experience at all, I would appreciate it. I suspect I will have to do a lot of customizing for this to even work at all. Thanks in advance for any thoughts. -- Kelly Prescott

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server tools
by Marvin Hunkin 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

Hi. Does any one know of any resource, for system admin tools. Just curious, what people are using. Thanks. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Digital Ocean control panel issue?
by Chris Turner 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

Hi list. Anyone else had trouble with the DO panel, using JFW? Specifically, Using JFW16 and IE 11. I'm trying to create a monitoring policy. I've filled out all the form fields but the create button at the bottom is still grey'd out. I then tried the same thing in Google Chrome but Chrome doesn't seem to present the whole webpage to JAWS> All I get is a button to view a tutorial on one of Digital Ocean's other other features. Nothing appears in JFW's link list. Wonder what's going on. Thanks. Chris Turner --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Migrate from Office365 to Outlook.com
by Andrew Hodgson 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

Hi, For those of us who use Office365 as Exchange accounts for personal use, you may like to know that outlook.com is now powered by Exchange Online and has the same features as Office365. You need to subscribe to Outlook Premium and pay a domain adding fee yearly to get this, but that gives you 5 email addresses. For those of us with 5 Office365 subscriptions that is quite a saving. I haven't done the migration as I pay annually for my subscription, and still may continue with it at the moment. From what I have read there is downtime as you need to delete your domain from the Office365 control panel and then add it into Outlook to make sure everything migrates across, there is apparently a nasty situation if you cancel the account without doing this where your domain is in limbo for 90 days in the database. That gives you an outlook.com and a domain email, you can then invite 4 more outlook.com members to sign up for your domain, giving you 5 addresses in total. If I don't do anything else I will be migrating to the Office365 personal next year instead of paying for the Office software as part of the subscription as it works out cheaper and gives you 1GB of OneDrive space per account which is actually quite useful as other apps use OneDrive personal and can't access OneDrive Business. Just thought it would be interesting for people. Let me know if you do it, Andrew.

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Migrate from Office365 to Outlook.com
by Andrew Hodgson 02 Oct '17

02 Oct '17

Hi, For those of us who use Office365 as Exchange accounts for personal use, you may like to know that outlook.com is now powered by Exchange Online and has the same features as Office365. You need to subscribe to Outlook Premium and pay a domain adding fee yearly to get this, but that gives you 5 email addresses. For those of us with 5 Office365 subscriptions that is quite a saving. I haven't done the migration as I pay annually for my subscription, and still may continue with it at the moment. From what I have read there is downtime as you need to delete your domain from the Office365 control panel and then add it into Outlook to make sure everything migrates across, there is apparently a nasty situation if you cancel the account without doing this where your domain is in limbo for 90 days in the database. That gives you an outlook.com and a domain email, you can then invite 4 more outlook.com members to sign up for your domain, giving you 5 addresses in total. If I don't do anything else I will be migrating to the Office365 personal next year instead of paying for the Office software as part of the subscription as it works out cheaper and gives you 1GB of OneDrive space per account which is actually quite useful as other apps use OneDrive personal and can't access OneDrive Business. Just thought it would be interesting for people. Let me know if you do it, Andrew.

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portable power
by David Mehler 30 Sep '17

30 Sep '17

Hello, I'm in the market for portable power. I am looking for recommendations for products that people have bought, used, and liked, and why you like them. The first is a portable power bank. My goal is portability, but the biggest battery I can find. I've read about several, I don't mind if it looks like a brick, if it can go in a laptop bag it can go with me, but it's got to have a big battery, be able to handle multiple devices if needed, and would be nice if it would support quick charge/fast charge. The second item I'm looking for is a wireless fast charging pad. I've seen a few of them, ones by Choetech but they don't have the charger with them and some of them are not even fast charging, they're just wireless. Any recommendations appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Ubuntu 17.04 installation with speech
by Eigeldinger Simon 21 Sep '17

