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remote support
by Mike Fulton 17 Sep '20

17 Sep '20

Hi all, Part of my job requires me to remotely access machines to provide support. The only solution I'm finding is to install the jaws demo on all of the computers on the network, and purchase the remote access addon for my license. Is that the best option? If so is there a good way to deploy jaws to all of the machines? Ideally we would not even want the users to know that jaws is installed so they do not accidentally activate it. Thank you, Mike

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VMware: Which virtual machine is on which host?
by John G Heim 11 Sep '20

11 Sep '20

I have been a backup VMWare admin for a few years. Actually, I'm third in line so maybe I'm the backup of a backup. Anyway, I've been tasked with shutting down our VMWare cluster. We're moving some virtual machines to a centralized VMWare cluster on campus. But others we are just going to recreate on the hosts we are currently using for our VMWare cluster. We have 4 hosts in our cluster. I need to shift some VMs around so I can take a host out of the cluster. Then I am going to install Linux on the host and recreate the virtual machine on the new Linux host. The goal would be to get to just one host with one virtual machine, the vcenter server. At that point we could just turn it off. I know how to migrate a VM to another host but what I don't know is how to figure out where to move it. Is there a way to show which VMs are running on which host in the VSphere client? Can I get a report of how burdened a host is? I keep googling this stuff and I get answers way beyond this simple stuff I want to do. - John G. Heim; jheim(a)math.wisc.edu; 608-263-4189

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How to install CentOS on VMware ESXI?
by Can Kırca 11 Sep '20

11 Sep '20

Hello, I used Proxmox until today and now moving to esxi host. How can I install a CentOS7 to VM? VM is created but how can I answer CentoS installation questions like license agreement, network, partitioning etc? I've created an answer file for Proxmox in the past but it is not working for VMware. Thanks for your recommendations.

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Re: Skype For Business and Presence Unknown
by Ryan Shugart 09 Sep '20

09 Sep '20

Hi Caroline: I have seen this before, but there could be several causes. A few things to think about: 1. Is the Skype for Business server on prem or in O365? 2. What is the connection like between the client machine in question and the server? 3. If the user goes ahead and IMs or calls one of these presents unknown contacts, does the IM or call go through normally? 4. Does the Skype Outlook addin show the correct presents information when the user tries to email the person or in the user’s Outlook contacts folder? 5. Are these contacts in the same domain or is there federation going on? Generally when I see this it means that there’s either a lag between the client machine updating the presents status from the SFB server or there’s a problem with federation between two orgs in an onprem situation. As I said though there could be several causes here so these are just some things to think about when starting to look and you may have already ruled these all out. Ryan From: Caroline Ford via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Reply-To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Date: Thursday, September 3, 2020 at 3:26 AM To: "'blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org'" <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Cc: Caroline Ford <Caroline.Ford(a)northlincs.gov.uk> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Skype For Business and Presence Unknown Hi, We are experiencing a strange situation with Skype For Business. A few of our users are reporting that when they search for certain colleagues, they are found in the Skype address book but they are showing as presence unknown. When others search for the same people, their presence is reported correctly. We have tried the following for a user who is being presented with the presence unknown problem: Copying over a cached address book to the affected machine by replacing the GALContacts files in C:\users\<user>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Lync\sip_<user>; Removing all the files from the sip_<user> folder and allowing Skype to re-create them; Removing any contacts from the user's Skype favourites list for people who are being reported as presence unknown; Removing any contacts from the user's mailbox for people who are being reported as presence unknown. None of the above has solved the problem. Has anyone experienced this before, and if so, do you have any suggestions about what we can try next? I've googled the problem and haven't found anything except what we have already tried. Caroline. [cid:image001.png@01D68247.277A8C80]<https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus> This e-mail expresses the opinion of the author and is not necessarily the view of the Council. Please be aware that anything included in an e-mail may have to be disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act and cannot be regarded as confidential. This communication is intended for the addressee(s) only. Please notify the sender if received in error. All Email is monitored and recorded. Please think before you print- North Lincolnshire Council greening the workplace.

