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Windows Server 2008 R2 Virtual Machine
by Barry Toner 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

Hi folks, I've tried to install his as a VM several times with no success. I've left it alone for several hours and when I come back I can't get any audio feedback fromt he installation. VMware for Windows keeps saying it's installing. I'm installing from DVD media. I installed it and told it to autologin. Any suggestions? Regards, Barry.

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Windows Server 2008 R2 Virtual Machine
by Barry Toner 01 Aug '12

01 Aug '12

Hi folks, I've tried to install his as a VM several times with no success. I've left it alone for several hours and when I come back I can't get any audio feedback fromt he installation. VMware for Windows keeps saying it's installing. I'm installing from DVD media. I installed it and told it to autologin. Any suggestions? Regards, Barry.

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IPV6 on a DLink DIR-857
by Scott Granados 29 Jul '12

29 Jul '12

Wonder if anyone has had any luck configuring IPV6 on Dlink products. I have the ipv6 to 4 tunnel working and can ping by name ipv6 hosted sites but can't gt the LAN side to work. Wonder if anyone has gotten this config to work? Sort of stuck, I don't get the LAN status to say anything but none in status and don't see anything happening on the host Laptop on the LAN segment. Any pointers would be appreciated.

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Open University Microsoft Server 2008 R2 Course
by Barry Toner 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

Hi folks, I have a DSA assessor coming out next week for my OU Server 2008 course. I am looking for suggestions what I might need & can justify? For non-UK folks this is Disability Services assessing any hardware/software/support I need to complete my course. I have the latest Window Eyes and NVDA but want the latest JFW so I can make sure I can access every aspect of Server 2008 R2. Should I try for a new Desktop computer? We will be doing the work on pre-built virtual machines. I am conscious about not wanting to take the mickey but equally I tend to leave myself short on these assessments and end up having to purchase things myself. If I had a greedy head on I'd go for a Macbook because I've no intention in my next portable being an IBM based machine, but I'm not sure I could ask for that with a straight face on a Microsoft course! I have a Victor Reader Stream and an iPhone so that's electronic and audio book reading covered. Again I could bluff and ask for a portable player but I'd rather get what I need rather than go on a Christmas shopping list, like so many do. FYI here's the link to the course I'm taking. http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/course/tm128.htm Any thoughts? Regards, Barry.

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Open University Microsoft Server 2008 R2 Course
by Barry Toner 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

Hi folks, I have a DSA assessor coming out next week for my OU Server 2008 course. I am looking for suggestions what I might need & can justify? For non-UK folks this is Disability Services assessing any hardware/software/support I need to complete my course. I have the latest Window Eyes and NVDA but want the latest JFW so I can make sure I can access every aspect of Server 2008 R2. Should I try for a new Desktop computer? We will be doing the work on pre-built virtual machines. I am conscious about not wanting to take the mickey but equally I tend to leave myself short on these assessments and end up having to purchase things myself. If I had a greedy head on I'd go for a Macbook because I've no intention in my next portable being an IBM based machine, but I'm not sure I could ask for that with a straight face on a Microsoft course! I have a Victor Reader Stream and an iPhone so that's electronic and audio book reading covered. Again I could bluff and ask for a portable player but I'd rather get what I need rather than go on a Christmas shopping list, like so many do. FYI here's the link to the course I'm taking. http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/course/tm128.htm Any thoughts? Regards, Barry.

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ms group chat
by Brian Moore 23 Jul '12

23 Jul '12

Hi. Anyone have any experience with this thing? A friend of mine asked as they are using it at work. There is a downloadable demo of ms communications server 2007 which includes this group chat thing but I don't have a server 2003 or 2008 box handy to play with it. anyone ever tried this thing and gotten any success with jaws prefered but any access at all. I might try and throw together a box later this week if no one else has experience but figured I would ask here. thanks. Brian. -- Contact me on skype: brian.moore follow me on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bmoore123

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weird server connectivity problem
by Jackie McBride 19 Jul '12

