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- What are the important characteristics of a Project Manager?
- Some say project management is a science, other say it is more of an art form. I say quite frankly its a royal pain in the, Anyway, regardless of what it is and is not, it is extremely important. A good project manager is worth their weight in...
- Tags: jon@...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-24
- email and linux
- pineI've been using pine as my email client since 1992 - also started out using it on Sun boxes. I have never been infected with an email virus. I like pine because it always works and does everything I need it to do. I am not a fan of HTML...
- Tags: e-mail, jon@...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-17
- Which is the best way to ensure your data is secure? Host or In-house
- As a support tech of a free hosted application for managing software projects, its always funny for me to have people asking me if there is a version they can purchase to install in-house. More and more I've noticed there seems to be a divide amongst our community as...
- Tags: information/application, jon@...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-16
- When is free software going to be the norm?
- With the internet generation coming into its own in the software development marketplace, more and more we are expecting software to be web-based, and free. Look at myspace, youtube, thinkfree and a whole multitude of other free software out there. Granted the majority of them are social networking...
- Tags: software, jon@...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-04
- Offline Files of All Users Synchronizing on Log off
- I've been having an annoying issue where the previous sys admin of my network had setup every user's profile and home dirs to sync to a replicated directory which has been causing a rediculous amount of errors in replication and sync. I understand the
- Tags: jon@...
- Discussion threads 2006-12-15
- Map profiles/home folders to USB drives
- In an organization full of real estate agents who are independent contractors, believably, some of them do not have their own computers. Stunning if you ask me!So, to solve that problem, we have resource rooms that have multiple computers in them. There is one guest account in Active...
- Tags: USB flash drive
- Q&A 2006-08-09
- Regarding GPO and who is affected by it
- I may be getting a bit confused about who policy is applied to when it is attached to an OU.For example, if I wanted to apply policy to a group of 7 computers regardless of who logged into those computers, would I drop the computer objects into the organizational unit...
- Tags: jon@..., windows, GPO, computer
- Q&A 2006-07-26
- Contacts in more than one exchange group
- In Active Directory, I have Distribution Groups, some of which are nested.For example, Office Admins and Branch Managers consist of just that from each branch.If I send a message to that group in Outlook, all of the recipients receive the message. The owner of the company wants to receive...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, jon@...
- Q&A 2006-07-05
- Active Directory Data Source in Excel
- Is it possible to use Excel to read the user container in Active Directory to build a "phone list" of people in the organization?What other methods could I use... they have excel spreadsheets in this company that are updated manually and it's driving me insane.You could try the utility 'csvde'...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel
- Q&A 2006-06-28
- Distribution Lists in Exchange 2003???
- In Active Directory, I have created a new Distribution Group. I then created an exchange mailbox for that distribution group, then I added members to it as needed from the users in active directory.In my environment, I have personnel, and I have independent agents who have cubicles with either...
- Tags: E-mail, Directory services, distribution list, Microsoft Windows Active Directory
- Q&A 2006-06-01
- Redirecting folders at branch locations
- Location 1, server name SERVER1.Location 2, server name SERVER2.SERVER1 is the Active Directory PDCSERVER2 is a backup.If a user at location 1 whose folders are redirected based on group policy to \SERVER1FLDREDIR$USERS%USERNAME% logs into a workstation at location 2, provided the two servers are setup properly on a VPN tunnel,...
- Tags: OU, jon@..., windows, local server, computer, server
- Q&A 2006-05-15
- Group Policy and the Administrator
- I am using Microsoft's GPMC to manage group policy and have run into a problem.After a few days of running without fail, suddenly, the domain administrative account has become quite restricted in what it can and cannot do. I am unable to create folders on the dekstop on the...
- Tags: OU, group policy, jon@..., windows, domain
- Q&A 2006-05-10
- Display Contact Images in Outlook
- I have added pictures to most of my contacts in Outlook, but I would like those contact's pictures to display in the header of the Address Card view instead of having to open each contact. Is this possible?There's no way of doing this to the best of my knowledge....
- Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Groupware
- Q&A 2006-04-25
- Admin Password: Securing Workstations
- I have about 30 computers for which used a Linux based boot disk to hack into the user database to change the Administrator password. Now, to truly secure my workstations on a Windows based network, I would take the following steps. Can you help me think of things...
- Tags: workstation, password, jon@..., windows, floppy disk, BIOS
- Q&A 2006-04-23
- Replicating Redirected User Folders
- I currently have two SBS 2003 Premium servers running in a test environment.The concept is this. User A is added to the domain and the My Documents folders are redirected to the server. The user logs in at Branch 1 where the PDC is located, folders are synchronized,...
- Tags: serverS, jon@..., windows, server
- Q&A 2006-04-12
- Which operating systems across a WAN?
- Basics:Windows 2003 Enterprise Server at the corporate office running active directory.5 branch offices (6 total locations)DSL or Cable-Modem at each branch, T1 at Headquarters.Each location would have linksys managed switches and Netopia routers.The corporate server will be full blown with all the bells and whistles.The questions:1. In order to...
- Tags: jon@..., operating system, server, WAN, windows
- Q&A 2006-03-22
- First time WAN project...
- I have deployed Active Directory in Windows 2003 Server Enterprise edition on many occasion, but this is the first project that will involve multiple locations needing a single global catalog directory.I believe that I need to know a few things about the network I'm building prior to diving in, such...
- Tags: CG IT, it management, jon@..., router, server, subnet, WAN
- Q&A 2006-03-21
- Outlook in sfae mode
- I wish to place an icon on the desktop to start Outlook in SAFE mode.If I type "outlook /safe" in the run box outlook starts in safe mode.But how do I make a shortcut for this?ThanksCreate a new shortcut to outlook on the desktop(Right click on the desktop. Click New...
- Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Desktops, shortcut, desktop
- Q&A 2006-01-23
- Outlook XP attached files as icons
- When attaching a file in outlook the file appears as an icon within the main body text, instead of appearing in an attach field. How can this be rectified?Click Insert, Click File, Browse to the File, Highlight the File, Click Ok.The file will show up to the right of...
- Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, File
- Q&A 2006-01-20
- Mail stuck in outbox
- I have a client with 5 systems on peer to peer network running windows xp pro/home and office 2000/xp/2003.We have an intermittent problem.When an email is sent with an attachment it sometimes remains in the outbox, but is sent, and received by the recipient every time outlook sends/receives. The...
- Tags: e-mail, jon@..., outbox, server, virus
- Q&A 2006-01-20
