Hi, A friend has just got one of these headless Windows Home servers, and wants me to install WindowEyes to it. Does this work? I had problems installing WindowEyes to my systems when using RDP to do the initial installation, is there a way round this? I seem to remember someone had one of these devices on this list. Thanks. Andrew.
Andrew: I have one of these, and I was able to get Window-Eyes 7.01 running just fine. Once all of the OOBE is complete, I just copied the contence of the Window-Eyes CD to a folder on the C drive using the c$ share, then RDP'd in and ran setup. No issues. From an accessibility standpoint, the WHS console isn't what Microsoft should use as a shining beacon of accessibility, but so long as you're willing to use the mouse to move around and lable some graffics you'll be fine. It might be tempting, but don't use standard server admin tools to do what the console does, the console does things the standard tools don't do. A good example is creating a share, if you create a share using the console, it sets up security just so, creates a few groups and puts people into those groups automatically, and other addons and such expect shares to be set up just that way. All in all I'm really happy with my unit. The only areas I'm having problems with is restoring backups, it wants you to connect to the WHS console using the systray app for that, and registering a .homeserver.com subdomain which really doesn't bother me anyway. On the restoring backups front, there is a program installed along with the whs connector called mountbackup.exe that should let you restore files without playing with the WHS console, but I've not tried this yet. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 7:16 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] HP Smart Media Server and WindowEyes Hi, A friend has just got one of these headless Windows Home servers, and wants me to install WindowEyes to it. Does this work? I had problems installing WindowEyes to my systems when using RDP to do the initial installation, is there a way round this? I seem to remember someone had one of these devices on this list. Thanks. Andrew. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
Andrew: I have one of these, and I was able to get Window-Eyes 7.01 running just fine. Once all of the OOBE is complete, I just copied the contence of the Window-Eyes CD to a folder on the C drive using the c$ share, then RDP'd in and ran setup. No issues. From an accessibility standpoint, the WHS console isn't what Microsoft should use as a shining beacon of accessibility, but so long as you're willing to use the mouse to move around and lable some graffics you'll be fine. It might be tempting, but don't use standard server admin tools to do what the console does, the console does things the standard tools don't do. A good example is creating a share, if you create a share using the console, it sets up security just so, creates a few groups and puts people into those groups automatically, and other addons and such expect shares to be set up just that way. All in all I'm really happy with my unit. The only areas I'm having problems with is restoring backups, it wants you to connect to the WHS console using the systray app for that, and registering a .homeserver.com subdomain which really doesn't bother me anyway. On the restoring backups front, there is a program installed along with the whs connector called mountbackup.exe that should let you restore files without playing with the WHS console, but I've not tried this yet. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 7:16 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] HP Smart Media Server and WindowEyes Hi, A friend has just got one of these headless Windows Home servers, and wants me to install WindowEyes to it. Does this work? I had problems installing WindowEyes to my systems when using RDP to do the initial installation, is there a way round this? I seem to remember someone had one of these devices on this list. Thanks. Andrew. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
Hello, I am in the process of attempting to role out Jaws 10 to every computer in a domain via group policy. This should be possible however when I obtain the MSI file from the temp directory after the set up file has run, the resulting installation of JFW will not run. It instead complains that a file required for eloq.jls is missing. Can you suggest what may be wrong here? My thinking is that a parameter is passed to the MSI file from the jaws set up executable that instructs it to install a synthesizer component but when the MSI file is run independently outside the set up package it does not install everything required for Eloquents to run correctly. Do any of you have any suggestions? Thanks Darragh
Hello, I am in the process of attempting to role out Jaws 10 to every computer in a domain via group policy. This should be possible however when I obtain the MSI file from the temp directory after the set up file has run, the resulting installation of JFW will not run. It instead complains that a file required for eloq.jls is missing. Can you suggest what may be wrong here? My thinking is that a parameter is passed to the MSI file from the jaws set up executable that instructs it to install a synthesizer component but when the MSI file is run independently outside the set up package it does not install everything required for Eloquents to run correctly. Do any of you have any suggestions? Thanks Darragh
Before I get my plastic severely melted, may I ask a question please? I'm trying to apply a Windows Server 2003 Hotfix as per Knowledge Base Article 822774 - "System Performance Decreases, and Many Event ID 576 Entries Are Logged to the Security Event Log". (I get around 27,000 entries in the Security Log over 2 - 3 days.) When I run it, I am told that it cannot find the file update.inf. The KB Article makes no mention of this file, and the unpacked Hotfix file contains absolutely no documentation. Am I missing the obvious somewhere? George.
George, make sure you downloaded the correct version of the hotfix, either 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64). Just to recap, after you download the hotfix, you run the exe, which will prompt for the password provided in an email from Microsoft. This will unpack the actual patch file. Typically the patch itself is either an EXE, or an MSI package. Just run this file to apply the patch. Are you logged into the server itself when you run the patch? Or using some type of remote desktop software? This could make a difference if you are not logged directly onto the console, but in my experience, its not that big of a deal. I see problems when applying SQL patches and not logging into the console. This patch is included in Win2003 SP1, check to see what Service Pack you have installed. The latest Service Pack for Win2003 is SP2. ~Joe
Before I get my plastic severely melted, may I ask a question please? I'm trying to apply a Windows Server 2003 Hotfix as per Knowledge Base Article 822774 - "System Performance Decreases, and Many Event ID 576 Entries Are Logged to the Security Event Log". (I get around 27,000 entries in the Security Log over 2 - 3 days.) When I run it, I am told that it cannot find the file update.inf. The KB Article makes no mention of this file, and the unpacked Hotfix file contains absolutely no documentation. Am I missing the obvious somewhere? George.
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