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Looking for a decent managed security and backup tool.
by Darragh OHeiligh 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

Good morning, I have a few servers and desktops at home that I want to manage centrally for a number of reasons. I had heard a lot about forefront client security lately so thought I'd give that a shot during the weekend. To my surprise, it doesn't support the environment I had in mind for it at all! I had hoped to install it on a virtual machine running Windows 2008 R2, SQL 2008 R2 and with a WSUS server hosted on another machine. I gave the system a reasonable spec. It has a 120GB hard drive, 4GB of ram and two processors at 2.3GHZ. It really doesn't like my ideas. It's still complaining that it only has one processor, It says there isn't enough hard disk space, It still looks for a SQL database. Mainly because according to the release notes it only supports SQL 2005 and finally it wants it's own WSUS server. Why would it have this dependency when there's a perfectly fine WSUS server running on the domain? This is a virtual machine running on ESX 4. If forefront isn't the best option what is? I want to learn about a decent server managed security suite. In work I administer Office scan but I'd like to see what else is available. I'm reasonably certain anything is going to be better than office scan. I'm also looking for a decent backup system. In the past I've administered Backup exec and I know that works quite well but again, I'd like to try something different. I have a technet subscription so ideally, I'd really like to know the Microsoft solutions for these problems. Any thought's? Thanks Darragh Regards

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FW: Looking for a good managed security and backup tool.
by Andrew Hodgson 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

Hi, This was sent to the bounce address. Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Darragh OHeiligh [Darragh.OHeiligh(a)Oireachtas.ie] Sent: 26 October 2010 09:56 To: blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: Looking for a good managed security and backup tool. Good morning, I have a few servers and desktops at home that I want to manage centrally for a number of reasons. I had heard a lot about forefront client security lately so thought I'd give that a shot during the weekend. To my surprise, it doesn't support the environment I had in mind for it at all! I had hoped to install it on a virtual machine running Windows 2008 R2, SQL 2008 R2 and with a WSUS server hosted on another machine. I gave the system a reasonable spec. It has a 120GB hard drive, 4GB of ram and two processors at 2.3GHZ. It really doesn't like my ideas. It's still complaining that it only has one processor, It says there isn't enough hard disk space, It still looks for a SQL database. Mainly because according to the release notes it only supports SQL 2005 and finally it wants it's own WSUS server. Why would it have this dependency when there's a perfectly fine WSUS server running on the domain? This is a virtual machine running on ESX 4. If forefront isn't the best option what is? I want to learn about a decent server managed security suite. In work I administer Office scan but I'd like to see what else is available. I'm reasonably certain anything is going to be better than office scan. I'm also looking for a decent backup system. In the past I've administered Backup exec and I know that works quite well but again, I'd like to try something different. I have a technet subscription so ideally, I'd really like to know the Microsoft solutions for these problems. Any thought's? Thanks Darragh

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xp and bluetooth
by David Mehler 24 Oct '10

24 Oct '10

Hi, I've got a laptop with bluetooth. It's running xp. I'm trying to connect a bluetooth headset to it and the one time I got it to prompt me for a pairing password the dialog was gone in the systray before I could get to it. Has anyone got a way to get xp to get and pair to bluetooth headsets in the time needed? My one headset is made by Jabra never heard of that one, the other is a Motorola hs15. Thanks. Dave.

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mysql gui
by Billy L. Irwin 22 Oct '10

22 Oct '10

Do any of you happen to know of a MySQL interface that works in high contrast mode such as windows colors? I've tried MySQL workbench and MyDB Studio and they suck! More and more of the applications are stuck in a color scheme mae by the developer and it gets quite annoying. Thanks in advance. Also, I don't want to use PHPmyAdmin. I need this to be local on my machine and connect to the server. Best Regards, Billy L. Irwin Irwin Solutions 207 Strange Ct. Spartanburg, SC 29301 P: 864-551-2501 Spartanburg/GSP Area C: 864-809-9620 Spartanburg, SC WB4BLI Emergency Coordinator - Spartanburg County Area 1 -2 SKYWARN / ADEC Area 2

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Sound card drivers not reloading
by Frank Ventura 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Hi all, I have an interesting problem that I have not run across before. I am trying to get audio (sound) output from our Dell PE 840 running Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise. I have tried a myriad of USB sound cards all with the same result. If I plug in a sound card that I have never used before into the Dell it will start working and I can get Narrator to work fine. Now if I reboot the computer and try that same USB sound card it won't work again and never will. This is the same results as with all sound cards I have tried. I have heard something about Win 2k8 not allow the loading of non signed drivers at boot up. Is this true and how can it be fixed? If not does anyone have any suggestions as to what to do to make this work? I am really pulling my hair out on this one. Tia Frank

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hotmail
by David Mehler 12 Oct '10

12 Oct '10

Hello, Is anyone using hotmail with jaws 11? If so, i've got a jaws friend who is having extreme difficulties getting hotmail's new UI to work right. It's heavily framed and on occation kicks her out when doing a bulk delete. I was wondering if there's a way to revert the latest hotmail update and return to a more speech friendly UI? Thanks. Dave.

