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Time / holiday / absence tracking and management?
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

Good morning, In my new role I'm managing a small team of people. I need a way of tracking absences sick leave, holidays and other scheduling things like this. I have sharepoint installed. I also have Exchange 2010. What would you suggest I use that would integrate with these two systems to meet this requirement? In my last job they had a great leave management system. It probably cost a fortune though as it was managed globally by Fujitsu. Now I'm in a company with at most 16 employees and only eight of us are full time! I've gone from system administrator to manager, support person, project scheduler, code patcher and database tuner in the space of two months. It's such a huge change from managing hundreds of servers. I think managing a small company is a lot harder even though the availability of hundreds of servers resting on my shoulders seemed hard at the time. I kind of miss it actually! Darragh

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Time / holiday / absence tracking and management?
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

Good morning, In my new role I'm managing a small team of people. I need a way of tracking absences sick leave, holidays and other scheduling things like this. I have sharepoint installed. I also have Exchange 2010. What would you suggest I use that would integrate with these two systems to meet this requirement? In my last job they had a great leave management system. It probably cost a fortune though as it was managed globally by Fujitsu. Now I'm in a company with at most 16 employees and only eight of us are full time! I've gone from system administrator to manager, support person, project scheduler, code patcher and database tuner in the space of two months. It's such a huge change from managing hundreds of servers. I think managing a small company is a lot harder even though the availability of hundreds of servers resting on my shoulders seemed hard at the time. I kind of miss it actually! Darragh

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Rim verses teamviewer?
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 29 Jul '13

29 Jul '13

Hello, Has anyone used RIM by serotek? How does it measure up when compared to teamviewer? Are there any advantages by using Rim? I cant install a screen reader on any remote machines I need to connect to so this is a huge problem for me. RIM won't get around this I'm quite sure. Any ideas? Darragh

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Rim verses teamviewer?
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 29 Jul '13

29 Jul '13

Hello, Has anyone used RIM by serotek? How does it measure up when compared to teamviewer? Are there any advantages by using Rim? I cant install a screen reader on any remote machines I need to connect to so this is a huge problem for me. RIM won't get around this I'm quite sure. Any ideas? Darragh

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Using a PPTP VPN with EAP / Paep.
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

Has anyone attempted to use the RRAS role in Windows 2008R2 to provide a basic VPN solution? I've been doing this for ages using a username and password but I need to extend the solution by authenticating with a cert. I'm running into a problem on the NPS side of things I think. Can anyone offer a fresh perspective please? I've been working on this for 2 hours now and I'm getting nowhere. Even a suggestion as to where I'd find logs would be beneficial. Thanks Darragh

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Using a PPTP VPN with EAP / Paep.
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 22 Jul '13

22 Jul '13

Has anyone attempted to use the RRAS role in Windows 2008R2 to provide a basic VPN solution? I've been doing this for ages using a username and password but I need to extend the solution by authenticating with a cert. I'm running into a problem on the NPS side of things I think. Can anyone offer a fresh perspective please? I've been working on this for 2 hours now and I'm getting nowhere. Even a suggestion as to where I'd find logs would be beneficial. Thanks Darragh

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Does VMWare Have an Accessibility Group or Specific People Working on Accessibility
by Mika Pyyhkala 12 Jul '13

12 Jul '13

Hi, We are actively using VMWare, and while I read (I think on this lists home page) that the VMWare admin client was quite accessible, we are wondering if VMWare has either an accessibility group, or some specific employees that are knowledgeable and/or work on accessibility? We will certainly test the tools ourselves, but we wanted to be connected to a resource within VMWare as well if possible who is familiar with accessibility. Best, Mika Pyyhkala ________________________________ This message contains information from Neighborhood Health Plan that may be confidential or privileged. This message is directed only to the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this email is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message and any attachments.

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Harddrive backup software
by Christian 12 Jul '13

12 Jul '13

Hi all on this list, Hopefully someone on this list can help me with this and I think this is the right place to ask. As my harddrive backup program, I have been using a program called Image for DOS and it's also available for Linux and Windows. Since I am experimenting with different operating systems and especially Windows 8, I have noticed that one cannot just restore the previous OS from an image using Image for Dos. So my question is, does anyone know of an accessible program that can backup the boot partition so that it can be restored later on and one do not need to use the Windows 7 DVD and ask for sighted help when this happens? Many thanks, Christian

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Looks like Technet's going
by Andrew Hodgson 01 Jul '13

01 Jul '13

Hi, This article and many others seem to suggest that Technet is going: http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-to-shut-down-technet-subscription-service-70… Who here has an MSDN subscription and which one did you go with? Thanks. Andrew.

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Looks like Technet's going
by Andrew Hodgson 01 Jul '13

01 Jul '13

Hi, This article and many others seem to suggest that Technet is going: http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-to-shut-down-technet-subscription-service-70… Who here has an MSDN subscription and which one did you go with? Thanks. Andrew.

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