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using JAWS and phone at the same time
by Mike Fulton 04 Sep '20

04 Sep '20

Hi all, I am going to be starting a new job working as an IT assistant. This will involve a lot of help desk work. What kinds of solutions have you all found for being able to listen to JAWS and a phone call at the same time? The company uses hard IP-based phones. Thank you, Mike

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Skype For Business and Presence Unknown
by Caroline Ford 03 Sep '20

03 Sep '20

Hi, We are experiencing a strange situation with Skype For Business. A few of our users are reporting that when they search for certain colleagues, they are found in the Skype address book but they are showing as presence unknown. When others search for the same people, their presence is reported correctly. We have tried the following for a user who is being presented with the presence unknown problem: Copying over a cached address book to the affected machine by replacing the GALContacts files in C:\users\<user>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Lync\sip_<user>; Removing all the files from the sip_<user> folder and allowing Skype to re-create them; Removing any contacts from the user's Skype favourites list for people who are being reported as presence unknown; Removing any contacts from the user's mailbox for people who are being reported as presence unknown. None of the above has solved the problem. Has anyone experienced this before, and if so, do you have any suggestions about what we can try next? I've googled the problem and haven't found anything except what we have already tried. Caroline. [cid:SCemailfooterPROOF1-01_d28887fd-ca65-4848-9cba-0c2b078d7b25.png]<https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus> This e-mail expresses the opinion of the author and is not necessarily the view of the Council. Please be aware that anything included in an e-mail may have to be disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act and cannot be regarded as confidential. This communication is intended for the addressee(s) only. Please notify the sender if received in error. All Email is monitored and recorded. Please think before you print- North Lincolnshire Council greening the workplace.

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Wireshark with NVDA: connecting remotly to a virtual machine
by Felipe Veiga Ramos 28 Aug '20

28 Aug '20

Greetings; I hope you all are ok and safe from this Corona! Lastly, I'm in need to use Wireshark very often and, I conffess, I don't get used to yet. Although it is usable and have a lot of hotkeys, I found few information about them. Anyway, on Windows, with NVDA, I'm doing a relatively good work, but on Linux my tries were poor. But, most of time, I need to snif networks inside the Linux, mainly docker infraestructures. Once I can't use it on Linux, I'm trying to connect my windows Wireshark trough SSH on the Linux machine, inside a virtual machine. After tis long but necessary preamble, my questions: 1.When I connect wireshark through SSH on my Linux VM, the passoword isn't saved. That means I need to redo all the connect proccess every time I restart the capture. Do you lads know how to make the password persistent? 2.If the first possibility isn't possible, could someone to have another solution to that? I had tried to redirect the trafic of every interface to a host-only interface using IPTables, but got no good result: besides a lot of trash, the important packets aren't coming. 3.Last but not least, do you all have any tip, material or information about using wireshark mainly through NVDA that you can share? Important informations: Windows 10pro -64bits NVDA:2020.2 Wireshark: 3.2.4 VMware Workstation 15 Player: 15.5.6 build-16341506 Thank you all! Felipe -- Felipe Veiga Ramos

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Proxmox virtual environment
by Timothy Spaulding 23 Aug '20

23 Aug '20

Hello All, Has anyone ever used Proxmox VE? http://www.proxmox.com/ If so, any thoughts to share? Tim

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Filling in a pDF form
by John G. Heim 18 Aug '20

18 Aug '20

I am looking for a recommendation on the best way to fill out a PDF form. I'm a Linux guy and what I usually do when I get a PDF document is to convert it to plain text. But I have this form I have to fill out and send back. I have access to Linux, Windows, Mac, and IOS. I tried just clicking on it in all 4 systems but what I got was either inaccessible or wouldn't let me make changes. - John G. Heim, jheim(a)math.wisc.edu 608-263-4189

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Wireshark accesibility on Windows
by Steve Matzura 18 Aug '20

18 Aug '20

I haven't needed to use this application since version 2, so imagine my dismay when, after installing version 3.26, I couldn't even manipulate combo boxes for filters, or do much of anything with it. Any tips, techniques, tricks, or ideas for replacement software welcome.

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