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Server 2008 R2 and Exchange 2010
by George Bell 11 Oct '10

11 Oct '10

Have any of you had experience of installing and setting up Server 2008 R2 and Exchange 2010? I'm trying to set up a DELL PowerEdge server to install in a braille library in Africa, and I seem to be hitting one issue after another. While the Server part seems to be OK, Exchange is proving to be a real pain in the whatnot. For example after running the Exchange Best Practices Analyser, it told me that I had an "unrecognised Exchange signature". To add insult to injury, even though I have applied all known updates, to both Server and Exchange, Help on this did not include Exchange 2010. After ages hunting the internet, I find that this is actually a bug in the Analyser tool which will be resolved when SP1 is released later in the year. Even finding where to put the license key is clearly an issue which has defied many professionals it would seem! Server 2003 and Exchange at the office here were an absolute doodle and took me less that a day to set up, but this lot is really taking the biscuit!! George Bell Managing Director Techno-Vision Systems Ltd 76 Bunting Road Ind. Est. NORTHAMPTON, NN2 6EE, UK. Tel: (01604) 792777 Fax: (01604) 792726 mailto:george@techno-vision.co.uk web: http://www.techno-vision.co.uk

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Server 2008 R2 and Exchange 2010
by George Bell 11 Oct '10

11 Oct '10

Have any of you had experience of installing and setting up Server 2008 R2 and Exchange 2010? I'm trying to set up a DELL PowerEdge server to install in a braille library in Africa, and I seem to be hitting one issue after another. While the Server part seems to be OK, Exchange is proving to be a real pain in the whatnot. For example after running the Exchange Best Practices Analyser, it told me that I had an "unrecognised Exchange signature". To add insult to injury, even though I have applied all known updates, to both Server and Exchange, Help on this did not include Exchange 2010. After ages hunting the internet, I find that this is actually a bug in the Analyser tool which will be resolved when SP1 is released later in the year. Even finding where to put the license key is clearly an issue which has defied many professionals it would seem! Server 2003 and Exchange at the office here were an absolute doodle and took me less that a day to set up, but this lot is really taking the biscuit!! George Bell Managing Director Techno-Vision Systems Ltd 76 Bunting Road Ind. Est. NORTHAMPTON, NN2 6EE, UK. Tel: (01604) 792777 Fax: (01604) 792726 mailto:george@techno-vision.co.uk web: http://www.techno-vision.co.uk

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] FW: Windows Server 2008/MS Virtual PC/VMware Workstation
by Ryan Shugart 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