19 Jul '12

Hay, all--man, I've got a weird thing going on here. I needed to buy some additional web hosting space. I currently have a server w/a provider & can access CPanel & all my other services w/o difficulty. Lately, though, I needed to buy more space, & because I'd been so happy w/NameCheap in terms of buying domains, I decided to lease server space from them. When attempting to log into my CPanel, I get a message that says authenticating, & then it asks for my username & password again. I click the login button, & get: Login successful. Redirecting … After some time I get: Problem loading page The connection has timed out The server at 1bizhosting.com is taking too long to respond. list of 3 items ▪ The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments. ▪ If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network connection. ▪ If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web. list end I've been battling this for about a week. I've disabled my OpenDNS, reset my hosts file, even disabled my firewall & antivirus briefly w/no success. I've used 2 proxies, 1 of which said it wouldn't let me view anything else until I paid 'em $40, the other I couldn't get past the logon screen. I've also tried logging on from different networks, w/similar results. A tracert command yields: Tracing route to host11.registrar-servers.com [199.188.200.56] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1 2 54 ms 54 ms 54 ms phnx-dsl-gw16-208.phnx.qwest.net [67.40.227.208] 3 54 ms 54 ms 54 ms phnx-agw1.inet.qwest.net [216.160.199.121] 4 66 ms 66 ms 66 ms lap-brdr-04.inet.qwest.net [67.14.22.158] 5 204 ms 220 ms 219 ms te1-1.ccr02.lax05.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.11.125] 6 66 ms 67 ms 66 ms te0-2-0-6.ccr22.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.82.153] 7 96 ms 96 ms 96 ms te0-1-0-6.ccr22.iah01.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.4.237] 8 113 ms 114 ms 113 ms te0-0-0-7.ccr22.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.24.21] 9 114 ms 113 ms 113 ms te0-0-0-0.ccr21.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.45.29] 10 139 ms 239 ms 212 ms te2-1.ccr01.atl07.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.26.49] 11 112 ms 113 ms 113 ms 38.122.130.10 12 113 ms 113 ms 112 ms 6509-sc1.abstractdns.com [64.22.117.234] 13 * * * Request timed out. 14 113 ms 113 ms 112 ms host11.registrar-servers.com [199.188.200.56] Trace complete. Again, I have no difficulty connecting w/my other provider. I'm also experiencing timeout issues w/Namecheap's ftp as well. The support people cannot replicate the problem, i.e., entering my user credentials logs them on just fine, evidently. I can actually access www.1bizhosting.com w/o difficulty. So--any1 got any bright ideas? I've been doing this stuff a pretty long time now & I've never seen anything quite like this b4. -- Blame the computer--why not? It can't defend itself & occasionally might even be the culprit Jackie McBride Ask Me Computer Questions at: www.pcinquirer.com Jaws Scripting training materials: www.screenreaderscripting.com homePage: www.abletec.serverheaven.net

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weird server connectivity problem
by Jackie McBride 18 Jul '12

18 Jul '12

Hay, all--man, I've got a weird thing going on here. I needed to buy some additional web hosting space. I currently have a server w/a provider & can access CPanel & all my other services w/o difficulty. Lately, though, I needed to buy more space, & because I'd been so happy w/NameCheap in terms of buying domains, I decided to lease server space from them. When attempting to log into my CPanel, I get a message that says authenticating, & then it asks for my username & password again. I click the login button, & get: Login successful. Redirecting … After some time I get: Problem loading page The connection has timed out The server at 1bizhosting.com is taking too long to respond. list of 3 items ▪ The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments. ▪ If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network connection. ▪ If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web. list end I've been battling this for about a week. I've disabled my OpenDNS, reset my hosts file, even disabled my firewall & antivirus briefly w/no success. I've used 2 proxies, 1 of which said it wouldn't let me view anything else until I paid 'em $40, the other I couldn't get past the logon screen. I've also tried logging on from different networks, w/similar results. A tracert command yields: Tracing route to host11.registrar-servers.com [199.188.200.56] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1 2 54 ms 54 ms 54 ms phnx-dsl-gw16-208.phnx.qwest.net [67.40.227.208] 3 54 ms 54 ms 54 ms phnx-agw1.inet.qwest.net [216.160.199.121] 4 66 ms 66 ms 66 ms lap-brdr-04.inet.qwest.net [67.14.22.158] 5 204 ms 220 ms 219 ms te1-1.ccr02.lax05.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.11.125] 6 66 ms 67 ms 66 ms te0-2-0-6.ccr22.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.82.153] 7 96 ms 96 ms 96 ms te0-1-0-6.ccr22.iah01.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.4.237] 8 113 ms 114 ms 113 ms te0-0-0-7.ccr22.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.24.21] 9 114 ms 113 ms 113 ms te0-0-0-0.ccr21.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.45.29] 10 139 ms 239 ms 212 ms te2-1.ccr01.atl07.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.26.49] 11 112 ms 113 ms 113 ms 38.122.130.10 12 113 ms 113 ms 112 ms 6509-sc1.abstractdns.com [64.22.117.234] 13 * * * Request timed out. 14 113 ms 113 ms 112 ms host11.registrar-servers.com [199.188.200.56] Trace complete. Again, I have no difficulty connecting w/my other provider. I'm also experiencing timeout issues w/Namecheap's ftp as well. The support people cannot replicate the problem, i.e., entering my user credentials logs them on just fine, evidently. I can actually access www.1bizhosting.com w/o difficulty. So--any1 got any bright ideas? I've been doing this stuff a pretty long time now & I've never seen anything quite like this b4. -- Blame the computer--why not? It can't defend itself & occasionally might even be the culprit Jackie McBride Ask Me Computer Questions at: www.pcinquirer.com Jaws Scripting training materials: www.screenreaderscripting.com homePage: www.abletec.serverheaven.net

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Office 365?
by Ryan Shugart 11 Jul '12

11 Jul '12

Hi: A quick question, has anyone on this list played with Office 365? I’ve been asked a few times if its accessible and I have no idea. I know it offers more than my current Exchange hosting provider does, but I really don’t need anymore than I have so haven’t ever looked at switching. As I said though I’ve been asked by other people several times, so thought I’d send the question out here as I’m sure someone’s played with it. Thanks. Ryan

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Office 365?
by Ryan Shugart 09 Jul '12

09 Jul '12

Hi: A quick question, has anyone on this list played with Office 365? I’ve been asked a few times if its accessible and I have no idea. I know it offers more than my current Exchange hosting provider does, but I really don’t need anymore than I have so haven’t ever looked at switching. As I said though I’ve been asked by other people several times, so thought I’d send the question out here as I’m sure someone’s played with it. Thanks. Ryan

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