21 Sep '17

Maybe they have removed those? Mit freundlichen Grüßen Simon Eigeldinger Informatik Nebengebäude 1, OG1 ------------------------- Stadt Hohenems Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Straße 4 6845 Hohenems Österreich Tel.: +43 5576 7101-1143 Fax: +43 5576 7101-1149 E-Mail: simon.eigeldinger(a)hohenems.at Web: www.hohenems.at Diese Nachricht und allfällige angehängte Dokumente sind vertraulich und nur für den/die Adressaten bestimmt. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] Im Auftrag von Chris T via Blind-sysadmins Gesendet: Mittwoch, 20. September 2017 20:28 An: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Cc: Chris T <ultimatethesecond(a)googlemail.com> Betreff: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Ubuntu 17.04 installation with speech I tried this last night as well. But I didn't get the drums sound. Will have another go later. Cheers Chris Turner Sent from mobile. > On 20 Sep 2017, at 06:20, Eigeldinger Simon <simon.eigeldinger(a)hohenems.at> wrote: > > > Hi Dave, > > super+alt+s is the gnome shortcut. > Unity uses ctrl+s as far as i know. > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen > > Simon Eigeldinger > Informatik > Nebengebäude 1, OG1 > ------------------------- > Stadt Hohenems > Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Straße 4 > 6845 Hohenems > Österreich > Tel.: +43 5576 7101-1143 > Fax: +43 5576 7101-1149 > E-Mail: simon.eigeldinger(a)hohenems.at > Web: www.hohenems.at > > Diese Nachricht und allfällige angehängte Dokumente sind vertraulich und nur für den/die Adressaten bestimmt. > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] Im Auftrag von David Mehler > Gesendet: Dienstag, 19. September 2017 20:01 > An: blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> > Betreff: [Blind-sysadmins] Ubuntu 17.04 installation with speech > > Hello, > > Has anything changed in the latest Ubuntu 17.04 that effects speech? > > I'm trying to get Ubuntu 17.04 64 bit going in a virtual machine > workstation11 vm on my windows 10 host. Prior to this with 14.04 and > 16.04 I waited until the drum prompt then did alt+super+s which got me speech. > > In 17.04 I do hear the drum prompt which I love by the way, and I do the alt+super+s and nothing no speech. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks. > Dave. > > _______________________________________________ > Blind-sysadmins mailing list > Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org > https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins > > _______________________________________________ > Blind-sysadmins mailing list > Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org > https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Ubuntu 17.04 installation with speech
by Eigeldinger Simon 20 Sep '17

20 Sep '17

Hi Dave, super+alt+s is the gnome shortcut. Unity uses ctrl+s as far as i know. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Simon Eigeldinger Informatik Nebengebäude 1, OG1 ------------------------- Stadt Hohenems Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Straße 4 6845 Hohenems Österreich Tel.: +43 5576 7101-1143 Fax: +43 5576 7101-1149 E-Mail: simon.eigeldinger(a)hohenems.at Web: www.hohenems.at Diese Nachricht und allfällige angehängte Dokumente sind vertraulich und nur für den/die Adressaten bestimmt. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] Im Auftrag von David Mehler Gesendet: Dienstag, 19. September 2017 20:01 An: blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Betreff: [Blind-sysadmins] Ubuntu 17.04 installation with speech Hello, Has anything changed in the latest Ubuntu 17.04 that effects speech? I'm trying to get Ubuntu 17.04 64 bit going in a virtual machine workstation11 vm on my windows 10 host. Prior to this with 14.04 and 16.04 I waited until the drum prompt then did alt+super+s which got me speech. In 17.04 I do hear the drum prompt which I love by the way, and I do the alt+super+s and nothing no speech. Any ideas? Thanks. Dave. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins

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Automatically installing and accessing Windows Server 2016 in a non-domain environment?
by Jared Stofflett 20 Sep '17

20 Sep '17

Does anyone have examples of automatically installing Windows Server 2016 in such a way that it is possible to use the server with screen reading software after the install is complete? At the least after the install is complete I'd like to be able to get a remote powershell session in that I could then hopefully use to install screen reading software. Unfortunately my personal machine is in a domain, but the VM I would use to install Windows Server would not be joined to a domain. My understanding is this makes getting remote access much more complicated since you can't just enter a password to get a remote powershell session like you can with SSH. Any advice on this would be appreciated. Note I'm using Hyperv as the hypervisor, and don't care what screen reader I can use to access the server.

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Automatically installing and accessing Windows Server 2016 in a non-domain environment?
by Jared Stofflett 20 Sep '17

20 Sep '17

Does anyone have examples of automatically installing Windows Server 2016 in such a way that it is possible to use the server with screen reading software after the install is complete? At the least after the install is complete I'd like to be able to get a remote powershell session in that I could then hopefully use to install screen reading software. Unfortunately my personal machine is in a domain, but the VM I would use to install Windows Server would not be joined to a domain. My understanding is this makes getting remote access much more complicated since you can't just enter a password to get a remote powershell session like you can with SSH. Any advice on this would be appreciated. Note I'm using Hyperv as the hypervisor, and don't care what screen reader I can use to access the server.

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