In aditition, make sure VMWare Tools are up to date, you can check this from the virtual machine menu in Workstation. Also, in adition to the audio service being started and set to automatic, with the VM powered down make sure there is, in fact, a virtual sound card added and connected under virtual machine settings. What version of Workstation are you running? The latest is 7.1.2. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Hodgson <andrew(a)hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 11:35 AM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] FW: Windows Server 2008/MS Virtual PC/VMware Workstation Hi, Check Windows Audio service is started in the 2008 R2 system. Where did you get the guest not supported message? I don't use Vmware workstation. With Virtual PC I find I get more luck by RDPing into the machine after starting it up and getting a screen reader in there... Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson Sent: 05 October 2010 17:56 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] FW: Windows Server 2008/MS Virtual PC/VMware Workstation Hi, Sent to the bounce address - don't send list mail to the bounce address please. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Barry Toner [mailto:barry@barry-toner.co.uk] Sent: 05 October 2010 00:50 To: blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: Windows Server 2008/MS Virtual PC/VMware Workstation Hi ya folks, This is a bit of a time sensitive one. I'm on a MCITPEDA course at the moment. I've been given a 2K8 R2 vmx and a Win 7 Ultimate vmx. When I load the 2K8 in Workstation it's booting but I'm not getting any sound output. I fired up narrator and got nothing. I've confirmed that it has booted by one of my class mates and instructor. Anyone seen this before? The obvious soundcard drivers not installed, it appears to be seeing the host machines soundcard. I didn't config this. Also when I tryed to load the Win 7 vmx they gave me I got, "Not supported by Guest Operating System", with ahelpful OK button. I've never ran into that and I run at home VM's all the time. One suggestion was to try MS Virtual PC 2K. So tonight I downloaded that and grabbed the VHD with 2K8 and Windows 7. Created a Virtual PC and pointed it to the VHD. I can't work out how to get the Virtual PC to capture input like with Workstation. I put it in full-screen mode thinking that might do it, but nope. Does Virtual PC even work for us? Deeply appreciate any replys. I will be meeting with their IT guy tomorrow but I've already missed one lab. Now the instructor did say I can do those labs tomorrow but this means already works mounting on me. So if I can get this sorted ASAP it would take some of the heat off. Not something I really want to be messing around with on a Fast Track Cert course. Also it's hard to concrete soem of the Windows 7 deployment stuff in without actually being able to mess around with DISIM, Image X, Sys Prep etc. Cheers all! Barry. Barry Toner BCS Belfast Branch YPG Representative & Disability Group http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.10444 Contact me @ Professional: barry.toner(a)bcs.org.uk Personal Email: barry(a)barry-toner.co.uk MSN/Live: djpaddy(a)djpaddy.co.uk AIM/FB: barry(a)barry-toner.co.uk TWITTER: dj_paddy Skype: djpaddy Mobile: (UK) +44 (0) 7921 611 253 _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] FW: Windows Server 2008/MS Virtual PC/VMware Workstation
by Ryan Shugart 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

In aditition, make sure VMWare Tools are up to date, you can check this from the virtual machine menu in Workstation. Also, in adition to the audio service being started and set to automatic, with the VM powered down make sure there is, in fact, a virtual sound card added and connected under virtual machine settings. What version of Workstation are you running? The latest is 7.1.2. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Hodgson <andrew(a)hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 11:35 AM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] FW: Windows Server 2008/MS Virtual PC/VMware Workstation Hi, Check Windows Audio service is started in the 2008 R2 system. Where did you get the guest not supported message? I don't use Vmware workstation. With Virtual PC I find I get more luck by RDPing into the machine after starting it up and getting a screen reader in there... Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson Sent: 05 October 2010 17:56 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] FW: Windows Server 2008/MS Virtual PC/VMware Workstation Hi, Sent to the bounce address - don't send list mail to the bounce address please. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Barry Toner [mailto:barry@barry-toner.co.uk] Sent: 05 October 2010 00:50 To: blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: Windows Server 2008/MS Virtual PC/VMware Workstation Hi ya folks, This is a bit of a time sensitive one. I'm on a MCITPEDA course at the moment. I've been given a 2K8 R2 vmx and a Win 7 Ultimate vmx. When I load the 2K8 in Workstation it's booting but I'm not getting any sound output. I fired up narrator and got nothing. I've confirmed that it has booted by one of my class mates and instructor. Anyone seen this before? The obvious soundcard drivers not installed, it appears to be seeing the host machines soundcard. I didn't config this. Also when I tryed to load the Win 7 vmx they gave me I got, "Not supported by Guest Operating System", with ahelpful OK button. I've never ran into that and I run at home VM's all the time. One suggestion was to try MS Virtual PC 2K. So tonight I downloaded that and grabbed the VHD with 2K8 and Windows 7. Created a Virtual PC and pointed it to the VHD. I can't work out how to get the Virtual PC to capture input like with Workstation. I put it in full-screen mode thinking that might do it, but nope. Does Virtual PC even work for us? Deeply appreciate any replys. I will be meeting with their IT guy tomorrow but I've already missed one lab. Now the instructor did say I can do those labs tomorrow but this means already works mounting on me. So if I can get this sorted ASAP it would take some of the heat off. Not something I really want to be messing around with on a Fast Track Cert course. Also it's hard to concrete soem of the Windows 7 deployment stuff in without actually being able to mess around with DISIM, Image X, Sys Prep etc. Cheers all! Barry. Barry Toner BCS Belfast Branch YPG Representative & Disability Group http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.10444 Contact me @ Professional: barry.toner(a)bcs.org.uk Personal Email: barry(a)barry-toner.co.uk MSN/Live: djpaddy(a)djpaddy.co.uk AIM/FB: barry(a)barry-toner.co.uk TWITTER: dj_paddy Skype: djpaddy Mobile: (UK) +44 (0) 7921 611 253 _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins

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